she is not as likeable a character as Dickinson is in DTK.
Yes, Angie is very likeable in DTK. I felt bad for her character.
I thought I was gonna die! - Roseanne Roseannadanna

I almost always have to fast-forward through that whole elevator scene. To me, it's much more disturbing than the shower scene from "Psycho".

Well it is more graphic and squeamish for a start, and as excellent as Leigh is in Psycho, she is not as likeable a character as Dickinson is in DTK. The film is more detached from the audience, like we are the voyeurs. There appears more self-control with the performance that Leigh gave and it's not as relatable or natural.
Don't eat the whole ones! Those are for the guests.

Yeah, whenever I watch DTK, I am kind of surprised by how moved I am by the mother/son relationship. Like you said, Rascal, they loved each other very much. To be honest, I watch the movie about once every two years, and I almost always have to fast-forward through that whole elevator scene. To me, it's much more disturbing than the shower scene from "Psycho".
I thought I was gonna die! - Roseanne Roseannadanna

Angie Dickinson's performance was very good. She played the warm, slightly lost and searching middle-aged housewife very well, and she expressed a variety of emotions convincingly.

Yes, Dickinson conveyed a "real" woman who was frustrated and slightly aloof; but came over as a warm and loving lady who could have been any good boy's nice mother. It is understandable how upset your son was and wanted to get to the bottom of her demise. He loved her very much.
Don't eat the whole ones! Those are for the guests.

Angie Dickinson's performance was very good. She played the warm, slightly lost and searching middle-aged housewife very well, and she expressed a variety of emotions convincingly. I think that if Angie had been content to campaign for a best supporting nod, she might have gotten it, ala Janet Leigh in "Psycho", but Angie's role really did not merit a leading credit.
As far as egotistical, you really need to hear the way Angie made the comment. The line in itself isn't necessarily egotistical.
I thought I was gonna die! - Roseanne Roseannadanna

What clip would they consider? The scene where she fantasises about getting raped in the shower? The scene where she has sex with a stranger in a cab? Or the scene where she gets slashed to death in an elevator? It wasn't really AMPAS stuff.
It's more than it not being AMPAS stuff; she didn't have enough to do. Maybe if she had one Beatrice-Straight/Network scene, then. But her scenes were short, and non-verbal which is difficult to interpret when you judge a nomination. The museum sequence was not enough. Also, I find that Dickinson mostly plays herself in her films.

Janet Leigh was taken seriously in what was a an even more lurid non-Academy type of film, and 20 yrs earlier.

I don't see how Psycho-60' is more lurid than Dressed To Kill-80'. Psycho was sensational and broke ground and boundaries for "it's time"; but DTK has way more graphic sexual and violence themes in it and still had plenty of shockable elements for audiences of the late 70's, even if it mirror's the Hitchcock classic. I would agree though, that Leigh gave a technically better performance than Dickinson, I just relate more to Dickinson's character and the way she portrayed it.
Don't eat the whole ones! Those are for the guests.

I don't think she had a chance to win an award. The film is so lurid and melodramatic, I don't think her role would be taken seriously by other members of the academy.
Janet Leigh was taken seriously in what was a an even more lurid non-Academy type of film, and 20 yrs earlier. I don't that is the reason Angie didn't receive it. Leigh had more range and nuance demanded of her in her role (even without a shower-sequence). She expressed more of what she was feeling (a repressed-hysteria) without dialogue, than Angie did.
I have a problem with praise given to non-dialogue acting and think it's a gray area; judging a performance by facial expressions. Not to say that Angie is not a worthwhile actress, but if you could translate her emotions as expressed non-verbally during that art gallery sequence into verbal-acting, I wonder if it would be as effective. Raquel Welch can be effective with non-verbal acting, until she starts speaking (though I'm not comparing Welch with Angie). Being able to emote physically without dialogue seems to be in a different category. Now, if there was a scene with Angie genuinely inducing tears without a cut-away, that would be different.
Also, "ego" has taken on a negative connotation; you can a very nice person and still have a big ego. One is exclusive of the other

She's really good in the art gallery sequence.
I don't think she had a chance to win an award. The film is so lurid and melodramatic, I don't think her role would be taken seriously by other members of the academy.

At the time the interest in her performance was about the use of a body double.
A supporting nod, maybe, but a win in either category - I doubt it. It was a very hard "R" rating initially an "X" - and not in a naive kind of "Midnight Cowboy" way.
What clip would they consider? The scene where she fantasises about getting raped in the shower? The scene where she has sex with a stranger in a cab? Or the scene where she gets slashed to death in an elevator? It wasn't really AMPAS stuff.

Angie specified the supporting category. But not only did she not want her name submitted in that category, the Filmways Studio was too small to really afford a campaign.
The most profound of sin is tragedy unremembered.

If she went supporting and had a studio campaign behind her, I could see a nod. Winning though?

It doesn't matter whether Angie thought she could win an Oscar or not. 1980 was a pretty competitive year for actresses. Had she been nomiated, she would have had to compete against Mary Tyler Moore for
Ordinary People
and Sissy Spacek for
Coal Miner's Daughter
.

Wow. I thought she was pretty bad. Same as Nancy Allen.

I think Angie's comments were pretty benign, not really delusional.
Non-sequiturs are delicious.

I'm not attacking her, but she has her issues indeed. Well, we all have it.
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Angie said, "I think I could have won it."
That's not the most shockingly obnoxious way to express it.
Non-sequiturs are delicious.

'Her ego wasn't exactly "healthy", for what I've read.
She really thought she deserves an Oscar for this role, or she was just trying to get attention? '

Of course she has an ego. what prolific actor doesn't? Many people with egos are still basically nice people.
My only question is how an actor could say such without sounding immodest. Honesty is one thing, but how many actors do you hear say that they deserved an Oscar?(aside from Bette Davis)

I've read this i.e.: "[on Dressed to Kill (1980)] I'm sorry I didn't try to go for an Academy Award for that role. I think I could have won it. But the studio didn't want to put up the campaign, and I felt that I didn't want to go for a supporting-actor award, because I'd always thought of myself as the lead, even though by then I wasn't getting starring roles. I regret it now. Of course, [Brian De Palma] is to blame for the great performance."
IMHO, she should have try it for supporting actress if she thinks she deserved it. Why she thinks she deserves only lead roles recognition? And I don't think her acting was Academy Award-Winning. But that's just me.
I'm very sorry about what happened to her daughter Nikki, indeed, but that's nothing to do with what we are talking about here.
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Her ego wasn't exactly "healthy", for what I've read.
And what have you read? Angie has a good reputation for niceness.
Non-sequiturs are delicious.

Her ego wasn't exactly "healthy", for what I've read.
She really thought she deserves an Oscar for this role, or she was just trying to get attention?
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Dickinson had a star quality, a melancholy, which the others lacked. Not that I was all that impressed by the film or the role.
Non-sequiturs are delicious.

Her peers(Suzanne Plesehette,Stella Stevens,etc.) were just as good, if not better, but never got the feature film roles she consistently did.
I remember her on the Tonight Show in the 80's saying how much of a 'shame' it was that DTK didn't escalate her career. There was no reason for it to. She was lucky to get DTK,since there were other actresses who could have also played the role. It would had been a good comeback for Tina Louise(though she wasn't on the casting radar)