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1955
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Best Motion Picture
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Rear Window
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John Michael Hayes
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Paramount
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1954
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Best Motion Picture
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The Big Heat
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Sidney Boehm, William P. McGivern
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Columbia
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Comment: Boehm is the screenwriter, McGivern is the author of the novel
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1953
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Best Motion Picture
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Five Fingers
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Otto Lang, Michael G. Wilson
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Twentieth Century Fox
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Comment: Lang is the producer
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1952
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Best Motion Picture
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Detective Story
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Sidney Kingsley, Robert Wyler, Philip Yordan
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Paramount
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Comment: Kingsley wrote the stage play on which the screen version was based, Wyler and Yordan were the screenwriters
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1952 |
Best Motion Picture |
The Man with a Cloak |
John Dickson Carr |
MGM |
Comment: based on the novel by Carr |
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1952 |
Best Motion Picture |
The People Against O'Hara |
Eleazar Lipsky |
MGM |
Comment: based on the novel by Lipsky |
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1951
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Best Motion Picture
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Mr. 880
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St. Clair McKelway
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Twentieth Century Fox
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Comment: Winner of a special award as the author of the novel
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1951
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Best Motion Picture
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The Asphalt Jungle
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Ben Maddow
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MGM
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1951 |
Best Motion Picture |
Stage Fright |
Whitfield Cook |
Warner Bros. |
Comment: based on the novel Man Running by Selwyn Jepson |
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1951 |
Best Motion Picture |
The Man on the Eiffel Tower |
Harry Brown |
A&T |
Comment: based on the novel A Battle of Nerves by Georges Simnon |
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1950
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Best Motion Picture
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The Window
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Mel Dinelli, Cornell Woolrich
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RKO
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Comment: Woolrich wrote the novel FIRE ESCAPE, on which the movie was based
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1950 |
Best Motion Picture |
Chicago Deadline |
Warren Duff, Tiffany Thayer |
Paramount |
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1950 |
Best Motion Picture |
Criss Cross |
Daniel Fuchs |
U-I |
Comment: based on the novel by Don Tracy |
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1950 |
Best Motion Picture |
The Scene of the Crime |
Charles Schnee |
MGM |
Comment: based on the story by John Bartlow Martin |
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1950 |
Best Motion Picture |
White Heat |
Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts |
Warner Bros. |
Comment: based on the story by Virginia Kellogg |
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1949
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Best Motion Picture
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Call Northside 777
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Jerome Cady, Jay Dratler, Henry Hathaway, Leonard Hoffman, Otto Lang, Quentin Reynolds
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Twentieth Century Fox
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Comment: Screenwriters: Reynolds, Hoffman, Dratler, Cady. Posthumous award for Cady. Hathaway was director. Lang produced
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1949 |
Best Motion Picture |
Rope |
Arthur Laurents |
Transatlantic |
Comment: based on the play by Patrick Hamilton |
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1949 |
Best Motion Picture |
Sorry, Wrong Number |
Lucille Fletcher |
Paramount |
Comment: From her play |
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1949 |
Best Motion Picture |
The Big Clock |
Jonathan Latimer |
Paramount |
Comment: based on the novel by Kenneth Fearing |
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1948
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Best Motion Picture
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Crossfire
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John Paxton
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RKO
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Comment: based on the novel The Brick Fox-Hole by Richard Brooks/Dore Schary, producer/Adrian Scott, associate producer/Edward Dmytryk, director
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1947
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Best Motion Picture
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The Killers
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Anthony Veiller
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Hellinger-Universal
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Comment: Mark Hellinger, producer; Robert Siodmak, director
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1946
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Best Motion Picture
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Murder, My Sweet
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John Paxton
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RKO
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Comment: screenplay: Raymond Chandler/author of Farewell, My Lovely on which the movie was based. Directed by Edward Dymtryk
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1946
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Best Motion Picture
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The House on 92nd St.
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Charles G. Booth, Barre Lyndon, John Monks, Jr.
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Twentieth Century Fox
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Comment: Honorary Scroll
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