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The 29th Academy Awards were held on March 27, 1957, to honor the films of 1956. In this year, Best International Feature Film became a competitive category, having been given as a Special Achievement Award since 1947.
Best Effects, Special Effects: John P. Fulton; Best Short Film - Animated: Magoo's Puddle Jumper (S) Best Documentary Feature: The Silent World ; Best Short Film: Crashing the Water Barrier (S) (S) Best Short Film: The Bespoke Overcoat ; Honorary Award: Eddie Cantor
Official site of the Academy with history and general information on the Academy Awards, as well as photographs, events and screenings, and press releases.
Jul 28, 2018 · Very recognizable are cuts of buildings collapsing from 1955’s The Rains of Ranchipur which had been nominated for an effects award. But one Fox film library raid rates as one of the most clever uses of stock footage in studio history.
Sweet Smell of Success (1957) is an acerbic, dynamic and intense film that exposes the diseased under-side of New York City's glamorous night life, revealing brutality, capriciousness, greed, evil, psychological violence, corrupt American ambition, betrayal and cynicism.
Best Special Effects: The Ten Commandments – John P. Fulton (WINNER) Forbidden Planet – A. Arnold Gillespie, Irving G. Ries and Wesley C. Miller Academy Honorary Award: Eddie Cantor “for distinguished service to the film industry.”
