but I don't expect him to outdo Becket or The Lion in Winter or My Favourite Year...

I saw Becket last night at the Kendall Square Cinema, where it's playing for a limited time; I hadn't seen it since high school, and never on a big screen. As fond as I am of Rex Harrison's Henry Higgins, I fail to understand why neither Peter O'Toole nor Richard Burton—or the both of them together—took home an Oscar for that film.