And the Winner Still Is Season 3: The 1955 Oscars

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Matt Taylor and our film editor Marisa Carpico are finally back for a third season of their Oscar retrospective podcast, And the Winner Still Is….

They break down the Best Picture nominees and discuss the major categories like Director and the Actresses. As well as a few of their own personal snubs and under-appreciated films from the year.

This episode, they’re joined by host of It Pod to Be You, Manish Mathur, to discuss the 1955 Oscars, including Best Picture winner, Marty. The other nominees that year were Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, Mister Roberts, Picnic and The Rose Tattoo.

For the other major categories, the nominees for the 1995 Oscars were:

Best Director:

Delbert Mann – Marty
David Lean – Summertime
Elia Kazan – East of Eden
John Sturges – Bad Day at Black Rock
Joshua Logan – Picnic

Best Actor:

Ernest Borgnine – Marty
Frank Sinatra – The Man with the Golden Arm
James Cagney – Love Me or Leave Me
James Dean – East of Eden
Spencer Tracy – Bad Day at Black Rock

Best Actress:

Anna Magnani – The Rose Tattoo
Eleanor Parker – Interrupted Melody
Jennifer Jones – Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
Katharine Hepburn – Summertime
Susan Hayward – I’ll Cry Tomorrow

Best Supporting Actor:

Jack Lemmon – Mister Roberts
Arthur Kennedy – Trial
Arthur O’Connell – Picnic
Joe Mantell – Marty
Sal Mineo – Rebel Without a Cause

Best Supporting Actress:

Jo Van Fleet – East of Eden
Betsy Blair – Marty
Marisa Pavan – The Rose Tattoo
Natalie Wood – Rebel Without a Cause
Peggy Lee – Pete Kelly’s Blues