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National Board Of Review Awards 1951
23rd National Board of Review Awards December 17, 1951 The 23rd National Board of Review Awards were announced on December 17, 1951. Top Ten Films #'' A Place in the Sun'' #'' The Red Badge of Courage'' #'' An American in Paris'' #'' Death of a Salesman'' #'' Detective Story'' #''A Streetcar Named Desire'' #'' Decision Before Dawn'' #'' Strangers on a Train'' #''Quo Vadis'' #''Fourteen Hours'' Top Foreign Films #''Rashomon'' #'' The River'' #''Miracle in Milan'' #'' Kon-Tiki'' #'' The Browning Version'' Winners *Best Film: '' A Place in the Sun'' *Best Foreign Film: ''Rashomon'' *Best Actor: Richard Basehart (''Fourteen Hours'') *Best Actress: Jan Sterling ('' The Big Carnival'') *Best Director: Akira Kurosawa (''Rashomon'') *Best Screenplay: T.E.B. Clarke ('' The Lavender Hill Mob'') External links National Board of Review of Motion Pictures :: Awards for 1951 {{NBR Awards Chron 1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Place In The Sun (1951 Film)
''A Place in the Sun'' is a 1951 American drama film based on the 1925 novel ''An American Tragedy'' by Theodore Dreiser and the 1926 play, also titled ''An American Tragedy''. It tells the story of a working-class young man who is entangled with two women: one who works in his wealthy uncle's factory, and the other a beautiful socialite. Another adaptation of the novel had been filmed once before, as ''An American Tragedy'', in 1931. All these works were inspired by the real-life murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in 1906, which resulted in Gillette's conviction and execution by electric chair in 1908. ''A Place in the Sun'' was directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by Harry Brown and Michael Wilson, and stars Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters; its supporting actors included Anne Revere and Raymond Burr. Burr's performance impressed TV producer Gail Patrick, and would later lead to her casting him as Perry Mason. The film was a critical and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kon-Tiki (1950 Film)
''Kon-Tiki'' is a Norwegian documentary film about the ''Kon-Tiki'' expedition led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947, released in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark in 1950, followed by the United States in 1951. The movie, which was directed by Thor Heyerdahl and edited by Olle Nordemar, received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for 1951 at the 24th Academy Awards. The Oscar officially went to Olle Nordemar. The Academy Film Archive The Academy Film Archive is part of the Academy Foundation, established in 1944 with the purpose of organizing and overseeing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ educational and cultural activities, including the preservation of m ... preserved ''Kon-Tiki'' in 2013. Content The movie has an introduction explaining Heyerdahl's theory, then shows diagrams and images explaining the building of the raft and its launch from Peru. Thereafter it is a film of the crew on board, shot by themselves, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 In American Cinema
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea 1951 eruption of Mount Lamington, erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
