When did the 1953 documentary The Edge of the Sea win an Oscar?

Answer 1

The Sea Around Us (1953) won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature at the 26th Academy Awards on March 25, 1954

The film is based on the book The Sea Around Us is a prize-winning 1951 bestseller by Rachel Carson about oceanography, marine Biology and the ecosystem within and around the world's oceans and seas. It is the second book Carson wrote, following the well-reviewed but poor-selling Under the Sea Wind (1941), and is the book that launched Carson into the public eye. Often described as "poetic", the book won both the 1952 National Book Award in nonfiction and a Burroughs Medal in nature writing. The book has been translated into over thirty languages. The book remained on the bestseller list for 86 weeks.

The Edge of the Sea was Rachel Carson's third book in her sea trilogy, published in 1955.