Best Films – 1953

Jacques Tati in Mr. Hulot’s Holiday

FILM

The Bandwagon
d: Vincente Minnelli; scr: Adolph Green, Betty Comden

The Big Heat
d: Fritz Lang; scr: Sidney Boehm

Blowing Wild
d: Hugo Fregonese; scr: Philip Yordan

Calamity Jane
d: David Butler; scr: James O’Hanlon

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
d: Howard Hawks; scr: Charles Lederer

How to Marry a Millionaire
d: Jean Negulesco; scr: Nunnally Johnson

I Confess
d: Alfred Hitchcock; scr: George Tabori, William Archibald

Madame De… / The Earrings of Madame De…
d: Max Ophüls; scr: Marcel Achard, Max Ophüls, Annette Wademant

Peter Pan
d: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske; scr: Ted Sears, Bill Peet, and others

Pickup on South Street
d, scr: Samuel Fuller

Shane
d: George Stevens; scr: A. B. Guthrie Jr.

Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot / Mr. Hulot’s Holiday
d: Jacques Tati; scr: Jacques Tati, Henri Marquet

Federico Fellini’s I Vitelloni

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The Actress
d: George Cukor; scr: Ruth Gordon

The Living Desert
d: James Algar

The Naked Spur
d: Anthony Mann; scr: Sam Rolfe, Harold Jack Bloom

The Titfield Thunderbolt
d: Charles Crichton; scr: T. E. B. Clarke

I Vitelloni / The Young and the Passionate
d, scr: Federico Fellini

Montgomery Clift in I Confess

ACTOR

Charles Boyer
The Earrings of Madame De…

Montgomery Clift
I Confess

Gary Cooper
Blowing Wild

Franco Fabrizi
I Vitelloni / The Young and the Passionate

Glenn Ford
The Big Heat

Franco Interlenghi
I Vitelloni

Howard Keel
Ride Vaquero

Gregory Peck
Roman Holiday

Robert Ryan
The Naked Spur

Jacques Tati
Mr. Hulot’s Holiday

Leslie Caron in Lili

ACTRESS

Leslie Caron
Lili

Danielle Darrieux
The Earrings of Madame De…

Joan Fontaine
The Bigamist

Betty Grable
How to Marry a Millionaire

Gloria Grahame
The Big Heat

Rita Hayworth
Miss Sadie Thompson

Marilyn Monroe
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Jean Peters
Pickup on South Street

Barbara Stanwyck
All I Desire

Barbara Stanwyck
Blowing Wild

Lee Marvin, Gloria Grahame in The Big Heat

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Richard Basehart
Titanic

Jack Buchanan
The Bandwagon

Richard Carlson
All I Desire

Charles Coburn
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Brandon DeWilde
Shane

Peter Graves
Stalag 17

Stanley Holloway
The Titfield Thunderbolt

Lee Marvin
The Big Heat

Anthony Quinn
Blowing Wild

Alberto Sordi
I Vitelloni

Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Nanette Fabray
The Bandwagon

Deborah Kerr
From Here to Eternity

Hildegarde Kneff
The Man Between

Ann Miller
Kiss Me Kate

Donna Reed
From Here to Eternity

Thelma Ritter
Pickup on South Street

Jean Simmons
The Robe

Dorothy Tutin
The Beggar’s Opera

Teresa Wright
The Actress

Danielle Darrieux in The Earrings of Madame De…

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Loyal Griggs
Shane

Burnett Guffey
From Here to Eternity

Charles B. Lang
The Big Heat

Otello Martelli, Luciano Trasatti, Carlo Carlini
I Vitelloni

Christian Matras
The Earrings of Madame De…

Kazuo Miyagawa
Ugetsu monogatari

Alex Phillips
La Red

Joseph Ruttenberg
Julius Caesar

Kôhei Sugiyama
Jigokumon / Gate of Hell

Harry J. Wild
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift in Indiscretion of an American Wife

MUSIC

Georges Auric
Roman Holiday

Alessandro Cicognini
Stazione Termini / Indiscretion of an American Wife

Morris Engel
The Little Fugitive

Bronislau Kaper
Lili

Nino Rota
I Vitelloni

Oscar Straus, Georges von Parys
The Earrings of Madame De…

Dmitri Tiomkin
Blowing Wild

Victor Young
Shane

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