Following my Top Ten, I took a few days to consider, very carefully, what I consider the best in 1952 cinema. Here they are, 32 films across 18 categories, the nominees for the 1952 Retro Hollmann Awards:
Best Cinematography
Bend of the River
Irving Glassberg
High Noon
Floyd Crosby
The Narrow Margin
George E. Diskant
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Jack Cardiff
The Quiet Man
Winton C. Hoch
Best Original Song
Hans Christian Andersen - "I'm Hans Christian Andersen"
music and lyrics by Frank Loesser
Hans Christian Andersen - "Inchworm"
music and lyrics by Frank Loesser
High Noon - "High Noon"
music by Dimitri Tiomkin
lyrics by Ned Washington
Rancho Notorious - "Get Away, Young Man"
music and lyrics by Ken Darby
Road to Bali - "The Merry-Go-Runaround"
music by Jimmy VanHeusen
lyrics by Johnny Burke
Best Ensemble
Brighton Rock
The Browning Version
casting by Weston Drury, Jr.
High Noon
casting by Jack Murton
O. Henry's Full House
Singin' in the Rain
Best Score
The Bad and the Beautiful
David Raksin
Hans Christian Andersen
Frank Loesser / Jerome Moross
High Noon
Dimitri Tiomkin
Rashomon
Fumio Hayasaka
Viva Zapata!
Alex North
Best Sound
The Greatest Show on Earth
John Cope / Harry Lindgren, sound recordists
The Narrow Margin
Clem Portman / Francis M. Sarver, sound
Singin' in the Rain
Douglas Shearer, recording supervisor
Van Ellen James, sound editor
Stars and Stripes Forever
Alfred Bruzlin / Roger Heman, Sr., sound
Sudden Fear
T.A. Carman / Howard Wilson, sound
Best Actor
Gary Cooper as Marshal Will Kane
High Noon
Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood
Singin' in the Rain
Canada Lee as Reverend Stephen Kumalo
Cry, the Beloved Country
Charles McGraw as Detective Sergeant Walter Brown
The Narrow Margin
Michael Redgrave as Andrew Crocker-Harris
The Browning Version
Best Director
Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
Singin' in the Rain
Richard Fleischer
The Narrow Margin
John Ford
The Quiet Man
Samuel Fuller
Park Row
Fred Zinnemann
High Noon
Best Costume Design
The Greatest Show on Earth
Edith Head / Dorothy Jeakins / Miles White
My Cousin Rachel
Dorothy Jeakins
The Quiet Man
Adele Palmer
Singin' in the Rain
Walter Plunkett
Stars and Stripes Forever
Dorothy Jeakins
Best Visual Effects
The Greatest Show on Earth
Barney Wolff, special effects
Devereaux Jennings / Gordon Jennings / Paul K. Lerpae, special photographic effects
Million Dollar Mermaid
A. Arnold Gillespie / Warren Newcombe, special effects
Peter Ballbusch, montage
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
Robert Burks, special effects
Plymouth Adventure
A, Arnold Gillespie / Warren Newcombe / Irving G. Ries, special effects
Road to Bali
Farciot Edouart, process photography
Gordon Jennings / Paul K. Lerpae, special photographic effects
Best Supporting Actor
Charles Carson as James Jarvis
Cry, the Beloved Country
Lon Chaney, Jr. as Martin Howe
High Noon
Millard Mitchell as R.F. Simpson
Singin' in the Rain
Nigel Patrick as Frank Hunter
The Browning Version
Joseph Wiseman as Fernando Aguirre
Viva Zapata!
Best Supporting Actress
Jean Hagen as Lina Lamont
Singin' in the Rain
Glynis Johns as Ruth Earp
The Card
Katy Jurado as Helen Ramirez
High Noon
Ethel Waters as Berenice Sadie Brown
The Member of the Wedding
Marie Windsor as Mrs. Frankie Neall
The Narrow Margin
Best Film Editing
High Noon
Elmo Williams
The Narrow Margin
Robert Swink
Park Row
Philip Cahn
Singin' in the Rain
Adrienne Fazan
Viva Zapata!
Barbara McLean
Best Production Design
The Member of the Wedding
Rudolph Sternad, production design
Cary Odell, art direction
Frank Tuttle, set decoration
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
John Bryan, production design
Park Row
Theobold Holsopple, production design
Edward R. Robinson, set decoration
Singin' in the Rain
Randall Duell / Cedric Gibbons, art direction
Jacques Mapes / Edwin B. Willis / Harry McAfee, set decoration
Stars and Stripes Forever
Lyle R. Wheeler / Joseph C. Wright, art direction
Claude E. Carpenter / Thomas Little, set decoration
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Browning Version
Terence Ratigan
from his play
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton / John Howard Lawson
from the novel by Alan Paton
High Noon
Carl Foreman
from "The Tin Star" by John W. Cunningham
Rashomon
Akira Kurosawa and Shinobu Hashimoto
from stories by Ryûnosuke Akutagawa
Viva Zapata!
John Steinbeck
from Zapata the Unconquerable by Edgcomb Pinchon
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
The Black Castle
Bud Westmore / Ray Romero, makeup artists
Joan St. Oegger, hair stylist
Caribbean
Norman Pringle, makeup artist
Kay Shea, hair stylist
The Greatest Show on Earth
Wally Westmore, makeup supervisor
Ivanhoe
Charles E. Parker, makeup
Joan Johnstone, hairdresser
Moulin Rouge
Constance Reeve / George Frost, makeup artists
Eileen Bates, hairdresser
Best Original Screenplay
Japanese War Bride
Catherine Turney
story by Anson Bond
The Lavender Hill Mob
T.E.B. Clarke
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Albert Lewin
Park Row
Samuel Fuller
Singin' in the Rain
Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Best Actress
Joan Crawford as Myra Hudson Blaine
Sudden Fear
Olivia de Havilland as Rachel Ashley
My Cousin Rachel
Julie Harris as Frankie Addams
The Member of the Wedding
Maureen O'Hara as Mary Kate Danaher
The Quiet Man
Shirley Yamaguchi as Tae Shimizu Sterling
Japanese War Bride
Best Motion Picture of the Year
The Browning Version
produced by Teddy Baird
High Noon
produced by Stanley Kramer
The Narrow Margin
produced by Stanley Rubin
Park Row
produced by Samuel Fuller
Singin' in the Rain
produced by Arthur Freed
Both High Noon and Singin' in the Rain lead with eleven nominations each! Winners over the next two days.
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