Thursday, February 3, 2011

1950

Best Picture

Sunset Blvd.
-Rashomon
-All About Eve
-The Asphalt Jungle
-Harvey

Best Director

"It's human to lie. Most of the time we can't even be honest with ourselves."
Akira Kurosawa for Rashomon
-Billy Wilder for Sunset Blvd.
-John Huston for The Asphalt Jungle
-Joseph Mankiewicz for All About Eve
-Luis Bunuel for Los Olvidados

Best Actor

"The poor dope - he always wanted a pool. Well, in the end, he got himself a pool."
William Holden as Joe Gillis in Sunset Blvd.
-Jose Ferrer as Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano de Bergerac
-Marlon Brando as Ken "Bud" Wilcheck in The Men
-James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey
-Toshiro Mifune as Tajomaru in Rashomon

Best Actress

"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close up."
Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd.
-Bette Davis as Margo in All About Eve
-Betty Hutton as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun
-Judy Holliday as Emma "Billie" Dawn in Born Yesterday
-Anne Baxter as Eve in All About Eve

Best Supporting Actor

"There was a maharajah who came all the way from India to beg one of her silk stockings. Later he strangled himself with it!"
Erich Von Stroheim as Max Von Mayerling in Sunset Blvd.
-George Sanders as Addison DeWitt in All About Eve
-Sam Jaffe as Doc Erwin Riedenschneider in The Asphalt Jungle
-Stanislaus Zbyszko as Gregorius in Night and the City
-Alastair Sim as Commodore Gill in Stage Fright

Best Supporting Actress

"Nothing is forever in the Theatre. Whatever it is, it's here, it flares up, burns hot and then its gone."
Celeste Holm as Karen in All About Eve
-Elizabeth Taylor as Kay Banks in Father of the Bride
-Thelma Ritter as Birdie in All About Eve
-Nancy Olsen as Betty Schaeffer in Sunset Blvd.
-Josephine Hull as Veta Louise Simmons in Harvey

Best Screenplay

"What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end."
All About Eve
-Sunset Blvd.
-Rashomon
-The Asphalt Jungle
-Les Enfants Terribles
-Harvey

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