1956 Oscar Shouldabeens

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Best Picture: The Searchers
Best Director: John Ford for The Searchers
Best Actor: John Wayne in The Searchers
Best Actress: Giuletta Masina in La Strada
Best Supporting Actor: Robert Stack in Written on the Wind
Best Supporting Actress: Dorothy Malone in Written on the Wind
Best Original Screenplay: La Strada
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Searchers
Best Score: Giant
Best Art Direction: The King and I
Best Costume Design: The King and I
Best Editing: Seven Samurai
Best Cinematography: The Searchers
Best Sound: Seven Samurai
Best Foreign Film: Seven Samurai
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BEST PICTURE
01. The Burmese Harp (dir. Kon Ichikawa)
02. A Man Escaped (dir. Robert Bresson)
03. Bigger Than Life (dir. Nicholas Ray)
04. The Red Balloon (dir. Albert Lamorisse)
05. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (dir. Don Siegel)
06. Bob le flambeur (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
07. Autumn Leaves (dir. Robet Aldrich)
08. Written on the Wind (dir. Douglas Sirk)
09. The Searchers (dir. John Ford)
10. The King and I (dir. Walter Lang)

BEST DIRECTOR
01. Kon Ichikawa, The Burmese Harp
02. Robert Bresson, A Man Escaped
03. Nicholas Ray, Bigger Than Life
04. Albert Lamorisse, The Red Balloon
05. Jean-Pierre Melville, Bob le flambeur

BEST ACTOR
01. James Mason, Bigger Than Life
02. Yul Brynner, The King and I
03. Roger Duchesne, Bob le flambeur
04. Shôji Yasui, The Burmese Harp
05. Cliff Robertson, Autumn Leaves

BEST ACTRESS
01. Joan Crawford, Autumn Leaves
02. Diana Dors, Yield to the Night
03. Nancy Kelly, The Bad Seed
04. Maria Schell, Gervaise
05. Ayako Wakao, Street of Shame

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
01. Michael Hordern, The Spanish Gardener
02. Ed Begley, Patterns
03. Elisha Cook, Jr.; The Killing
04. Robert Stack, Written on the Wind
05. Stephen Boyd, The Man Who Never Was

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
01. Eileen Heckart, The Bad Seed
02. Helen Hayes, Anastasia
03. Vera Miles, The Wrong Man
04. Machiko Kyô, Street of Shame
05. Karuna Banerjee, Aparajito

BEST SCREENPLAY
01. Bob le flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville, Auguste Le Breton)
02. The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse)
03. Bigger Than Life (Cyril Hume, Richard Maibaum, based on the article "Ten Feet Tall" by Berton Roueché)
04. The Burmese Harp (Natto Wada, based on the novel by Michio Takeyama)
05. The Court Jester (Norman Panama, Melvin Frank)

BEST FILM EDITING
01. La Pointe Courte (Alain Resnais)
02. A Man Escaped (Raymond Lamy)
03. Giant (William Hornbeck)
04. Bob le flambeur (Monique Bonnot)
05. The Burmese Harp (Masanori Tsujii)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
01. Le monde du silence (Philippe Agostini, Louis Malle)
02. The Red Balloon (Edmond Séchan)
03. Giant (William C. Mellor)
04. A Man Escaped (Léonce-Henri Burel)
05. The Searchers (Winton C. Hoch)

BEST ART DIRECTION
01. 1984 (Terence Verity)
02. The King and I (John DeCuir, Lyle R. Wheeler, Paul S. Fox, Walter M. Scott)
03. The Ten Commandments (Albert Nozaki, Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer)
04. Baby Doll (Richard Sylbert)
05. Lust for Life (E. Preston Ames, Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, F. Keogh Gleason, Edwin B. Willis)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
01. The King and I (Irene Sharaff)
02. Elena and Her Men (Rosine Delamare, Monique Plotin)
03. Anastasia (René Hubert)
04. The Court Jester (Edith Head, Yvonne Wood)
05. The Ten Commandments (Arnold Friberg, Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, John Jensen, Ralph Jester)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
01. The Burmese Harp (Akira Ifukube)
02. Aparajito (Ravi Shankar)
03. The Wrong Man (Bernard Herrmann)
04. Forbidden Planet (Bebe Barron & Louis Barron)
05. Around the World in Eighty Days (Victor Young)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
01. The Girl Can't Help It ("The Girl Can't Help It," music and lyrics by Bobby Troup, performed by Little Richard)
02. Love Me Tender ("Love Me Tender," music by George R. Poulton, lyrics by Ken Darby, performed by Elvis Presley)
03. Written on the Wind ("Written on the Wind," music by Victor Young, lyrics by Sammy Cahn, performed by The Four Aces)
04. Somebody Up There Likes Me ("Somebody Up There Likes Me," music by Bronisław Kaper, lyrics by Sammy Cahn, performed by Perry Como)
05. The Court Jester ("Life Could Not Better Be," music by Sylvia Fine, lyrics by Sammy Cahn and Sylvia Fine, performed by Danny Kaye)

