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Best Supporting Actress

 

1940 Judith Anderson, Rebecca (7)

        Jane Darwell, The Grapes of Wrath (2)

        Ida Lupino, They Drive By Night

        Paulette Goddard, The Great Dictator

        Barbara O’Neil, All This and Heaven Too

 

1941 Maria Ouspenskaya, The Wolf Man (3)

        Dorothy Comingore, Citizen Kane

        Ida Lupino, The Sea Wolf

        Paulette Godard, Hold Back the Dawn

        Mary Astor, The Maltese Falcon

        Martha Raye, Hellzapoppin’

        Teresa Wright, The Little Foxes

        Anna Lee, How Green was My Valley

 

1942 Agnes Moorehead, The Magnificent Ambersons (4)

        Gladys Cooper, Now, Voyager

        Teresa Wright, Mrs. Miniver

        Mary Astor, The Palm Beach Story

        Ann Sheridan, The Man Who Came to Dinner

        May Whitty, Mrs. Miniver

        Florence Bates, The Moon and Sixpence

 

1943 Katina Paxinou, For Whom the Bell Tolls (3)

        Lena Horne, Cabin In the Sky (2)

        Agnes Moorehead, Jane Eyre

        Veronica Lake, So Proudly We Hail

        Joan Leslie, The Hard Way

        Janet Shaw, Shadow of a Doubt

        Patricia Collinge, Shadow of a Doubt

 

1944 Angela Lansbury, Gaslight (4)

        Margaret O’Brien, Meet Me In St. Louis (2)

        Ethel Barrymore, None But the Lonely Heart

        Faye Emerson, The Mask of Dimitrios

        Jennifer Jones, Since You Went Away

        Julia Dean, The Curse of the Cat People

 

1945 Anne Blyth, Mildred Pierce (4)

        Anna Magnani, Rome, Open City (2)

        Margaret Rutherford, Blithe Spirit

        Beulah Bondi, The Southerner

        Flora Robson, Saratoga Trunk

        Joan Blondell, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

 

1946 Anne Baxter, The Razor’s Edge (2)

        Myrna Loy, The Best Years of Our Lives (2)

        Leopoldine Konstantin, Notorious

        Martita Hunt, Great Expectations

        Sara Haden, She Wolf of London

        Beulah Bondi, It’s a Wonderful Life

        Jean Simmons, Great Expectations

 

1947 Celeste Holm, Gentleman’s Agreement (2)

        Kathleen Byron, Black Narcissus

        Martha Raye, Monsieur Verdoux

        Marjorie Main, The Egg and I

        Esther Howard, Born to Kill

        Joel McCracken, Good News

        Helen Walker, Nightmare Alley

        Carol Marsh, Brighton Rock

 

1948 Claire Trevor, Key Largo (4)

        Jean Simmons, Hamlet (2)

        Flora Robson, Saraband For Dead Lovers

        Mary Astor, Act of Violence

 

1949 Mercedes McCambridge, All the King’s Men (2)

        Joan Greenwood, Kind Hearts and Coronets (2)

        Judy Holliday, Adam’s Rib (2)

        Margaret Wycherly, White Heat

        Virginia Mayo, Colorado Territory

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Best Supporting Actor

 

1940 Walter Brennan, The Westerner (3)

        George Sanders, Rebecca (3)

        James Stephenson, The Letter (2)

        Raymond Massey, Sante Fe Trail

        Akim Tamiroff, The Great McGinty

        Frank Morgan, The Shop Around the Corner

 

1941 Walter Huston, All That Money Can Buy (2)

        Laird Cregar, I Wake Up Screaming (2)

        Sydney Greenstreet, The Maltese Falcon

        Van Heflin, Johnny Eager

        Joseph Cotten, Citizen Kane

        Peter Lorre, The Maltese Falcon

        Barry Fitzgerald, The Sea Wolf

        Claude Rains, Here Comes Mr. Jordan

 

1942 Claude Rains, Casablanca (7)

        Peter Lorre, Casablanca

        Walter Huston, Yankee Doodle Dandy

        Claude Rains, King’s Row

 

1943 Charles Coburn, The More the Merrier (3)

        Anton Walbrook, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (2)

        Hume Cronyn, Shadow of a Doubt (2)

        Henry Daniell, Jane Eyre

        Akim Tamiroff, For Whom the Bell Tolls

        Alexander Granach, Hangmen Also Die

 

1944 Clifton Webb, Laura (5)

        Edward G. Robinson, Double Indemnity (2)

