The Academy Awards
1953 Best Picture From Here to Eternity Julius Caesar The Robe Roman Holiday Shane Best Director Fred Zinnemann - From Here to Eternity Charles Walters - Lili William Wyler - Roman Holiday George Stevens - Shane Billy Wilder - Stalag 17 Best Actor William Holden - Stalag 17 Marlon Brando - Julius Caesar Richard Burton - The Robe Montgomery Clift - From Here to Eternity Burt Lancaster - From Here to Eternity Best Actress Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday Leslie Caron - Lili Ava Gardner - Mogambo Deborah Kerr - From Here to Eternity Maggie McNamara - The Moon Is Blue Best Supporting Actor Frank Sinatra - From Here to Eternity Eddie Albert - Roman Holiday Brandon De Wilde - Shane Jack Palance - Shane Robert Strauss - Stalag 17 Best Supporting Actress Donna Reed - From Here to Eternity Grace Kelly - Mogambo Geraldine Page - Hondo Marjorie Rambeau - Torch Song Thelma Ritter - Pickup on South Street Best Original Screenplay Titanic The Band Wagon The Desert Rats The Naked Spur Take the High Ground Best Adapted Screenplay From Here to Eternity The Cruel Sea Lili Roman Holiday Shane Best Musical Score Bronislau Kaper - Lili Morris Stoloff and George Duning - From Here to Eternity Miklos Rozsa - Julius Caesar Louis Forbes - This is Cinerama Best Original Song “Secret Love” - Calamity Jane “The Moon Is Blue” - The Moon Is Blue “My Flaming Heart” - Small Town Girl “Sadie Thompson’s Song (Blue Pacific Blues)” - Miss Sadie Thompson “That’s Amore” - The Caddy |
Hot Toasty Rag Awards (video presentation here)
1953 Best Picture From Here to Eternity Hondo Inferno Island in the Sky Pickup on South Street Titanic Best Director Jean Negulesco - Titanic Fred Zinnemann - From Here to Eternity Henry Hathaway - Niagara Samuel Fuller - Pickup on South Street Best Actor Clifton Webb - Titanic James Cagney - A Lion is in the Streets Montgomery Clift - From Here to Eternity Kirk Douglas - The Juggler Robert Ryan - Inferno John Wayne - Hondo Best Actress Doris Day - Calamity Jane Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday Deborah Kerr - From Here to Eternity Ethel Merman - Call Me Madam Jean Peters - Pickup on South Street Best Supporting Actor Sir John Gielgud - Julius Caesar Charles Coburn - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes George Sanders - Call Me Madam John Wayne - Island in the Sky Best Supporting Actress Thelma Ritter - Pickup on South Street Geraldine Page - Hondo Gene Tierney - Never Let Me Go Juvenile Award Christian Fourcade Best Dramatic Screenplay From Here to Eternity Little Boy Lost Titanic Vice Squad Best Comedic Screenplay Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Call Me Madam Dream Wife How to Marry a Millionaire Best Musical Score Leigh Harline - Pickup on South Street Alfred Newman - The President’s Lady Hugo Friedhofer and Emil Newman - Hondo Best Original Song “The Dressing Song (Do-Mi-Do Duds) - The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T “That’s Amore” - The Caddy “That’s Entertainment” - The Band Wagon “The Windy City” - Calamity Jane “You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly!” - Peter Pan |
Notes from the Members of the Board:
Just because someone is in a musical, it doesn’t mean he or she isn’t acting. Rex Harrison, Yul Brynner, and Julie Andrews all took home Academy Awards. We awarded Doris Day a Rag for her delightful, and physically taxing, performance in Calamity Jane. As an accomplished Shakespearean actor, it was insulting for the Academy to give Sir John Gielgud an award for 1981’s Arthur. We pre-emptively righted the wrong and gave him a Rag for Julius Caesar, which would have been nothing without his performance.
Our Hot Toasty Rag theme song is set to the music of “The Dressing Song”, and we’re happy to give it an award, since it means so much to us and is a part of every ceremony.
- M.E.
Just because someone is in a musical, it doesn’t mean he or she isn’t acting. Rex Harrison, Yul Brynner, and Julie Andrews all took home Academy Awards. We awarded Doris Day a Rag for her delightful, and physically taxing, performance in Calamity Jane. As an accomplished Shakespearean actor, it was insulting for the Academy to give Sir John Gielgud an award for 1981’s Arthur. We pre-emptively righted the wrong and gave him a Rag for Julius Caesar, which would have been nothing without his performance.
Our Hot Toasty Rag theme song is set to the music of “The Dressing Song”, and we’re happy to give it an award, since it means so much to us and is a part of every ceremony.
- M.E.