30th Academy Awards
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- DirectorDavid LeanStarsWilliam HoldenAlec GuinnessJack HawkinsBritish POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.Winner - Best Motion Picture
Winner - Best Director for David Lean
Winner - Best Actor for Alec Guinness
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Sessue Hayakawa
Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman and Pierre Boulle
Winner - Best Original Score for Malcolm Arnold
Winner - Best Cinematography for Jack Hildyard
Winner - Best Film Editing for Peter Taylor - DirectorJoshua LoganStarsMarlon BrandoRicardo MontalbanPatricia OwensA US Air Force major in Kobe confronts his own opposition to marriages between American servicemen and Japanese women when he falls for a beautiful performer.Nominated - Best Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Joshua Logan
Nominated - Best Actor for Marlon Brando
Winner - Best Supporting Actor for Red Buttons
Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Miyoshi Umeki
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Paul Osborn
Winner - Best Sound Recording for George Groves
Winner - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Ellsworth Fredericks
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Arthur P. Schmidt and Philip W. Anderson - DirectorMark RobsonStarsLana TurnerLee PhilipsLloyd NolanA peaceful New England town hides secrets and scandals.Nominated - Best Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Mark Robson
Nominated - Best Actress for Lana Turner
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Arthur Kennedy
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Russ Tamblyn
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Hope Lange
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Diane Varsi
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for John Michael Hayes
Nominated - Best Cinematography for William C. Mellor - DirectorBilly WilderStarsTyrone PowerMarlene DietrichCharles LaughtonA veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.Nominated - Best Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Billy Wilder
Nominated - Best Actor for Charles Laughton
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Elsa Lanchester
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Gordon E. Sawyer
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Daniel Mandell - DirectorSidney LumetStarsHenry FondaLee J. CobbMartin BalsamThe jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.Nominated - Best Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Sidney Lumet
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Reginald Rose - DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsEva Marie SaintDon MurrayAnthony FranciosaA Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.Nominated - Best Actor for Anthony Franciosa
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsAnthony QuinnAnna MagnaniAnthony FranciosaAn immigrant Nevada rancher brings a woman from Italy to be his second wife, but when he neglects her she becomes involved with his trusted assistant.Nominated - Best Actor for Anthony Quinn
Nominated - Best Actress for Anna Magnani
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Wild Is the Wind" - DirectorNunnally JohnsonStarsJoanne WoodwardDavid WayneLee J. CobbA doctor treats a woman suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder.Winner - Best Actress for Joanne Woodward
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsRobert MitchumDeborah KerrDuring World War II, an American marine and an Irish nun form an unlikely friendship after being stranded on a South Pacific island. They find comfort in one another while hoping for a rescue, as they try to avoid capture by the Japanese.Nominated - Best Actress for Deborah Kerr
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for John Lee Mahin and John Huston - DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsMontgomery CliftElizabeth TaylorEva Marie SaintA student falls in love with a Southern belle, but their relationship is complicated by her troubled past and the onset of the Civil War.Nominated - Best Actress for Elizabeth Taylor
Nominated - Best Original Song for Johnny Green
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Walter Plunkett
Nominated - Best Art Direction - DirectorCharles VidorJohn HustonStarsRock HudsonJennifer JonesVittorio De SicaAn English nurse and an American ambulance driver on the Italian front during World War 1 fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them challenge their romance to the limit.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Vittorio De Sica
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsDon MurrayE.G. MarshallNancy MarchandFive office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts to tell, they become more confidential in expressing their concerns and hopes.Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Carolyn Jones
