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4. Elsa Lanchester in Mystery Street
Just finished watching Mystery Street on TCM On Demand and was wondering why no one ever talked about Elsa Lanchester as nomination worthy...she's fantastic.

Then I come here and find that Damien did. God, I miss him and his unique taste.
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Best Picture: Sunset Boulevard
Best Director: Billy Wilder for Sunset Boulevard
Best Actor: William Holden in Sunset Boulevard
Best Actress: Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard
Best Supporting Actor: George Sanders in All About Eve
Best Supporting Actress: Celeste Holm in All About Eve
Best Original Screenplay: Sunset Boulevard
Best Adapted Screenplay: All About Eve
Best Score: The Third Man
Best Art Direction: Sunset Boulevard
Best Costume Design: Cyrano de Bergerac
Best Editing: Sunset Boulevard
Best Cinematography: The Third Man
Best Sound: The Third Man
Best Foreign Film: La Ronde
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BEST PICTURE
01. Sunset Boulevard (dir. Billy Wilder)
02. Los Olvidados (dir. Luis Buñuel)
03. Rashômon (dir Akira Kurosawa)
04. Night and the City (dir. Jules Dassin)
05. La Ronde (dir. Max Ophüls)
06. All About Eve (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
07. Orpheus (dir. Jean Cocteau)
08. Gun Crazy (dir. Joseph H. Lewis)
09. D.O.A. (dir. Rudolph Maté)
10. Young Man with a Horn (dir. Michael Curtiz)

BEST DIRECTOR
01. Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard
02. Luis Buñuel, Los Olvidados
03. Akira Kurosawa, Rashômon
04. Max Ophüls, La Ronde
05. Jules Dassin, Night and the City

BEST ACTOR
01. William Holden, Sunset Boulevard
02. Toshiro Mifune, Rashômon
03. Alec Guinness, Last Holiday
04. Richard Widmark, Night and the City
05. Vincent Price, The Baron of Arizona

BEST ACTRESS
01. Gloria Swanson, Sunset Boulevard
02. Bette Davis, All About Eve
03. Nicole Stéphane, Les Enfants Terribles
04. Machiko Kyô, Rashômon
05. Judy Holliday, Born Yesterday

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
01. Louis Calhern, The Asphalt Jungle
02. Anton Walbrook, La Ronde
03. George Sanders, All About Eve
04. Erich von Stroheim, Sunset Boulevard
05. Millard Mitchell, The Gunfighter

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
01. Maria Casarès, Orpheus
02. Giulietta Masina, Variety Lights
03. Googie Withers, Night and the City
04. Phyllis Thaxter, The Breaking Point
05. Jane Cowl, No Man of Her Own

BEST SCREENPLAY
01. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, D. M. Marshman, Jr.)
02. La Ronde (Jacques Natanson, Max Ophüls, based on the play of the same name by Arthur Schnitzler)
03. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the story "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr)
04. Rashômon (Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa, based on the stories "Rashômon" and "Yabu no Naka" by Ryûnosuke Akutagawa)
05. Los Olvidados (Luis Alcoriza, Luis Buñuel)

FILM EDITING
01. Los Olvidados (Carlos Savage)
02. Sunset Boulevard (Arthur P. Schmidt)
03. Armored Car Robbery (Desmond Marquette)
04. Gun Crazy (Harry W. Gerstad)
05. Young Man with a Horn (Alan Crosland, Jr.)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
01. Sunset Boulevard (John F. Seitz)
02. Les Enfants Terribles (Henri Decaë)
03. Orpheus (Nicolas Hayer)
04. Los Olvidados (Gabriel Figueroa)
05. The Furies (Victor Milner, Lee Garmes)

