Winners indicated (*). I need to see films like Ivan the Terrible Part 2, The Dark Mirror, The Killers, No Regrets for Our Youth, The Stranger, Anna and the King of Siam, The Outlaw, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Humoresque, The Harvey Girls, The Jolson Story, So Dark the Night, and Night and Day.
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| Notorious |
BEST PICTURE:
The Big Sleep
Duel in the Sun
It's a Wonderful Life
A Matter of Life and Death
Notorious*
BEST DIRECTOR:
Frank Capra, It's a Wonderful Life
Jean Cocteau, Beauty and the Beast
Alfred Hitchcock, Notorious*
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, A Matter of Life and Death
King Vidor, Duel in the Sun
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| It's a Wonderful Life |
BEST ACTOR:
Humphrey Bogart, The Big Sleep
Henry Fonda, My Darling Clementine
Fredric March, The Best Years of Our Lives
Gregory Peck, Duel in the Sun
James Stewart, It's a Wonderful Life*
BEST ACTRESS:
Ingrid Bergman, Notorious*
Olivia de Havilland, To Each His Own
Rita Hayworth, Gilda
Jennifer Jones, Duel in the Sun
Lana Turner, The Postman Always Rings Twice
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| The Big Sleep |
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Roland Culver, To Each His Own
Roger Livesey, A Matter of Life and Death
Victor Mature, My Darling Clementine
Claude Rains, Notorious*
Harold Russell, The Best Years of Our Lives
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Lauren Bacall, The Big Sleep*
Anne Baxter, The Razor's Edge
Myrna Loy, The Best Years of Our Lives
Donna Reed, It's a Wonderful Life
Martha Vickers, The Big Sleep
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| The Best Years of Our Lives |
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
The Best Years of Our Lives*
The Big Sleep
It's a Wonderful Life
My Darling Clementine
The Postman Always Rings Twice
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Gilda
A Matter of Life and Death
Notorious*
Paisan
To Each His Own
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| Duel in the Sun |
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Beauty and the Beast
Duel in the Sun*
It's a Wonderful Life
A Matter of Life and Death
Notorious
BEST FILM EDITING:
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Big Sleep
It's a Wonderful Life
A Matter of Life and Death
Notorious*
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| A Matter of Life and Death |
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Angel on My Shoulder
Beauty and the Beast
The Best Years of Our Lives
Duel in the Sun*
A Matter of Life and Death
BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
"Amado Mio", Gilda
"Put the Blame on Mame", Gilda*
Additional Categories
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| Beauty and the Beast |
BEST ART DIRECTION:
Beauty and the Beast
Duel in the Sun
Henry V
A Matter of Life and Death*
The Yearling
BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
Beauty and the Beast*
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Duel in the Sun
Henry V
A Matter of Life and Death
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| My Darling Clementine |
BEST MAKEUP:
Beauty and the Beast*
The Diary of a Chambermaid
A Matter of Life and Death
BEST SOUND (MIXING AND EDITING):
Duel in the Sun*
It's a Wonderful Life
A Matter of Life and Death
My Darling Clementine
The Spiral Staircase
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
Beauty and the Beast
Duel in the Sun
A Matter of Life and Death*
Yay! for Notorious. I would give it everything as well but I haven't seen a lot of these films.
ReplyDeleteOf those you haven't seen, I saw No Regrets of Our Youth some time ago. If nothing else, it was definitely worth for Setsuko Hara's performance. Check it out when you can.
Yay! Glad we agree on Notorious.
DeleteI'll definitely check out No Regrets for Our Youth. :)
Love your acting wins! I think ours would match up 100% ATM, although I do love me some Vickers and often swap out Bacall with her.
ReplyDeleteThanks man! I hope most of your winners stay the same, but Vickers would also be a worthy winner.
DeleteSomehow I knew 'It's a Wonderful Life' is gonna be all over your ballot and I concur!! :D
ReplyDeleteI LOVE that movie! :D
DeleteO.K., I have got to see Notorious. BTW, I love It's a Wonderful Life too. The basic message, that "ordinary" lives have great meaning, never gets old for me.
ReplyDeleteNotorious is one of my favorite Hitchcock films, so I'd recommend it regardless of its wins. Yeah, It's a Wonderful Life is just so wholesome, but in a (forgive me) wonderful way.
DeleteThat's a good way of describing it. :-)
DeleteThanks. :)
DeleteHey, I've always wondered this (and sorry if you've mentioned it before), but how do you pick which years you're going to cover on any given day? Is it just which ever one pops into your head? Genuinely just curious!
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, Notorious reigns. What a classic film, one of Hitch's best.
