Oscar for Best Actor: Nominees



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The Patent Leather Kid

The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 silent film which tells the story of a boxer who scoffs at fighting outside the ring... particularly for the United States once it enters World War I. Eventually, he is drafted, is shipped overseas, and performs a...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1928

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Richard Barthelmess

The Last Command

The Last Command (1928) is a silent film, written by John F. Goodrich and Herman J. Mankiewicz, from a story by Lajos Biró, and directed by Josef von Sternberg. The plot concerns a Tsarist Russian officer, Grand Duke Sergeus Alexander (Emil Jannings...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1928

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Emil Jannings

The Way of All Flesh

The Way of All Flesh is a 1927 film that was written by Lajos Biró, Jules Furthman, Julian Johnson and Ernest Maas from a story by Perley Poore Sheehan. The film was directed by Victor Fleming and is unrelated to Samuel Butler's novel The Way of All...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1928

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Emil Jannings

The Noose

The Noose is a film adaptation of the Willard Mack play The Noose, which was released in 1928, and stars Richard Barthelmess, Montagu Love, Robert Emmett O'Connor and Thelma Todd. The movie was adapted by Garrett Graham and James T. O'Donohoe from...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1928

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Richard Barthelmess

In Old Arizona

In Old Arizona is a 1929 Western film, directed by Irving Cummings and Raoul Walsh, nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The film, which was based around the character of the Cisco Kid in the story The Caballero's Way by O....

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Irving Cummings

x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Warner Baxter

x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Fox Film,; Winfield R. Sheehan

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Alibi

Alibi (1929) is a American crime film written by Elaine Sterne Carrington, J.C. Nugent, C. Gardner Sullivan, Roland West and John Griffith Wray from the stage play, Nightstick, by Carrington, Nugent and Wray. The film was directed by Roland West....

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Chester Morris

x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: United Artists,; Roland West

Thunderbolt

Thunderbolt is a 1929 proto-noir which tells the story of a criminal, facing execution, who wants to kill the man in the next cell for being in love with his girlfriend. It stars George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Tully Marshall and Eugenie...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: George Bancroft

The Patriot

The Patriot (1928) is a semi-biographical film that was directed by Ernst Lubitsch and released by Paramount Pictures. The film was written by Julian Johnson and Hanns Kräly. It is an adaptation of several different plays: Paul I by Dmitri...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Ernst Lubitsch

x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Lewis Stone

x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Paramount Pictures,; Ernst Lubitsch

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The Valiant

The Valiant is a 1929 film which tells the story of a man condemned to execution who tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and that they must get on with their lives. It stars Paul Muni, Marguerite Churchill, DeWitt...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Paul Muni

x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Tom Barry

The Big House

The Big House is a 1930 film that was written by Joseph Farnham, Martin Flavin, Frances Marion and Lennox Robinson, and directed by George W. Hill. The film was prepared for production with Lon Chaney, Sr. chosen for the role of Butch, a violent...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Wallace Beery

x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,; Irving Thalberg

x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Joseph Farnham,; Martin Flavin,; Frances Marion

Disraeli

Disraeli (1929) is a film that was adapted by Julien Josephson and De Leon Anthony from a play by Louis N. Parker. The film was directed by Alfred E. Green. The story is a highly fictionalized episode in the life of British Prime Minister Benjamin...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: George Arliss

x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Jack Warner,; Warner Bros. Entertainment,; Darryl F. Zanuck

x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Julien Josephson

The Love Parade

The Love Parade is a 1929 musical comedy film. The plot concerns the romantic difficulties of Queen Louise of Sylvania (Jeanette MacDonald) and her new husband, Count Alfred (Maurice Chevalier). Though Count Alfred promises to be a docile husband at...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Ernst Lubitsch

x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Maurice Chevalier

x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Paramount Pictures,; Ernst Lubitsch