BEST ART DIRECTION
01. Sunset Boulevard (Hans Dreier, John Meehan, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer)
02. La Ronde (Charles Merangel, Henri Vergnes)
03. Orpheus (Jean d'Eaubonne, Albert Volper)
04. Les Enfants Terribles (Emile Mathys, Jean-Pierre Melville)
05. Beauty and the Devil (Léon Barsacq, Franco Lolli)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
01. Sunset Boulevard (Edith Head)
02. All About Eve (Edith Head, Charles Le Maire)
03. Variety Lights (Aldo Buzzi)
04. Annie Get Your Gun (Walter Plunkett, Helen Rose)
05. La Ronde (Georges Annenkov)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
01. Sunset Boulevard (Franz Waxman)
02. Orpheus (Georges Auric)
03. Young Man with a Horn (Ray Heindorf, Harry James, Max Steiner)
04. The West Point Story (original score by Howard Jackson, original songs by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn)
05. The Flame and the Arrow (Max Steiner)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
01. The West Point Story ("By the Kissing Rock," music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn, performed by Gordon MacRae, Doris Day)
02. Captain Carey, U.S.A. ("Mona Lisa," music by Jay Livingston, lyrics by Ray Evans, performed by Nat "King" Cole)
03. Pagan Love Song ("Pagan Love Song," music by Nacio Herb Brown, lyrics by Arthur Freed, performed by Howard Keel)
04. Aventurera ("Aventurera," music and lyrics by Agustín Lara, performed by Pedro Vargas)
05. Stage Fright ("Love Is Lyrical (Whisper Sweet Little Nothings to Me)," music and lyrics by Mischa Spoliansky, performed by Marlene Dietrich)

BEST SOUND
01. Young Man with a Horn (Everett Alton Brown)
02. Rashômon (Tsuchitarô Hayashi, Iwao Ôtani)
03. Annie Get Your Gun (Douglas Shearer, Norwood A. Fenton)
04. Orpheus (Pierre-Louis Calvet)
05. Sunset Boulevard (John Cope, Harry Lindgren)

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
01. Sunset Boulevard (Wally Westmore)
02. All About Eve (Ben Nye)
03. Variety Lights (Argentina Ferri, Eligio Trani)
04. Cyrano de Bergerac (Gustaf Norin, Josef Norin, Helen Turpin)
05. Annie Get Your Gun (Jack Dawn, Sydney Guilaroff)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
01. Destination Moon (Lee Zavitz)
02. Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
03. Beauty and the Devil (uncredited)
04. King Solomon's Mines (uncredited)
05. So Long at the Fair (Les Bowie, Bill Warrington)

FINAL TALLY
13 nominations: Sunset Boulevard (10 wins)
7 nominations: Orpheus (1 win)
6 nominations: All About Eve, Rashômon, La Ronde
5 nominations: Los Olvidados (1 win)
4 nominations: Night and the City, Young Man with a Horn (1 win)
3 nominations: Les Enfants Terribles, Variety Lights
2 nominations: Beauty and the Devil, The West Point Story
1 nomination: Annie Get Your Gun, The Asphalt Jungle (1 win), Aventurera, The Baron of Arizona, Born Yesterday; Captain Carey, U.S.A.; Cyrano de Bergerac, Destination Moon (1 win), D.O.A., The Flame and the Arrow, King Solomon's Mines, Last Holiday, Pagan Love Song, So Long at the Fair, Stage Fright
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--flipp525 wrote:
--Reza wrote:Every film buff knows that Claudette Colbert was first offered the role of Margo Channing in All About Eve but had to bow out when she injured her back. The part was recast with Bette Davis who gave a memorable performance and made it her own.

There is more than a passing resemblance between Claudette Colbert and Anne Baxter, too, so that makes a lot of sense to me. I'm glad that Bette Davis ended up playing Margo Channing. She's just perfect for the part.

Jeanne Crain, who would have been a better fit for Colbert, was Daryl Zanuck's choice to play Eve, but Mankiewicz didn't feel she had the acting chops to bring it off.




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Reza wrote:Every film buff knows that Claudette Colbert was first offered the role of Margo Channing in All About Eve but had to bow out when she injured her back. The part was recast with Bette Davis who gave a memorable performance and made it her own.
There is more than a passing resemblance between Claudette Colbert and Anne Baxter, too, so that makes a lot of sense to me. I'm glad that Bette Davis ended up playing Margo Channing. She's just perfect for the part.

