1948 Oscar Shouldabeens

[Kellens101]

Best Picture: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Best Director: John Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Best Actor: Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Best Actress: Joan Fontaine in Letter from an Unknown Woman
Best Supporting Actor: Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Best Supporting Actress: Claire Trevor in Key Largo
Best Original Screenplay: Red River
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Best Score: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Best Art Direction: The Red Shoes
Best Costume Design: The Red Shoes
Best Editing: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Best Cinematography: The Red Shoes
Best Sound: The Red Shoes
Best Foreign Film: Paisan

[ksrymy]

BEST PICTURE
01. Portrait of Jennie (dir. William Dieterle)
02. The Red Shoes (dirs. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
03. Spring in a Small Town (dir. Fei Mu)
04. Germany, Year Zero (dir. Roberto Rossellini)
05. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (dir. John Huston
06. Act of Violence (dir. Fred Zinnemann)
07. Red River (dir. Howard Hawks)
08. Bicycle Thieves (dir. Vittorio De Sica)
09. Letter from an Unknown Woman (dir. Max Ophüls)
10. L'Amore (dir. Roberto Rossellini)

BEST DIRECTOR
01. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, The Red Shoes
02. Roberto Rossellini; Germany, Year Zero
03. William Dieterle, Portrait of Jennie
04. John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
05. Fei Mu, Spring in a Small Town

BEST ACTOR
01. Joseph Cotten, Portrait of Jennie
02. Montgomery Clift, The Search
03. Humphrey Bogart, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
04. John Garfield, Force of Evil
05. Laurence Olivier, Hamlet

BEST ACTRESS
01. Wei Wei, Spring in a Small Town
02. Olivia de Havilland, The Snake Pit
03. Jane Wyman, Johnny Belinda
04. Anna Magnani, L'Amore
05. Jean Arthur, A Foreign Affair

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
01. Robert Ryan, Act of Violence
02. Thomas Gomez, Force of Evil
03. Charles Bickford, Johnny Belinda
04. Wendell Corey, I Walk Alone
05. Walter Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
01. Ethel Barrymore, Portrait of Jennie
02. Aline MacMahon, The Search
03. Jarmila Novotná, The Search
04. Claire Trevor, Key Largo
05. Janet Leigh, Act of Violence

BEST SCREENPLAY
01. Portrait of Jennie (Leonardo Bercovici, Peter Berneis, Paul Osborn, based on the novella of the same name by Robert Nathan)
02. Germany, Year Zero (Robert Rossellini, Carlo Lizzani, Max Kolpé)
03. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, based on the novel of the same name by B. Traven)
04. L'Amore ("Una voce humana" by Roberto Rossellini, Jean Cocteau, Anna Benevuti, based on the play "La Voix humaine" by Jean Cocteau; "Il miracolo" by Roberto Rossellini, Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli)
05. Act of Violence (Robert L. Richards, based on the story of the same name by Collier Young)

BEST FILM EDITING
01. Germany, Year Zero (Eraldo Da Roma)
02. The Naked City (Paul Weatherwax)
03. The Red Shoes (Reginald Mills)
04. Hamlet (Helga Cranston)
05. Portrait of Jennie (William Morgan)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
01. The Red Shoes (Jack Cardiff)
02. Portrait of Jennie (Joseph H. August)
03. La terra trema (G. R. Aldo)
04. Sorry, Wrong Number (Sol Polito)
05. Johnny Belinda (Ted D. McCord)

