by Allan Fish
Here we go…results for 1945…
Best Picture Les Enfants du Paradis, France (9 votes)
Best Director Marcel Carné, Les Enfants du Paradis (7 votes)
Best Short Micro Phonies, US, Edward Bernds (4 votes)
Best Actor Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend (6 votes)
Best Actress Celia Johnson, Brief Encounter (8 votes)
Best Supp Actor Michael Redgrave, Dead of Night (7 votes)
Best Supp Actress Anna Magnani, Open City (13 votes)
Best Score Miklós Rózsa, Spellbound (8 votes)
And my choices…
Best Picture LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS, France
Best Short THE SHOOTING OF DAN McGOO, US, Tex Avery
Best Director Marcel Carné, Les Enfants du Paradis
Best Actor Jean-Louis Barrault, Les Enfants du Paradis
Best Actress Celia Johnson, Brief Encounter
Best Supporting Actor Michael Redgrave, Dead of Night
Best Supporting Actress Anna Magnani, Open City
Best Musical Score William Alwyn, The True Glory
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And on to 1946. Sam has again requested that I add cinematography to the nominations. I feel that screenplay is more important than cinematography and the reasons I left both off was because both should really be split (adapted/original and bw/colour respectively). For voting purposes, it will not be split, but will be all as one, monochrome or colour. For my own choices I will now have to list an overall winner on the weekly page and keep the separate winners on the topbar.
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Best Picture/Director
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Angel on My Shoulder (US…Archie Mayo)
Anna and the King of Siam (US…John Cromwell)
Bad Eggs (Sweden…Arne Mattson)
La Belle et la Bête (France…Jean Cocteau)
The Best Years of Our Lives (US…William Wyler)
The Big Sleep (US…Howard Hawks)
The Blue Dahlia (US…George Marshall)
Canyon Passage (US…Jacques Tourneur)
The Captive Heart (UK…Basil Dearden)
The Chase (US…Arthur Ripley)
Children of the Earth (India…Khwaja Ahmad Abbas)
A Christmas Dream (Czechoslovakia…Karel Zeman)
Cluny Brown (US…Ernst Lubitsch)
Cross of Love (Finland…Teuvo Tulio)
The Dark Corner (US…Henry Hathaway)
The Dark Mirror (US…Robert Siodmak)
Deception (US…Irving Rapper)
Decoy (US…Jack Bernhard)
The Diary of a Chambermaid (US…Jean Renoir)
Ditte Menneskebarn (Denmark…Bjarne Henning-Jansen)
Dreams That Money Can Buy (US…Hans Richter, Man Ray)
Duel in the Sun (US…King Vidor, William Dieterle)
Enamorada (Mexico…Emilio Fernandez)
Five Women Around Utamaro (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)
La Foire aux Chimères (France…Pierre Chenal)
From This Day Forward (US…John Berry)
Gilda (US…Charles Vidor)
Great Expectations (UK…David Lean)
Green for Danger (UK…Sidney Gilliat)
Hue and Cry (UK…Charles Crichton)
Humoresque (US…Jean Negulesco)
I See a Dark Stranger (UK…Frank Launder)
L’Idiot (France…Georges Lampin)
Iris and the Lieutenant (Sweden…Alf Sjöberg)
It’s a Wonderful Life (US…Frank Capra)
Ivan the Terrible Part Two: The Boyars Plot (USSR…Sergei M.Eisenstein)
The Jolson Story (US…Charles Vidor, Joseph H.Lewis)
The Killers (US…Robert Siodmak)
Land of Promise (UK…Paul Rotha)
Let There be Light (US…John Huston)
London Town (UK…Wesley Ruggles)
Macadam (France…Jacques Feyder, Marcel Blistène)
Margie (US…Henry King)
A Matter of Life and Death (UK…Michael Powell)
My Darling Clementine: Special Edition (US (1994)…John Ford)
A Night in Casablanca (US…Archie Mayo)
No Regrets for Our Youth (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)
Nobody Lives Forever (US…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)
Notorious (US…Alfred Hitchcock)
The Outlaw (US…Howard Hughes)
Paisà (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)
Les Portes de la Nuit (France…Marcel Carné)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (US…Tay Garnett)
Restless Blood (Finland…Teuvo Tulio)
Un Revenant (France…Christian-Jaque)
Shoeshine (Italy…Vittorio de Sica)
So Dark the Night (US…Joseph H.Lewis)
The Spiral Staircase (US…Robert Siodmak)
