26th Academy Awards
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- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsBurt LancasterMontgomery CliftDeborah KerrAt a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his commanding officer's wife and top aide begin a tentative affair.Winner - Best Motion Picture
Winner - Best Director for Fred Zinnermann
Nominated - Best Actor for Montgomery Clift
Nominated - Best Actor for Burt Lancaster
Nominated - Best Actress for Deborah Kerr
Winner - Best Supporting Actor for Frank Sinatra
Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Donna Reed
Winner - Best Story and Screenplay for Daniel Taradash
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Morris Stoloff and George Duning
Winner - Best Sound Recording for John P. Livadary
Winner - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Burnett Guffey
Nominated - Best Costume Design, Black and White for Jean Louis
Winner - Best Film Editing for William Lyon - DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsLouis CalhernMarlon BrandoJames MasonThe growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.Nominated - Best Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Actor for Marlon Brando
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Miklos Rozsa
Winner - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Joseph Ruttenberg - DirectorHenry KosterStarsRichard BurtonJean SimmonsVictor MatureIn the Roman province of Judea during the 1st century, Roman tribune Marcellus Gallio is ordered to crucify Jesus of Nazareth but is tormented by his guilty conscience afterwards.Nominated - Best Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Actor for Richard Burton
Winner - Best Art Direction, Color
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for Leon Shamroy
Winner - Best Costume Design, Color for Charles LeMaire and Emile Santiago - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGregory PeckAudrey HepburnEddie AlbertA bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.Nominated - Best Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Director for William Wyler
Winner - Best Actress for Audrey Hepburn
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Eddie Albert
Nominated - Best Story and Screenplay for Ian McLellan Hunter and John Dighton
Winner - Best Story for Dalton Trumbo
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Franz Planer and Henri Alekan
Winner - Best Costume Design, Black and White for Edith Head
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Robert Swink - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsAlan LaddJean ArthurVan HeflinA weary gunfighter in 1880s Wyoming begins to envision a quieter life after befriending a homestead family with a young son who idolizes him, but a smoldering range war forces him to act.Nominated - Best Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Director for George Stevens
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Brandon deWilde
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Jack Palance
Nominated - Best Story and Screenplay for A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
Winner - Best Cinematography, Color for Loyal Griggs - DirectorCharles WaltersStarsLeslie CaronMel FerrerJean-Pierre AumontAn orphaned young woman becomes part of a puppet act and forms a relationship with the anti-social puppeteer.Nominated - Best Director for Charles Walters
Nominated - Best Actress for Leslie Caron
Nominated - Best Story and Screenplay for Helen Deutsch
Winner - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Bronislau Kaper
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Color
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for Robert Planck - DirectorBilly WilderStarsWilliam HoldenDon TaylorOtto PremingerAfter two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.Nominated - Best Director for Billy Wilder
Winner - Best Actor for William Holden
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Robert Strauss - DirectorJohn FordStarsClark GableGrace KellyAva GardnerOn a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.Nominated - Best Actress for Ava Gardner
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Grace Kelly - DirectorOtto PremingerStarsWilliam HoldenDavid NivenMaggie McNamaraTwo aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections.Nominated - Best Actress for Maggie McNamara
Nominated - Best Original Song for "The Moon Is Blue"
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Otto Ludwig - DirectorJohn FarrowStarsJohn WayneGeraldine PageWard BondArmy dispatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and young son living in the midst of warring Apaches and becomes their protector.Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Geraldine Page
Disqualified - Best Story for Louis L'Amour - DirectorCharles WaltersStarsJoan CrawfordMichael WildingGig YoungA tough but unhappy Broadway star re-evaluates her life when she crosses paths with a blind pianist.Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Marjorie Rambeau
- DirectorSamuel FullerStarsRichard WidmarkJean PetersThelma RitterA pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Thelma Ritter
- DirectorCharles FrendStarsJack HawkinsDonald SindenJohn StrattonThe World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.Nominated - Best Story and Screenplay for Eric Ambler
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsClifton WebbBarbara StanwyckRobert WagnerAn unhappily married couple struggle to deal with their problems while on board the luxurious, ill-fated RMS Titanic.Winner - Best Screenplay for Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch and Richard Breen
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White - DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsFred AstaireCyd CharisseOscar LevantA pretentiously artistic director is hired for a new Broadway musical and changes it beyond recognition.Nominated - Best Screenplay for Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Nominated - Best Musical Score for Adolph Deutsch
Nominated - Best Costume Design, Color for Mary Ann Nyberg - DirectorRobert WiseStarsRichard BurtonJames MasonRobert NewtonRichard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer put in charge of a disparate band of ANZAC troops on the perimeter of Tobruk with the German Army doing their best to dislodge them.Nominated - Best Screenplay for Richard Murphy
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsJames StewartJanet LeighRobert RyanA bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.Nominated - Best Screenplay for Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsRichard WidmarkKarl MaldenElaine StewartIn 1953, at Fort Bliss, Texas, two former Korean War combat veterans work as drill sergeants and fall in love with the same woman.Nominated - Best Screenplay for Millard Kaufman
- DirectorMelvin FrankNorman PanamaStarsRobert TaylorEleanor ParkerJames WhitmoreCol. Paul Tibbets piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II.Nominated - Best Story for Beirne Lay, Jr.
