by Allan Fish
Well, here we go again…
Best Picture Casablanca, US (11 votes)
Best Director Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons (8 votes)
Best Short Der Fuehrer’s Face, US, Jack Kinney (5 votes)
Best Actor James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy (9 votes)
Best Actress Claudette Colbert, The Palm Beach Story (6 votes)
Best Supp Actor Claude Rains, Casablanca (12 votes)
Best Supp Actress Agnes Moorehead, The Magnificent Ambersons (15 votes)
Best Score Max Steiner, Casablanca (9 votes)
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and my own picks…
Best Picture THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, US
Best Short LISTEN TO BRITAIN, UK, Humphrey Jennings
Best Director Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons
Best Actor Michael Redgrave, Thunder Rock
Best Actress Bette Davis, Now Voyager
Best Supporting Actor Claude Rains, Casablanca
Best Supporting Actress Agnes Moorehead, The Magnificent Ambersons
Best Musical Score Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Kings Row
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and on to 1943…
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Best Picture/Director
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Adieu Leonard (France…Pierre Prévert)
Air Force (US…Howard Hawks)
Les Anges du Pèché (France…Robert Bresson)
The Battle of Britain (US…Anthony Veiller)
Cabin in the Sky (US…Vincente Minnelli)
Le Comte de Monte Cristo (France…Robert Vernay)
The Constant Nymph (US…Edmund Goulding)
Le Corbeau (France…Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Day of Wrath (Denmark…Carl T.Dreyer)
Desert Victory (UK…David MacDonald)
Doña Bárbara (Mexico…Fernando de Fuentes)
Douce (France…Claude Autant-Lara)
L’Eternel Retour (France…Jean Delannoy)
The Fallen Sparrow (US…Richard Wallace)
Fires Were Started (UK…Humphrey Jennings)
Five Graves to Cairo (US…Billy Wilder)
Forever and a Day (US/UK…René Clair, Frank Lloyd, Cedric Hardwicke, Edmund Goulding, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson, Herbert Wilcox)
The Gang’s All Here (US…Busby Berkeley)
Girl Crazy (US…Norman Taurog)
Hangmen Also Die (US…Fritz Lang)
Happy Journey (Czechoslovakia…Otakar Vavra)
Heaven Can Wait (US…Ernst Lubitsch)
The Human Comedy (US…Clarence Brown)
I Walked With a Zombie (US…Jacques Tourneur)
It Happened at the Inn (France…Jacques Becker)
Jane Eyre (US…Robert Stevenson)
Journey into Fear (US…Norman Foster)
Lassie Come Home (US…Fred M.Wilcox)
The Leopard Man (US…Jacques Tourneur)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (UK…Michael Powell)
The Life of Matsu the Untamed (Japan…Hiroshi Inagaki)
Lumière d’Été (France…Jean Grémillon)
La Main du Diable (France…Maurice Tourneur)
The Man in Grey (UK…Leslie Arliss)
Millions Like Us (UK…Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat)
The More the Merrier (US…George Stevens)
Munchausen (Germany…Josef von Baky)
My Learned Friend (UK…Will Hay, Basil Dearden)
Old Acquaintance (US…Vincent Sherman)
Ordet (Sweden…Gustaf Molander)
Ossessione (Italy…Luchino Visconti)
The Ox Bow Incident (US…William A.Wellman)
Report from the Aleutians (US…John Huston)
The Seventh Victim (US…Mark Robson)
Shadow of a Doubt (US…Alfred Hitchcock)
The Song of Bernadette (US…Henry King)
Stormy Weather (US…Andrew Stone)
Thank Your Lucky Stars (US…David Butler)
This Land is Mine (US…Jean Renoir)
Val d’Enfer (France…Maurice Tourneur)
Victory Through Air Power (US…Perce Pearce, James Algar,Clyde Geronimi)
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint (France…Louis Daquin)
Watch on the Rhine (US…Herman Shumlin)
Wild Flower (Mexico…Emilio Fernandez)
World of Plenty (UK…Paul Rotha)
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Best Short
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Coal Black and the Seven Dwarfs (US…Bob Clampett)
A Corny Concerto (US…Bob Clampett)
Dumb-Hounded (US…Tex Avery)
En Passant (Canada…Alexandre Alexeieff)
Meshes of the Afternoon (US…Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid)
Red Hot Riding Hood (US…Tex Avery)
