Its great to see Madeline Kahn on here and she should have Won an Oscar Herself. A Very Sadly Missed Actress.

okay but the way Lee Grant ran up to the stage to get her award is one of the most adorable things I've ever seen

She deserved this Oscar.......she is a very brilliant actress.

to me, a great performer has intensity and passion in a role. LEE GRANT has that and that makes all her performances so special and always great.

The camera man suddenly decided that Ronee Blakey was no longer nominated and Susan Sarandon took her place. Lol

Because Lee Grant becomes the person in every role she plays- phenomenal actress and pure class

I loved seeing Lily Tomlin wearing a tiara, priceless. More people should wear tiaras to the Oscars.

This was a year where I would not have been upset to see any of the five actresses win. All were deserving. I happen to think it was Lily Tomlin's best performance in a film. She proves she's a great dramatic actress as well. Lee Grant is hands down great in every role. Sylvia Miles steals every movie she's in. Ronee Blakely gave an amazing performance for someone who has never acted before. Brenda Vaccaro is one of those actresses where if I see she's in a movie, I will watch it just because of her. She always makes me smile.

I was thrilled that she once again had support and understanding. Ms. Grant was never a danger to anyone. God bless her.

Lee Grant was treated so terribly when she started. It's wonderful that she came back and succeeded !

Great and underrated actress.

Beautiful lady indeed this Lee Grant!

Lee Grant is a wonderful actress. We've all see parts of her work on KZfaq but...we will never see the stage work or 12 years that she was blacklisted. This woman, now aged in her 90's, looking phenomenal btw, really knows acting. All her parts over the years, played with so much intensity and depth. An amazing acting teacher. Thankyou Lee Grant xx

That moment between Lee Grant and Lily Tomlin that's class

i love lee grant. she is an underrated actress. i think a lot of it has to do with people disliking her ploitics. she was a victum of the mas carthy ears blacklisting. she and her husband were ostrisized for many years. what a shameful time in our country.

Lee Grant is really wonderful in Shampoo. Somehow understated and WAY over the top at the same time. Don't ask me to explain! She's also very funny in it. Just a great broad. And she's still with us as of 2019, in her 90s.

I always liked her voice.

I re-watched Farewell My Lovely the other evening, and, Sylvia Miles really does give a fantastic performance. The kind of acting where you really feel like you're watching a real person, not an actor playing a character.

Love me some Lee Grant!

Stunning, great actress who had to suffer a lot of injustice as many others in the Mc Carty era. I loved her brief but poignant and central role in "In the heat of the night" . Her "what kind of people are you?what place is this?"is the moment that summarize what every person looking at the movie feels, it's the truth revealing moment, but also, in a most intelligent movie, the momet when Gillespie starts truly to see himself and the others, and begins to change

I have always liked her. Good actress!!

My first exposure to Lee Grant was in the 1979 miniseries “Backstairs at the White House” where she played First Lady Grace Coolidge. I’ve loved her ever since.

Gotta love Lee Grant xxx

Lee Grant is one of the most underrated actresses out there. From being nominated for an Oscar for her first ever film role (Detective Story), to being blacklisted throughout the prime ages of 24-36, to coming back and being nominated for 3 more Oscars in the 70s, winning one, and 2 Emmys, to then going on to directing, becoming the first woman to win a Director's Guild Award for directing a film (Nobody's Child), and directing an Oscar-winning documentary (Down and Out in America). Lee has had such an incredible career and life, and she's really a one of a kind talent. If you want to watch some of her work, I really recommend The Landlord, Shampoo, Detective Story, The Neon Ceiling, and In the Heat of the Night.

Love Lee Grant and her speech

I loved both Lily and Lee.

Loved Lee ❣️ in The heat of the night. Just 💕 beautiful.

Great, underrated actress.

MISS. LEE GRANT IS A LIVING LEGEND AND ONE OF THE MOST SUPERB ACTRESSES WHO HAS EVER LIVED! SHE WAS EXCEPTIONAL IN THE MOVIE SHAMPOO AND SO DESERVED THIS OSCAR. 👏 👏 🌟 👏 ❤ 👏 🌟 🌟🌟 🌟 🌟

Certainly. She is wonderful. She should have won for either Paper Moon or Blazing Saddles. She was also memorable in quite a few other movies. I love her.

I love both Madeline and Joel, so it's cool to see them together.

I always liked Lee Grant. It was fun watching this.

love you Lee

Loved Lee Grant in The Omen 2, Airport 77 and Defending Your Life

RIP Madeline Kahn. Funny woman.