No problem man. I'm working my way from the 30's to the 00's backwards and forwards, if you will. Since I haven't seen many films from the early 30's, I started at the end of that decade and worked my way to the 00's one decade a week. So, I went by the 9's ('39-'09), then the 8's ('38-'08), then the 7's ('37-'07), and so on. The idea was to give myself plenty of time to catch up on early 30's and 40's releases, but I end up catching up on relevant releases for each week's ballot. The early 30's will probably be weak ballots until I'm finished and can focus on them more. Long explanantion, but hope that makes sense. :)
DeleteGlad you dig Notorious as well.
I thought that was what you were doing! Very interesting. Love the posts.
ReplyDeleteThanks pal.
DeleteWhat a rich year in cinema. Every category had at least one film or performance that I had to leave off and in some their were multiple choices. That's a great circumstance that I wish would happen more often.
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Beauty and the Beast
The Best Years of Our Lives
It's a Wonderful Life
Notorious-Winner
The Spiral Staircase
This was so tight for me between Notorious and Best Years but Years drags ever so slightly here and there and Notorious never does so it's my winner.
In the running: My Darling Clementine, The Stranger and Great Expectations.
Director:
Frank Capra-It's a Wonderful Life
Jean Cocteau-Beauty and the Beast
Alfred Hitchcock-Notorious-Winner
Robert Siodmak-The Spiral Staircase
William Wyler-The Best Years of Our Lives
Best Years is a masterworks for Wyler as B&B is for Cocteau and Siodmak had an extraordinary year with Staircase in addition to The Killers and It's a Wonderful Life is pure Capra at his best but Hitch keeps the reins pulled tight on Notorious and never lets up.
In the running: John Ford for My Darling Clementine.
Actor:
Dana Andrews-The Best Years of Our Lives
Henry Fonda-My Darling Clementine
John Garfield-The Postman Always Rings Twice
Cary Grant-Notorious-Winner
Laurence Olivier-Henry V
The other three actors are super but this was between Andrews and Grant and while this is one of Andrews's best I think it's Cary's top performance out of his many excellent ones throughout his career.
In the running: Orson Welles for The Stranger and Fredric March-Best Years of Our Lives
Actress:
Ingrid Bergman-Notorious-Winner
Joan Crawford-Humoresque
Olivia de Havilland-To Each His Own
Rita Hayworth-Gilda
Dorothy McGuire-The Spiral Staircase
There were so many great contenders that this was the toughest category for me to get down to just five. Even with all the fine work it wasn't hard to hand the prize to Ingrid for her brilliant performance of the complicated Alicia Huberman.
In the running: Josette Day-Beauty & the Beast, Laraine Day-The Locket, Susan Hayward-Deadline at Dawn, Deborah Kerr-I See a Dark Stranger, Rosalind Russell-Sister Kenny, Barbara Stanwyck-The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Gene Tierney-The Razor's Edge and Lana Turner-The Postman Always Rings Twice
Supporting Actor:
Lionel Barrymore-It's a Wonderful Life
Victor Mature-My Darling Clementine
Vincent Price-Dragonwyck
Claude Rains-Notorious-Winner
Harold Russell-The Best Years of Our Lives
Clementine is Mature's career best, Price entertainingly bizarre, Russell deeply touching and Barrymore the very picture of a twisted soul but as with his castmates Rains imbues his part with that little something extra that lifts him above and into the winner's slot.
In the running: Kirk Douglas-Strange Love of Martha Ivers, George Macready-Gilda, Claude Rains-Deception (if I hadn't chosen him for Notorious this would have been my winner) and Clifton Webb-The Razor's Edge
Supporting Actress:
Anne Baxter-The Razor's Edge
Leopoldine Konstantin-Notorious
Myrna Loy-The Best Years of Our Lives-Winner
Virginia Mayo-The Best Years of Our Lives
Donna Reed-It's a Wonderful Life
Another heavily crowded field and with a closer decision than in the actress category. I adore Madame Konstantin's rendering of the monsterous Mme. Sebastian, so evil she doesn't even rate a first name! Donna Reed's supportive Mary and Virginia's rapacious tramp Marie are polar opposites of the wife role both expertly played but it came down to Anne Baxter's sadly broken Sophie and Myrna's almost superhuman Millie. I went with Myrna because resolute patience and decency is harder to play than dipsomania no matter how well it's done.
In the running: Ethel Barrymore-The Spiral Staircase, Ava Gardner-The Killers, Gloria Grahame-It's a Wonderful Life, Martita Hunt-Great Expectations, Martha Vickers-The Big Sleep and Teresa Wright-The Best Years of Our Lives
I LOVE your winners, and the acting nominees I've seen are all wonderful. Cary Grant actually just missed my Best Actor lineup, but I'm surprised that James Stewart missed a nomination.
DeleteOops! Don't know how I missed Jimmy Stewart, I probably would have switched Olivier and he and put Larry into contention but I guess that proves what a substantial year it was.
DeleteYeah, it was a great year, and one of my favorites for cinema.
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