Key Largo (film)
1948
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Awards
Golden Globe Best Director - Motion Picture 1951 · Nominated
Academy Award Directing 1951 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Screenplay - Motion Picture 1951 · Nominated
Academy Award Writing (Screenplay) 1951 · Nominated
Academy Award Actor in a Supporting Role 1951 · Nominated
Golden Globe Cinematography - Black and White 1951 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Film From Any Source 1951 · Nominated
Academy Award Cinematography (Black-and-White) 1951 · Nominated
At the 1950 Venice Film Festival, Huston was nominated for the Golden Lion and Sam Jaffe won the Best Actor Award . Retrospective reviews of the film have been highly positive, with several critics describing it as one of the most influential works in the crime film genre, [5] and one of John Huston's best films. [6]
- $1.2 million
- Arthur Hornblow Jr.
The Asphalt Jungle. Jump to. 5 wins & 14 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 1951 Nominee Oscar. Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Sam Jaffe. 1951 Nominee Oscar. Best Director. John Huston. 1951 Nominee Oscar. Best Writing, Screenplay. Ben Maddow. John Huston. 1951 Nominee Oscar. Best Cinematography, Black-and-White. Harold Rosson. BAFTA Awards.
Gloria Swanson with the Best Actor winner for Cyrano de Bergerac and Best Actress winner for Born Yesterday. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Best Directing and Original Screenplay winner for All about Eve. Dr. Mario Ungaro.
The Asphalt Jungle: Directed by John Huston. With Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore. A major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel.
May 12, 2009 · Awards and Honors The Asphalt Jungle earned a number of Academy Award nominations, including Best Screenplay, Best Direction, and Best Supporting Actor (Sam Jaffe). The film lost in all categories to All About Eve (1950). The black and white cinematography got a nod, too, but it lost out to The Third Man (1950).
Sydney Guilaroff. Makeup created by. Jack Dawn. In a smog-choked city somewhere in the American Midwest, an aging criminal mastermind, newly released from prison, hatches a plan for a million-dollar jewel heist and draws a wealthy lawyer and a cherry-picked trio of outlaws into his carefully devised but inevitably doomed scheme.