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Hugo Friedhofer - DirectorAnthony KimminsStarsAlec GuinnessPeter BullCharles GoldnerThe captain of a ferry boat between the restricted British colony in Gibraltar and Spanish Morocco has a woman of differing appeal and temperament in each port.Nominated - Best Story for Alec Coppel
- DirectorRay AshleyMorris EngelRuth OrkinStarsRichard BrewsterWinifred CushingJay WilliamsA young boy fears that he shot his older brother, who is only faking. He then runs away to Coney Island, a crowded beach area, and gets money by returning soda bottles for their deposits.Nominated - Best Story for Ray Ashley, Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin
- DirectorWard KimballCharles NicholsStarsThe Mellowmen QuartetLoulie Jean NormanCharlie ParlotaA crash course on the history of Western musical instruments.Winner - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorRobert CannonStarsMarvin MillerMarian RichmanThrough drawings, an illustrator tells his dog the story of a boy named Christopher Crumpet. Christopher can at will change himself from a little boy into a chicken. He threatens to do so if his father, Marvin, won't buy him a rocket ship. Marvin doesn't want a chicken for a son, so he does whatever he can to appease Christopher. But time after time as Marvin fails to come through with the real new rocket ship that Christopher wants, Christopher turns himself into a chicken. Bilgewater, Marvin's co-worker, upon seeing Christopher change himself from a boy to a chicken, thinks he can take advantage of the situation. But Marvin does whatever he possibly can to thwart Bilgewater's plans if only because he wants a human boy as a son instead of a chicken. The illustrator has a specific reason for telling his dog Christopher's story.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancDick BealsBea BenaderetIn his first of two Warner Bros. cartoons, schoolboy Ralph Phillips daydreams in class, the lessons inspiring his fantasy heroics, such as being a pony-express rider, a deep-sea diver, a boxing champion and even General Douglas MacArthur.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorJack HannahStarsArt GilmoreJack HannahJames MacDonaldIt's a peaceful day in a national forest...until hunting season begins at which point all the bears hide out in a cave but one bear, Humphrey, doesn't make it. He hides out in a cabin and, seeing hunter Donald Duck approaching, hides the bearskin rug in a trunk and takes its place. Masquerading as the rug tends to be an unpleasant experience for Humphrey as Donald opens nuts and bottles in his mouth and washes him in the washer/dryer among other things. Finally, when hunting season ends and Donald leaves, Humphrey is relieved but makes a startling discovery...Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorTed ParmeleeStarsJames MasonJack MatherA madman tells his tale of murder, and how a strange beating sound haunted him afterward.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorJames AlgarStarsWinston HiblerAlthough first glance reveals little more than stones and sand, the desert is alive. Witness moving rocks, spitting mud pots, gorgeous flowers and the never-ending battle for survival between creatures of every shape, size and description.Winner - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorGeorge LoweStarsMeredith EdwardsJohn HuntGeorge BandDocumentary that covers the famous and successful expedition of the Everest conquest by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the first climbers to reach its peak.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- StarsLaurence OlivierQueen Elizabeth IIPrince PhilipA lavish documentary film of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation in 1953.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorJames AlgarStarsWinston HiblerDepicts the everyday home life of the families in a typical Eskimo village. The building and hunting activities of the summer, the winter activities underground when the blizzards come, and the celebration of spring with the "mask dance" are all shown.Winner - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorJohn BarnesHaskell WexlerStarsJames BrillThis short explores the early planning innovations and the subsequent mistakes that resulted in developing urban sprawl, suburbia, and gentrification in modern day US cities as well as the effects it had on its populace and industry.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- The U.S. Signal Corps construct a huge airbase in Thule, Greenland.