The nominees were ...
- Green Dolphin Street. Visual effects by A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe; audible effects by Douglas Shearer, Michael Steinore
- Unconquered. Visual effects by Farciot Edouart, Devereux Jennings, Gordon Jennings, Wallace Kelley, Paul Lerpae; audible effects by George Dutton
And the Oscar went to ...
Green Dolphin Street. Visual effects by A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe; audible effects by Douglas Shearer, Michael Steinore.
Not a big year for special effects. The winner featured an earthquake and a flood, both of which had been done with more spectacle in San Francisco and The Rains Came. Sisters Marianne (Lana Turner) and Marguerite (Donna Reed) both fall in love with the same man (Richard Hart), and through a series of mishaps all of them wind up in New Zealand with Van Heflin, where an earthquake, a tsunami, and a Maori uprising complicate things. This galumphing, improbable saga, based on a plot-heavy novel by Elizabeth Goudge, was hugely hyped by MGM, who were trying to make a star of the rather wimpy Hart. (They failed.) All of the effects people were multiple Oscar winners except for Steinore; this was his only win.
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| Gigi Perreau, Richard Hart, and Lana Turner in Green Dolphin Street |
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