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Best Production Design | 1948
Best British Film | 1949
Best Film | 1948 | David
1948 | David
This movie's release in the U.S. was delayed until 1951 because of protests from Zionist pressure groups, who judged Sir Alec Guinness' portrayal of Fagin to be anti-Semitic.
Producer David O. Selznick violently accosted Sir Alec Guinness at a Hollywood party over his portrayal of Fagin.
Banned on inital release in Israel and Egypt; in Israel for being anti-Semitic, and in Egypt for making Fagin too sympathetic.
John Howard Davies was only eight at the time, and child labor laws prohibited children under the age of thirteen from working in movie studios, but Sir David Lean managed to get around the restriction. Davies recalled that Lean "was unfailingly nice, unfailingly courteous. He used various devices on me. When I felt inhibited about doing something, he would often shoot the rehearsal. He wasn't silly enough not to do the take. But I pretty soon cottoned on to this because my hearing was even better than his, with his large ears, and I could detect the sound of a Mitchell turning over."
For the scene where Bill Sikes appears in a doorway just as a tossed mug of beer lands in his direction, the trick was to keep the beer mug in focus as it sails through the air.
"Oliver Twist: Please, sir, I want some more."
"Noah Claypole: Workhouse, what's your mother? Oliver Twist: She's dead. Noah Claypole: What - she die of workhouse? Oliver Twist: They said she died of a broken heart."