Strange Impersonation (US…Anthony Mann)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (US…Lewis Milestone)
The Stranger (US…Orson Welles)
La Symphonie Pastorale (France…Jean Delannoy)
Theirs is the Glory (UK…Brian Desmond-Hurst, Terence Young)
To Each His Own (US…Mitchell Leisen)
The Yearling (US…Clarence Brown)
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Best Short
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Book Review (US…Bob Clampett)
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (US…Bob Clampett)
Hair-Raising Hare (US…Chuck Jones)
Lonesome Lenny (US…Tex Avery)
Northwest Hounded Police (US…Tex Avery)
Rhapsody Rabbit (US…Friz Freleng)
Ritual in Transfigured Time (US…Maya Deren)
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Best Actor
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Dana Andrews The Best Years of Our Lives
Pedro Armendariz Enamorada
Minosuke Bando Five Women Around Utamaro
Humphrey Bogart The Big Sleep
Nikolai Cherkassov Ivan the Terrible Part Two: The Boyars Plot
Henry Fonda My Darling Clementine
Glenn Ford Gilda
John Garfield Humoresque
John Garfield The Postman Always Rings Twice
Cary Grant Notorious
Rex Harrison Anna and the King of Siam
Van Heflin The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Louis Jouvet Un Revenant
Peter Lorre The Beast With Five Fingers
Jean Marais La Belle et la Bête
Fredric March The Best Years of Our Lives
John Mills Great Expectations
Paul Muni Angel on My Shoulder
David Niven A Matter of Life and Death
Larry Parks The Jolson Story
Tyrone Power The Razor’s Edge
Michael Redgrave The Captive Heart
Alastair Sim Green for Danger
James Stewart It’s a Wonderful Life
Erich Von Stroheim La Foire aux Chimères
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Best Actress
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Lauren Bacall The Big Sleep
Ingrid Bergman Notorious
Joan Crawford Humoresque
Josette Day La Belle et la Bête
Olivia de Havilland The Dark Mirror
Olivia de Havilland To Each His Own
Maria Félix Enamorada
Edwige Feuillère L’Idiot
Joan Fontaine From This Day Forward
Jean Gillie Decoy
Paulette Goddard The Diary of a Chambermaid
Rita Hayworth Gilda
Deborah Kerr I See a Dark Stranger
Regina Linnanheimo Cross of Love
Myrna Loy The Best Years of Our Lives
Ida Lupino Devotion
Dorothy McGuire The Spiral Staircase
Tove Maës Ditte Menneskebarn
Michèle Morgan La Symphonie Pastorale
Françoise Rosay Macadam
Barbara Stanwyck The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Kinuyo Tanaka Five Women Around Utamaro
Lana Turner The Postman Always Rings Twice
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Best Supp Actor
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Lionel Barrymore It’s a Wonderful Life
James Baskett Song of the South
William Bendix The Blue Dahlia
Walter Brennan My Darling Clementine
Hoagy Carmichael The Best Years of Our Lives
Charles Coburn The Green Years
Steve Cochran The Chase
Roland Culver To Each His Own
Finlay Currie Great Expectations
Albert Dekker The Killers
William Demarest The Jolson Story
Ludwig Donath The Jolson Story
Brian Donlevy Canyon Passage
Kirk Douglas The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Leo Genn Green for Danger
Marius Goring A Matter of Life and Death
Alec Guinness Great Expectations
Richard Haydn Cluny Brown
Raymond Huntley I See a Dark Stranger
Miguel Inclán Enamorada
Francis Lederer The Diary of a Chambermaid
Sheldon Leonard Decoy
Oscar Levant Humoresque
Roger Livesey A Matter of Life and Death
George Macready Gilda
Herbert Marshall The Razor’s Edge
Victor Mature My Darling Clementine
Bernard Miles Great Expectations
Harry Morgan From This Day Forward
Alan Mowbray My Darling Clementine
Gérard Philipe L’Idiot
Claude Rains Deception
Claude Rains Notorious
Serge Reggiani Les Portes de la Nuit
Harold Russell The Best Years of Our Lives
Oscar Tengström Cross of Love
Henry Travers It’s a Wonderful Life
Jean Vilar Les Portes de la Nuit
Jack Warner The Captive Heart
Clifton Webb The Razor’s Edge
