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The 2003 Golden Arrow Awards - results

After the 2003 Oscars it was suggested that we run our own awards for the films of
Michael Powell and/or Emeric Pressburger.

The voting was open to everyone but was promoted mainly in the PaPAS email list and on this web site.

Nominations were accepted in the various categories. These were then offered for the Voting.

There were 56 voting papers sent in from admirers of The Archers around the world.

The results were collated by our respected invigilator Mr Malcolm Pratt of Memphis, TN.

There is a Report on the cyber Award Ceremony that you can read and the full results are tabulated below.


The Results


BEST PICTURE:
14 votes
25%
A Canterbury Tale2nd =
4 votes
7%
I Know Where I'm Going!5th
18 votes
32%
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1st
14 votes
25%
A Matter of Life and Death2nd =
7 votes
12%
The Red Shoes4th

BEST LEADING ACTOR:
7 votes
12%
Roger Livesey, I Know Where I'm Going!3rd
28 votes
49%
Roger Livesey, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1st
3 votes
5%
David Niven, A Matter of Life and Death6th
5 votes
9%
Eric Portman, A Canterbury Tale4th
4 votes
7%
Anton Walbrook, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp5th
10 votes
18%
Anton Walbrook, The Red Shoes2nd

BEST LEADING ACTRESS:
18 votes
32%
Wendy Hiller, I Know Where I'm Going!2nd
4 votes
7%
Kim Hunter, A Matter of Life and Death4th
20 votes
35%
Deborah Kerr, Black Narcissus1st
14 votes
25%
Deborah Kerr, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp3rd
1 votes
2%
Sheila Sim, A Canterbury Tale5th

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
9 votes
16%
Marius Goring, A Matter of Life and Death3rd
2 votes
4%
Esmond Knight, Gone to Earth5th
11 votes
19%
Roger Livesey, A Matter of Life and Death2nd
4 votes
7%
Anton Walbrook, 49th Parallel4th
31 votes
54%
Anton Walbrook, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1st

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
3 votes
6%
Maxine Audley, Peeping Tom4th
9 votes
17%
Pamela Brown, I Know Where I'm Going!2nd
33 votes
61%
Kathleen Byron, Black Narcissus1st
2 votes
4%
Kathleen Byron, A Matter of Life and Death5th =
4 votes
7%
Flora Robson, Black Narcissus3rd
0 votes
0%
Ludmilla Tchérina, The Red Shoes8th
1 votes
2%
Sybil Thorndike, Gone to Earth7th
2 votes
4%
Googie Withers, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing5th =

BEST DIRECTING:
11 votes
20%
Black Narcissus3rd =
4 votes
7%
I Know Where I'm Going!5th
15 votes
27%
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1st
14 votes
25%
A Matter of Life and Death2nd
11 votes
20%
The Red Shoes3rd =

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
3 votes
5%
49th Parallel5th
11 votes
20%
A Canterbury Tale3rd
6 votes
11%
I Know Where I'm Going!4th
20 votes
36%
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1st
16 votes
29%
A Matter of Life and Death2nd

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
28 votes
50%
Black Narcissus1st
1 votes
2%
Gone to Earth5th
6 votes
11%
The Small Back Room4th
8 votes
14%
The Spy in Black3rd
13 votes
23%
The Red Shoes2nd

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
19 votes
34%
Black Narcissus1st
4 votes
7%
I Know Where I'm Going!5th
8 votes
14%
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp4th
11 votes
20%
A Matter of Life and Death3rd
14 votes
25%
The Red Shoes2nd

BEST FILM EDITING:
2 votes
4%
Black Narcissus5th
5 votes
9%
I Know Where I'm Going!4th
18 votes
32%
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1st
15 votes
27%
A Matter of Life and Death3rd
16 votes
29%
The Red Shoes2nd

BEST ART DIRECTION:
14 votes
25%
Black Narcissus2nd
2 votes
4%
I Know Where I'm Going!5th
1 votes
2%
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp6th
12 votes
21%
A Matter of Life and Death3rd
18 votes
32%
The Red Shoes1st
9 votes
16%
The Tales of Hoffmann4th

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
14 votes
25%
Black Narcissus2nd
2 votes
4%
I Know Where I'm Going!5th
23 votes
42%
A Matter of Life and Death1st
10 votes
18%
The Red Shoes3rd
6 votes
11%
The Thief of Bagdad4th

