Thursday, September 15, 2011

The Silent Oscars: 1913 (Revisited)

The awards for the years before 1914 are very much a work in progress ...

1913
PICTURE
winner: Fantômas (The Complete Series) (prod. Romeo Bosetti)
nominees: Der Student von Prag (prod. Deutsche Bioscop GmbH); Sumerki zhenskoi dushi a.k.a. Twilight Of A Woman's Soul (prod. Aleksandr Khanzhonkov); Suspense (prod. Rex Motion Picture Company); Traffic In Souls (prod. Jack Cohn and Walter MacNamara)

ACTOR
winner: Ford Sterling (The Keystone Comedies)
nomiees: René Navarre (Fantômas); Paul Wegener (Der Student von Prag)

ACTRESS
winner: Hilda Borgström (Ingeborg Holm)
nominees: Lillian Gish (The Mothering Heart); Mabel Normand (The Keystone Comedies)

DIRECTOR
winner: Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley (Suspense)
nominees: Yevgeni Bauer (Sumerki zhenskoi dushi a.k.a. Twilight Of A Woman's Soul); Louis Feuillade (Fantômas)

SCREENPLAY
winner: Louis Feuillade, from the novels by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre (Fantômas)
nominees: Victor Sjöström, from a play by Nils Krok (Ingeborg Holm); Walter MacNamara, from a story by George Loane Tucker (Traffic In Souls)

SPECIAL AWARDS
Nikolai Kozlovsky (Sumerki zhenskoi dushi a.k.a. Twilight Of A Woman's Soul) (Cinematography)
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4 comments:

  1. YvetteSeptember 15, 2011 at 3:16 PM

    Love, love, LOVE that FANTOMAS cover illustration!!

    I vaguely remember my mother mentioning this name because I sort of knew he was a gentleman thief kind of thing.

    I'm assuming the stories would have originally been written in Spanish? That was the language my mom read best.

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  2. Mythical MonkeySeptember 15, 2011 at 9:35 PM

    I looked up to see who wrote the original Fantomas novels -- it was actually a pair of French writers, Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre. Both were lawyers turned journalists who began writing the Fantomas series -- about the exploits of a master criminal -- in 1911. Souvestre died in 1914 at the age of 39, but Allain lived to age 84 and wrote 400 novels. But none were as popular as the 32 Fantomas novels he and Souvestre wrote.

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  3. YvetteSeptember 16, 2011 at 3:40 PM

    My memory must be playing false with me. Maybe I'm thinking of Cantinflas. Old lady memory is a mad whirl of misinformation. :)

    I still love the FANTOMAS cover and poster.

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  4. Mythical MonkeySeptember 16, 2011 at 7:56 PM

    It is a great poster -- great movie(s), too.

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