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Post by topbilled on May 10, 2023 14:38:04 GMT
It wasn't, but this was one year where it wouldn't have surprised me if the best Oscar winner was also the highest grossing film.
This is also a year where you can feel sci-fi becoming bigger. Yes, by the mid-50s, there are considerably more sci-fi and horror titles. I guess these films drew the younger drive-in crowds (teenagers). But many of them were made on modest budgets, not really "A" budget productions.
Films like SAMSON AND DELILAH, THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH and THE ROBE indicate that the highest grossers are the big-budget spectacles that don't always go over well with Academy voters.
One thing that's been interesting is seeing who the winners are for the Golden Globes and if the Oscar winner is different. In the supporting actor category Frank Sinatra won both the GG and AA for his performance in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, which tells me it was universally acclaimed. But in the best actor category, the GG went to Spencer Tracy for THE ACTRESS (drama) and David Niven for THE MOON IS BLUE (comedy), but the AA went to William Holden. We tend to remember the Oscar winners, but the Golden Globe winners give us insight into how close some of these races were and that sometimes there were several outstanding performances in a category.
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