        Elisha Cook, Jr., Phantom Lady

        Walter Brennan, To Have and Have Not

        Mike Mazurki, Murder, My Sweet

 

1945 Michael Redgrave, Dead of Night (2)

        James Dunn, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

        Zachary Scott, Mildred Pierce

        Pierre Brasseur, Les Enfants du Paradise

        Mischa Auer, And Then There Were None

        Laird Cregar, Hangover Square

        Jerry Austin, Saratoga Trunk

        Jack Carson, Mildred Pierce

        Leo G. Carroll, Spellbound

        Herbert Marshall, The Enchanted Cottage

 

1946 Claude Rains, Notorious (5) 

        Hume Cronyn, The Postman Always Rings Twice (2)

        Harold Russell, The Best Years of Our Lives

        Lionel Barrymore, It’s a Wonderful Life

 

1947 Richard Widmark, Kiss of Death (4)

        Edmund Gwenn, Miracle on 34th Street

        Robert Ryan, Crossfire

        Sam Levine, Crossfire

        Robert Preston, The Macomber Affair

        George Sanders, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

 

1948 Walter Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (4)

        Charles Bickford, Johnny Belinda

        Alfonso Bedoya, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

        Pierre Claude, Without Pity

        James Stewart, Rope

 

1949 Alec Guinness, Kind Hearts and Coronets (3)

        Orson Welles, The Third Man (3)

        Juano Hernandez, Intruder In the Dust

        Ralph Richardson, The Heiress

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Best Actress

 

1940 Bette Davis, The Letter (4)

        Katharine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story (2)

        Rosalind Russell, His Girl Friday (2)

        Joan Fontaine, Rebecca (2)

        Ida Lupino, They Drive By Night

 

1941 Barbara Stanwyck, Ball of Fire (5)

        Bette Davis, The Little Foxes (2)

        Barbara Stanwyck, Meet John Doe

        Mary Astor, The Maltese Falcon

        Evelyn Keyes, Here Comes Mr. Jordan

 

1942 Bette Davis, Now, Voyager (5)

        Greer Garson, Mrs. Miniver (2)

        Claudette Colbert, The Palm Beach Story

        Bette Davis, In this Our Life

        Ingrid Bergman, Casablanca

 

1943 Jean Arthur, The More the Merrier (2)

        Teresa Wright, Shadow of a Doubt (2)

        Joan Fontaine, Jane Eyre

        Ingrid Bergman, For Whom the Bell Tolls

        Jennifer Jones, The Song of Bernadette

        Joan Fontaine, The Constant Nymph

        Ethel Waters, Cabin In the Sky

        Lisbeth Movin, Day of Wrath

 

1944 Barbara Stanwyck, Double Indemnity (5)

        Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight (4)

        Lauren Bacall, To Have and Have Not

 

1945 Celia Johnson, Brief Encounter (3)

        Joan Crawford, Mildred Pierce (2)

        Gene Tierney, Leave Her to Heaven

        Arletty, Les Enfants du Paradise

        Ann Savage, Detour

        Ingrid Bergman, The Bells of St. Mary’s

        Ingrid Bergman, Spellbound

 

1946 Ingrid Bergman, Notorious (3)

        Deborah Kerr, I See a Dark Stranger (2)

        Jennifer Jones, Cluny Brown

        Rita Hayworth, Gilda

        Joan Crawford, Humoresque

        Lana Turner, The Postman Always Rings Twice

 

1947 Deborah Kerr, Black Narcissus (2)

        Gene Tierney, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (2)

        Irene Dunne, Life With Father

        Kathleen Byron, Black Narcissus

        Lizabeth Scott, Dead Reckoning

        Ida Lupino, Deep Valley

        Gunn Wallgren, Woman Without a Face

 

1948 Olivia de Havilland, The Snake Pit (2)

        Joan Fontaine, Letter From an Unknown Woman

        Jane Wyman, Johnny Belinda

        Simone Signoret, Dedee d’Anvers

        Jean Arthur, A Foreign Affair

        Anna Magnani, L’Amore

        Moira Shearer, The Red Shoes

 

1949 Olivia de Havilland, The Heiress (6)

        Setsuko Hara, Late Spring

        Valentina Cortese, Thieves’ Highway

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Best Actor

 

1940 Henry Fonda, The Grapes of Wrath (3)

        Charles Chaplin, The Great Dictator (2)

