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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
It was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, and Huston won a National Board of Review Award for his direction. At the 1950 Venice Film Festival, Huston was nominated for the Golden Lion and Sam Jaffe won the Best Actor Award .
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.
"The Asphalt Jungle" is a fantastic film-noir by the legendary director John Huston and with magnificent performances. The brilliant story of bad luck and betrayal in a heist was nominated to four Oscars, three Golden Globes and nominated and winner of several other prizes.
- (30K)
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- John Huston
- 1950-05-12
May 28, 2021 · The film was nominated for four Academy Awards. In 2008, The Asphalt Jungle was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
- 112 min
- 30.1K
- Arthur Blacksmith
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).
- John Huston, Jack Greenwood, Frank Myers
- Sterling Hayden
Thriller Doc Erwin Riedenschneider has just been released from prison and immediately seeks out financial backing for a heist which he has been plotting, the robbery of a jewellery store. He puts together a group of men consisting of Dix Handley, a tough guy, Gus, a bar owner and Louis Ciavelli, a family man.
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.
