1954 Oscar Shoulabeens

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Best Picture: Rear Window
Best Director: Alfred Hitchcock for Rear Window
Best Actor: Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront
Best Actress: Judy Garland in A Star is Born
Best Supporting Actor: Karl Malden in On the Waterfront
Best Supporting Actress: Eva Marie Saint in On the Waterfront
Best Original Screenplay: On the Waterfront
Best Adapted Screenplay: Rear Window
Best Score: On the Waterfront
Best Art Direction: Rear Window
Best Costume Design: The Earrings of Madame De...
Best Editing: Rear Window
Best Cinematography: Rear Window
Best Sound: Rear Window
Best Foreign Film: Diary of a Country Priest
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BEST PICTURE
01. Sansho the Bailiff (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
02. Twenty-Four Eyes (dir. Keisuke Kinoshita)
03. Johnny Guitar (dir. Nicholas Ray)
04. Senso (dir. Luchino Visconti)
05. Seven Samurai (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
06. Rear Window (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
07. Journey to Italy (dir. Roberto Rossellini)
08. Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (dir. Kenneth Anger)
09. La Strada (dir. Federico Fellini)
10. Magnificent Obsession (dir. Douglas Sirk)

BEST DIRECTOR
01. Kenji Mizoguchi, Sansho the Bailiff
02. Keisuke Kinoshita, Twenty-Four Eyes
03. Luchino Visconti, Senso
04. Nicholas Ray, Johnny Guitar
05. Akira Kurosawa, Seven Samurai

BEST ACTOR
01. James Mason, A Star Is Born
02. Charles Laughton, Hobson's Choice
03. Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront
04. Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Sansho the Bailiff
05. Anthony Quinn, La Strada

BEST ACTRESS
01. Hideko Takamine, Twenty-Four Eyes
02. Giulietta Masina, La Strada
03. Jane Wyman, Magnificent Obsession
04. Joan Crawford, Johnny Guitar
05. Alida Valli, Senso

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
01. Karl Malden, On the Waterfront
02. Lee J. Cobb, On the Waterfront
03. John Williams, Dial M for Murder
04. Fredric March, Executive Suite
05. Richard Basehart, La Strada

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
01. Kinuyo Tanaka, Sansho the Bailiff
02. Mercedes McCambridge, Johnny Guitar
03. Kyôko Kagawa, Sansho the Bailiff
04. Teresa Wright, Track of the Cat
05. Pearl Bailey, Carmen Jones

BEST SCREENPLAY
01. Twenty-Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita, based on the novel by Sakae Tsuboi)
02. Sansho the Bailiff (Fuji Yahiro, Yoshikata Yoda, based on the story "Sanshô dayû" by Ogai Mori)
03. Journey to Italy (Vitaliano Brancati, Roberto Rossellini, based on the novel "Duo" by Colette)
04. La Strada (Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano)
05. Rear Window (John Michael Hayes, based on the story "It Had to Be Murder" by Cornell Woolrich)

BEST FILM EDITING
01. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
02. Riot in Cell Block 11 (Bruce B. Pierce)
03. Sansho the Bailiff (Mitsuzô Miyata)
04. Dial M for Murder (Rudi Fehr)
05. Touchez pas au grisbi (Marguerite Renoir)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
01. Sansho the Bailiff (Kazuo Miyagawa)
02. Track of the Cat (William H. Clothier)
03. Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger)
04. Twenty-Four Eyes (Hiroshi Kusuda)
05. Senso (G. R. Aldo, Robert Krasker)

BEST ART DIRECTION
01. Senso (Ottavio Scotti, Gino Brosio)
02. Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger)
02. Rear Window (J. McMillan Johnson, Hal Pereira, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer)
03. Sansho the Bailiff (Kisaku Itô, Kosaburô Nakajima)
05. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (John Meehan, Harper Goff, Emile Kuri)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
01. Senso (Marcel Escoffier, Piero Tosi)
02. French Cancan (Rosine Delamare)
03. Sansho the Bailiff (Shima Yoshizane)
04. Creature from the Black Lagoon (Rosemary Odell, Millicent Patrick, Bud Westmore)
05. Seven Samurai (Kôhei Ezaki, Mieko Yamaguchi)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
01. On the Waterfront (Leonard Bernstein)
02. Johnny Guitar (Victor Young)
03. Sansho the Bailiff (Fumio Hayasaka, Kinshichi Kodera, Tamekichi Mochizuki)
04. Senso (Nino Rota)
05. La Strada (Nino Rota)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
01. A Star Is Born ("The Man That Got Away," music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, performed by Judy Garland)
02. Johnny Guitar ("Johnny Guitar," music by Victor Young, lyrics and performance by Peggy Lee)
03. The Country Girl ("Dissertation on the State of Bliss," music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, performed by Jacqueline Fontaine and Bing Crosby)
04. White Christmas, "Love, You Didn't Do Right by Me," music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, performed by Rosemary Clooney)
05. Knock on Wood ("Knock on Wood," music and lyrics by Sylvia Fine, performed by Danny Kaye)

