1943 Oscar Shouldabeens

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Best Picture: Casablanca
Best Director: Michael Curtiz for Casablanca
Best Actor: Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca
Best Actress: Teresa Wright in Shadow of a Doubt
Best Supporting Actor: Claude Rains in Notorious
Best Supporting Actress: Gladys Cooper in The Song of Bernadette
Best Original Screenplay: Shadow of a Doubt
Best Adapted Screenplay: Casablanca
Best Score: Casablanca
Best Art Direction: Heaven Can Wait
Best Costume Design: Heaven Can Wait
Best Cinematography: Casablanca
Best Editing: Casablanca
Best Sound: Casablanca
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PICTURE
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Human Comedy
*Casablanca
Shadow of a Doubt
The Ox-Bow Incident

DIRECTOR
George Stevens - The More The Merrier
*Michael Curtiz - Casablanca
Alfred Hitchcock - Shadow of a Doubt
William A. Wellman - The Ox-Bow Incident
Carl Theodore Dryer – Day of Wrath

ACTOR
Gary Cooper - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Mickey Rooney - The Human Comedy
Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine
*Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca
Joseph Cotton - Shadow of a Doubt

ACTRESS
Jean Arthur - The More The Merrier
Bette Davis – Old Acquaintance
*Ingrid Bergman - Casablanca
Greer Garson – Madame Curie
Jennifer Jones – The Song of Bernadette

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Akim Tamirov - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Charles Coburn - The More The Merrier
George Coulouris - Watch on the Rhine
*Claude Rains - Casablanca
Dana Andrews - The Ox-Bow Incident

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
*Katina Paxinou - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Lucile Watson - Watch on the Rhine
Patricia Collinge - Shadow of a Doubt
Paulette Goddard - So Proudly We Hail!
Anna Svierkier - Day of Wrath

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Human Comedy
The More The Merrier
*Shadow of a Doubt
Hangmen Also Die!
Le Corbeau

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Watch on the Rhine
*Casablanca
The Song of Bernadette
The Ox-Bow Incident
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BEST PICTURE
01. The Seventh Victim (dir. Mark Robson)
02. Meshes of the Afternoon (dirs. Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid)
03. Day of Wrath (dir. Carl Th. Dreyer)
04. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (dirs. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
05. The Ox-Bow Incident (dir. William A. Wellman)
06. My Learned Friend (dir. Willy Hay & Basil Dearden)
07. Shadow of a Doubt (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
08. I Walked with a Zombie (dir. Jacques Tourneur)
09. Holy Matrimony (dir. John M. Stahl)
10. Edge of Darkness (dir. Lewis Milestone)

BEST DIRECTOR
01. Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, Meshes of the Afternoon
02. Carl Th. Dreyer, Day of Wrath
03. Mark Robson, The Seventh Victim
04. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
05. William A. Wellman, The Ox-Bow Incident

BEST ACTOR
01. Roger Livesey, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
02. Joseph Cotten, Shadow of a Doubt
03. Monty Woolley, Holy Matrimony
04. Claude Hulbert, My Learned Friend
05. Charles Laughton, This Land Is Mine

BEST ACTRESS
01. Lisbeth Movin, Day of Wrath
02. Jean Arthur, The More the Merrier
03. Ida Lupino, The Hard Way
04. Gracie Fields, Holy Matrimony
05. Kim Hunter, The Seventh Victim

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
01. Anton Walbrook, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
02. Walter Slezak, The Fallen Sparrow
03. Erich von Stroheim, Five Graves to Cairo
04. Charles Coburn, The More the Merrier
05. Walter Brennan, Hangmen Also Die!

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
01. Anna Svierkier, Day of Wrath
02. Gladys Cooper, Forever and a Day
03. Jean Brooks, The Seventh Victim
04. Gladys George, The Hard Way
05. Gladys Cooper, The Song of Bernadette

BEST SCREENPLAY
01. My Learned Friend (John Dighton, Angus MacPhail)
02. The Ox-Bow Incident (Lamar Trotti, based on the novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark)
03. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
04. Day of Wrath (Carl Th. Dreyer, based on the play "Anne Pedersdotter" by Hans Wiers-Jenssen)
05. Holy Matrimony (Nunnally Johnson, based on the novel "Buried Alive" by Arnold Bennett)

