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1960 ART DIRECTION (B&W) All the Young Men The Apartment The Facts of Life The Gallant Hours Hiroshima, Mon Amour Inherit the Wind Psycho Seven Thieves Sons and Lovers Visit to a Small Planet ART DIRECTION (COLOR) Bells Are Ringing Cimarron Elmer Gantry G.I. Blues Heller in Pink Tights It Started in Naples Pepe Spartacus The Story of Ruth Sunrise at Campobello CINEMATOGRAPHY (B&W) All the Young Men The Apartment Crack in the Mirror The Facts of Life The Fugitive Kind Hell to Eternity Inherit the Wind Psycho Sons and Lovers Who Was That Lady? CINEMATOGRAPHY (COLOR) The Alamo BUtterfield 8 Can-Can Cimarron Elmer Gantry Exodus Home from the Hill Let’s Make Love Pepe Spartacus COSTUME DESIGN (B&W) Crack in the Mirror The Entertainer The Facts of Life I’m All Right, Jack Never on Sunday The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond Seven Thieves The Virgin Spring COSTUME DESIGN (COLOR) Black Orpheus Can-Can Cimarron From the Terrace The Lost World The Man with the Green Carnation Midnight Lace Pepe Spartacus Sunrise at Campobello FILM EDITING The Alamo The Apartment Cimarron The Dark at the Top of the Stairs Elmer Gantry Inherit the Wind Midnight Lace Pepe Song without End Spartacus SOUND The Alamo The Apartment Can-Can Cimarron Exodus G.I. Blues The Last Voyage Make Mine Mink Pepe Pollyanna Scent of Mystery Spartacus The Story of Ruth Sunrise at Campobello ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE The Alamo The Apartment Cimarron Elmer Gantry Exodus High Time The Magnificent Seven Never on Sunday North to Alaska Spartacus SCORE FOR A MUSICAL PICTURE Bells Are Ringing Black Orpheus Can-Can Cinderfella The Crowning Experience Eugene Onegin G.I. Blues Let’s Make Love Pepe Song Without End ORIGINAL SONG The Alamo, “Ballad of the Alamo” The Alamo, “The Green Leaves of Summer” Black Orpheus, “La Chanson D’Orphee” Cimarron, “Cimarron” Cinderfella, “Somebody” The Facts of Life, “The Facts of Life” High Time, “The Second Time Around” Never on Sunday, “Never on Sunday” Pepe, “Faraway Part of Town” The Swiss Family Robinson, “My Heart Was an Island”

1959 ART DIRECTION (B&W) Anatomy of a Murder The Black Orchid Career Compulsion The Diary of Anne Frank The Last Angry Man On the Beach Some Like It Hot Suddenly, Last Summer The World, the Flesh and the Devil ART DIRECTION (COLOR) Ben-Hur The Big Fisherman The Five Pennies Green Mansions Journey to the Center of the Earth Li’l Abner North by Northwest Pillow Talk Porgy and Bess They Came to Cordura CINEMATOGRAPHY (B&W) Anatomy of a Murder Career Compulsion The Diary of Anne Frank The Gazebo The Last Angry Man On the Beach The Shaggy Dog Some Like It Hot The Young Philadelphians CINEMATOGRAPHY (COLOR) Ben-Hur The Big Fisherman The Five Pennies Journey to the Center of the Earth Li’l Abner The Nun’s Story Operation Petticoat Porgy and Bess Rio Bravo The Wreck of the Mary Deare COSTUME DESIGN (B&W) Career Compulsion The Devil’s Disciple The Diary of Anne Frank The Gazebo The Restless Years Some Like It Hot The Young Philadelphians COSTUME DESIGN (COLOR) Ben-Hur The Best of Everything The Big Circus The Big Fisherman The Five Pennies Imitation of Life The Man Who Understood Women Porgy and Bess A Summer Place The Wonderful Country FILM EDITING Anatomy of a Murder Ben-Hur Compulsion The Diary of Anne Frank The Last Angry Man North by Northwest The Nun’s Story On the Beach Some Like It Hot They Came to Cordura SOUND Ben-Hur But Not for Me Journey to the Center of the Earth Libel! The Nun’s Story Operation Petticoat Porgy and Bess The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw Sleeping Beauty They Came to Cordura ORIGINAL SCORE Al Capone Ben-Hur Darby O’Gill and the Little People The Diary of Anne Frank The Hanging Tree The Last Angry Man The Nun’s Story On the Beach Pillow Talk Some Like It Hot SCORE FOR A MUSICAL PICTURE The Five Pennies Gidget Go, Johnny, Go! Lil’ Abner 1001 Arabian Nights Porgy and Bess Say One for Me Sleeping Beauty ORIGINAL SONG Beloved Infidel, “Beloved Infidel” The Best of Everything, “The Best of Everything” The Five Pennies, “The Five Pennies” Gidget, “Gidget” The Hanging Tree, “The Hanging Tree” Happy Anniversary, “Happy Anniversary” A Hole in the Head, “High Hopes” Noah’s Ark, “Don’t Mention His Name to Me” [from a 19-minute short] Pillow Talk, “Pillow Talk” The Young Land, “Strange Are the Ways of Love”

