What 1945 film won best picture, actor and director at the Oscars ?
"The Lost Weekend (film) The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American film noir directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. The film was based on Charles R. Jackson's 1944 novel of the same name about an alcoholic writer. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay). It also shared the Grand Prix at the first Cannes Film Festival, making it one of only two films to win both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the highest award at Cannes. In 2011,"
"ultimate winner turned out to be the British wartime naval saga, ""In Which We Serve""), but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences insisted that since ""Casablanca"" was not released nationally until early 1943, it would compete at the Award ceremony taking place in 1944. Sixteen months after its New York premiere, ""Casablanca"" won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. There were five additional nominations: Best Actor (Humphrey Bogart), Best Supporting Actor (Claude Rains), Best Cinematography, Black-and White (Arthur Edeson), Best Film Editing (Owen Marks) and Best"
"45th Academy Awards The 45th Academy Awards were presented Tuesday, March 27, 1973, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, honoring the best films of 1972. The ceremonies were presided over by Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, and Rock Hudson. The ceremony was marked by Marlon Brando's boycott of the Oscars and his sending of Sacheen Littlefeather to explain why he would not show up to collect his Best Actor award for ""The Godfather"", and by Charlie Chaplin's only competitive Oscar win for Best Original Dramatic Score for his 20-year-old film ""Limelight"", which was eligible because it"
"who accepts. Officer McShane also asks to adopt Annie Laurie and give her his last name. Francie and Neeley think Annie Laurie's life with McShane as a father will be much easier, but not nearly as much fun. The film ends as Francie sees the courtyard tree begin to grow again, just as her father said it would. James Dunn won the 1945 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Frank Davis and Tess Slesinger were nominated for Writing, Adapted Screenplay, and Peggy Ann Garner won the 1945 Academy Juvenile Award. In 2010, the film was selected for preservation in the"
"films topping the American Film Institute's AFI 100 list include Orson Welles's ""Citizen Kane"" (1941), which is frequently cited as the greatest film of all time, ""Casablanca"" (1942), ""The Godfather"" (1972), ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939), ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962), ""The Wizard of Oz"" (1939), ""The Graduate"" (1967), ""On the Waterfront"" (1954), ""Schindler's List"" (1993), ""Singin' in the Rain"" (1952), ""It's a Wonderful Life"" (1946) and ""Sunset Boulevard"" (1950). The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, have been held annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1929, and the Golden Globe Awards have been held"
"in the U.S. and Canada and $1,576,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of $26,000. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film) The Picture of Dorian Gray is a 1945 American horror-drama film based on Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel of the same name. Released in March 1945 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film is directed by Albert Lewin and stars George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton and Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray. Shot primarily in black-and-white, the film features four colour inserts in 3-strip Technicolor of Dorian's portrait; these are a special effect, the first two inserts are the original portrait and the"
"The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film) The Picture of Dorian Gray is a 1945 American horror-drama film based on Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel of the same name. Released in March 1945 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film is directed by Albert Lewin and stars George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton and Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray. Shot primarily in black-and-white, the film features four colour inserts in 3-strip Technicolor of Dorian's portrait; these are a special effect, the first two inserts are the original portrait and the second two after a major period of degeneration then recovery. It is London, 1886."