        James Stewart, The Philadelphia Story

        Brian Donlevy, The Great McGinty

        Cary Grant, His Girl Friday

        Cary Grant, My Favorite Wife

        Raymond Massey, Abe Lincoln In Illinois

        Charles Boyer, All This and Heaven Too

        Tyrone Power, The Mark of Zorro

 

1941 Humphrey Bogart, The Maltese Falcon (5) 

        Orson Welles, Citizen Kane (3)

        Gary Cooper, Sergeant York

        Robert Montgomery, Here Comes Mr. Jordan

 

1942 Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca (6)

        James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy (2)

        Gary Cooper, Pride of the Yankees

        George Sanders, The Moon and Sixpence

 

1943 Joseph Cotten, Shadow of a Doubt (6)

        Walter Pidgeon, Madame Curie

        Orson Welles, Jane Eyre

        John Garfield, The Fallen Sparrow

        Roger Livesay, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

 

1944 Laurence Olivier, Henry V (2)

        Claude Rains, Mr. Skeffington (2)

        Fred MacMurray, Double Indemnity (2)

        Barry Fitzgerald, Going My Way

        Charles Boyer, Gaslight

        Luciano De Ambrosis, The Children Are Watching Us

        Nikolai Chersakov, Ivan the Terrible Part One

 

1945 Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend (3)

        Pierre Brasseur, Les Enfants du Paradise

        Jean-Louis Barrault, Les Enfants du Paradise

        Michael Redgrave, Dead of Night

        Laird Cregar, Hangover Square

        Gregory Peck, Spellbound

        Robert Young, The Enchanted Cottage

 

1946 James Stewart, It’s a Wonderful Life (3)

           John Garfield, The Postman Always Rings Twice (2)

        Cary Grant, Notorious

        Dana Andrews, The Best Years of Our Lives

        Fredric March, The Best Years of Our Lives

        Jean Marais, Beauty and the Beast

 

1947 Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux (2)

        Robert Mitchum, Out of the Past (2)

        Richard Attenborough, Brighton Rock (2)

        Ronald Colman, A Double Life

        Edmund Gwenn, Miracle on 34th Street

        Tyrone Power, Nightmare Alley

 

1948 Humphrey Bogart, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (5)

        Walter Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

        Ralph Richardson, The Fallen Idol

        Anton Walbrook, The Red Shoes

 

1949 James Cagney, White Heat (3)

        Broderick Crawford, All the King’s Men (2)

        Robert Ryan, The Set-Up

        Chishyu Ryu, Late Spring

        Joseph Cotten, The Third Man

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Here are my best of the decade choices for the 1940’s.

 

Best Actor

1948 Humphrey Bogart, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

 

Best Actress

1949 Olivia de Havilland, The Heiress

 

Best Supporting Actor

1948 Walter Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

 

Best Supporting Actress

1945 Margaret Rutherford, Blithe Spirit

 

Best Juvenile Performance

 

1945 Peggy Ann Garner, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

 
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Thanks for the great work in compiling those lists, Bogie. It certainly looks like Humphrey Bogart was actor of the decade among our group of posters here, as far as nominations are concerned.

 

My picks for best of the 1940s:

 

Best Actor

 

1949 James Cagney, White Heat

 

Best Actress

 

1940 Bette Davis, The Letter

 

Best Supporting Actor

 

1942 Claude Rains, Casablanca

 

Best Supporting Actress

 

1942 Agnes Moorehead, The Magnificent Ambersons

 

Best Juvenile

 

1945 Peggy Ann Garner, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

 

 

Note: As you may be able to tell from my avatar photo, one of my all time favourite performances is that of Walter Huston in Treasure of the Sierra Madre. However, since I originally classified him in the best actor category (where I just had him barely lose out to Cagney as best of the decade) he wasn't in my running for supporting actor in the best of the decade classification. If he had been, though, he would have won (much as I love Claude Rains in Casablanca).

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FAVORITES OF THE 1940'S

 

Best Actor - Humphrey Bogart  Treasure of the Sierra Madre

 

Best Actress - Olivia De Havilland  The Heiress

 

Best Supporting Actor - Walter Brennan  The Westerner

 

Best Supporting Actress  - Judith Anderson  Rebecca

 

Best Juvenile Performance - Peggy Ann Garner  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

 

Best supporting actor was a very hard choice. Walter Brennan and Richard Widmark (Kiss of Death) basically came down to a coin toss, as I was affected by those performances more than any other. Claude Rains (Casablanca) was also a very close third.

 

Best juvenile would have gone to Ann Blyth (Mildred Pierce) but I was the only one who considered her a juvenile at 16, so I went with my second choice of Garner. 

