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31 Days of Oscar: 1950s Winners TCM, Beginning at 2:45 p.m
Turner Classic Movies’ 31 Days of Oscar event continues its Wednesday salute to Academy Award-winning films from the 1950s with today’s daylong lineup featuring the following titles: Plymouth Adventure (1952) — won in its only nominated category: Best Effects, Special Effects; The Great Caruso (1951) — three nominations, one win: Best Sound Recording; Interrupted Melody (1955) — three nominations, one win: Best Writing, Story and Screenplay; Julius Caesar (1953) — five nominations,
one win: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White; I’ll Cry Tomorrow (1955) — four nominations, one win: Best Costume Design, Black-and-White; Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) — three nominations, two wins: Best Cinematography, Black-and-White and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White; Annie Get Your Gun (1950) — four nominations, one win: Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture; Marty (pictured) (1955) — eight nominations, four wins: Best Picture, Best Actor (Ernest Borgnine), Best Director (Delbert Mann) and Best Writing, Screenplay (Paddy Chayefsky); Born Yesterday (1950) — five nominations, one win: Best Actress (Judy Holliday); Some Like It Hot (1959) — six nominations, one win: Best Costume Design, Black-and-White; Mon Oncle (1958) — won in its only nominated category: Best Foreign Language Film (France); and
(1950) — did not win in its one nominated category but received an honorary award for being what the academy’s Board of Governors called “the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1951” (Japan).