"57th Academy Awards The 57th Academy Awards were presented March 25, 1985, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. Jack Lemmon presided over the ceremonies. The big winner at the ceremony was Miloš Forman's ""Amadeus"", which had received 11 nominations and won 8 awards including Best Picture and Best Actor for F. Murray Abraham. As of the 90th Academy Awards, ""Amadeus"" is the most recent film to receive two lead actor nominations. The winner of Best Supporting Actor was also significant. Haing S. Ngor, a Cambodian surgeon who survived the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, won the award for his"
"4th Academy Awards The 4th Academy Awards were awarded to films completed and screened released between August 1, 1930, and July 31, 1931, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. At the ceremony, nine-year-old Jackie Cooper, nominated for Best Actor in ""Skippy"", fell asleep on the shoulder of Best Actress nominee Marie Dressler. When Dressler was announced as the winner, Cooper had to be eased onto his mother’s lap. ""Cimarron"" was the first Western to win Best Picture, and would remain the only one to do so for 59 years (until ""Dances with Wolves"" won in 1991). It"
"Best Picture: ""The Exorcist"" (1973), ""Jaws"" (1975), ""The Sixth Sense"" (1999), ""Black Swan"" (2010), and ""Get Out"" (2017). No documentary has yet been nominated for Best Picture, although ""Chang"" was nominated in the ""Unique and Artistic Production"" category at the 1927/28 awards. In 2017, at the 89th Academy Awards, presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty read ""La La Land"" as the winner of the award. However, they had mistakenly been given the envelope for the ""Best Actress in a Leading Role"" award, which Emma Stone had won for her role in ""La La Land"" moments prior. When the mistake was"
"to win the Academy Award for Best Director. Spielberg was also the first to win Best Director from both the Saturn Awards and the Academy Awards at the same year, but for different movies (Saturn Award for ""Jurassic Park"", and Academy Award for ""Schindler's List"", both in 1993); Peter Jackson was the first to win both for the same film ("""", in 2003) while Alfonso Cuarón was the second (for ""Gravity"" in 2013). Notes: ""†"" indicates an Academy Award-winning movie on the same category. ""‡"" indicates an Academy Award-nominated movie on the same category. Saturn Award for Best Director The"
"35th Academy Awards The 35th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1962, were held on April 8, 1963, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California, hosted by Frank Sinatra. The Best Actress Oscar occasioned the last act of the long-running feud between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. They had starred together for the first time in ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"", a surprise hit the previous summer. Davis was nominated for her role as the title character, a faded child star who humiliates the wheelchair-bound sister who eclipsed her fame in adulthood, while Crawford"
"Sensations of 1945 Sensations of 1945 is a 1944 American musical-comedy film directed by Andrew Stone. Released by United Artists, the film was an attempt to recapture the ensemble style of films such as ""Broadway Melody of 1936"" by showcasing a number of top musical and comedy acts of the day, in a film linked together by a loose storyline. ""Sensations of 1945"" stars dancer Eleanor Powell and Dennis O'Keefe as two rival publicists who fall in love, but the film's main purpose is to showcase a variety of different acts, ranging from tightrope walking to comedy to Powell's athletic"
"Universal, and Paramount) to win the Best Picture Oscar. ""Rebecca"" was the first American-made film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and the only film from him to win Best Picture. Hitchcock had two films nominated for Best Picture, the other being ""Foreign Correspondent"". Two other directors also had two films in the running this year: Sam Wood (""Our Town"" and ""Kitty Foyle"") and John Ford (""The Long Voyage Home"" and ""The Grapes of Wrath"", which won Best Director). ""Pinocchio"" was the first animated film to take home competitive Oscars, for both Best Original Score and Best Original Song, starting a long"
"Perfect Strangers (1945 film) Perfect Strangers (United States title: Vacation from Marriage), is a 1945 British drama film made by London Films. It stars Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr as a married couple whose relationship is shaken by their service in the Second World War. The supporting cast includes Glynis Johns, Ann Todd and Roland Culver. It was produced and directed by Alexander Korda from a screenplay by Clemence Dane and Anthony Pelissier based on a story by Clemence Dane. Dane won the Academy Award for Best Story. The music score was by Clifton Parker and the cinematography by Georges"
"gives him Frank Sinatra's voice to entrance the harem girls. A Thousand and One Nights (1945 film) A Thousand and One Nights is a 1945 tongue-in-cheek Technicolor fantasy film set in the Baghdad of the ""One Thousand and One Nights"" directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Cornel Wilde as Aladdin, Evelyn Keyes as the genie of the magic lamp, Phil Silvers as Aladdin's larcenous sidekick, and Adele Jergens as the princess Aladdin loves. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, for Best Art Direction, Color (Stephen Goosson, Rudolph Sternad, Frank Tuttle) and Best Special Effects (Ray Bomba and Lawrence"
"2009, the critics’ group have agreed with the Academy on six occasions: Steven Soderbergh for ""Traffic"" (2000), Clint Eastwood for ""Million Dollar Baby"" (2004), Ang Lee for ""Brokeback Mountain"" (2005), Martin Scorsese for ""The Departed"" (2006), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for ""No Country for Old Men"" (2007), and Kathryn Bigelow for ""The Hurt Locker"" (2009). Oscar winner denoted by * New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is one of the awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle to honour the finest achievements in filmmaking."
