1953 Oscar Shouldabeens

[Kellens101]

Best Picture: Tokyo Story
Best Director: Yasujiro Ozu for Tokyo Story
Best Actor: Montgomery Clift in From Here to Eternity
Best Actress: Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday
Best Supporting Actor: Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity
Best Supporting Actress: Thelma Ritter in Pickup on South Street
Best Original Screenplay: Tokyo Story
Best Adapted Screenplay: From Here to Eternity
Best Score: Shane
Best Art Direction: The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T
Best Costume Design: The Robe
Best Editing: From Here to Eternity
Best Cinematography: Shane
Best Sound: From Here to Eternity
Best Foreign Film: Tokyo Stiry

[ksrymy]

BEST PICTURE
01. Ugetsu (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
02. Duck Amuck (dir. Chuck Jones)
03. The Wages of Fear (dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot)
04. Madame de... (dir. Max Ophüls)
05. Pickup on South Street (dir. Samuel Fuller)
06. The Band Wagon (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
07. Sawdust and Tinsel (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
08. Gate of Hell (dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa)
09. The Big Heat (dir. Fritz Lang)
10. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (dir. Howard Hawks)

BEST DIRECTOR
01. Kenji Mizoguchi, Ugetsu
02. Chuck Jones, Duck Amuck
03. Henri-Georges Clouzot, The Wages of Fear
04. Max Ophüls, Madame de...
05. Samuel Fuller, Pickup on South Street

BEST ACTOR
01. Vittorio Gassman, The Glass Wall
02. Arturo de Córdova, Él
03. Montgomery Clift, I Confess
04. Chishû Ryû, Tokyo Story
05. Charles Boyer, Madame de...

BEST ACTRESS
01. Danielle Darrieux, Madame de...
02. Harriet Andersson, Summer with Monika
03. Machiko Kyô, Gate of Hell
04. Jean Peters, Pickup on South Street
05. Doris Day, Calamity Jane

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
01. Anders Ek, Sawdust and Tinsel
02. Charles Vanel, The Wages of Fear
03. Jack Buchanan, The Band Wagon
04. Vittorio De Sica, Madame de...
05. Van Heflin, Shane

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
01. Thelma Ritter, Pickup on South Street
02. Hildegard Knef, The Man Between
03. Gloria Grahame, The Big Heat
04. Kinuyo Tanaka, Ugetsu
05. Setsuko Hara, Tokyo Story

BEST SCREENPLAY
01. Madame de... (Marcel Achard, Max Ophüls, Annette Wademant, based on the novel by Louise de Vilmorin)
02. Duck Amuck (Michael Maltese)
03. Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, based on a story by Dwight Taylor)
04. Ugetsu (Matsutarō Kawaguchi, Yoshikata Yoda, based on the collection of short stories "Ugetsu Monogatari" by Ueda Akinari)
05. Sawdust and Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman)

BEST FILM EDITING
01. The Wages of Fear (Madeleine Gug, Etiennette Muse, Henri Rust)
02. Ugetsu (Mitsuzô Miyata)
03. Pickup on South Street (Nick DeMaggio)
04. Shane (William Hornbeck, Tom McAdoo)
05. M. Hulot's Holiday (Suzanne Baron, Charles Bretoneiche, Jacques Grassi)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
01. Ugetsu (Kazuo Miyagawa)
02. The Wages of Fear (Armand Thirard)
03. Gate of Hell (Kôhei Sugiyama)
04. Niagara (Joseph MacDonald)
05. Shane (Loyal Griggs)

