Oscar Trash: Horror-style

The SciFi Scanner has an excellent video round-up of Academy Award Winners in B-movie trash. Naturally, the list covers science-fiction films, but horror movies have also had their share of Oscar-winning actors in less-than-stellar roles: George C. Scott won Best Actor for Patton, but he also starred in Stephen King's Firestarter. Louise Fletcher will be best known as Nurse Ratchet in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, but some of us remember her work in Mama Dracula. Michael Caine is a Jaws-alumnus, co-starring in the fourth movie in the franchise. He was unable to accept his Academy Award for Hannah and Her Sisters because he was in the Carribean filming Jaws: The Revenge.
But SciFi Scanner is right, it's Joan Crawford's TROG that really takes the cake. Check out the trailer for Ms. Crawford's final film here.




















My favorite is Viggo Mortensen, who did not win, but was nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for Eastern Promises (2007) and also starred as "Tex" in Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)