Will Wright The Blue Dahlia
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Best Supp Actress
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Lucille Ball The Dark Corner
Ethel Barrymore The Spiral Staircase
Anne Baxter The Razor’s Edge
Serafima Berman Ivan the Terrible Part Two: The Boyars Plot
Lillian Gish Duel in the Sun
Martita Hunt Great Expectations
Kim Hunter A Matter of Life and Death
Rosamund John Green for Danger
Cathy O’Donnell The Best Years of Our Lives
Simone Signoret Macadam
Tamara Shayne The Jolson Story
Martha Vickers The Big Sleep
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Best Score
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William Alwyn Land of Promise
Georges Auric La Belle et la Bête
Hugo Friedhofer The Best Years of Our Lives
Hugo Friedhofer Gilda
Allan Gray A Matter of Life and Death
Bernard Herrmann Anna and the King of Siam
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Deception
Joseph Kosma Les Portes de la Nuit
Cyril Mockridge My Darling Clementine
Sergei Prokofiev Ivan the Terrible Part Two: The Boyars Plot
Miklós Rózsa The Killers
Max Steiner The Big Sleep
Dimitri Tiomkin Duel in the Sun
Dimitri Tiomkin It’s a Wonderful Life
Franz Waxman Humoresque
Roy Webb The Spiral Staircase
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Best Cinematography
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Philippe Agostini Les Portes de la Nuit
Henri Alekan La Belle et la Bête
George Barnes From This Day Forward
Joseph H.Biroc It’s a Wonderful Life
Elwood Bredell The Killers
Jack Cardiff A Matter of Life and Death
Lee Garmes, Ray Rennahan, Harold Rosson Duel in the Sun
Guy Green Great Expectations
Sid Hickox The Big Sleep
Werner Jenssen Ditte Menneskebarn
Milton Krasner The Dark Mirror
Pentti Lintonen, Uno Pihlström Cross of Love
Joseph P.MacDonald The Dark Corner
Joseph P.MacDonald My Darling Clementine
Otello Martelli Paisa
Rudolph Maté Gilda
Russell Metty The Stranger
Minoru Miki Five Women Around Utamaro
Arthur Miller Anna and the King of Siam
Victor Milner The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Andrei Moskvin, Edouard Tisse Ivan the Terrible Part Two: The Boyars Plot
Nicholas Musuraca The Spiral Staircase
Franz Planer The Chase
Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith The Yearling
Ted Tetzlaff Notorious
Armand Thirard La Symphonie Pastorale
Gregg Toland The Best Years of Our Lives
Gregg Toland The Outlaw
Sidney Wagner The Postman Always Rings Twice
I vote “It’s a Wonderful Life” for best film in 1946.
I vote Frank Capra for best director (“It’s a Wonderful Life”) in 1946.
I vote James Stewart for best actor in “It’s a Wonderful Life” in 1946.
I vote Orson Welles for best supporting actor in “The Stranger” in 1946.
I vote Donna Reed for best supporting actress in “It’s a Wonderful Life” in 1946.
I vote “It’s a Wonderful Life” for best score.
I vote “It’s a Wonderful Life” for best cinematography.
Best Picture: It’s A Wonderful Life
Best Director: David Lean (Great Expectations)
Best Actor: James Stewart (It’s A Wonderful Life)
Best Actress: Dorothy Maguire (The Spiral Staircase)
Best Sup. Actor: Claude Rains (Notorious)
Best Sup. Actress: Martita Hunt (Great Expectations)
Best Short: The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
Best Score: Hugo Friedhofer (The Best Years of Our Lives)
Best Cinematography: Guy Green (Great Expectations)
beyond….
Best Screenplay: Emeric Pressberger (A Matter of Life and Death)
Best Editing: Claude Iberia (La Belle et la Bete)
Best Art Direction: Christian Bernard (La Belle et la Bete)
Best Costumes: Antonio Castillo (La Belle et la Bete)
Best Song: “All Through the Day” (Cenennial Summer) Kern/Hammerstein
Note: I did not issue an order to add Best Cinematography, rather I urged it for several reasons. I do know well that screenplay is a more important category, but it would for many require a break into two groupings. This is not my weekly post, so I do not make any final decisions.
I’m all over the place this particular year.
