Italian actress (born 1934)
Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone
OMRI
(
Italian:
[so?fiːa
vil?laːni
??iko?loːne]
; born 20 September 1934), known professionally as
Sophia Loren
(
l?-
REN
,
[1]
Italian:
[?l?ːren]
), is an Italian actress, active in her native country and the United States. With a career spanning over 70 years, she was named by the
American Film Institute
as
one of the greatest stars
of
classical Hollywood cinema
.
[2]
Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering a beauty pageant, Loren began her film career at age 16 in 1950. She appeared in several bit parts and minor roles in the early part of the decade, until her five-picture contract with
Paramount
in 1956 launched her international career. Her film appearances around this time include
The Pride and the Passion
,
Houseboat
, and
It Started in Naples
. During the 1950s, she starred in films as a sexually emancipated persona and was one of the best known
sex symbols
of the time.
Loren's performance as Cesira in the film
Two Women
(1960) directed by
Vittorio De Sica
won her the
Academy Award for Best Actress
, making her the first actor to win an Oscar for a non-English-language performance. She holds the record for having earned seven
David di Donatello Awards
for Best Actress:
Two Women
;
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
(1963);
Marriage Italian Style
(1964, for which she was nominated for a second Oscar);
Sunflower
(1970);
The Voyage
(1974);
A Special Day
(1977) and
The Life Ahead
(2020). She has won five special
Golden Globes
(including the
Cecil B. DeMille Award
), a
BAFTA Award
, a
Laurel Award
, a
Grammy Award
, the
Volpi Cup for Best Actress
at the
Venice Film Festival
and the
Best Actress Award
at the
Cannes Film Festival
. In 1991, she received the
Academy Honorary Award
for lifetime achievements.
At the start of the 1980s, Loren chose to make rarer film appearances. Since then, she has appeared in films such as
Pret-a-porter
(1994),
Grumpier Old Men
(1995),
Nine
(2009), and
The Life Ahead
(2020). In June 1996, Loren was appointed a
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
(OMRI).
[3]
Early life
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Family and childhood
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]
Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone was born on September 20, 1934, in the Clinica Regina Margherita in
Rome
,
Kingdom of Italy
,
[4]
the daughter of Romilda Villani (1910?1991) and Riccardo Scicolone Murillo (1907?1976). Her mother was a piano teacher and aspiring actress, her father a failed engineer who worked temporarily for the national railway
Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane
. Loren claimed in her autobiography that he was of noble descent, by virtue of which she is entitled to call herself "Viscountess of Pozzuoli, Lady of Caserta, a title given by the
House of Hohenstaufen
,
Marchioness
of Licata Scicolone Murillo".
Loren's father refused to marry her mother,
[6]
leaving her without financial support. Loren met with her father three times, at age five, age seventeen and in 1976 at his deathbed, stating that she forgave him but had never forgotten his abandonment of her mother.
[7]
[8]
Loren's parents had another child together, her sister
Maria
, in 1938. Scicolone did not want to formally recognise Maria as his daughter. When Loren became successful, she paid her father in order to have her sister Maria take the Scicolone last name.
[9]
Loren has two younger paternal half-brothers, Giuliano and Giuseppe.
[10]
Romilda, Sofia, and Maria lived with Loren's grandmother in
Pozzuoli
, near
Naples
.
[11]
[12]
During the
Second World War
, the harbour and munitions plant in Pozzuoli was a frequent bombing target of the
Allies
. During one raid, as Loren ran to the shelter, she was struck by
shrapnel
and wounded in the chin.
After that, the family moved to Naples, where they were taken in by distant relatives. After the war, Loren and her family returned to Pozzuoli. Loren's grandmother Luisa opened a pub in their living room, selling homemade cherry liquor. Romilda played the
piano
, Maria sang, and Loren waited on tables and washed dishes. The place was popular with the
American GIs
stationed nearby.
[
citation needed
]
Pageantry
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At age 15, Loren as
Sofia Lazzaro
entered the
Miss Italia
1950
beauty pageant
and was assigned as Candidate No. 2, being one of the four contestants representing the
Lazio
region. She was selected as one of the last three finalists and won the title of Miss Elegance 1950, while Liliana Cardinale won the title of Miss Cinema and Anna Maria Bugliari won the grand title of
Miss Italia
. She returned in 2001 as president of the jury for the 61st edition of the pageant. In 2010, Loren crowned the 71st Miss Italia pageant winner.
[14]
[15]
Career
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Early roles
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Sofia Lazzaro enrolled in the
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
, the national film school of Italy and appeared as an uncredited extra in
Mervyn LeRoy
's 1951 film
Quo Vadis
, when she was 16 years old.
