Editing Anchors Aweigh (film) (section)

==Reception==
===Box office===
The film was highly popular at the box office, and extremely profitable to MGM. According to company records it earned $4,498,000 in the US and Canada and $2,977,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $2,123,000.<ref name="Mannix"/>

===Critical reviews===
Contemporary reviews were overwhelmingly positive.

[[Bosley Crowther]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote: "Another humdinger of a musical has been produced by Joe Pasternak for Metro ... for a popular entertainment, 'Anchors Aweigh' is hard to beat."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F0DE3DC103BEE3BBC4851DFB166838E659EDE |title=Movie Review - Anchors Aweigh |last=Crowther |first=Bosley |author-link=Bosley Crowther |date=July 20, 1945 |website=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=March 10, 2016 }}</ref> ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' called the film "solid musical fare for all situations. The production numbers are zingy; the songs are extremely listenable; the color treatment outstanding."<ref>{{cite journal |date= July 18, 1945 |title= Film Reviews |journal=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |location=New York |publisher=Variety, Inc. |page=34 }}</ref> ''[[Harrison's Reports]]'' wrote: "Very good mass entertainment. Photographed in Technicolor, the production is extremely lavish, has good comedy, a romance, tuneful songs, and effective dancing. The story is thin, but it has some human interest, and there are so many humorous situations that one is kept laughing most of the way."<ref>{{cite journal |date= July 21, 1945 |title='Anchors Aweigh' with Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson |journal=[[Harrison's Reports]] |page=115 }}</ref> ''[[Film Daily]]'' wrote: "Everything that could possibly be crammed into a musical is in evidence in this production ... It is hard to think of an MGM musical excelling it. There is no reason why the film should not gain recognition as one of the year's best of its type."<ref>{{cite journal |date= July 19, 1945 |title=Reviews |journal=[[Film Daily]] |location=New York |publisher=Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. |page=7 }}</ref>

[[Rotten Tomatoes]] gives a score of 56% based on 16 reviews.<ref name="Tomatoes">{{cite web |url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/anchors_aweigh/ |title=Anchors Aweigh |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]}}</ref>

===Awards and nominations===
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! Award
! Category
! Nominee(s)
! Result
! Ref.
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| rowspan="5"| [[18th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Motion Picture]]
| [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="5"| <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1946 |title=The 18th Academy Awards (1946) Nominees and Winners |access-date=August 16, 2011 |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093754/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/18th-winners.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| [[Gene Kelly]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography – Color]]
| [[Robert Planck]] and [[Charles P. Boyle]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Scoring of a Musical Picture]]
| [[Georgie Stoll]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Song|Best Song]]
| "[[I Fall in Love Too Easily]]" <br> Music by [[Jule Styne]]; <br> Lyrics by [[Sammy Cahn]]
| {{nom}}
|}