1948 OSCAR
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- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsRonald ColmanEdmond O'BrienSigne HassoA celebrated actor struggles to distinguish his own life from that of his most recent stage role, Othello.■Winner
Best Actor in a Leading Role:Ronald Colman
Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture:Miklós Rózsa
■Nominee
Best Director:George Cukor
Best Writing, Original Screenplay:Ruth Gordon,Garson Kanin
This movie is not rented in Japan. - DirectorElia KazanStarsGregory PeckDorothy McGuireJohn GarfieldA reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.■Winner
Best Picture
Best Actress in a Supporting Role:Celeste Holm
Best Director:Elia Kazan
■Nominee
Best Actor in a Leading Role:Gregory Peck
Best Actress in a Leading Role:Dorothy McGuire
Best Actress in a Supporting Role:Anne Revere
Best Writing, Screenplay:Moss Hart
Best Film Editing:Harmon Jones - DirectorRobert RossenStarsJohn GarfieldLilli PalmerHazel BrooksA talented boxer's young career hits difficult terrain when an unethical promoter takes interest in him.■Winner
Best Film Editing:Francis D. Lyon,Robert Parrish
■Nominee
Best Actor in a Leading Role:John Garfield
Best Writing, Original Screenplay:Abraham Polonsky
This movie is not rented in Japan. - DirectorDudley NicholsStarsRosalind RussellMichael RedgraveRaymond MasseyEugene O'Neill's updated version of the Oresteia set in New England, after the American Civil War.■Nominee
Best Actor in a Leading Role:Michael Redgrave
Best Actress in a Leading Role:Rosalind Russell
This movie is not rented in Japan. - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsWilliam PowellIrene DunneElizabeth TaylorA straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
■Nominee
Best Actor in a Leading Role:William Powell
Best Cinematography, Color:J. Peverell Marley、William V. Skall
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color:Robert M. Haas、George James Hopkins
Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture:Max Steiner
This movie is not rented in Japan. - DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsEdmund GwennMaureen O'HaraJohn PayneAfter a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistaken.■Winner
Best Actor in a Supporting Role:Edmund Gwenn
Best Writing, Original Story:Valentine Davies
Best Writing, Screenplay:George Seaton
■Nominee
Best Picture:Twentieth Century Fox - DirectorH.C. PotterStarsLoretta YoungJoseph CottenEthel BarrymoreAfter leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.■Winner
Best Actress in a Leading Role:Loretta Young
■Nominee
Best Actor in a Supporting Role:Charles Bickford - DirectorHenry HathawayStarsVictor MatureBrian DonlevyColeen GrayA crook arrested for a jewelry heist initially refuses to give up his accomplices, but he changes his mind once his wife dies under worrying circumstances.■Nominee
Best Actor in a Supporting Role:Richard Widmark
Best Writing, Original Story:Eleazar Lipsky - DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsRobert YoungRobert MitchumRobert RyanA man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why?■Nominee
Best Picture
Best Actor in a Supporting Role:Robert Ryan
Best Actress in a Supporting Role:Gloria Grahame
Best Director:Edward Dmytryk
Best Writing, Screenplay:John Paxton - DirectorRobert MontgomeryStarsRobert MontgomeryThomas GomezWanda HendrixWW2 veteran Lucky Gagin arrives in a New Mexico border-town intent on revenging against mobster Frank Hugo but FBI agent Bill Retz, who also wants Hugo, tries to keep Gagin out of trouble.■Nominee
Best Actor in a Supporting Role:Thomas Gomez
This movie is not rented in Japan. - DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsJoan CrawfordVan HeflinRaymond MasseyAfter being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.■Nominee
Best Actress in a Leading Role:Joan Crawford
This movie is not rented in Japan. - DirectorStuart HeislerStarsSusan HaywardLee BowmanMarsha HuntA successful nightclub singer weds a struggling songwriter, but when his fame eclipses hers, she delves into alcoholism.■Nominee
Best Actress in a Leading Role:Susan Hayward
Best Writing, Original Story:Dorothy Parker,Frank Cavett
This movie is not rented in Japan. - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsGregory PeckAnn ToddCharles LaughtonA happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.■Nominee
Best Actress in a Supporting Role:Ethel Barrymore - DirectorChester ErskineStarsClaudette ColbertFred MacMurrayMarjorie MainOn their wedding night, Bob reveals to Betty that he has purchased an abandoned chicken farm. Betty struggles to adapt to their new rural lifestyle, especially when a glamorous neighbor seems to set her eyes on Bob.■Nominee
