Body and Soul 1947

Well over a century has passed since the Lumière brothers frightened the life out of Parisians with The Arrival of a Train at a Station, and well over a million titles have since been recorded - if the Internet Movie Database is anything to go by.

Out of these million-plus movies, our team of experts has picked what we believe is the essential 1,000 - those that best sum up the dazzling achievement and variety of the movies.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/film/series/1000-films-to-see-before-you-die

TSPDT is building a list of 1000 Noir films to expand on its previous 250 Quintessential Noirs. Following the initial collection of 100 noirs, a further 900 noir films (or films with prominent noir elements) will steadily be added (in a fairly random manner). This list will contain the full 1000 films which are the 1,000 most cited noir films (according to TSPDT's research). Please note that this list has not been and will not be ranked.

Source: http://www.theyshootpictures.com/noir1000.htm

Source: http://www.imdb.com/list/pVQCkiZoP9c/

35 movies missing from source.

https://letterboxd.com/david_crdza/list/sean-price-williams-legendary-top-1000-films/

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Movies of the 40's, Jürgen Müller (ed.) Taschen.

The National Film Registry is the United States National Film Preservation Board's selection of films for preservation in the Library of Congress. The Board was established in 1988. Each year, 25 "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films" are preserved, to increase awareness for its preservation. To be eligible for inclusion, a film must be at least ten years old but it is not required to be feature-length, nor is it required to have been theatrically released.

Source: https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/

A personal introduction to 1000 movies by the provocative contemporary film critic and historian David Thomson.

Source: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Have-You-Seen-Introduction-masterpieces/dp/014102075X

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List of Nominees and Winners

• ACTOR

RONALD COLMAN "A Double Life" - WINNER
JOHN GARFIELD "Body and Soul"
GREGORY PECK "Gentleman's Agreement"
WILLIAM POWELL "Life with Father"
MICHAEL REDGRAVE "Mourning Becomes Electra"

• ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

EDMUND GWENN "Miracle on 34th Street" - WINNER
CHARLES BICKFORD "The Farmer's Daughter"
THOMAS GOMEZ "Ride the Pink Horse"
ROBERT RYAN "Crossfire"
RICHARD WIDMARK "Kiss of Death"

• ACTRESS

LORETTA YOUNG "The Farmer's Daughter" - WINNER
JOAN CRAWFORD "Possessed"
SUSAN HAYWARD "Smash-Up--The Story of a Woman"
DOROTHY MCGUIRE "Gentleman's Agreement"
ROSALIND RUSSELL "Mourning Becomes Electra"

• ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

CELESTE HOLM "Gentleman's Agreement" - WINNER
ETHEL BARRYMORE "The Paradine Case"
GLORIA GRAHAME "Crossfire"
MARJORIE MAIN "The Egg and I"
ANNE REVERE "Gentleman's Agreement"

• ART DIRECTION (BLACK-AND-WHITE)

"GREAT EXPECTATIONS" Art Direction: John Bryan; Set Decoration: Wilfred Shingleton - WINNER
"THE FOXES OF HARROW" Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox

• ART DIRECTION (COLOR)

"BLACK NARCISSUS" Art Direction: Alfred Junge; Set Decoration: Alfred Junge - WINNER
"LIFE WITH FATHER" Art Direction: Robert M. Haas; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins

• CINEMATOGRAPHY (BLACK-AND-WHITE)

"GREAT EXPECTATIONS" Guy Green - WINNER
"THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR" Charles Lang, Jr.
"GREEN DOLPHIN STREET" George Folsey

• CINEMATOGRAPHY (COLOR)

"BLACK NARCISSUS" Jack Cardiff - WINNER
"LIFE WITH FATHER" Peverell Marley, William V. Skall
"MOTHER WORE TIGHTS" Harry Jackson

• DIRECTING

"GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT" Elia Kazan - WINNER
"THE BISHOP'S WIFE" Henry Koster
"CROSSFIRE" Edward Dmytryk
"A DOUBLE LIFE" George Cukor
"GREAT EXPECTATIONS" David Lean

• DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)

"DESIGN FOR DEATH" Sid Rogell, Executive Producer; Theron Warth and Richard O. Fleischer, Producers - WINNER
"JOURNEY INTO MEDICINE" United States Department of State Office of Information and Educational Exchange
"THE WORLD IS RICH" Paul Rotha, Producer

• DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)

"FIRST STEPS" United Nations Division of Films and Visual Information - WINNER
"PASSPORT TO NOWHERE" Frederic Ullman, Jr., Producer
"SCHOOL IN THE MAILBOX" Australian News & Information Bureau

• FILM EDITING

"BODY AND SOUL" Francis Lyon, Robert Parrish - WINNER
"THE BISHOP'S WIFE" Monica Collingwood
"GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT" Harmon Jones
"GREEN DOLPHIN STREET" George White
"ODD MAN OUT" Fergus McDonell

• MUSIC (MUSIC SCORE OF A DRAMATIC OR COMEDY PICTURE)

"A DOUBLE LIFE" Dr. Miklos Rozsa - WINNER
"THE BISHOP'S WIFE" Hugo Friedhofer
"CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE" Alfred Newman
"FOREVER AMBER" David Raksin
"LIFE WITH FATHER" Max Steiner

• MUSIC (SCORING OF A MUSICAL PICTURE)

