Below is the final ballot for the 1957 Retro Filmspots. To vote, please copy-and-paste the ballot into a
private message to me. You can vote anytime from now through
Monday, July 9.
You don't have to vote in every category, but there's also no need to abstain just because you haven't seen a key nominee or two. Part I of the ballot lets me know which films you haven't yet seen and that's taken into account in tabulating the results. That way, your vote for the best nominee you've seen doesn't hurt the nominees you haven't seen.
Voting is open to everyone. You don't have to have submitted a nominations ballot in order to vote on this final ballot.
Winners will (probably) be announced in a
live chat on Wednesday, July 11 at 8pm Eastern time.
If you have any questions, please ask them
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PART I: Which of the nominated films have you
NOT yet seen? (Delete the ones you
have seen from the list below.)
12 Angry Men
The Bridge on the River Kwai
A Chairy Tale
The Cranes Are Flying
The Enemy Below
A Face in the Crowd
Forty Guns
Funny Face
Kanal
Le Notti Bianche
Let's All Go to the Lobby
N.Y., N.Y.
Nights of Cabiria
The Pajama Game
Paths of Glory
Pyaasa
The Seventh Seal
Silk Stockings
Sweet Smell of Success
Three Little Bops
Throne of Blood
What's Opera, Doc?
Wild Strawberries
Witness for the Prosecution
PART II: Select your favorite nominee in each category. It's best for me if you leave only the nominee you're voting for and delete the other four.
If there are nominees that you don't remember well enough to consider voting for (even though you've seen the film), please feel free to note that next to your vote in that category.Best Picture 12 Angry Men Sweet Smell of Success Paths of Glory Throne of Blood Wild StrawberriesBest Director Sidney Lumet,
12 Angry Men Stanley Kubrick,
Paths of Glory Guru Dutt,
Pyaasa Akria Kurosawa,
Throne of Blood Ingmar Bergman,
Wild StrawberriesBest Original Screenplay Budd Schulberg,
A Face in the Crowd Abrar Alvi,
Pyaasa Ingmar Bergman,
The Seventh Seal Michael Maltese,
What's Opera, Doc? Ingmar Bergman,
Wild StrawberriesBest Adapted Screenplay Reginald Rose,
12 Angry Men (from the his own teleplay)
Suso Cecchi D'Amico and Luchino Visconti,
Le Notti Bianche (from the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Stanley Kubrick& Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson,
Paths of Glory (from the novel by Humphrey Cobb)
Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman,
Sweet Smell of Success (from the novella by Ernest Lehman)
Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto, Ryûzô Kikushima, & Akira Kurosawa,
Throne of Blood (from the play
Macbeth by William Shakespeare)
Best Actor Tony Curtis,
Sweet Smell of Success Kirk Douglas,
Paths of Glory Henry Fonda,
12 Angry Men Alec Guinness,
The Bridge on the River Kwai Victor Sjostrom,
Wild StrawberriesBest Actress Audrey Hepburn,
Funny Face Giulietta Masina,
Nights of Cabiria Patricia Neal,
A Face in the Crowd Tatyana Samojlova,
The Cranes Are Flying Barbara Stanwyck,
Forty GunsBest Supporting Actor Gunnar Bjornstrand,
The Seventh Seal Lee J. Cobb,
12 Angry Men Sessue Hayakawa,
The Bridge on the River Kwai Curd Jürgens,
The Enemy Below Burt Lancaster,
Sweet Smell of SuccessBest Supporting Actress Marlene Dietrich,
Witness for the Prosecution Carol Haney,
The Pajama Game Teresa Izewska,
Kanal Kay Thompson,
Funny Face Isuzu Yamada,
Throne of BloodBest Ensemble Cast 12 Angry Men Paths of Glory The Seventh Seal Sweet Smell of Success Witness for the ProsecutionBest Non-English Language Film The Cranes Are Flying Pyaasa The Seventh Seal Throne of Blood Wild StrawberriesBest Short Film A Chairy Tale (directed by Claude Jutra & Norman McLaren)
Let's All Go to the Lobby (directed by Dave Fleischer)
N.Y., N.Y. (directed by Francis Thompson)
Three Little Bops (directed by Friz Freleng)
What's Opera, Doc? (directed by Chuck Jones)
Best Editing Frank Bracht,
Funny Face Eva Kroll,
Paths of Glory Akira Kurosawa,
Throne of Blood Carl Lerner,
12 Angry Men Mariya Timofeyeva,
The Cranes Are FlyingBest Score Malcolm Arnold,
The Bridge on the River Kwai Elmer Bernstein,
Sweet Smell of Success S.D. Burman,
Pyaasa Adolph Deutsch,
Funny Face Masaru Satô,
Throne of BloodBest Cinematography Gunnar Fischer,
The Seventh Seal Jack Hildyard,
The Bridge on the River Kwai Asakazu Nakai,
Throne of Blood Sergei Urusevsky,
The Cranes Are Flying James Wong Howe,
Sweet Smell of SuccessBest Art Direction Mario Chiari and Enzo Eusepi,
Le Notti Bianche P.A. Lundgren,
The Seventh Seal Yoshirô Muraki,
Throne of Blood Hal Pereira, George W. Davis, Sam Comer, & Ray Moyer,
Funny Face Ludwig Reiber,
Paths of GloryBest Line "You're dead son. Get yourself buried." –
Sweet Smell of Success "I'd hate to take a bite outta you. You're a cookie full of arsenic." –
Sweet Smell of Success "The arrangement of your features is not entirely repulsive to me." –
Silk Stockings "She's a high-riding woman... with a whip!" –
Forty Guns "I am constantly surprised that women's hats do not provoke more murders." –
Witness for the Prosecution