1958 ART DIRECTION Auntie Mame Bell, Book and Candle A Certain Smile Desire Under the Elms Gigi The Last Hurrah Separate Tables Teacher’s Pet Vertigo The Young Lions CINEMATOGRAPHY (B&W) Cry Terror! The Defiant Ones Desire Under the Elms Home Before Dark I Want to Live! Imitation General The Last Hurrah Separate Tables Ten North Frederick The Young Lions CINEMATOGRAPHY (COLOR) Auntie Mame The Big Country The Buccaneer Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Cowboy Damn Yankees! Gigi The Old Man and the Sea South Pacific Vertigo COSTUME DESIGN Bell, Book and Candle The Buccaneer A Certain Smile Desire Under the Elms Gigi The Girl Most Likely Home Before Dark The Matchmaker Some Came Running Ten North Frederick FILM EDITING Auntie Mame Bell, Book and Candle The Big Country Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Cowboy The Defiant Ones Gigi Hot Spell I Want to Live! The 7th Voyage of Sinbad SOUND Auntie Mame Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Gigi I Want to Live! The Light in the Forest Some Came Running South Pacific A Time to Live and a Time to Die Vertigo The Young Lions ORIGINAL SCORE The Big Country A Certain Smile Houseboat The Inn of the Sixth Happiness The Old Man and the Sea Separate Tables Some Came Running Vertigo (I know this wasn't a hit at the time, but this snub is BRUTAL) White Wilderness The Young Lions SCORE FOR A MUSICAL PICTURE The Bolshoi Ballet Damn Yankees Eighteen and Anxious Gigi Mardi Gras Merry Andrew Rock-a-Bye Baby St. Louis Blues South Pacific Tom Thumb ORIGINAL SONG A Certain Smile, “A Certain Smile” Gigi, “Gigi” Gigi, “The Night They Invented Champagne” (I actually prefer this song to the one they nominated) Houseboat, “Almost in Your Arms” The Light in the Forest, “The Light in the Forest” Marjorie Morningstar, “A Very Precious Love” Rock-a-Bye Baby, “Dormi-Dormi-Dormi (Sleep-Sleep-Sleep)” Separate Tables, “Separate Tables” Some Came Running, “To Love and Be Loved” Tonka, “Tonka”

