Academy Awards, USA 1960
| Nominee Oscar | Best Picture Henry Blanke |
| Best Actress in a Leading Role Audrey Hepburn | |
| Best Director Fred Zinnemann | |
| Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium Robert Anderson | |
| Best Cinematography, Color Franz Planer | |
| Best Sound George Groves (Warner Bros. SSD) | |
| Best Film Editing Walter Thompson | |
| Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Franz Waxman |
Warner Bros.
Directed by Fred Zinnemann
My rating: 3.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Warner Bros.)
Audrey Hepburn, the daughter of a prominent surgeon in Belgium, enters a convent. She undergoes years of rigorous training which teaches her to give up worldly desires. She also is trained to be a nurse in tropical medicine, for which she has a natural aptitude. Her rebellious nature often gets her in trouble with the nuns, who send her to work in a mental hospital instead of her preferred location in the Belgian Congo. She attacked by a patient and after recovering she is eventually sent to Africa. There she excels as the assistant to surgeon Peter Finch. He senses her doubts about being a nun, thought there is never a relationship. She contracts tuberculosis and has a long convalescence, after which she returns to the convent in Belgium. Dissatisfied, and feeling her medical talents are being wasted, she asks to be released from her vows. Hepburn is perfectly cast as the strong, silent nun struggling to reconcile her beliefs with her vocation. Finch is just as good as her counterpart in Africa. A tad overlong, but it is divided equally between her time in the convent and in Africa, both of which are filled with intricate details of day to day living, almost making it two films.
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