by Allan Fish
and once more onto the breach…
Best Picture Out of the Past, US (6 votes, by 1 over Black Narcissus)
Best Director Jacques Tourneur, Out of the Past (8 votes)
Best Short The Cat Concerto, US, William Hanna, Joseph Barbera (3 votes)
Best Actor John Garfield, Body and Soul (7 votes, by 1 over Robert Mitchum)
Best Actress Deborah Kerr, Black Narcissus (10 votes)
Best Supp Actor Edmund Gwenn, Miracle on 34th Street (6 votes – you soft bunch of fools)
Best Supp Actress Kathleen Byron, Black Narcissus (7 votes)
Best Cinematography Jack Cardiff, Black Narcissus (11 votes)
Best Score Roy Webb, Out of the Past (8 votes)
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and my own choices…
Best Picture OUT OF THE PAST, US
Best Short THE CAT CONCERTO, US, William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
Best Director Jacques Tourneur, Out of the Past
Best Actor Richard Attenborough, Brighton Rock
Best Actress Jane Greer, Out of the Past
Best Supporting Actor Richard Widmark, Kiss of Death
Best Supporting Actress Kathleen Byron, Black Narcissus
Best Cinematography Jack Cardiff, Black Narcissus
Best Musical Score Charles Williams, While I Live
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and on to 1948…
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Best Picture/Director
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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (US…Charles Barton)
Act of Violence (US…Fred Zinnemann)
The Adventures of Don Juan (US…Vincent Sherman)
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad (US…Jack Kinney,Clyde Geronimi, James Algar)
L’Aigle à Deux Têtes (France…Jean Cocteau)
L’Amore (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)
Les Amoureux sont seuls au monde (France…Henri Decoin)
The Angel with the Trumpet (Austria…Karl Hartl)
Another Part of the Forest (US…Michael Gordon)
Der Apfel ist Ab (West Germany…Helmut Kautner)
The Banquet (Sweden…Hasse Ekman)
Berliner Ballade (West Germany…Robert Stemmle)
Bicycle Thieves (Italy…Vittorio de Sica)
Blanche Fury (UK…Marc Allégret)
Body at the Gate (Japan…Masahiro Makino)
Border Street (Poland…Alexander Ford)
The Boy With Green Hair (US…Joseph Losey)
The Bright Day of My Life (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura)
Call Northside 777 (US…Henry Hathaway)
The Charterhouse of Parma (France…Christian-Jaque)
Command Decision (US…Sam Wood)
Cry of the City (US…Robert Siodmak)
Dedée d’Anvers (France…Yves Allégret)
Les Dernières Vacances (France…Roger Leenhardt)
Drunken Angel (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)
Easter Parade (US…Charles Walters)
Escape (UK…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)
The Fallen Idol (UK…Carol Reed)
Force of Evil (US…Abraham Polonsky)
A Foreign Affair (US…Billy Wilder)
Fort Apache (US…John Ford)
Les Frères Bouquinquant (France…Louis Daquin)
Germany, Year Zero (Italy/WestGermany…Roberto Rossellini)
Hamlet (UK…Laurence Olivier)
A Hen in the Wind (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)
Hollow Triumph (US…Steve Sekely)
I Remember Mama (US…George Stevens)
Impasse des Deux Anges (France…Maurice Tourneur)
Inspirace (Czechoslovakia…Karel Zeman)
Johnny Belinda (US…Jean Negulesco)
Key Largo (US…John Huston)
Kristinus Bergman (Denmark…Bjarne Henning-Jansen)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (US…Max Ophuls)
Life in Shadows (Spain…Lorenzo Llobet Gracia)
Louisiana Story (US…Robert J.Flaherty)
Macbeth (US…Orson Welles)
Maclovia (Mexico…Emilio Fernandez)
Michurin (USSR…Alexander P.Dovzhenko)
The Miracle (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House (US…H.C.Potter)
Moonrise (US…Frank Borzage)
Music in Darkness (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)
The Mysterious Cavalier (Italy…Riccardo Freda)
The Naked City (US…Jules Dassin)
Obsession (UK…Edward Dmytryk)
Oliver Twist (UK…David Lean)
The Paleface (US…Norman Z.McLeod)
Les Parents Terribles (France…Jean Cocteau)
The Passionate Friends (UK…David Lean)
The Pirate (US…Vincente Minnelli)
Pitfall (US…André de Toth)
Portrait of Jennie (US…William Dieterle)
Quartet (UK…Ken Annakin, Ralph Smart, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French)
Raw Deal (US…Anthony Mann)
Red River (US…Howard Hawks)
The Red Shoes (UK…Michael Powell)
Road House (US…Jean Negulesco)
Rope (US…Alfred Hitchcock)
Ruthless (US…Edgar G.Ulmer)
The Search (US…Fred Zinnemann)
Sitting Pretty (US…Walter Lang)
The Soil Under Your Feet (Hungary…Frigyes Ban)
Sorrows of the Forbidden City (Hong Kong…Zhu Shilin)
Spring in a Small Town (China…Fei Mu)
State of the Union (US…Frank Capra)
La Terra Trema (Italy…Luchino Visconti)
They Live by Night (US…Nicholas Ray)
The Three Godfathers (US…John Ford)
The Three Musketeers (US…George Sidney)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (US…John Huston)
The Trial (Austria…G.W.Pabst)