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FAVORITES OF THE 1940s

 

BEST ACTOR

 

Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca

 

*Between Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, it was hard to pinpoint my favorite.  The 1940s were the decade of Bogart.

 

BEST ACTRESS

 

Barbara Stanwyck, Double Indemnity

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

 

Claude Rains, Casablanca

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

 

Ann Blyth, Mildred Pierce

 

BEST JUVENILE PERFORMER

 

Margaret O'Brien, Meet Me in St. Louis

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As a group we seem to think Bogart is the actor of the decade, put Bette, Barbara, and Olivia at the top of the best actress races, love Claude Rains and Walter Huston, ditto Judith Anderson and Agnes Moorehead. Makes perfectly good sense to me.

 

Actor of the Decade: Humphrey Bogart

 

Supporting Actress: Judith Anderson, Rebecca

 

Supporting Actor: Claude Rains, Notorious. With so many outstanding performances, Claude Rains is the Supporting Actor of the Decade and thus edges ahead of Walter Huston's wonderful performance in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

 

Actress: A painfully shy young woman develops a sense of her own power. Wait, that could be Bette Davis in Now, Voyager or Olivia De Havilland in The Heiress. Either would be a worthy winner. Bette Davis, Now, Voyager.

 

Actor: Three great Bogart performances to choose from, along with Robert Ryan in The Set-Up and Laurence Olivier as Henry V. Then there's Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath. I love 'em all. Olivier, Henry V.

 

 

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As a group we seem to think Bogart is the actor of the decade, put Bette, Barbara, and Olivia at the top of the best actress races, love Claude Rains and Walter Huston, ditto Judith Anderson and Agnes Moorehead. Makes perfectly good sense to me.

 

Actor of the Decade: Humphrey Bogart

 

 

Aside from our appraisal of individual performances, I agree that, for overall consistency, Bogart was actor of the decade.

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Thanks, Bogie! These yearly polls gave me a lot of good tips, and it was a trip down Memory Lane. Focusing on supporting actors and juvenile performances made me realize that I've seen some of these actors in more films than I remembered. Picking one for each category is of course an impossible task, but here's my attempt:

 

ACTOR: Humphrey Bogart - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

ACTRESS: Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight

SUPPORTING ACTOR: Claude Rains - Casablanca

SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Ann Blyth - Mildred Pierce

JUVENILE PERFORMANCE: Natalie Wood - Miracle on 34th Street

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If Kay, Swithin, Princess of Tap and anyone else for that matter would like to offer their choices for the best of the decade in the various categories I will include them in our little tally.

And to anyone wishing to join in as we move forward through the 50's please do so!  Whether you would like to just offer a few favourites or to post about a good performance, all is welcome.

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I'll do this just to be sporting- but my answers won't last through the night, I suspect. The men are winning for villainous performances, and were easier to pick than the women, who are winning for comedy.

 

Actor: Humphrey Bogart - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

 

Actress: Deborah Kerr - I See a Dark Stranger (1946)

 

Supporting Actor: Richard Widmark - Kiss of Death (1947)

 

Supporting Actress: Joan Greenwood - Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

 

Juvenile: Luciano De Ambrosis in The Children Are Watching Us (1944)

 

While going through this decade I was singularly impressed by the output of Hume Cronyn. He made his debut as comic support in Shadow of a Doubt, but quickly shifted into roles with more depth, like Lifeboat, his amiable part in The Seventh Cross, and an aged patriarch in The Green Years the very same year he was playing a romantic protagonist in A Letter for Evie and making a perfect turn as a snake in the grass in The Postman Always Rings Twice- and soon full-fledged villainy in Brute Force. And that's just from my own paltry knowledge! He's worth considering in the discussion on Actor of the Decade, I'd say.

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I was sadly unable to complete my personal goal of having a Best Synergy winner for every year of the 40's. This is how far I got with it. (Any ideas for 1948? There's still time!)

 

1940 Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff - The Great McGinty
1941 Victor Mature and Laird Cregar - I Wake Up Screaming
1942 George Sanders and Herbert Marshall - The Moon and Sixpence
1943 Henry Travers and Hume Cronyn - Shadow of a Doubt
1944 Clive Brook and Beatrice Lillie - On Approval
1945 Fanny Brice and Hume Cronyn - Ziegfeld Follies
1946 Hume Cronyn and Leon Ames - The Postman Always Rings Twice

1947 Elisha Cook, Jr. and Esther Howard - Born to Kill

1948 ??? and ??? - ???