BEST SOUND
01. The Burmese Harp (Masakazu Kamiya)
02. A Man Escaped (Pierre-André Bertrand)
03. The Killing (Rex Lipton, Earl Snyder)
04. The King and I (Warren B. Delaplain, E. Clayton Ward)
05. The Court Jester (John Cope, Harry Lindgren)

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
01. The Ten Commandments (Nellie Manley, Frank McCoy, Frank Westmore, Wally Westmore)
02. Lust for Life (Sydney Guilaroff, William Tuttle)
03. The King and I (Ben Nye, Helen Turpin)
04. Moby Dick (Charles E. Parker)
05. Around the World in Eighty Days (Edith Keon , Gary Morris, Gustaf Norin)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
01. The Ten Commandments (Farciot Edouart, John P. Fulton, Paul K. Lerpae)
02. Forbidden Planet (A. Arnold Gillespie, Joshua Meador, Warren Newcombe, Irving G. Ries)
03. Moby Dick (George Blackwell, Augie Lohman, Robert Clarke, Charles E. Parker)
04. X the Unknown (Jack Curtis, Les Bowie, Vic Margutti)
05. Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (Ray Harryhausen, Russ Kelley)

FINAL TALLY
7 nominations: The Burmese Harp (4 wins)
6 nominations: The King and I (1 win)
5 nominations: Bob le flambeur (1 win), A Man Escaped
4 nominations: Bigger Than Life (1 win), The Court Jester, The Red Balloon, The Ten Commandments (2 wins)
3 nominations: Autumn Leaves (1 win), Written on the Wind
2 nominations: The Bad Seed (1 win), Forbidden Planet, Giant, The Killing, Lust for Life, Moby Dick, The Searchers, Street of Shame
1 nomination: Anastasia, Aparajito, Around the World in Eighty Days, Baby Doll, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Elena and Her Men, Gervaise, The Girl Can't Help It (1 win), Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Love Me Tender, Le monde du silence (1 win), The Man Who Never Was, 1984 (1 win), Patterns, La Pointe Courte (1 win), Somebody Up There Likes Me, Spanish Gardener (1 win), The Wrong Man, X the Unknown, Yield to the Night
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Ok then it's a 1956 release.
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This came up in the Oscar Nomination game when Flipp referenced the TCM website, which utilizes AFI's database, showing a Hollywood premiere date of December 25, 1955 and I acquiesced for purposes of that game. However, Inside Oscar shows All That Heaven Allows as Oscar eligible in 1956.

Granted Inside Oscar may not be infallible - Red Dust, for example, which according to all accounts was not released until October, 1932, is shown as Oscar eligible in 1931/32 - however, TCM/AFI shows "premiere" information relating to late August or early September, though that, too, seems to be past the cut-off date of July 31, 1932. Damien, however, has said that eligibility information came from the Academy's records.

But back to the question at hand. All That Heaven Allows may have had its "premiere" on Christmas Day, but it may not have played the necessary qualifying seven days beginning on that date. I know for a fact that it did not open in New York until well into Jannuary, 1956. L.A. records are sketchy at best.

Still, on the other hand, it seems unlikely that there would be a big star-studded "premiere" on Christmas Day - it seems more like the start of a general run. It's a puzzlement, but I'll stick with Inside Oscar.
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Post by Reza »

IMDb lists All That Heaven Allows as a 1955 release...yet we have it here amongst the best of 1956. Which is correct?
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Begs the question as to whether these kids go to school to learn or to have their own narrow mided take on film reinforced.

I just watched Has Anybody Seen My Gal for the first time. I can just imagine the students' groaning through that one, an old-fashioned period charmer that features Sirk's marvelous attention to detail. Though the emphasis is on 1920s songs and dances, including the Charleston, the background score is by Henry Mancini, his first. Piper Laurie and Rock Hudson are the nominal stars, and James Dean shows up for one line, but the film belongs to Charles Coburn in one of his irrascible old codger roles. He's in every scene and is, as usual, totally delightful.

I also recently re-watched All I Desire on region 2 DVD. Again, the period detail is so strong the small town feels like one of the characters. Sirk elicits strong performances, particularly from the women - Barbara Stanwyck, Marcia Henderson, Lori Nelson, Lotte Stein and Maureen O'Sullivan in a lovely bit as a refreshingly nice other woman who graciously steps aside when errant wife and mother Stanwyck returns.
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The Original BJ wrote:Y'all would be shocked to hear the majority of today's film school students wax unpoetically about the great films.

That Sirk comment is relatively tame compared to what I've heard the last few years, including an entire class's expletive-laced dismissal of Sirkian melodrama.
That's why there are so many shitty films made by younger filmmakers and the situation will only get worse as time goes on.
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Y'all would be shocked to hear the majority of today's film school students wax unpoetically about the great films.

That Sirk comment is relatively tame compared to what I've heard the last few years, including an entire class's expletive-laced dismissal of Sirkian melodrama.
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An adolescent philistine's interpretation of Sirk. Screw him.

I love Dorothy Malone's delicious turn in Written on the Wind, and her cameo in Basic Instinct almost as much.
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I'll agree that Written on the Wind isn't Sirk's best (I prefer Imitation of Life, All That Heaven Allows and maybe even Magnificent Obsession), it is still fine filmmaking. Blaspheming Sirk's style like that is still sacrilige, though.

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As discussed many years earlier, I think that Written On The Wind was ####.
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What a heathen!!
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Here's what someone at The Backstage wrote about Sirk after viewing Written On The Wind:
why am i watching sirk films in my intro to film class? seriously, he is openly melodramatic and inspired by soap operas...we read that in an article about him. so what's all the buzz about him? because he uses framing techniques, mirror images etc., and shadowy expressionistic touches reminiscent of murnau? please. even if he is making a fool out of american audiences by making this ####, he should still try to retain some integrity in the process.

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Best Picture
01. Seven Samurai (d. Akira Kurosawa)
02. The Searchers (d. John Ford)
03. Ikiru (d. Akira Kurosawa)
04. Written on the Wind (d. Douglas Sirk)
05. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (d. Don Siegel)

Best Actor in a Lead Role
01. Yul Brynner (The King and I)
02. John Wayne (The Searchers)
03. James Mason (Bigger Than Life)
04. Takashi Shimura (Ikiru)
05. Laurence Olivier (Richard III)

Best Actress in a Lead Role
01. Ingrid Bergman (Anastasia)
02. Giulietta Masina (La Strada)
03. Carroll Baker (Baby Doll)
04. Jane Wyman (All That Heaven Allows)
05. Deborah Kerr (Tea and Sympathy)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
01. Robert Stack (Written on the Wind)
02. Anthony Perkins (Friendly Persuasion)
03. Elisha Cook, Jr (The Killing)
05. Orson Welles (Moby Dick)
05. Ward Bond (The Searchers)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
01. Dorothy Malone (Written on the Wind)
02. Helen Hayes (Anastasia)
03. Vera Miles (The Wrong Man)
04. Marie Windsor (The Killing)
05. Eileen Heckart (The Bad Seed)

Best Director
01. Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai)
02. Akira Kurosawa (Ikiru)
03. John Ford (The Searchers)
04. Douglas Sirk (Written on the Wind)
05. Don Siegel (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)




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Best Film

1. Man Escaped
2. Written on the Wind
3. Bigger Than Life
4. Street of Shame
5. Tea and Sympathy

Best Director

1. Robert Bresson, A Man Escapes
2. Douglas Sirk, Written on the Wind
3. Nicholas Ray, Bigger Than Life
4. Kenji Mizoguchi, Street of Shame
5. Vincente, Minnelli, Tea and Sympathy

Best Actor

1. James Mason, Bigger Than Life
2. Humphrey Bogart, The Harder They Fall
3. Rock Hudson, Written on the Wind
4. Kirk Douglas, Lust For Life
5. Richard Widmark, The Last Wagon

Best Actress

1. Deborah Kerr, Tea and Sympathy
2. Ingrid Bergman, Anastasia
3. Carroll Baker, Baby Doll
4. Nancy Kelly, The Bad Seed
5. Luisa Della Noce, The Railroad Man

Best Supporting Actor

1. Robert Stack, Written on the Wind
2. Rod Steiger, The Harder They Fall
3. John Kerr, Tea and Sympathy
4. Anthony Quinn, Lust For Life
5. Everett Sloane, Patterns

Best Supporting Actress

1. Dorothy Malone, Written on the Wind
2. Patty McCormack, The Bad Seed
3. Eileen Hackett, The Bad Seed
4. Machio Kyo, Street of Shame
5. Angela Lansbury, The Court Jester

Best Screenplay

1. The Railway Road Man
2. The Court Jester
3. The Last Wagon
4. Qivitoq
5. Patterns

Best Screenplay Adaptation

1. A Man Escaped
2. Written on the Wind
3. Bigger Than Life
4. Street of Shame
5. Tea and Sympathy

Best Cinematography

1. Bigger Than Life
2. Written on the Wind
3. Qivitoq
4. Lust For Life
5. The Searchers

Best Editing

1. A Man Escaped
2. Bigger Than Life
3. Written on the Wind
4. Anastasia
5. The Court Jester

Best Sound

1. The Bad Seed
2. A Man Escaped
3. The Court Jester
4. The Harder They Fall
5. Anastasia

Best Art Direction

1. Lust For Life
2. Anastasia
3. The Court Jester
4. Written on the Wind
5. Tea and Sympathy

Best Costume Design

1. Lust For Life
2. The Court Jester
3. Anastasia
4. Written on the Wind
5. Street of Shame

Best Music

1. Written on the Wind
2. Anastasia
3. The Court Jester
4. The Bad Seed
5. The Harder They Fall
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