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorRobin CarruthersThis British short portrays the various farming and irrigation techniques that are being used in modern-day Sudan.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- StarsJohnny GreenThe MGM Symphony OrchestraJohnny Green conducts the MGM Symphony Orchestra in a performance of the title work.Winner - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorVincenzo Lucci-ChiarissiPrimitive sculptures trace the evolution of religious motives in early man.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorJulian BiggsStarsBruno GerussiThe operations of a herring boat, and of her crew, are typical of the ships and crews that dot the coastal waters of British Columbia. This film goes out to sea to tell the story of the trawler Western Girl, of her skipper and his men, and their race to get their catch before the quota is taken and the fishing area closed. We see the cooperation necessary in an enterprise that has a great element of risk, for though there is big money in herring when the catch is good, competition is keen and the outlay heavy; one man's mistake may mean severe loss.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorJean OserNominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorRussell T. ErvinStarsWard WilsonNominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorJames AlgarStarsWinston HiblerKjeld JacobsenThe lives of black bears in Yellowstone National Park.Winner - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
- DirectorHamilton LuskeClyde GeronimiWilfred JacksonStarsSterling HollowayHans ConriedStan FrebergA mouse tells the story of how he guided Benjamin Franklin to success and prominence.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
- DirectorHilton EdwardsStarsMichael LaurenceShelah RichardsHelena HughesOrson Welles, on break from filming Othello, relates a tale he heard one spooky Irish midnight not so long ago when, driving through the countryside, he picked up a man with car trouble who told of a strange encounter with two hitchhikers.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
- DirectorOtto LangThe first travelogue released by Twentieth Century-Fox in CinemaScope, produced and directed by Otto Lang, is a photographic record of a journey from Milan to Naples, through Florence and Rome, on a streamlined passenger train. En route, the film takes time out in the cities mentioned to take a look at the landmarks---past and present---with the climax on the edge of Vesuvius' smoldering crater.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
- DirectorJohn JayStarsArt GilmoreNominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
- DirectorMerian C. CooperGunther von FritschErnest B. SchoedsackStarsLowell ThomasKathy DarlynToni ValkOn the evening of September 30, 1952, the shape and sound of movies changed forever with the introduction of Cinerama.Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Louis Forbes
- DirectorWalter LangStarsEthel MermanDonald O'ConnorVera-EllenWashington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.Winner - Best Musical Score for Alfred Newman
Nominated - Best Costume Design, Color for Irene Sharaff - DirectorDavid ButlerStarsDoris DayHoward KeelAllyn Ann McLerieThe story of Calamity Jane, her saloon, and her romance with Wild Bill Hickok.Nominated - Best Musical Score for Ray Heindorf
Winner - Best Original Song for "Secret Love"
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for William A. Mueller - DirectorRoy RowlandStarsPeter Lind HayesMary HealyHans ConriedA young boy dreams that he is in an imaginary world where, assisted by his family's plumber, he must save other piano-playing kids like himself from the dungeons of his dictatorial piano teacher who also mind-controls his mother.Nominated - Best Musical Score for Frederick Hollander and Morris Stoloff
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsKathryn GraysonHoward KeelAnn MillerAn ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of 'The Taming of the Shrew'; off-stage, the production is troublesome with ex-lovers' quarrels and two gangsters looking for some money owed to them.Nominated - Best Musical Score for André Previn and Saul Chaplin
- DirectorLászló KardosStarsJane PowellFarley GrangerAnn MillerA judge's daughter keeps an eye on a playboy who gets 30 days in jail for speeding.Nominated - Best Original Song for "My Flaming Heart"
- DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsRita HayworthJosé FerrerAldo RayA self-righteous missionary man seeks to save the soul of a former prostitute.Nominated - Best Original Song for "Sadie Thompson's Song"
