Alexandria's Award?

[Big Magilla]

There isn't any professional award called the Alexandria. This was the name of the personal awards of a guy from Canada who used to post here by the name of Gillespie. I've forgotten his first name, it may have been Paul.

Anyway, he used to have his own website which contained all the show business awards but it got too expensive for him to maintain. His website was migrated over to Gold Derby aka The Envelope where it formed the basis of that site's previous awards database. Initially his awards were listed there but he had them take them down. I, however, have them on Words up to 2003, the lat time he posted them on his own website. If you're interested, let me know and I'll e-mail them to you.

In the meantime, here's a sample - his 1933 awards for which he nominated Spring Byington in Litte Women - she lost to Mary Astor in The World Changes (winners near the bottom)

1933 Alexandria's
Best Picture
The Bitter Tea of General Yen - Columbia
Dinner at Eight - MGM
King Kong - RKO
Little Women - RKO
Queen Christina - MGM

Best Actor
John Barrymore - Counsellor-at-Law
Wallace Beery - Dinner at Eight
Charles Laughton - The Private Life of Henry VIII
Peter Lorre - M
Paul Robeson - The Emperor Jones

Best Actress
Greta Garbo - Queen Christina
Helen Hayes - Another Language
Katharine Hepburn - Little Women
May Robson - Lady for a Day
Barbara Stanwyck - The Bitter Tea of General Yen

Best Supporting Actor
Charley Chase - Sons of the Desert
Halliwell Hobbes - The Masquerader
Sterling Holloway - Advice to the Lovelorn
Paul Lukas - Little Women
Ralph Morgan - The Power and the Glory

Best Supporting Actress
Mary Astor - The World Changes
Mary Boland - Three Cornered Moon
Spring Byington - Little Women
Marie Dressler - Dinner at Eight
Elsa Lanchester - The Private Life of Henry VIII

Best Director
Frank Capra - The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack - King Kong
George Cukor - Dinner at Eight
George Cukor - Little Women
Fritz Lang - M

Best Cinematography
The Bitter Tea of General Yen - Joseph Walker
Cavalcade - Ernest Palmer
The Kennel Murder Case - William Rees
King Kong - Eddie Linden, Vernon Walker, J.O. Taylor
Queen Christina - William Daniels

Best Comedy Screenplay
Dinner at Eight - Frances Marion, Herman Mankiewicz, Donald Ogden Stewart
Duck Soup - Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Arthur Sheekman, Nat Perrin
I'm No Angel - Mae West, Harlan Thompson
She Done Him Wrong - Mae West, Harvey Thew, John Bright
Three-Cornered Moon - S.K. Lauren, Ray Harris

Best Costume Design
42nd Street - Orry-Kelly
The Bitter Tea of General Yen - Edward Stevenson, Robert Kalloch
Dinner at Eight - Adrian
Golddiggers of 1933 - Orry-Kelly
The Private Life of Henry VIII - John Armstrong

Best Dramatic Screenplay
Another Language - Herman Mankiewicz, Gertrude Purcell, Donald Ogden Stewart
The Bitter Tea of General Yen - Edward Paramore
Counsellor at Law - Elmer Rice
Little Women - Sarah Mason, Victor Heerman
The Power and the Glory - Preston Sturges

Best Editing
The Bitter Tea of General Yen - Edward Curtiss
Cavalcade - Margaret Clancy
King Kong - Ted Cheesman
Little Women - Jack Kitchin
Queen Christina - Blanche Sewell

Best Makeup and Hair Styles
Alice in Wonderland
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Dinner at Eight
Golddiggers of 1933
Island of Lost Souls

Best On Screen Pairing
Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery - Tugboat Annie
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert - Queen Christina
Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester - The Private Life of Henry VIII
Mae West, Cary Grant - I'm No Angel
Warren William, May Robson - Lady for a Day

Best Production Design
Dinner at Eight - Cedric Gibbons
Golddiggers of 1933 - Anton Grot
King Kong - Carroll Clark, Alfred Herman, Van Nest Polglase
The Private Life of Henry VIII - Vincent Korda
Queen Christina - Alexander Toluboff, Edwin Willis

Best Score
The Bitter Tea of General Yen - W. Franke Harling
King Kong - Max Steiner
Little Women - Max Steiner
The Private Life of Henry VIII - Kurt Schroeder
Queen Christina - Herbert Stothart

Best Sound
Cavalcade
42nd Street
Golddiggers of 1933
King Kong
Queen Christina

Best Sound Effects
Dinner at Eight
Golddiggers of 1933
The Invisible Man
Island of Lost Souls
King Kong

Best Visual Effects
Cavalcade
Golddiggers of 1933
The Invisible Man
Island of Lost Souls
King Kong

Performance of the Year
Mary Astor - The World Changes
John Barrymore - Counsellor-at-Law
Katharine Hepburn - Little Women
Halliwell Hobbes - The Masquerador

Top 10 Films of 1933
King Kong
Dinner at Eight
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Queen Christina
Little Women
Duck Soup
She Done Him Wrong
42nd Street
The Private Life of Henry VIII
State Fair

[jowy_jillia]

I want help to find a database for the Alexandria's award. I never heard of it until I visited GarboForever's awards page and I got interested. Does anybody know where I can find a database. If you look at Spring Byington's wikipedia page there is reference for the alexandria's award to The Envelope, but I can't find anything about it there.