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Mexico | Usa President
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Best Actor in a Supporting Role | 1953 | Anthony
Best Foreign Actor | 1953 | Marlon
1952 | Marlon
Best Art DirectionSet Decoration BlackandWhite | 1953
Best Music Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | 1953 | Alex
Best Actor in a Leading Role | 1953 | Marlon
Best Writing Story and Screenplay | 1953 | John
Best Supporting Actress | 1953 | Mildred
Best Film from any Source | 1953
Best New Recording of a Previously Existing Score | 1998 | Alex
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1953 | Elia
1952 | Elia
Anthony Quinn was very disappointed when Marlon Brando was cast as Emiliano Zapata - he thought that with his Latin appearance, he would have been a better choice. To solve the argument, both actors competed to see which of them could urinate furthest into the Rio Grande. Quinn lost the bet, but he won an Oscar for the best supporting actor as Zapata's brother.
Marlon Brando was reportedly involved in a string of stunts during filming. On location in Texas, he shot off a string of firecrackers in a hotel lobby, serenaded Jean Peters from a treetop at three in the morning, horrified cast and crew by playing dead for several minutes following the hail of gunfire that ends Zapata's life, and told visiting reporters that he once ate grasshoppers and gazelle eyes.
Anthony Quinn won his Oscar for this film on the same night that his father-in-law Cecil B. DeMille won the award for Best Picture for The Greatest Show on Earth (1952).
According to Elia Kazan's autobiography "A Life" (1988), John Steinbeck would whittle while they sat in the wood shop of Steinbeck's New York townhouse writing the script. The two developed a deep and enduring friendship during the project.
Anthony Quinn had played Stanley Kowalski in the road tour of Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire", and some critics thought he was better than Marlon Brando, who had originated the part. None of this was lost on Elia Kazan, who liked to foster competition between his actors, if it was appropriate. On set, the competitive Quinn and Brando, who both liked and respected each other, bonded like the brothers they played. Ironically, Kazan had initially proposed Jack Palance, whom he had introduced in his earlier Panic in the Streets (1950), for the role of Zapata. Fox studio head Darryl F. Zanuck countered by offering Palance the role of Zapata's brother. The unhappy Palance then negotiated himself out of his Fox contract. Ironically, Palance had understudied Quinn in the road company version of "Streetcar," and when he was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Sudden Fear (1952), he was beaten by Quinn in "Zapata."
"President Porfirio Diaz: These matters take time. You must be patient. Emiliano Zapata: With your permission, my President, we make our tortillas with corn, not patience."
"Josefa: I don't speak for myself now, but if anything happens to you, what would become of the people? What would they have left? Emiliano Zapata: Themselves. Josefa: And all the fighting and the deaths... what has really changed? Emiliano Zapata: They have really changed. That's how things really change - slowly - through people. They don't really need me anymore. Josefa: They have to be led. Emiliano Zapata: Yes, but by each other. A strong man makes a weal people. Strong people don't need a strong man."
