33rd Academy Awards
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- DirectorBilly WilderStarsJack LemmonShirley MacLaineFred MacMurrayA Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.Winner - Best Picture
Winner - Best Director for Billy Wilder
Nominated - Best Actor for Jack Lemmon
Nominated - Best Actress for Shirley MacLaine
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Jack Kruschen
Winner - Best Original Screenplay for Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Gordon E. Sawyer
Winner - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Joseph LaShelle
Winner - Best Film Editing for Daniel Mandell - DirectorRichard BrooksStarsBurt LancasterJean SimmonsArthur KennedyA fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause.Nominated - Best Picture
Winner - Best Actor for Burt Lancaster
Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Shirley Jones
Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for Richard Brooks
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for André Previn - DirectorJack CardiffStarsTrevor HowardDean StockwellWendy HillerA young man with artistic talent lives in a close-knit coal-mining town and finds himself inhibited by his emotionally manipulative mother.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Jack Cardiff
Nominated - Best Actor for Trevor Howard
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Mary Ure
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Gavin Lambert and T. E. B. Clarke
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Winner - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Freddie Francis - DirectorJohn WayneStarsJohn WayneRichard WidmarkLaurence HarveyIn 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Chill Wills
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Dimitri Tiomkin
Nominated - Best Original Song for "The Green Leaves of Summer"
Winner - Best Sound Recording for Gordon E. Sawyer and Fred Hynes
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for William H. Clothier
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Stuart Gilmore - DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsDeborah KerrRobert MitchumPeter UstinovIn Australia's Outback during the early twentieth century, the impoverished Carmody family lives a nomadic life out of their wagon, but the mom and son want to settle, while the dad is against it.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Fred Zinnemann
Nominated - Best Actress for Deborah Kerr
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Glynis Johns
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Isobel Lennart - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera MilesA Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.Nominated - Best Director for Alfred Hitchcock
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Janet Leigh
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for John L. Russell - DirectorJules DassinStarsMelina MercouriJules DassinGiorgos FoundasAn American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.Nominated - Best Director for Jules Dassin
Nominated - Best Actress for Melina Mercouri
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Jules Dassin
Winner - Best Original Song for "Never on Sunday"
Nominated - Best Costume Design, Black and White for Deni Vachlioti - DirectorTony RichardsonStarsLaurence OlivierBrenda de BanzieRoger LiveseyArchie Rice, an old-time British music hall performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.Nominated - Best Actor for Laurence Olivier
- DirectorStanley KramerStarsSpencer TracyFredric MarchGene KellyBased on a real-life case in 1925; two great lawyers argue the case for, and against, a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.Nominated - Best Actor for Spencer Tracy
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Ernest Francis
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Frederic Knudtson - DirectorDaniel MannStarsElizabeth TaylorLaurence HarveyEddie FisherA beautiful New York model and socialite enjoys a very active night-life, but all things change when she falls for a married man and the consequences are tragic.Winner - Best Actress for Elizabeth Taylor
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for Joseph Ruttenberg and Charles Harten - DirectorVincent J. DonehueStarsRalph BellamyGreer GarsonHume CronynAfter a bout with polio, future president Franklin D. Roosevelt fights to save his political career.Nominated - Best Actress for Greer Garson
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for George R. Groves
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Color
Nominated - Best Costume Design, Color for Marjorie Best - DirectorStanley KubrickAnthony MannStarsKirk DouglasLaurence OlivierJean SimmonsThe slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.Winner - Best Supporting Actor for Peter Ustinov
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Alex North
Winner - Best Art Direction, Color
Winner - Best Cinematography, Color for Russell Metty
Winner - Best Costume Design, Color for Bill Thomas and Valles
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Robert Lawrence - DirectorBurt BalabanStuart RosenbergStarsStuart WhitmanMay BrittHenry MorganThe rise and fall of a 1930's Brooklyn crime syndicate, known as Murder Incorporated, led by mobster Lepke Buchalter.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Peter Falk
- DirectorOtto PremingerStarsPaul NewmanEva Marie SaintRalph RichardsonThe State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Sal Mineo
Winner - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Ernest Gold
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for Sam Leavitt - DirectorDelbert MannStarsRobert PrestonDorothy McGuireEve ArdenIn Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood (Robert Preston) loses his job as a travelling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora (Dorothy McGuire) is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie (Shirley Knight) is afraid of going out on dates, but eventually makes friends with a troubled Jewish boy Sammy Golden (Lee Kinsolving), and his son is a mama's boy. He finally storms out of the house when Cora falsely accuses him of having an affair with Mavis Pruitt (Dame Angela Lansbury).Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Shirley Knight
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsEmmanuelle RivaEiji OkadaStella DassasA French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Marguerite Duras
- DirectorGuy GreenStarsRichard AttenboroughPier AngeliMichael CraigA young factory worker decides to stand up against his workmates and fellow union members when they want to hold a wildcat strike.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Richard Gregson, Michael Craig and Bryan Forbes
- DirectorMelvin FrankStarsBob HopeLucille BallRuth HusseySophisticated comedy with Larry and Kitty leaving their spouses for an interlude together.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Melvin Frank and Norman Panama
Nominated - Best Original Song for "The Facts of Life"
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Charles Lang, Jr
Winner - Best Costume Design, Black and White for Edith Head and Edward Stevenson - DirectorRonald NeameStarsAlec GuinnessJohn MillsSusannah YorkAfter World War II, a Highland Regiment's acting Commanding Officer, who rose from the ranks, is replaced by a peace-time Oxford-educated Commanding Officer, leading to a dramatic conflict between the two.Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for James Kennaway
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowBirgitta ValbergGunnel LindblomIn 14th-century Sweden, an innocent yet pampered teenage girl and her family's pregnant and jealous servant set out from their farm to deliver candles to church, but only one returns from events that transpire in the woods along the way.Winner - Best Foreign Language Film (Sweden)
Nominated - Best Costume Design, Black and White for Marik Vos - DirectorGillo PontecorvoStarsSusan StrasbergLaurent TerzieffEmmanuelle RivaA young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Italy)
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsBrigitte BardotPaul MeurisseCharles VanelA liberated small-town girl and the family's black sheep moves to Paris with her sister, only to find herself standing trial for the shocking murder of her young lover. Was his killing premeditated or was this a crime of passion?Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (France)
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsIgnacio López TarsoPina PellicerEnrique LuceroPoor and hungry peasant Macario wishes to have a good meal for All Saint's Day. After his wife cooks him a turkey he has three apparitions: The Devil, God, and the Death.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Mexico)
- DirectorFrance StiglicStarsDusica ZegaracBoris DvornikBranko TaticIn order to save Jewish girl from the Nazis and their colaborators, Croatian family arranges her to be wed to their young son. Young man is displeased with sudden end to his careless youth and he doesn't seem to like the girl or the whole idea. However, when she gets caught in a street raid, it is too late - he must face the fact that he loves her. Young man starts looking for her, even if it means hat he would go to the very center of concentration camp - the Ninth Circle.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Yugoslavia)
- DirectorLarry LansburghStarsGeorge FennemanNautical the HorseQueen Elizabeth the Queen MotherA palimino cow pony, through a series of owners and adventures becomes a champion mount for one of the US equestrian team.Winner - Best Documentary Feature