BEST SOUND
01. The Glenn Miller Story (Leslie I. Carey, Joe Lapis)
02. Hell and High Water (Eugene Grossman; Roger Heman, Sr.)
03. Vera Cruz (Robert G. Carlisle, Galdino R. Samperio, Manuel Topete)
04. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Douglas Shearer)
05. Seven Samurai (Ichirô Minawa)

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
01. La Strada (Eligio Trani, Dante Trani)
02. Senso (Alberto De Rossi)
03. A Star Is Born (Del Armstrong, Gordon Bau, Sydney Guillarof, Helen Young)
04. Sansho the Bailiff (Ritsu Hanai, Masanori Kobayashi)
05. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Sydney Guilaroff, William Tuttle)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
01. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (John Hench, Joshua Meador)
02. Godzilla (Sadamasa Arikawa, Teizô Toshimitsu, Eiji Tsuburaya)
03. Them! (Ardell Lytle)
04. Hell and High Water (Ray Kellogg)
05. The High and the Mighty (Robert A. Mattey)

FINAL TALLY
12 nominations: Sansho the Bailiff (4 wins)
8 nominations: Senso (2 wins)
7 nominations: La Strada (1 win)
6 nominations: Johnny Guitar
5 nominations: Seven Samurai (1 win), Twenty-Four Eyes (2 wins)
4 nominations: On the Waterfront (2 wins)
3 nominations: Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Rear Window, A Star Is Born (2 wins)
2 nominations: Dial M for Murder, Hell and High Water, Journey to Italy, Magnificent Obsession, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Track of the Cat; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1 win)
1 nomination: Carmen Jones, The Country Girl, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Executive Suite, French Cancan, The Glenn Miller Story (1 win), Godzilla, The High and the Mighty, Hobson's Choice, Knock on Wood, Riot in Cell Block 11, Them!, Touchez pas au grisbi, Vera Cruz, White Christmas
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I never did understand why she was nomianted for The Moon Is Blue. Premiger gets major props for defying the censors but truth is the film isn't very good.

Her role in Preminger's The Cardinal is almost non-existent.
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What happened with Maggie McNamara; I just looked at IMDb--she made only two more films after Three Coins in the Fountain, Prince of Players in 1955 with Richard Burton and The Cardinal in 1963, plus a smattering of TV appearances in 1963 and 1964...then, she commits suicide in 1978, reportedly making a living as a typist at the time. Is there more to the story?
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I quite agree wwith your assessment of Three Coibs In The Fountain. One of those mysteries as to how it got nominated--it was a huge hit, maybe that's the reason; it often has been the reason
The song by the Four Aces was also a piece of drivel, and the hit should have been Frank Sinatra's version.
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Three Coins in the Fountain was a ludicrous film. It was, however, a huge commercial hit, thanks largely to the popularity of the title tune which lured audiences in theatres where cinemascope was still fairly new as well on-location filming. It was a given for best color cinematography and best song, but how it managed a best picture nomination remains a mystery. I would have thought Zanuck woudld have pushed either The Egyptian or Hell and Hell Water both of which featured his then mistress, Bella Darvi.
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--flipp525 wrote:
--Reza wrote:Summertime (1955) is ofcourse not only a great film but also a great way to discover Venice.

Didn't Katherine Hepburn complain of being plagued by skin problems for years after her character "falls" into Venice waters? Yuck. Regardless, I absolutely love her performance in that film.

I don't know about skin problems but her ''watering eye'' was a direct result of the severe eye infection she caught when she gamely did that famous plunge!




