George Cukor Articles

Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Jeanne Crain, A Letter to Three Wives DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards Pt.2: Foreign, Small, Controversial Movies Have Better Luck at the Oscars Since pre-1970 Directors Guild Award finalists often consisted of more than five directors, it was impossible to get an exact match for the DGA's and the Academy's lists of nominees. In the list below, the years before 1970 [...]

George Cukor 21 Acting Nominations (s) supporting category (*) Academy Award winner George Cukor: Top Oscar Directors for Actors   James Stewart, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story 1930-31 Fredric March, The Royal Family of Broadway (co-directed with Cyril Gardner)   1936 Norma Shearer, Romeo and Juliet Basil Rathbone (s), Romeo and Juliet   1937 Greta Garbo, Camille   1940 * James Stewart, The [...]

William Holden, Oscar winner Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday Known as a refined "woman's director," George Cukor has had his considerable output either relegated to the sidelines or simply dismissed by those who like their directors macho and their films male-centered. Not helping matters is the general perception that Cukor was merely a hired hand for the likes of David O. Selznick at RKO and [...]

Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn in George Cukor's Adam's Rib (top) Home movies of scary folk such as Alfred Hitchcock and Richard Nixon (and of some non-scary celebrities and non-celebrities as well), in addition to film classics and/or rarities starring Marilyn Monroe, Thelma Todd, Ken Maynard, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Dustin Farnum, Diane Lane, Judy Holliday, Michael Paré, Olivia de Havilland, and [...]