Best Actress in a Supporting Role:Marjorie Main
This movie is not rented in Japan. - DirectorDavid LeanStarsJohn MillsValerie HobsonTony WagerA humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor.■Winner
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White:Guy Green
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White:John Bryan,Wilfred Shingleton
■Nominee
Best Picture
Best Director:David Lean
Best Writing, Screenplay:David Lean,Ronald Neame,Anthony Havelock-Allan
This movie is not rented in Japan. - DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsRex HarrisonMaureen O'HaraRichard HaydnIn pre-Civil War New Orleans, Louisiana, roguish Irish gambler Stephen Fox (Sir Rex Harrison) buys his way into society, something he couldn't do in his homeland because he is illegitimate.■Nominee
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White - DirectorVictor SavilleStarsVan HeflinLana TurnerDonna ReedA young man loved by two sisters becomes a naval officer and sails to New Zealand, where he drunkenly writes a marriage proposal to the wrong sister, profoundly affecting the life of the other.■Winner
Best Effects, Special Effects
■Nominee
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
Best Sound, Recording
Best Film Editing
This movie is not rented in Japan. - DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsGene TierneyRex HarrisonGeorge SandersIn 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.■Nominee
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White - DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsDeborah KerrDavid FarrarFlora RobsonA group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.■Winner
Best Cinematography, Color
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color - DirectorWalter LangStarsBetty GrableDan DaileyMona FreemanIn this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then marries her. Incidents of the marriage and the growing pains of eldest daughter Iris are followed, interspersed with nostalgic musical numbers.■Winner
Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture
■Nominee
Best Cinematography, Color
Best Music, Original Song
For the song "You Do".
This movie is not rented in Japan. - DirectorHenry KosterStarsCary GrantLoretta YoungDavid NivenA debonair angel comes to Earth to help an Episcopalian bishop and his wife in their quest to raise money for the new church.■Winner
Best Sound, Recording
■Nominee
Best Picture:Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Best Director:Henry Koster
Best Film Editing:Monica Collingwood
Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture - DirectorRichard FleischerStarsKent SmithHans ConriedAn Academy Award winner for best documentary, the film opens with a notice that..."Exhibition of confiscated Japanese film material authorized by permission of the Alien Property Custodian in the public interest under License No. LM 979"...and was assembled from hundreds of captured newsreels, historical dramas and propaganda films. While revealing the steps that Japan took that led to Pearl Harbor, it goes back 700 years to the feudal caste system, a peasant revolt suppressed after the Samurai murdered over 40,000 people, to Admiral Perry forcibly opening Japan to foreign trade, to the perversion of converting the Shinto religion of nature-worship to that of a fanatic state creed that preached the Japanese were a Master Race and the Emperor was a sun-god to be blindly obeyed. The film carried no credit for a director, while Richard Fleischer shared the Producer credit with Theron Warth.■Winner
Best Documentary, Features
This movie is not rented in Japan. - DirectorWillard Van DykeMike, a medical student starts at Columbia and then moves into pediatrics at a teaching hospital run by Cornell. He learns how new methods help children live longer. After this he went to Johns Hopkins to work in public health in Baltimore.■Nominee
Best Documentary, Features
This movie is not rented in Japan. - DirectorPaul RothaStarsRobert AdamsElizabeth CowellValentine DyallAn examination of the problems of world food distribution following World War II, outlining steps underway to deal with the problems.■Nominee
Best Documentary, Features - DirectorLeo SeltzerUnited Nations, 1947 - In this film one crippled child learns to walk: first to move, then to stand, and finally to take his first steps. The film deals with modern techniques of physiotherapy, and the need to develop the whole child - his emotions and his mind as well as his muscles - is stressed. Skilled adult workers offer not only massage and therapy, but also love and understanding, and occupational therapy for children and takes the form of both play and work. Movements learned become part of the daily jobs of feeding and dressing. Early attempts to walk are made with the help of apparatus. Finally the initially hesitant steps on his own are taken. As the film ends the boy walks.■Winner
Best Documentary, Short Subjects - StarsDwight WeistConcerning the plight of Europe's six million displaced persons. Al but 850,000 who have not yet returned home after the war for fear of reprisals for their political or religious beliefs.■Nominee
Best Documentary, Short Subjects - DirectorStanley HawesIn Australia, children live in the Outback, too far from others to travel to any school. The Australian government has a school with no student only teachers that correspond with their pupils and teach those children at their own pace.■Nominee
Best Documentary, Short Subjects - DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsGary CooperPaulette GoddardHoward Da SilvaIntrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.■Nominee
Best Effects, Special Effects - DirectorCarol ReedStarsJames MasonRobert NewtonCyril CusackA wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.■Nominee
Best Film Editing - DirectorHarve FosterWilfred JacksonStarsRuth WarrickBobby DriscollJames BaskettThe kindly story-teller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear.■Winner
Best Music, Original Song
For the song "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah".
■Nominee
Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture - DirectorCharles WaltersStarsJune AllysonPeter LawfordPatricia MarshallGolden Globe winner June Allyson and Peter Lawford star in this enjoyable musical about a football hero who falls in love with his French tutor.■Nominee
Best Music, Original Song - DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsBetty HuttonJohn LundBilly De WolfeThe real life story of actress Pearl White during her rise to fame in silent serials.■Nominee
Best Music, Original Song
For the song "I Wish I Didn't Love You So". - DirectorDavid ButlerStarsDennis MorganMartha VickersJack CarsonThe stuffy manager of lovely opera singer Vicki Cassel and her uncle, a classical conductor, is determined to close down the noisy nightclub that's next door to the Cassels' home. The club's owners--Steve, a handsome ladies man, Jeff, his clownish sidekick--hatch a plan to keep the club open. Steve arranges to meet--and woo--Vicki and then invite her and her uncle to the club. When Vicki's snobbish aunt and the manager discover that Vicki now favors popular music to the classics, they arrange to get the club closed. But that doesn't keep Steve and Jeff down. Instead they decide to put on a Broadway show if they can get a backer. They find their "angel" in Vicki's uncle who agrees to finance the show only if Vicki is the leading lady. But once again, Vicki's aunt and manager may be the spoiler in everyone's plans.■Nominee
Best Music, Original Song
For the song "A Gal in Calico". - DirectorHenry KingStarsTyrone PowerJean PetersCesar RomeroThe invasion of Mexico by Cortez, as seen by a young Spanish officer fleeing the Inquisition.■Nominee
Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture - DirectorOtto PremingerJohn M. StahlStarsLinda DarnellCornel WildeRichard GreeneIn seventeenth-century England, Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsEsther WilliamsAkim TamiroffRicardo MontalbanWhen a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsDennis MorganAndrea KingArlene DahlThe life of Irish tenor Chauncey Olcott is chronicled from his childhood to his days as the toast of New York. In between, his rise to the top is complicated by romances with two women: his true love Rose Donovan and stage star Lillian Russell, who wants to make him a star.
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsDennis O'KeefeWallace FordAlfred RyderTwo US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.
- DirectorIrving ReisStarsCary GrantMyrna LoyShirley TempleA high school girl falls for a playboy artist, with screwball results.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinMady CorrellAllison RoddanA suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsRinaldo SmordoniFranco InterlenghiAnnielo MeleTwo shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.
- DirectorJean DrévilleStarsNoël-NoëlMicheline FranceyRené GéninIn France, in 1930, the supervisor of a reformatory for young offenders seeks to awaken in them the love of music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of the institution's director.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsDon DeForeAnn HardingCharles RugglesTwo homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
- DirectorElia KazanStarsDana AndrewsJane WyattLee J. CobbThe true story of a prosecutor's fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder.