"Get away from my Oscar you BITCH!"

Yes the results are here from my third poll. I asked who you felt deserved the Best Actress Oscar back in 1986.

So in descending order:

5) With 5% of the votes we have Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God

4) With 9% of the votes we have Sissy Spacek - Crimes of the Heart

3) With 15% of the votes we have Jane Fonda - The Morning After

2) With 20% of the votes we have Kathleen Turner - Peggy Sue Got Married

1) With a whopping 50% we have Sigourney Weaver - Aliens.

So clearly Sigourney Weaver has won this round. I was actually expecting to see Kathleen Turner take this over Sigourney. How silly I am.
Ripley is not only one of the greatest action hero’s of our time, Ellen Ripley is in fact the very first female action stars who did not rely on sex and seduction to survive.
And survive she did.
What Sigourney did was breathe so much life and soul into her that her kick-ass-ery was just a pleasant addition. We saw her pain in the loss of her daughter, and the human softness with Jones and Newt, then the matriarchal toughness and concern when speaking and advising the military unit she ends up heading. It was a performance no other actress has ever accomplished in an action film (expect perhaps Uma Thurman in “Kill Bill”), for it was fully rounded and fiercely intelligent. No actress since has matched her feat of embodying an action hero with such cultural staying power.
So it is of little surprise that Sigourney, in retrospect, has one this one.
I am curious to see when the actress who wins the poll is the actress who one the award!

On to the next poll.
Who should have won Best Supporting Actress in 1986? Please choose from the following actresses.

Tess Harper - Crimes of the Heart
Piper Laurie - Children of a Lesser God
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - The Color of Money
Maggie Smith - A Room with a View
Dianne Wiest - Hannah and Her Sisters