BEST ART DIRECTION
01. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (Cary Odell, William Kiernan)
02. Gate of Hell (Kisaku Itô, Kosaburô Nakajima)
03. Ugetsu (Kisaku Itô, Kosaburô Nakajima)
04. The Story of Three Loves (E. Preston Ames, Edward C. Carfagno, Cedric Gibbons, Gabriel Scognamillo, F. Keogh Gleason, Arthur Krams, Jack D. Moore, Edwin B. Willis)
05. Sadko (Yevgeni Kumankov, Evgeniy Svidetelev)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
01. Gate of Hell (Shima Yoshizane)
02. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Travilla)
03. Madame de... (Georges Annenkov, Rosine Delamare)
04. Sawdust and Tinsel (Mago)
05. Sadko (Olga Kruchinina)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
01. M. Hulot's Holiday (Alain Romans)
02. I Vitelloni (Nino Rota)
03. Shane (Victor Young)
04. Ugetsu (Fumio Hayasaka, Tamekichi Mochizuki, Ichirô Saitô)
05. Gate of Hell (Yasushi Akutagawa)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
01. Calamity Jane ("Secret Love," music by Sammy Fain, lyrics by Paul Francis Webster, performed by Doris Day)
02. Small Town Girl ("My Flaming Heart," music by Nicholas Brodszky, lyrics by Leo Robin, performed by Nat King Cole)
03. The Band Wagon ("That's Entertainment," music by Arthur Schwartz, lyrics by Howard Dietz, performed by Jack Buchanan, Nanette Fabray, Oscar Levant, and Fred Astaire)
04. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ("Anyone Here for Love?," music and lyrics by Hoagy Carmichael and Harold Adamson, performed by Jane Russell)
05. The Caddy ("That's Amore," music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Jack Brooks, performed by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis)

BEST SOUND
01. M. Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Carrère, Roger Cosson, Guy Michel-Ange)
02. Shane (Gene Garvin, Harry Lindgren)
03. Niagara (W. D. Flick; Roger Heman, Sr.)
04. Ugetsu (Iwao Ôtani, Akira Suzuki)
05. Invaders from Mars (Earl Crain, Sr.)

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
01. House of Wax (Gordon Bau)
02. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (Clay Campbell, Helen Hunt, Robert J. Schiffer)
03. Ugetsu (Yoshiya Fukuyama, Ritsu Hanai)
04. Sawdust and Tinsel (Nils Nittel)
05. Sadko (Jose Malar)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
01. The Cruel Sea (Geoffrey Dickinson, Sydney Pearson)
02. Split Second (Harold E. Wellman)
03. The War of the Worlds (Ivyl Burks, Jan Domela, Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings, W. Wallace Kelley, Paul K. Lerpae, Irmin Roberts)
04. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (Willis Cook, Ray Harryhausen, George Lofgren, Eugène Lourié)
05. Titanic (Ray Kellogg)

FINAL TALLY
10 nominations: Ugetsu (3 wins)
7 nominations: Madame de... (2 wins)
6 nominations: Gate of Hell (1 win), Pickup on South Street (1 win)
5 nominations: The Wages of Fear (1 win), Sawdust and Tinsel (1 win), Shane
3 nominations: The Band Wagon, Duck Amuck, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, M. Hulot's Holiday (2 wins), Sadko
2 nominations: The Big Heat, Calamity Jane (1 win), The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1 win), Niagara, Tokyo Story
1 nomination: The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Caddy, The Cruel Sea (1 win), Él, The Glass Wall (1 win), House of Wax (1 win), I Confess, I Vitelloni, Invaders from Mars, The Man Between, Small Town Girl, Split Second, The Story of Three Loves, Summer with Monika, Titanic, The War of the Worlds

[OscarGuy]

Merged.

[Big Magilla]

Find me the other thread and I'll just merge the two threads to prevent confusion.

http://uaadb.cinemasight.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=648

[OscarGuy]

Find me the other thread and I'll just merge the two threads to prevent confusion.

[Big Magilla]

Mystery solved. I recall when I recently looked at these there were two for one year. This was that year.

My original post from 1/1/2003 is still here. Damien apparently couldn't find it and started his own thread in 2010.

I've re-named this thread "1953 Oscar Shouldabeens - Damien's version" to avoid further confusion.