Best Picture: A Matter of Life and Death
Best Director: Powell
Best Actor: Stewart, It’s A Wonderful Life
Best Actress: Hayworth, Gilda
Supporting Actor: Bendix, The Blue Dahlia
Supporting Actress: Berman, Ivan pt. 2
Cinematography: Cardiff
Score: Tiomkin, Duel in the Sun
Short: Great Piggy Bank Robbery
Best Picture: The Killers
Best Director: David Lean (Great Expectations)
Best Actor: Humphrey Bogart (The Big Sleep)
Best Actress: Josette Day (Beauty And The Beast)
Best Supp Actor: Finlay Currie (Great Expectations
Best Supp Actress: Martita Hunt (Great Expectations)
Top Five: 1. The Killers 2. The Big Sleep 3. Ivan The Terrible Two 4. Great Expectations 5. Beauty And The Beast
Tough year with many great movies. Some film noirs from this year don’t do much for me like The Postman Always Rings Twice and The Blue Dahlia (even Gilda to some extent). It’s A Wonderful Life is a film I actually like though a tad shamelessly sentimental. The opening scene with the angels talking from heaven makes it hard to keep a straight face. Capra really produced something special overall though and it’s a picture I like to revisit every so often.
Perhaps the best year overall in the 40′s (up to this point) when it comes to depth and greatness…
Easily one of the strongest years in cinema history. Yet despite all the competition I feel that the acting awards were all no-brainers except for Actress where two iconic noir dames were in tight competition. I went with the redhead over the blonde but almost cheated with a tie.
Feature: It’s a Wonderful Life
Short: Ritual in transfigured Time
Director: Sergei Eisenstein (Ivan the a Terrible, Part II)
Actor: James Stewart (It’s a Wonderful Life) – maybe my favorite performance of all time
Actress: Rita Hayworth (Gilda) – sorry, Lana
Supp. Actor: Claude Rains (Notorious)
Supp. Actress: Martha Vickers (The Big Sleep) – though Dorothy Malone get a nod for ‘best cameo’
Score: Sergei Prokofiev (Ivan the Terrible, Part II)
Cinematography: Ivan the Terrible, Part II
Screenplay: The Best Years of Our Lives (can’t believe this was shut out of every other category; it’s one of my favorite films but the competition was fierce!)
Editing: Notorious
Honor able mention: two films need shout-outs this year, Great Expectations and My Darling Clementine
btw Beauty and the Beast would win if I awarded art direction. I guess I just did…
Y’know, it’s close between the two, Ivan already gets Director, and I want to show the Lean a little love so I’m revising my vote:
Cinematography: Great Expectations
Ah Joel, you do have some tremendous choices, but Miss Havisham is a tough supporting performance to beat that year. But your love for GREAT EXPECTATIONS is certainly clear enough.
She’s good but perhaps because of a Classics Illustrated I had as a kid I’ve always visualized Miss Havisham as more decrepit. At any rate, I find Vickers hard to beat even if they cut her performance down to benefit Bacall. She just sizzles.
What a year! So many to choose from and not enough slots to fit em all in. To choose between the likes of Hitchcocks supreme NOTORIOUS, Capras darling IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, my favorite western ever (MY DARLING CLEMENTINE) and Cocteaus visionary LA BELLE A BETE is a fool’s predicament at best. But, if I must, I’ll go with my heart here.
BEST PICTURE: IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
BEST SHORT: THE GREAT PIGGY BANK ROBBERY
DIRECTOR: Frank Capra (IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE)
LEAD ACTOR: James Stewart (IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE)
LEAD ACTRESS: Ingrid Bergman (NOTORIOUS)
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Claude Rains (NOTORIOUS)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Lillian Gish (DUEL IN THE SUN)
SCORE: Dimitri Tiompkin (DUEL IN THE SUN)
CINEMATOGTAPHY: Henri Alekan (LA BELLE A BETE)
Picture: La Belle et la Bete
Director: Michael Powell, A Matter of Life and Death
Actor: James Stewart, It’s a Wonderful Life
Actress: Ingrid Bergman, Notorious
Sup. Actor, Claude Rains, Notorious
Sup. Actress: Martita Hunt, Great Expectations
Cinematography: Jack Cardiff, A Matter of Life and Death
Going for pure entertainment value this year, over Farber’s so-called ‘White Elephant Art’ — though Manny would probably sniff at the ‘artinesss’ of Ford’s ‘Clementine’.