1949 Robert Newton and Phil Brown - Obsession

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What does "Best Synergy" mean?

 

In 1948:

 

Van Helfin, Gig Young and Robert Coote in The Three Muskteers

 

Thomas Gomez and Harry Lewis in Key Largo

 

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein

 

Lamberto Maggiorani and Enzo Staiola in Bicycle Thieves

 

Barry Fitzgerald and Don Taylor in The Naked City

 

John Howard Davies and Anthony Newley in Oliver Twist

 

John Dall and Farley Granger in Rope

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Thanks, Lawrence. I'm still yet to see at least three of those, I'm afraid. For my purposes Synergy is basically the same as Chemistry- particularly harmonious or discordant interactive performances. Sometimes two totally dissimilar characters will become unlikely friends, or perhaps act like friends even when they are adversaries. Other times they will play insults like badminton, and come off like a vaudeville comedy team. Essentially it's how two fictional characters "get along" as personalities, how they play off each other, and so forth. How often they are on screen together, and their respective parts in the plot, is secondary to their... "electricity," let's say.

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**Announcement**

We are going to switch to the best of 1950 tomorrow, Saturday June 25.

So, if anyone would still like to post their choices for the best performances of the decade of the 1940's in each of the 5 acting categories please do so today!

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**Announcement**

We are going to switch to the best of 1950 tomorrow, Saturday June 25.

So, if anyone would still like to post their choices for the best performances of the decade of the 1940's in each of the 5 acting categories please do so today!

 

So instead of each year lasting a week from Sunday to Saturday, it now lasts from Saturday to Friday?

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The Best of the 1940s

 

Best Actress-- Ingrid Bergman, The Bells of St. Mary's, 1945

 

Best Actor-- Toshiro Mifune, Nora Inu/ Stray Dog, 1949

 

Best Supporting Actress--Judith Anderson, Rebecca, 1940

 

Best Supporting Actor-- Lionel Barrymore, It's a Wonderful Life, 1946

 

Best Juvenile Acting Performance-- Margaret O'Brien, Meet Me in St. Louis, 1944

 

 

* Star of the Decade-- Ingrid Bergman--

 

Notorious, 1946

Casablanca, 1942

For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1943

The Bells of St. Mary's, 1945

Spellbound, 1945

Gaslight, 1944

Joan of Arc, 1948

 

 

Dancer of the Decade-- Gene Kelly--

 

For me and my gal, 1942

Covergirl, 1944

Anchors Aweigh, 1945

The Pirate, 1948

On the Town, 1949

 

* Debut of the Decade-- Toshiro Mifune, Drunken Angel, 1948

 

* Come Back of the Decade-- Fred Astaire, Easter Parade, 1948

 

 

* Couple of the Decade - - Bogie and Baby--

 

To have and to have not, 1944

The Big Sleep, 1946

Dark Passage, 1947

Key Largo, 1948

 

 

*Singer and Song that best depicts this decade--

 

Bing Crosby singing Swinging on a Star from Going My Way.

Oscar for Best Original Song, 1944 by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke

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Here are the best of the decade choices for the 1940’s.


All had one vote unless indicated with ().


 


Best Actor


1948 Humphrey Bogart, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (4)


1942 Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca (2)


1945 Robert Young, The Enchanted Cottage


1949 James Cagney, White Heat


1949 Toshiro Mifune, Stray Dog


 


Best Actress


1949 Olivia de Havilland, The Heiress (2)


1940 Bette Davis, The Letter


1943 Teresa Wright, Shadow of a Doubt


1944 Barbara Stanwyck, Double Indemnity


1944 Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight


1945 Arletty, Les Enfants du Paradise


1945 Ingrid Bergman, The Bells of St. Mary's


1946 Deborah Kerr, I See a Dark Stranger


 


Best Supporting Actor


1942 Claude Rains, Casablanca (4)


1940 Walter Brennan, The Westerner


1946 Lionel Barrymore, It’s a Wonderful Life


1947 Richard Widmark, Kiss of Death


1948 Walter Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre


 


Best Supporting Actress


1945 Ann Blyth, Mildred Pierce (2)


1940 Judith Anderson, Rebecca (2)


1942 Agnes Moorehead, The Magnificent Ambersons


1944 Margaret O’Brien, Meet Me In St. Louis


1945 Margaret Rutherford, Blithe Spirit


1949 Joan Greenwood, Kind Hearts and Coronets


 


Best Juvenile Performance


1944 Margaret O’Brien, Meet Me In St. Louis (3)


1945 Peggy Ann Garner, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (3)


1945 Luciano de Ambrosis, The Children Are Watching Us


1947 Natalie Wood, Miracle on 34th Street


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It’s time for 1950.  Hard to believe we have been doing this for 20 weeks now.  We will be on 1950 for one week so plenty of time for everyone to respond.

