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All the King’s Men – Robert Rossen Productions Battleground – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The Heiress – Paramount A Letter to Three Wives – 20th Century-Fox Twelve O’Clock High– 20th Century-Fox
All the King’s Men – Robert Rossen Battleground – William A. Wellman The Fallen Idol – Carol Reed The Heiress – William Wyler A Letter to Three Wives– Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Broderick Crawford – All the King’s Men Kirk Douglas – Champion Gregory Peck – Twelve O’Clock High Richard Todd – The Hasty Heart John Wayne – Sands of Iwo Jima
Jeanne Crain – Pinky Olivia de Havilland – The Heiress Susan Hayward – My Foolish Heart Deborah Kerr – Edward, My Son Loretta Young – Come to the Stable
John Ireland – All the King’s Men Dean Jagger – Twelve O’Clock High Arthur Kennedy – Champion Ralph Richardson – The Heiress James Whitmore – Battleground
Ethel Barrymore – Pinky Celeste Holm – Come to the Stable Elsa Lanchester – Come to the Stable Mercedes McCambridge – All the King’s Men Ethel Waters – Pinky
Come to the Stable – Clare Boothe Luce It Happens Every Spring – Shirley W. Smith, Valentine Davies Sands of Iwo Jima – Harry Brown The Stratton Story – Douglas Morrow White Heat– Virginia Kellogg
“Baby, It’s Cold Outside” – Neptune’s Daughter – Music, Lyrics by Frank Loesser “It’s A Great Feeling” – It’s a Great Feeling – Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn “Lavender Blue” – So Dear to My Heart – Music by Eliot Daniel; Lyrics by Larry Morey “My Foolish Heart” – My Foolish Heart – Music by Victor Young; Lyrics by Ned Washington “Throug...
All the King’s Men – Robert Parrish, Al Clark Battleground – John Dunning Champion – Harry Gerstad Sands of Iwo Jima – Richard L. Van Enger The Window– Frederic Knudtson
Battleground – Paul C. Vogel Champion – Frank Planer Come to the Stable – Joseph LaShelle The Heiress – Leo Tover Prince of Foxes– Leon Shamroy
It was also honored with a Special Academy Award as the "most outstanding foreign film released in the United States during 1949" - many years before an official category was created. [The film served as the impetus for the creation of an official Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1956.]
- MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (1949) Ray Harryhausen’s work on Mighty Joe Young—which was directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, one of the directors of the groundbreaking 1933 movie King Kong—contributed to the film’s Academy Award win for Best Special Effects in 1949.
- EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS (1956) The science fiction film Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers (also known as Invasion of the Flying Saucers) displayed an elaborate alien invasion that had UFOs crashing into a number of government buildings and monuments.
- THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1958) The 7th Voyage of Sinbad was the first of three Sinbad movies released by Columbia Pictures. Harryhausen refined his stop-motion technique with a new system called “Dynamation," which incorporated stop-motion animation with lush and vivid color.
- MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (1961) Loosely based on Jules Verne’s novel, Mysterious Island was used by Shepperton Studios to showcase the high level of special effects the British movie studio could churn out and offer directors.
The 21st Academy Awards were held on March 24, 1949, honoring the films of 1948. 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. [2] .
Mighty Joe Young (1949) This fantasy film featured state of the art special effects and won the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Special Effects. [See later for the Hollywood updated version, Mighty Joe Young (1998).]