BEST ART DIRECTION
01. The Red Shoes (Hein Heckroth, Arthur Lawson)
02. Rope (Howard Bristol, Perry Ferguson, Emile Kuri)
03. The Pirate (Cedric Gibbons, Jack Martin Smith, Edwin B. Willis)
04. Key Largo (Leo K. Kuter, Fred M. MacLean)
05. Letter from an Unknown Woman (Alexander Golitzen, Russell A. Gausman, Ruby R. Levitt)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
01. The Red Shoes (Hein Heckroth)
02. Easter Parade (Irene, Valles)
03. The Pirate (Tom Keogh)
04. Joan of Arc (Dorothy Jeakins, Barbara Karinska)
05. Anna Karenina (Cecil Beaton)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
01. The Red Shoes (Brian Easdale)
02. Easter Parade (original score by Conrad Salinger, original songs by Irving Berlin)
03. Red River (Dimitri Tiomkin)
04. Portrait of Jennie (Dimitri Tiomkin)
05. Johnny Belinda (Max Steiner)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
01. The Paleface ("Buttons and Bows," music by Jay Livingston, lyrics by Ray Evans, performed by Bob Hope)
02. Drunken Angel ("Janguru bugi," music by Ryôichi Hattori, lyrics by Akira Kurosawa, performed by Shizuko Kasagi)
03. Portrait of Jennie ("Jennie's Song," music by Bernard Herrmann, lyrics by Robert Nathan, performed by Jennifer Jones)
04. The Boy with Green Hair ("Nature Boy," music and lyrics by eden ahbez)
05. The Pirate ("Be a Clown," music and lyrics by Cole Porter, performed by Gene Kelly and Judy Garland)

BEST SOUND
01. Key Largo (Dolph Thomas)
02. The Snake Pit (Thomas Moulton)
03. Germany, Year Zero (Kurt Doubrowsky)
04. Red River (Richard DeWeese)
05. The Red Shoes (Gordon K. McCallum, Charles Poulton)

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
01. The Red Shoes (George Blackler, Eric Carter, Ernest Gasser)
02. Macbeth (Peggy Gray, Bob Mark)
03. Portrait of Jennie (uncredited)
04. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Carmen Dirigo, Bud Westmore)
05. Anna Karenina (Harold Fletcher, Helen Penfold)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
01. Portrait of Jennie (Paul Eagler, J. McMillan Johnson, Russell Shearman, Clarence Slifer)
02. Scott of the Antarctic (Richard Dendy, Geoffrey Dickinson, Jim Morahan, Norman Ough, Sydney Pearson)
03. Key Largo (Robert Burks, William C. McGann)
04. The Red Shoes (George Gunn, E. Hague)
05. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Jerome Ash, David S. Horsely)

FINALY TALLY
11 nominations: Portrait of Jennie (5 wins)
10 nominations: The Red Shoes (6 wins)
5 nominations: Germany, Year Zero (1 win), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
4 nominations: Act of Violence (1 win), Johnny Belinda, Key Largo (1 win)
3 nominations: L'Amore, The Pirate, Red River, The Search, Spring in a Small Town (1 win)
2 nominations: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Anna Karenina, Easter Parade, Force of Evil, Hamlet, Letter from an Unknown Woman, The Snake Pit (1 win)
1 nomination: Bicycle Thieves, The Boy with Green Hair, Drunken Angel, A Foreign Affair, I Walk Alone, Joan of Arc, Macbeth, The Naked City, The Paleface, Rope, Scott of the Antarctic; Sorry, Wrong Number; La terra trema

[Big Magilla]

I agree with Damien that The Dead is Huston's greatest work, a film that resonates more with each passing year. It's shameful that this film is not better known. It's had several DVD releases in Europe, but seems have fallen between the cracks in the U.S. and other countries.

Originally released by Vestron, the rights seem to have fallen to Lions Gate (or Lionsgate) in the U.S., which has a spotty DVD release record.

But The Dead was the culmination of a life's work, it didn't spring out of thin air. There were moments of greatness in Huston's films beginning with The Maltese Falcon and continuing through The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Key Largo, The Asphalt Jungle, Moulin Rouge, Heaven Know, Mr. Allison, The List of Adrian Messenger, The Night of the Iguana, Fat City, The Man Who Would Be King, Wise Blood, Under the Volcano, Prizzi's Honor and others.

Treasure of Sierra Madre gets my vote as the best picture of 1948 in a tight race with Red River. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but as the man said "we don't need no stinkin' badges", probably Huston's most quoted line next to "it's the stuff dreams are made of" from The Maltese Falcon. I'd add the closing line from The Dead, but James Joyce wrote that.

