1952 — Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. The Young and the Damned (Los Olvidados; dir: Luis Buñuel; US Release Date)

2. The Life of Oharu (dir: Kenji Mizoguchi)

3. The Quiet Man (dir: John Ford)

4. Singin’ in the Rain (dir: Stanley Donan and Gene Kelly)

5. Forbidden Games (dir: Rene Clement)

6. The Narrow Margin (dir: Richard Fleisher)

7. Ikiru (dir: Akira Kurosawa)

8. The Lusty Men (dir: Nicholas Ray)

9. High Noon (dir: Fred Zinnemann)

10. Limelight (dir: Charles Chaplin)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): The Bad and the Beautiful (dir: Vincente Minnelli), Clash by Night (dir: Fritz Lang), Kansas City Confidential (dir: Phil Karlson), Le Plaisir (dir: Max Ophuls), The Marrying Kind (dir: George Cukor), Rancho Notorious (dir: Fritz Lang), Sudden Fear! (dir: David Miller), The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (dir: Orson Welles), and Viva Zapata! (dir: Elia Kazan)

Best Picture: The Young and the Damned (Los Olvidados)
Director: Luis Buñuel Producer: Oscar Dancigers, Sergio Kogan, Jaime A. Menasce
US Distributor: Azteca Films

Best Director:
John Ford, The Quiet Man
2. Stanley Donan and Gene Kelly, Singin’ in the Rain
3. Luis Buñuel, The Young and the Damned (Los Olvidados)
4. Kenji Mizoguchi, The Life of Oharu
5. Richard Fleischer, The Narrow Margin

Best Actor:
Charles Chaplin, Limelight
2. John Wayne, The Quiet Man
3. Gary Cooper, High Noon
4. Takashi Shimura, Ikiru
5. Gene Kelly, Singin’ in the Rain

Best Actress:
Barbara Stanwyck, Clash by Night
2. Kinuyo Tanaka, The Life of Oharu
3. Judy Holliday, The Marrying Kind
4. Joan Crawford, Sudden Fear!
5. Debbie Reynolds, Singin’ in the Rain

Best Supporting Actor:
Victor McLaglen, The Quiet Man
2. Donald O’Connor, Singin’ in the Rain
3. Anthony Quinn, Viva Zapata!
4. Jack Palance, Sudden Fear!
5. Arthur Kennedy, The Lusty Men

Best Supporting Actress:
Katy Jurado, High Noon
2. Ethel Waters, The Member of the Wedding
3. Marie Windsor, The Narrow Margin
4. Jean Hagen, Singin' in the Rain
5. Gloria Grahame, The Bad and the Beautiful

Best Original Screenplay: 
Singin' in the Rain — Adolph Green and Betty Comden
2. The Narrow Margin — Martin Goldsmith and Jack Leonard
3. Ikiru — Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, and Hideo Oguni
4. The Young and the Damned — Luis Alcoriza and Luis Buñuel
5. Rancho Notorious — Daniel Taradash and Silvia Richards

Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Life of Oharu – Kenji Mizoguchi and Yoshikata Yoda
2. Forbidden Games — Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost and Francois Boyer
3. The Quiet Man — Frank S. Nugent
4. High Noon – Carl Foreman
5. Clash by Night — Alfred Hayes

Best Cinematography:
The Young and the Damned (Los Olvidados) — Gabriel Figueroa
2. The Quiet Man — Winton C. Hoch
3. Ikiru — Asaichi Nakai
4. Limelight — Karl Struss
5. Sudden Fear! — Charles B. Lang

Best Film Editing: 
The Narrow Margin — Robert Swink
2. High Noon — Elmo Williams
3. Singin' in the Rain — Adrienne Fazan
4. The Quiet Man — Jack Murray
5. The Young and the Damned (Los Olvidados) — Carlos Savage

Best Original Score:
High Noon — Dimitri Tiomkin
2. Ivanhoe — Miklós Rózsa
3. Limelight — Charles Chaplin, Ray Rasch, and Larry Russell
4. The Quiet Man — Victor Young
5. The Bad and the Beautiful — David Raskin

Best Production Design:
The Tales of Hoffman — Hein Heckroth and Arthur Lawson
2. Moulin Rouge — Paul Sheriff and Marcel Vertes
3. Le Plaisir — Jean d’Euabonne and Richard Christides
4. The Quiet Man – Frank Hotaling, John McCarthy Jr. and Charles Thompson
5. The Importance of Being Earnest — Cameron Dillon

Best Costume Design:
Moulin Rouge — Julia Squire
2. The Tales of Hoffman — Hein Heckroth
3. Ivanhoe — Roger Furse
4. The Importance of Being Earnest — Beatrice Dawson
5. Le Plaisir — Georges Annekoff

Best Ensemble Cast:
Singin’ in the Rain

Orson Welles’ Best First Feature:
Guy Hamilton, The Ringer

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Singin’ in the Rain (dir: Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly; in alphabetical order): Cyd Charisse (pictured), Douglas Fowley, Jean Hagen, Gene Kelly (pictured), Millard Mitchell, Rita Moreno, Donald O’Connor, and Debbie Reynolds

Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award:
Guy Hamilton, The Ringer

RECAP

W I N S :

High Noon — 2, The Quiet Man — 2, Singin’ in the Rain — 2, The Young and the Damned (Los Olvidados) — 2, Clash by Night — 1, The Life of Oharu — 1, Limelight — 1, Moulin Rouge — 1, The Narrow Margin — 1, The Ringer – 1, The Tales of Hoffman — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

The Quiet Man — 9, Singin’ in the Rain — 9,
High Noon — 7, The Young and the Damned (Los Olvidados) — 6, Ikiru — 5, Limelight — 5, The Narrow Margin — 5, Life of Oharu — 4, Sudden Fear! — 3, The Bad and the Beautiful — 2, Clash by Night — 2, Forbidden Games — 2, The Importance of Being Earnest — 2, Ivanhoe — 2, Le Plaisir — 2, Lusty Men — 2, Moulin Rouge — 2, The Tales of Hoffman — 2

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