Unfaithfully Yours (US…Preston Sturges)
The Winslow Boy (UK…Anthony Asquith)
Without Pity (Italy…Alberto Lattuada)
Woman (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)
The Woman in White (US…Peter Godfrey)
A Woman’s Vengeance (US…Zoltan Korda)
Yellow Sky (US…William A.Wellman)
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Best Short
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Back Alley Oproar (US…Friz Freleng)
The Cat That Hated People (US…Tex Avery)
The Dim Little Island (UK…Humphrey Jennings)
The Foghorn Leghorn (US…Robert McKimmon)
Half-Pint Pygmy (US…Tex Avery)
Haredevil Hare (US…Chuck Jones)
The Little Orphan (US…William Hanna, Joseph Barbera)
Mother’s Day (UK…James Broughton)
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Best Actor
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Lew Ayres Johnny Belinda
Humphrey Bogart Key Largo
Humphrey Bogart The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Charles Boyer A Woman’s Vengeance
James Cagney The Time of Your Life
Montgomery Clift Red River
Joseph Cotten Portrait of Jennie
Robert Donat The Winslow Boy
Barry Fitzgerald The Naked City
Errol Flynn The Adventures of Don Juan
Henry Fonda Fort Apache
John Garfield Force of Evil
Cary Grant Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House
Alec Guinness Oliver Twist
Cedric Hardwicke The Winslow Boy
Rex Harrison Escape
Rex Harrison Unfaithfully Yours
Van Heflin Act of Violence
Paul Henreid Hollow Triumph
William Holden The Dark Past
Lamberto Maggioranni Bicycle Thieves
Jean Marais Les Parents Terribles
Fredric March An Act of Murder
Fredric March Another Part of the Forest
Toshiro Mifune Drunken Angel
Edmund Moeschke Germany Year Zero
Robert Newton Obsession
Dennis O’Keefe Raw Deal
Laurence Olivier Hamlet
Gregory Peck Yellow Sky
Gérard Philipe The Charterhouse of Parma
Dick Powell Pitfall
Ralph Richardson The Fallen Idol
Robert Ryan Act of Violence
Takashi Shimura Drunken Angel
James Stewart Call Northside 777
Shuji Tano A Hen in the Wind
Spencer Tracy State of the Union
Anton Walbrook The Red Shoes
John Wayne Red River
Clifton Webb Sitting Pretty
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Best Actress
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Jean Arthur A Foreign Affair
Yvonne de Bray Les Parents Terribles
Olivia de Havilland The Snake Pit
Carla del Poggio Without Pity
Irene Dunne I Remember Mama
Florence Eldridge Another Part of the Forest
Edwige Feullière The Eagle Has Two Heads
Joan Fontaine Letter from an Unknown Woman
Judy Garland Easter Parade
Joan Greenwood Saraband for Dead Lovers
Jane Greer Station West
Katharine Hepburn State of the Union
Freda Jackson No Room at the Inn
Jennifer Jones Portrait of Jennie
Nine-Christine Jonsson Port of Call
Margaret Leighton The Winslow Boy
Myrna Loy Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House
Ida Lupino Road House
Anna Magnani L’Amore
Anna Neagle Spring in Park Lane
Cathy O’Donnell They Live by Night
Lilli Palmer My Girl Tisa
Lizabeth Scott Pitfall
Moira Shearer The Red Shoes
Simone Signoret Dédée d’Anvers
Barbara Stanwyck Sorry, Wrong Number
Kinuyo Tanaka A Hen in the Wind
Kinuyo Tanaka Women of the Night
Jessica Tandy A Woman’s Vengeance
Claire Trevor Raw Deal
Wei Wei Spring in a Small Town
Jane Wyman Johnny Belinda
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Best Supp Actor
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Felix Aylmer Hamlet
James Barton The Time of Your Life
Charles Bickford Johnny Belinda
Walter Brennan Red River
Phil Brown Obsession
Peter Bull Saraband for Dead Lovers
Raymond Burr Raw Deal
Lee J.Cobb The Dark Past
Howard da Silva They Live by Night
Ted de Corsia The Naked City
Reginald Denny Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House
Melvyn Douglas Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House
Hasse Ekman The Banquet
José Ferrer Joan of Arc
Leo Genn The Snake Pit
Thomas Gomez Force of Evil
Sydney Greenstreet Ruthless
Alan Hale My Girl Tisa
Cedric Hardwicke I Remember Mama
Richard Haydn Sitting Pretty
Stanley Holloway Hamlet
Oscar Homolka I Remember Mama
Walter Huston The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Ireland Raw Deal
John Ireland Red River
Van Johnson State of the Union
Cecil Kellaway The Luck of the Irish
Edgar Kennedy Unfaithfully Yours
Adolphe Menjou State of the Union
Robert Newton Oliver Twist
Edmond O’Brien Another Part of the Forest,
Cecil Parker Quartet
Claude Rains The Passionate Friends
Ralph Richardson Anna Karenina
Edward G.Robinson Key Largo
Zachary Scott Ruthless
Louis Seigner The Charterhouse of Parma
Alastair Sim London Belongs to Me
Enzo Staiola Bicycle Thieves
Henry Stephenson Oliver Twist
Francis L.Sullivan Oliver Twist
Basil Sydney Hamlet
Ralph Truman Oliver Twist
Tom Walls Spring in Park Lane
Naunton Wayne Obsession
Richard Widmark Road House
