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"Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part." -- Humphrey Bogart upon learning of his nomination for Casablanca
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Outstanding Motion PicturePrior to the Awards for 1951, no producer(s) named with nominations
Scientific Or Technical Class I (Statuette): No award given for 1943.
Class II (Plaque): Farciot Edouart, Earle Morgan & Barton Thompson (Paramount Studio
Engineering and Transparency Departments) - For the development and practical
application to motion picture production of a method of duplicating and enlarging natural color photographs, transferring the image emulsions to glass plates and projecting these slides by especially designed stereopticon equipment.
Photo Products Department of E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, Inc. - For the development of fine-grain motion picture films.
Class III (Citation): Daniel J. Bloomberg (Republic Studio Sound Department) - For the design and development of an inexpensive method of converting Moviolas to Class B push-pull reproduction.
Charles Galloway Clarke (20th Century-Fox Studio Camera Department) - For the development and practical application of a device for composing artificial clouds into motion picture scenes during production photography.
Farciot Edouart (Paramount Studio Transparency Department) - For an automatic electric transparency cueing timer.
Willard H. Turner (RKO Radio Studio Sound Department) - For the design and construction of the phono-cue starter.
Special Award George Pal - For the development of the novel methods and techniques in the production of short subjects known as Puppetoons. Winner presented a Plaque.
FIRSTS · The Awards ceremony moves from an intimate, insiders-only banquet at the Cocoanut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel to a massive public venue at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, with a seating capacity of 2,258 -- with no dinner -- just as Bette Davis had suggested 2 years earlier.
· Best supporting actors and actresses finally receive full-bodied Oscars® rather than the miniature Oscar-on-a-plaque.
· Composer Harold Arlen receives 3 nominations in a single category -- Best Song. None of his songs won.
· Warners leads all studios for the first time with 27 nominations.
· For the first time in six years running, Bette Davis fails to win a nomination.
ROLE REVERSALS Instead of Bogie and Bergman, the leading roles in Casablanca were originally slated for -- are you ready? -- Ronald Reagan and Hedy Lamarr.
SINS OF OMISSION Picture: Shadow of a Doubt, Cabin in the Sky, Five Graves to Cairo Actress: Ida Lupino - The Hard Way, Ingrid Bergman - Casablanca Song: "Cow Cow Boogie," "One for My Baby"
UNMENTIONALBES · The Academy got a scare in mid-January when it got word that phony nominating ballots were circulating on college campuses in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Pittsburgh. Price, Waterhouse threw out incorrectly labeled ballots, and the nominating proceeded without a hitch.
· The Ambassador Hotel had provided parking service in previous years. Not so with Grauman's Chinese. So arriving guests were forced to fend for themselves and a steady stream of people entered the theater during the first half of the ceremony.
· Ten tiers of seats rose up at the rear of the stage for the soldiers and sailors invited to attend the show. Their arrival got the most sustained applause of the night but they spent the rest of the evening watching participants' backs.
· The Song of Bernadette lost Best Screenplay to Casablanca, a film that was rewritten daily on the set during filming.
· Studio chief Jack Warner accepted the Best Picture Oscar®, not the film's producer, Hal Wallis. Insiders cited this as a major cause for Wallis's move to Paramount later in the year after two decades at Warners.
· Losers Jean Arthur and Joan Fontaine and their husbands immediately took off for a bar on Rodeo Drive.
· Loser Ingrid Bergman, who had a lock on Best Actress until The Song of Bernadette came along, ran backstage to congratulate friend Jennifer Jones, who was receiving felicitations not only for her Oscar® but for her 25th birthday. The winner told Bergman, "I apologize, Ingrid. You should have won." "No, Jennifer, your Bernadette was better than my Maria."
· A few days after the ceremony, the Screen Directors Guild announced that its members were seriously considering leaving the Academy because their Award was relegated to the first part of the program, before the radio broadcast began.
· Daily Variety pointed out that Bernadette's "prestige" campaign blew up in its face: at Oscar® time, Bernadette was still in limited release at advanced ticket prices, which meant that those with the bulk of the voting power -- the extras -- had not yet been able to afford to go to the movie. A poll of voting extras showed that only 25% had seen Bernadette, whereas nearly all of them had seen -- and voted for -- Casablanca.
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Sidebar highlights come from several sources, most notably The Academy Awards® - The Complete Unofficial History, by Gail Kinn & Jim Piazza, and Inside Oscar® - The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards®, by Mason Wiley & Damien Bona.
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