We all have to watch out for the "Eves" out there or, as my friend calls them, "the Litas" (he has a theory that everyone is either a Lita or a gargoyle).
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I just watched 'Devil's Doorway' on TCM. I'm not terribly versed in the works of Anthony Mann; I saw 'The Naked Spur' a few years ago and liked it, and 'T-Man' not long after and found it beautifully photographed and utterly leaden.

I'm amazed that the few mentions I've seen for this film cite it as minor-Mann when it's such an accomplished film. John Alton's cinematography is mesmerizing and Mann's mise-en-scene is rather haunting. A ghoulish bar-fight in general becomes a joyless spectacle. Robert Walker wisely chooses not to "play Indian" instead turning Lance Poole into a more conventional leading man. I had never seen Paula Raymond before, but she was pretty wonderful as well. And the film itself is extremely complex, rarely if ever pandering to "serious" issues instead engrosses in the relatively flawed logic on both Poole and Masters' side.

Terrific film. If this is a "minor work", have there been many years like 1950?
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BEST PICTURE OF 1950
1. Devil’s Doorway (Anthony Mann)
2. Stars In My Crown (Jacques Tourneur)
3. La Ronde (Max Ophuls)
4. The Mumekata Sisters (Yasujiro Ozu)
5. A Life Of Her Own (George Cukor)
6. Los Olvidados (Luis Bunuel)
7. Sunset Blvd. (Billy WIlder)
8. Winchester ’73 (Anthony Mann
9. Wagon Master (John Ford)
10. Father Of The Bride (Vincente Minnelli)

BEST ACTOR
1. William Holden in Sunset Blvd.
2. James Stewart in Winchester ‘73
3. Anton Walbrook in La Ronde
4. James Cagney in The West Point Story
5. Ray Milland in A Life Of Her Own

BEST ACTRESS
1. Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blvd.
2. Bette Davis in All About Eve
3. Linda Darnell in No Way Out
4. Eleanor Parker in Caged
5. Gloria Grahame in In A Lonely Place

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. Louis Calhern in The Asphalt Jungle and Devil’s Doorway and A Life Of Her Own
2. Millard Mitchell in The Gunfighter
3. Charles Kemper in Wagon Master and Stars In My Crown
4. George Macready in A Lady Without Passport
5. Dean Stockwell in Stars In My Crown

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Celeste Holm in All About Eve
2. Hope Emerson in Caged
3. Nancy Olson in Sunset Blvd.
4. Elsa Lanchester in Mystery Street
5. Phyllis Thaxter in The Breaking Point

BEST DIRECTOR
1. Anthony Mann – Devil’s Doorway
2. Jacques Tourneur – Stars In My Crown
3. Max Ophuls – La Ronde
4. Yasujiro Ozu – The Mumekata Sisters
5. Georhge Cukor – A Life Of Her Own

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1. Devil’s Doorway – Guy Trosper
2. Sunset Blvd. – Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D.M. Marshman, Jr.
3. Winchester ’73 – Stewart N. Lake; Borden Chase and Robert L. Richards
4. Broken Arrow – Albert Maltz
5. Wagon Master – Patrick Ford and Frank S. Nugent

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
1. La Ronde – Jacques Natanson and Max Ophuls
2. Stars In My Crown – Joe David Brown; Margaret Fitts
3. All About Eve – Joseph L. Mankiewicz
4. The Mumekata Sisters – Kôgo Noda and Yasujiro Ozu
5. In A Lonely Place – Edmund H. North and Andrew Solt

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. Wagon Master – Bert Glennon
2. Devil’s Doorway – John Alton
3. Broken Arrow – Ernest Palmer
4. A Lady Without Passport – Paul C. Vogel
5. Sunset Blvd. – John B. Seitz

BEST FILM EDITING
1. Devil’s Doorway
2. Stars In My Crown
3. Winchester ‘73
4. Broken Arrow
5. Sunset Blvd

BEST ART DIRECTION
1. Sunset Blvd.
2. La Ronde
3. A Life Of Her Own
4. The Black Rose
5. The Flame And The Arrow

