Conte for Best Supporting Actor
Andrews for Best Supporting Actor
Lloyd for Best Supporting Actor
Sterling Holloway for Best Supporting Actor
John Ireland for Best Supporting Actor
Rossen for Best Screen Play Adaptation
Robinson and the lyricist for Best Song
Milestone for Best Director
20th for Best Picture
Why it didn't get any consideration was probably studio politics!
Take it easy pal.
Play it again, Frank, I don't give a damn.
Hey Punkkoo, It's okay Buddy, Be Cool, don't go negative on me. Just having fun, enjoying life! No need to try to put someone down, for whatever reason. Be positive! I'm sure you're intelligent and smart and have much to offer to the world!
shareYou're on the next patrol. Report to Sgt Tyne.
Play it again, Frank, I don't give a damn.
I'm sure too many good performances cancelled each other out in the nominations. Plus, no bid studio was behind it as it was an independent production from Milestone's company and the distributor, Fox, probably preferred to toot their own horn.
The backbone of this great film is, of course, Harry Brown's novella. Robert Rossen was wise to stick closely to it--especially in lifting the dialogue verbatim. I worked with John Ireland the year before he died and he could still quote from memory Craven's letter to Tinker's mom--"I'm lying against a wall Somewhere in Italy...." The speech still brough shivers down the spines of those of us who were there--even the ones who had never seen the film. It's sad when you think of this great talent--who also wrote the screenplay for "A Place in the Sun" and the novel that Hawks' "El Dorado" is based on--was totally ignored by Hollywood the last years of his life--written off as a has-been.
Great post, Django6924. Interesting and informative. I initally had little hope when I popped it into the DVD, thinking it was just another B movie from Fox, but was soon drawn into it. Great script, acting, directing, just everything was excellent.
Hollywood can sometimes be cruel, maybe not intentionally, but none the less, driven by the "mighty dollar", when it forgets some people along the way. At least Harry Brown is still remembered and talked about with kindness by folks like you.
Yes, very deserving. But by the time that 1945 nominations came out early in 1946, WWII was over and America had moved onto the postwar era, putting the conflict behind as theater entertainment. So WALK and THEY WERE EXPENDABLE got ignored while problem films like LONG WEEKEND and SPELLBOUND would get the nods and the attention. Instead of war films in those following years, combat vets were readjusting (BEST YEARS), or dealing with mental problems (BLUE DAHLIA). It would not be until later in the decade that war films would again get Oscar attention -- SANDS OF IWO JIMA, BATTLEGROUND, TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH all in 1949.
"Take 'em to Missouri"
matt garth...........An excellent post. Thought provoking with interesting theories. You're probably correct, I could believe it.
shareI very much agee w/you---I would add to your list "Noman Lloyd" I'm guessing you were referring to Bridges (maybe?) I had the great privelege of meeting a
couple of the actors from this film decades after it was made and they spoke very highly of it.
It really was not that good for Oscar consideration.
It's that man again!!