"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night". It was a bumpy night... When Margo Channing plans or something there is nothing anyone can do or say to stop her. She is very tired of everything being All About Eve. Everything really was All About Eve at the 23rd Academy Awards. The film proved there that it was one of the greatest movies of all time that night because of the great story it had to tell.
Broadway star Margo Channing was at the height of her career and played every role she had gotten to perfection. She loved being admired just as much as she loved being envied. So, when Even Harrington comes into her life with a mix of both love and envy, that was borderline obsession, Margo just wanted to help her out. Eve was young and beautiful and wanted ever to mush to be just like Margo. She did everything that she could be help out in Margo's life and quickly became her assistant. As the months rolled by Eve's true intentions start to show as she tries to take over Margo's professional life but her personal life as well.
Like I said before the 1950 Oscars were really All About Eve. This film was nominated with an astonishing 14 nominations and beat out the previous record set by Gone with the Wind which at 13 nominations. That is a feat so large that the record has been tied twice since then, by Titanic and La La Land, but has never been set past that. This film is also the only film in history that had four female acting nominations. Bette Davis and Anne Baxter was both nominated for Best Actress and Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter were both nominated for Best Supporting Actress. The film ended up taking home six awards in total. In addition to it's record breaking success, All About Eve was selected for the first 50 films for preservation in 1990 by they National Film Registry. It also had held the number 16 spot on AFI's best 100 American Films in 1998.
This really is one of the best movies I have ever seen. This is one of those films that you find something new and interesting every single time that you watch it. Every single time that I have seen this film I find Bette Davis's performance get better and better. I can not say 100% that this was the best performance that she has ever had, because she has so many fabulous ones in her career, but I can say that this does have to be one of the best the she has ever done. This film was a great treat in jewel in a run of ok movies. It will be one of the movies that will continue to shine even brighter the more I watch it.
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