Richard Widmark Yellow Sky
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Best Supp Actress
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Stella Adler My Girl Tisa
Mary Astor Act of Violence
Ethel Barrymore Portrait of Jennie
Anne Baxter Yellow Sky
Barbara Bel Geddes I Remember Mama
Betsy Blair The Snake Pit
Ann Blyth Another Part of the Forest
Maria Casares The Charterhouse of Parma
Mary Clare Oliver Twist
Ellen Corby I Remember Mama
Danièle Delorme Impasse des Deux Anges
Fabia Drake All Over the Town
Sonia Dresdel The Fallen Idol
Nina Foch The Dark Past
Eva Henning The Banquet
Angela Lansbury State of the Union
Barbara Lawrence Unfaithfully Yours
Giulietta Masina Without Pity
Chieko Nakakita Drunken Angel
Jean Simmons Hamlet
Nora Swinburne Quartet
Claire Trevor Key Largo
Kay Walsh Oliver Twist
Mai Zetterling Quartet
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Best Cinematography
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Philippe Agostini Les Dernières Vacances
G.R.Aldo La Terra Trema
John Alton Raw Deal
Joseph H.August Portrait of Jennie
George Barnes Force of Evil
Jean Bourgoin Dédée d’Anvers
Jack Cardiff The Red Shoes
William H.Daniels The Naked City
Desmond Dickinson Hamlet
Guy Green, Geoffrey Unsworth Blanche Fury
Guy Green Oliver Twist
Guy Green The Passionate Friends
Russell Harlan Red River
Winton C.Hoch The Three Godfathers
Robert Juillard Germany Year Zero
Joseph La Shelle Road House
Charles Lang A Foreign Affair
Richard Leacock Louisiana Story
Ted McCord Johnny Belinda
Ted McCord The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Joseph P.MacDonald Yellow Sky
Victor Milner Unfaithfully Yours
Carlo Montuori Bicycle Thieves
Nicholas Musuraca I Remember Mama
Georges Périnal The Fallen Idol
Robert Planck The Three Musketeers
Franz Planer Letter from an Unknown Woman
Claude Renoir Impasse des Deux Anges
John L.Russell Macbeth
Douglas Slocombe Saraband for Dead Lovers
Göran Strindberg Music in Darkness
Robert L.Surtees Act of Violence
Aldo Tonti Without Pity
Jaroslav Tuzar Border Street
Joseph Valentine, William V.Skall, Winton H.Hoch Joan of Arc
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Best Score
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Daniele Amfitheatrof Letter from an Unknown Woman
Arnold Bax Oliver Twist
Brian Easdale The Red Shoes
Alfred Newman The Snake Pit
David Raksin Force of Evil
Paul Sawtell Raw Deal
Max Steiner The Adventures of Don Juan
Max Steiner Johnny Belinda
Max Steiner The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Herbert Stothart The Three Musketeers
Dimitri Tiomkin Portrait of Jennie
Dimitri Tiomkin Red River
William Walton Hamlet
One of the richest years in movie history, with a plethora of masterpieces, including THE RED SHOES, OLIVER TWIST, LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN, HAMLET, THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, FORCE OF EVIL, BICYCLE THIEVES, THE FALLEN IDOL, THEY LIVE BY NIGHT, HEN IN THE WIND, UNFAITHFULLY YOURS, LES PARENTS TERRIBLES (I really love this film but couldn’t give it a single award), SPRING IN A SMALL TOWN, RED RIVER, ACT OF VIOLENCE and RAW DEAL.
Best Picture: Bicycle Thieves
Best Director: Vittorio DeSica (Bicycle Thieves)
Best Actor: Anton Walbrook (The Red Shoes)
Best Actress: Joan Fontaine (Letter from an Unknown Woman)
Best Supporting Actor: Walter Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
Best Supporting Actress: Jean Simmons (Hamlet)
Best Score: Ralph Vaughn Williams (Scott of the Antartic)
Best Cinematography: Jack Cardiff (The Red Shoes)
Best Short: Foghorn Leghorn
Beyond:
Best Screenplay: Abraham Polonsky (Force of Evil)
Best Editing: Reginald Mills (The Red Shoes)
Best Song: “Steppin Out with my Baby” from “Easter Parade” (Irving Berlin)
note: title song not eligible as was written for earlier stage work.
Best Art Direction: John Bryan (Oliver Twist)
Best Ensemble Acting: Oliver Twist
The lead actor category is one of the strongest of any year in history, what with Rex Harrison for UNFAITHFULLY YOURS, Sir Laurence Olivier for HAMLET, John Garfield for FORCE OF EVIL, Humphrey Bogart for TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE and Sir Ralph Richardson for THE FALLEN IDOL all at the very top rank with Walbrook. It’s practically a crap shoot.
Note: Kevin Deaney uncovered the oversight on the listing board with Ralph Vauhn Williams, and I salute him and concur with him for citing this great masterpiece of film scoring for this year.
Yay for “The Cat Concerto” winning best short in 1947.
I vote “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” for best film in 1948.
I vote John Huston for best director (“The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”) in 1948.
I vote “The Little Orphan” for best short in 1948.
I vote Laurence Olivier for best actor in “Hamlet” in 1948.
