Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Bump this thread up as I added to some much older threads that bumped this down.

Precious Doll wrote:

Big Magilla wrote:Black-and-White

Most conspicuous by their absence were Kiss Me Deadly (Ernest Laszlo), Rebel Without a Cause (Ernest Haller), One Summer of Happiness (Goran Strindberg) and The Wages of Fear (Armond Thirard), which should have won.

A slip of the fingers on the keyboard Magilla - Rebel Without a Cause was in colour.

More than that, Precious, it was a slip of the brain. I meant to include The Night of the Hunter, not Rebel Without a Cause. Corrected below.

Big Magilla wrote:Black-and-White

Most conspicuous by their absence were Kiss Me Deadly (Ernest Laszlo), Rebel Without a Cause (Ernest Haller), One Summer of Happiness (Goran Strindberg) and The Wages of Fear (Armond Thirard), which should have won.

A slip of the fingers on the keyboard Magilla - Rebel Without a Cause was in colour.

Overall these are ordinary line-ups particularly given the outstanding quality for 1955. I voted for Queen Bee and Oklahoma, probably the only really deserved nominee.

Omissions (subject to eligibility) include All That Heaven Allows, East of Eden, Night of the Hunter, Picnic, Rebel Without a Cause, Kidd Me Deadly, The Trouble with Harry, Land of the Pharaohs, The Cobweb, Moonfleet, Order, A Kid for Two Farthings, Dreams & The Deep Blue Sea.

Black-and-White

Most conspicuous by their absence were Stanley Cortez (The Night of the Hunter), Kiss Me Deadly (Ernest Laszlo), One Summer of Happiness (Goran Strindberg) and The Wages of Fear (Armond Thirard), which should have won.

None of the actual nominees came close to the forgotten four, but Blackboard Jungle and Marty were the best photographed among them. It's nice that James Wong Howe finally won an Oscar, but his best black-and-white work (Hud, Seconds) was ahead of him.

I voted for Blackboard Jungle.

Color

Howe's 1955 nomination and win should have been for Picnic. If not him, then it should have gone to Jack Hildyard (Summertime), Ted D. McCord for East of Eden (Ted D. McCord) or Russell Metty for All That Heaven Allows. Instead they nominated Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma!, A Man Called Peter and the gorgeous to look at but narratively dull To Catch a Thief.

Both To Catch a Thief and Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing were gorgeous to look at, and audiences came as much for the dreamy cinematography that put them in Monte Carlo and Hong Kong as they did for the stories. With the superior story line, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing gets my vote by default.

Here we go again...