By the way, on both IMDb and the film site Letterboxd, it ranks among the 10 worst rated films with an Oscar nomination..... IMDb: 1. Yes Giorgio (1982) 3.8/10 [nominated for Song] 2. Klondike Fury (1942) 3.9/10 [nominated for Score] 3. The Stepmother (1972) 4/10 [nominated for Song] 4. Norbit (2007) 4/10 [nominated for makeup] 5. Fifty Shades of Gray (2015) 4.1/10 [nominated for Song] 6. Heartbeeps (1981) 4.2/10 [nominated for Makeup] 7.The Song of the Flame (1930) 4.3/10 [nominated for Sound] 8. Flying with Music (1942) 4.3/10 [nominated for Score of a Musical and Song] 9. Hitchhike to Happiness (1945) 4.4/10 [ nominated for Score] 10. The Swarm (1978) 4.5/10 [nominated for Costume Design] The Lowest rated film nominated for a major Oscar on IMDb is 1975's Once is Not Enough (#12 among the lowest, 4.6 average) nominated for Brenda Vaccaro in Supporting Actress. letterboxd: 1. Norbit (2007) 1.6/5 [3.2/10] 2. Yes Giorgio (1982) 1.8/5 [3.6/10] 3. Fifty Shades of Gray (2015) 1.8/5 [3.6/10] 4. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) 2/5 [4/10] [nominated for Sound Mixing] 5. Suicide Squad (2016) 2.1/5 [4.2/10] [actually won for Makeup] 6. Heartbeeps (1981) 2.1/5 [4.2/10] 7. The Swarm (1978) 2.1/5 [4.2/10] 8. Junior (1994) 2.1/5 [4.2/10] (Nominated for Song) 9. When Time Ran Out... (1980) 2.2/5 [4.4/10] (Nominated for Costume Design; its another Irwin Allen film, and has the same costume designer as The Swarm) 10. Endless Love (1981) 2.2/5 [4.4/10] [nominated for Song] The lowest major nominee there, again in 12th place is Coquette which won Best Actress for Mary Pickford in 1929. [2.3/5;4.6/10]

Speaking again of The Swarm, i feel that one of its central death moments is not handled well. It's the train derailment. Its not just that some of the cast members I cared about the most were killed in the scene; its the sheer abruptness of it all. It's all interlooped (what with the fall from the cliff, MacMurray [final film] and Johnson being thrown from the train window, De Havilland being made in essence into an extra thrown wordlessly to the floor, and the whole thing exploding) in less than two minutes and never mentioned again\ desite stating that 17 survived it on the computer screen. it was just sloppy.

Of course though given the pans for this and the catastrophic box office, what was more damaging for WB in the late 70s? This or Exorcist II (there is a hilarious story about a test screening of that one on IMDb)? its interesting though: July 14, 1978 saw the release of two films I've seen, the unintentionally funny (and very goofy) The Sawrm and the intentionally funny (and delightful) Foul Play. Now there's a movie going pick for you.

The last act has perhaps one of the most eyeopening moments. The bees attack inside a nuclear power plant causes it to all explode and destroy all of Houston. Pretty unbelievable if you ask me. The longer version has other scenes that fleshed some things out, as per IMDb (although this reveals some more deaths)..... more of the 3 way courtship between DeHavilland, Johnson & MacMurray a hilarious scene in which the military inspect the attacked picnic site and Michael Caine comments on the bees' biting abilities several additional scenes of Caine and Katharine Ross driving back and forth between the military bunker and the town and chatting about developments as they do the death scene of the little boy whose parents were killed and who subsequently firebombed the swarm - in the short version he is in hospital and you assume he's survived although he's not seen again. he has a relapse and dies in the long version. various extra footage of Caine and Ross going to the HQ in Houston when Henry Fonda is killed there is an additional shot of a huge superimposed bee which he sees at the moment of death an additional subplot near the end of the film in which Ross has a relapse and nearly dies from her earlier bee sting. This is why she's lying in a bed when Caine rescues her from the burning building. This sub-plot has several short scenes including one when Bradford Dillman and Richard Widmark see Caine praying by her bed - once he sees that Caine believes in God Widmark knows he's a good chap and instructs Dillman to "Close that dossier" (the dossier has been constantly referred to by Widmark but was left as an unresolved plot hole in the theatrical cut).