BEST FILM EDITING
01. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren)
02. Edge of Darkness (David Weisbart)
03. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (John Seaborne, Sr.)
04. The Leopard Man (Mark Robson)
05. Five Graves to Cairo (Doane Harrison)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
01. Meshes of the Afternoon (Alexander Hammid)
02. For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ray Rennahan)
03. Journey into Fear (Karl Struss)
04. The Seventh Victim (Nicholas Musuraca)
05. Day of Wrath (Karl Andersson)

BEST ART DIRECTION
01. Münchhausen (Werner Klein)
02. Heaven Can Wait (James Basevi, Leland Fuller, Thomas Little)
03. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Alfred Junge)
04. Edge of Darkness (Robert M. Haas)
05. Five Graves to Cairo (Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegté, Bertram C. Granger)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
01. Münchhausen (Manon Hahn)
02. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Matilda Etches)
03. The Gang's All Here (Yvonne Wood)
04. Hello, Frisco, Hello (Helen Rose)
05. Phantom of the Opera (Vera West)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
01. Cabin in the Sky (original score by George Bassman, Roger Edens, original songs by Harold Arlen, E. Y. Harburg)
02. For Whom the Bell Tolls (Victor Young)
03. Münchhausen (Georg Haentzschel)
04. Lady of Burlesque (Arthur Lange)
05. The Song of Bernadette (Alfred Newman)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
01. Thank Your Lucky Stars ("Ice Cold Katy," music by Arthur Schwartz, lyrics by Frank Loesser, performed by Hattie McDaniel, Willie Best, Rita Christiani, and Jess Lee Brooks)
02. Cabin in the Sky ("Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe," music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by E. Y. Harburg, performed by Ethel Waters)
03. Hello, Frisco, Hello ("You'll Never Know," music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Mack Gordon, performed by Alice Faye)
04. Higher and Higher ("I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night," music by Jimmy McHugh, lyrics by Harold Adamson, performed by Frank Sinatra)
05. The Sky's the Limit ("One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)," music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, performed by Fred Astaire)

BEST SOUND
01. Edge of Darkness (Everett Alton Brown)
02. Air Force (Oliver S. Garretson)
03. Bataan (Douglas Shearer)
04. Hangmen Also Die! (Fred Lau, Jack Whitney)
05. Sahara (Lodge Cunningham)

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
01. Münchhausen (uncredited)
02. I Walked with a Zombie (Maurice Seiderman)
03. Phantom of the Opera (Emily Moore, Jack P. Pierce)
04. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (George Blackler, Dorrie Hamilton, Stuart Freeborn)
05. The Gang's All Here (Guy Pearce)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
01. Air Force (Roy Davidson, Hans F. Koenekamp, Rex Wimpy, Nathan Levinson)
02. Münchhausen (Konstantin Irmen-Tschet, Ernst Kunstmann, Theo Nischwitz)
03. Bataan (A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe)
04. My Learned Friend (Roy Kellino)
05. Journey into Fear (Vernon L. Walker)

FINAL TALLY
9 nominations: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (2 wins)
6 nominations: Day of Wrath (2 wins)
5 nominations: Münchhausen (3 wins), The Seventh Victim (1 win)
4 nominations: Edge of Darkness (1 win), Holy Matrimony, Meshes of the Afternoon (3 wins), My Learned Friend (1 win)
3 nominations: Five Graves to Cairo, The Ox-Bow Incident
2 nominations: Air Force (1 win), Bataan, Cabin in the Sky (1 win), For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Gang's All Here, Hangmen Also Die!, The Hard Way; Hello, Frisco, Hello; I Walked with a Zombie, Journey into Fear, The More the Merrier, Phantom of the Opera, Shadow of a Doubt, The Song of Bernadette
1 nomination: The Fallen Sparrow, Forever and a Day, Higher and Higher, Lady of Burlesque, The Leopard Man, Sahara, The Sky's the Limit, Thank Your Lucky Stars (1 win), This Land Is Mine
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Just watched 'Watch on the Rhine'. What a wonderful film! Excellent performances and a very good script, despite the structure issues (especially i the end). I thought that this film would fare even better with the Oscars than it did. I suppose that the similarly themed Casablanca prevented that. Not quite as good as Casablanca, but still a little gem.
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--Big Magilla wrote:What are you talking about? My last update was March 28th. Wright has always been there. Maybe you were looking at my 1942 list - where I nomianted her for supporting actress for Mrs. Miniver but not lead for The Pride of the Yankees.

I guess I made a mistake.