"MOTHER WORE TIGHTS" Alfred Newman - WINNER
"FIESTA" Johnny Green
"MY WILD IRISH ROSE" Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner
"ROAD TO RIO" Robert Emmett Dolan
"SONG OF THE SOUTH" Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul J. Smith, Charles Wolcott

• MUSIC (SONG)

"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" in "Song of the South" Music by Allie Wrubel; Lyrics by Ray Gilbert - WINNER
"A Gal In Calico" in "The Time, the Place and the Girl" Music by Arthur Schwartz; Lyrics by Leo Robin
"I Wish I Didn't Love You So" in "The Perils of Pauline" Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser
"Pass That Peace Pipe" in "Good News" Music and Lyrics by Ralph Blane, Roger Edens and Hugh Martin
"You Do" in "Mother Wore Tights" Music by Josef Myrow; Lyrics by Mack Gordon

• BEST MOTION PICTURE

"GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT" 20th Century-Fox - WINNER
"THE BISHOP'S WIFE" Samuel Goldwyn Productions
"CROSSFIRE" RKO Radio
"GREAT EXPECTATIONS" J. Arthur Rank-Cineguild
"MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET" 20th Century-Fox

• SHORT SUBJECT (CARTOON)

"TWEETIE PIE" Edward Selzer, Producer - WINNER
"CHIP AN' DALE" Walt Disney, Producer
"DR. JEKYLL AND MR. MOUSE" Frederick Quimby, Producer
"PLUTO'S BLUE NOTE" Walt Disney, Producer
"TUBBY THE TUBA" George Pal, Producer

• SHORT SUBJECT (ONE-REEL)

"GOOD-BYE MISS TURLOCK" Herbert Moulton, Producer - WINNER
"BROOKLYN, U.S.A." Thomas Mead, Producer
"MOON ROCKETS" Jerry Fairbanks, Producer
"NOW YOU SEE IT" Pete Smith, Producer
"SO YOU WANT TO BE IN PICTURES" Gordon Hollingshead, Producer

• SHORT SUBJECT (TWO-REEL)

"CLIMBING THE MATTERHORN" Irving Allen, Producer - WINNER
"CHAMPAGNE FOR TWO" Harry Grey, Producer
"FIGHT OF THE WILD STALLIONS" Thomas Mead, Producer
"GIVE US THE EARTH" Herbert Morgan, Producer
"A VOICE IS BORN: THE STORY OF NIKLOS GAFNI" Ben Blake, Producer

• SOUND RECORDING

"THE BISHOP'S WIFE" Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer, Sound Director - WINNER
"GREEN DOLPHIN STREET" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director
"T-MEN" Sound Service, Inc., Jack R. Whitney, Sound Director

• SPECIAL AWARD

"BILL AND COO" Special Award - WINNER
"SHOE-SHINE" Italy
"SONG OF THE SOUTH" Special Award

• SPECIAL EFFECTS

"GREEN DOLPHIN STREET" Special Visual Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe; Special Audible Effects by Douglas Shearer, Michael Steinore - WINNER
"UNCONQUERED" Special Visual Effects by Farciot Edouart, Devereux Jennings, Gordon Jennings, Wallace Kelley, Paul Lerpae; Special Audible Effects by George Dutton

• WRITING (MOTION PICTURE STORY)

"MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET" Valentine Davies - WINNER
"A CAGE OF NIGHTINGALES" Georges Chaperot, Rene Wheeler
"IT HAPPENED ON FIFTH AVENUE" Herbert Clyde Lewis, Frederick Stephani
"KISS OF DEATH" Eleazar Lipsky
"SMASH-UP--THE STORY OF A WOMAN" Dorothy Parker, Frank Cavett

• WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)

"THE BACHELOR AND THE BOBBY-SOXER" Sidney Sheldon - WINNER
"BODY AND SOUL" Abraham Polonsky
"A DOUBLE LIFE" Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
"MONSIEUR VERDOUX" Charles Chaplin
"SHOE-SHINE" Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, C. G. Viola, Cesare Zavattini

• WRITING (SCREENPLAY)

"MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET" George Seaton - WINNER
"BOOMERANG!" Richard Murphy
"CROSSFIRE" John Paxton
"GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT" Moss Hart
"GREAT EXPECTATIONS" David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ronald Neame

Movies in black in white from 1940 to 1959.

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Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key, black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography. Many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Great Depression. Film noir encompasses a range of plots: the central figure may be a private investigator (The Big Sleep), a plainclothes policeman (The Big Heat), an aging boxer (The Set-Up), a hapless grifter (Night and the City), a law-abiding citizen lured into a life of crime (Gun Crazy), or simply a victim of circumstance (D.O.A.). Although film noir was originally associated with American productions, the term has been used to describe films from around the world. Many films released from the 1960s onward share attributes with film noirs of the classical period, and often treat its conventions self-referentially. Some refer to such latter-day works as neo-noir.

A guide to films featured on You Must Remember This and/or recommended for classic movie lovers.

http://www.filmnoiroftheweek.com

The 250 Quintessential Noir Films listing contains 241 films that all contain three key ingredients.

1. They were all produced in the United States
2. They were all shot in black-and-white
3. They were all produced between 1940 to 1959.

The nine films, that have been included, that exclude at least one of these key ingredients are two Non-American-produced noir (The Third Man and Mr. Arkadin), four colour noir films (Leave Her to Heaven, Niagara, Party Girl and Slightly Scarlet), and three films from the early 1960s (Cape Fear, Underworld, U.S.A. and The Naked Kiss).

List has been curated by Bill Georgaris on They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?

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