the peabody awards 1958 - the peabody award

[Tony]

Here's a bit of esoterica: the complete list of Peabody Awards for Television and Radio Excellence for 1958: quite the company for Welles's little TV film to be keeping:

1958
ABC Radio and UNESCO, “Easy as ABC.”
ABC Television, “College News Conference.”
CBS Radio, “The Hidden Revolution.”
CBS Television, “Playhouse 90.”
CBS Television, Television Public Service with Special Recognition Given to Dr. Frank Stanton.
CBS Television, “Lincoln Presents Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic.”
NBC News, “The Huntley-Brinkley Report.”
NBC Television, “The Steve Allen Show.”
NBC Television, “Continental Classroom.”
NBC Television, “M.D. International.”
NBC Television, “An Evening with Fred Astaire.”
NBC Television, Orson Welles, and “Fountain of Youth” (Colgate Theatre).
NBC Television, James Costigan, and “Little Moon of Alban” (Hallmark Hall of Fame).
Standard Oil Company of California, Standard School Broadcast.
WGN-TV, Chicago, IL, “The Blue Fairy.”
WNEW Radio, New York, NY, Radio News.

[Store Hadji]

What were the categories?

[Tony]

Sorry, but that's all the info I have; 2 other sites listed abbreviated lists, but no categories; this is the most complete one I found. The amazing thing to me is that his work was often appreciated; for instance,Ambersons, even in it's butchered state, still was nominated for 4 Academy awards, including Best Picture of 1942!

"In spite of controversies surrounding the film, it was still nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Agnes Moorehead), Best Black and White Cinematography (Stanley Cortez), and Best Black and White Interior Decoration."

And Touch of Evil got the award in Brussels, Stranger got an award at the Venice film Festival, Fountain of Youth got the Peabody, Immortal Story got nominated at the Berlin Festival, Kane got all those Academy nominations and the Best screenplay award, Othello and Chimes (And Welles for his performance in Compulsion) got the awards at Cannes, Welles got lifetime achievements from the Academy, the AFI, the Los Angeles Film Critics, the National Board of Review,the Venice film Festival, etc.
And here's an odd one: Welles got a Golden Globe nomination in 1983 for his performance in Butterfly!

Actually, he did better than Hitchcock, who never won anything!

[colwood]

Got this off of the Peabody official site at www.peabody.uga.edu,


"Television Special Award: To Orson Welles, for the wit, originality, and insouciance of “The Fountain Of Youth,” NBC, one of the merriest, most irreverent half-hours of the year 1958, this special Peabody Award is given."

[catbuglah]

He topped everything in the last Sight and Sound poll, one might add.

Number one with a bullet

[Tony]

thanks for that Peabody site URL Colwood!