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Academy Award Art Direction (Black-and-White) 1950 · Winner
Academy Award Cinematography (Black-and-White) 1950 · Nominated
Academy Award Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) 1950 · Winner
Academy Award Costume Design (Black-and-White) 1950 · Winner
Golden Globe Actress in a Leading Role 1949 · Winner
Academy Award Directing 1950 · Nominated
Academy Award Best Motion Picture 1950 · Nominated
Academy Award Actor in a Supporting Role 1950 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Director - Motion Picture 1949 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture 1949 · Nominated
New York Film Critics Circle Awards. 1949 Winner NYFCC Award. Best Actress. Olivia de Havilland. 1949 Nominee NYFCC Award. Best Actor. Ralph Richardson. Shared with: The Fallen Idol.
The film received a leading eight nominations at the 22nd Academy Awards, including for the Best Picture, and won four awards (more than any other film nominated that year): Best Actress (for de Havilland), Best Original Score, composed by Aaron Copland, Best Production Design, and Best Costume Design.
But it was still one of the big winners come awards time, with de Havilland taking the New York Film Critics Award, the Golden Globe and her second Oscar® for her performance. Despite its poor box office at the time, The Heiress is now acknowledged as an American film masterpiece.
- William Wyler, C. C. Coleman Jr.
- Olivia De Havilland
The Heiress: Directed by William Wyler. With Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins. A naive young woman falls for a handsome young man her emotionally abusive father suspects is only a fortune hunter.
- (17K)
- Drama, Romance
- William Wyler
- 1949-12-28
Sep 27, 2011 · James Stewart presents Olivia de Havilland the Oscar for Best Actress for The Heiress at the 22nd Academy Awards. Introduced by Paul Douglas.
- 2 min
- 237.6K
- Oscars
A graceful drawing-room drama boasting Academy Award–winning costume design by Edith Head, The Heiress is also a piercing character study riven by emotional uncertainty and lacerating cruelty, in a triumph of classic Hollywood filmmaking at its most psychologically nuanced.
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The highly-praised film, although not a box-office success, was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Ralph Richardson), and Best B/W Cinematography, and won four Oscars: Best Actress (Olivia de Havilland, with her second Best Actress Oscar), Best B/W Art Direction/Set Decoration, Best ...