Ben Johnson Wins Supporting Actor: 1972 Oscars

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• MA

  @markkickmark · 3 years ago

  Jeff Bridges,  just as happy for Ben, winning as if he had won himself.

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• JO

  @JoshuaWaltz-fj4rg · 1 month ago

  Ben Johnson was such a great actor.  He could do it all.

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• LP

  @LPJack02 · 3 years ago (edited)

  RIP Ben Johnson (June 13, 1918 – April 8, 1996), aged 77<br>You will be remembered as a legend

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• CH

  @charlottehall6769 · 5 years ago

  He truly was a gentleman from Oklahoma, raised on a ranch, and didn&apos;t believe in cursing and refused to curse in anything he acted. Married to the same woman all of his married life and had no children.

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• CO

  @cowboynyc · 8 years ago

  &quot;Everybody in town is a better actor than I am, but none of them can play Ben Johnson as good as I can.&quot;

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• TI

  @tikijustice7033 · 4 years ago

  The fact that Ben thanked Peter Bogdanovich and his wife, the always deserving Polly Platt, while Bogdanovich is sitting in the audience with his mistress, Cybill Shepherd is just gangsta for me

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• EP

  @epicmeade · 14 years ago

  &quot;This couldn&apos;t have happened to a nicer feller&quot;. I couldn&apos;t agree more. congratulations Mr Johnson. <br>

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• DO

  @docdave15 · 12 years ago

  &quot;Boy ain&apos;t that purty&quot;<br><br>Gotta love Ben Johnson.

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• CA

  @cadavra8 · 15 years ago

  Harris&apos; enthusiasm was genuine: he and Ben had worked together on MAJOR DUNDEE.

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• RO

  @robertbishop5357 · 5 years ago

  This is when the Oscars meant something and were won by true, honest and honorable men and women. Ben Johnson has all these qualities and more.

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• PO

  @pohadky6263 · 4 years ago

  I love Richard Harris’s reaction when Sally announced the winner.

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• YA

  @yadayada9581 · 9 years ago

  I love how genuinely happy everyone seems that Ben Johnson won. Including his competition, look at the smiles on both Jeff Bridges and Roy Scheider when they say Ben&apos;s name, it&apos;s so genuine. He definitely deserved it. On top of being one of the greatest western character actors of all time he was brilliant in the Last Picture Show.

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