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    Conrad Albinus Nervig (June 24, 1889 – November 26, 1980) was an American film editor with 81 film credits. During World War I, he served as a lieutenant...
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  • The Human Comedy is a 1943 American comedy-drama film directed by Clarence Brown. It began as a screenplay by William Saroyan, who was expected to direct...
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    currently eligible. The nominations for this Academy Award are determined by a ballot of the voting members of the Editing Branch of the academy; there were...
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    Love Is a Headache is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe and written by Marion Parsonnet, Harry Ruskin and William R. Lipman. The...
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  • Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color, while Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig won for Best Film Editing. The film was nominated for Best Picture...
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    Vengeance Valley is a 1951 American Technicolor Western film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Burt Lancaster, with a supporting cast featuring...
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    for Best Film Editing for King Solomon's Mines (1950) (shared with Conrad A. Nervig) and Ben-Hur (1959) (shared with John D. Dunning). He received four...
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  • A Tale of Two Cities is a 1935 film based upon Charles Dickens' 1859 historical novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris. The film stars Ronald...
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    Store is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo and Chico) that takes place in a large department...
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  • Act of Violence is a 1949 American film noir directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor and Phyllis Thaxter...
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    is a 1928 American synchronized sound romantic drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized...
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    father was a superior court judge who died the day his son was born. His mother, Laura Winston, returned to her former acting career. As a child actor...
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  • held on March 29, 1951, honoring the films of 1950. All About Eve received a record 14 nominations, besting the previous record of 13 set by Gone with...
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  • film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. The top ten 1980 released films...
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    Northwest Passage, also billed as Northwest Passage (Book 1: Roger's Rangers), is a 1940 American Western film in Technicolor, directed by King Vidor. It stars...
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  • An American Romance is a 1944 American epic drama film directed and produced by King Vidor, who also wrote the screen story. Shot in Technicolor, the...
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  • High Wall is a 1947 American film noir starring Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter and Herbert Marshall. It was directed by Curtis Bernhardt from a screenplay...
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    The Bad and the Beautiful (category Films featuring a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award-winning performance)
    The Bad and the Beautiful is a 1952 American melodrama that tells the story of a film producer who alienates everyone around him. The film was directed...
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  • Kongo is a 1932 American pre-Code film directed by William J. Cowen and starring Walter Huston, Lupe Vélez, Conrad Nagel, and Virginia Bruce. It is an...
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    Fields, became a film editor. In 1954, Sam Fields died of a heart attack at the age of 38. After her husband died, Fields began a career as a television sound...
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    Wild Orchids is a 1929 American synchronized sound drama film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer directed by Sidney Franklin and starring Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone...
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  • the first of only two years in which write-in candidates were permitted, a response to the controversy surrounding the snub of Bette Davis for Of Human...
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    The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (category Films based on multiple works of a series)
    The Affairs of Dobie Gillis is a 1953 American comedy musical film directed by Don Weis. The film is based on the short stories by Max Shulman collected...
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  • Border Incident is a 1949 American film noir featuring Ricardo Montalbán, George Murphy, and Howard Da Silva. Directed by Anthony Mann, the MGM production...
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    starring Greta Garbo. Produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Only a single nine-minute reel and an additional 45-second excerpt are currently...
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  • Gang short Olympic Games (1927). He then appeared in the classic Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927); Yale vs. Harvard (1928), another Our Gang short;...
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    Under a Texas Moon 1931: The Mad Genius 1933: Girl Missing 1934: Something Always Happens with co-editor Bert Bates 1934: The Life of the Party 1935: A Midsummer...
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  • Too Young to Kiss (category Films featuring a Best Musical or Comedy Actress Golden Globe winning performance)
    Everett Freeman - story author Joseph Ruttenberg - cinematographer Conrad A. Nervig - film editor Johnny Green - music director Source: The New York Times...
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  • of the newly-introduced supporting categories. The Great Ziegfeld was not a popular choice for Best Picture among members of the press, who felt that...
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  • Letty Lynton is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery and Nils Asther. The film was directed by Clarence Brown...
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