Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (film)
Award Category Nominee ( s ) Result
Academy Awards Best Motion Picture Buddy Adler Nominated
Academy Awards Best Actress Jennifer Jones Nominated
Academy Awards Best Art Direction - Color Lyle R. Wheeler , George Davis , Walter M. Scott and Jack Stubbs Nominated
Academy Awards Best Cinematography - Color Leon Shamroy Nominated
Academy Awards Best Costume Design - Color Charles LeMaire Won
Academy Awards Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Alfred Newman Won
Academy Awards Best Song Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster Won
Academy Awards Best Sound Recording Carlton W. Faulkner Nominated
Golden Globe Awards Best Film Promoting International Understanding Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing Won
New York Film Critics Circle Awards Best Actress Jennifer Jones Nominated
Photoplay Awards Gold Medal Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing Won
Awards and nominations
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing is a 1955 Deluxe color American drama-romance film in CinemaScope. Set in 1949-50 in Hong Kong, it tells the story of a married, but separated, American reporter Mark Elliot (played by William Holden), who falls in love with a Eurasian doctor originally from China, Han Suyin (played by Jennifer Jones), only to encounter prejudice from her family and from Hong Kong society. The film was adapted by John Patrick from the 1952 autobiographical novel A Many-Splendoured Thing by Han Suyin. The film was directed by Henry King. The film later inspired a television soap opera in 1967, though without the hyphen in the show's title.