The Green Goddess

The Green Goddess is the name of two American motion pictures, the first made in 1923 and the second in 1930. The 1923 silent film was adapted for the screen by Forrest Halsey from the William Archer stage play also called The Green Goddess and...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: George Arliss

The Big Pond

The Big Pond (1930) is a romantic comedy film based on a 1928 play of the same name by George Middleton and A.E. Thomas. The film was written by Garrett Fort, Robert Presnell Sr. and Preston Sturges, who provided the dialogue in his first Hollywood...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Maurice Chevalier

Bulldog Drummond

Bulldog Drummond is a 1929 detective film which tells the story of Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond, a British officer bored with civilian life, who investigates an extortion case for a beautiful girl. It stars Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Ronald Colman

Condemned

Condemned is a 1929 American black and white melodrama film. It stars Ronald Colman, Ann Harding, Dudley Digges, Louis Wolheim, William Elmer, and Wilhelm von Brincken. The movie was adapted by Sidney Howard from the novel by Blair Niles. It was...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Ronald Colman

The Rogue Song

The Rogue Song (1930) is a romantic musical film which tells the story of a Russian bandit who falls in love with a princess, but takes his revenge on her when her brother rapes and kills his sister. It was directed by Lionel Barrymore and Hal Roach...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Lawrence Tibbett

Skippy

Skippy is one of the first films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, in 1931. The screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Don Marquis, Norman Z. McLeod, and Sam Mintz was based on the comic strip Skippy by Percy Crosby. The movie starred...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Norman Taurog

x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Jackie Cooper

x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Paramount Pictures,; Adolph Zukor

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A Free Soul

A Free Soul (1931) is a Pre-Code film which tells the story of an alcoholic defense attorney who must defend his daughter's ex-boyfriend on a charge of murdering the mobster she had started a relationship with; a mobster whom her father had...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Clarence Brown

x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Norma Shearer

x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Lionel Barrymore

The Royal Family of Broadway

The Royal Family of Broadway (1930) is a comedy film, directed by George Cukor and Cyril Gardner, and released by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was adapted by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Gertrude Purcell from the play The Royal Family by Edna...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Fredric March

Cimarron

Cimarron (1931) is a film directed by Wesley Ruggles and based on the Edna Ferber novel Cimarron. Despite America being in the depths of the Depression, RKO immediately prepared for a big-budget picture, investing more than 1.5 million dollars into...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Wesley Ruggles

x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Irene Dunne

x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Richard Dix

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The Front Page

The Front Page is an Academy Award-nominated 1931 American comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien. Based on a Broadway play of the same name, the film was produced by Howard Hughes, written by Bartlett...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Lewis Milestone

x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Adolphe Menjou

x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: United Artists,; Howard Hughes

The Champ

The Champ is a 1931 movie that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Frances Marion, Leonard Praskins and Wanda Tuchock, and directed by King Vidor. The movie stars Wallace Beery (Andy "Champ" Purcell) and Jackie...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1932

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: King Vidor

x Year:: 1932

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Wallace Beery

x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,; King Vidor

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) is a horror film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Fredric March. The film is an adaptation of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), the Robert Louis Stevenson tale of a man who takes a potion which...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1932

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Fredric March

x Year:: 1932

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Samuel Hoffenstein,; Percy Heath

x Year:: 2009

x Award:: Edgar Award for Best Play

x Award Nominee:: Jeffrey Hatcher

The Guardsman

The Guardsman is a 1931 movie based on the play Testőr by Ferenc Molnár. It stars Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Roland Young and ZaSu Pitts. It opens with a stage re-enactment of the final scene of Maxwell Anderson's Elizabeth the Queen, with Fontanne...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1932

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Alfred Lunt

x Year:: 1932

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Lynn Fontanne

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is a pre-Code 1932 crime/drama film in which Paul Muni stars as a wrongfully convicted convict on a chain gang who escapes to Chicago. The film was written by Howard J. Green and Brown Holmes from Robert Elliott...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1933

