All That Heaven Allows
1955
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Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture 1960 · Nominated
Academy Award Actress in a Supporting Role 1960 · Nominated
Imitation of Life. Jump to. 3 wins & 6 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 1960 Nominee Oscar. Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Susan Kohner. 1960 Nominee Oscar. Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Juanita Moore. Directors Guild of America, USA. 1960 Nominee DGA Award. Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. Douglas Sirk.
Imitation of Life. A struggling widow and her daughter take in a Black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
- (5.7K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- John M. Stahl
- 1934-11-26
The film's top-billed stars are Lana Turner and John Gavin . The cast also features Robert Alda, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Juanita Moore, and Dan O'Herlihy (in alphabetical order). Kohner and Moore each received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Supporting Actress for their performances.
Imitation of Life was nominated for three Academy Awards – Best Picture, Best Assistant Director for Scott R. Beal, and Best Sound, Recording for Theodore Soderberg. [16] On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an aggregate score of 87% based on 47 positive and 7 negative critic reviews.
Imitation of Life: Directed by Douglas Sirk. With Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner. An aspiring white actress takes in an African American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.
- Douglas Sirk
- 2 min
Imitation of Life was nominated for Best Picture at the 1934 Academy Awards. Modern sources report that the African-American press viewed this film unfavorably, and that Louise Beavers was assisted by the NAACP in influencing the filmmakers to delete the word "nigger" from the screenplay.
It all crescendos with a soul-shaking musical performance from gospel great Mahalia Jackson and a gale-force emotional tsunami that brings the film to its three-hankie conclusion. Nominated for two Academy Awards, Imitation of Life is one of the ultimate Hollywood movies about mothers. (Dir. by Douglas Sirk, 1959, USA, 124 mins., Not Rated)