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDean MartinJerry LewisDonna ReedAlthough gifted golfer Harvey Miller is too nervous to golf in public tournaments, he acts as coach and caddy for friend Joe Anthony.Nominated - Best Original Song for "That's Amore"
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsRobert TaylorAva GardnerMel FerrerKing Arthur's rule is threatened by the adulterous love between Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, a relationship the king's enemies hope to exploit.Nominated - Best Sound Recording for A. W. Watkins
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Color - DirectorRudolph MatéStarsTyrone PowerPiper LaurieJulie AdamsIn 1854 Mississippi, honest riverboat card gambler Mark Fallon wins young Laurent Dureau's diamond necklace, a family heirloom which, in the end, will bring him happiness and tragedy alike.Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Leslie I. Carey
- DirectorByron HaskinStarsGene BarryAnn RobinsonLes TremayneA small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion.Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Loren L. Ryder
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Everett Douglas
Winner - Best Special Effects - DirectorIrving PichelStarsNiall MacGinnisJohn RuddockPierre LefevreBiopic of German priest Martin Luther (Niall MacGinnis), covering his life between 1505 and 1530 A.D., and the birth of the Protestant Reformation movement.Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Joseph C. Brun - DirectorHenry LevinStarsSusan HaywardCharlton HestonJohn McIntireThe story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, the film begins when he meets Rachel Donaldson Robards. The plot concentrates on the scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties.Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Nominated - Best Costume Design, Black and White for Charles LeMaire and Renie Conley - DirectorVincente MinnelliGottfried ReinhardtStarsKirk DouglasJames MasonLeslie CaronAn anthology film consisting of three very different stories about love set in Europe and told in flashback.Nominated - Best Art Direction, Color
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsJean SimmonsStewart GrangerDeborah KerrThe early life of Elizabeth I, from her childhood until her accession to the throne of England in 1558.Nominated - Best Art Direction, Color
Nominated - Best Costume Design, Color for Walter Plunkett - DirectorIrving ReisJohn HubleyStarsRex HarrisonLilli PalmerAdapted from the prize-winning Broadway play that featured two people and a four-poster bed, in which the couple enacts their marriage, from 1897, until he dies some time after she has died from cancer. It is a love that endured wars, another woman and the death of their favorite son.Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Hal Mohr
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsRobert TaylorStewart GrangerAnn BlythIn the South Pacific islands, two brothers, one good and one bad, fight over the same girl and over a bag of pearls.Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for George Folsey
- DirectorRobert D. WebbStarsRobert WagnerTerry MooreGilbert RolandFierce competition among sponge fishermen forces a Greek-American family to fish in the dangerous 12-mile reef area off the western coast of Florida.Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for Edward Cronjager
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsSpencer TracyJean SimmonsTeresa WrightThis is an account of the real life experience of actress/playwright Ruth Gordon.Nominated - Best Costume Design, Black and White for Walter Plunkett
- DirectorSidney SheldonStarsCary GrantDeborah KerrWalter PidgeonA business tycoon decides to wed a Middle Eastern princess whose customs dictate the pair must live apart for several months before marrying. Even more complications settle in when the tycoon's ex-fiancée is assigned to chaperone the pair.Nominated - Best Costume Design, Black and White for Helen Rose and Herschel McCoy
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsMarilyn MonroeBetty GrableLauren BacallThree women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.Nominated - Best Costume Design, Color for Charles LeMaire and William Travilla
- DirectorFrancis D. LyonStarsElroy 'Crazylegs' HirschLloyd NolanJoan VohsThe story of the life and career of football star Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch (who plays himself).Nominated - Best Film Editing for Irvine (Cotton) Warburton