The nominees were ...
- George Amy, Objective, Burma!
- Doane Harrison, The Lost Weekend
- Robert J. Kern, National Velvet
- Harry Marker, The Bells of St. Mary's
- Charles Nelson, A Song to Remember
And the Oscar went to ...
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| Elizabeth Taylor on "The Pie," actually a horse named King Charles |
Well, obviously you don't put a proto-star like twelve-year-old Elizabeth Taylor through a real steeplechase, so you need an editor to make the risks look convincing. Taylor later claimed that a fall from a horse during filming caused lifelong back problems, though the film was one of her favorites. In any case, the more dangerous riding scenes were done by Rex "Snowy" Baker, Johnny Carpenter, and Dale Evans's stunt double, Alice Van Springsteen. Kern began his career in 1922 and spent most of it, from Viva Villa! in 1934 to Plymouth Adventure in 1952, at MGM. This was his only Oscar; he had been nominated once before, for David Copperfield. His brother, Hal C. Kern, was the Oscar-winning editor of Gone With the Wind.
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