1957 ART DIRECTION An Affair to Remember The Bridge on the River Kwai Funny Face A Hatful of Rain Les Girls Omar Khayyam Pal Joey Raintree County Sayonara The Sun Also Rises CINEMATOGRAPHY An Affair to Remember Boy on a Dolphin The Bridge on the River Kwai Funny Face Gunfight at the OK Corral Les Girls Pal Joey Peyton Place Sayonara Seven Wonders of the World COSTUME DESIGN An Affair to Remember Designing Woman Four Girls in Town Funny Face A Hatful of Rain The Helen Morgan Story Les Girls Pal Joey Peyton Place Raintree County FILM EDITING The Bachelor Party The Bridge on the River Kwai A Farewell to Arms Gunfight to the OK Corral Love in the Afternoon Pal Joey The Pride and the Passion Raintree County Sayonara Witness for the Prosecution SOUND RECORDING Gunfight at the OK Corral Johnny Tremain Les Girls The Monte Carlo Story Pal Joey Peyton Place Rice Sayonara Sea Wife The Tall Stranger Tammy and the Bachelor Witness for the Prosecution ORIGINAL SCORE An Affair to Remember Boy on a Dolphin The Bridge on the River Kwai Man of a Thousand Faces Old Yeller Perri Peyton Place Raintree County Sayonara Seven Wonders of the World SCORING FOR A MUSICAL PICTURE (Award cancelled for this year. No ultimate nominations) April Love Funny Face Invitation to the Dance Les Girls Pal Joey

1956 ART DIRECTION (B&W) Baby Doll The Bad Seed Diabolique The Proud and Profane The Search for Bridley Murphy Seven Samurai The Solid Gold Cadillac Somebody Up There Likes Me La Strada Teenage Rebel ART DIRECTION (COLOR) Anything Goes Around the World in 80 Days The Court Jester Giant The King and I Lust for Life The Swan The Teahouse of the August Moon The Ten Commandments War and Peace CINEMATOGRAPHY (B&W) Attack! Baby Doll Back from Eternity The Bad Seed The Boss The Harder They Fall Julie The Killing Somebody Up There Likes Me Stagecoach to Fury CINEMATOGRAPHY (COLOR) Anastasia Around the World in 80 Days The Eddy Duchin Story Giant The King and I Lust for Life The Silent World Teahouse of the August Moon The Ten Commandments War and Peace COSTUME DESIGN (B&W) The Bad Seed Outside the Law The Power and the Prize The Proud and Profane The Scarlet Hour Seven Samurai The Solid Gold Cadillac Teenage Rebel COSTUME DESIGN (COLOR) Around the World in 80 Days Carousel Diane The Eddy Duchin Story Giant The King and I Richard III Serenade The Ten Commandments War and Peace FILM EDITING Around the World in 80 Days The Brave One The Eddy Duchin Story Friendly Persuasion Giant The King and I The Rainmaker Somebody Up There Likes Me The Ten Commandments War and Peace SOUND RECORDING The Brave One Bundle of Joy The Eddy Duchin Story Friendly Persuasion Giant The Killing The King and I Lisbon Lust for Life The Ten Commandments War and Peace Westward Ho, the Wagons! Written on the Wind ORIGINAL SCORE Anastasia Around the World in 80 Days Between Heaven and Hell The Brave One Giant Lust for Life The Rainmaker Secrets of Life The Ten Commandments Written on the Wind SCORE FOR A MUSICAL PICTURE Anything Goes The Best Things in Life Are Free Bundle of Joy The Eddy Duchin Story High Society The King and I Meet Me in Las Vegas Pardners Serenade

Coming in May....

It kind of lucked out though. Looking at the five that missed out on the nod that year, two were contemporary films (Big Fix and House Calls), one had them wear the same outfits through most of the film (Autumn Sonata), one had mostly old tired looking clothing (Goin South). I guess if there was a snub of the other five, it was Grease, because some of the outfits in that film are remembered by many (especially that tight leather outfit Olivia Newton-John had in the last scene)

They wouldn't be doing just disco. they would go: DO THE HUSTLE!

