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Oscars 1949: Winners and Nominees of the 21st Academy Awards

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These movies have won or been nominated for the Oscars 1949 on 03/24/1949.

The 21st Academy Awards were held on March 24, 1949, honoring the films of 1948. The ceremony was moved from the Shrine Auditorium to the Academy's own theater, primarily because the major Hollywood studios had withdrawn their financial support in order to address rumors that they had been trying to influence voters. This year marked the first time a non-Hollywood production (Laurence Olivier's Hamlet) won Best Picture, and the first time an individual (Olivier) directed himself in an Oscar-winning performance. The Academy Award for Best Costume Design was introduced this year. Like Best Cinematography and Best Set Decoration, it was split into Color and Black & White categories. John Huston directed his father, Walter Huston, to the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Howard in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a unique accomplishment. The Huston family won three Oscars that evening (John won for Best Director and Best Screenplay, both for the same film). Humphrey Bogart's lack of a nomination for Best Actor has been since considered one of the Academy's greatest slights. Joan of Arc set a record by receiving seven nominations without being nominated for Best Picture; this stood until They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) received nine nominations at the 4... ()

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre(1948)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 6min | Adventure, Drama, Western
4.0/5 (with 488 votes)

Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.

Red River(1948)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 13min | Western, Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 213 votes)

Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an orphan Dunson took under his wing when Matt was a boy. In need of money following the Civil War, Dunson and Matt lead a cattle drive to Missouri, where they will get a better price than locally, but the crotchety older man and his willful young partner begin to butt heads on the exhausting journey.

The Three Musketeers(1948)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 5min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 64 votes)

Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.

Sorry, Wrong Number(1948)

1h 29min | Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 69 votes)

Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.

The Naked City(1948)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 36min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 101 votes)

The Naked City portrays the police investigation that follows the murder of a young model. A veteran cop is placed in charge of the case and he sets about, with the help of other beat cops and detectives, finding the girl's killer.

Hamlet(1948)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 35min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 99 votes)

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.

Key Largo(1948)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 40min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 214 votes)

A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.

The Red Shoes(1948)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 13min | Drama, Romance / Love
4.0/5 (with 255 votes)

In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.

The Pirate(1948)

3.3/5 (with 38 votes)

A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and to impress her he poses as the pirate.

Easter Parade(1948)

1h 47min | Music, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 56 votes)

On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract with him. To prove Nadine's not important to him, Don acquires innocent new protege, Hannah Brown, vowing to make her a star in time for next year's Easter parade.

A Foreign Affair(1948)

3.5/5 (with 58 votes)

In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.

The Snake Pit(1948)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 48min | Drama, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 39 votes)

Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.

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Joan of Arc(1948)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 25min | War, Drama, History
3.2/5 (with 28 votes)

In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.

Portrait of Jennie(1948)

3.6/5 (with 42 votes)

A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.

The Search(1948)

1h 44min | Drama, War, Adventure
3.5/5 (with 30 votes)

In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother desperately searches for him.

Johnny Belinda(1948)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 42min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 29 votes)

A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.

The Paleface(1948)

1h 31min | Comedy, Western
3.2/5 (with 24 votes)

Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.

Sitting Pretty(1948)

1h 23min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 19 votes)

Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.

Romance on the High Seas(1948)

3.4/5 (with 11 votes)

Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.

Mickey and the Seal(1948)

3.5/5 (with 18 votes)

Mickey accidentally takes a seal home, after it sneaks into his picnic basket. When Mickey takes a bath, the seal is discovered and Mickey returns him to the park. Later, however, Mickey and Pluto discover that the bathroom is filled with seals!

That Lady in Ermine(1948)

3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, who saved a similar situation 300 years before, comes to life from a portrait to help her descendant. Complicating factor: the newlywed countess feels strangely drawn to the handsome invader...

I Remember Mama(1948)

2h 14min | Kids & Family, Drama
3.5/5 (with 23 votes)

Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family every evening. Through financial crises, illnesses and the small triumphs of everyday life, Marta maintains her optimism and sense of humor, traits she passes on to her aspiring-author daughter, Katrin.

Moonrise(1948)

1h 30min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 25 votes)

Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.

Louisiana Story(1948)

1h 18min | Adventure, Drama
3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

The idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his home.

Directed by Robert J. Flaherty - With Frank Hardy

The Luck of the Irish(1948)

2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun acts as the newsman's servant and conscience.

Casbah(1948)

2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

Pepe Le Moko leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France.

Monsieur Vincent(1947)

1h 51min | Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 14 votes)

The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders.

The Little Orphan(1949)

3.4/5 (with 22 votes)

The Bide A Wee Mouse Home has sent the orphan mouse Nibbles to spend Thanksgiving with Jerry. Unfortunately, Nibbles is always hungry.

Green Grass of Wyoming(1948)

3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

The romance of a rancher's niece and a rival rancher's son parallels that of a stallion and a mare.

Directed by Louis King, Louis Eugene King - With Peggy Cummins, Charles Coburn

The Loves of Carmen(1948)

1h 39min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

Gypsy Carmen drives men wild in 1820s Spain, especially the dragoon Don Jose.

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