Awards presented March 27, 1957
The nominees were ...
... when they should have been ...
And the Oscar went to ...
Around the World in Eighty Days. To reinforce our point that the award to
Marty the previous year indicated nothing about Hollywood trends, for the first time all of the best picture nominees were in color, and the Academy gave the award to a three-hour extravaganza with scores of movie stars in cameo roles. Somewhat entertaining, but the best part is the end, Saul Bass's animated credits with caricatures of the stars.
... when it should have gone to ...
This towering classic Western directed by John Ford and featuring John Wayne in one of his greatest roles, as the obsessive Ethan Edwards, received not a single nomination, in any category, from the Academy. Ford and Wayne certainly deserved one, as did Winton C. Hoch for cinematography, Max Steiner for music, Jack Murray for editing, and Frank S. Nugent for the screenplay. It is no longer overlooked:
The Searchers was added to the National Film Registry in 1989, the American Film Institute named it the greatest Western of all time in 2008, and it placed seventh on Sight & Sound's list of the best films of all time in 2012.
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