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Reza wrote:Summertime (1955) is ofcourse not only a great film but also a great way to discover Venice.
Didn't Katherine Hepburn complain of being plagued by skin problems for years after her character "falls" into Venice waters? Yuck. Regardless, I absolutely love her performance in that film.
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Cinemanolis wrote:I just saw 'Three Coins In the Fountain' and i am really amazed by how this mediocrity (at best) managed to win a Best Picture nomination.
This film, along with Rome Adventure (1962), are great to watch before and after visiting Italy (the greatest country to visit for a holiday). Both films are wonderful to sit through to see the great sights on display. The scenery and buildings in the background are more endearing to watch than what the actors are upto mouthing the inane dialogue!

Summertime (1955) is ofcourse not only a great film but also a great way to discover Venice.
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I just saw 'Three Coins In the Fountain' and i am really amazed by how this mediocrity (at best) managed to win a Best Picture nomination. I suppose it was a huge commercial hit and they "had" to nominate it.
Also i thought that Maggie McNamara was plain bad in her performance, just 1 year after her nomination for 'The Moon Is Blue' which i haven't seen. She must have one of the shortest careers for an oscar nominee.
All the actors seemed to be bored and the standout to me was Louis Jourdan. I also enjoyed a performance with almost no lines at all: Kathryn Givney as Mrs. Burgoyne is delightful in her 2-3 scenes, especially in the scene at the opera where she gives her opera glasses to Clifton Webb and then expects him to return them, but he doesn't. She creates a character from nothing.




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It is pretty much decided; No Oscar for Grace Kelly. Judy was robbed, and Kelly-of-the-perfect-diction in a film about a girl from the country was a laughable decision.
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Precious Doll wrote:Best Film

**Magnificent Obsession, The
Moonfleet
Sabrina
Salt of the Earth
Sansho the Baliff

Best Director

Herbert Biberman for Salt of the Earth
Fritz Lang for Moonfleet
Kenji Mizoguchi for Sansho the Baliff
**Douglas Sirk for The Magnificent Obsession
Billy Wilder for Sabrina

Best Actor

Humphrey Bogart for Beat the Devil
Stewart Grainger for Moonfleet
**Rock Hudson for The Magnificent Obsession
Anthony Quinn for La Strada
James Mason for A Star is Born

Best Actress

Giulietta Masina for La Strada
Joan Crawford for Johnny Guitar
Judy Garland for A Star is Born
Audrey Hepburn for Sabrina
**Jane Wyman for The Magnificent Obsession

Best Supporting Actor

Sterling Hayden for Johnny Guitar
Tab Hunter for Track of the Cat
Peter Lorre for Beat the Devil
**Robert Morely for Beat the Devil
George Sanders for Moonfleet

Best Supporting Actress

Beulah Bondi for Track of the Cat
Jennifer Jones for Beat the Devil
Viveca Lindfors for Moonfleet
Mercedes McCambridge for Johnny Guitar
**Agnes Moorehead for The Magnificent Obsession
I'm sorry. I just read these, and no , Precious Doll: your terribly romantic side is showing. Magnificent Obsession was, at the time, a derided film by the young and even people who had read the book were disappointed. Rock Hudson for Best Actor? Oh my dear..I am laughing.
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Thanks, I'm glad it wasn't just me.
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I saw Executive Suite about two years ago and was eagerly anticipating it because of Foch -- whom I've always loved. She certainly should hae been nominated for AN American In Paris. I was shocked at how little screen time she has, although she is fine. I saw an interview with her in which she said she had been furious with producer John Houseman for giving her such a nothing part. For me, the standout is wonderful Louis Calhern. The film is of interest mostly as an artifact of the Eisenhower era, but it always surprises me, considering that Robert Wise had been an editor, how stodgy many of his films are.

Of course, this was the same year Tom Tully was nominated for Supporting Actor for doing even less than Foch in The Caine Mutiny, so I guess back then they took the word "supporting" seriously. Foch did win the National Board of Review Supporting Actress award.
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I just caught Executive Suite on TCM, and am a little baffled at Nina Foch's nomination. She didn't seem to do anything in the film. I kept waiting for the big scene, but it never came. Anyone want to fill me in on how she got the nomination? Damien's book makes no mention of it, but I wonder if there is more to this story.

All in all, not Wise's most remarkable film. You know how it will all play out in the first 10 minutes, but the cast is strong and keeps your interest. Stanwyck is the stand-out, in my humble opinion.
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