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
1. Sunset Blvd.
2. All About Eve
3. The Black Rose
4. The Flame And The Arrow
5. La Ronde

BEST MUSIC – MUSICAL FILM
1. Summer Stock
2, The West Point Story
3. Annie Get Your Gun
4. Pagan Love Song
5. Three Little Words

BEST MUSIC – NON-MUSICAL FILM
1. La Ronde – Oscar Straus
2. A Life Of Her Own – Bronsilau Kaper
3. A Lady Without Passport – David Raksin
4. The Black Rose – Richard Addinsell
5. Sunset Blvd. – Franz Waxman

BEST SONG
1. Kissing Rock (The West Point Story) – Jule Styne; Sammy Cahn
2. Mona Lisa (Captain Carey USA) – Jay Livingston ; Ray Evans

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
1. King Solomon’s Mines
2. American Guerrilla In The Philippines

BEST MAKE-UP
1. Sunset Blvd.
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Best Picture
Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)

Best Actor
William Holden (Sunset Boulevard)

Best Actress
Gloria Swanson (Sunset Boulevard)

Best Supporting Actor
Orson Welles (The Third Man)

Best Supporting Actress
Celeste Holm (All About Eve)

Best Director
Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard)
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Best Film

1. All About Eve
2. Sunset Boulevard
3. The Furies
4. Un Chant d’amour
5. Harvey

Best Director

1. Joseph L. Mankizwicz, All About Eve
2. Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard
3. Anthony Mann, The Furies
4. Jean Genet, Un Chant d’amour
5. Henry Koster, Harvey

Best Actor

1. James Stewart, Harvey
2. Alec Guinness, Last Holiday
3. William Holden, Sunset Boulevard
4. Ronald Colman, Champagne For Caesar
5. Clifton Webb, Cheaper by the Dozen

Best Actress

1. Bette Davis, All About Eve
2. Gloria Swanson, Sunset Boulevard
3. Barbara Stanwyck, The Furies
4. Joan Crawford, Harriet Craig
5. Eleanor Parker, Caged

Best Supporting Actor

1. George Sanders, All About Eve
2. Erich von Stroheim, Sunset Boulevard
3. Vincent Price, Champagne For Caesar
4. Wendell Corey, Harriet Graig
5. Louis Calhern, Annie Get Your Gun

Best Supporting Actress

1. Josephine Hull, Harvey
2. Judith Anderson, The Furies
3. Thelma Ritter, All About Eve
4. Hope Emerson, Caged
5. Agnes Moorehead, Caged

Best Screenplay

1. All About Eve
2. Sunset Boulevard
3. Champagne for Caesar
4. Last Holiday
5. The Young and the Damned

Best Screenplay Adaptation

1. The Furies
2. Harvey
3. Caged
4. Harriet Craig
5. Gun Grazy

Best Cinematography

1. Annie Get Your Gun
2. The Furies
3. Sunset Boulevard
4. Cheaper by the Dozen
5. The Flame and the Arrow

Best Editing

1. All About Eve
2. Sunset Boulevard
3. The Furies
4. Rashomon
5. Gun Crazy

Best Sound

1. The Furies
2. The Flame and the Arrow
3. Annie Get Your Gun
4. Cheaper by the Dozen
5. Caged

Best Art Direction

1. Annie Get Your Gun
2. Sunset Boulevard
3. Caged
4. The Flame and the Arrow
5. State Secret

Best Costume Design

1. Annie Get Your Gun
2. Sunset Boulevard
3. All About Eve
4. The Flame and the Arrow
5. Cheaper by the Dozen

Best Music

1. Sunset Boulevard
2. All About Eve
3. The Flame and the Arrow
4. The Furies
5. Harvey
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1950 was the year of Broadway vs. Hollywood (All About Eve vs. Sunset Boulevard). Interesting not only did Broadway win over Hollywood in the picture and director races, three of the four acting winners were recreating roles they previously played on Broadway and the fourth won for playing a Broadway gossip columnist.