1955 ART DIRECTION (B&W) Blackboard Jungle Court Martial The Desperate Hours I’ll Cry Tomorrow The Man with the Golden Arm Marty Not as a Stranger The Rose Tattoo Three Stripes in the Sun Trial ART DIRECTION (COLOR) Bad Day at Black Rock The Bridges at Toko-Ri Daddy Long Legs Guys and Dolls Kismet Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing My Sister Eileen Picnic The Tender Trap To Catch a Thief CINEMATOGRAPHY (B&W) Blackboard Jungle The Desperate Hours I Am a Camera I’ll Cry Tomorrow The Man with the Golden Arm Marty The Night of the Hunter Queen Bee The Rose Tattoo The Wages of Fear CINEMATOGRAPHY (COLOR) Blood Alley Cinerama Holiday East of Eden Guys and Dolls Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing A Man Called Peter Oklahoma! Picnic Strategic Air Command To Catch a Thief COSTUME DESIGN (B&W) Female on the Beach I’ll Cry Tomorrow The Pickwick Papers Queen Bee The Rose Tattoo The Shrike Ugetsu COSTUME DESIGN (COLOR) Guys and Dolls Interrupted Melody Lady Godiva of Coventry Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing Love Me or Leave Me A Man Called Peter Pete Kelly’s Blues Samurai To Catch a Thief The Virgin Queen FILM EDITING The Big Knife Blackboard Jungle The Bridges at Toko-Ri East of Eden Guys and Dolls Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing Marty Oklahoma! Picnic The Rose Tattoo SOUND RECORDING Artists and Models The Deep Blue Sea Guys and Dolls Lady and the Tramp The Last Command Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing Love Me or Leave Me Mister Roberts Not as a Stranger Oklahoma! Picnic ORIGINAL SCORE The African Lion Bad Day at Black Rock Battle Cry East of Eden I'll Cry Tomorrow Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing The Man with the Golden Arm The Night of the Hunter Picnic The Rose Tattoo SCORE FOR A MUSICAL PICTURE Artists and Models Daddy Long Legs Guys and Dolls House of Ricordi It’s Always Fair Weather Love Me or Leave Me My Sister Eileen Oklahoma! Pete Kelly’s Blues The Seven Little Foys

1954 ART DIRECTION (B&W) Bread, Love and Dreams The Country Girl Executive Suite Forever Female Hobson’s Choice It Should Happen to You Le Plaisir Man in the Attic On the Waterfront Sabrina ART DIRECTION (COLOR) Brigadoon The Caine Mutiny Desiree The High and the Mighty Rear Window Red Garters The Silver Chalice A Star Is Born There’s No Business Like Show Business 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea CINEMATOGRAPHY (B&W) The Country Girl Down Three Dark Streets Executive Suite The Human Jungle The Little Kidnappers On the Waterfront Rogue Cop Sabrina Suddenly Them! CINEMATOGRAPHY (COLOR) Brigadoon Broken Lance The Egyptian The High and the Mighty Rear Window Seven Brides for Seven Brothers The Silver Chalice A Star Is Born Three Coins in the Fountain 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea COSTUME DESIGN (B&W) The Earrings of Madame de… Executive Suite Indiscretion of an American Wife It Should Happen to You Sabrina Witness to Murder COSTUME DESIGN (COLOR) Brigadoon Deep in My Heart Desiree The Egyptian The French Line Gate of Hell Seven Brides for Seven Brothers A Star Is Born There’s No Business Like Show Business Woman’s World FILM EDITING The Caine Mutiny Carnival Story The Country Girl The Glenn Miller Story The High and the Mighty On the Waterfront Rear Window Seven Brides for Seven Brothers A Star Is Born 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea SOUND RECORDING Brigadoon The Caine Mutiny Down Three Dark Streets Gate of Hell Genevieve The Glenn Miller Story Johnny Guitar Rear Window A Star Is Born Susan Slept Here There’s No Business Like Show Business 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ORIGINAL SCORE The Caine Mutiny Day of Triumph Desiree The Egyptian Genevieve The High and the Mighty Magnificent Obsession On the Waterfront The Silver Chalice Three Coins in the Fountain SCORE FOR A MUSICAL PICTURE Brigadoon Carmen Jones Deep in My Heart The Glenn Miller Story Seven Brides for Seven Brothers A Star Is Born There’s No Business Like Show Business White Christmas

