Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia (1950)
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PRODUCTION ENCYCLOPEDIA
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ACADEMY AWARDS
1949
TWENTY SECOND ANNUAL AWARDS
Best Picture:
"ALL THE KING'S MEN," Robert RossenColumbia.
Actor:
BRODERICK CRAWFORD in "All the King's Men," Rossen-Columbia.
Actor (supporting role) :
DEAN JACCER in "Twelve O'Clock High," 20thFox.
Actress:
OLIVIA de HAVILLAND in "The Heiress," Paramount.
Actress (supporting role I:
MERCEDES McCAMBR I DCE Men," Rossen-Columbia.
Direction :
JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ, "A Letter to Three Wives," 20th-Fox.
Writing (screenplay):
)OSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ. "A Letter to Three Wives," 20th-Fox.
Writing (story and screenplay) :
ROBERT PIROSH, "Battleground," MCM.
Writing (motion picture story):
DOUGLAS MORROW, "The Stratton Story," MCM.
Art Direction I black-and-white ) :
JOHN MEEHAN and HARRY HORNER, "The Heiress," Paramount.
Art Direction (color):
CEDRIC GIBBONS and PAUL CROESSE, "Little Women," MCM.
Set Decoration (black-and-white):
EMILE KURI. "The Heiress," Paramount.
Set Decoration (color):
EDWIN B. WILLIS and |ACK D. MOORE, "Little Women," MGM.
Cinematography (black-and-white) :
PAUL C. VOCEL, "Battleground," MCM.
Cinematography I color I :
WINTON HOCH, "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," Argosy-RKO.
Sound Recording:
THOMAS MOULTON, W. D. FLICK and ROGER HEMAN, "Twelve O'Clock High," 20th-Fox.
Film Editing:
HARRY GERSTAD, "The Champion," Screen Plays Corp.-UA.
Music (scoring musical picture):
ROCER EDENS and LENNIE HAYTON, "On the Town," MCM.
Music 'scoring dramatic or comedy picture) :
AARON COPLAND. "The Heiress," Paramount. Music (original song):
"BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE." from "Neptune's Daughter," MGM. Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser.
Special Ettects:
HAROLD STINE and WILLIS O'BRIEN for "Mighty Joe Young," ARKO Prod.-RKO.
Costume Design (black-and-white):
EDITH HEAD. GILE STEELE. "The Heiress," Paramount.
Costume Design Icolor) :
LEAH RHODES, TRAVILLA and MARJORIE BEST, "Adventures of Don Juan," Warner Bros.
Short Subjects I cartoon):
"FOR SCENT1 MENTAL REASONS," Warner Bros. Edward Selzer. Producer.
Short Subjects lone-reel):
"AQUATIC HOUSE-PARTY." Paramount. Jack Eaton, Producer.
Short Subjects (two-reel):
"VAN GOGH," Canton-Weiner Dist. Gaston Diehl and Robert Haessens, Producers.
Documentary:
Feature:
"DAYBREAK IN UDI." British Information Services, Crown Film Unit.
Shorts:
"A CHANCE TO LIVE." March of Time-20thFox. Richard de Rochemont. Producer.
"SO MUCH FOR SO LITTLE," Warner Bros. Edward Selzer, Producer.
Scientific or Technical:
Class I:
EASTMAN-KODAK CO. for the development and introduction of an improved Safety Base Motion Picture Film. Class II: omitted.
Class III:
LOREN L. RYDER. BRUCE H. DENNEY. ROBERT CARR and the PARAMOUNT SOUND DEPARTMENT, for the development and application of the Supersonic Playback and Public Address System.
M. B. PAUL, for the first successful large-area Seamless Translucent Backgrounds.
HERBERT E. BRITT. for the development and application of formulas and equipment producing artificial snow and ice for dressing motion picture sets.
ANDRE COUTANT and JACQUES MATHOT, for the design of the Eclair Camerette.
CHARLES R. DAILY, STEVE CSILLAG and the PARAMOUNT ENGINEERING, EDITORIAL and MUSIC DEPARTMENTS, for a new precision method of computing variable tempo click tracks.
INTERNATIONAL PROJECTOR CORP. for a simplified and self-adjusting take-up device for projection machines.
ALEXANDER VELCOFF, for the application to production of the Infrared Photographic Evaluator.
Irving C. Thalberg Memorial Award:
Not given this year.
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