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The Year in Film: 1948
My Top 10: Tim Holt, Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston in John Huston's brilliant 1948 film about greed: Treasure of the Sierra Madre Treasure of the Sierra Madre Hamlet Red River The Eagle Has Two...
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The History of the Academy Awards: Best Picture – 1948
Laurence Olivier and Jean Simmons in the "Get thee to a nunnery" scene in Hamlet (1948) The 21st Academy Awards, for the film year 1948. The nominations were announced on February 10, 1949 and the...
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The Best of the Nighthawk Awards: The 1940’s
the dancing mushrooms in Fantasia - the best animated film of the 1940's Well, before I go into 1949, I’ll cover the decade as a whole. Bear in mind the decade awards cover films by their original...
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The Nighthawk Awards: 1948
Greed is, for lack of a better word, bad. You can read more about this year in film here. The Best Picture race is discussed here, with reviews of all the nominees. First there are the categories,...
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The History of the Academy Awards: 1940-49 (A Retrospective)
A couple of very deserving Oscar winners from 1948 – a happy father and son. Introduction: This is a companion piece to three different series. The first is The History of the Academy Awards, in which...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 1948
” ‘Will I come?’ he said at once. ‘There’s no need to ask. Of course I’ll come. You’ve only got to say gold and I’m your man.'” (p 71) My Top 10: Treasure of the Sierra Madre Hamlet Force of Evil Fanny...
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A Century of Film: Film History (1940-1949)
A Century of Film Film History 1940-1949 Filmmaking had supposedly peaked in 1939 just as the war arrived to greatly limit (outside of America, film production was massively down) and influence it (in...
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