I vote Moira Shearer for best actress in “The Red Shoes” in 1948.
I vote Walter Huston for best supporting actor in “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” in 1948.
I vote Jean Simmons for best supporting actress in “Hamlet” in 1948.
I vote “The Red Shoes” for best cinematography in 1948.
I vote “Hamlet” for best score in 1948.
change “Hamlet” for “The Red Shoes” for best score in 1948, for some reason I didn’t see it.
Lots of favorites of mine this year. Archers vs. Film Noir continues, joined in the fray by more Neorealism, a crop of top westerns and John Huston wading in with not one but two haymakers. Others can elaborate on how formidable this lineup is beyond what I cite. Here’s where I stand.
Best Picture: The Red Shoes.
(runners-up: Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Yellow Sky, Bicycle Thieves, Key Largo)
Director: Powell (runner-up: Huston, Sierra Madre)
Actor: Walbrook (Bogart in Sierra Madre is just about an “any other year” winner)
Actress: Shearer.
S. Actor: W. Huston, Sierra Madre. Score one for the Academy — Tim Holt, Alfonso Bedoya and Bruce Bennett are great, too.
S. Actress: Trevor, Key Largo. Score another.
Cinematography: Cardiff, again.
Score: Easdale, again.
Short: Cat That Hated People.
Yep Samuel, YELLOW SKY is another great one from this year!
Feature: Bicycle Thieves
Director: Alfred Hitchcock (Rope)
Actor: Robert Ryan (Act of Violence) – could go to John Garfield too but I gave it to him last year
Actress: Joan Fontane (Letter From an Ynknown Woman)
Supp. Actor: Walter Huston (The Treasure of Sierra Madre)
Supp. Actress: Jean Simmons (Hamlet) – second year in a row (could be third if not for Vickers in The Big Sleep)
Cinematography: Bicycle Thieves
Score: I can’t call any of these to mind, not even The Red Shoes. I’ll revisit some scenes on You Tube and return to vote.
Screenplay: Rope
Editing: Red River
Honorable mention: Oliver Twist
I’ll return for short and for score.
Solid year but, like the previous, not one that excites me a lot. I look forward to ’49.
Actually I kinda overlooked Bogie but I’ve already tipped my hat to him In the past and Ryan is excellent so I’ll stick to the underdog.
Damn, just realized Force of Evil, probably my runner up for the year didn’t get anything. I forgot to even give it honorable mention. Though it’s not an official category, I’ll switch out Rope for Evil in the screenplay category.
Screenplay: Force of Evil
Picture: Bicycle Thieves
Director: Michael Powell, The Red Shoes
Actor: Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
Actress: Olivia de Havilland, The Snake Pit
Sup. Actor: Walter Huston, Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Sup. Actress: Jean Simmons, Hamlet
Cinematography: Jack Cardiff, The Red Shoes
Best Picture: The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
Best Director: John Huston (Treasure)
Best Actor: Humphrey Bogart (Treasure)
Best Actress: Cathy O’ Donnell (They Live By Night)
Best Supp Actor: Walter Huston (Treasure)
Best Supp Actress: Jean Simmons (Hamlet)
Top Five: 1. The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre 2. They Live By Night 3. Bicycle Thieves 4. The Fallen Idol 5. Hamlet
Right to it..
PICTURE: BICYCLE THIEVES
SHORT: THE CAT WHO HATED PEOPLE
DIRECTOR: Carol Reed (THE FALLEN IDOL)-Hard choice with Powell, DeSica and Houston in the running. However, considering the simplicity of THE FALLEN IDOL, the magic of Reeds direction is that he effortlessly makes you believe your seeing it all through a child’s eyes.
LEAD ACTOR: Humphrey Bogart (TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE)-Forget AFRICAN QUEEN, Olivier in HAMLET… The fire is in Bogart with this, his best turn.
LEAD ACTRESS: Joan Fontaine (LETTER TO AN UNKNOWN WOMAN)
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Walter Huston (TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE)-Anybody with half a brain will know that the best performance of the year by anyone came from this category)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jean Simmons (HAMLET)
PHOTO: Jack Cardiff (THE RED SHOES)-If this isn’t your choice you shouldn’t be here at this site.
MUSIC: Brian Easdale (THE RED SHOES)-C’Mon?
Anyone with a full brain, Dennis, will know Huston doesn’t even win supporting actor. And I don’t feel guilty, he had his day in 1941.
Re photography, WRONG, though Cardiff gives the best colour work. same with music, wron choice…AGAIN. Ah well,
To you…
Yes, but saying if this isn’t you choice you shouldn’t be at this site to the person who set up the choices and half of the site is asking for trouble, Dennis. Not so belligerant, eh? Don’t second guess the master.
Master of what, exactly? Hopefully your next regeneration will be a tad less abrasive.
And hopefully yours will have taste.
I’ll make a note to avoid scarves.
I will say that the performance by Bobby Henrey can go from brilliant to inept in the same scene at times. While Reed was certainly able to convey the drama through a child’s eyes, he definitely had his hands full getting a competent performance from his little thespian.
Maurizio, I must say I have to agree with you here lock, stock and barrel on every point.
So no-one’s got the correct supporting actor yet. Hmm…
See, that’s belligerent. And you’re only the master of your own domain. I’m allowed to get a little cocky every once in a while (as so many on here are without ever having their heads handed to them). For the most part I’m the biggest submissive and quietest guy on here.
