1948 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1948

ƒ Bicycle Thieves

The Fallen Idol

ƒ Germany Year Zero

✔ Hamlet

Key Largo

The Lady From Shanghai

Letter From An Unknown Woman

Red River

The Red Shoes

★ The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre

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Best Actor of 1948

Richard Attenborough (Brighton Rock)

Humphrey Bogart (The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre and Key Largo)

★ ✔ Laurence Olivier (Hamlet)

Anton Walbrook (The Red Shoes)

John Wayne (Red River)

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Best Actress of 1948

Olivia de Havilland (The Snake Pit)

Marlene Dietrich (A Foreign Affair)

★ Joan Fontaine (Letter From An Unknown Woman)

Moira Shearer (The Red Shoes)

✔ Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda)

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Best Director of 1948

Vittorio De Sica (Bicycle Thieves)

Howard Hawks (Red River)

★ ✔ John Huston (The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre)

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (The Red Shoes)

Orson Welles (The Lady From Shanghai)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1948

Thomas Gomez (Force Of Evil and Key Largo)

Tim Holt (The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre)

★ ✔ Walter Huston (The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre)

Edward G. Robinson (Key Largo)

Everett Sloane (The Lady From Shanghai)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1948 (Poll Closed)

• Hermione Baddeley (Brighton Rock)  1.64%  (2 votes)  
   
• Barbara Bel Geddes (I Remember Mama)  11.48%  (14 votes)  
   
• Elsa Lanchester (The Big Clock)  9.02%  (11 votes)  
   
• ★ ✔ Claire Trevor (Key Largo)  76.23%  (93 votes)  
   
• Kay Walsh (Oliver Twist)  1.63%  (2 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 122

 

Special Award

Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine (most dysfunctional relationship) (sisters category)

"We don't need no stinkin' badges" (The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre) (most iconic misquoted line)

John Huston, based on the novel by B. Traven (The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre) (adapted screenplay)

Max Steiner (The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre) (score)

Borden Chase and Charles Schnee, from the short story by Borden Chase (Red River) (original screenplay)

Robert Helpmann (The Red Shoes) (choreography)

Charles Lawton, Jr. (The Lady From Shanghai) (cinematography)

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A long, long time ago, I promised myself that if anyone ever came up to me and said, "Can you stake a fellow American to a meal," I'd give him twenty bucks. But no one ever has, and anyway, $20 doesn't go nearly as far as it used to.

Also, play the video to hear Alfonso Bedoya's actual line from The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre:



As always, my choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ.