Double Indemnity
1944
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Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture 1958 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Foreign Actor 1959 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama 1958 · Nominated
Academy Award Sound Recording 1958 · Nominated
Academy Award Film Editing 1958 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Director - Motion Picture 1958 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama 1958 · Nominated
Academy Award Directing 1958 · Nominated
Academy Award Best Motion Picture 1958 · Nominated
Academy Award Actress in a Supporting Role 1958 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Motion Picture - Drama 1958 · Nominated
Academy Award Actor 1958 · Nominated
Witness for the Prosecution Jump to Academy Awards, USA (6) BAFTA Awards (1) David di Donatello Awards (1) Directors Guild of America, USA (1) Edgar Allan Poe Awards (1) Golden Globes, USA (5) Laurel Awards (2) Online Film & Television Association (1)
Box office. $9 million. Witness for the Prosecution is a 1957 American legal mystery thriller film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, and Elsa Lanchester. The film, which has elements of bleak black comedy and film noir, is a courtroom drama set in the Old Bailey in London and is based on the ...
- $2 million
- Arthur Hornblow Jr.
Witness for the Prosecution – Billy Wilder. ACTOR. Marlon Brando – Sayonara Anthony Franciosa – A Hatful of Rain Alec Guinness – The Bridge on the River Kwai Charles Laughton – Witness for the Prosecution Anthony Quinn – Wild Is the Wind. ACTRESS. Deborah Kerr – Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison Anna Magnani – Wild Is the Wind
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Full awards and nominations of Witness for the Prosecution. Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester ... Mystery. Drama Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power), a young and attractive man, is accused of the murder of Miss French, a rich old woman. Wilfred Roberts (Charles Laughton), a criminal lawyer from London, takes charge of ...
Witness for the Prosecution: Directed by Billy Wilder. With Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester. A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.
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Witness for the Prosecution (which earned six Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Picture) operates on the surface as a gripping courtroom drama, but beneath the thrilling plot twists and sharp dialogues lies a layered exploration of human nature, the fragility of truth, and the complicated reality of our justice system.
Witness for the Prosecution was also the last film in which married actors Laughton and Lanchester appeared together and the final film appearance of longtime character actress Una O'Connor (1880-1959) who recreated the role of "Janet" from the Broadway production of the play. Modern sources include Franklyn Farnum, Colin Kenny, William H. O ...
