The ACADEMY AWARDS 1949 - 1954

 

1949 21st ACADEMY AWARDS -- sharp crisp blk and white 56 minutes 3/24/1949 The Academy Theater, Hollywood, California,
Host Robert Montgomery. Seems to be like a feature for movie theater -- BASIC FACTS features numerous firsts. It was the first
time a non-Hollywood production won Best Picture, Hamlet. It was the first time an individual (Laurence Olivier) directed himself in
an Oscar-winning performance. Director John Huston directs two Oscar-winning performances in the same year for two different
films: his father Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Claire Trevor for Key Largo. The Huston family won three
Oscars that evening. The ceremony was moved from the Shrine Auditorium to the Academy's own theater primarily because the
major Hollywood studios had withdrawn their financial support in order to address rumors that they had been trying to influence
voters. Jane Wyman became the first performer since the silent era to win an Oscar for a performance with no lines.
Humphrey Bogart failed to receive a nomination for Best Actor in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which is now considered
one of the Academy’s greatest slights. This year introduced the award for Best Costumes presented by Elizabeth Taylor.
Joan of Arc became the first film to receive 7 nominations without being nominated for Best Picture. Hamlet became the fifth
film to win Best Picture without a screenwriting nomination; the next to do so would be The Sound of Music at the 38th Academy Awards.
Highlights Best Picture Hamlet Most awards Hamlet (4), Most nominations Johnny Belinda (12)

1950 22ND ACADEMY AWARDS -- sharp crisp blk and white - 78 minutes, seems to be like a feature for movie theater
BASIC FACTS the 22nd Academy Awards Ceremony awarded Oscars for the best in films in 1949. This was the last year
for which all five Best Picture nominees were in black and white. March 23, 1950 - Site RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood,
California, Host paul Douglas - Highlights - Best Picture All the King's Men
Most awards The Heiress (4) - Most nominations The Heiress (8)

1951 23RD ACADEMY AWARDS IN COLOR 71 min. March 29, 1951 RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, California, Host
Fred Astaire 71 minutes, even has red carpet arrivals footage, BASIC FACTS The 23rd Academy Awards Ceremony awarded
Oscars for the best in films in 1950. The nominations were notable this year, as All About Eve was nominated for fourteen
Oscars, beating the previous record of thirteen set by Gone with the Wind. Sunset Boulevard became the second film with
nominations in every acting category not to win a single one (after My Man Godfrey in 1936). This would not happen again until
American Hustle was shut out at the 86th Academy Awards. Highlights, Best Picture All About Eve - Most awards All About Eve (6),
Most nominations All About Eve (14)

1952 24TH ACADEMY AWARDS RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood California. Hosted by Danny Kaye . 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 awards, excluding Marlon Brando, whose performance as Stanley Kowalski was later
considered one of the most influential of modern film acting. Humphrey Bogart was the last man to ever win a leading role Oscar
who was born in the 19th century. An American in Paris became only the second color film to win Best Picture. The first one was
12 years earlier: Gone with the Wind.

1953 25TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS 3/19/1953 NBC The 25th Academy Awards ceremony was held on March 19, 1953.
It took place at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California and the NBC International Theatre in New York City. It was the
first Academy Awards ceremony to be televised and the first ceremony to be held in Hollywood and New York City simultaneously.
It was also the only year that the New York ceremonies were to be held in the International Theatre on Columbus Circle, which was
shortly thereafter demolished and replaced by the New York Coliseum convention center.

1954 26TH ACADEMY AWARDS sharp crisp blk and white - 59 minutes, NBC BROADCAST (1952 WAS 1ST TV BROADCAST)
BASIC FACTS he 26th Academy Awards honored the best in films of 1953. The second national telecast of the Awards show drew
an estimated 43 million viewers. Shirley Booth, appearing in a play in Philadelphia, presented the Best Actor award through a live
broadcast cut-in, and privately received the winner's name over the telephone from co-host Donald O'Connor. (Actor Fredric March
co-hosted from New York City.) Gary Cooper filmed his presentation of the Best Actress award in advance on a set in Mexico, with
O'Connor announcing the winner's name. All the major winners in this year were black-and-white films. The big winner was
Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity, with thirteen nominations and eight awards including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor,
Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Screenplay (Daniel Taradash), Best Cinematography (Burnett Guffey), Best Sound,
and Best Film Editing. All five of its major actors and actresses were nominated, with secondary players Donna Reed and
Frank Sinatra taking home Oscars. The candid film was based on James Jones' controversial, best-selling novel about Army life
on a Hawaiian (Oahu) military base just prior to the Pearl Harbor attack and World War II, illustrating the conflict between an
individualistic private (Montgomery Clift) and rigid institutional authority (exemplified by the Army). Its achievement of eight awards
matched the then record held by Gone with the Wind (1939). The record would be tied again the following year by
On the Waterfront (1954). Walt Disney won four awards, which remains the record for the most Oscars won in the same year.
William Holden's speech for Best Actor for his role in Stalag 17 was simply "Thank You", making it one of the shortest speeches
ever; the TV broadcast had a strict cutoff time which forced Holden's quick remarks. The frustrated Holden personally paid for
advertisements in the Hollywood trade publications to thank everyone he wanted to on Oscar night. He also remarked that he felt
that either Burt Lancaster or Montgomery Clift should have won the Best Actor Oscar for From Here to Eternity, instead of him.
Date March 25, 1954, Site RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, California - NBC Century Theatre New York City, New York -
Host Donald O'Connor (Los Angeles) - Fredric March (New York City) - Highlights - Best Picture from Here to Eternity Most awards
From Here to Eternity (8) - Most nominations From Here to Eternity (13)
 

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