Throwback Muriels: 1957

Thursday, August 11, 2011

1957

Picture:
Sweet Smell of Success
Smiles of a Summer Night
Ordet
A Face in the Crowd
12 Angry Men
Paths of Glory
A Man Escaped
Nights of Cabiria
The Incredible Shrinking Man
The Bridge on the River Kwai

Director:
Ingmar Bergman, Smiles of a Summer Night
Alexander Mackendrick, Sweet Smell of Success
Carl Theodor Dreyer, Ordet
Elia Kazan, A Face in the Crowd
Stanley Kubrick, Paths of Glory

Male Lead:
Tony Curtis, Sweet Smell of Success
Burt Lancaster, Sweet Smell of Success
Andy Griffith, A Face in the Crowd
Gunnar Bjornstrand, Smiles of a Summer Night
Kirk Douglas, Paths of Glory

Female Lead:
Giulietta Masina, Nights of Cabiria
Eva Dahlbeck, Smiles of a Summer Night
Patricia Neal, A Face in the Crowd
Barbara Stanwyck, Forty Guns
Audrey Hepburn, Funny Face

Male Supporting:
Sessue Hayakawa, The Bridge on the River Kwai
Joseph Sweeney, 12 Angry Men
Emil Hass Christensen, Ordet
Henrik Malberg, Ordet
Timothy Carey, Paths of Glory

Female Supporting:
Brigitte Federspiel, Ordet
Joan Blondell, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Naima Wifstrand, Smiles of a Summer Night
Harriet Andersson, Smiles of a Summer Night
Lee Remick, A Face in the Crowd

Screenplay:
Sweet Smell of Success
A Face in the Crowd
12 Angry Men
Smiles of a Summer Night
Paths of Glory

Ensemble:
Smiles of a Summer Night
Ordet
12 Angry Men
Sweet Smell of Success
Paths of Glory

Cinematography:
Ordet (Bendtsen)
Sweet Smell of Success (Howe)
A Man Escaped (Burel)
Smiles of a Summer Night (Fischer)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (Hildyard)

No comments:

Post a Comment

Administrative Stuff

In keeping with the spirit of the project I started this past winter, I’ve decided to continue formulating lists of retrospective nominees by year. Of course, as we move backwards in time I’d estimate that some years will be pretty lean. Therefore, I fear I will have to stop when I feel I can’t fill out a satisfactory ballot, although this probably won’t happen for a while yet.

As with the present-day Muriels, I based these old-school awards on the film’s NYC commercial release date. Since Mike D’Angelo’s eligibility lists don’t go back past 1998, I used the listed release dates in IMDb for this purpose. And much like the contemporary Muriels, if a movie remains unreleased in Gotham within five years of its international release date, it is ineligible for nominations. Sadly, that means I couldn’t throw any nominations at, say, Play Time, Satantango, the films of Yasujiro Ozu, or (sniff) Jeanne Dielman. So it goes.

Additionally, I reserve the right to allow ties here, especially in the case of movies featuring same-sex co-leads who are equally awesome. Several Bergman films spring to mind here, but there will no doubt be other occurrences as well.

Finally, I’ve decided to limit these lists to a “big nine” (picture, director, 4 acting categories, screenplay, ensemble, and cinematography). Much as I would have loved to include Best Cinematic Moment- probably my favorite Muriels category- here as well, I have a feeling that I’d forget some embarrassingly obvious choices and would prefer to save myself the bother.

As before, I’ll post one of these here per day as long as I’m able. I’ll try to remember to update these as needed, but I make no promises.

By the way, here’s a link to the 1995-2009 throwback Muriels I posted this winter. In time, I’ll probably move them over here, but until then this’ll have to do.