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Well, Godfather is a cinch, don't you think? Sure. A lot of people think so. I think, I think it's a 1-5 shot easy. Would that also mean that between Olivier, Caine, O'Toole and Winfield and Brando, that Brando also has it no contest. Brando is a

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1-10 shot. Okay then. What about the real tough one? The women you have? Diana ross Sicily Tyson leave Olman and Liza Minnelli and Maggie smith. Well, I voted for Sicily Tyson, I think her performance was outstanding. I think all the women gave very fine performances. But

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my vote went to Sicily Tyson I think Diana ross will win it walter. Is it true that people can campaign actively for this award for the Oscar. Sure they do. How does one campaign for it? I suppose you put money into advertising. You get take out

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ads in the trades variety and the Hollywood reporter and in the weekly variety and in all the showbiz papers and so forth. And probably in some cases you even take out advertisements in in the in the local papers, in the L. A. Times etcetera. But how

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do ads help you win? It's still individuals such as yourself who vote for them. Right, Well, when you hear someone's name over and over again, you begin to think about it subconsciously and should you perchance forget that someone gave a great performance in something and that

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certain person is advertising all over the place then you won't forget, will you? 9, 8, 9, 17, 19. Thank you. How did winning an Oscar affect your life? Well that's hard to say Ray, I mean one can only conjecture at the uh different slides

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and uh different colorings that my life took after the Oscar. Um I say that one can only guess at it because you don't know whether it would have happened without the Oscar because you see you've just been in a movie in a big role and you've

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made some sort of an impact. And I think getting the Oscar does add frosting to the cake. And I would say that the impact was in in probably raising the salary somewhat and also getting a very good byline for the obituary, you know, academy award winner.

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So and so they always put that in, you know, do you get better pictures as well as a higher sour usually after winning one. Well, I would say for the general the general run of actors, I would say probably yes because there is some prestige connected

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with it and everyone is influenced by prestige to some degree. So I would say that you do probably get some better picture offers and you do probably get better money. Do you think that winning the Oscar today in 1973 is as significant an event to a

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person and to their career as say it was all five, even 10 years ago. I don't think so. I think um I think there was a high point maybe about 12 years ago and and then I think it's tapered off a bit. Is this because motion

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pictures generally speaking do not contain the same kind of glamour content that Hollywood used to be known for. We have more independent productions for example, which are not as high budgeted as some of the previous films. That's that's a possibility. I also like to think that

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it has to do with the number of awards being given out today. There are any number of shows and there's two or three within a week. There's the Tonys, there's the Emmys, the Grammys, there's the Oscars and now several television stations are giving their own awards

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and there are certain churches that are now giving awards for acting and several synagogues. So you see there are 15, 20 awards in in the early spring and so people tend to confuse one with the other. Let's see if we can get some correct predictions out

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of you, even though a prediction doesn't necessarily have to be correct. We do have cabaret deliverance. The immigrants, the Godfather for the award tonight. I haven't the slightest idea. I don't know where Marlon Brando is walter Matthau, thank you very very much. Thank you. Ray