[Sabin]

I've seen Fat City a few times and I think it's a pretty great piece of filmmaking. I watched The Treasure of the Sierra Madre for the first time in a decade. That doesn't entirely constitute a retrospective. I am actively doing a retrospective on André Téchiné and as soon as I can find Esther Kahn and My Sex Life... Arnaud Desplechin.

I've seen a small handful of Huston films and I'm sure they represent the best of his oeuvre so I'm probably not the best to judge, but he's clearly a capable journeyman. You cannot begrudge him that.



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[Damien]

It has some inelegant compositions, I don't much like the score, and the final act loses almost all the tensions that are built very efficiently through the film. I think in spite of these flaws, it's pretty great. What about 'Fat City'?

Josh, are you doing a John Huston retrospective? Damn, I could give you two dozen other filmmakers whose ouevre would provide much more satisfying viewing. It took Huston until the end of his life to finally make a great film, The Dead (although Moulin Rouge is filled with magical monets and a genuine intelligence in lieu of the director's usual glibness).

Fat City I haven't seen since it was released, but it seemed utterly ordinary to me in 1972.

[Reza]

I remember Huston's performance totally put me off Sierra Madre. I probably need to review this film...but all that cackling by Huston really got on my nerves.

[Sabin]

It has some inelegant compositions, I don't much like the score, and the final act loses almost all the tensions that are built very efficiently through the film. I think in spite of these flaws, it's pretty great. What about 'Fat City'?

[Damien]

Not much for 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre', Damien?

It's okay. The script is overly schematic and the irony is laid on awfully heavy. Marvelous performances by Walter Huston, Bruce Bennett and, of course, Alfonso ("Stinkin' Badges") Bedoya.

Visually, it's a bit more lively than most of the director's films, with some nicely constructed use of fore- and background. But still it made me appreciate again a quote from critic/historian Bill Krohn: ""With each new film it is as if John Huston presents the spectator a note that reads, 'Excused from mise en scene.'"

[Sabin]

Not much for 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre', Damien?

[Reza]

Finally caught up with The Luck of the Irish. Charming bit of whimsy! Good cast in Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter and Oscar nominated Cecil Kellaway.

[Damien]

BEST PICTURE OF 1948
1. Portrait Of Jennie (William Dieterle)
2. Good Sam (Leo McCarey)
3. The Pirate (Vincente Minnelli)
4. Johnny Belinda (Jean Negulesco)
5. A Hen In The Wind (Yasujiro Ozu)
6. Berlin Express (Jacques Tourneur)
7. Three Godfathers (John Ford)
8. They Live By Night (Nicholas Ray)
9. Fort Apache (John Ford)
10. Letter From An Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)

BEST ACTOR
1. Joseph Cotten in Portrait Of Jennie
2. Lew Ayres in Johnny Belinda
3. Montgomery Clift in Red River
4. Robert Ryan in The Boy With Green Hair
5. Laurence Olivier in Hamlet

BEST ACTRESS
1. Jane Wyman in Johnny Belinda
2. Jennifer Jones in Portrait Of Jennie
3. Cathy O’Donnell in They Live By Night
4. Ann Sheridan in Good Sam
5. Barbara Stanwyck in Sorry, Wrong Number

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. Charles Bickford in Johnny Belinda
2. Walter Brennan in Red River
3. Walter Huston in The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
4. Edward G. Robinson in Key Largo
5. Thomas Mitchell in Silver River

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Ethel Barrymore in Portrait Of Jennie.
2. Agnes Moorehead in Johnny Belinda
3. Claire Trevor in Key Largo
4. Joanne Dru in Red River
5. Minerva Urecal in Good Sam

BEST DIRECTOR
1. William Dieterle -- Portrait Of Jennie
2. Leo McCarey -- Good Sam
3. Vincente Minnelli – The Pirate
4. Jean Negulesco – Johnny Belinda
5. Yasujiro Ozu – A Hen In The Wind

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1. Good Sam -- Leo McCarey and John Klorer; Ken Englund
2. Berlin Express – Curt Siodmak; Harold Medford
3. A Hen In The Wind – Yasujiiro Ozu and Ryosuke Saito
4. A Foreign Affair – Robert Harari and Billy Wilder; David Shaw; Charles Brackett and Richard L. Breen
5. Fort Apache – James Warner Bellah; Frank S. Nugent