I started going through it of perverse curiosity. It's not good, but it wasn't quite as bad as I thought it would be. (heh) What I think is one of the most harmful things about it is the repeated insistence to show people waving their arms and writhing about in slow motion as the bees come in for the kill. It's meant to be terrifying and indeed the idea of getting stung by so many is horrifying, but the slo-mo effect gives it an unintentionally comic air.

I didn't have to sleep with the lights on, but i did find myself praying for a little bit, and then I was trying to clear my head for a little bit of some of the visuals I had just seen. (especially what happens to Paul Williams villain at the film's end)

1953 ART DIRECTION (B&W) Above and Beyond The Actress The Clown The Four Poster Julius Caesar Martin Luther The President’s Lady Roman Holiday So Big Titanic ART DIRECTION (COLOR) The Band Wagon Call Me Madam How to Marry a Millionaire Knights of the Round Table Lili A Lion Is in the Streets The Robe Shane The Story of Three Loves Young Bess CINEMATOGRAPHY (B&W) The Cruel Sea The Desert Rats The Four Poster From Here to Eternity Island in the Sky Julius Caesar The Little World of Don Camillo Martin Luther Roman Holiday So Big CINEMATOGRAPHY (COLOR) All the Brothers Were Valiant Beneath the 12-Mile Reef Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Hondo Knights of the Round Table Lili The Mississippi Gambler Mogambo The Robe Shane COSTUME DESIGN (B&W) The Actress Dream Wife From Here to Eternity The President’s Lady Roman Holiday Titanic COSTUME DESIGN (COLOR) The Band Wagon Call Me Madam Here Come the Girls How to Marry a Millionaire The Robe Salome So This Is Love Torch Song Young Bess FILM EDITING Crazylegs The Cruel Sea From Here to Eternity Julius Caesar Little Boy Lost The Moon Is Blue The Robe Roman Holiday Shane The War of the Worlds SOUND RECORDING Calamity Jane Flight Nurse From Here to Eternity Jack Slade Knights of the Round Table The Mississippi Gambler 99 River Street Penny Princess Peter Pan The Robe Second Chance The War of the Worlds ORIGINAL SCORE Above and Beyond From Here to Eternity Julius Caesar Knights of the Round Table Lili The Robe Shane So Big This Is Cinerama The War of the Worlds SCORE FOR A MUSICAL PICTURE The Band Wagon Calamity Jane Call Me Madam Dangerous When Wet 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Here Come the Girls Kiss Me Kate Melba Peter Pan