Film: ‘Notorious’, ‘My Darling Clementine’, ‘Great Expectations’ (with profuse apologies to de Sica’s monumentally moving ‘Shoeshine’)
Director: Hitchcock (Notorious); Ford (My Darling Clementine); Lean (Great Expections)
Actress: Ingrid Bergman (Notorious); Myrna Loy (The Best Years of Our Life); Josette Day (La Belle et la Bete)
Actor: Cary Grant (Notorious); Henry Fonda (My Darling Clementine); Fredric March (The Best Years of Our Lives)
S. Actress: Martita Hunt (Great Expectations); Linda Darnell (My Darling Clementine); Ethel Barrymore (The Spiral Staircase).
S. Actor: Claude Rains (Notorious); Alec Guinness (Great Expectations); Oscar Levant (Humoresque)
Cinematography: Edouard Tisse, Andrei Moskvin (Ivan the Terrible, Part 2); Henri Alekan (La Belle et la Bete); Joseph MacDonald (My Darling Clementine)
Mark, some interesting choices. Maybe Grant for “Notorious” will finally be added to the list of suggestions for best actor–his nastiest character, little in the way of endearing redeeming qualities here! Nice to see somebody else thought of Guinness and Levant for best supporting actor; they were definitely on my shortlist. Also Joe MacDonald for his fabulous b&w photography of “My Darling Clementine,” a rival for Alekan and Green (“Great Expectations”) for best b&w cinematography. Allan is right that at this point in film history, the photography award really should be split between b&w and color. Maybe that will happen in the future.
Well, I wanted to get away from foreign films for a while (especially with works by Ozu, Kurosawa, Godard, S. Ray, Bresson, Antonioni, Fellini et. al. right around the corner), though it hurt to leave out films like ‘Shoeshine’, ‘La Belle et la Bete’ and ‘Ivan the Terrible, Part 2′, all superb but so ubiquitous on critics’ polls they’re considered de rigueur great by now. And, like you, Grant’s uncharacteristic nastiness to the ethereally lovely Ingrid Bergman (“Dry your eyes, baby”) is what drew me to his performance in ‘Notorious’.
Best Short: How could I forget the frenzied insanity of Avery’s ‘Northwest Hounded Police’, one of the best cartoons EVAH!
Choosing between NORTHWEST HOUNDED POLICE and PIGGY BANK was impossible as I discussed with Allan on the phone last night. I may yet change my vote to the ever-present Droopy!
I also adore SHOESHINE Mark, but couldn’t fit it in in this monumental year. I’ll surely be all over DeSica with BICYCLE THIEVES and UMBERTO D though.
Ah yes, ‘Bicycle Thieves’ and ‘Umberto D’ never fail to reduce me to a blubbering mass of snot and tears, especially the latter with his dog Flike (which some have criticized as a shameless, sentimental prop). But I love de Sica dog and all.
Picture- Notorious
Dir- Cocteau (La Belle et la Bette)
Actor- James Stewart (It’s a Wonderful Life)
Actress- Ingrid Bergman (Notorious)
Supp. Actor- Alec Guinness (Great Expectations)
Supp. Actress- Kim Hunter (A Matter of Life and Death)
Score- Roy Webb (The Spiral Staircase)
Cinematography- Jack Cardiff (A Matter of Life and Death)
Best Film: It’s A Wonderful Life
Best Director: Frank Capra (It’s A Wonderful Life)
Best Actor: Jimmy Stewart (It’s A Wonderful Life)
Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman (Notorious)
Best S. Actor: Claude Rains (Notorious)
Best S. Actress: Ethel Barrymore (The Spiral Staircase)
Best Score: Beauty and the Beast
Best Cinematography: My Darling Clementine
Pic – It’s a Wonderful Life (US…Frank Capra)
Director – La Belle et la Bête (France…Jean Cocteau)
Actor – James Stewart It’s a Wonderful Life
Actress – Lauren Bacall The Big Sleep
Sup Actor – Claude Rains Notorious
Sup Actress – Lucille Ball The Dark Corner
So glad you guys are counting best cinematog now. Like you, Allan, I think screenplay is even more important. Why can’t you combine both adapted and orig scrs? I would not be surprised the only reason the Academy split it up was to appease writers, their most neglected group. At any rate, this, to Esco, and obviously to others, was one of filmdoms greatest years. I have 9 runner-ups for best movie. Here goes:
Best pic: Notorious
Runner-ups: Beauty and the Beast, Big Sleep, Great Exp, Ivan 2, The Killers, Paisa, Matter of Life and Death, Shoeshine, The Stranger
Best Dir: David Lean- Grt Exp
Best Actors: James Stewart-Wonderful Life, Ingrid Bergman-Notorious
Best Scr: Ben Hecht-Notorious
Best Cin: Henri Alekan-Beauty & The Beast
Best Art Dir: Beauty & The Beast
It’s two reasons, esco. Partly because it pressurises votersinto categories they perhaps don’t want to do, but also because it adds to my workload each week. it takes ages going through likely candidates for score and DP.
