Awards presented March 4, 1937
The nominees were ...
... when they should have been ...
And the Oscar went to ...
Dawson had won an Oscar for film editing the previous year. He'll win another two years later, for The Adventures of Robin Hood.
... when it should have gone to ...
Held would normally get the nod from the Academy because he is the nominal film editor on San Francisco, and he would be nominated for two Oscars in 1939. Perhaps he missed out on this one, because the earthquake sequence, which is the editing tour de force in the film, was done by John Hoffman and especially Slavko Vorkapich, whose work with montage is ranked alongside that of Sergei Eisenstein in influence. See here for some visual evidence of Vorkapich's work on San Francisco.
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| Slavko Vorkapich, seated, demonstrates the classic editing device, the Moviola, c. 1950. |