The Silent Village (UK…Humphrey Jennings)
What’s Buzzing Buzzard? (US…Tex Avery)
Who Killed Who? (US…Tex Avery)
Yankee Doodle Daffy (US…Friz Freleng)
Yankee Doodle Mouse (US…William Hanna, Joseph Barbera)
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Best Actor
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Hans Albers Munchhausen
Don Ameche Heaven Can Wait
Pierre Brasseur Lumière d’Été
Joseph Cotten Journey into Fear
Joseph Cotten Shadow of a Doubt
Henry Fonda The Ox-Bow Incident
Pierre Fresnay Le Corbeau
Pierre Fresnay La Main du Diable
Massimo Girotti Ossessione
Fernand Ledoux It Happened at the Inn
Roger Livesey The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Paul Lukas Watch on the Rhine
Joel McCrea The More the Merrier
Thorkild Roose Day of Wrath
Henry Travers The Moon is Down
Orson Welles Jane Eyre
Robert Young Claudia
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Best Actress
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Jean Arthur The More the Merrier
Anne Baxter Five Graves to Cairo
Clara Calamai Ossessione
Bette Davis Old Acquaintance
Renée Faure Les Anges du Péché
Maria Félix Doña Barbara
Gracie Fields Holy Matrimony
Joan Fontaine The Constant Nymph
Joan Fontaine Jane Eyre
Greer Garson Madame Curie
Miriam Hopkins Old Acquaintance
Kim Hunter The Seventh Victim
Jennifer Jones The Song of Bernadette
Odette Joyeux Douce
Ginette Leclerc Val d’Enfer
Margaret Lockwood The Man in Grey
Dorothy McGuire Claudia
Lisbeth Movin Day of Wrath
Madeleine Renaud Lumière d’Été
Gene Tierney Heaven Can Wait
Teresa Wright Shadow of a Doubt
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Best Supp Actor
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Charles Bickford The Song of Bernadette
Charles Coburn Heaven Can Wait
Charles Coburn The More the Merrier
Frank Conroy The Ox-Bow Incident
George Coulouris Watch on the Rhine
Laird Cregar Heaven Can Wait
Henry Daniell Jane Eyre
Mervyn Johns My Learned Friend
Allyn Joslyn Heaven Can Wait
Pierre Larquey Le Corbeau
Robert le Vigan It Happened at the Inn
Moore Marriott Millions Like Us
James Mason The Man In Grey
J.Carrol Naish Sahara
Palau La Main du Diable
Eugene Pallette Heaven Can Wait
Everett Sloane Journey into Fear
Andrés Soler Doña Barbara
Erich Von Stroheim Five Graves to Cairo
Anton Walbrook The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Roland Young Forever and a Day
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Best Supp Actress
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Jean Brooks The Seventh Victim
Ina Claire Claudia
Gladys Cooper Forever and a Day
Gladys Cooper The Song of Bernadette
Jane Darwell The Ox-Bow Incident
Paulette Goddard So Proudly we Hail
Joan Greenwood The Gentle Sex
Jany Holt Les Anges du Péché
Rosamund John The Gentle Sex
Deborah Kerr The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Ginette Leclerc Le Corbeau
Marjorie Main Heaven Can Wait
Jessie Matthews Forever and a Day
Marguerite Moreno Douce
Katina Paxinou For Whom the Bell Tolls
Anne Revere The Song of Bernadette
Madeleine Robinson Douce
Madeleine Robinson Lumière d’Été
Anne Svierkier Day of Wrath
Sylvie Les Anges du Péché
Lucille Watson Watch on the Rhine,
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Best Score
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William Alwyn Desert Victory
Aaron Copland North Star
Hanns Eisler Hangmen Also Die
Allan Gray The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Bernard Herrmann Jane Eyre
Erich Wolfgang Korngold The Constant Nymph
Cedric Mellahey The Man in Grey
Cyril Mockridge The Ox-Bow Incident
Alfred Newman Heaven Can Wait
Alfred Newman The Song of Bernadette
Edward Plumb, Paul Smith & Oliver Wallace Victory Through Air Power
Giuseppe Rosati Ossessione
Herbert Stothart Madame Curie
Roy Webb I Walked With a Zombie
Roy Webb The Seventh Victim
Roy Webb & Constantin Bakeleinikoff The Fallen Sparrow
Victor Young For Whom the Bell Tolls