As for the cinematography choice, I am probably right. As a major in fine art, photography and painting I’ve got alot more clout in this field than most.
As for the music choice… Ummmm, sorry, but THE RED SHOES is largely considered one of the great films of the music form on film…
And, BTW, my comments got EXACTLY the kind of response I was hoping for (you’re the first to take the bait), and hopefully more. I did it to gas up the thread and, hopefully, get a good conversation and debate going…
Oh, well, off to bed now…
I find it interesting that everyone, so far, has named Huston as the BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR. Yet, according to Allan, we are all still wrong.
Now, talk about BELLIGERENT.
I know it’s all in keeping with the fun of the thing, but then I was doing the same. A little heated debate is always good for the soul….
Easdale’s a good choice, but again it plays second fiddle to the same film. Bax’s Oliver twist score is one of the four or five greatest scores to any British film.
Again, very very close, but for me Easdale wins by a hair.
You mean no one’s named your man, but I don’t recall this being the Guess Allan’s Picks contest. That aside, it is a tougher field than the apparent landslide suggests. I don’t consider W. Huston that far ahead of the pack; for the record, Widmark in Yellow Sky is my runner-up for a less showy and far more credible villain turn than in Kiss of Death. My sentimental underdog in this category — such a one that he isn’t even on the “shortlist,” is L. Massine in Red Shoes. He’s as one-of-a-kind as Shearer, and funnier.
For me it’s an extremely close call between Cardiff and OLIVER TWIST’s Guy Green for cinematography, and each (for me) wins color and B & W respectively. But pitted against each other, Cardiff wins in a photo finish. But either one for me would be a terrific choice.
But, still, the head of the class would be Cardiff???
My point EXACTLY, from a purely ORIGINAL point of view Cardiff is the king of thie hill in this year.
Both superb choices, but Green wins.
I believe Allan’s Best Supporting Actor choice is Tomas Gomez for FORCE OF EVIL. Excellent pick for sure, but not my own No. 1.
You believe? I sent you the list of winners last night LOL
Gomez was my number 2 for this year. A great performance that gets slightly (and I mean slightly) hurt by the strained artificial dialogue in some sequences.
That’s poetry Maurizio
. The whole script is a dark operetta, and a defining element…
1948 was a fantastic year in terms of film noirs alone, what with the likes of Act of Violence, The Naked City, The Big Clock, Force of Evil, Raw Deal, Pitfall & Key Largo having released in this year!!! And if one were to go by US release, then The Lady from Shanghai too!
Anyway, here’s how my choices go:
Best Film: Act of Violence
Best Director: Vittorio De Sica (The Bicycle Thief)
Best Actor: Humphrey Bogart (The Treasure of Sierra Madre), John Garfield (Force of Evil), Robert Ryan (Act of Violence) [Three-way tie]
Best Actress: Lizabeth Scott (Pitfall)
Best Supporting Actor: Walter Huston (The Treasure of Sierra Madre)
Best Supporting Actress: Claire Trevor (Key Largo)
Best Cinematography: John Alton (Raw Deal) & William H. Daniels (The Naked City) [Tie]
Best Score: Paul Sawtell (Raw Deal)
Best Screenplay: Jonathan Latimer (The Big Clock)
Top 5:
1. Act of Violence
2. The Big Clock
3. The Naked City
4. Force of Evil
5. The Treasure of Sierra Madre
Just Missed: The Bicycle Thief, Raw Deal, Pitfall, Key Largo
Best Picture: Bicycle Thieves
Best Director: Vittorio DeSica (Bicycle Thieves)
Best Actor: John Garfield (Force of Evil)
Best Actress: Joan Fontaine (Letter from an Unknown Woman)
Best Supporting Actor: Alec Guinness (Oliver Twist)
Almost a tie with Walter Huston.
Best Supporting Actress: Jean Simmons (Hamlet)
Best Cinematography: Guy Green (Oliver Twist)
Best Score: Brian Easdale (The Red Shoes)
Picture – FORT APACHE
Director – Ophuls (LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN)
Actor – Rex Harrison (UNFAITHFULLY YOURS)
Actress – Joan Fontaine (LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN)
Supporting Actor – Raymond Burr (PITFALL)
Supporting Actress – Claire Trevor (KEY LARGO)
Short – IN THE STREET
CAUGHT is ’49, right? I’m assuming it’s just an error that it’s listed here, otherwise it’d change my list slightly.
Yes, it is 1949, Drew. Amended accordingly.
Tough to make some choices here this year with many personal favorites. I have voted for the Archers a lot lately so will go elsewhere for best picture, even though I will still honor it in other categories.
Pic- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Dir- Powell (The Red Shoes)
Actor- Anton Walbrook (Shoes)
Actress- Cathy O’Donnell (They Live By Night)
Supp Actor- Walter Huston (Madre)
Supp. Actress- Jean Simmons (Hamlet)
Score- Steiner (Madre)—-I can hear this score now in my head. So memorable. As far as the Red Shoes goes…I remember the dancing more than the music….even though they are tied together so often. Tough choice though.
Cinematography- Cardiff (Shoes)
Hello old friends…haven’t posted here in a while, but finally finding some time to peruse the usual spots again and thought I’d drop in here since I still have an addiction list-making and choosing favorites.