[OscarGuy]

I went back to the old board and looked and Damien was the first poster for this thread and everything that was on the old board is also here, so it must have been lost several years ago.

[OscarGuy]

You can look on the old board and see if they are there, but I'll bet that they weren't in this specific thread.

[Big Magilla]

Everything that was on the old board transferred over, so if it's missing, it wasn't there either.

No, I periodcially go through these Shouldabeens posts and my post, which is missing was there less than a month ago. Mine are the first one in 99% of these, with Reza's second or third in most of them. They, and others' are now missing at least for this thread. Reza and I can reconstruct ours, but some of the early contributors from 2003 no longer post here so theirs are likely gone forever.

[OscarGuy]

Everything that was on the old board transferred over, so if it's missing, it wasn't there either.

[Big Magilla]

I think a number of posts on this thread have disapeared.

I'll have to go through all these when I have some time, though I have no idea when that might be.

[Reza]

I think a number of posts on this thread have disapeared.

[ITALIANO]

It's the only Maxwell Shane movie I've seen; it's surprisingly well directed, but I feel that it also owes alot to Ivan Tors's contribution to the screenplay. Tors was a very lively, very versatile Hungarian intellectual and playwright who in America became screenwriter, director, and producer (he later produced several successful tv-series). There is an interesting link with Gassman - Tors was the boyfriend, and soon the husband, of an American actress, Constance Dowling; Dowling and her sister Doris had become quite popular in the Roman "dolce vita" of the time - Constance especially when she became the lover of our most celebrated poet of the period, the introverted, sensitive Cesare Pavese. They certainly made a strange couple - he shy, extremely well-educated, and a committed communist; she so blonde, so American, so vivacious. The affair was short but intense; after Constance left him, Pavese killed himself leaving some wonderful poems dedicated to her.
Doris, at least, had had a more relevant Italian career that included a justly celebrated movie, Giuseppe De Santis's Bitter Rice, which of course co-starred Vittorio Gassman.

[Damien]

When I saw a rare 35mm print of it in January 2005, Eddie Muller introduced the film and made the same claim about the UN building location shooting. I remember thinking it was a surprisingly good film as well. Has anyone seen any of the (very few) other films directed by Maxwell Shane? I've heard good things about Nightmare...

The only other movie I've seen of the 5 Shane made is City Across The River (1949), a well-intentioned but not very successful juvenile delinquency drama of the a-poor-economic-environment-makes-good-boys-go-bad school.

He did write dozens of mostly B movies, the ones I've seen (eg The Mummy's Hand, Adventure Island) pretty bad.

Wonder how he came to direct a movie at MGM 4 years after his last one.

(I've also heard positive things about Nightmare.)

[Damien]

Some notable titles unmentioned in your summary of 1953 include the Earrings of Madame de..., Bellissima, 99 River Street, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, the Bigamist, Monika, the Glenn Miller Story, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the Big Heat and Pickup on South Street. Did any of these come close to mentions in your reckoning of the year?

Rain, I forgot that M. Hulot's Holiday was 1953 -- I always seem to think of it as a 1955 picture because that's when it received a Screenplay Oscar nomination. But it should go probably into 5th place.

I admire all of the films you mentioned a great deal (the underrated Glenn Miller -- Anthony Mann makes it much more than a standard musician biography -- is '54, though.

Here are my Top 10 runners-up:

11. Earrings Of Madame de (Max Ophuls)
12. Lili (Charles Walters)
13. Niagara (Henry Hathaway)
14. The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
15. Thunder Bay (Anthony Mann)
16. Arrrowhead (Charles Marquis Warren)
17. Invaders From Mars (William Cameron Menzies)
18. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizigouchi)
19. Sawdust and Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman)
20. The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann)

To have a Ten Best list in 2010 that was the equal of these second ten, well, we'd be saying that 2010 was a great year.