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
3 votes
5%
Black Narcissus5th
16 votes
29%
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp2nd
6 votes
11%
A Matter of Life and Death4th
17 votes
30%
The Red Shoes1st
14 votes
25%
The Tales of Hoffmann3rd

BEST MAKEUP:
10 votes
18%
Black Narcissus2nd =
22 votes
40%
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1st
1 votes
2%
A Matter of Life and Death6th
8 votes
15%
The Red Shoes4th
10 votes
18%
The Tales of Hoffmann2nd =
4 votes
7%
The Thief of Bagdad5th

BEST SOUND:
3 votes
6%
Black Narcissus6th
10 votes
19%
I Know Where I'm Going!3rd
13 votes
24%
A Matter of Life and Death2nd
18 votes
33%
The Red Shoes1st
6 votes
11%
Small Back Room4th
4 votes
7%
The Tales of Hoffmann5th

BEST SOUND EDITING:
5 votes
9%
Black Narcissus5th =
5 votes
9%
I Know Where I'm Going!5th =
10 votes
19%
A Matter of Life and Death2nd =
14 votes
26%
Peeping Tom1st
10 votes
19%
The Red Shoes2nd =
9 votes
17%
The Tales of Hoffmann4th

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
8 votes
15%
49th Parallel3rd
6 votes
11%
I Know Where I'm Going!4th =
6 votes
11%
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp4th =
9 votes
17%
A Matter of Life and Death2nd
25 votes
46%
The Red Shoes1st

BEST SONG:
2 votes
4%
Gone to Earth:
"'arps in 'eaven"
4th
35 votes
65%
I Know Where I'm Going!:
"I Know Where I'm Going
"
1st
3 votes
6%
Luna de Miel:
"The Honeymoon Song"
3rd
14 votes
26%
The Thief of Bagdad:
"I Want to be a Sailor"
2nd

ADDITIONAL CATEGORIES:

BEST FOREIGN LOCATION:
15 votes
31%
49th Parallel:
Canada
2nd
2 votes
4%
Age of Consent:
Australia
4th =
17 votes
35%
Black Narcissus:
Himalayas
1st
2 votes
4%
Ill Met By Moonlight:
Crete
4th =
13 votes
27%
The Red Shoes:
South of France
3rd

BEST VISUAL PUN:
11 votes
20%
A Canterbury Tale:
Halo around Dennis Price on train
2nd =
15 votes
27%
A Canterbury Tale:
Hawk changing to Spitfire
1st
2 votes
4%
Contraband:
Chamberlain busts
7th
3 votes
5%
I Know Where I'm Going!:
Top hat to train smoke-stack
6th
11 votes
20%
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp:
Animal trophies showing passage of time
2nd =
4 votes
7%
A Matter of Life and Death:
Closing eyelid
5th
10 votes
18%
A Matter of Life and Death:
"One is starved for Technicolor up there."
4th

BEST LINE or VERBAL EXCHANGE:
6 votes
11%
49th Parallel:
Hutterite leader Peter's speech rejecting Nazism
5th
10 votes
18%
A Canterbury Tale:
Culpepper's "...You can hear the thrumming of the hooves..."
3rd
7 votes
13%
I Know Where I'm Going!:
Torquil's "They're not poor, they just don't have any money."
4th
18 votes
32%
A Matter of Life and Death:
Peter and June's dialogue from burning plane to tower
1st
15 votes
27%
The Red Shoes:
Lermontov's "Why do you want to dance?" and Vicky's reply
2nd

BEST CHEMISTRY BETWEEN ACTORS & ACTRESSES:
10 votes
18%
Kerr and Farrar:
Black Narcissus
2nd =
5 votes
9%
Hobson and Veidt:
Contraband
5th =
1 votes
2%
Jones and Farrar:
Gone to Earth
8th
15 votes
26%
Hiller and Livesey:
I Know Where I'm Going!
1st
10 votes
18%
Kerr and Livesey:
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
2nd =
8 votes
14%
Hunter and Niven:
A Matter of Life and Death
4th
5 votes
9%
Byron and Farrar:
Small Back Room
5th =
3 votes
5%
Hobson and Veidt:
The Spy in Black
7th

