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1952 Nominee Oscar. Best Actress in a Leading Role. Shelley Winters. 1952 Winner Oscar. Best Director. George Stevens. 1952 Winner Oscar. Best Writing, Screenplay. Michael Wilson.
The film was a critical and commercial success, winning six Academy Awards and the first-ever Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. The film is sometimes considered one of the greatest American films ever made. [4]
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A Place in the Sun, American dramatic film, released in 1951, that was based on a theatrical adaptation of Theodore Dreiser’s 1925 novel An American Tragedy, a searing look at dysfunctional relationships and blind ambition. The film was a popular and critical hit, winning six Academy Awards.
Montgomery Clift played George Eastman, an oppressed young man from the wrong side of town. Despite having wealthy relatives, Eastman can find no entry into the opulent lifestyle that he craves—until he falls in love with a beautiful young socialite (Elizabeth Taylor), whom he wishes to marry. His plans go awry when his ex-girlfriend Alice (Shelley Winters) announces that she is pregnant and demands that she and Eastman be wed. He desperately attempts to put off the unwanted marriage, and he takes Alice on a boat ride during which he plans to kill her. Although he changes his mind, Alice drowns when the boat accidentally capsizes. Eastman is found guilty of her murder and is sentenced to death.
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•Studio: Paramount Pictures
•Director: George Stevens
•Writers: Michael Wilson and Harry Brown
•Music: Franz Waxman
•Montgomery Clift (George Eastman)
•Elizabeth Taylor (Angela Vickers)
•Shelley Winters (Alice Tripp)
•Anne Revere (Hannah Eastman)
•Keefe Brasselle (Earl Eastman)
•Raymond Burr (D.A. Marlowe)
•Picture
•Director*
•Lead actor (Montgomery Clift)
•Supporting actress (Shelley Winters)
•Score*
•Cinematography (black and white)*
- Lee Pfeiffer
Music Awards. An American in Paris / A Place in the Sun / Here Comes the Groom. Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin, Franz Waxman, Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael.
A PLACE IN THE SUN went home with six Oscars including Best Director for George Stevens and it's easy to see why he took home the award because there's so much going on in this picture yet he holds it together perfectly.
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- Drama, Romance
- George Stevens
- 1951-11-09
Despite his family relationship to the owner, the rich Eastman family treats George as an outsider and gives him the humblest job available in the factory and no entree into their exclusive social circle. George, uncomplaining, hopes to impress his uncle--whom he addresses as "Mr. Eastman"--with ... [+] 24th Academy Awards (1952) - Movies from 1951
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The film was a critical and commercial success, winning six Academy Awards and the first-ever Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. The film is sometimes considered one of the greatest American films ever made. [4] .
