Monday, July 09, 2012

1957 Awards





















The Endy Awards for 1957:

Best Picture:

1. Funny Face
2. Throne of Blood
3. What's Opera, Doc?
4. The Seventh Seal
5. Pyaasa

Best Director:

1. Samuel Fuller, Run of the Arrow/Forty Guns/China Gate
2. Akira Kurosawa, Throne of Blood/The Lower Depths
3. Budd Boetticher, The Tall T/Decision at Sundown
4. Yasujiro Ozu, Tokyo Twilight
5. Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal/Wild Strawberries

Best Actor:

1. Richard Burton, Bitter Victory
2. Tony Curtis, The Sweet Smell of Success
3. Randolph Scott, Decision at Sundown
4. Glenn Ford, 3:10 to Yuma
5. Toshiro Mifune, Throne of Blood

Best Actress:

1. Tatyana Smojlova, The Cranes are Flying
2. Giulietta Masina, Nights of Cabiria
3. Patricia Neal, A Face in the Crowd
4. Angie Dickinson, China Gate
5. Audrey Hepburn, Funny Face

Best Supporting Actor:

1. Sessue Hayakawa, The Bridge on the River Kwai
2. Hidari Bokuzen, The Lower Depths
3. Gunnar Bjornstrand, The Seventh Seal
4. Bengt Ekerot, The Seventh Seal
5. Adolphe Menjou, Paths of Glory

Best Supporting Actress:

1. Isuzu Yamada, Throne of Blood 
2. Kay Thompson, Funny Face
3. Joan Blondell, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
4. Carol Haney, The Pajama Game
5. Ruby Dee, The Edge of the City

Best Adapted Screenplay:

1. Throne of Blood
2. Bitter Victory
3. Le notti bianche
4. The Tarnished Angels
5. Witness for the Prosecution

Best Original Screenplay:

1. The Seventh Seal
2. Pyaasa
3. Funny Face
4. Run of the Arrow
5. What's Opera, Doc?

Best Cinematography:

1. The Cranes are Flying
2. Jet Pilot
3. Throne of Blood
4. Funny Face
5. Paths of Glory

Best Editing:

1. The Cranes are Flying
2. Funny Face
3. Men in War
4. Tokyo Twilight
5. Run of the Arrow

Best Music:

1. Funny Face
2. Pyaasa
3. What's Opera, Doc?
4. 3:10 to Yuma
5. China Gate

Best Art Direction:

1. Funny Face
2. Throne of Blood
3. The Seventh Seal
4. Le notti bianche
5. The Incredible Shrinking Man

Best Non-Fiction Film:

1. On the Bowery
2. NY, NY
3.
4.
5.

Best Short Film:

1. What's Opera, Doc?
2. A Chairy Tale
3. Show Biz Bugs
4. Steal Wool
5. Ali Baba Bunny

Best Non-English Language Film:

1. Throne of Blood
2. The Seventh Seal
3. Pyaasa
4. The Cranes are Flying
5. Tokyo Twilight

Sunday, July 08, 2012

This Week in Rankings



Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood - 6, 1922
I Flunked, But. . . - 12, 1930
Baby Face - 10, 1933


Celine & Julie Go Boating - 1, 1974
Death Race 2000 - 9, 1975


Good Men, Good Women - 2, 1995
We Need to Talk About Kevin - 5, 2011