Success or Snub? Gigi (31st Academy Awards Review Pt. 2)
To see part 1, click here . Vertigo Suite~Bernard Herrmann - Vertigo The discussion for how good of a movie Gigi is opens up an interesting philosophical discussion of how much the Academy Awards actually matter and how much stock we can put into certain records. Each award is meant to grade something different but if you add them together and a movie earns several awards so it can officially say “winner of [insert number here] Academy Awards,” it can make it sound better than it actually is, leaving the casual viewer disappointed by how overhyped it was. In this case, Gigi broke a record where it won every movie it was nominated for, taking home 9 Academy Awards, beating out a record previously held by Gone With the Wind (1939) (that From Here to Eternity (1953) and On the Waterfront (1954) matched). Seems like a lot and probably makes it seem better than it actually is. But which awards did it win? Academy Award for Best Color Cinematography (fair enough) Academy Award for B