The Academy Awards
1950 Best Picture All About Eve Born Yesterday Father of the Bride King Solomon’s Mines Sunset Blvd. Best Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All About Eve John Huston - The Asphalt Jungle George Cukor - Born Yesterday Billy Wilder - Sunset B.vd. Carol Reed - The Third Man Best Actor José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac Louis Calhern - The Magnificent Yankee William Holden - Sunset Blvd. James Stewart - Harvey Spencer Tracy - Father of the Bride Best Actress Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday Anne Baxter - All About Eve Bette Davis - All About Eve Eleanor Parker - Caged Gloria Swanson - Sunset Blvd. Best Supporting Actor George Sanders - All About Eve Jeff Chandler - Broken Arrow Edmund Gwenn - Mister 880 Sam Jaffe - The Asphalt Jungle Erich von Stroheim - Sunset Blvd. Best Supporting Actress Josephine Hull - Harvey Hope Emerson - Caged Celeste Holm - All About Eve Nancy Olson - Sunset Blvd. Thelma Ritter - All About Eve Best Original Screenplay Sunset Blvd. Adam’s Rib Caged The Men No Way Out Best Adapted Screenplay All About Eve The Asphalt Jungle Born Yesterday Broken Arrow Father of the Bride |
Hot Toasty Rag Awards (video presentation here)
1950 Best Picture All About Eve Father of the Bride No Sad Songs for Me Perfect Strangers Sunset Boulevard Three Came Home Best Director Fred Zinnemann - The Men Irving Pichel - Destination Moon Edward Dmytryk - The Hidden Room Bretaigne Windust - Perfect Strangers Best Actor José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac Marlon Brando - The Men Louis Calhern - The Magnificent Yankee Kirk Douglas - Young Man with a Horn Spencer Tracy - Father of the Bride Best Actress Claudette Colbert - Three Came Home Gloria Swanson - Sunset Boulevard Joan Crawford - Harriet Craig Bette Davis - All About Eve Katharine Hepburn - Adam’s Rib Eleanor Parker - Caged Margaret Sullavan - No Sad Songs for Me Best Supporting Actor Richard Widmark - No Way Out Edmund Gwenn - Mister 880 Sessne Hayakawa - Three Came Home Juano Hernandez - Young Man with a Horn Erich von Stroheim - Sunset Boulevard Best Supporting Actress Ann Harding - The Magnificent Yankee Ethel Barrymore - The Red Danube Anne Baxter - All About Eve Phyllis Thaxter - The Breaking Point Best Dramatic Screenplay The Hidden Room All About Eve Caged The Magnificent Yankee The Men Perfect Strangers Best Comedic Screenplay Father of the Bride Adam’s Rib A Woman of Distinction |
Notes from the Members of the Board:
For decades, one of the driving forces behind the Hot Toasty Rags was to right the wrong of the 1950 Best Actress Academy Award, and as you can see, of the seven talented performances honored, Judy Holliday’s was not one of them.
Hidden Gem: Three Came Home
- M.E.
For decades, one of the driving forces behind the Hot Toasty Rags was to right the wrong of the 1950 Best Actress Academy Award, and as you can see, of the seven talented performances honored, Judy Holliday’s was not one of them.
Hidden Gem: Three Came Home
- M.E.