BEST HERO OR HEROINE:
21 votes
38%
Clive Candy,
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1st
7 votes
13%
Peter Carter,
A Matter of Life and Death:
4th
14 votes
25%
Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff,
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
2nd
6 votes
11%
Torquil MacNeil,
I Know Where I'm Going!
5th
8 votes
14%
Alison Smith,
A Canterbury Tale
3rd

BEST VILLAIN OR VILLAINESS:
4 votes
7%
Chauvelin,
The Elusive Pimpernel
5th
11 votes
20%
Lieutenant Hirth,
49th Parallel
3rd
12 votes
22%
Boris Lermontov,
The Red Shoes
2nd
10 votes
18%
Mark Lewis,
Peeping Tom
4th
18 votes
33%
Sister Ruth,
Black Narcissus
1st

MOST EMOTIONALLY MOVING MOMENT:
13 votes
23%
A Canterbury Tale:
Alison visits garage and finds caravan eaten by moths
2nd
5 votes
9%
I Know Where I'm Going!:
Torquil breaks the curse & Joan returns to him
5th
23 votes
40%
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp:
Theo's speech at the tribunal office
1st
6 votes
11%
A Matter of Life and Death:
Closing scene, when June begins her ascent on the stairway
4th
10 votes
18%
The Red Shoes:
Lermontov's curtain speech
3rd

MOST AMUSING MOMENT:
8 votes
15%
A Canterbury Tale:
Wacky Seven-Sisters soldier at the slide show
4th
11 votes
21%
I Know Where I'm Going!:
Joan's tartan train journey/wedding dream
2nd
6 votes
11%
I Know Where I'm Going!:
Opening narrative sequences of Joan's life
5th
15 votes
28%
A Matter of Life and Death:
Conductor 71's "One is starved for Technicolor up there."
1st
9 votes
17%
A Matter of Life and Death:
The radios used in the legal argument at the heavenly court.
3rd
4 votes
8%
The Thief of Bagdad:
Abu and Ahmad blagging a meal in the market
6th

MOST TRAGIC MOMENT:
9 votes
16%
49th Parallel:
execution of Vogel
4th
12 votes
21%
A Canterbury Tale:
Alison's caravan gone to moth
1st
4 votes
7%
Black Narcissus:
Sister Ruth's fall to her death
6th =
4 votes
7%
Black Narcissus:
Sister Ruth's goodbye kiss to Mr. Dean as he helps her with her coat
6th =
5 votes
9%
Edge of the World:
Peter Manson's fall to his death
5th
1 votes
2%
A Matter of Life and Death:
Dr. Reeves' death
8th
11 votes
20%
The Red Shoes:
Victoria Page's fall to her death
2nd
10 votes
18%
The Red Shoes:
Lermontov's curtain speech
3rd

MOST ROMANTIC MOMENT:
9 votes
16%
Black Narcissus:
Sister Clodagh reminiscing of her lost Irish love
4th
12 votes
22%
I Know Where I'm Going!:
Torquil and Joan on the ladder - "You're the maid for me."
2nd
18 votes
33%
I Know Where I'm Going!:
Closing scene when Torquil breaks curse & Joan returns
1st
6 votes
11%
A Matter of Life and Death:
"Goodby, Darling" as June ascends the stairway
5th
10 votes
18%
A Matter of Life and Death:
On the beach when June discovers Peter's alive
3rd

MOST OUTLANDISH MOMENT:
12 votes
23%
A Canterbury Tale:
any mention of glue
1st
3 votes
6%
A Canterbury Tale:
encounter with the village idiot
6th
5 votes
9%
Contraband:
all that sexual innuendo/s&m
5th =
8 votes
15%
I Know Where I'm Going!:
Joan's dream sequence
4th
5 votes
9%
A Matter of Life and Death:
the closing eyelid
5th =
9 votes
17%
Peeping Tom:
Mark's self-filmed suicide
3rd
11 votes
21%
Small Back Room:
giant whiskey bottle
2nd

HONORARY AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO THE ARCHERS:
12 votes
22%
Ian Christie3rd
19 votes
35%
Steve Crook2nd
1 votes
2%
Thelma Schoonmaker5th
20 votes
37%
Martin Scorsese1st
2 votes
4%
Paul Tritton4th