She's a wonderful actress on stage, movies and television. My favorite film performances are 1951's "A Detective Story" and 1970's "Plaza Suite".

Lee is the real deal! 🙏👌👏👏

Two of the most beautiful women on the stage at the same time. Amazing how that happens sometimes.

5 extraordinary actresses (and Susan Sarandon too).

Madeline Kahn- incredible talent- so sad she died so young

Sylvia Miles. LMFAO. I love her.

Every so often you get a roster of nominees where you're hard pressed to choose (the 1973 Best Actress category springs to mind, as does the 1960 Best Score list). I love Lee Grant (a great actress), and would not argue against her winning, but Lily Tomlin and esp. Ronee Blakely in 'Nashville' are both dynamite (Blakely, for whom this was her first appearance as an actor, essentially improvised her breakdown during the 'Showboat' scene of the film - quite something for a novice). Sylvia Miles - always a treat; and Brenda Vaccaro - who should never be underestimated (check her out in 'Capricorn One' where her dialogue consists of reading Dr. Seuss' 'Fox in Socks' to her children while all the while trying to conceal her grief at the (supposed) death of her astronaut husband. Really it just shows that the Oscars can't quite honour as much talent as they should; no wonder G.C. Scott turned his down in 1970 because he felt they were rather meaningless. P.S. It's always worth remembering how beautiful Madeleine Kahn was, inside and out - a singular talent.

You are soo right on that - I still get mad when I think about it - Jack Warden totally deserved the Oscar

Lee Grant. Farewell my lovely. Once is enough. .....

Very attractive actress.

That was like an Oscar acceptance speech model.

I adored her in the Columbo movie (Ransom for a Dead Man) she was so sultry and sexy in it and a very good actress.

Lee grant in Plaza Suite was simply terrific and the fact she wasnt even oscar nominated was truly bizarre.

Lee grant is a terrific actress

I keep reading Susan's lips and it almost as if shes saying "Why is my picture up on the..." and then the rest is up for debate.

the camera loved her

It was definitely Susan Sarandon. Notice that her then-husband, Chris Sarandon, leaned over into the picture. By the way, the best thing she ever did was keep his last name. It sounds just a bit better than her maiden name, Tomalin!

Lee Grant has great acting in Shampoo.

Every time I see Lee Grant, I think of Omen 2! "Here are your daggers - I've ALWAYS BELONGED to him - DAMIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!"

Brenda vacaro. And lee grant Airport 77. Love that 🎥. Lee grant great actress loved her in the Omen 11. damien here are your daggers 😂

After being blacklisted in the 50s and 60s in Hollywood Lee Grant deserved the Oscar. Her performance is superb.

Oh my God...they showed Ronee Blakely once and then left the camera on Susan Sarandon!

Shampoo was one helluva of a movie and SO 'seventies' and SO Los Angeles.

Wow! Dinah Manoff sounds just like her Mom.

Brava Lee Grant .

See... everyone can survive VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.

Just realised her and Brenda appeared as foes in airport 77

Just when you made that comment on Ronee Blakely resembling Susan Sarandon. I re-watched this clip and realized that is Susan Sarandon with her then husband Chris Sarandon.(Who was a nominee) Camera guy made a mistake focusing on Sarandon instead of Blakely.:D

I loved Lee grant in "Buona Sera Mrs Campbell" , a film I can watch year after year and never tire of it. Fantastic cast ( the plot was modified slightly and used as the basis for the musical sow and later the film " Mamma Mia " , in the cast you also had Gina Lollabrigida , Phil Silvers , Shelley Winters , Telly Savallas ( Lee played his wife in a really touching performance as a constantly bickering and nagging wife but who ultimately loves her husband deeply and she may give out to him and put him down, but no one else is allowed too) great , fun filled and touching movie with great performances all round. And if you've not seen it , I recommend it as a wonderful movie and for fans of Lee Grant and the rest. No duds anywhere in this movie .

She was also excellent in "The Heat of the Night," with Sidney Poitier.

loved lee grant in the omen 2 and airport 77

I acknowledge that Lee Grant won in the Best Supporting Actress category. My only complaint about the 1976 Academy Awards was that Jack Warden didn't win in the Best Supporting Actor category for SHAMPOO. He was excellent!! Lee and Jack should have won back to back Oscars!!

Great :))) Madeline Kahn and Joel Grey are beautiful duo :)))

Does anyone else think that Lee Grant would have been a Great Poison Ivy?

You can read Susan Sarandon's lips. Twice she says "They have my picture" when they incorrectly put her face onscreen instead of Ronee Blakely.

