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From Here to Eternity is a 1953 American romantic war drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and written by Daniel Taradash, based on the 1951 novel of the same name by James Jones. It deals with the tribulations of three United States Army soldiers, played by Burt Lancaster , Montgomery Clift , and Frank Sinatra , stationed on Hawaii in the ...
From Here to Eternity won the third annual U.S. National Book Award in 1952. [7] Up to the release of the film in August 1953, the book had sold 400,000 copies and was selling an average of 500 copies a month. After the release of the film, sales increased to 4,000 copies a week.
Three of the films in which Sinatra appears, The House I Live In (1945), The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and From Here to Eternity (1953)—have been added to the Library of Congress's National Film Registry. The House I Live In—a film that opposes anti-Semitism and racism—was awarded a special Golden Globe and Academy Award. [12]
1953 From Here to Eternity: 13 8 1 2 2 1955 Oklahoma! 4 2 1957 A Hatful of Rain: 1 1 3 1959 The Nun's Story: 8 5 1 5 1960 The Sundowners: 5 3 1 1964 Behold a Pale Horse: 1966 A Man For All Seasons: 8 6 7 7 5 4 1973 The Day of the Jackal: 1 7 1 3 1977 Julia: 11 3 10 4 7 2 1982 Five Days One Summer: Total 66 24 36 14 34 13
A critical success, it launched both of their careers. In 1953, Lancaster played the illicit lover of Deborah Kerr in the military drama From Here to Eternity. A box office smash, it won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and landed a Best Actor nomination for Lancaster.
The winner in the Best Motion Picture category was Columbia's From Here to Eternity. All of the major-category winners were black-and-white films. The 11th Golden Globe Awards also honored the best films of 1953. There was no award for Best Picture in either the Musical or Comedy categories.
James Ramon Jones (November 6, 1921 – May 9, 1977) was an American novelist renowned for his explorations of World War II and its aftermath. He won the 1952 National Book Award for his debut novel, From Here to Eternity, which was adapted for film a year later (and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture) and made into a television series a generation later.
From Here to Eternity; Best Actor: Burt Lancaster - From Here to Eternity; Best Actress: Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday; Best Director: Fred Zinnemann - From Here to Eternity; Best Foreign Language Film: Justice Is Done (Justice est faite) • France