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
1. Portrait Of Jennie – Leonardo Bercovici; Paul Osborn and Peter Berneis
2. Johnny Belinda – Irmgard Von Cube and Allen Vincent
3. Three Godfathers – Laurence Stallings and Frank S. Nugent
4. They Live By Night – Nicholas Ray; Charles Schnee
5. So This Is New York – Herbert Baker and Carl Foreman

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. Portrait Of Jennie – Joseph Valentine
2. Three Godfathers – Winton Hoch
3. Johnny Belinda – Ted McCord
4. Canon City – John Alton
5. The Pirate -- Harry Stradling

BEST FILM EDITING
1. Portrait Of Jennie
2. Good Sam
3. Berlin Express
4. Fort Apache
5. Johnny Belinda

BEST ART DIRECTION
1. Portrait Of Jennie
2. Johnny Belinda
3. The Pirate
4. Letter From An Unknown Woman
5. Rope

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
1. Portrait Of Jennie
2. The Pirate
3. Letter From An Unknown Woman
4. So This Is New York
5. The Exile

BEST MUSIC – MUSICAL FILM
1. The Pirate
2. Easter Parade
3. A Date With Judy
4. The Red Shoes

BEST MUSIC – NON-MUSICAL FILM
1. Johnny Belinda – Max Steiner
2. The Exile – Frank Skinner
3. Treasure Of The Sierra Madre – Max Steiner
4. A Foreign Affair – Frederick Hollander
5. A Hen In The Wind – Senji Itô

BEST SONG
1. “Hooray For Love” (Casbah) – Harold Arlen and Leo Robin
2. “Buttons and Bows” (The Paleface) – Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
3. “Stepping Out With My Baby” (Easter Parade) – Irving Berlin
4. “It’s A Most Unusual Day” (A Date With Judy) – Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson
5. “Ruins of Berlin” (A Foreign Affair) – Frederick Hollander

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
1. Portrait Of Jennie
2. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
3. The Spiritualist
4. Miraculous Journey

[Bruce_Lavigne]

Best Picture
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)

Best Actor
Humphrey Bogart (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)

Best Actress
Olivia de Havilland (The Snake Pit)

Best Supporting Actor
Walter Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)

Best Supporting Actress
Claire Trevor (Key Largo)

Best Director
John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)

[Precious Doll]

Best Film

1. Letter From an Unknown Woman
2. The Search
3. Johnny Belinda
4. Louisiana Story
5. Women of the Night

Best Director

1. Max Ophuls, Letter From an Unknown Woman
2. Fred Zinnemann, The Search
3. Jean Negulesco, Johnny Belinda
4. Robert Flaherty, Louisiana Story
5. Kenji Mizoguchi, Women of the Night

Best Actor

1. Montgomery Clift, The Search
2. Lawrence Olivier, Hamlet
3. Montgomery Clift, Red River
4. Anton Walbrook, The Red Shoes
5. Lew Ayres, Johnny Belinda

Best Actress

1. Joan Fontaine, Letter From an Unknown Woman
2. Jane Wyman, Johnny Belinda
3. Ingrid Bergman, Joan of Arc
4. Kinuyo Tanaka, Women of the Night
5. Jean Arthur, A Foreign Affair

Best Supporting Actor

1. Walter Huston, The Treasure of Sierra Madre
2. Jose Ferrer, Joan of Arc
3. Charles Bickford, Johnny Belinda
4. Wendell Corey, The Search
5. Walter Brennan, Red River

Best Supporting Actress

1. Aline MacMahon, The Search
2. Agnes Moorehead, Johnny Belinda
3. Sanae Takasugi, Women of the Night
4. Jean Simmons, Hamlet
5. Jarmila Novotna, The Search

Best Screenplay

1. The Search
2. Louisiana Story
3. The Last Stop
4. Germany Year Zero
5. Unfaithfully Yours

Best Screenplay Adaptation

1. Letter from an Unknown Woman
2. Johnny Belinda
3. Women of the Night
4. Les Parents Terribles
5. The Boy with Green Hair