@ragemanchoo82 She was demonically funny. I also love her in "What's Up, Doc' and, especially, "Paper Moon". It's sad that Hollywood never fully realized her talents.

A once blacklisted actor wins an Oscar!

What irony that after three consecutive years and four great films ("What's Up, Doc?" 1972, "Paper Moon" 1973, and "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles," both 1974), it is Madeline Kahn who's giving the award rather than receiving one. What a shame. Even in 1975 (the year of this clip), Madeline appeared in "The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother" and "At Long Last Love" and, though perhaps not of the quality of her previous extraordinary run of films, she was still far better in either of them than Brenda Vaccaro was in that Jackie Susann piece of crap. Perhaps the cameraman fixated on Susan Sarandon because he thought she had been slighted and should've been nominated for "Rocky Horror Picture Show." Just guessing. She, too, was better than Vacarro who gave a pedestrian performance in an awful film that is really only watchable through a 'guilty pleasure' lens. Gwen Welles, playing a country singer wanna-be who comically can't carry a tune and is manipulated into taking off her blouse at a Shiner's dinner in "Nashville", should've been on this list, too. She died only a few years later. A starmaker performance that unfortunately got overlooked.

I think she looks like Shelley DuVaull...who was also in Nashville.

I think Lee Grant was blackballed during the Mcarthy years!

A quick, gracious thank you to real human beings and acknowledgement of times having changed somewhat for the better. America is back in the 50's now, unfortunately.

Ronee Blakely should have won! I admit, I haven't seen Grant's performance in the context of the film, but Blakely was just fantastic!

Ronee Blakely gave one of the best screen performances I have ever seen.

This was another classic case of vote splitting for two supporting actresses in the same film. It happened to Kikuchi and Barraza for "Babel" and it will happen again this year to Kendrick and Farmiga in "Up In the Air."

Lily Tomlin dressing like a queen that she is YAS!

This was one of those years when there were three great performances and in a perfect world it would have been a three way tie with Lee Grant, Ronnee Blakely and Lily Tomlin sharing the award. In place of Vaccaro and Miles being nominated, two better choices for the 4th and 5th slot would have been some of the other great female actors from Nashville such as Geraldine Chaplin, Karen Black, Barbara Harris,

Poor Ronee, but hey, she got spared the agony of a reaction shot when she lost.

Honestly...I love Shampoo, but... Should have been RONEE or LILLY. they are both amazing in NASHVILLE.

Lee Grant..what an actress...and she bravely stared down the comittee for un-american activities during the 50s and was blacklisted for years because of it.

She was blacklisted for years… her first big role in the 1950’s earned her a leading role nomination, though she didn’t win, and then, she married a man supposedly associated with communism during McCarthyism… she fought a lot, and waited a long time to run up that stage, and so she did… for what I know, her performance in Shampoo is really good too… I would’ve loved to see Lily win, too, though…

Ronee Blakley should've won :(

Why is the camera on Susan Sarandon instead of Ronnie Blakeley as it focuses on the nominees? Did anyone else see that?

Hey Billy; I remember that documentary too! Do you know if it's on here anywhere?

@lubskoable YES, that was Susan Sarandon and her husband, Chris Sarandon.

Lily Tomlin deserved this Oscar ALL THE WAY!! SO nice to see the late, great Madeline Kahn in this clip. She also deserved to win an Oscar for PAPER MOON, not Tatum.

Has Susan Sarandon ever spoken about the cameraman mistaking her for Ronee Blakely here?

Lee was great, but not better than co-star Goldie Hawn. Tomlin and Blakely likely cancelled each other out, and they were each tremendous. For my money, NASHVILLE was the film of the year -- and of many years. Pure masterwork.

@ValleyOfTheDolls67 what a horrible thing to say...you must be jealous and I question what your face looks like since you do not see the beauty in Lee Grant.

Those were the days when they still said, "and the winner is."

The video doesn't seem to line up with the story in Lee's autobiography. She says that she heard "And the award goes to Lily Tomlin" and she leaned forward to congratulate Lily, who said "Lee, they said your name." I like Lee's story better.

Ronee Blakey gave the best performance of any actor that year.

@mgblue I think the cameraman had sarandon confused with ronee blakely b/c they look alike. If you read sarandon's lips, you see she deduced the same thing.

Could they have pushed Blakley to go for lead and then have her win. I think it was a possibility.

lee sold her soul to beelzebub 25 years earlier, and that's why she never aged too..

Grease's Marty's real life mother!