While Julia’s poignant portrayal of Fields’s diabetic daughter went on to land her, her first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, it seems her performance didn’t impress her older brother. “I don’t want to sound like an actor talking ...

"They all chewed a lot of scenery, and we know that if an actor cries on film, they go to the top of the class. They get the Oscar nod because crying gets a lot of credit," the actor wrote.