Best Picture: The Red Shoes
Best Director: Powell & Pressburger (The Red Shoes)
Actor: Humphrey Bogart (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
Actress: Lizabeth Scott (Pitfall)
Supporting Actor: Walter Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
Supporting Actress: Claire Trevor (Key Largo)
Score: Brian Easdale (The Red Shoes)
Cinematography: Jack Cardiff (The Red Shoes)
What an absolute thrill to hear from you again Dave!!! Hope all is going well with you my friend, and I see you have not lost your list-making affinity, one that I completely share. I was actually thinking about you and GODDFELLAS the other day!
I’ll also think of you this coming Thursday when I attend a double feature in the Film Forum’s Universal 100th Anniversary Festival (Siodmak’s CRISS CROSS and THE KILLERS)
Thanks for making me smile today.
First time voting, love the lists. Here’s mine, with two of my all time faves taking the lion’s share:
Best Picture: The Red Shoes
Best Short: The Cat That Hated People
Best Director: Powell (The Red Shoes)
Best Actor: Humphrey Bogart (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
Best Actress: Moira Shearer (The Red Shoes)
Best Supporting Actor: Walter Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
Best Supporting Actress: Jean Simmons (Hamlet)
Best Score: Brian Easdale (The Red Shoes)
Best Cinematography: Jack Cardiff (The Red Shoes)
Great to have your first comment here Dan, and a fantastic ballot to boot!!!
Yes, a great year for noir:
Call Northside 777 (US…Henry Hathaway)
Cry of the City (US…Robert Siodmak)
Drunken Angel (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)
Force of Evil (US…Abraham Polonsky)
Hollow Triumph (US…Steve Sekely)
Key Largo (US…John Huston)
Moonrise (US…Frank Borzage)
The Naked City (US…Jules Dassin)
Obsession (UK…Edward Dmytryk)
Pitfall (US…André de Toth)
Raw Deal (US…Anthony Mann)
Road House (US…Jean Negulesco)
Ruthless (US…Edgar G.Ulmer)
They Live by Night (US…Nicholas Ray)
Without Pity (Italy…Alberto Lattuada)
and a few worthy of inclusion “the master” missed:
The Big Clock (Farrow)
Blood on The Moon (Wise)
The Dark Past (Maté)
He Walked by Night (Werker/Mann)
I Love Trouble (Simon)
The Iron Curtain (Wellman)
I Walk Alone (Haskin)
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (Foster)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (Farrow)
A difficult choice for me as I am torn between film noir and neo-realism, so I am following the example of others and voting some ties:
Best Picture: Bicycle Thieves / Force of Evil
Best Director: Vittoria De Sica (Bicycle Thieves) / Abraham Polonsky (Force of Evil)
Best Actor: John Garfield (Force of Evil)
Best Actress: Joan Fontaine (Letter from an Unknown Woman)
Best Supp Actor: Thomas Gomez (Force of Evil)
Best Supp Actress: Claire Trevor / Marsha Hunt (Raw Deal)
Best Screenplay: Abraham Polonsky (Force of Evil)
Best Cinematogaphy: George Barnes (Force of Evil) / John Alton (Raw Deal)
Best Score: David Raksin (Force of Evil)
Wow Tony!!! Tremendous presentation here!!!
Not missed, T, merely left aside.
Fair enough A. I was stretching the envelope. Say hullo to M
Will do.
And I like the ones you listed, but as noirs they’re like solid second rankers – though it is a long time since I saw I Walk ALone and Night Has a Thousand Eyes, the latter especially I have only partial recollection of.
On reflection, I will back-pedal a bit. The Big Clock is ponderous and tedious yes, but thankfully is saved by an uproarious turn from a supporting actress in a part that occupies less than seven minutes of screen time. British-born character actor Elsa Lanchester – Laughton’s wife and Mrs Frakenstein in the camp classic Bride of Frankenstein (1935) – as a zany bohemian painter, who by chance gets tangentially mixed-up with Milland and proceeds to steal the picture. She keeps turning up and closes the movie with a neat scene of comic irony. I think she merits a best supporting actress nomination. (I note William Holden got a nomination from Allan for The Dark Past, which otherwise doesn’t rate a listing.)
I put together this video montage of Lancaster’s screen time a few years back http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q61dlgZr25Y&feature=player_embedded.
Best Picture: Letter from an Unknown Woman
Best Director: Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
Best Actor: John Garfield, Force of Evil
Best Actress, Joan Fontaine, Letter from an Unknown Woman
Best Supporting Actor: Walter Huston, Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Best Supporting Actress: Jean Simmons, Hamlet
Best Cinematography: Jack Cardiff, The Red Shoes
Best Score: Max Steiner, Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Best Short: Haredevil Hare
A truly remarkable year, as so many voters have said.
Best Pic: Bicycle Thieves
Runners-up: Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, Fort Apache, Hamlet, Letter From an Unknown Woman, Oliver Twist, Red River, Rope, They Live by Night, Sierra Madre, Unfaithfully Yours. And so glad you nominated Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein. As if it wasn’t tough enough, this year also featured, along with Unfaithfully Yrs, two of my ten funniest films ever made. (Verdoux, overwhelmingly a drama, still makes that list, esp. for the boat seq with Ms. Raye.)
