This is Doris Day's first and only Oscar nomination; the winner of Best Actress was Simone Signoret for “Room at the Top.” Thelma Ritter lost the fifth of her six Supporting Actress nominations to Shelley Winters in “The Diary of Anne Frank.”
Oscar Movies: Quo Vadis (1951)
July 23, 2007 by
In 1951, “Quo Vadis” competed for the Best Picture Oscar with “An American in Paris,” which won, “Decision Before Dawn,” “A Place in the Sun,” and “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
Oscar Movies: Place in the Sun, A (1951)
July 22, 2007 by
In 1951, “A Place in the Sun” competed for the Best Picture Oscar with “An American in Paris,” which won, “Decision Before Dawn,” “Quo Vadis” and “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
Oscar Movies: Grifters, The (1990)
July 22, 2007 by
“The Grifters” received four Oscar nominations: Director for Stephen Frears, Screenplay (Adapted) for Donald E. Westlake, Best Actress for Anjelica Huston, and Supporting Actress for Annette Bening.
Oscar Actors: Grahame, Gloria–Supporting Actress, “The Bad and the Beautiful” (also Memorable in “Sudden Fear” and “Greatest Show on Earth”)
July 21, 2007 by
In 1952, Gloria Grahame won the Supporting Actress Oscar for “The Bad and the Beautiful” in a tight race that included Jean Hagen in “Singin' in the Rain,” Colette Marchand in “Moulin Rouge,” Terry Moore in Come Back, Little Sheba,” and Thelma Ritter in “With a Song in My Heart.”
