To Catch a Thief 1955

Personal list of rewatchable pieces from Science Fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Animated, Romance, Horror, Adventure, Superhero, Zombie, Supernatural, Classic, Film Noir, Documentary, Drama, Musicals, Road movie, Crime & Gangster, Thriller, British, Cult movies.

List of movies that won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

List of Nominees and Winners

• ACTOR

ERNEST BORGNINE "Marty" - WINNER
JAMES CAGNEY "Love Me or Leave Me"
JAMES DEAN "East of Eden"
FRANK SINATRA "The Man with the Golden Arm"
SPENCER TRACY "Bad Day at Black Rock"

• ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

JACK LEMMON "Mister Roberts" - WINNER
ARTHUR KENNEDY "Trial"
JOE MANTELL "Marty"
SAL MINEO "Rebel without a Cause"
ARTHUR O'CONNELL "Picnic"

• ACTRESS

ANNA MAGNANI "The Rose Tattoo" - WINNER
SUSAN HAYWARD "I'll Cry Tomorrow"
KATHARINE HEPBURN "Summertime"
JENNIFER JONES "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing"
ELEANOR PARKER "Interrupted Melody"

• ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

JO VAN FLEET "East of Eden" - WINNER
BETSY BLAIR "Marty"
PEGGY LEE "Pete Kelly's Blues"
MARISA PAVAN "The Rose Tattoo"
NATALIE WOOD "Rebel without a Cause"

• ART DIRECTION (BLACK-AND-WHITE)

"THE ROSE TATTOO" Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Arthur Krams - WINNER
"BLACKBOARD JUNGLE" Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Henry Grace
"I'LL CRY TOMORROW" Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm Brown; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Hugh B. Hunt
"THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM" Art Direction: Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Darrell Silvera
"MARTY" Art Direction: Edward S. Haworth, Walter Simonds; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley

• ART DIRECTION (COLOR)

"PICNIC" Art Direction: William Flannery, Jo Mielziner; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley - WINNER
"DADDY LONG LEGS" Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox
"GUYS AND DOLLS" Art Direction: Oliver Smith, Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Howard Bristol
"LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING" Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Jack Stubbs
"TO CATCH A THIEF" Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Joseph McMillan Johnson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Arthur Krams

• CINEMATOGRAPHY (BLACK-AND-WHITE)

"THE ROSE TATTOO" James Wong Howe - WINNER
"BLACKBOARD JUNGLE" Russell Harlan
"I'LL CRY TOMORROW" Arthur E. Arling
"MARTY" Joseph LaShelle
"QUEEN BEE" Charles Lang

• CINEMATOGRAPHY (COLOR)

"TO CATCH A THIEF" Robert Burks - WINNER
"GUYS AND DOLLS" Harry Stradling
"LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING" Leon Shamroy
"A MAN CALLED PETER" Harold Lipstein
"OKLAHOMA!" Robert Surtees

• COSTUME DESIGN (BLACK-AND-WHITE)

"I'LL CRY TOMORROW" Helen Rose - WINNER
"THE PICKWICK PAPERS" Beatrice Dawson
"QUEEN BEE" Jean Louis
"THE ROSE TATTOO" Edith Head
"UGETSU" Tadaoto Kainoscho

• COSTUME DESIGN (COLOR)

"LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING" Charles LeMaire -WINNER
"GUYS AND DOLLS" Irene Sharaff
"INTERRUPTED MELODY" Helen Rose
"TO CATCH A THIEF" Edith Head
"THE VIRGIN QUEEN" Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills

• DIRECTING

"MARTY" Delbert Mann - WINNER
"BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK" John Sturges
"EAST OF EDEN" Elia Kazan
"PICNIC" Joshua Logan
"SUMMERTIME" David Lean

• DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)

"HELEN KELLER IN HER STORY" Nancy Hamilton, Producer - WINNER
"HEARTBREAK RIDGE" Rene Risacher, Producer

• DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)

"MEN AGAINST THE ARCTIC" Walt Disney, Producer - WINNER
"THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG" Dore Schary, Producer
"THE FACE OF LINCOLN" Wilbur T. Blume, Producer

• FILM EDITING

"PICNIC" Charles Nelson, William A. Lyon - WINNER
"BLACKBOARD JUNGLE" Ferris Webster
"THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI" Alma Macrorie
"OKLAHOMA!" Gene Ruggiero, George Boemler
"THE ROSE TATTOO" Warren Low

• HONORARY FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM AWARD

"SAMURAI, THE LEGEND OF MUSASHI" Special Award - WINNER

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

"LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING" Alfred Newman - WINNER
"BATTLE CRY" Max Steiner
"THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM" Elmer Bernstein
"PICNIC" George Duning
"THE ROSE TATTOO" Alex North

• MUSIC (SCORING OF A MUSICAL PICTURE)

"OKLAHOMA!" Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton, Adolph Deutsch - WINNER
"DADDY LONG LEGS" Alfred Newman
"GUYS AND DOLLS" Jay Blackton, Cyril J. Mockridge
"IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER" Andre Previn
"LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME" Percy Faith, George Stoll

