Oscar Movies: Viva Zapata! (1952)

Fox

 

Oscar Nominations: 5

 

Actor: Marlon Brando

Supporting Actor: Anthony Quinn

Story and Screenplay: John Steinbeck

Art Direction-Set Decoration (b/w): Lyle Wheeler and Leland Fuller; Thomas Little and Claude Carpenter

Scoring of Dramatic or Comedy Picture: Alex North

 

Oscar Awards: 1

 

Supporting Actor

 

Oscar Context

 

In 1952, the winner of the Best Actor was Gary Cooper for the western “High Noon,” which also received the Oscar for Scoring (by Dimitri Tiomkin).  The Story and Screenplay Oscar went to T.E. B. Clarke for “The Lavender Hill Mob,” and the Art Direction to Minnelli's Hollywood melodrama, “The Bad and the Beautiful.”

 

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