1952
FILM
Les Jeux interdits / Forbidden Games
El Bruto / The Brute
Carrie
Casque d’or / Golden Marie
The Crimson Pirate
5 Fingers
High Noon
Ivanhoe
Monkey Business
Scaramouche
NON-FICTION
The Hoaxters
DIRECTOR
René Clément (Les Jeux interdits
/ Forbidden Games)
Jacques Becker (Casque d’or / Golden Marie)
Luis Buñuel (El Bruto / The Brute)
Howard Hawks (Monkey Business)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (5 Fingers)
George Sidney (Scaramouche)
Robert Siodmak (The Crimson Pirate)
Richard Thorpe (Ivanhoe)
William Wyler (Carrie)
Fred Zinnemann (High Noon)
ACTOR
Gary Cooper (High Noon)
José Ferrer (Moulin Rouge)
Cary Grant (Monkey Business)
James Mason (5 Fingers)
Laurence Olivier (Carrie)
Georges Poujouly (Les Jeux interdits / Forbidden Games)
Serge Reggiani (Casque d’or / Golden Marie)
Robert Taylor (Ivanhoe)
ACTRESS
Julie Harris (The Member of the Wedding)
Joan Crawford (Sudden Fear)
Joan Fontaine (Ivanhoe)
Brigitte Fossey (Les Jeux interdits / Forbidden Games)
Katharine Hepburn (Pat and Mike)
Jennifer Jones (Carrie)
Katy Jurado (El Bruto / The Brute)
Maureen O'Hara (The Quiet Man)
Ginger Rogers (Monkey Business)
Simone Signoret (Casque d’or / Golden Marie)
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Charles Coburn (Monkey Business)
Finlay Currie (Ivanhoe)
Brandon DeWilde (The Member of the Wedding)
Aldo Ray (Pat and Mike)
Gilbert Roland (The Bad and the Beautiful)
George Sanders (Ivanhoe)
Frank Silvera (Viva Zapata!)
Alberto Sordi (Lo Scieicco bianco / The White Sheik)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Colette Marchand (Moulin Rouge)
Vivian Blaine (Skirts Ahoy)
Edith Evans (The Importance of Being Earnest)
Joan Greenwood (The Importance of Being Earnest)
Jean Hagen (Singin’ in the Rain)
Miriam Hopkins (Carrie)
Katy Jurado (High Noon)
Marilyn Monroe (Monkey Business)
Margaret Rutherford (The Importance of Being Earnest)
Ethel Waters (The Member of the Wedding)
SCREENPLAY
Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost, René
Clément & François Boyer (Les Jeux interdits / Forbidden
Games)
Anthony Asquith (The Importance of Being Earnest)
Luis Buñuel & Luiz Alcoriza (El Bruto / The Brute)
Carl Foreman (High Noon)
Ruth Goetz & Augustus Goetz (Carrie)
Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer & I.A.L. Diamond (Monkey Business)
Noel Langley, Aeneas Mackenzie & Marguerite Roberts (Ivanhoe)
Ronald Millar & George Froeschel (Scaramouche)
Michael Wilson (5 Fingers)
Cesare Zavattini & Vittorio De Sica (Umberto D.)
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Robert Surtees (The Bad and the Beautiful)
George Barnes, Peverell Marley & Wallace Kelley (The Greatest Show
on Earth)
Norbert Brodine (5 Fingers)
Floyd Crosby (High Noon)
Russell Harlan (The Big Sky)
Winton C. Hoch & Archie Stout (The Quiet Man)
Robert Juillard (Les Jeux interdits / Forbidden Games)
Joseph P. MacDonald (Viva Zapata)
Oswald Morris (Moulin Rouge)
Frederick A. Young (Ivanhoe)
ORIGINAL SCORE
Narciso Yepes (Les Jeux interdits / Forbidden Games)
Georges Auric (Moulin Rouge)
Charles Chaplin (Limelight)
Alessandro Cicognini (Umberto D.)
Miklos Rozsa (Ivanhoe)
Dmitri Tiomkin (High Noon)
AltFG's Best of the Best Annual List
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Best of the Best Rules and Regulations
RSS
Movies about children tend to be dangerous to one's blood
sugar levels. Les Jeux interdits / Forbidden Games is one of
the few exceptions. Directed by René Clément, this masterpiece
co-written by Clément himself, Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost, and
François Boyer shows us how the horrors of war (in this case World
War II) affect the lives of two little children in the French countryside.
As a plus, Les Jeux interdits boasts one of the best film scores
ever, Narciso Yepes's “Romance d'amour,” and two of the greatest
child performances ever recorded on celluloid: Brigitte Fossey's and Georges
Poujouly's as the two kids obsessed with their animal cemetery. We feel
confident in our (highly judgmental) appraisal of reactions to this particular
film: If your eyes are dry at the end of Les Jeux interdits,
you can be sure you're as dead as the animals in the children's pet cemetery.