Best Picture: Notorious
Best Director: Frank Capra for It’s a Wonderful Life
These two were really hard. I also like The Big Sleep, Great Expectations, The Killers, My Darling Clementine, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Best Years of Our Lives, La Belle et la Bete. A Matter of Life and Death is not a favorite of Powell & Pressburger (by the way, shouldn’t you nominate both for best picture/director?) I don’t get the charm of Eisenstein as he seems to be permanently frozen in the style of silent movies.
Best Actor: Fredric March for Best Years of Our Life. I also like Bogart and Stewart.
Best Actress: Ingrid Berman for Notorious.
Best Supp Actor: Lionel Barrymore in It’s a Wonderful Life. I also liked Lee J. Cobb in Anna and the King of Siam and Livesey.
Best Supp Actress: Jean Simmons in Great Expectations. I prefer her to Martita Hunt and she also makes Valerie Hobston awful as grown up Estella in comparison.
Best Score: Cyril Mockridge in My Darling Clementine
Best Cinematography: Guy Green for Great Expectations (again a tough category to decide).
Yeah Hobson’s miscasting is probably the otherwise masterful film’s only major misstep (and yeah, Mills is too old but somehow that bothers me less – the Estella attraction should be the heart of the story; for all its other wild departures the Cuaron update gets this right). Simmons hit the nail on the head though. And wonderful atmosphere – that shot of the soldiers tackling the convicts in the mud always comes to mind. Definitely a great movie regardless.
Hobson is totally wrong as Estella. I always imagined Joan Greenwood as Estella, but who could have played HER young is open to question.
Yeah I remember you once suggested Margaret Lockwood who also has the right haughty air.
Looks like I’ll be spreading the wealth a bit for 1946, a marvelous year for the movies.
Picture: Great Expectations
Short: Rhapsody Rabbit
Director: David Lean, Great Expectations
Actor: James Stewart, It’s A Wonderful Life
Actress: Ingrid Bergman, Notorious
Supporting Actor: Claude Rains, Notorious
Supporting Actress: Martita Hunt, Great Expectations
Score: Hugo Friedhofer, The Best Years of Our Lives
Cinematography: Jack Cardiff, A Matter of Life and Death
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Best Picture: It’s A Wonderful Life
Best Director: Frank Capra
Best Actor: James Stewart (It’s A Wonderful Life)
Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman (Notorious)
Best Supporting Actor: Claude Rains (Notorious)
Best Supporting Actress: Ethel Barrymore (Spiral Staircase)
Best Short: Northwest Mounted Police
Best Score: Hugo Friedhofer (The Best Years of Our Lives)
Best Cinematography: Jack Cardiff (A Matter of Life and Death)
Oh my gosh…what a year…
PICTURE: It’s a Wonderful Life (followed by A Matter of Life and Death, Great Expectations, Beauty and the Beast, My Darling Clementine, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Notorious, The Killers, Shoeshine, The Best Years of Our Lives)
DIRECTOR: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressberger, A Matter of Life and Death (2nd: Frank Capra, It’s a Wonderful Life)
ACTOR: James Stewart, It’s A Wonderful Life (2nd: Fredric March, The Best Years of Our Lives)
ACTRESS: Donna Reed, It’s a Wonderful Life (2nd: Olivia De Havilland, To Each His Own)
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Roger Livesey, A Matter of Life and Death (2nd: Finlay Currie, Great Expectations)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Kim Hunter, A Matter of Life and Death (2nd: Jean Simmons, Great Expectations)
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jack Cardiff, A Matter of Life and Death (2nd (color): Lee Garmes, Ray Rennahan and Hal Rosson, Duel in the Sun)
ORIGINAL SCORE: Dimitri Tiomkin, Duel in the Sun (2nd: Miklos Rosza, The Killers)
SHORT FILM: Hair-Raising Hare (2nd: The Great Piggy Bank Robbery)
FURTHER:
