Motion picture production encyclopedia (1952)
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AWARDS-NOMINATIONS
"An American in Paris," MCM; Johnny Green, Saul Cliaplin.
"The Great Caruso," MGM; Peter Herman Adier, Johnny Green.
"On the Riviera," 20th-Fox; Alfred Newman.
"Show Boat," MGM; Adolph Deutsch, Conrad Salinger.
Best Score, Dramatic or Comedy:
"David and Bathsheba," 20th-Fox; Alfred Newman. "Death of a Salesman," Kramer-Columbia; Alex
North. "A Place in the Sun," Paramount; Franz Waxman. "Quo Vadis," MGM; Miklos Rozsa. "A Streetcar Named Desire," Feldman-Warners; Alex
North.
Best Original Song:
"In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" from "Here
Comes the Groom," Paramount. Music by Hoagy
Carmichael. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer. "A Kiss to Build a Dream On" from "The Strip,"
MGM. Lyrics and music by Bert Kalmar, Harry
Ruby and Oscar Hammerstein 1 1 . "Never" from "Golden Girl," 20th-Fox. Music by
Lionel Newman. Lyrics by Eliot Daniel. "Too Late Now" from Royal Wedding," MGM.
Music by Burton Lane. Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. "Wonder Why" from "Rich, Young and Pretty,"
MGM. Music by Nicholas Brodzsky. Lyrics by
Sammy Cahn.
Best Cartoon:
"Lambert, the Sheepish Lion," Disney-RKO; Walt Disney, producer.
"Rooty Toot Toot," United Productions of AmericaColumbia; Stephen Bosustow, executive producer.
"Two Mouseketeers," MGM; Fred Quimby, producer.
Best One-Reeler:
"Ridin' the Rails," Paramount; Jack Eaton, producer.
"The Story of Time," Signal Films, by Robert G. Leffingwell, Cornell Film Co. (British).
"World of Kids," Warners; Robert Youngson, producer.
Best Two-Reeler:
"Balzac," Les Film Du Compass, A. F. Films Inc.
( French) . "Danger Under the Sea," Universal-International;
Tom Mead, producer. "Nature's Half Acre," Disney-RKO; Walt Disney,
producer.
Best Sound Recording:
"Bright Victory," Universal-International; Leslie I. Carey, sound director.
"The Great Caruso," MGM; Douglas Shearer, sound director.
"I Want You," Samuel Goldwyn-RKO; Gordon Sawyer, sound director.
"A Streetcar Named Desire," Feldman-Warners; Col. Nathan Levinson, sound director.
"Two Tickets to Broadway," RKO; John O. Aalberg, sound director.
Best Motion Picture Story:
"Bullfighter and the Lady," Republic; Budd Boetti
cher, Ray Nazarro. "The Frogmen," 20th-Fox; Oscar Millard. "Here Comes the Groom," Paramount; Robert Riskin,
Liam O'Brien. "Seven Days to Noon," Boulting Bros., Mayer
Kingsley-Distinguished Films (British) ; by Paul
Dehn, James Bernard. "Teresa," MCM; Alfred Hayes, Stewart Stern.
Best Screenplay:
"The African Queen," Horizon-United Artists; James Agee, John Huston.
"Detective Story," Paramount; Philip Yordan, Robert Wyler.
"La Ronde," Sacha Gordine Production, Commercial Pictures (French); Jacques Natanson.
"A Place in the Sun," Paramount; Michael Wilson, Harry Brown.
"A Streetcar Named Desire," Feldman-Warners; Tennessee Williams.
Best Story and Screenplay:
"An American in Paris," MGM; Alan Jay Lerner. "The Big Carnival," Paramount; Billy Wilder, Lesser
Samuels, Walter Newman. "David and Bathsheba," 20th-Fox; Philip Dunne. "Go For Broke!," MGM; Robert Pirosh. "The Well," Harry M. Popkin-UA; Clarence Greene,
Russell Rouse.
1950 TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL AWARDS
Best Picture:
"ALL ABOUT EVE," 20th-Fox.
Actor:
JOSE FERRER in "Cyrano de Bergerac," Stanley Kramer-UA.
Actress:
JUDY HOLLIDAY in "Born Yesterday," Columbia.
Supporting Actor:
GEORGE SANDERS in "All About Eve," 20th-Fox.
Supporting Actress:
JOSEPHINE HULL in "Harvey," Ul.
Direction:
JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ, "All About Eve," 20th-Fox.
Writing (original motion picture story) :
EDNA and EDWARD ANHALT, "Panic In the Streets," 20th-Fox.
Writing (screenplay) :
JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ, "All About Eve," 20th-Fox.
Writing (story and screenplay) :
CHARLES BRACKETT, BILLY WILDER and D. M. MARSHMAN, Jr., "Sunset Boulevard," Paramount.
Cinematography (black-and-white) :
ROBERT KRASKER, "The Third Man," Selznick Enterprise-London Films-SRO.
Cinematography (color) :
ROBERT SURTEES, "King Solomon's Mines,"
MGM.
Art Direction (black-and-white):
HANS DREIER, JOHN MEEHAN, "Sunset Boulevard," Paramount. Set Decoration: Sam Comer and Ray Moyer.
Art Direction (color):
HANS DREIER and WALTER TYLER, "Samson and Delilah," Cecil B. DeMille-Paramount. Set Decoration: Sam Comer and Ray Moyer.
Film Editing:
RALPH E. WINTERS and CONRAD A. NERVIG, "King Solomon's Mines," MGM.
Sound Recording:
W. D. FLICK and ROGER HEMAN, "All About Eve," 20th-Fox.
Special Effects:
LEE ZAVITZ, "Destination Moon," George PalELC.
Music (scoring musical picture) :
ADOLPH DEUTSCH and ROGER HEMAN, "Annie Get Your Gun," MGM.
Music (scoring dramatic or comedy picture) :
FRANZ WAXMAN, "Sunset Boulevard," Paramount.