From the blockbusters that swept the board to the ones that scooped the five most important prizes – plus the one that won the most while missing out on Best Picture.
Ben-Hur
Nominated in 12 out of 15 categories, the success of William Wyler’s sword and sandals epic quickly turned the ceremony into a suspense-free procession. Perhaps the voters were responding to the new challenges of TV in rewarding a movie that was so clearly cinematic. Perhaps they just loved Wyler: this was his third Best Director/Best Picture double after. “I guess this is old hat to you,” said Heston, backstage. “Chuck, it never gets old,” Wyler responded.
also missed out in the Best Actress category, while Leonardo DiCaprio wasn’t even nominated as Best Actor and make-up went to. The ceremony contained the divisive moment when director James Cameron declared: “I’m king of the world” – a quotation from DiCaprio’s Jack in the bow of the ship.
When voters rewarded the final part of Peter Jackson’s epic JRR Tolkien adaptation, they were really giving the Oscars to the genre-defining trilogy as a whole. The film won all 11 categories in which it was nominated; only its surprising omission from the cinematography line-up prevented it from becoming the most garlanded Oscar movie of all time.
In the Best Actor category, Gable won even though under the old studio system, he had been loaned to Columbia by MGM as a punishment for his wage demands. In the Best Actress category, there had been such outrage that Bette Davis hadn’t received a nomination for her sensational performance in, that the Academy had allowed her name to be written on the ballot. Everyone assumed her victory was a done deal, so though she was present at the ceremony, none of her competitors were.
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