[16]
[17]
That same year, Loren appeared in the Italian film
Era lui... si! si!
, in which she played an
odalisque
, and was credited as
Sofia Lazzaro
. In the early part of the decade, she played bit parts and had minor roles in several films, including
La Favorita
(1952)
.
[18]
Carlo Ponti
changed her name and public image to appeal to a wider audience as
Sophia Loren
, being a twist on the name of the Swedish actress
Marta Toren
and suggested by
Goffredo Lombardo
. Her first starring role was in
Aida
(1953), for which she received critical acclaim.
[19]
After playing the lead role in
Two Nights with Cleopatra
(1953), her breakthrough role was in
The Gold of Naples
(1954), directed by
Vittorio De Sica
.
[19]
Too Bad She's Bad
, also released in 1954, and
La Bella Mugnaia
(1955) became the first of many films in which Loren co-starred with
Marcello Mastroianni
. Over the next three years, she acted in many films, including
Scandal in Sorrento
,
Lucky to Be a Woman
,
Boy on a Dolphin
,
Legend of the Lost
and
The Pride and the Passion
(1957), the latter film a Napoleonic era war-epic set in Spain starring
Cary Grant
and
Frank Sinatra
.
International stardom
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Loren became an international film star following her five-picture contract with
Paramount Pictures
in 1958. Among her films at this time were
Desire Under the Elms
with
Anthony Perkins
, based upon the
Eugene O'Neill
play;
Houseboat
, a romantic comedy co-starring
Cary Grant
; and
George Cukor
's
Heller in Pink Tights
, in which she appeared as a blonde for the first time. In 1960, Loren starred in
Vittorio De Sica
's
Two Women
, a stark, gritty story of a mother who is trying to protect her 12-year-old daughter in war-torn Italy. The two end up gang-raped inside a church as they travel back to their home city following cessation of bombings there. Originally cast as the daughter, Loren fought against type and was eventually cast as the mother (actress
Eleonora Brown
would portray the daughter). Loren's performance earned her many awards, including the
Cannes Film Festival
's best performance prize, and an
Academy Award for Best Actress
, the first major Academy Award for a non-English-language performance or to an Italian actress. She won 22 international awards for
Two Women
. The film was extremely well received by critics and a huge commercial success. Though proud of this accomplishment, Loren did not show up to this award, citing fear of fainting at the award ceremony. Nevertheless,
Cary Grant
telephoned her in
Rome
the next day to inform her of the
Oscar award
.
During the 1960s, Loren was one of the most popular actresses in the world, and continued to make films in the United States and Europe, starring with prominent leading men. In 1961 and 1964, her career reached its pinnacle when she received $1 million to appear in
El Cid
and
The Fall of the Roman Empire
. In 1965, she received a second Academy Award nomination for her performance in
Marriage Italian-Style
opposite Marcello Mastroianni.
[21]
Among Loren's best-known films of this period are
Samuel Bronston
's
epic production
of
El Cid
with
Charlton Heston
,
The Millionairess
(1960) with
Peter Sellers
,
It Started in Naples
(1960) with
Clark Gable
, Vittorio De Sica's triptych
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
(1963) with Marcello Mastroianni,
Peter Ustinov
's
Lady L
(1965) with
Paul Newman
,
Arabesque
(1966) with
Gregory Peck
, and
Charlie Chaplin
's final film,
A Countess from Hong Kong
(1967) with
Marlon Brando
.
Loren received four
Golden Globe Awards
between 1964 and 1977 as "World Film Favorite ? Female".
[22]
Continued success
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Loren appeared in fewer movies after becoming a mother in 1968. During the next decade, most of her roles were in Italian features. During the 1970s, she was paired with
Richard Burton
in the last De Sica-directed film,
The Voyage
(1974), and a remake of the film
Brief Encounter
(1974). The film had its premiere on US television on 12 November 1974 as part of the
Hallmark Hall of Fame
series on NBC. In 1976, she starred in
The Cassandra Crossing
. It fared extremely well internationally, and was a respectable box office success in the US market. She co-starred with
Marcello Mastroianni
again in
Ettore Scola
's
A Special Day
(1977). This movie was nominated for 11 international awards such as two Oscars (best actor in leading role, best foreign picture). It won a Golden Globe Award and a Cesar Award for best foreign movie. Loren's performance was awarded with a David di Donatello Award, the seventh in her career. The movie was extremely well received by American reviewers
and became a box office hit
[
citation needed
]
.
Following this success, Loren starred in an American thriller
Brass Target
. This movie received mixed reviews, although it was moderately successful in the United States and internationally. In 1978, she won her fourth Golden Globe for "world film favorite". Other movies of this decade were Academy Award nominee
Sunflower
(1970), which was a critical success, and Arthur Hiller's
Man of La Mancha
(1972), which was a critical and commercial failure despite being nominated for several awards, including two Golden Globes.
Peter O'Toole
and
James Coco
were nominated for two NBR awards, in addition the
NBR
listed
Man of La Mancha
in its best ten pictures of 1972 list.
[19]
Loren headlined the action thriller
Firepower
(1979) co-starring
James Coburn
and
O. J. Simpson
, whom she had previously worked with on
The Cassandra Crossing
.
In 1980, after the international success of the biography
Sophia Loren: Living and Loving, Her Own Story
by
A. E. Hotchner
, Loren portrayed herself and her mother in a made-for-television
biopic
adaptation of her
autobiography
,
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
. Ritza Brown and Chiara Ferrari each portrayed the younger Loren. In 1981, she became the first female celebrity to launch her own
perfume
, 'Sophia', and a brand of eyewear soon followed.
[19]
In 1982, while in Italy, she made headlines after serving an 18-day prison sentence on
tax evasion
charges ? a fact that failed to hamper her popularity or career. In 2013, the supreme court of Italy cleared her of the charges.
[23]
Loren acted infrequently during the 1980s, preferring to devote more time to raising her sons.
[24]
[25]
In 1981 she turned down the role of
Alexis Carrington
in the television series
Dynasty
. Although she was set to star in 13 episodes of CBS's
Falcon Crest
in 1984 as Angela Channing's half-sister Francesca Gioberti, negotiations fell through at the last moment and the role went to
Gina Lollobrigida
instead. She played the title role in the 1984 TV movie
Aurora
, in which she acted alongside her 11-year-old real-life son
Edoardo Ponti
.
Loren has recorded more than two dozen songs throughout her career, including a best-selling album of comedic songs with
Peter Sellers
; reportedly, she had to fend off his romantic advances. Partly owing to Sellers's infatuation with Loren, he split with his first wife, Anne Howe. Loren has made it clear to numerous biographers that Sellers's affections were reciprocated only
platonically
. This collaboration was covered in
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
where actress
Sonia Aquino
portrayed Loren. The song "
Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?
" by
Peter Sarstedt
was said to have been inspired by Loren.
[26]
[27]
Later career
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In 1991, Loren received an
Academy Honorary Award
, which described her as "One of the genuine treasures of
world cinema
who, in a career rich with memorable performances, has added permanent luster to our art form." In 1995, she received the
Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award
,
[28]
a similar honorary award, bestowed by the
Hollywood Foreign Press Association
, for outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment.
She presented
Federico Fellini
with his honorary Oscar in April 1993. In 2009, Loren stated on
Larry King Live
that Fellini had planned to direct her in a film shortly before his death in 1993.
[29]
Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Loren was selective about choosing her films and ventured into various areas of business, including cookbooks, eyewear, jewelry, and perfume. She received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in
Robert Altman
's film
Ready to Wear
(1994), co-starring
Julia Roberts
.
In 1994, a Golden Palm Star on the
Palm Springs
, California,
Walk of Stars
was dedicated to her.
[30]
In
Grumpier Old Men
(1995), Loren played a
femme fatale
opposite
Walter Matthau
,
Jack Lemmon
, and
Ann-Margret
. The film was a box-office success and became Loren's biggest US hit in years.
[19]
At the
20th Moscow International Film Festival
in 1997, she was awarded an Honorable Prize for contribution to cinema.
[31]
In 1999, the American Film Institute named Loren among the greatest female stars of Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. In 2001, Loren received a Special Grand Prix of the Americas Award at the
Montreal World Film Festival
for her body of work.
[32]
She filmed two projects in Canada during this time: the independent film
Between Strangers
(2002), directed by her son Edoardo and co-starring
Mira Sorvino
, and the television miniseries
Lives of the Saints
(2004).
In 2009, after five years off the set and 14 years since she starred in a prominent US theatrical film, Loren starred in
Rob Marshall
's film version of
Nine
, based on the
Broadway
musical that tells the story of a director whose midlife crisis causes him to struggle to complete his latest film; he is forced to balance the influences of numerous formative women in his life, including his deceased mother. Loren was Marshall's first and only choice for the role. The film also stars
Daniel Day-Lewis
,
Penelope Cruz
,
Kate Hudson
,
Marion Cotillard
, and
Nicole Kidman
. As a part of the cast, she received her first nomination for a
Screen Actors Guild Award
.
In 2010, Loren played her own mother in a two-part Italian television miniseries about her early life, directed by Vittorio Sindoni with
Margareth Made
as Loren, entitled
La Mia Casa E Piena di Specchi
(
My House Is Full of Mirrors
[
it
]
), based on the
memoir
by her sister Maria. In July 2013 Loren made her film comeback in an Italian short-film adaptation of
Jean Cocteau
's 1930 play
The Human Voice
(
La Voce Umana
), which charts the breakdown of a woman who is left by her lover ? with her younger son,
Edoardo Ponti
, as director. Filming took under a month during July in various locations in Italy, including Rome and Naples. It was Loren's first theatrical film since
Nine
.
[33]
She returned to feature-length film, as Holocaust survivor Madame Rosa, in Ponti's 2020 feature film
The Life Ahead
. In 2021 she received
AARP
Best Actress and
AWFJ
Grand Dame awards for her role.
[34]
Loren received a star on 16 November 2017, at
Almeria Walk of Fame
in Spain for her work on
Bianco, rosso e...
.
[35]
[36]
[37]
She received the Almeria Tierra de Cine award.
[38]
Personal life
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Loren is a
Roman Catholic
.
[39]
Her primary residence has been in
Geneva
, Switzerland, since late 2006.
[40]
She owns homes in Naples and Rome.
Loren is an ardent fan of the
football
club
S.S.C. Napoli
. In May 2007, when the team was third in
Serie B
, she (then aged 72) told the
Gazzetta dello Sport
that she would do a striptease if the team won.
[41]
Loren posed for the 2007
Pirelli Calendar
.
[42]
In February 2021, she was the guest on BBC Radio 4's
Desert Island Discs
and chose a pizza oven as her luxury item. Her musical choices included
Cole Porter
's "
I've Got You Under My Skin
" as sung by
Ella Fitzgerald
, and
Debussy
's "
Clair de lune
" as played by
Tamas Vasary
.
[43]
She revealed that fellow actor
Richard Burton
was furious with her for cheating at
Scrabble
.
[44]
[45]
On September 24, 2023, Loren received emergency surgery following fractures to her hip and femur sustained from a fall at her home in Switzerland.
[46]
Marriage and family
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Loren first met
Carlo Ponti
in 1950, when she was 15 and he was 37. Though Ponti had been long separated from his first wife, Giuliana, he was not legally divorced when Loren married him by proxy (two male lawyers stood in for them) in Mexico on 17 September 1957.
[47]
The couple had their marriage annulled in 1962 to escape
bigamy
charges, but continued to live together. In 1965, they became French citizens after their application was approved by then French Prime Minister
Georges Pompidou
.
[47]
Ponti then obtained a divorce from Giuliana in France, allowing him to marry Loren on 9 April 1966.
[48]
The marriage lasted until Ponti's death on 10 January 2007 from pulmonary complications, aged 94.
[49]
The couple had two sons,
Carlo Ponti Jr.
, born on 29 December 1968, and
Edoardo Ponti
, born on 6 January 1973.
[12]
[50]
Loren's daughters-in-law are
Sasha Alexander
and Andrea Meszaros.
[10]
[51]
Loren has four grandchildren.
[52]
[53]
In 1962, Loren's sister
Maria
married the youngest son of
Benito Mussolini
,
Romano
, with whom she had two daughters,
Alessandra
, a former
MP
and
MEP
, and Elisabetta.
[54]
Affair with Cary Grant
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Loren and
Cary Grant
co-starred in
Houseboat
(1958). Grant's wife
Betsy Drake
wrote the original script, and Grant originally intended that she would star with him. After he began an
affair
with Loren while filming
The Pride and the Passion
(1957), Grant arranged for Loren to take Drake's place with a rewritten script for which Drake asked to not receive credit. The affair ended in bitterness before
The Pride and the Passion
'
s filming ended, causing problems on the
Houseboat
set. Grant hoped to resume the relationship, but Loren decided to marry
Carlo Ponti
instead.
[55]
Lawsuits
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]
In September 1999, Loren filed a lawsuit against 79 adult websites for posting altered nude photos of her on the internet.
[56]
[57]
Filmography
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Recognitions
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Box office rating
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In The
Motion Picture Herald
, both British and American exhibitors voted for Loren within the
Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll
:
- 1960 ? most popular actress (3rd most popular star in UK)
- 1961 ? 2nd most popular actress (2nd most popular star in UK)
- 1962 ? 3rd most popular actress (7th most popular star in UK)
- 1964 ? most popular actress in UK,
[59]
24th most popular star in America
- 1965 ? 4th most popular star in UK
- 1966 ? 14th most popular star in America
Selected discography
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Singles
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- 1955 ? "Mambo Bacan" (from
La Fille du Fleuve
) / "Nyves" (
RCA
18.350 10" 78rpm)
- 1956 ? "Che m'e 'mparato a fa" / "I wanna a guy" (RCA, A25V-0473, 10" 78rpm)
- 1957 ? "S'agapo" / "Adoro te" (with Paola Orlandi) (RCA, A25V 0585, 10" 78rpm)
- 1958 ? "Bing! Bang! Bong!" (from
Houseboat
) / "Almost in Your Arms" (
Philips
PB 857 10" 78rpm)
- 1960 ? "
Goodness Gracious Me
" / "Grandpa's Grave" (with
Peter Sellers
) (
Parlophone
, 45-R.4702 7" 45rpm)
[60]
- 1961 ? "Zoo Be Zoo Be Zoo" / "Bangers and Mash" (with Peter Sellers) (Parlophone 45-R.4724 7" 45rpm)
Albums
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Compilations
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- 1992 ?
Le canzoni di Sophia Loren
(
CGD
, 2xCD)
- 2006 ?
Secrets of Rome
(
Traditional Line
, CD)
- 2009 ?
Τι Ε?ναι Αυτ? Που Το Λ?νε Αγ?πη ? Το Παιδ? Και Το Δελφ?νι
(
it:Δ?φωνο
, CD)
Russian National Orchestra
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]
Bibliography
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]
- Loren, Sofia (2015).
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow; My Life
. Atria Books.
ISBN
9781476797434
.
- Loren, Sophia (1998).
Sophia Loren's Recipes and Memories
, Gt Pub Corp.
ISBN
978-1577193678
.
- Loren, Sophia (1984). "Women & Beauty", Aurum Press.
ISBN
0-688-01394-5
.
- Loren, Sophia (1972).
In the Kitchen with Love
, Doubleday, Library of Congress Catalog Card 79?183230.
- Loren, Sophia (1971),
In Cucina con Amore
, Rizzoli Editore.
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Awards for Sophia Loren
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1928?1950
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2001?present
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1928?1950
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- Warner Bros.
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Charlie Chaplin
(1928)
- Walt Disney
(1932)
- Shirley Temple
(1934)
- D. W. Griffith
(1935)
- The March of Time
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W. Howard Greene
and
Harold Rosson
(1936)
- Edgar Bergen
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W. Howard Greene
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Museum of Modern Art Film Library
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Mack Sennett
(1937)
- J. Arthur Ball
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Walt Disney
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Deanna Durbin
and
Mickey Rooney
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Gordon Jennings
,
Jan Domela
, Devereaux Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art Smith,
Farciot Edouart
,
Loyal Griggs
,
Loren L. Ryder
, Harry D. Mills,
Louis Mesenkop
, Walter Oberst /
Oliver T. Marsh
and Allen Davey /
Harry Warner
(1938)
- Douglas Fairbanks
/
Judy Garland
/
William Cameron Menzies
/
Motion Picture Relief Fund
(
Jean Hersholt
,
Ralph Morgan
,
Ralph Block
,
Conrad Nagel
)/
Technicolor SA
(1939)
- Bob Hope
/
Nathan Levinson
(1940)
- Walt Disney
,
William Garity
, John N. A. Hawkins, and the
RCA Manufacturing Company
/
Leopold Stokowski
and his associates / Rey Scott /
British Ministry of Information
(1941)
- Charles Boyer
/
Noel Coward
/
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
(1942)
- George Pal
(1943)
- Bob Hope
/
Margaret O'Brien
(1944)
- Republic Studio,
Daniel J. Bloomberg
, and the Republic Studio Sound Department /
Walter Wanger
/
The House I Live In
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Peggy Ann Garner
(1945)
- Harold Russell
/
Laurence Olivier
/
Ernst Lubitsch
/
Claude Jarman Jr.
(1946)
- James Baskett
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Thomas Armat
,
William Nicholas Selig
,
Albert E. Smith
, and
George Kirke Spoor
/
Bill and Coo
/
Shoeshine
(1947)
- Walter Wanger
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Monsieur Vincent
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Sid Grauman
/
Adolph Zukor
(1948)
- Jean Hersholt
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Fred Astaire
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Cecil B. DeMille
/
The Bicycle Thief
(1949)
- Louis B. Mayer
/
George Murphy
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The Walls of Malapaga
(1950)
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