Editing Quo Vadis (1951 film) (section)

==Reception==
===Box-office performance===
[[File:Quovadis-sept1953-movieposter-jpnmag.jpg|thumb|right|The 1953 Japanese theatrical release poster]]

The film was a major commercial success. It was [[List of 1951 box office number-one films in the United States|number one at the US box office]] for 6 consecutive weeks<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=National Boxoffice Survey|date=9 January 1952|page=3|url=https://archive.org/details/variety185-1952-01/page/n296/mode/1up|access-date=25 February 2023|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref> and 11 weeks in total. According to MGM's records, during its initial theatrical release, it earned $11,143,000 in the U.S. and Canada and $9,894,000 elsewhere, making it the highest-grossing film of 1951, and resulting in a profit to the studio of $5,440,000.

===Critical reaction===
[[Bosley Crowther]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote in a mixed review, "Here is a staggering combination of cinema brilliance and sheer banality, of visual excitement and verbal boredom, of historical pretentiousness and sex." Crowther thought that even [[Cecil B. DeMille]]'s ''[[The Sign of the Cross (1932 film)|The Sign of the Cross]]'' "had nothing to match the horrendous and morbid spectacles of human brutality and destruction that Director Mervyn LeRoy has got in this. But within and around these visual triumph and rich imagistic displays is tediously twined a hackneyed romance that threatens to set your teeth on edge."<ref>Crowther, Bosley (9 November 1951). [https://www.nytimes.com/1951/11/09/archives/the-screen-two-new-movies-shown-here-darling-how-could-you-from.html "'QuoVadis,' Based on Sienkiewicz Novel and Made in Rome, Opens at Two Theatres".] ''[[The New York Times]]''. 22.</ref> ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' wrote that the film was "right up there with ''[[The Birth of a Nation|Birth of a Nation]]'' and ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone With the Wind]]'' for box-office performance. It has size, scope, splash, and dash, giving for the first time in a long while credence to the now-clichéd 'super-colossal' term. This is a super-spectacle in all its meaning."<ref>"Film Reviews: Quo Vadis". ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]''. 14 November 1951. 6.</ref> Edwin Schallert of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' declared it "one of the most tremendous if not the greatest pictures ever made ... Its pictorial lavishness has never been equaled in any other production."<ref>Schallert, Edwin (30 November 1951). "'Quo Vadis' Triumphant As Great Film Spectacle". ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''. Part I, p. 26.</ref> [[Richard L. Coe]] of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' called it "a fabulously entertaining movie. Though the expansive, expensive film from the celebrated novel runs over three hours on the Palace screen, you won't believe you've been there nearly that long."<ref>Coe, Richard L. (26 December 1951). "The Writers Rate 'Quo Vadis' Bows". ''[[The Washington Post]]''. B8.</ref> ''[[Harrison's Reports]]'' declared, "For sheer opulence, massiveness of sets, size of cast, and beauty of Technicolor photography, no picture ever produced matches 'Quo Vadis'. It is a super-collosal [sic] spectacle in every sense of the meaning, and on that score alone it is worth a premium price of admission."<ref>"'Quo Vadis' with Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr and Peter Ustinov". ''[[Harrison's Reports]]''. 17 November 1951. 182.</ref> ''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' was negative, writing that the film "demonstrates how inordinately boring the convention of size and spectacle can be, when divorced from taste, feeling, and, to a surprising extent, creative talent. The film is unimaginatively directed, at a very slow pace in keeping with the general larger than life proportions, and its technical qualities are not impressive."<ref>{{cite journal |date=March 1952 |title=Quo Vadis |journal=[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=19 |issue=218 |page=32 }}</ref>

The film holds a score of 83% on ''[[Rotten Tomatoes]]'' based on 18 reviews, with an average rating of 6.40/10.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1017021_quo_vadis|title=Quo Vadis|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=19 April 2019}}</ref>

===Awards and nominations===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
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! Award
! Category
! Nominee(s)
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| rowspan="8" | [[24th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Motion Picture]]
| [[Sam Zimbalist]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="8" | <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1952 |title=The 24th Academy Awards (1952) Nominees and Winners |publisher=Oscars.org [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=19 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093825/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/24th-winners.html |archive-date=6 July 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref><br><ref>{{cite web |last=Murphy |first=Mekado |url=http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/39930/Quo-Vadis/awards |title=Quo-Vadis – Cast, Crew, Director and Awards |access-date=11 February 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307232412/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/39930/Quo-Vadis/awards |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2016 |archive-date=7 March 2016}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" | [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| [[Leo Genn]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Peter Ustinov]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction – Color]]
| Art Direction: [[William A. Horning]], [[Cedric Gibbons]], and [[Edward Carfagno]];<br> Set Decoration: [[Hugh Hunt]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography – Color]]
| [[Robert Surtees (cinematographer)|Robert Surtees]] and [[William V. Skall]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Costume Design|Best Costume Design – Color]]
| [[Herschel McCoy]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]]
| [[Ralph E. Winters]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture]]
| [[Miklós Rózsa]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[4th Directors Guild of America Awards|Directors Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film|Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures]]
| [[Mervyn LeRoy]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center" | <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1950s/1951.aspx?value=1951 |title=4th Annual DGA Awards |publisher=[[Directors Guild of America Awards]] |access-date=19 February 2024}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3" | [[9th Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Awards]]
| colspan="2" | [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama|Best Motion Picture – Drama]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="3" | <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/quo-vadis |title=Quo Vadis |publisher=[[Golden Globe Awards]] |access-date=17 March 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture]]
| Peter Ustinov
| {{won}}
|-
| Best Cinematography – Color
| Robert Surtees and William V. Skall
| {{won}}
|-
| [[International Film Music Critics Association|International Film Music Critics Association Awards]]
| [[International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best New Archival Release of an Existing Score – Re-Release or Re-Recording|Best Archival Re-Recording of an Existing Score]]
| Miklós Rózsa {{small|(composer)}};<br> Nic Raine {{small|(conductor)}};<br> James Fitzpatrick and Luc Van De Ven {{small|(producers)}};<br> Ginko Digi {{small|(art director)}};<br> Frank K. DeWald {{small|(liner notes)}}
| {{won}}
| align="center" | <ref>{{cite web |url=http://filmmusiccritics.org/awards-archive/2012-ifmca-awards/ |title=2012 IFMCA Awards |publisher=[[International Film Music Critics Association]] |date=27 February 2013 |access-date=18 December 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[National Board of Review Awards 1951|National Board of Review Awards]]
| colspan="2" | [[National Board of Review: Top Ten Films|Top 10 Films]]
| {{draw|9th Place}}
| align="center" | <ref>{{cite web |url=https://nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1951/ |title=1951 Award Winners |publisher=[[National Board of Review]] |access-date=19 February 2024}}</ref>
|}