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Paul Muni

x Year:: 1932

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Warner Bros. Entertainment,; Hal B. Wallis

The Private Life of Henry VIII

The Private Life of Henry VIII is a 1933 film about Henry VIII, King of England. It was written by Lajos Biró and Arthur Wimperis, and directed by Sir Alexander Korda. Charles Laughton won the 1933 Academy Award as Best Actor for his performance as...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1933

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Charles Laughton

x Year:: 1933

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: London Films,; United Artists,; Alexander Korda

Berkeley Square

Berkeley Square is the title of a 1933 film produced by Fox Film Corporation. It was directed by Frank Lloyd and stars Leslie Howard, Heather Angel, Valerie Taylor and Colin Keith-Johnston. For several years it was considered lost until rediscovered...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1933

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Leslie Howard

It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night is an 1934 American comedy with elements of screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter ...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1934

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Frank Capra

x Year:: 1934

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Clark Gable

x Year:: 1934

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Claudette Colbert

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The Thin Man

The Thin Man (1934) was the first of six comic detective films starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, a flirtatious married couple who banter wittily as they solve crimes with ease. Nick is a hard drinking retired detective...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1934

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: William Powell

x Year:: 1934

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Woody Van Dyke

x Year:: 1934

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,; Hunt Stromberg

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The Affairs of Cellini

The Affairs of Cellini is a 1934 comedy film which tells the story of the amorous Benvenuto Cellini and his various love affairs. He purportedly hyponotizes young women, and cuckolds the Duke of Florence, played by Frank Morgan. The somewhat...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1934

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Frank Morgan

The Informer

The Informer is a 1935 dramatic film, released by RKO. The plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence, set in 1922. It stars Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford, Una O'Connor and J.M....

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: John Ford

x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Victor McLaglen

x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: RKO Pictures,; Cliff Reid

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Mutiny on the Bounty

Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, and directed by Frank Lloyd based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty. The film was one of the biggest hits of its time and remains a...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Franchot Tone

x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Charles Laughton

x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Clark Gable

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Black Fury

Black Fury is a 1935 crime film starring Paul Muni, Karen Morley and William Gargan. It was adapted from the short story "Jan Volkanik" by Judge Michael A. Musmanno and the play Bohunk by Harry R. Irving, based on a real-life 1929 incident in which...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Paul Muni

San Francisco

San Francisco is a 1936 drama-adventure film directed by Woody Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film, which was the top grossing movie of that year, stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy. The...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Woody Van Dyke

x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Spencer Tracy

x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,; John Emerson,; Bernard H. Hyman

Dodsworth

Dodsworth is a satirical novel by American writer Sinclair Lewis first published by Harcourt Brace & Company in 1929. Its subject, the differences between US and European intellect, manners, and morals, is one that frequently appears in the works of...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Walter Huston

x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: William Wyler

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 comedy film directed by Frank Capra, based on the story Opera Hat by Clarence Budington Kelland that appeared in serial form in the Saturday Evening Post. It stars Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in her first featured...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Gary Cooper

x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Frank Capra

x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Columbia Pictures,; Frank Capra

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The Story of Louis Pasteur

The Story of Louis Pasteur is a 1936 biographical film. It starred Paul Muni as the renowned scientist. It was written by Toni Pollastre and Sheridan Gibney, and Edward Chodorov (uncredited), and directed by William Dieterle. The film was nominated...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Paul Muni

x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Warner Bros. Entertainment,; Henry Blanke

x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Pierre Collings,; Sheridan Gibney

My Man Godfrey

My Man Godfrey is a screwball comedy film released in 1936 by Universal Pictures, directed by Gregory LaCava. It was adapted from Eric Hatch's novel 1101 Park Avenue by Hatch himself and Morrie Ryskind, with uncredited contributions by LaCava. The...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: William Powell

x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Gregory La Cava

x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Carole Lombard

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The Life of Emile Zola

The Life of Emile Zola is a 1937 biographical film of famous French author Émile Zola. It depicts his friendship with noted painter Paul Cézanne, and his rise to fame through his prolific writing, with particular focus on his involvement in the...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Paul Muni

