The movie awards’ season is in full flower with such films as Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog”; Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story”; Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast,” Guillermo Del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” and Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” among the favorites for top prizes. But one thing we know for certain is that there is no sure thing when it comes to the Oscars. Consider the case of seventy years ago. Not only were there surprises among the nominees, but there were also some shocks when it came to the winners of the 1952 Oscars.
Let’s revisit the 24th Academy Awards, which took place March 20, 1952 at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood and were hosted by Danny Kaye. This was the last time the ceremony was presented on radio. The show moved to television the following year. Among the presenters that evening were Lucille Ball,...
Let’s revisit the 24th Academy Awards, which took place March 20, 1952 at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood and were hosted by Danny Kaye. This was the last time the ceremony was presented on radio. The show moved to television the following year. Among the presenters that evening were Lucille Ball,...
- 12/6/2021
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Los Angeles is uncommonly windy at the moment. Dorothy Gale windy even. Nature Attacks!
But nevertheless I'm off to the airport to fly home to NYC after quite a fun busy week of Oscar buzz and AFI festivities. We'll catch up on anything we missed (surely a lot) in the next couple of days. In the meantime please to enjoy tweets that amused us most this week.
Beginning with this hilarity from Ryan Adams and moving on to Golden Globe categorization thoughts, Charlotte Rampling praise, Bradley Cooper schadenfreude and more after the jump...
1951. Therese breaks the news to Carol: Decision Before Dawn got a Bp nomination but Strangers on a Train didn't. pic.twitter.com/TAaZuBiaSC
— Ryan Adams (@filmystic) November 13, 2015...
But nevertheless I'm off to the airport to fly home to NYC after quite a fun busy week of Oscar buzz and AFI festivities. We'll catch up on anything we missed (surely a lot) in the next couple of days. In the meantime please to enjoy tweets that amused us most this week.
Beginning with this hilarity from Ryan Adams and moving on to Golden Globe categorization thoughts, Charlotte Rampling praise, Bradley Cooper schadenfreude and more after the jump...
1951. Therese breaks the news to Carol: Decision Before Dawn got a Bp nomination but Strangers on a Train didn't. pic.twitter.com/TAaZuBiaSC
— Ryan Adams (@filmystic) November 13, 2015...
- 11/16/2015
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Jeanne Crain, A Letter to Three Wives DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards Pt.2: Foreign, Small, Controversial Movies Have Better Luck at the Oscars Since pre-1970 Directors Guild Award finalists often consisted of more than five directors, it was impossible to get an exact match for the DGA's and the Academy's lists of nominees. In the list below, the years before 1970 include DGA finalists (DGA) who didn't receive an Academy Award nod and, if applicable, those Academy Award-nominated directors (AMPAS) not found in the — usually much lengthier — DGA list. The label "DGA/AMPAS" means the directors in question received nominations for both the DGA Award and the Academy Award. The DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards list below goes from 1948 (the DGA Awards' first year) to 1952. Follow-up posts will cover the ensuing decades. The number in parentheses next to "DGA" indicates that year's number of DGA finalists if other than five.
- 1/10/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Filmed in postwar Germany in much the same way as a number of Italian Neorealist efforts, Michael Anatole Litvak's Decision Before Dawn (1951) concerns the moral grey area of treason and treachery in regards to two German soldiers who are hired by American forces to spy on their motherland during the Second World War’s closing months.
The cast as a whole are impressive, but Oskar Werner stands out as Happy, an idealistic recruit who works for the Americans after seeing his friend killed for doubting Germany’s superiority. The humanity with which he is portrayed is a breath of fresh air considering much more recent WWII films, which still find it hard to see the entirety of the German army as anything other than faceless murderers or the foot soldiers of ‘evil’. Take for example Saving Private Ryan (1998), a depressingly reductionist piece of American-obsessed propaganda in which German’s are either cheats,...
The cast as a whole are impressive, but Oskar Werner stands out as Happy, an idealistic recruit who works for the Americans after seeing his friend killed for doubting Germany’s superiority. The humanity with which he is portrayed is a breath of fresh air considering much more recent WWII films, which still find it hard to see the entirety of the German army as anything other than faceless murderers or the foot soldiers of ‘evil’. Take for example Saving Private Ryan (1998), a depressingly reductionist piece of American-obsessed propaganda in which German’s are either cheats,...
- 2/1/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
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