Films nominated for one or more Golden Globe(s) with rotten calification in Rotten Tomatoes
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- DirectorTay GarnettStarsGreer GarsonWalter PidgeonEdward ArnoldA widowed matriarch reminisces about her family fortunes, including her romance with a financier/mine owner.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (winner) - DirectorPeter GodfreyStarsRonald ReaganShirley TempleRory CalhounMary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there have been whispers, rumors and gossip about who her real parents are. After Tom Bates returns to town, he takes over the house and practice that Judge Merrivale left him following his death. As Tom has been away a number of years, this leads to more gossip and Mary believes that he is her father. The popular and rich Ken loves Mary, but his family and friends constantly remind him that she is 'not one of us'. Julia, a teacher at school encourages Mary but Mary cannot get a break in anything she does, or is accused of doing. Tom knows the answer to her true identity, and he is silent.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 4 reviews.
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Most Promising Newcomer - Female (winner) - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsLana TurnerRay MillandTom EwellA girl from Kansas arrives in New York City to become a model. Her further success brings her before moral choice.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 2 reviews.
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Best Original Score - DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsJune AllysonVan JohnsonGig YoungEric Wainwright (Van Johnson), a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter (June Allyson), a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When she learns that Wainwright is auditioning young musicians for a children's concert tour, Cynthia dons braces and bobby sox and passes herself off as a child prodigy.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 1 review.
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Best Leading Actress - Comedy or Musical (winner) - DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsJames StewartCharlton HestonBetty HuttonThe dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 48% based on 40 reviews.
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Best Picture - Drama (winner)
Best Director (winner)
Best Cinematography - Color (winner) - DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsJosé FerrerKim HunterKurt KasznarGiorgi, a man of character, emigrates from Georgia, U.S.S.R. to the U.S. He and other Georgian immigrants there support one another while struggling to find work and become U.S. citizens. Giorgi falls for a cute reporter interested in his case.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best Film Promoting International Understanding (winner) - DirectorRobert ParrishPhil KarlsonStarsDana AndrewsMärta TorénGeorge SandersCold war intrigue in France and Hungary.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best Film Promoting International Understanding - DirectorHenry KosterStarsRichard BurtonJean SimmonsVictor MatureIn the Roman province of Judea during the 1st century, Roman tribune Marcellus Gallio is ordered to crucify Jesus of Nazareth but is tormented by his guilty conscience afterwards.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 32% based on 19 reviews.
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Best Picture - Drama (winner) - DirectorOtto PremingerStarsWilliam HoldenDavid NivenMaggie McNamaraTwo aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 44% based on 9 reviews.
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Best Picture - Comedy or Musical (winner)
Best Leading Actor - Comedy or Musical (winner) - DirectorRobert D. WebbStarsVictor MatureAlexander ScourbyLee MarvinDuring the Korean War, an American unit of combat engineers must work with Greek troops in order to perform a reconnaissance mission behind Communist lines.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Most Promising Newcomer - Male (winner) - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJean SimmonsVictor MatureGene TierneyIn ancient Egypt, a poor orphan becomes a genial physician and is eventually appointed at the Pharaoh's court where he witnesses palace intrigues and learns dangerous royal secrets.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 2 reviews.
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Most Promising Newcomer - Female (winner) - DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsJohn WayneClaire TrevorLaraine DayWhen a commercial airliner develops engine problems on a trans-Pacific flight and the pilot loses his nerve, it is up to the washed-up co-pilot Dan Roman to bring the plane in safely.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 40% based on 10 reviews.
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Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (winner)
Most Promising Newcomer - Female (winner) - DirectorJoshua LoganStarsWilliam HoldenKim NovakBetty FieldEmotions are ignited among the complacent townsfolk when a handsome drifter arrives in a small Kansas community on the morning of the Labor Day picnic.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 10 reviews.
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Best director (winner) - DirectorWilliam A. WellmanJohn WayneStarsJohn WayneLauren BacallPaul FixHis ship seized by the Chinese Communists, American Merchant Captain Tom Wilder languishes in prison but Chinese villagers help him escape to sail them to Hong-Kong.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 4 reviews.
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Most Promising Newcomer - Female (winner) - DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsTyrone PowerKim NovakVictoria ShawThe life story of the famous pianist and band leader of the 1930s and 1940s.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 33% based on 3 reviews.
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Most Promising Newcomer - Female (winner) - DirectorHenry KingOtto LangStarsWilliam HoldenJennifer JonesTorin ThatcherA widowed Chinese-English doctor falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist Revolution.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 53% based on 15 reviews.
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Best Film Promoting International Understanding (winner) - DirectorMichael CacoyannisStarsMelina MercouriGiorgos FoundasAlekos AlexandrakisProud, independent Stella, an unconventional Rebetico singer who cherishes her freedom, finds herself in an intense whirlwind romance. Everything points to a tragic ending, and in the aftermath of passion, there can be no winners.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 33% based on 3 reviews.
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Samuel Goldwyn Award (Best Foreign Film) (winner) - DirectorKing VidorStarsAudrey HepburnHenry FondaMel FerrerNapoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 43% based on 7 reviews.
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Best Picture - Drama
Best Director
Best Leading Actress - Drama
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Best Foreign Language Film - DirectorDavid MillerStarsJune AllysonJoan CollinsDolores GrayFormer nightclub singer Kay Hilliard, married 10 years and mother of a young daughter, is informed that her husband Steven is having an affair with chorus girl Crystal Allen, so she goes to Reno for a divorce.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 20% based on 5 reviews.
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Best Picture - Comedy or Musical - DirectorNorman TaurogStarsEddie FisherDebbie ReynoldsAdolphe MenjouAfter finding a baby outside an orphanage, a salesgirl receives sympathy from those around her, including her boss' son, as they all assume the baby is hers.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 2 reviews.
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Best Leading Actress - Comedy or Musical - DirectorVictor SavilleStarsVirginia MayoPier AngeliJack PalanceA Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver, and sculpt around its rim, the faces of the disciples and Jesus. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a nefarious interloper is trying to convince the crowds that he is the new Messiah, by using nothing more than cheap parlor tricks.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 13% based on 8 reviews.
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Most Promising Newcomer - Male (winner) - DirectorDouglas SirkStarsRock HudsonMartha HyerDan DuryeaA remorseful bomber pilot-turned-minister rejoins for the Korean War.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 25% based on 4 reviews.
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Best Film Promoting International Understanding (winner) - DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsEva Marie SaintDon MurrayAnthony FranciosaA Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best Director
Best Leading Actor Drama
Best Leading Actress Drama - DirectorRobert WiseStarsJean SimmonsPaul DouglasAnthony FranciosaA school teacher takes a secretarial job in a nightclub. The two club owners quibble about a lot, including her. Unfortunately, she develops an interest for the partner who disapproves of her employment at the club.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 33% based on 3 reviews.
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Best Leading Actress - Comedy or Musical - DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsMontgomery CliftElizabeth TaylorEva Marie SaintA student falls in love with a Southern belle, but their relationship is complicated by her troubled past and the onset of the Civil War.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 11% based on 9 reviews.
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Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture