The Golden Gongs

January 28, 2014

best films 1945 - 1946

1945

Children of paradise (France) Marcel Carne
Detour (Usa/Austria) Edgar Ulmer
I know where i'm going (Britain) Michael Powell

Leave her to heaven (Usa/Azerbijan) John Stahl
Les dames du bois des boulogne (France) Robert Bresson
Mildred Pierce (Usa/Hungary) Michael Curtis
Rome open city (Italy) Roberto Rosselini
Scarlet street (Usa/Germany) Fritz Lang
The killers (Usa/Germany) Robert Siodmak
They were expendable (Usa) John Ford

1946

A matter of life and death (Britain) Michael Powell

Beauty and the beast (France) Jean Cocteau
Canyon passage (Usa/France) Jacques Tourneur
Cluny Brown (Usa/Germany) Ernst Lubitsch
Gilda (Usa/Hungary) Charles Vidor
My darling clementine (Usa) John Ford
Notorious (Usa/Britain) Alfred Hitchcock
Paisan (Italy) Roberto Rosselini
The best years of our lives (Usa) William Wyler
Utamaro and his five women (Japan) Kenji Mizoguchi

The Golden Gongs

Best Pictures: Open City, A matter of life and death
Best Directors: Marcel Carne, Roberto Rossellini
Best Performer: Anna Magnani

Achievement Award: John Stahl, WIlliam Wyler

best films 1944

At land (Usa/Ukraine) Maya Dern

A canterbury tale (Britain) Michael Powell
Curse of the cat people (Usa) Robert Wise
Double indemnity (Usa/Austria) Billy Wilder
Ivan the terrible (Russia) Sergei Eisenstein
Laura (Usa/Austria) Otto Preminger
Lifeboat (Usa/Britain) Alfred Hitchcock
Maria candelaria (Mexico) Emilio Fernandez
The miracle of morgan's creek (Usa) Preston Sturges
To have and have not (Usa) Howard Hawks

The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Ivan the Terrible
Best Director: Howard Hawks
Best Performer: Walter Brennan

Achievement Award: Emilio Fernandez

January 27, 2014

best films 1943

Air force (Usa) Howard Hawks

Day of wrath (Denmark) Carl Dreyer
Flor silvestre (Mexico) Emilio Fernandez
Heaven can wait (Usa/Germany) Ernst Lubitsch
I walked with a zombie (Usa/France) Jacques Tourneur
Les anges des peches (France) Robert Bresson
Obsessione (Italy) Luchino Visconte
Shadow of a doubt (Usa/Britian) Alfred Hitchcock
The life and death of colonel blimp (Britain) Michael Powell
The seventh victim (Usa) Mark Robson

The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Day of Wrath
Best Director: Michael Powell
Best Performer: Charles Lane

Achievement Award: Jacques Tourneur

best films 1942

Aniki bobo (Portugal) Manuel Oliviera
Cat people (Usa/France) Jacques Tourneur
Gentleman jim (Usa) Raoul Walsh
Men of the mountain (Hungary) Istvan Szots
The magnificent ambersons (Usa) Orson Welles
The man who came to dinner (Usa) William Keighley
The palm beach story (Usa) Preston Sturges
There was a father (Japan) Yasujiro Ozu
To be or not to be (Usa/Germany) Ernst Lubitsch
Went the day well (Britain/Brazil) Alberto Cavalcanti

The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: The Magnificent Ambersons
Best Director: Orson Welles
Best Performer: Monty Woolley

Achievement Award: Manoel Oliviera

best films 1940 - 1941

1940

Foreign correspondent (Usa/Britain) Alfred Hitchcock
His girl friday (Usa) Howard Hawks

London can take it (Britain) Humphrey Jennings

Pinnochio (Usa) Walt Disney
Rebecca (Usa/Britain) Alfred Hitchcock
Remember the night (Usa) Mitchell Liesen
Remorques (France) Jean Gremillon
The philadelphia story (Usa) George Cukor
The mortal storm (Usa) Frank Borzage
The shop around the corner (Usa/Germany) Ernst Lubitsch

1941

Citizen kane (Usa) Orson Welles
Hellzapoppin (Usa) HC Potter
Hold back the dawn (Usa) Mitchell Liesen
How green was my valley (Usa) John Ford
Ornamental hairpin (Japan) Hiroshi Shimizu
Sullivans travels (Usa) Preston Sturges
Suspicion (Usa/Britain) Alfred Hitchcock
The devil and daniel webster (Usa/Germany) William Dieterle

The great dictator (Usa/Britain) Charlie Chaplin
The shanghai gesture (Usa/Austria) Josef Sternberg

The Golden Gongs

Best Pictures: His Girl Friday, Citizen Kane
Best Directors: George Cukor, John Ford
Best Performers: Jane Darwel, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Collinge

Achievement Awards: Mitchell Liesen, Preston Sturges

The Hall of Fame

Victor Sjostrom 28
George Melies 26
Albert Capellani 24
Yevgeni Bauer 21

Jean Renoir 17

DW Griffiths 16

Kenji Mizoguchi 15
Alfred Hitchcock 14

Howard Hawks 14
Jean Epstein 14

Josef Sternberg 14
Yasujiro Ozu 13
Alexander Dovshenko 13
Sergei Eisenstein 13
FW Murnau 13

Fritz Lang 13
Mauritz Stiller 12

Ferdinand Zecca 11
Ernst Lubitsch 10
Carl Dreyer 10

Maurice Tourneur 9

Ladislas Starevich 9

Edwin Porter 8

Leo Mccarey 8

Erich Stronheim 8
GW Pabst 7

|Frank Borzage 7

Vsevelod Pudovkin 7

King Vidor 7

James Whale 7

Marcus Pagnol 7

Louis Feuillade 7

John Ford 6
Andre Antoine 6
Charlie Chaplin 6
Leonce Perret 6
Robert Weine 6

Lucien Nonguet 6
Mario Caserini 5
Francesca Bertilini 5
Giovanne Pastrone 5
Mikio Naruse 5
Sadao Yamanaka 5

George Cukor 5

Raoul Walsh 5

Harold Lloyd 5
Gustava Serena 5

cineometer 1940: Usa 104, Fra 56, Ger 26, Rus 26, Jap 18, Swe 15, Ita 9, Bri 8, Chi 4, Den 4

January 24, 2014

best films 1939

Love affair (Usa) Leo Mccarey
Midnight (Usa) Michell Leisen
Ninotchka (Usa/Germany) Ernst Lubitsch
Stagecoach (Usa) John Ford
The roaring twenties (Usa) Raoul Walsh
The rules of the game (France) Jean Renoir
The story of the last chrysanthemums (Japan) Kenji Mizoguchi
The whole family works (Japan) Mikio Naruse

When tomorrow comes (Usa) John Stahl
Young mr lincoln (Usa) John Ford

The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: The rules of the game
Best Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Best Performer: Claudette Colbert

Achievement Award: John Ford

best films 1938

Alexander nevsky (Russia) Sergei Eisenstein
Bringing up baby (Usa) Howard Hawks
Flowers have fallen (Japan) Tamizo Ishida
Four daughters (Usa/Hungary) Michael Curtiz
La bete humaine (France) Jean Renoir

Quai des brumes (France) Michel Carne
Stella dallas (Usa) King Vidor
The lady vanishes (Britain) Alfred Hitchcock
The bakers wife (France) Marcus Pagnol
Two masseurs and a woman (Japan) Hiroshi Shimizu

The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Bringing up baby
Best Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Best Performers: Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne

Achievement Award: Michel Carne