Showing posts with label A Hole in the Head. Show all posts
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Monday, July 23, 2018

Day Eight: Best Original Song

Before we get to today's Oscar category, a few updates.

Notes on the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress pages have been updated. Tiger Bay has been capsuled in Best Adapted Screenplay. And Donald Wolfit's performance in Room at the Top has been added to Best Supporting Actor.

And now. On with the nominees for Best Original Song.

Sunday, July 8, 2018

Come Monday

Meant to post a tease earlier this month, but what are you gonna do? Starting tomorrow, we take a look at the films of 1959, featuring:


Ben-Hur
Winner: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Charlton Heston), Best Supporting Actor (Hugh Griffith), Best Dramatic Score, Best Cinematography - Color, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - Color, Best Film Editing, Best Costume Design - Color, Best Sound Recording, Best Visual Effects


Black Orpheus
Winner: Best Foreign Language Film


The Diary of Anne Frank
Winner: Best Supporting Actress (Shelley Winters), Best Cinematography - Black-and-White, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - Black-and-White


A Hole in the Head
Winner: Best Original Song ("High Hopes")


Pillow Talk
Winner: Best Original Screenplay


Porgy and Bess
Winner: Best Musical Score


Room at the Top
Winner: Best Actress (Simone Signoret), Best Adapted Screenplay


Some Like It Hot
Winner: Best Costume Design - Black-and-White


....and many, many more, including non-Oscar-nominated films like A Summer Place, House on Haunted Hill, and The Crimson Kimono!

It all starts tomorrow with Best Actress: Doris Day in Pillow Talk, Audrey Hepburn in The Nun's Story, Katharine Hepburn in Suddenly, Last Summer, Simone Signoret in A Room at the Top, and Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly, Last Summer.

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