"Blood on the Sun Blood on the Sun is a 1945 American drama romantic thriller war film directed by Frank Lloyd starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney. The film is based on a fictional history behind the Tanaka Memorial document. The film won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for a Black & White (Wiard Ihnen, A. Roland Fields) film in 1945. A computer-colorized version of the film was created in 1993. In 1973, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication."
"film left on the floor when I'm finished. Ford won a total of six Academy Awards. Four of these were for Best Director for ""The Informer"" (1935), ""The Grapes of Wrath"" (1940), ""How Green Was My Valley"" (1941), and ""The Quiet Man"" (1952)—none of them Westerns (also starring in the last two was Maureen O'Hara, ""his favorite actress""). He was also nominated as Best Director for ""Stagecoach"" (1939). He won two Oscars for Best Documentary for ""The Battle of Midway"" and """". To this day Ford holds the record for winning the most Best Director Oscars, having won the award"
"Crossfire (film) Crossfire is a 1947 film noir drama film which deals with the theme of anti-Semitism, as did that year's Academy Award for Best Picture winner, ""Gentleman's Agreement"". The film was directed by Edward Dmytryk and the screenplay was written by John Paxton, based on the 1945 novel ""The Brick Foxhole"" by screenwriter and director Richard Brooks. The film stars Robert Mitchum, Robert Young, Robert Ryan, and Gloria Grahame. It received five Academy Award nominations, including Ryan for Best Supporting Actor and Gloria Grahame for Best Supporting Actress. It was the first B movie to receive a best picture"
"Holiday Inn (film) Holiday Inn is a 1942 American musical film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. With music by Irving Berlin, the composer wrote twelve songs specifically for the film, the best known being ""White Christmas"". The film features a complete reuse of the song ""Easter Parade"", written by Berlin for the 1933 Broadway revue ""As Thousands Cheer"". The film's choreography was by Danny Dare. The film received a 1943 Academy Award for Best Original Song (Irving Berlin for ""White Christmas""), as well as Academy Award nominations for Best Score (Robert Emmett Dolan) and"
"four qualify by consensus: ""Shadow of a Doubt"" (1943), ""Notorious"" (1946), ""Strangers on a Train"" (1951) and ""The Wrong Man"" (1956). Otto Preminger's success with ""Laura"" (1944) made his name and helped demonstrate noir's adaptability to a high-gloss 20th Century-Fox presentation. Among Hollywood's most celebrated directors of the era, arguably none worked more often in a noir mode than Preminger; his other noirs include ""Fallen Angel"" (1945), ""Whirlpool"" (1949), ""Where the Sidewalk Ends"" (1950) (all for Fox) and ""Angel Face"" (1952). A half-decade after ""Double Indemnity"" and ""The Lost Weekend"", Billy Wilder made ""Sunset Boulevard"" (1950) and ""Ace in the"
"A Thousand and One Nights (1945 film) A Thousand and One Nights is a 1945 tongue-in-cheek Technicolor fantasy film set in the Baghdad of the ""One Thousand and One Nights"" directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Cornel Wilde as Aladdin, Evelyn Keyes as the genie of the magic lamp, Phil Silvers as Aladdin's larcenous sidekick, and Adele Jergens as the princess Aladdin loves. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, for Best Art Direction, Color (Stephen Goosson, Rudolph Sternad, Frank Tuttle) and Best Special Effects (Ray Bomba and Lawrence W. Butler). Vagabond singer Aladdin (Cornel Wilde) has his hands"
"and won four, including awards to Forman, Abraham, Shaffer, and Golden Globe Award for Best Picture – Drama. Jeffrey Jones was nominated for Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Drama. Forman also received the Directors Guild of America Award for his work. At the end of the Oscar ceremony, Laurence Olivier came on stage to present the Oscar for Best Picture. As Olivier thanked the Academy for inviting him, he was already opening the envelope. Instead of announcing the nominees, he simply read, ""The winner for this is ""Amadeus""."" An AMPAS official quickly went onstage to confirm"
"""Be better!"" However, Heston notes that by the time a scene is done, regardless of how hard it was to do, it always came off well: Fourteen actors won Oscars under Wyler's direction, including Bette Davis in ""Jezebel"" (1938) and her nomination for ""The Letter"" (1940). Davis summed up their work together: ""It was ""he"" who helped me to realize my full potential as an actress. I met my match in this exceptionally creative and talented director."" Other Oscar winners were Olivia de Havilland in ""The Heiress"" (1949), Audrey Hepburn in her debut film, ""Roman Holiday"" (1953), Charlton Heston in"