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsGregory PeckLauren BacallDolores GrayA sportswriter and a fashion-designer marry after a whirlwind romance, and discover they have little in common.Winner - Best Original Screenplay for George Wells
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsAlberto SordiFranco FabriziFranco InterlenghiA character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano
- DirectorStanley DonenStarsAudrey HepburnFred AstaireKay ThompsonAn impromptu fashion shoot at a book store brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Leonard Gershe
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Edith Head and Hubert de Givenchy
Nominated - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Ray June - DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsJames CagneyDorothy MaloneJane GreerThe life and career of vaudevillian and silent-screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Ralph Wheelwright, R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsHenry FondaAnthony PerkinsBetsy PalmerA cynical former sheriff turned bounty hunter helps a young, recently appointed acting sheriff with his advice, his experience and his gun.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Barney Slater, Joel Kane and Dudley Nichols
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsGiulietta MasinaFrançois PérierFranca MarziA waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.Winner - Best Foreign Language Film (Italy)
- DirectorMehboob KhanStarsNargisSunil DuttRajendra Kumar TuliIn this melodrama, a poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, she always sticks to her own moral code.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (India)
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsClaus HolmMario AdorfHannes MessemerA serial killer strikes again during World War II in Germany. The wrong man is arrested and a detective hunts down the real killer, but justice in Nazi Germany is not so easily administered.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Germany)
- DirectorArne SkouenStarsJack FjeldstadHenny MoanAlf MallandDuring World War II, nine members of the Norwegian Resistance are trapped by the Germans in a deadly ambush. Only one escapes, and a fierce hunt through the ice desert has begun.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Norway)
- DirectorRené ClairStarsPierre BrasseurGeorges BrassensHenri VidalAn old bum becomes infatuated with a pretty young girl who gets entangled with a young gangster.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (France)
- DirectorJerome HillStarsBurgess MeredithFredric MarchAlbert SchweitzerThis biographical drama/documentary narrative written by Dr. Albert Schweitzer and spoken by Fredric March, traces the life of Dr. Schweitzer (with actors playing the characters), from his birth in France up to about the age of 30 when he makes the decision to go to French Equatorial Africa and build his jungle hospital. The latter half of the film encompasses a full day in the hospital-village following the 80s-plus Samaritan in his daily rounds.Winner - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorLionel RogosinStarsRay SalyerGorman HendricksFrank MatthewsBy focusing on the lives of three down-and-out alcoholic transients, the film creates a wrenching portrait of the tragic hopelessness of life on "The Bowery" in New York City.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorCarlos VeloStarsLuis ProcunaConsuelo ProcunaÁngel ProcunaThe life of the famed Mexican bullfighter Luis Procuna, from his boyhood through his training and the triumphs that followed as Procuna rose to the peak of his profession.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorLarry LansburghStarsRex AllenMarvin GlennWarner GlennPaco, a hound of exceptional heritage, is easily distracted by other animals while on the hunt.Winner - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorClaude JutraNorman McLarenStarsClaude JutraAn ordinary-looking chair refuses to be sat upon.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorWolf KoenigColin LowStarsPierre BertonAuthor Pierre Berton tells the history of his hometown of Dawson City at its heyday during the Klondike Gold Rush.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorDerek WilliamsStarsDerek WilliamsAn absorbing record of the advance preparations for the historic first crossing of the Antarctic Continent by Dr. Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- This program looks at the people, history, culture and geography of: Portugal.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancWhen Sylvester learns of the possibly dire consequences of his passion for birds, he joins Birds Anonymous to quit. Unfortunately, the outside world taxes his resolve to the limit.Winner - Best Animated Short
- DirectorMichael LahStarsBill ThompsonSir Droopalot and Sir Butchalot (Droopy and Butch) vie with each other to kill a dragon that is terrorizing their kingdom. Whoever vanquishes the dragon will marry the king's daughter.Nominated - Best Animated Short
