Talk:All the King's Men (1949 film)

Academy Awards – 1949
All the King's Men was the 36th film to get more than six Academy Awards nominations.

Of the 26 (13 would have been eligible for All the King's Men) competitive awards which given at the time, All the King's Men had 9 nominations. The Academy did not award All the King's Men Best Actress for Joanne Dru, Best Art Direction (Black-and-White) for Sturges Carne and Louis Diage, Best Cinematography (Black-and-White) for Burnett Guffey, Best Costume Design (Black-and-White) for Jean Louis, Best Music (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) for Louis Gruenberg, George Duning and Marlin Skiles and Best Sound Recording for Frank Goodwin.

It was the Winner of 3 Academy Awards.


 * None of those people were nominated for those awards in this film, so I'm confused as to why you keep trying to include them. Obviously the Academy didn't give those awards if it wasn't even nominated for the categories, and I'm fairly positive that it's not necessary to point out which Oscars a film could have been nominated for. Also, all the King's Men was also only nominated for SEVEN Oscars that year, winning three (and those are correctly listed in the awards section in the table). I'm going by the IMDB awards section, the TCM database and the Allmovie awards section, which all confirm this. Wool Mintons (talk) 18:47, 19 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I've removed since the info is not needed. I'm working on the article today (Infobox, minor edits, critical response, etc) ... I will also include film as film noir (w/ citations and a sub-section) ... this may cause some controversy .. but I do have a few sources. We'll see reaction to this inclusion in due course.  ♦ Luigibob ♦  "Talk to Luigi!"  14:42, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

No Black People
I wonder if it's worth mentioning in the article that the movie has many cast members as well as literally hundreds of extras - takes place in the deep South - and yet has literally NO African Americans in it? Not even as an extra way way off in the background. Seems like an "epic fail" and it just simply can't have happened by accident. Surely this has been noticed and written about sometime over the years.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.115.115.159 (talk) 03:41, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

While certainly based on the life of Huey Long, the novel was set in an unnamed fictional state that was clearly meant to encompass something of every part of the United States, from the Deep South to sagebrush plains. 70.233.147.164 (talk) 04:48, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Inconsistancy between film article and book article
Compare this uncited passage in this (film) article:

"The main story is a thinly disguised version of the rise and assassination of real-life 1930s Louisiana Governor, Huey Long."

With this this cited passage from the novel the book was adapted fromin which the work's author denies the connection as anything more than inspiration.

I'd reccomend toning down "thinly disguised version" to something more like "evocative of" unless a source can be found stating that Robert Rossen's intent when adapting the novel to film was to use Stark as a stand in for Long beyond the origional author's intent. If and can be found and referenced (A brisk search of my own failed to find one, but I suck at searching), the only change I'd propose is to hypnaate "thinly disguised." --24.39.43.3 (talk) 00:56, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

B&W
The movie is apparently in black-and-white (judging from my memory, the date of the shooting and the title of a footnote), but the poster is colored, and there is no use of the the word "black" for the filming, based on a word-search. I think the article should indicate if the movie was in B&W or in color. Kdammers (talk) 19:31, 16 November 2022 (UTC)