Number 12: Tatum O’Neal as Addie Loggins in "Paper Moon" (Best Supporting Actress Ranking)

It would seem to be a effectively-known reality that Tatum O’Neal’s efficiency is the consequence of intelligent directing and shooting scenes up to 70 moments until she got it appropriate. But as I presently pointed out in my review for Anna Paquin, it is the consequence that matters. And the outcome is one particular of the funniest, most authentic and captivating performances at any time to strike the screen.

Yet another factor that will not be regarded as listed here it the evident category fraud – Tatum O’Neal is in 99% of the motion picture her being in the supporting category would be like putting Vivien Leigh in the supporting classification for Gone with the Wind. But I only want to decide the efficiency alone and simply because of that I really don't want to treatment about the placement. 

I could be extremely simple to dismiss Tatum O’Neal’s perform – just like Helen Hayes in Airport receives most laughs out of the simple fact that she is a minor previous woman performing so – unlike a small aged day, Tatum O’Neal gets a great deal of laughs by acting like an adult when she is only a tiny girl. But Tatum O’Neal definitely does considerably a lot more – she does not act like an adult but she plays exactly what Addie is, a small girl who is smart over and above her a long time and knows how to engage in the video games far better than the developed-ups do. She isn’t presented any of that ‘precious’ dialogue that so several juvenile figures get these times but rather talks like a minor girl is meant to speak, only always with her very own hidden agenda. And all this makes her overall performance a completely entertaining mix of her individuality and her performing.

Tatum O’Neal’s chemistry with her father is exceptional and their consistent arguments in the automobile are comedic gold. But so a lot of other scenes are fantastic, as well – Tatum O’Neal produced this sort of a minor ‘brat’ that every time she functions adorable or cries for the function of another fraud, she is definitely pleasant. And her scenes in the lodge are perhaps the greatest. When she would like to trick that man into heading up to Miss Trixie’s room and she tells him ‘You will not be sorry’ with a you-know-what-I-suggest-seem.

It is an incredible developed-up functionality, Addie is a true 3-dimensional individual, specifically at the end when Moses provides her to her aunt and Tatum O’Neal’s completely shows how much she is likely to skip him.

All round, it is definitely one of the most original performances and characters this classification has to supply.