1953 — Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives
Tokyo Story (dir: Yasujiro Ozu)
Pickup on South Street (dir: Samuel Fuller)
Roman Holiday (dir: William Wyler)
The Big Heat (dir: Fritz Lang)
The Black Vampire (dir: Román Viñoly Barreto)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (dir: Howard Hawks)
The Bigamist (dir: Ida Lupino)
The Band Wagon (dir: Vincente Minnelli)
The Naked Spur (dir: Anthony Mann)
Shane (dir: George Stevens)
Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (dir: Roy Rowland), Beat the Devil (dir: John Huston), From Here to Eternity (dir: Fred Zinnemann), Gate of Hell (dir: Teinosuke Kinugasa), The Hitch-Hiker (dir: Ida Lupino), House of Wax (dir: Andre De Toth), The Little Fugitive (dir: Morris Engel, Ray Ashley and Ruth Orkin), Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (dir: Jacques Tati), and Ugetsu (dir: Kenji Mizoguchi)
Best Picture: Tokyo Story
Director: Yasujiro Ozu Producer: Takeshi Yamamoto
US Distributor: none; 1972 by New Yorker Films
William Wyler and Audrey Hepburn on the set of Roman Holiday
Best Director:
William Wyler, Roman Holiday
2. Samuel Fuller, Pickup on South Street
3. Fritz Lang, The Big Heat
4. Yasujiro Ozu, Tokyo Story
5. Ida Lupino, The Bigamist AND The Hitch-Hiker
Chishû Ryû and Setsuko Hara in Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story
Best Actor:
Chishû Ryû, Tokyo Story
2. Glenn Ford, The Big Heat
3. Richard Widmark, Pickup on South Street
4. Alan Ladd, Shane
5. William Holden, Stalag 17 AND The Moon Is Blue
Setsuko Hara in Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story
Best Actress:
Setsuko Hara, Tokyo Story
2. Jean Peters, Pickup on South Street
3. Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday
4. Maggie McNamara, The Moon Is Blue
5. Olga Zubarry, The Black Vampire
Robert Ryan in Anthony Mann’s Naked Spur
Best Supporting Actor:
Robert Ryan, The Naked Spur
2. Jack Palance, Shane
3. Frank Sinatra, From Here to Eternity
4. Hans Conried, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
5. Lee Marvin, The Big Heat
Thelma Ritter in Samuel Fuller’s Pickup on South Street
Best Supporting Actress:
Thelma Ritter, Pickup on South Street
2. Gloria Grahame, The Big Heat
3. Joan Fontaine, The Bigamist
4. Janet Leigh, The Naked Spur
5. Kyoko Kagawa, Tokyo Story
Richard Widmark (center) and Thelma Ritter in Samuel Fuller’s Pickup on South Street
Best Original Screenplay:
Pickup on South Street — Dwight Taylor and Samuel Fuller
2. Tokyo Story — Yasujiro Ozu and Kogo Noda
3. Roman Holiday — Dalton Trombo, Ian McLellan Hunter and John Dighton
4. The Naked Spur — Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom
5. The Little Fugitive — Morris Engel, Ray Ashley and Ruth Orkin
Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell in Howard Hawks’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes — Charles Lederer
2. The Big Heat — Sidney Boehem
3. Shane — A.B. Guthrie Jr. and Jack Sher
4. The Black Vampire – Alberto Etchebehere and Román Viñoly Barreto
5. From Here to Eternity — Daniel Taradash
Jean Peters and Richard Widmark in Samuel Fuller’s Pickup on South Street
Best Cinematography:
Pickup on South Street — Joe MacDonald
2. The Band Wagon — Henry Jackson and George J. Folsey
3. The Naked Spur — William C. Mellor
4. The Big Heat — Charles B. Lang
5. Shane — Loyal Griggs
Janet Leigh in Anthony Mann’s Naked Spur
Best Film Editing:
The Naked Spur — George White
2. The Band Wagon — Albert Akst and George White
3. Shane — William Hornbeck and Tom McAdoo
4. The War of the Worlds — Everett Douglas
5. Pickup on South Street — Nick DeMaggio
George Stevens’ Shane
Best Original Score:
Shane — Victor Young
2. From Here to Eternity — George Duning
3. The Robe — George Duning
4. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday — Alain Romans
5. The Naked Spur — Bronislau Kaper
Roy Rowland’s 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
Best Production Design:
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T — Rudolph Sternad and William Kiernan
2. House of Wax — Stanley Fleischer and Lyle B. Reifsnider
3. The Band Wagon – Preston Ames, Cedric Gibbons, Keogh Gleason and Edwin B. Willis
4. The War of the Worlds — Albert Nozaki, Hal Pereira, Sam Comer, Emile Kuri
5. The Robe — George Davis, Lyle Wheeler, Paul S. Fox, Walter Scott
Cyd Charisse in Vincente Minnelli’s Band Wagon
Best Costume Design:
The Band Wagon — Mary Ann Nyberg
2. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T — Jean Louis and Cary Odell
3. Kiss Me Kate — Walter Plunkett
4. How to Marry a Millionaire — William Travilla
5. Gate of Hell – Shima Yoshizane
** NEW CATEGORIES **
Best Visual Effects:
The War of the Worlds
Best Sound:
The War of the Worlds
Best Ensemble Cast:
The Big Heat
Orson Welles’ Best First Feature:
Jack Arnold, Girls in the Night
Best Ensemble Cast:
The Big Heat (dir: Fritz Lang; in alphabetical order): William Bouchey, Jocelyn Brando, Robert Burton, Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame (pictured), Lee Marvin (pictured), Jeanette Nolan, Alexander Scourby, Peter Whitney and Adam Williams
Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award:
Jack Arnold, Girls in the Night
RECAP
W I N S :
Pickup on South Street — 3, Tokyo Story — 3,
The Naked Spur — 2, The War of the Worlds — 2, 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T — 1, The Band Wagon — 1, The Big Heat — 1, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes — 1, Girls in the Night — 1, Roman Holiday — 1, Shane — 1
M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :
Pickup on South Street — 8,
The Big Heat — 7, Naked Spur — 7, Shane — 7, Tokyo Story — 6, The Band Wagon — 5, Roman Holiday — 4, The War of the Worlds — 4, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T — 3, The Black Vampire — 3, From Here to Eternity — 3, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes — 3, The Bigamist — 2, The Moon Is Blue — 2, The Robe — 2,
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