It's not often that Westerns make any serious waves at the Academy Awards. Only three times has the genre ever been honored for Best Picture, and there was a good 60-year difference between the first two. But in 1953, a horse opera starring Jimmy Stewart exceeded expectations everywhere and was quickly nominated for Best Writing, Story, and Screenplay at the Oscars. The third collaboration between Stewart and director Anthony Mann, The Naked Spur took a different approach to the American frontier, pushing Stewart (and in turn the whole genre) to deeper and darker themes.
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