(Thieves and Madre are a virtual tie, as are DeSica and Huston)
Best Dir: Huston-Sierra Madre
Best Actors: Bogart-Sierra Madre/DeHavilland-Snake Pit
I could not agree with you more Sam about what a great year this is for male performances. Garfield, Olivier, Harrison–each magnificent. I agree, it’s a crap shoot. And for best female performance, I have Fontaine and her sister in a photo finish. Whatta year!
Best Scr: Huston-Sierra Madre
Best Cin: Another tough choice. John Alton and Joseph LaShelle (Road House) both did brilliant work this year. But the genius of Jack Cardiff edges them out.
Esco, finally someone else voted for de Havilland in “The Snake Pit.” I thought this would be a walk for de Havilland and am frankly surprised at the overwhelming support for Fontaine. I saw “The Snake Pit” a few weeks ago for the first time in many years, and once again de Havilland just blew me away. As good as she is in 1949′s “The Heiress,” this performance tops even it. Fontaine–to me a more limited actress than de Havilland but very good with the right role and direction–IS good, for me the runner-up (along with Oscar winner Jane Wyman in “Johnny Belinda”). De Havilland’s performance is a daring, honest one with tremendous range, one of the outstanding dramatic performances–maybe even the best–by an American actress in the 1940s. For the record, de Havilland won the NY Film Critics award in a unanimous vote on the first ballot, one of only two times this has ever happened.
R.D., I didn’t realize the N.Y. Film Critics went for de Havilland, but not at all surprised. it is a very great performance.
Of the English language noms, it’s a toss up between Fontaine and de Havilland, it’d probably be better to let them fight it out, which at 96 and 95 respectively they probably still could.
Best Picture – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre—
Best Ditector – John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Best Actor – Humphrey Bogart, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Best Actress -Jennifer Jones Portrait of Jennie
Best Supp Actor – Edward G.Robinson Key Largo
Best Supp Actress – Ethel Barrymore Portrait of Jennie
Best Score – Dimitri Tiomkin Portrait of Jennie
My votes:
PICTURE: Fort Apache
DIRECTOR: Rosselini, Germany Year Zero
LEAD ACTOR: Bogart, Sierra Madre
LEAD ACTRESS: Jean Arthur, Foreign Affair
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Walter Huston, Sierra Madre
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: I’m going off ballot for Marlene Dietrich, in Foreign Affair
SHORT: Haredevil Hare
SCORE: Red Shoes
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Cardiff, Red Shoes
This could be the best year yet, or at least of them.
Best Film: The Bicycle Thief
Best Director: DeSica
Best Actor: John Garfield
Best Actress: Moira Shearer
Best Sup. Actor: Walter Huston
Best Sup. Actress: Jean Simmons
Best Score: B. Easdale
Best Cinematography: Carlo Montouri (The Bicycle Thief)
Best Short: Cat Who Hated People
Film: Portrait of Jennie
Director: Abraham Polonsky (Force of Evil)
Actor: John Garfield (Force of Evil)
Actress: Jennifer Jones (Portrait of Jennie)
Supporting Actor: Walter Huston (Sierra Madre)
Supporting Actress: Ethel Barrymore (Portrait of Jennie)
Best Score: Dimitri Tiomkin (Portrait of Jennie)
Best Cinematography: Ted McCord (Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
‘The Red Shoes’ is every balletomane’s favorite film, but what else is there? The equally nutty ‘Black Swan’? The wretched ‘The Turning Point’? Well, ‘Shoes’ is gorgeous to look at, but for me it’s a Huston family kind of year.
Film: ‘The Treasure of the Sierra Madre’
Director: John Huston (‘The Treasure of the Sierra Madre’)
Actor: Humphrey Bogart (‘The Treasure of the Sierra Madre’)
Actress: Jean Arthur (‘A Foreign Affair’ — and also for having the guts to put her mug up there beside Dietrich’s)
S. Actor: Walter Huston (‘The Treasure of the Sierra Madre’, although I believe this is a major performance rather than a supporting one)
S. Actress: Claire Trevor (‘Key Largo’)
Photography: Jack Cardiff (‘The Red Shoes’)
Short: ‘The Foghorn Leghorn’
Mark I adore SIERRA MADRE and hold the iconic Huston family in the highest esteem.
But what about that dear DeSica family?
As far as Walter Huston’s performance it is borderline and can go either way. In this instance I agree with Allan and would go as supporting myself.
Sam, you’re right. And the dear DeSica family has more masterpieces to come (‘Miracle in Milan’, ‘Umberto D’, ‘Two Women’, Vittorio’s performance in ‘Il Generale della Rovere’), but I think Huston peaked as a director with ‘Sierra Madre’, much as I also love ‘The Asphalt Jungle’, ‘Beat the Devil’ and the performance he got from Brando in ‘Reflections in a Golden Eye’. And Huston (‘Chinatown’) was no slouch as an actor either
I was torn as to whether to go with Lizabeth Scott in Pitfall (which I did) or Jean Arthur in A Foreign Affair, which is among my favorite Billy Wilder films. Glad to see a number of others going for Arthur, even if I ultimately decided to go with Scott.
mark, I agree that Huston’s performance in “Sierra Madre” is actually a lead performance and not a supporting one. It’s true that he doesn’t appear until about 15 min. into the picture, but Bogart dies about 15 min. before the end, and in between nearly all their scenes are played together. I’ll bet that if someone timed their respective times on screen with a stopwatch, there would be no significant difference between the two.
