NOMINEE Angela Lansbury
UP FOR... Best Supporting Actress, ''The Manchurian Candidate'' (1962)
KILLER ROLE A pre-''Murder, She Wrote'' Lansbury played a sly political kingmaker who helps brainwash her own son (Laurence Harvey, pictured) into becoming an assassin.
THE BACKSTORY The actress called her character ''a good example of unadulterated evil,'' and it's hard to argue. Even if her mom-from-hell hadn't been plotting assassination, she would have been plenty scary. (Look for a remake this year, starring 13-time Oscar nominee Meryl Streep in the Lansbury role.)
AND THE OSCAR WENT TO... Patty Duke, who played the deaf, dumb, blind Helen Keller in ''The Miracle Worker.''
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