Sunset Boulevard (film)

:For the Broadway production see: Sunset Boulevard (musical).

Awards

Sunset Boulevard won Academy Awards in the categories of:

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• Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Hans Dreier, John Meehan, Sam Comer and Ray Moyer)
• Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture (Franz Waxman)
• Best Writing, Story and Screenplay (Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D.M. Marshman Jr.)

It was also nominated in the categories of:

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• Best Picture
• Best Director (Billy Wilder)
• Best Actor in a Leading Role (William Holden)
• Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Erich von Stroheim)
• Best Actress in a Leading Role (Gloria Swanson)
• Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Nancy Olson)
• Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (John F. Seitz)
• Best Film Editing (Arthur P. Schmidt and Doane Harrison) {{mn|Oscars|11}}

Sunset Boulevards eleven nominations were exceeded only by the fourteen nominations received by All About Eve which won six awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Many critics predicted the Best Actress award would be given to Gloria Swanson or Bette Davis for All About Eve and were surprised the recipient was newcomer Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday. Swanson recalled the press' reaction following Holliday's win, writing "It slowly dawned on me that they were asking for a larger-than-life scene, or better still, a mad scene. More accurately they were trying to flush out Norma Desmond." {{mn|WileyBona|8}}

Related Topics:
All About Eve - Bette Davis - Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday

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In an interview years later Davis bluntly stated she and Swanson had "cancelled each other out" {{mn|BetteDavis|12}}, though in 1982 she told Playboy Magazine of her admiration for Swanson's performance, saying, "If she'd won, I'd have shouted hooray. She was sensational, just fantastic". {{mn|StaggsAllAboutEve|13}}

Related Topics:
1982 - Playboy Magazine

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Sunset Boulevard also received Golden Globe awards for Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Motion Picture Actress (Swanson), Best Motion Picture Director and . Wilder and Brackett won a Writer's Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama while the Director's Guild of America nominated Wilder for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. The National Board of Review voted it Best Picture and Swanson received Best Actress.

Related Topics:
Golden Globe - Best Motion Picture - Drama - Best Motion Picture Actress - Best Motion Picture Director - Writer's Guild of America - Director's Guild of America - National Board of Review

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