- DirectorRobert McKimsonStarsMel BlancDaws ButlerTom HollandSpeedy Gonzales, the fastest mouse in all Mexico, runs to the rescue of his two drunken rodent friends, Pablo and Fernando, who keep wandering into the hungry clutches of an alley cat.Nominated - Best Animated Short
- DirectorFred CrippenLew Keller"Trees and Jamaica Daddy" was the first of a UPA series (short-lived) that featured two different subjects (plot, characters) running about 3.5 minutes each, on a seven-minute reel. The first one here was titled "Trees," featuring a little girl named Hattie giving her version of the birds, the bees and trees. The second one on the reel was called "Jamaica Daddy," about the animated Hamilton Ham and his band, who tell all about, in music and the usual UPA animation style, Jamaica Daddy, and his family tree in calypso fashion. "Ham-and-Hattie" were not a team, and did not appear together in this cartoon.Nominated - Best Animated Short
- DirectorBill JusticeWolfgang ReithermanClyde GeronimiStarsPage Cavanaugh TrioKevin CorcoranJohn DehnerThe true story behind various nursery rhymes is explored.Nominated - Best Animated Short
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCary GrantDeborah KerrRichard DenningA couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?Nominated - Best Original Score for Hugo Friedhofer
Nominated - Best Original Song for "An Affair to Remember"
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Charles LeMaire
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Milton Krasner - DirectorJean NegulescoStarsAlan LaddClifton WebbSophia LorenA woman who finds a treasure is torn between two men: one who wants to sell it, and one who wants to donate it to Greece.Nominated - Best Original Score for Hugo Friedhofer
- DirectorPaul KenworthyRalph WrightStarsWinston HiblerTrue-Life nature photography is used to tell the tale of a female tree squirrel named Perri who encounters many different forest creatures, both friendly and dangerous, as she grows up through the four seasons and finds a mate named Porro.Nominated - Best Original Score for Paul J. Smith
- DirectorCharles VidorStarsFrank SinatraMitzi GaynorJeanne CrainFrank Sinatra plays Joe E. Lewis, a famous comedian of the 1930s-50s. When the movie opens, Lewis is a young, talented singer who performs in speakeasies. When he bolts one job for another, the mob boss who owns the first speakeasy has his thugs try to kill Lewis. Lewis survives, but his vocal cords are cut and he cannot sing. Several years later, his buddy tracks him down and tries to help him with little success. That attempt, though, leads to Lewis meeting Letty Page (Jeanne Crain). They fall in love and she inspires him to follow up on an offer to become a comedian (a result of his buddy's failed attempt to rejuvenate his singing career). Lewis has problems, though. The assault that nearly cost him his life also helped turn him into an alcoholic and an inveterate gambler. These two character defects become the basis for his act and help to make him a smash success. Unfortunately, they also work to wreak havoc in his personal life.Winner - Best Original Song for "All the Way"
- DirectorHenry LevinStarsPat BooneShirley JonesDolores MichaelsA young man visiting his relatives' farm in Kentucky falls in love with their neighbor.Nominated - Best Original Song for "April Love"
- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsDebbie ReynoldsWalter BrennanLeslie NielsenAn unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman.Nominated - Best Original Song for "Tammy"
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsBurt LancasterKirk DouglasRhonda FlemingLawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.Nominated - Best Sound Recording for George Dutton
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Warren Low - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsGene KellyMitzi GaynorKay KendallThe former members of a dance troupe are suing because of recently published memoirs. Each one insists on own point of view.Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Wesley C. Miller
Winner - Best Costume Design for Orry-Kelly
Nominated - Best Sound Recording - DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsRita HayworthFrank SinatraKim NovakJoey Evans is a charming, handsome, funny, talented 1st class, A-Number 1 heel. When Joey meets the former chorus girl and now rich widow Vera Simpson, the pair of lecherous souls seem made for each other.Nominated - Best Sound Recording for John P. Livadary
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Jean Louis
Nominated - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Viola Lawrence and Jerome Thoms - DirectorDick PowellStarsRobert MitchumCurd JürgensDavid HedisonDuring WWII an American destroyer discovers a German U-boat, and in the ensuing duel the American captain must draw upon all his experience to defeat the equally experienced German commander.Winner - Best Visual Effects for Walter Rossi
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsJames StewartMurray HamiltonPatricia SmithCharles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.Nominated - Best Visual Effects for Louis Lichtenfield