Awards presented March 21, 1956
The nominees were ...
... when they should have been ...
And the Oscar went to ...
Marty. With its distinctly un-starry leads, its 91-minute running time, and its origins in a television drama,
Marty is one of the least characteristic Oscar best picture winners. Which is actually a mark in its favor. But it marked no new direction for American film, and today is largely forgotten.
... when it should have gone to ...
Of the films in the early 1950s that established the postwar Japanese film industry as an artistic force to be reckoned with, Kenji Mizoguchi's beautiful, disturbing story of two sixteenth-century villagers who venture into a war-torn world and find their lives utterly, strangely altered is one of the most celebrated. It maintains a solid hold on most lists of the greatest films of all time. The Academy chose instead to honor Hiroshi Inagaki's three-part epic,
Samurai, the Legend of Musashi, with its honorary foreign film award, but
Ugetsu received a nomination for Tadaoto Kainoscho's costume designs. Kazuo Miyagawa's cinematography, not to mention Mizoguchi's direction, also deserved nominations -- and, for that matter, awards.
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