Oscar Winners: Best Actor

"Screwball comedy", as they call it, just isn't my genre.

John Wayne won the Academy Award For Best Actor for his portrayal of Rooster Cogburn here, and while his competition that year (Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman for "Midnight Cowboy" and Peter O'Toole for "The Lion in Winter") might have been more deserving on the merits of their performances, I'm glad that Duke received the honor. By this time in his career, he'd spent about fifty years entertaining the world with great movies, and he deserved to be acknowledged for that. He deserved the immense joy and satisfaction that it brought him. And if he was to win an Oscar for any of his movies, it was most fitting indeed for "True Grit" to be the one to bring him that singular honor.

Pretty full of itself, actually. Arrogant and talky.

About as historically accurate as Disney's "Pocahontas", but a great movie nonetheless.

Good flick. I was kind of bothered, however, by the lack of sympathy and understanding Nicholson's character received from all the other characters. He has obsessive-compulsive disorder, and naturally this inhibits his ability to pursue a healthy, constructive social life. Yes, he could be a real prick at times, and no, his OCD should not be a catch-all excuse for inexcusable, offensive behavior, but nor can he be expected to function like a "normal" person. Healthy social interaction is extremely difficult for him, and that needs to be understood and accepted by anyone who would wish to be his friend.