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And it's official — Natalie Wood is the winner of the 2015 Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tournament. Myrna Loy hung with her for a couple of days, then Natalie powered past her and won going away, 323-173.
She joins Irene Dunne, Ginger Rogers, Carole Lombard and Bette Davis in the actress hall of fame.
I love a motivated fan base. Every actress in the tournament is a worthy contestant. The difference depends on whose fans spread the word and get out the vote, and this year, Natalie Wood's fans used Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter and put together a sophisticated campaign for their favorite. Good job!
And I have to say, Natalie Wood is a worthy champion, if only for that scene in Miracle on 34th Street where Edmund Gwenn teaches her how to imitate a monkey and she promptly writes a 3,000 word essay about Charlie Chaplin.
Okay, screw you — you remember movies your way, I'll remember them mine.
"The high-priced actors like Cary Grant back at the studios got all the lights. So ours was lit with cigarettes."—Robert Mitchum on film noir
PICTURE (Drama)
winner: Out of the Past (prod. Warren Duff)
nominees: Black Narcissus (prod. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger); Body and Soul (prod. Bob Roberts); Brighton Rock (prod. Roy Boulting); Crossfire (prod. Adrian Scott); Gentleman's Agreement (prod. Darryl F. Zanuck); Nightmare Alley (prod. George Jessel); Odd Man Out (prod. Carol Reed)
PICTURE (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Miracle On 34th Street (prod. William Perlberg)
nominees: The Bishop's Wife (prod. Samuel Goldwyn); The Ghost And Mrs. Muir (prod. Fred Kohlmar); Monsieur Verdoux (prod. Charles Chaplin)
PICTURE (Foreign Language)
winner: Quai des Orfèvres (prod. Roger De Venloo and Louis Wipf)
nominees: Nagaya shinshiroku (The Record Of A Tenement Gentleman) (prod. Shochiku Films); La Perla (prod. Óscar Dancigers)
ACTOR (Drama)
winner: Robert Mitchum (Out of the Past)
nominees: John Garfield (Body and Soul); Robert Montgomery (Ride the Pink Horse); James Mason (Odd Man Out); Gregory Peck (Gentleman's Agreement); Tyrone Power (Nightmare Alley)
ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Edmund Gwenn (Miracle On 34th Street)
nominees: James Baskett (Song of the South); Charles Chaplin (Monsieur Verdoux); Cary Grant (The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer and The Bishop's Wife); Rex Harrison (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir); Harold Lloyd (The Sin of Harold Diddlebock); William Powell (Life With Father and The Senator Was Indiscreet)
ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Deborah Kerr (Black Narcissus)
nominees: Joan Crawford (Possessed and Daisy Kenyon); Jane Greer (Out of the Past); Susan Hayward (Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman); Dorothy McGuire (Gentleman's Agreement)
ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Gene Tierney (The Ghost And Mrs. Muir)
nominees: Irene Dunne (Life With Father); Gale Storm (It Happened On 5th Avenue); Loretta Young (The Bishop's Wife)
DIRECTOR (Drama)
winner: Jacques Tourneur (Out of the Past)
nominees: Henri-Georges Clouzot (Quai des Orfèvres); Edward Dmytryk (Crossfire); Edmund Goulding (Nightmare Alley); Yasujirô Ozu (Nagaya shinshiroku a.k.a. The Record Of A Tenement Gentleman); Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (Black Narcissus); Carol Reed (Odd Man Out)
DIRECTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: George Seaton (Miracle On 34th Street)
nominees: Charles Chaplin (Monsieur Verdoux); Joseph L. Mankiewicz (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir)
SUPPORTING ACTOR
winner: Richard Widmark (Kiss of Death)
nominees: Kirk Douglas (Out of the Past); William Frawley (Miracle On 34th Street); James Gleason (The Bishop's Wife); Porter Hall (Miracle On 34th Street); Gene Lockhart (Miracle On 34th Street); Robert Ryan (Crossfire); Monty Woolley (The Bishop's Wife)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
winner: Kathleen Byron (Black Narcissus)
nominees: Gloria Grahame (Crossfire); Celeste Holm (Gentleman’s Agreement); Martha Raye (Monsieur Verdoux); Anne Revere (Body and Soul)
SCREENPLAY
winner: Daniel Mainwaring (as Geoffrey Homes) from his novel Build My Gallows High (Out of the Past)
nominees: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, from the novel by Rumer Godden (Black Narcissus); George Seaton, from a story by Valentine Davies (Miracle on 34th Street); Charles Chaplin, from an idea by Orson Welles (Monsieur Verdoux)
SPECIAL AWARDS
Jack Cardiff (Black Narcissus) (Cinematography)
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