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What are you talking about? My last update was March 28th. Wright has always been there. Maybe you were looking at my 1942 list - where I nomianted her for supporting actress for Mrs. Miniver but not lead for The Pride of the Yankees.
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--Big Magilla wrote:Ooh. Jean Arthur in The More the Merrier is sublime. I am torn between her and Teresa Wright as who was the best that year.

Maybe you need to update your list below and add Wright.

Oh, you already have! I saw the list yesterday and you did not have her on it.




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--Big Magilla wrote:Ooh. Jean Arthur in The More the Merrier is sublime. I am torn between her and Teresa Wright as who was the best that year.

Maybe you need to update your list below and add Wright.




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Ooh. Jean Arthur in The More the Merrier is sublime. I am torn between her and Teresa Wright as who was the best that year.

I must confess that I could never get through For Whom the Bell Tolls so you may be right about Bergman in it. I have seen snippets of it, including her final scene, but the film itself is a chore for me to sit through.

I don't know whether Paxinou is a ham or whether she is projecting as though she were in a huge amphitheater where she spent much of her career. She was far worse in Mourning Becomes Electra but good in other things such as Rocco and His Brothers, but yeah, Gladys Cooper, Lucile Watson and the non-nominated Una O'Connor (This Land Is Mine) and Jane Darwell (The Ox-Bow Incident) were better IMO.

I did see The Constant Nymph recently. I don't know what was worse, the poor print or Fontaine's performance but she was ludicrous as a 14 year-old, which she played for a good part of the film.
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I like So Proudly We Hail a great deal. It's a surprisingly grim film for one made during the war. It also has a special place in my heart because my Mom was in nursing school when she saw So Proudly We Hail, and it was this movie that spurred her and her friends to join the Army -- which is where she met my Dad.

I think all three leads are terrific, and I'm glad that the always delightful Paulette Goddard received a nomination -- she was certainly more deserving than ultimate winner Katina Paxinou (indecipherable ham), but of the nominees I would have gone with Gladys Cooper in Song of Bernadette.

Big, I strongly disagree with you about the actress race that year. Yes, Wright, Lupino and Fields would have been equally worthy nominees, but I love most of the official nominees. And couldn't disagree with you more on Ingrid Bergman -- the film is not successful, but she's magnificent, and as James Agee -- I think -- pointed out at the time, she didn't seem like a Hollywood star at all but a completely self-effacing, unpretentious European actress.


The weak link among the nominees (I've never seen Constant Nymph) is Jean Arthur. But even so, she's a wonderful actress and though George Stevens brings out the worst in everybody -- can't stand that man's movies -- I'm glad she did receive at least one nomination in her career.
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What was Colbert's comment?

I saw this years ago and watched it again last year or the year before just after it was released on DVD. It's a good movie, but not a great one. Colbert was better in a similar role in 1950's Three Came Home. Paulette Goddard was good, but an Oscar nomination seemed a bit excessive. Veronica Lake was at least as good as Goddard and George Reeves and Sonny Tufts were also quite good. This was, in fact, the least stiff performance I've ever seen Reeves give.
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Just watched 'So Proudly We Hail!'. I thought it was a good movie, and i am suprised that no one has mentioned it in their nominations. Not that it is a masterpiece or anything, but i actrually enjoyed watching it. i also was suprised by a comment made by Colbert's character, which today would be considered anti-american.
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The 1943 best actress line-up is easily the worst of the 1940s.

The nominees were Jean Arthur in The More the Merrier, Ingrid Bergman in For Whom the Bell Tolls, Greer Garson in Madame Curie, Jennifer Jones in The Song of Bernadette and Joan Fontaine in the justly forgotten The Constant Nymph.

Missing were New York Film Critics' winner, Ida Lupino in The Hard Way and National Board of Review winners, Gracie Fields in Holy Matrimony and Teresa Wright in Shadow of a Doubt, all three of whom were better than Bergman (incredibly nominated for the bloated For Whom the Bell Tolls rather than Casablanca), Fontaine and even Garson, who was good but by now in serious danger of becoming the female Paul Muni, having played so many great ladies in the last five years.

Box office clout and publicity made it a two way race between Bergman and Jones, whose performance consists mainly of looking wide-eyed and innocent while her co-stars do all the work, when it should have been a two way race between Arthur and Wright.
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Finally caught up with the delightful The More the Merrier. Made changes on my list below. Added Jean Arthur to the best actress lineup, bumping off Greer Garson (Madame Curie). Also added Charles Coburn to the supporting actor lineup, bumping off Jack Carson (The Hard Way).
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