To choose between I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE, DAY OF WRATH, THE OX-BOW INCIDENT, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP, THE SEVENTH VICTIM and SHADOW OF A DOUBT is a torturous assignment, unfair to the extreme. I’d probably change my mind for the top spot every single day of a given week. ZOMBIE would win if nostalgia was the only consideration, though it’s a masterpiece by any barometer of measurement, and over the last ten years I have been going with THE DAY OF WRATH as top film of this year. But at this particular juncture here is what I will go with, agreeing fully with my colleague Allan Fish, who has long championed a supreme masterpiece of British and world cinema:
Best Picture: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Best Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer (Day of Wrath)
Best Actor: Roger Livesay (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Best Actress: Joan Fontaine (The Constant Nymph)
Best Sup. Actor: Anton Wolbrook (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Best Sup. Actress: Jean Brooks (The Seventh Victim)
Best Short: Meshes in the Afternoon (Maya Deren)
Best Score: Bernard Herrmann (Jane Eyre)
MESHES is one of the greatest films (feature or short) ever made. Anne Svierkier as the old hag who is burned as a witch in DAY OF WRATH pushes close.
Best Screenplay: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressberger (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Best Cinematography: George Perinal (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Best Editing: Mark Robson (I Walked With A Zombie)
Best Art Direction: Albert S. D’Agostino, Walter E. Keller (I Walked With A Zombie)
Note: THE OX-BOW INCIDENT by William Wellman is one of the very best films of this year or any year. Ironically, it did not capture a single one of these awards in a quirk of this kind of voting. But on another day………..
Best Picture: Day of Wrath
Best Director: Powell
Actor: Livesay, Blimp
Actress: Movin, Day of Wrath
Supp. Actor: Walbrook, Blimp
Supp. Actress: Svierkier, Wrath
Score: Webb, I Walked with a Zombie (it needs recognition somewhere!)
Short: Red Hot Riding Hood
Top Five: Wrath, Blimp, Zombie, Shadow of a Doubt, Munchhausen
Yay for Claude Rains achieving best supporting actor for “Casablanca” and that the score for “Casablanca” was also selected.
I vote “Shadow of a Doubt” for best film in 1943.
I vote Alfred Hitchcock for best director (“Shadow of a Doubt”) in 1943.
I vote “Meshes of the Afternoon” for best short in 1943.
I vote Joseph Cotten for best actor in “Shadow of a Doubt” in 1943.
I vote Lisbeth Movin for best actress in “Day of Wrath” in 1943.
I vote Anne Svierkier for best supporting actress in “Day of Wrath” in 1943.
I vote “I Walked with a Zombie” for best score.
Picture: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Director: Michael Powell, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Actor: Roger Livesey, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Actress: Jean Arthur, The More the Merrier
Sup. Actor: Charles Coburn, The More the Merrier
Sup. Actress: Katina Paxinou, For Whom the Bell Tolls
I’m a bit surprised to see Deborah Kerr’s performance in “Colonel Blimp” listed in the supporting category.
Feature: Day of Wrath
Ok, if even Allan gets a tie so do I. I don’t want to choose between one of my all-time favorite avant-garde films and one of my all-time favorite cartoons!
Short: Meshes in the Afternoon & Red Hot Riding Hood (tie)
Actor: Ronald Livesy (The Life and Death of Col. Blimp)
Actress: Lisabeth Movin ( Day of Wrath)
Supp. Actor: Vincent Price (The Song of Bernadette) – this is one of my favorite Price performances, you’ve really got to add him to the ballot!
Supp. Actress: Deborah Kerr ( The Life and Death of Col. Blimp)
Score: I Walked with a Zombie
Screenplay: The Life and Death of Col. Blimp
Cinematography: I Walked with a Zombie
Editing: The Seventh Victim
honorable mention: Air Force
Roger, obviously. Put it down to late night.
Price above Walbrook. Shakes head.
Joel, I don’t see a Best Director choice here.
Dreyer. And I’ll stand by Price – he’s fantastic in that part. Add him to the ballot!
Very top heavy year with a bunch of great films to choose from. So tough to make a final decision. I’ll give it a shot though…
Best Picture: Le Corbeau
Best Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Best Actor: Henry Fonda
Best Actress: Lisbeth Movin
Best Supp Actor: Pierre Larquey
Best Supp Actress: Jean Brooks
Top Five: 1. Le Corbeau 2. The Seventh Victim 3. Day Of Wrath 4. I Walked With A Zombie 5. The Ox Bow Incident
Both Shadow Of A Doubt and Blimp just miss making my top five. While I like both films, I consider the five above superior personally. I get the feeling no single film will garner a huge amount of votes for this year.
Lemme get right to it…
There’s one film in here that just blows the others completely out of the water… In MY opinion…
PICTURE: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP
SHORT: RED HOT RIDING HOOD (Animated d. Tex Avery)
DIRECTOR: Micheal Powell (THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP
LEAD ACTOR: Roger Livesy (THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP)-the only way I can say this: I saw this film on a big screen at a University showing where the film was presented by Powell’s wife, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, and Martin Scorsese (Sam was with me that day) and I remember Livesy’s performance so moving that it reduced me to tears. His final speech in the film is so touching that the only adjective I really can use when I think of this performance is: ASTONISHING.
LEAD ACTRESS: Lisabeth Movin (DAY OF WRATH)
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Anton Walbrook (THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Deborah Kerr (THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP)
SCORE: Bernard Herrmann (JANE EYRE)
Picture / Day of Wrath
Director / Carl Theodor Dreyer / Day of Wrath
Actor / Roger Livesly / The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Actress / Teresa Wright / Shadow of a Doubt
Supporting Actor / Laird Cregar / Heaven Can Wait
Supporting Actress / Deborah Kerr / The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
I agree with everyone that this is a really difficult year, but Day of Wrath is probably my favorite film of the forties. Shadow of a Doubt, though, is maybe my favorite Hitch, and comes real close here.
Another year I’m a bit short on… though there’s plenty to choose among.
PICTURE: Day of Wrath
DIRECTOR: Dreyer
LEAD ACTOR: Ferdinand Marian, Romance in a Minor Key (no guilt voting for this)
LEAD ACTRESS: Lisbeth Movin, Day of Wrath
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Charles Coburn, The More the Merrier
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jean Brooks, Seventh Victim
SHORT: Meshes of the Afternoon – a rather difficult choice though; this is (like Sam said) one of the all time greats – but I’ve seen Spider and Tulip, a beautiful little animated film from Japan. I will defer to the nominations, to resolve this difficulty.
SCORE: Webb, I Walked With a Zombie
Plus bonus picks:
Cinematography: Karl Anderson, Day of Wrath (though I suppose this is by default as much as by thought…)
Script: Cabin in the Sky, Joseph Shrank
Editing: Robson, Zombie
Music/Sound: Cabin in the Sky again. I also lingered long over the actress categories – Ethel Waters in particular is a tempting choice…
Picture: Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Director: Powell, Pressberger
Actor: Livesay
Actress: Fontaine, Jane Eyre
Supporting Actor: Walbrook
Supporting Actress: Kerr
Score: Herrmann, Jane Eyre
Day of Wrath was very close…
Best Picture: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Best Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer (Day of Wrath)
Best Actor: Roger Livesay (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Best Actress: Lisbeth Movin (Day of Wrath)
Best Sup. Actor: Anton Wolbrook (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Best Sup. Actress: Anne Svierkier (Day of Wrath)
Best Score: Bernard Herrmann (Jane Eyre)
Indeed Camolas. Up until I watched COLONEL BLIMP again last year with a restored print at the Film Forum, I had DAY OF WRATH as my #1 film of this year for well over a decade and a half. As it is, both of our 1940′s “Wraths” Ford’s and Dreyer’s are among the very best films of the 40′s with BLIMP with them of course.
Best Pic: Day of Wrath
Runner-ups: Col. Blimp, Shadow of a Doubt, Ox Bow Incident, Le Corbeau
Best Dir: Dreyer
Best Actors: Livesay (Blimp), Movin (Wrath)
Best Scr: Powell&Pressberger–Blimp
Best Cin: Anderson-Wrath
I love Day of Wrath, but cannot vote for it here. I think Powell and Pressburger’s films will do well this decade as we vote. We shall see. Blimp cleans up here.