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Jo Swerling, Philip Van Doren Stern, and Frank Capra, It’s a Wonderful Life (2nd: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressberger, A Matter of Life and Death)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: David Lean, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock Allen, Kay Walsh and Cecil McGivern, Great Expectations (2nd: Samuel Engel, Winston Miller, and Sam Hellman, My Darling Clementine)
B&W CINEMATOGRAPHY: Henri Alekan, Beauty and the Beast (2nd: Guy Green, Great Expectations)
B&W ART DIRECTION: Great Expectations
COLOR ART DIRECTION: The Yearling
B&W COSTUME DESIGN: Beauty and the Beast
COLOR COSTUME DESIGN: Duel in the Sun
FILM EDITING: It’s A Wonderful Life
SOUND: It’s A Wonderful Life
SPECIAL EFFECTS: A Matter of Life and Death
MAKEUP: Beauty and the Beast
SCORE FOR A MUSICAL: Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner, Night and Day
ORIGINAL SONG: “On The Acheson, Topeka and the Santa Fe,” The Harvey Girls (Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer)
I well understand what you are saying about all the work it takes to compile all this. Let me thus take this opportunity to let you know how much I (and I am certain everyone else who participates in this) appreciate the marvelous job you do. THANK YOU. This is great fun.
Thanks, Esco. The film and director and short are time consuming but at least I have lists of those prior. Likewise to a degree the acting noms, but some slip through.
PICTURE: It’s a Wonderful Life
DIRECTOR: Capra
LEAD ACTOR: Jimmy Stewart
LEAD ACTRESS: Ingrid Bergman
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Elisha Cook Jr.
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Martha Vickers
SHORT: Can’t vote for this one, I’m afraid
SCORE: Prokofiev
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Henri Alekan; La Belle et la Bête
Just one bonus this week – Script: The Big Sleep
Picture: It’s A Wonderful Life
Director: Frank Capra
Actor: James Stewart (It’s A Wonderful Life)
Actress: Ingrid Bergman (Notorious)
Supporting actor: Claude Rains (Notorious) (also like John Mills and Oscar Levant)
Supporting actress: Martita Hunt (Great Expectations)
Cinematography: Jack Cardiff (A Matter of Life and Death)
Best Picture: It’s A Wonderful Life
Best Director: Frank Capra (It’s A Wonderful Life )
Best Actor: James Stewart (It’s A Wonderful Life )
Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman (Notorious)
Best Sup. Actor: Claude Rains (Notorious)
Best Sup. Actress: Martita Hunt (Great Expectations)
Best Score: Erich Wolfgang Korngold (Deception)
This was a pretty good year for film noirs. So, though from the above posts its clear that its a no-contest for Best Picture, Best Actor & Best Actress, I’ll still go with my choices.
Best Picture: The Killers
Best Director: John Ford (My Darling Clementine)
Best Actor: Humphrey Bogart (The Big Sleep)
Best Actress: Ava Gardner (The Killers) [Rita Hayworth & Lana Turner just missed out]
Best Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan (My Darling Clementine)
Best Supporting Actress: Ethel Barrymore (The Spiral Staircase)
Best Score: Cyril Mockridge (My Darling Clementine)
Best Cinematography: Joseph P.MacDonald (My Darling Clementine)
Best Screenplay: John Huston & Anthony Veiller (The Killers)
By the way Allan, is it necessary to name one’s choices ONLY from the films/names that have been listed down under the nomination lists? Asking cos the nomination lists might not necessarily be exhaustive – there’s always the possibility that some films/names might be missing from the lists.
Yes, you can vote for whoever Shubha, though if you have ideas beforehand for each years it’s best if you can email me directly so I can get them up on the nomination list before posting. But some prefer the drama of calling me out afterwards…
Best Picture: It’s A Wonderful Life
Best Director: David Lean (Great Expectations)
Best Actor: James Stewart (It’s A Wonderful Life)
Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman (Notorious)
Best Sup. Actor: Claude Rains (Notorious)
Best Sup. Actress: Jean Simmons (Great Expectations)
Best Score: Sergei Prokofiev (Ivan the Terrible Part Two: The Boyars Plot)
Best Cinematography: Guy Green (Great Expectations)