Cyrano de Bergerac has always been an award magnet. Forty years after Ferrer's win, Gerard Depardieu pulled off a rare foregin language nomination for a popular French version. Christopher Pl;ummer won a Tony for the musical version, called Cyrano, in 1973.

Spencer Tracy was my second choice after William Holden.
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--abcinyvr wrote:I've never seen, and am wondering about, Jose Ferrer - the actual Oscar winner. What was it that enabled him to beat out both Tracy and Stewart, both in such perfect roles. I acknowledge that Tracy already had two statues by that point and that Stewart had won a decade earlier.

Ferrer probably won because his performance was the most blatantly actorly of the nominees. Also, he had recently been subpoenaed by HUAC and thhe Oscar vote was seen as a way to support his contention that he was no Commie.

I would have voted for WIlliam Holden.




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While channel-surfing the other day I ended up watching a bit of Father Of The Bride. I can never pull myself away from that movie. Spencer Tracy is one of my favorite actors and his performance in 'Father' is one of his best. I'm so glad that he received a nomination for Best Actor - for a comedic performance. Of the other nominees:
Louis Calhern - The Magnificent Yankee
Jose Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac
William Holden - Sunset Blvd
James Stewart - Harvey
...I've seen the latter two but I've never seen, and am wondering about, Jose Ferrer - the actual Oscar winner. What was it that enabled him to beat out both Tracy and Stewart, both in such perfect roles. I acknowledge that Tracy already had two statues by that point and that Stewart had won a decade earlier.
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Picture:
*All About Eve*
Kind Hearts And Coronets
Orpheus
Sunset Boulevard
The Third Man

Actor:
Humphrey Bogart – In A Lonely Place
John Garfield – The Breaking Point
*William Holden – Sunset Boulevard*
James Stewart - Harvey
Spencer Tracy – Father Of The Bride

Actress:
Anne Baxter – All About Eve
*Bette Davis – All About Eve*
Judy Holliday – Born Yesterday
Eleanor Parker – Caged
Gloria Swanson – Sunset Boulevard

Supporting Actor:
Louis Calhern – The Asphalt Jungle
Alec Guinness – Kind Hearts And Coronets
George Sanders – All About Eve
Erich Von Stroheim – Sunset Boulevard
Orson Welles – The Third Man

Supporting Actress:
Hope Emerson - Caged
Gloria Grahame – In A Lonely Place
Celeste Holm – All About Eve
Josephine Hull - Harvey
Thelma Ritter – All About Eve

Director:
Jean Cocteau - Orpheus
*Joseph L. Manciewicz – All About Eve*
Nicholas Ray – In A Lonely Place
Carol Reed – The Third Man
Billy Wilder – Sunset Boulevard

Original Screenplay:
*Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman Jr. & Billy Wilder – Sunset Boulevard*
Fred Brady & Hans Jacoby – Champagne For Caesar
Carl Foreman – The Men
Clarence Green & Russell Rousse – D.O.A.
J. B. Priestley – Last Holiday

Adapted Screenplay:
Jean Cocteau - Orpheus
John Dighton & Robert Hamer - Kind Hearts And Coronets
Graham Green & Alexander Korda - The Third Man
*Joseph L. Mankiewicz – All About Eve*
Edmund H. North & Andrew Solt - In A Lonely Place

Foreign Film:
The Adventuress (Mexico)
The Munekata Sisters (Japan)
This Life Of Mine (China)
*Orpheus (France)*
Variety Lights (Italy)
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Again the vagueries of release dates inform the nominations.

I have no problem with the five "official" nominees this year, but would be just as happy to see Davis and Swanson compete with Betty Hutton in Annie, Get Your Gun, Maureen O'Hara in Rio Grande and either Katharine Hepburn in Adam's Rib (going by L.A. release dates) or Irene Dunne in The Mudlark or Joan Fontaine in September Affair (going by N.Y. release dates). Ann Harding in The Magnificent Yankee and Margaret Sullavan in No Sad Songs for Me also gave award worthy performacnes.

Anne Baxter and Gloria Grahame could be considered supporting as easily as leading and Judy Holliday (in Adam's Rib) could join them along with Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter going by L.A. release dates.




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