Oscar Nominated Movies from 1953

At a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his commanding officer's wife and top aide begin a tentative affair.

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.

An ex-gunfighter defends homesteaders in 1889 Wyoming.

In 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.

After two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.

On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.

An orphaned young woman becomes part of a puppet act and forms a relationship with the anti-social puppeteer.

Two 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.

Army dispatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and young son living in the midst of warring Apaches and becomes their protector.

A tough but unhappy Broadway star re-evaluates her life when she crosses paths with a blind pianist.

A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.

Biopic of German priest Martin Luther (Niall MacGinnis), covering his life between 1505 and 1530 A.D., and the birth of the Protestant Reformation movement.

The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, the film begins when he meets Rachel Donaldson Robards. The plot concentrates on the scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties.

An unhappily married couple struggle to deal with their problems while on board the luxurious, ill-fated RMS Titanic.

King Arthur's rule is threatened by the adulterous love between Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, a relationship the king's enemies hope to exploit.

An anthology film consisting of three very different stories about love set in Europe and told in flashback.

The early life of Elizabeth I, from her childhood until her accession to the throne of England in 1558.

Adapted from the prize-winning Broadway play that featured two people and a four-poster bed, in which the couple enacts their marriage, from 1897, until he dies some time after she has died from cancer. It is a love that endured wars, another woman and the death of their favorite son.

In the South Pacific islands, two brothers, one good and one bad, fight over the same girl and over a bag of pearls.

Fierce competition among sponge fishermen forces a Greek-American family to fish in the dangerous 12-mile reef area off the western coast of Florida.

A business tycoon decides to wed a Middle Eastern princess whose customs dictate the pair must live apart for several months before marrying. Even more complications settle in when the tycoon's ex-fiancée is assigned to chaperone the pair.

This is an account of the real life experience of actress/playwright Ruth Gordon.

Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.

Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.