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* Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) - Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin * Best Motion Picture - Arthur Freed, Producer * Writing (Story and Screenplay) - Alan Jay Lerner
Feb 5, 2014 · 25th Academy Awards (1952): Nominees and Winners – Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell. BEST MOTION PICTURE. The Greatest Show on Earth – Cecil B. DeMille. High Noon – Stanley Kramer. Ivanhoe – Pandro S. Berman. Moulin Rouge – Romulus Films. The Quiet Man – John Ford, Merian C. Cooper. DIRECTING. Five Fingers – Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
Several things seemed certain on the night of Thursday, March 20, 1952. Danny Kaye would host, Marlon Brando would be named Best Actor, and either A Streetcar Named Desire or A Place in the Sun would be named Best Picture.
An American In Paris also won Academy Awards for Color Art Direction-Set Decoration (Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, and Keogh Gleason), Color Cinematography (Alfred Gilks and John Alton), Color Costume Design (Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett, and Irene Sharaff), Music – Scoring of a Musical Picture (Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin ...
The 24th Academy Awards were held on March 20, 1952, honoring the films of 1951. The ceremony was hosted by Danny Kaye . An American in Paris and A Place in the Sun each received six Oscars, splitting Best Picture and Best Director , respectively.
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture: An American in Paris – Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin (WINNER) Alice in Wonderland – Oliver Wallace On the Riviera – Alfred Newman The Great Caruso – Peter Herman Adler and Johnny Green Show Boat – Adolph Deutsch and Conrad Salinger
(A Best Musical Score award was taken away by perennial Oscar winner Alfred Newman for the competing With a Song in My Heart.) And where were nominations for Gene Kelly in his signature film (as silent film star Don Lockwood, with his memorable splashing in the rain segment), Debbie Reynolds (as Kelly's love-interest), or the inimitable Donald ...