1952 ART DIRECTION (B&W) Androcles and the Lion The Bad and the Beautiful Because of You Carrie High Noon Mara Maru My Cousin Rachel Rashomon Sudden Fear Viva Zapata! ART DIRECTION (COLOR) April in Paris The Greatest Show on Earth Hans Christian Andersen The Merry Widow Moulin Rouge Plymouth Adventure The Quiet Man Scaramouche The Snows of Kilimanjaro With a Song in My Heart CINEMATOGRAPHY (B&W) Androcles and the Lion The Bad and the Beautiful The Big Sky High Noon My Cousin Rachel Navajo Pat and Mike Sudden Fear The Thief Viva Zapata! CINEMATOGRAPHY (COLOR) Blackbeard, the Pirate Hans Christian Andersen Ivanhoe The Jazz Singer The Merry Widow Million Dollar Mermaid Moulin Rouge The Prisoner of Zenda The Quiet Man The Snows of Kilimanjaro COSTUME DESIGN (B&W) Affair in Trinidad The Bad and the Beautiful Because of You Carrie My Cousin Rachel Paula The Promoter/The Card Sudden Fear COSTUME DESIGN (COLOR) The Greatest Show on Earth Hans Christian Andersen The Iron Mistress The Merry Widow Moulin Rouge The Quiet Man Singin’ in the Rain With a Song in My Heart FILM EDITING The Big Sky Come Back, Little Sheba Flat Top The Greatest Show on Earth Hans Christian Andersen High Noon Moulin Rouge Singin’ in the Rain The Snows of Kilimanjaro The Thief SOUND RECORDING Because of You The Big Sky Breaking the Sound Barrier Hans Christian Andersen Jack and the Beanstalk The Jazz Singer The Member of the Wedding The Promoter/The Card The Quiet Man The San Francisco Story Singin’ in the Rain Somebody Loves Me The Star With a Song in My Heart ORIGINAL SCORE Come Back, Little Sheba High Noon Ivanhoe The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima My Cousin Rachel Plymouth Adventure The Quiet Man The Snows of Kilimanjaro The Thief Viva Zapata! SCORE FOR A MUSICAL PICTURE Because You’re Mine Hans Christian Andersen I’ll See You in My Dreams The Jazz Singer Lovely to Look At The Medium Million Dollar Mermaid Singin’ in the Rain Stars and Stripes Forever With a Song in My Heart

Sorry to requote, but I am going to be sharing them over the next few days in a new thread. So far, 1949, 1950, and 1951 are up.

1951 ART DIRECTION (B&W) Bright Victory Fourteen Hours Go for Broke! The House on Telegraph Hill La Ronde Oliver Twist A Place in the Sun The Red Badge of Courage A Streetcar Named Desire Too Young to Kiss ART DIRECTION (COLOR) An American in Paris David and Bathsheba The Great Caruso Kim On the Riviera The Prince Who Was a Thief Quo Vadis The River Tales of Hoffman When Worlds Collide CINEMATOGRAPHY (B&W) Death of a Salesman Detective Story The Frogmen Go for Broke! His Kind of Woman People Will Talk A Place in the Sun The Red Badge of Courage Strangers on a Train A Streetcar Named Desire CINEMATOGRAPHY (COLOR) Across the Wide Missouri An American in Paris David and Bathsheba The Great Caruso Kim Quo Vadis Show Boat The Tales of Hoffman Two Tickets to Broadway When Worlds Collide COSTUME DESIGN (B&W) Kind Lady La Ronde The Mating Season The Model and the Marriage Broker The Mudlark No Highway in the Sky Oliver Twist Orpheus A Place in the Sun A Streetcar Named Desire COSTUME DESIGN (COLOR) An American in Paris David and Bathsheba The Golden Horde The Great Caruso Meet Me After the Show On the Riviera Quo Vadis The Tales of Hoffman FILM EDITING An American in Paris The Blue Veil Death of a Salesman Decision Before Dawn Detective Story The Frogmen A Place in the Sun Quo Vadis Show Boat The Well ORIGINAL SCORE Ace in the Hole The Bullfighter and the Lady Captain Horatio Hornblower David and Bathsheba The Day the Earth Stood Still Death of a Salesman Distant Drums A Place in the Sun Quo Vadis A Streetcar Named Desire SCORE FOR A MUSICAL PICTURE Alice in Wonderland An American in Paris The Great Caruso Meet Me After the Show Of Men and Music On Moonlight Bay On the Riviera Rich, Young and Pretty Show Boat Two Tickets to Broadway

