Sunset Boulevard

SUNSET BLVD.
THE PRODUCTION

The Story

The Cast

FILMING

AWARDS

Sunset Boulevard was nominated for eleven Academy Awards:

Category:	Nominee:	Outcome:
Best Picture, 1950		Lost to All About Eve
Best Actor in a Leading Role	William Holden, "Joe Gillis"	Lost to Jose Ferrer, Cyrano de Bergerac
Best Actress in a Leading Role	Gloria Swanson, "Norma Desmond"	Lost to Judy Holliday, Born Yesterday
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Erich Von Stroheim, "Max Von Mayerling"	Lost to George Sanders, All About Eve
Best Actress in a Supporting Role	Nancy Olson, "Betty Schaefer"	Lost to Josephine Hull, Harvey
Best Director	Billy Wilder	Lost to Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve
Best Story and Screenplay	Wilder, Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman, Jr.	WINNER
Best Art Direction/ Best Set Decoration (Black and White)	Hans Dreier, John Meehan Sam Comer, Ray Moyer	WINNER
Best Cinematography (Black and White)	John F. Seitz	Lost to Robert Kasker, The Third Man
Best Film Editing	Arthur Schmidt, Doane Harrison	Lost to Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig, King Solomon's Mines
Best Musical Score	Franz Waxman	WINNER

Although it won only three Academy Awards and lost in the major categories, it has since been hailed as one of the greatest motion pictures of all time. In 1989, the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress selected Sunset Boulevard as one of twenty-five landmark films, leading examples of American cinematic art.

In 1998, in celebration of 100 years of movie-making, the American Film Institute selected the 100 Greatest American Movies of All Time. At the number 12 position: Sunset Boulevard.

The 1950 Academy Awards:

From Left to Right:

Jose Ferrer (Best Actor, Cyrano de Bergerac), Gloria Swanson (Best Actress nominee), and Judy Holliday (Best Actress, Born Yesterday)

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