• MUSIC (SONG)

"Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing" in "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster - WINNER
"I'll Never Stop Loving You" in "Love Me or Leave Me" Music by Nicholas Brodszky; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
"Something's Gotta Give" in "Daddy Long Legs" Music and Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
"(Love Is) The Tender Trap" in "The Tender Trap" Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
"Unchained Melody" in "Unchained" Music by Alex North; Lyrics by Hy Zaret

• BEST MOTION PICTURE

"MARTY" Harold Hecht, Producer - WINNER
"LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING" Buddy Adler, Producer
"MISTER ROBERTS" Leland Hayward, Producer
"PICNIC" Fred Kohlmar, Producer
"THE ROSE TATTOO" Hal B. Wallis, Producer

• SHORT SUBJECT (CARTOON)

"SPEEDY GONZALES" Edward Selzer, Producer - WINNER
"GOOD WILL TO MEN" Fred Quimby, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Producers
"THE LEGEND OF ROCK-A-BYE POINT" Walter Lantz, Producer
"NO HUNTING" Walt Disney, Producer

• SHORT SUBJECT (ONE-REEL)

"SURVIVAL CITY" Edmund Reek, Producer - WINNER
"GADGETS GALORE" Robert Youngson, Producer
"3RD AVE. EL" Carson Davidson, Producer
"THREE KISSES" Justin Herman, Producer

• SHORT SUBJECT (TWO-REEL)

"THE FACE OF LINCOLN" Wilbur T. Blume, Producer - WINNER
"THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG" Dore Schary, Producer
"ON THE TWELFTH DAY..." George K. Arthur, Producer
"SWITZERLAND" Walt Disney, Producer
"24-HOUR ALERT" Cedric Francis, Producer

• SOUND RECORDING

"OKLAHOMA!" Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes, Sound Director - WINNER
"LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING" 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Carl W. Faulkner, Sound Director
"LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Wesley C. Miller, Sound Director
"MISTER ROBERTS" Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, William A. Mueller, Sound Director
"NOT AS A STRANGER" Radio Corporation of America Sound Department, Watson Jones, Sound Director

• SPECIAL EFFECTS

"THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI" Paramount Studio - WINNER
"THE DAM BUSTERS" Associated British Picture Corporation, Ltd.
"THE RAINS OF RANCHIPUR" 20th Century-Fox Studio

• WRITING (MOTION PICTURE STORY)

"LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME" Daniel Fuchs - WINNER
"THE PRIVATE WAR OF MAJOR BENSON" Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher
"REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE" Nicholas Ray
"THE SHEEP HAS FIVE LEGS" Jean Marsan, Henry Troyat, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil, Raoul Ploquin
"STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND" Beirne Lay, Jr.

• WRITING (SCREENPLAY)

"MARTY" Paddy Chayefsky - WINNER
"BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK" Millard Kaufman
"BLACKBOARD JUNGLE" Richard Brooks
"EAST OF EDEN" Paul Osborn
"LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME" Daniel Fuchs, Isobel Lennart

• WRITING (STORY AND SCREENPLAY)

"INTERRUPTED MELODY" William Ludwig, Sonya Levien - WINNER
"THE COURT-MARTIAL OF BILLY MITCHELL" Milton Sperling, Emmet Lavery
"IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER" Betty Comden, Adolph Green
"MR. HULOT'S HOLIDAY" Jacques Tati, Henri Marquet
"THE SEVEN LITTLE FOYS" Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose

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Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's 100 Years…100 Passions is a list of the top 100 greatest love stories in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 11, 2002, in a CBS television special hosted by American film and TV actress Candice Bergen.

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The Films in My Life (Les Films de ma Vie) is Truffaut’s own selection of more than one hundred essays that range widely over the history of film and pay tribute to Truffaut’s particular heroes, among them Hitchcock, Welles, Chaplin, Renoir, Cocteau, Bergman, and Buñuel.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/The-Films-Life-Fran%C3%A7ois-Truffaut/dp/0306805995

AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions is a list of the 100 greatest love stories of all time.

Regardless of genre, in these films, a romantic bond between two or more characters, whose actions and/or intentions provide the heart of the film's narrative. These movies possess a "passion" which has enriched America's film and cultural heritage while continuing to inspire contemporary artists and audiences.

Source: https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-passions/

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AFI's 100 Greatest Love Stories of All Time

Regardless of genre, in these films, a romantic bond between two or more characters, whose actions and/or intentions provide the heart of the film's narrative. These movies possess a "passion" which has enriched America's film and cultural heritage while continuing to inspire contemporary artists and audiences.

The jurors were asked to consider the following criteria while making their selections:

• Feature-Length Fiction Film: The film must be in narrative format, typically more than 60 minutes in length.
• American Film: The film must be in the English language with significant creative and/or financial production elements from the United States.
• Love Story: Regardless of genre, a romantic bond between two or more characters, whose actions and/or intentions provide the heart of the film's narrative.
• Legacy: Films whose "passion" have enriched America's film and cultural heritage while continuing to inspire contemporary artists and audiences.

Source: http://www.afi.com/100Years/passions.aspx

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