"and on TV. I suspect it finally made more money than any other picture I made."" Intrada Records released an album featuring a 1995 re-recording of the film's score. The re-recording was performed by the Sinfonia of London and conducted by Bruce Broughton. The film won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt), and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Marlon Brando), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture and Best Picture. Brando's nomination was his third consecutive for Best Actor, following 1951's"
"to win the award for the same film. Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise first accomplished this feat for co-directing 1961's ""West Side Story"". This was also the second time in Oscar history (the first being 1964's 37th Academy Awards) that none of the four acting winners was American. Daniel Day-Lewis became the eighth person to win Best Actor twice. Best Actress winner Marion Cotillard was the fifth person to win for a non-English speaking performance and the second person to do so in the aforementioned category, after Sophia Loren who won for 1961's ""Two Women"". Cate Blanchett became the eleventh"
"50th Academy Awards The 50th Academy Awards were held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California on April 3, 1978. The ceremonies were presided over by Bob Hope, who hosted the awards for the nineteenth and last time. Two of the year's biggest winners were ""Star Wars"", which swept the technical categories by winning 6 out of its 10 nominations and a Special Achievement for Sound Effects Editing, and ""Annie Hall"", winning 4 out of 5 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Director. The awards show was also notable for a very politically charged acceptance speech"
"Paris. Memorable films from post-war England include David Lean's ""Great Expectations"" (1946) and ""Oliver Twist"" (1948), Carol Reed's ""Odd Man Out"" (1947) and ""The Third Man"" (1949), and Powell and Pressburger's ""A Matter of Life and Death"" (1946), ""Black Narcissus"" (1946) and ""The Red Shoes"" (1948), Laurence Olivier's ""Hamlet"", the first non-American film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and ""Kind Hearts and Coronets"" (1949) directed by Robert Hamer. Italian neorealism of the 1940s produced poignant movies made in post-war Italy. ""Roma, città aperta"" directed by Roberto Rossellini (1945), ""Sciuscià"" directed by Vittorio De Sica (1946), ""Paisà"" directed"
"1940 Academy Award for Best Cinematography, black-and-white category, was awarded to Gregg Toland for his work. Nominated for original score (but losing to ""The Wizard of Oz"") was the prolific film composer, Alfred Newman, whose poignant ""Cathy's Theme"" does so much ""to maintain its life as a masterpiece of romantic filmmaking."" It was largely filmed in Thousand Oaks, California, with scenes shot in Wildwood Regional Park and at the current site of California Lutheran University. In 2007, ""Wuthering Heights"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or"
"a leading role Oscar. ""An American in Paris"" became the second color film to win Best Picture, after 1939's ""Gone with the Wind"". Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 24th Academy Awards The 24th Academy Awards honored the best in film in 1951, as recognized by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Best Picture was awarded to ""An American in Paris"", which, like ""A Place in the Sun"", received six Academy Awards. ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" won four Oscars, including three of the acting"
"won eight Academy Awards out of 13 nominations, including awards for Best Picture, Best Director (Fred Zinnemann), Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actor (Frank Sinatra), and Supporting Actress (Donna Reed). The film's title originally comes from a quote from Rudyard Kipling's 1892 poem ""Gentlemen-Rankers"", about soldiers of the British Empire who had ""lost [their] way"" and were ""damned from here to eternity"". In 2002, ""From Here to Eternity"" was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". In 1941, bugler and career soldier Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt (Montgomery Clift)"
", with the strapline ""Cagney's Mightiest"" adding to her characterization. Blood on the Sun Blood on the Sun is a 1945 American drama romantic thriller war film directed by Frank Lloyd starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney. The film is based on a fictional history behind the Tanaka Memorial document. The film won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for a Black & White (Wiard Ihnen, A. Roland Fields) film in 1945. A computer-colorized version of the film was created in 1993. In 1973, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not"