Technically a '50s movie:
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1958)
Sergei Eisenstein
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Technically a '50s movie:
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1958)
Sergei Eisenstein
Watch trailer:
I'll second Sansho the Bailiff to close things out!
And that's 160! Thank you, everyone, for this amazing list! I think once again we came up with a great and very representative list, full of well-known classics and eclectic lesser-known gems. I'll post some usual stats later, and hopefully Servant's acting stats will follow soon, as well!
Round 1 will open up on Monday, January 31st, so please use the time to check out some of the nominees you might not have seen! Luckily, a lot of these are on the various streaming services!
Some stats:
Number of nominations per year:
- 1950: 14
- 1951: 14
- 1952: 9
- 1953: 20
- 1954: 16
- 1955: 17
- 1956: 15
- 1957: 17
- 1958: 18
- 1959: 20
Directors with multiple nominations:
2
Ed Wood: Glen or Glenda; Plan 9 from Outer Space
Federico Fellini: La Strada; Nights of Cabiria
Henri-Georges Clouzot: Diabolique; The Wages of Fear
Henry Koster: Harvey; The Robe
Howard Hawks: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Rio Bravo
Ingmar Bergman: The Seventh Seal; Wild Strawberries
Jack Arnold: Creature from the Black Lagoon; The Incredible Shrinking Man
John Ford: The Quiet Man; The Searchers
Joseph L. Mankiewicz: All About Eve; Suddenly, Last Summer
Joshua Logan: Bus Stop; South Pacific
Jules Dassin: Night and the City; Rififi
Mervyn LeRoy: Quo Vadis; The Bad Seed
Richard Brooks: Blackboard Jungle; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Stanley Kramer: On the Beach; The Defiant Ones
Stanley Kubrick: Paths of Glory; The Killing
William Castle: House on Haunted Hill; The Tingler
William Wyler: Ben-Hur; Roman Holiday
Yasujirō Ozu: Floating Weeds; Tokyo Story
3
Douglas Sirk: All That Heaven Allows; Imitation of Life; Written on the Wind
Fred Zinnemann: From Here to Eternity; High Noon; Oklahoma!
John Huston: The African Queen; The Asphalt Jungle; The Red Badge of Courage
Kenji Mizoguchi: Sansho the Bailiff; The Life of Oharu; Ugetsu
Michael Curtiz: King Creole; The Breaking Point; White Christmas
Nicholas Ray: In a Lonely Place; Johnny Guitar; Rebel Without a Cause
Robert Bresson: A Man Escaped; Diary of a Country Priest; Pickpocket
Stanley Donen: Funny Face; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; Singin' in the Rain
4
Elia Kazan: A Face in the Crowd; A Streetcar Named Desire; East of Eden; On the Waterfront
George Stevens: A Place in the Sun; Giant; Shane; The Diary of Anne Frank
Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson: Alice in Wonderland; Cinderella; Lady and the Tramp; Peter Pan
Robert Wise: I Want to Live!; Run Silent, Run Deep; Somebody Up There Likes Me; The Day the Earth Stood Still
Vincente Minnelli: An American in Paris; Gigi; Tea and Sympathy; The Bad and the Beautiful
5
Akira Kurosawa: Ikiru; Rashomon; Seven Samurai; The Hidden Fortress; Throne of Blood
Clyde Geronimi: Alice in Wonderland; Cinderella; Lady and the Tramp; Peter Pan; Sleeping Beauty
6
Billy Wilder: Ace in the Hole; Sabrina; Some Like It Hot; Stalag 17; Sunset Boulevard; The Seven Year Itch; Witness for the Prosecution
10
Alfred Hitchcock: Dial M for Murder; North by Northwest; Rear Window; Stage Fright; Strangers on a Train; The Man Who Knew Too Much; The Trouble with Harry; The Wrong Man; To Catch a Thief; Vertigo
A good list, for sure. The following are the ones I had jotted down but did not get around to nominating:
When Worlds Collide (1951)
Death of a Salesman (1951)
This Island Earth (1955)
Moby Dick (1956)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957)
The Deadly Mantis (1957)
The Shaggy Dog (1959)
Operation Petticoat (1959)
As well as the aforementioned Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)
and the following 6 by Ozu:
Early Summer (1951)
The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (1952)
Early Spring (1956)
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Equinox Flower (1958)
Good Morning (1959)
...but the two Ozu we have nominated are better than any of these six, so I feel good about that.
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I actually got to pretty much all the ones I wanted to nominate, except The Human Condition 1 and 2.
Shit, I was born in '58. I don't know this era!! lol I'll just vote based on what I've seen I guess.
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
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The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
I've been busy watching Sundance movies, but I'm working on the actors list now.
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I've been watching a lot of movies from TCM and disney+ the last year. I should have written them down so I would remember to nominate them. Watched Moby Dick and The Shaggy Dog in the last 4 months, but forgot about them. As it is I have only seen: 18 of the movies (16 of which I have seen in last 2 or 3 years or less, so they are fresh in my mind). There are 2 more that are on my DVR waiting to be watched.
Wanted:
'Salem's Lot Portfolio #606
Fairy Tale UK S/L
I thought it was a little funny that we have five movies with the number seven in them (with this being our seventh part of the overall tournament):
Seven Samurai
The Seventh Seal
The Seven Year Itch
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
And we can be cute and make it seven movies if we count:
Stalag 17
Winchester '73
The results are in!
As I have mentioned, the farther we go back in the past, the fewer actors I know. So for the most part, I tried to stick with actors I was familiar with (there's one very interesting exception you will see below).
Another thing I noticed is that the 50s seemed to be another decade where there was a changing of the guard. I don't feel like there were a ton of actors who had films in the 50s, 60s and 70s.
Marilyn Monroe - 8
James Stewart - 7
Deborah Kerr - 6
Rock Hudson - 5
Vincent Price - 5
Humphrey Bogart - 4
Ernest Borgnine - 4 (Connecticut native!)
Tony Curtis - 4
Kirk Douglas - 4
Gloria Grahame - 4
Cary Grant - 4
William Holden - 4
Grace Kelly - 4
James Mason - 4 (Mason and Walter Matthau appeared in 4 decades of our tournament)
Toshiro Mifune - 4
Elizabeth Taylor - 4
Shelley Winters - 4
Montgomery Clift - 3
Doris Day - 3
James Dean - 3
Sandra Dee - 3
Sterling Hayden - 3
Audrey Hepburn - 3
Charleton Heston - 3
Burt Lancaster - 3
Lee Marvin - 3
Sal Mineo - 3
Patricia Neal - 3
John Wayne - 3
John Williams - 3
As I was going through each movie, I kept noticing the same name pop up very often. Most of the time he was listed as uncredited, which isn't surprising considering most films back then listed everyone besides the main players as uncredited. His name was Harold Miller and he has a staggering 718 credits to his name! That's insane. I thought he at least deserved a shoutout for his 17 films in the tournament.
Harold Miller - 17
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Wow, amazing job, as always! Thank you. Great to see the incomparable Marilyn Monroe at the top. That's really unexpected! And Deborah Kerr should be a more well known star:
Only four with Cary Grant? I thought there'd be more. And yeah, wow Harold Miller, his career stretches all the way back to the 1910s! I had no idea: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0588443/
Oh and right on time! Round 1 starts tomorrow!
I think this is very true. The 1950s was the end of "old Hollywood" for the most part. Sure a lot of these stars made movie in later decades but as a group this was the last decade you'd see most of them dominating. We'll be seeing much more of them and others in the 1940s and '30s!