Picture- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Dir- Powell
Best Actor- Roger Livesay (Blimp)
Best Actress- Lisbeth Movin (Day of Wrath)
Supp. Actor- Anton Walbrook (Blimp)
Supp. Actress- Deborah Kerr (Blimp) —–I also wonder whether this really is a supporting role.
Score- Bernard Herrmann (Jane Eyre)
PICTURE: Shadow of a Doubt (2nd: Day of Wrath)
DIRECTOR: Carl Th. Dreyer, Day of Wrath (2nd: Alfred Hitchcock, Shadow of a Doubt)
ACTOR: Roger Livesey, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (2nd: Joseph Cotton, Shadow of a Doubt)
ACTRESS: Jean Arthur, The More The Merrier (2nd: Joan Fontaine, The Constant Nymph)
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Henry Travers, Shadow of a Doubt (2nd: Claude Rains, Casablanca)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Patricia Collinge, Shadow of a Doubt (2nd: Edna May Wonacott, Shadow of a Doubt)
SHORT: Red Hot Riding Hood (2nd: Meshes of the Afternoon)
SCORE: Dimitri Tiomkin, Shadow of a Doubt (2nd: Max Steiner, Casablanca)
FURTHER:
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Richard Flournoy, Frank Ross, Robert Russell and Lewis Foster, The More The Merrier (2nd: Thornton Wilder, Shadow of a Doubt)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch, Casablanca (2nd: Lamar Trotti, The Ox-Bow Incident)
B&W CINEMATOGRAPHY: Day of Wrath
COLOR CINEMATOGRAPHY: For Whom The Bell Tolls
B&W ART DIRECTION: Day of Wrath
COLOR ART DIRECTION: Phantom of the Opera
B&W COSTUME DESIGN: Day of Wrath
COLOR COSTUME DESIGN: Phantom of the Opera
FILM EDITING: The Ox-Bow Incident
SOUND: Casablanca
SCORE OF A MUSICAL: This is the Army
SONG: “That Old Black Magic” from Star Spangled Rhythm
Picture – Day of Wrath
Director – Dreyer
Actor – Joesph Cotton (Shadow of a Doubt)
Actress – Mabel Paige (Someone to Remember)
Supporting Actor – Frank Conroy (Ox-Bow)
Supporting Actress – Anna Svierkier (Wrath)
Really tough year, painful to leave out the Archers and two Tourneurs. My best actress isn’t listed but is one of my all time favorite performances from one of the great unsung American films of the 40s.
Best Picture – Colonel Blimp
Best Director – William Wellman, The Ox-Bow Incident
Best Actor – Dana Andrews
Best Actress – Deborah Kerr
Best Supp. Actor- Anton Walbrook
Best Supp. Actress – Jane Darwell
Best Score – Cyril Mockridge
Pic: The Ox-Bow Incident
Dir: Carl Dreyer
Actor: Roger Livesay
Actress: Joan Fontaine
S. Actor: Anton Wolbrook
S. Actress: Deborah Kerr
Music: Jane Eyre
I agree with all that it’s a very difficult decision to decide between Day of Wrath and Blimp. The only thing I could do is flip a coin.
Best Picture: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Best Director: Carl T. Dreyer (Day of Wrath)
Best Actor: Henry Fonda (The Ox-Bow Incident)
Best Actress: Jennifer Jones (The song of Bernadette)
Best Sup. Actor: Anton Wolbrook (Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Best Sup. Actress: Anna Svierkier (Day of Wrath)
Best Short: Meshes in the Afternoon
Best Score: Alfred Newman (The Song of Bernadette)
by the way, I agree with Movie Man that Vincent Price is excellent in The Song of Bernadette.
Gee, I really need to see “Day of Wrath.” But until I do, my votes are as follows.
Best Picture: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.
Best Director: Michael Powell – Colonel Blimp
Best Actor: Roger Livesey – Colonel Blimp
Best Actress: Joan Fontaine -The Constant Nymph
Best Supporting Actor: Anton Wolbrook – Colonel Blimp
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Revere – The Song of Bernadette
Best Score: Korngold – The Constant Nymph
Best Short: A Corny Concerto
Best Film: Day of Wrath
Best Director: Carl Dreyer
Best Actor: Roger Livesay
Best Actress: Jean Arthur
Best Short: Meshes in the Afternoon
Best Supporting Actor: Charles Coburn
Best Supporting Actress: Jean Brooks
Best Score: Jane Eyre, Bernard Herrmann
A rich 12 month period…..