I bucked the trend on this issue with Anna Magnani in “Open City” because it was clear she would take supporting actress without my vote. But in the interest of seeing Huston’s work in “Sierra Madre” honored, I’ll go along with the view that this is a supporting performance.
An amazing year for sure, but I have to go with a near sweep for my favorite movies of the decade:
PICTURE: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (followed by The Red Shoes, Bicycle Thieves, Red River, Letter From an Unknown Woman, Yellow Sky, Macbeth, Force of Evil, Germany Year Zero, The Fallen Idol, Raw Deal, They Live By Night, Fort Apache, The Search, Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House, Key Largo, Oliver Twist, Portrait of Jennie, The Snake Pit, The Naked City, Unfaithfully Yours, I Remember Mama)
DIRECTOR: John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (2nd: John Ford, Red River)
ACTOR: Humphrey Bogart, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (2nd: Ralph Richardson, The Fallen Idol)
ACTRESS: Joan Fontaine, Letter from An Unknown Woman (2nd: Olivia De Havilland, The Snake Pit)
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Walter Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (2nd: Oscar Homolka, I Remember Mama)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jean Simmons, Hamlet (2nd: Barbara Bel Geddes, I Remember Mama)
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jack Cardiff, The Red Shoes (2nd (color): Easter Parade)
ORIGINAL SCORE: Brian Easdale, The Red Shoes (2nd: Max Steiner, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
FURTHER:
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Roberto Rosellini and Max Kolpe, Germany Year Zero (2nd: Howard Koch and Stefan Zweig, Letter from an Unknown Woman)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (2nd: Emeric Pressberger, The Red Shoes)
B&W CINEMATOGRAPHY: Joseph August, Portrait of Jennie (2nd: Joseph P. McDonald, Yellow Sky)
B&W ART DIRECTION: The Fallen Idol
COLOR ART DIRECTION: The Red Shoes
B&W COSTUME DESIGN: Letter from an Unknown Woman
COLOR COSTUME DESIGN: The Red Shoes
FILM EDITING: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
SOUND: The Snake Pit
MAKEUP: The Red Shoes
SCORING OF A MUSICAL: Johnny Green, Roger Edens, Easter Parade
ORIGINAL SONG: “Buttons and Bows” from The Paleface
Oh, and BEST SHORT for me is Tex Avery’s The Cat That Hated People
D’you know the cause of all the trouble in the world today? It’s people!
Love it.
Picture: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Actor: Humphrey Bogart -The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Actress: Joan Fontaine, Letter from an Unknown Woman
Supporting Actor: Walter Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Supporting Actress: Barbara Bel Geddes, I Remember Mama (my vote for the most underrated George Stevens film, and probably my runner-up for Best Picture. Really. Every time I’ve seen it, after about 10 minutes, I feel like I’m watching a real family and not a movie. I’ve always found it a genuinely moving film, beautifully acted by all.)
Cinematography: Jack Cardiff, The Red Shoes.
Score: This one was left off the list, so a write-in vote for Ralph Vaughn Williams for Scott of the Antarctic, one of the finest scores ever written. Very, very tough competition this year in this category.
Kevin–
You have called the year’s best score exactly right as far as I am concerned!! I adore Williams, own many of his CDs, and cherish the very score you name here, but I did not think to go off the list, somehow thinking it would place a year or two later. It is indeed one of the greatest scores ever written in the history of the cinema, and I applaud you for making this exception! Williams’ ‘Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis’, ‘Fantasia on Greensleeves,’ the Sinfonia Antartica’ (from which the score for SCOTT was taken) and of course the great compositional masterpiece A LARK DESCENDING are among my absolute favorites.
I will promptly change my vote now, and credit you for the revision. Easdale, though, does come within a hair.
No director choice, Kevin?
Best Picture: Bicycle Thief
Best Director: Abraham Polonsky (Force of Evil)
Best Actor: John Garfield (Force of Evil)
Best Actress: Olivia de Havilland (The Snake Pit)
Best Sup. Actor: Thomas Gomez (Force of Evil)
Best Sup. Actress: Claire Trevor (Key Largo)
Best Score: Brian Easdale (The Red Shoes)
Best Cinematography: Carlo Montuori (Bicycle Thief)
There’s not going to be a single year where I’ve seen all of the films but…
Best Picture : Germany, Year Zero
Best Actor : Lamberto Maggiorani (Bicycle Thieves)
Best Actress : Moira Shearer (The Red Shoes)
I really like Portrait of Jennie and Letter from an Unknown Woman too.
Picture: Red River (I found it almost impossible to choose between this and Treasure of the Sierra Madre – and also really like Yellow Sky, Force of Evil, Bicycle Thieves and Easter Parade)
Director: Howard Hawks
Actor: Humphrey Bogart (Treasure of the Sierra Madre) (I also like Olivier and John Wayne)
Actress: Judy Garland (Easter Parade)
Supporting actor: Walter Huston (Treasure of the Sierra Madre) (pleased to see a nomination for Enzo Staiola in Bicycle Thieves – must be one of the best child performances ever)
Supporting actress: Claire Trevor (Key Largo) (also like Anne Baxter in Yellow Sky, and Ann Miller in Easter Parade though she wasn’t nominated)
Cinematography: Carlo Montuori (Bicycle Thieves)