Elmer Gantry Awards and Nominations. Lancaster portrayed the title character, a charlatan evangelist who joins a … She played Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children in the situation-comedy television series The Partridge Family, which co-starred her … Burt Lancaster won Best Actor for 1960's ELMER GANTRY. Best Motion Picture - Drama. Elmer Gantry, American film drama, released in 1960, that was an adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s novel of the same name and featured Academy Award-winning performances by Burt Lancaster and Shirley Jones. He is immediately taken with Sister Sharon Falconer, a lay preacher whose hellfire-and-damnation revivalism has attracted quite a following. Winner.

Storyline. He played a Nazi war criminal in 1961 in the all-star, war-crime-trial film, Judgment at Nuremberg. The novel's protagonist, the Reverend Dr. Elmer Gantry, is initially attracted by booze and easy money (though he eventually renounces tobacco and alcohol) and chasing women. Elmer Gantry is a fast-talking, hard-drinking traveling salesman who always has a risqué story and a hip flask to entertain cronies and customers alike. "Elmer Gantry" is an amazing film that does not seem dated at all, having lost none of its bite or appeal with the passing of time. A fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause. 1961. 33rd Academy Awards - 1961. He also won a Golden Globe for that performance and BAFTA Awards for The Birdman of Alcatraz and Atlantic City. Jean Simmons was nominated for the best actress Golden Globe award. Members of the band would later become members of The Strawbs, Hudson Ford …

Gantry uses his own quick wit and Bible knowledge to become an indispensable part of Sister Sharon's … Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events Nominee. Just before the 4th of July, I finished Elmer Gantry.It turned out to be one of the greatest novels I have ever read. Golden Globe Awards for 'Elmer Gantry' 1961.
Elmer Gantry was nominated for five Academy Awards in 1961, including Best Picture and Best Score. Jean Simmons. Burt Lancaster won Best Actor for 1960's ELMER GANTRY.

Directed by Richard Brooks. Elmer Gantry (1960) is an entertaining melodrama with memorable performances, from writer/director Richard Brooks.

Playing a charismatic biblical con-man in Elmer Gantry in 1960 won him the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Actor. Like its titular character, 'Elmer Gantry' is big, bloated, and blustery, but always entertaining. Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month Jean Simmons’ film series comes to a close tonight, with the presentation of seven Jean Simmons movies.Directed by veteran Mervyn LeRoy, Home Before Dark is on right now.. Next in line is Richard Brooks’ Elmer Gantry (1960), which earned Burt Lancaster a somewhat undeserved Oscar. Richard Brooks. Elmer Gantry is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis in 1926 that presents aspects of the religious activity of America in fundamentalist and evangelistic circles and the attitudes of the 1920s public toward it. Elmer Gantry is a 1960 American drama film about a con man and a female evangelist selling religion to small-town America.

She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a vengeful prostitute in Elmer Gantry. 1961.

It won Best Actor for Lancaster, Best Supporting Actress for Jones, and Best Adapted Screenplay. With Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger. Taken from the classic Sinclair Lewis novel of the same name, director Richard Brooks garnered an Oscar for Best Screenplay for his adaptation, and Burt Lancaster won his sole Best Actor Oscar for his performance as Elmer Gantry. Elmer Gantry, American film drama, released in 1960, that was an adaptation of Sinclair Lewis ’s novel of the same name and featured Academy Award -winning performances by Burt Lancaster and Shirley Jones. It is the controversial telling of Sinclair Lewis' 1927 muckraker novel regarding the charismatically engaging, but scandalous Midwestern salesman turned preacher in …

Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events Best Director - Motion Picture. Contents. Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, at various times also known as "Velvet Opera", was a British rock band active in the late 1960s.

Richard Brooks' rousing adaptation of the classic Sinclair Lewis novel paints an appropriately cynical and, at times, disturbing portrait of barnstorming evangelists during the era of Prohibition, and features Oscar-winning performances from Burt Lancaster and Shirley Jones. Burt Lancaster. 1961. Lancaster was nominated four times for Academy Awards and won once for his work in Elmer Gantry in 1960.