| The “Great To Be Nominated” series, featuring the picture from each Academy year which received the most nominations without winning the Best Picture Award, begins its third installment with three titles in April, then continues throughout the spring and summer. Each evening will also include animated and live action short subjects, original advertising trailers, out-takes, newsreels and other surprises to offer up a snapshot of that particular year. The very best prints available will be screened at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater, one of the finest screening facilities in the world. |
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Monday, April 10th |
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 Stanley Kramer’s exciting drama about a pair of handcuffed convicts on the run was a breakthrough film in Hollywood’s portrayal of race relations, with stars Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis each earning their first Best Actor nomination. The film received nine nominations overall including Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Theodore Bikel), Supporting Actress (Cara Williams), Directing (Kramer), Film Editing (Frederic Knudtson), and won for Cinematography Black-and-White (Sam Leavitt) and Writing – Story and Screenplay — written directly for the screen (Nedrick Young). The film will be preceded by cartoon nominee Paul Bunyan and Live Action winner Grand Canyon, both from Walt Disney Productions. |
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Monday, April 17th |
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 (1959) Two-time Directing winner George Stevens turned Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett’s popular stage adaptation of Anne Frank’s tragic yet uplifting journal into the first major Hollywood film about the Holocaust. The film received eight nominations including Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Ed Wynn), Costume Design – Black-and-White (Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills), Directing (Stevens), Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture (Alfred Newman) and won for Supporting Actress (Shelley Winters), Art Direction – Black-and-White (Lyle R. Wheeler, George W. Davis, Walter M. Scott & Stuart A. Reiss), and Cinematography – Black-and-White (William C. Mellor). The film will be preceded by cartoon nominee Noah’s Ark from Walt Disney Productions . |
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Monday, April 24th |
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 D.H. Lawrence’s classic autobiographical novel became a bold romantic drama under the direction of Jack Cardiff, starring Wendy Hiller, Dean Stockwell and an Oscar-nominated Trevor Howard. Freddie Francis also earned an Oscar for his stunning black-and-white widescreen cinematography. The film received seven nominations including Best Picture, Actor (Howard) , Supporting Actress (Mary Ure), Art Direction – Black-and-White (Tom Morahan and Lionel Couch), Directing (Cardiff), Writing – Screenplay — based on material from another medium (Gavin Lambert and T.E.B. Clarke) and won for Cinematography – Black-and-White (Francis). The film will be preceded by a newly recorded interview with Jack Cardiff and the animated nominee High Note from Warner Bros. |
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