1950 ART DIRECTION (B&W) All About Eve Bright Leaf Cyrano de Bergerac Father of the Bride The Glass Menagerie The Magnificent Yankee The Red Danube Sunset Boulevard ART DIRECTION (COLOR) Annie Get Your Gun Dallas Destination Moon The Flame and the Arrow King Solomon’s Mines My Blue Heaven Samson and Delilah CINEMATOGRAPHY (B&W) Adam’s Rib All About Eve The Asphalt Jungle The Big Lift Cyrano de Bergerac The Furies The Glass Menagerie Sunset Boulevard The Third Man Two Flags West CINEMATOGRAPHY (COLOR) Annie Get Your Gun Broken Arrow Destination Moon The Flame and the Arrow King Solomon’s Mines Samson and Delilah That Forsyte Woman The Toast of New Orleans Wabash Avenue The White Tower COSTUME DESIGN (B&W) All About Eve Born Yesterday Cyrano de Bergerac Father of the Bride Gigi The Magnificent Yankee Mister 880 No Sad Songs for Me Rio Grande Sunset Boulevard COSTUME DESIGN (COLOR) Annie Get Your Gun The Black Rose The Desert Hawk The Eagle and the Hawk I’ll Get By The Petty Girl Samson and Delilah That Forsyte Woman Wabash Avenue SOUND RECORDING All About Eve Born Yesterday Champagne for Caesar Cinderella Cyrano de Bergerac The Glass Menagerie King Solomon’s Mines Louisa No Man of Her Own Our Very Own Rio Grande 711 Ocean Drive Trio The White Tower ORIGINAL SCORE All About Eve Cyrano de Bergerac Destination Moon The Flame and the Arrow Harvey The Men The Magnificent Yankee No Sad Songs for Me Samson and Delilah Sunset Boulevard SCORE FOR A MUSICAL PICTURE Annie Get Your Gun Cinderella Dancing in the Dark I’ll Get By Il Trovatore Let’s Dance My Blue Heaven Summer Stock Three Little Words The West Point Story

Things in bold were indeed nominated..... Underlines mean a win. 1949 ART DIRECTION (B&W) Battleground Champion Come to the Stable The Fountainhead The Great Gatsby The Heiress A Letter to Three Wives Madame Bovary ART DIRECTION (COLOR) Adventures of Don Juan Jolson Sings Again Little Women Oh, You Beautiful Doll On the Town She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Saraband for Dead Lovers You’re My Everything CINEMATOGRAPHY (B&W) All the King’s Men Battleground Champion Come to the Stable The Fountainhead The Heiress A Letter to Three Wives Pinky Prince of Foxes Sands of Iwo Jima CINEMATOGRAPHY (COLOR) The Barkleys of Broadway The Blue Lagoon Jolson Sings Again Little Women Look for the Silver Lining Oh, You Beautiful Doll Red Canyon The Red Pony Sand She Wore a Yellow Ribbon FILM EDITING All the King’s Men Battleground Champion The Heiress Jolson Sings Again Sands of Iwo Jima The Set-Up Task Force Twelve O’Clock High The Window

So I ended up causing a bit of a stir when I said that I found a place that had the famous Oscar tech short lists of years past. To cut to the chase, there are in the secondary categories. But they can sometimes be even more fascinating that the bigger ones as you can find just what films were really close to being a part of each category. these lists begin in 1949 and they are mostly complete through 1979. They are often fractured after that point although there are some later almost-nominations to share as well leading up to the present day. I will be sharing these lists here over the course of the next few days. The information comes from a Letterboxd user named Adam Waldowski who obtained the information between research and the extensive help of a librarian at the Academy library in LA. So lets thank both of them, and let's get cracking into what came close to those nods!

I can share more shortlists. Somebody was able to dig up many of the shortlists for the technical categories [cinematography, art decoration, costume design, editing, score, song, sound] between 1949 and 1979. So almost all of the failed nominations from those years (years that I'm most intrigued by and also the ones I presume there would be the most interest in here) are still on the records. The academy did away with these in most categories in the 80s, and what little they have from that decade is often incomplete (although it is fascinating as to what was in contention the year they decided not to hand out the makeup category) The 90s are often incomplete too, but it becomes more complete within the last few years.

I did know about Sissy Spacek from one book I have, and its one of those random fun facts that is very enjoyable. I also liked Jessica Harper in the leading lady part. She did a fine job. its definitely a one of a kind type of film.