Best Picture: The Ox-Bow Incident
Best Director: Michael Powell (Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Best Actor: Roger Livesay (Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Best Actress: Joan Fontaine (The Constant Nymph)
Best Supporting Actor: Frank Conroy (The Ox-Bow Incident)
Best Supporting Actress: Anna Svierkier (Day of Wrath)
Best Score: Bernard Herrmann (Jane Eyre)
Best Short: A Corny Concerto
Best Picture: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Best Director: Hitchcock
Best Short Subject: The Silent Village
Best Actor: Roger Livesay
Best Actress: Teresa Wright
Best Supporting Actor: Everett Sloane
Best Supporting Actress: Katrina Paxinou
Best Score: Victor Young.
I would like to add that Teresa Wright would be my second choice for Best Actress had Ingrid Bergman been included in your list. In my opinion her performance in “For Whom The Bell Tolls” was worthy of an Award. Akim Tamiroff would have replaced my second choice of Everett Sloane as Best Supporting Actor for 1943.
Katrina Paxinou is indeed stupendous, and the absolutely magnificent Victor Young score you chose here came within a fraction of a hair of the Herrmann I chose over it.
Wonderful choices, Rod Croft!
I love The Silent Village, Rod, but it’s over 40m, which means it isn’t counted as a short.
Picture : Day of Wrath – his best film methinks
Director : Dreyer
Short : Meshes of the Afternoon
Actress : Lisbeth Movin (Day of Wrath)
Actor : Roger Livesey
Film: ‘Day of Wrath’ Haven’t seen this one in ages, but I assume the film’s drama and look of Lutheran severity, the barbarisms perpetrated in the name of God, the sublimated sexuality and the fine cast (especially the young wife who becomes what’s she’s falsely accused of being), remain intact.
Runners-Up: ‘Colonel Blimp’ & ‘Shadow of a Doubt’
Director: Dreyer
Runners-Up: Powell & Hitchcock
Actress: Movin (‘Day of Wrath’)
Runners-Up: Fontaine (‘The Constant Nymph’); Ethel Waters (‘Cabin in the Sky’)
Actor: Livesey (‘Colonel Blimp’)
Runner-Up: Lukas (‘Watch on the Rhine’)
S. Actress: Sigrid Neiiandam (‘Day of Wrath’)
Runners-up: Kerr (‘Colonel Blimp’); Lena Horne (‘Cabin in the Sky’)
S. Actor: Walbrook (‘Colonel Blimp’)
Runner-Up: Stroheim (‘Five Graves to Cairo’) — if only for the scene where he bitch-whips Anne Baxter with a fly whisk.
Nice – runners up for each category! I love the mutant forms this exercise is taking on… And +1 on your Day of Wrath comments. I saw it once, 6 years ago, in Lincoln Center and it remains one of the most powerful cinematic experiences I’ve ever had. Though it kind of hurts not to give Deren the director award.
Great job Mark, and definitely agree with everything Joel says. DAY OF WRATH is one of my all-time favorite films, and I never imagined years ago that there would ever be an instance where any film would edge it out narrowly, much less the very year of it’s release. But the screening in a restored print last year of BLIMP at the Film Forum was simply one of the greatest experiences of my life as far as film viewings. It’s so so so so close between these two films, that I really should have saved my one tie for this year instead of using it for 1942.
Ah well, it’s BLIMP by the tiniest of margins, but there you have it.
I’m late to the party again… apologies.
Picture: The Ox-Bow Incident (though I’m also tempted by Day of Wrath and Ossessione)
Director: Wellman (The Ox-Bow Incident)
Actor: Massimo Girotti (Ossessione) (nearly went for Henry Fonda, and, though he isn’t nominated, also like John Garfield in The Fallen Sparrow)
Actress: Joan Fontaine (The Constant Nymph) (I also like both Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins in Old Acquaintance)
Supporting actor: Anton Walbrook (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp) (I also like Dana Andrews in Ox-Bow, who wasn’t nominated)
Supporting actress: Anne Svierkier (Day of Wrath)