Best Cinematography

1. The Red Shoes
2. Rope
3. The Boy with Green Hair
4. Joan of Arc
5. Louisiana Story

Best Editing

1. Letter From an Unknown Woman
2. The Search
3. Louisiana Story
4. Women of the Night
5. Johnny Belinda

Best Sound

1. The Red Shoes
2. Red River
3. Louisiana Story
4. Joan of Arc
5. The Treasure of Sierra Madre

Best Art Direction

1. The Red Shoes
2. Joan of Arc
3. Letter from an Unknown Woman
4. The Boy with Green Hair
5. Rope

Best Costume Design

1. The Red Shoes
2. Joan of Arc
3. Letter from an Unknown Woman
4. Johnny Belinda
5. Red River

Best Music

1. The Red Shoes
2. Red River
3. Letter from an Unknown Woman
4. The Boy with Green Hair
5. The Treasure of Sierra Madre

[MCAR]

Picture:
Day Of Wrath
Letter From An Unknown Woman
The Red Shoes
The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
Unfaithfully Yours

Actor:
Humphrey Bogart – The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
John Garfield – Force Of Evil
Rex Harrison – Unfaithfully Yours
Anton Walbrook – The Red Shoes
John Wayne – Red River

Actress:
Olivia de Havilland – The Snake Pit
Joan Fontaine – Letter From An Unknown Woman
Lisbeth Movin – Day Of Wrath
Barbara Stanwyck –Sorry Wrong Number
Jane Wyman – Johnny Belinda

Supporting Actor:
Montgomery Clift – Red River
Thomas Gomez – Force Of Evil
Walter Huston – The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
Edward G. Robinson – Key Largo
Rudy Vallee – Unfaithfully Yours

Supporting Actress:
Ethel Barrymore – Portrait Of Jennie
Elsa Lanchester – The Big Clock
Angela Lansbury – State Of The Union
Agnes Moorehead – Johnny Belinda
Claire Trevor – Key Largo

Director:
Carl-Theodor Dreyer – Day Of Wrath
Howard Hawks - Red River
John Huston – The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger – The Red Shoes
Preston Sturges – Unfaithfully Yours

Original Screenplay:
Frances H. Flaherty & Robert J. Flaherty – Louisiana Story
Charles Huguent van der Linden & H.M. Josephson – Dutch In Seven Lessons
Harry Kleiner – The Street With No Name
Richard Schweizer & David Wechsler -The Search
Preston Sturges – Unfaithfully Yours

Adapted Screenplay:
Charles Brackett, Richard L. Breen, Robert Harari & Billy Wilder – A Foreign Affair
John Huston – The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
Howard Koch - Letter From An Unknown Woman
Abraham Polonsky & Ira Wolfert - Force Of Evil
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger - The Red Shoes

Foreign Film:
*Day Of Wrath (Denmark)*
A Hen In The Wind (Japan)
Jenny Lamour (France)
Paisan (Italy)
Spring In A Small Town (China)

[Aceisgreat]

BEST PICTURE
*Hamlet
Johnny Belinda
Red River
The Red Shoes
Treasure Of Sierra Madre

BEST DIRECTOR
Howard Hawks, Red River
*John Huston, Treasure Of Sierra Madre
Jean Negulesco, Johnny Belinda
Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, The Red Shoes

BEST ACTOR
Lew Ayres, Johnny Belinda
Humphrey Bogart, Treasure Of Sierra Madre
Montgomery Clift, The Search
*Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
John Wayne, Red River

BEST ACTRESS
Ingrid Bergman, Joan Of Arc
Olivia de Havilland, The Snake Pit
Vivien Leigh, Anna Karenina
Barbara Stanwyck, Sorry, Wrong Number
*Jane Wyman, Johnny Belinda

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Felix Aylmer, Hamlet
Charles Bickford, Johnny Belinda
Walter Brennan, Red River
Jose Ferrer, Joan Of Arc
*Walter Huston, Treasure Of Sierra Madre

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Eileen Herlie, Hamlet
Sally Ann Howes, Anna Karenina
Agnes Moorehead, Johnny Belinda
Jean Simmons, Hamlet
*Claire Trevor, Key Largo