Oscar Award Winning Films / Movies

The Quiet One / Academy Award Winning Film / Documentary Movie

Creative Commons license: Public Domain. Among the 10 Best Films, 1948-49 New York Times. Best Documentary Feature nominee, 1948 Academy Awards. Best Story and Screenplay nominee, 1949 Academy Awards. Best Picture nominee, 1949 National Board of Review. Director: Sidney Meyers. The story of a lonely young boy growing up in Harlem. Using a semi-documentary technique, the film-makers realistically capture the hostile environment which leads the boy to delinquency. The youth is sent to Wiltwyck School for rehabilitation, where a psychiatrist