 

Here are Oscar’s choices for 1950.  Winners in bold. 

 

Best Actor

 

Jose Ferrer, Cyrano de Bergerac*

Louis Calhern, The Magnificent Yankee

William Holden, Sunset Blvd.

James Stewart, Harvey

Spencer Tracy, Father of the Bride

 

Best Actress

 

Judy Holliday, Born Yesterday*

Anne Baxter, All About Eve

Bette Davis, All About Eve

Eleanor Parker, Caged

Gloria Swanson, Sunset Blvd.

 

Best Supporting Actor

 

George Sanders, All About Eve*

Jeff Chandler, Broken Arrow

Edmund Gwenn, Mister 880

Sam Jaffe, The Asphalt Jungle

Erich von Stroheim, Sunset Blvd.

 

Best Supporting Actress

 

Josephine Hull, Harvey*  

Hope Emerson, Caged

Celeste Holm, All About Eve

Nancy Olson, Sunset Blvd.

Thelma Ritter, All About Eve

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FAVORITE PERFORMANCES OF 1950

 

Best Actor

Humphrey Bogart  In a Lonely Place****

Marlon Brando  The Men

Toshiro Mifune  Rashomon

Vincent Price  The Baron of Arizona

William Holden  Sunset Boulevard

Spencer Tracy  Father of the Bride

Sterling Hayden  The Asphalt Jungle

James Stewart  Harvey

Jose Ferrer  Cyrano de Bergerac

Richard Widmark  Night and the City

Louis Calhern  The Magnificent Yankee

Edmond O'Brien  D.O.A.

Gregory Peck  The Gunfighter

 

Best Actress

Gloria Swanson  Sunset Boulevard****

Bette Davis  All About Eve

Anne Baxter  All About Eve

Machiko Kyo  Rashomon

Judy Holliday  Born Yesterday

Peggy Cummins  Gun Crazy

Gloria Grahame  In a Lonely Place

Shirley Yamaguchi  Scandal

Eleanor Parker  Caged

 

Best Supporting Actor

George Sanders  All About Eve****

Sam Jaffe  The Asphalt Jungle

Erich Von Stroheim  Sunset Boulevard

Takashi Shimura  Rashomon

Louis Calhern  The Asphalt Jungle

 

Best Supporting Actress

Thelma Ritter  All About Eve****

Celeste Holm  All About Eve

Hope Emerson  Caged

Josephine Hull  Harvey

Jean Parker  The Gunfighter

 

Best Juvenile Performance

Alfonso Mejia  Los Olvidados****

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1950 Favorites

 
Best Actor
 
Louis Calhern (The Magnificent Yankee)
Jose Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac)
Alec Guinness (Last Holiday)
Dean Stockwell (The Happy Years) (A juvenile but good enough to be in the category with the big boys.)
Richard Widmark (Night and the City)
 
Best Actress
 
Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday)
Celia Johnson (The Astonished Heart)
Deborah Kerr (King Solomon’s Mines)
Eleanor Parker (Caged)
Gloria Swanson (Sunset Blvd.)
 
Best Supporting Actor
 
Leo G. Carroll (The Happy Years)
Sam Jaffe (The Asphalt Jungle)
George Sanders (All About Eve)
Siriaque (King Solomon’s Mines) Also best hair of 19501950-King-Solomons-Mines-06.jpg
Eric von Stroheim (Sunset Blvd.)
 
Best Supporting Actress
 
Anne Baxter (All About Eve)
Betty Garde (Caged)
Hope Emerson (Caged)
Ann Harding (The Magnificent Yankee)
Lucy Pavey (The Fall of the House of Usher) One of the creepiest performances of all time:  tumblr_mcw3dlpEeQ1qzzkd2o1_400.jpg
 
Best Musical Scenes
 
“Bird in a Cage” sung by the ladies in prison (Caged)
“I Can’t Give You Anything but Love” sort of sung by Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday)
“The Laziest Gal in Town” sung by Marlene Dietrich (Stage Fright)
 
Best line:
 
"Pile out you tramps. it’s the end of the line.” (Caged)
 
 
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