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: William Dieterle

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Joseph Schildkraut

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Conquest

Conquest (also called Marie Walewska) is a 1937 film which tells the story of a Polish countess who becomes the mistress of Napoleon in order to influence his actions towards her homeland. It stars Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen, Alan...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Charles Boyer

A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born is a 1937 romantic drama film produced by David O. Selznick and directed by William A. Wellman, with a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell. It stars Janet Gaynor as an aspiring actress who travels to...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Fredric March

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Janet Gaynor

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: William A. Wellman

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Captains Courageous

Captains Courageous is a 1937 MGM film, based on the novel by Rudyard Kipling. The movie was produced by Louis D. Lighton and directed by Victor Fleming. Filmed in black-and-white, Captains Courageous was advertised by MGM as a coming-of-age classic...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Spencer Tracy

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,; Louis D. Lighton

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Marc Connelly,; John Lee Mahin,; Dale Van Every

Night Must Fall

Night Must Fall is a 1937 film adaptation of the Emlyn Williams play of the same name. It was directed by Richard Thorpe and adapted by John Van Druten. It stars Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, and Dame May Whitty. Whitty reprised her role from...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Robert Montgomery

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

x Award Nominee:: May Whitty

Angels with Dirty Faces

Angels with Dirty Faces is a 1938 Warner Bros. gangster film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, the Dead End Kids and Humphrey Bogart, along with Ann Sheridan and George Bancroft. The film was written by Rowland Brown...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: James Cagney

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Michael Curtiz

Boys Town

Boys Town (1938) is a biographical drama film based on Father Edward J. Flanagan's work with a group of disadvantaged and delinquent boys in a home that he founded and named "Boys Town". It stars Spencer Tracy as Father Edward J. Flanagan, and...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Norman Taurog

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: John W. Considine Jr.,; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Spencer Tracy

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Algiers

Algiers is a 1938 film directed by John Cromwell and starring Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie, and Hedy Lamarr. The Walter Wanger production was a remake of the successful 1937 French film Pépé le Moko, which derived its plot from the Henri La Barthe...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Charles Boyer

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Gene Lockhart

The Citadel

The Citadel is a 1938 film based on the novel by A. J. Cronin, first published in 1937. The film was directed by King Vidor and produced by Victor Saville. Robert Donat stars as the idealistic newly-qualified Scottish Doctor, Andrew Manson, who is...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Robert Donat

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: King Vidor

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Victor Saville,; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Pygmalion

Pygmalion is a 1938 British film based on the George Bernard Shaw play of the same title, and adapted by him for the screen. The film was a financial and critical success, and won an Oscar for best screenplay and three more nominations. The...

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x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Wendy Hiller

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Gabriel Pascal,; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Leslie Howard

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is an American 1939 comedy/drama film starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur, about one man's effect on American politics. It was directed by Frank Capra – his last film for Columbia Pictures, the studio where he made...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Frank Capra,; Columbia Pictures

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: James Stewart

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Claude Rains

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) is a British film based on the novel of the same name by James Hilton. It was directed by Sam Wood, and starred Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills and Paul Henreid. The screenplay was adapted from the...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Sam Wood

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Greer Garson

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Victor Saville,; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American drama romance film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name and directed by Victor Fleming (Fleming replaced George Cukor). The epic film, set in the American South in and around the time of...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Clark Gable

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Victor Fleming

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: David O. Selznick,; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is a 1939 black and white film, directed by William Wyler and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. It is based on the celebrated novel, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. The film only depicts sixteen of the novel's thirty-four chapters,...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Laurence Olivier

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: William Wyler

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Samuel Goldwyn,; United Artists

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Babes in Arms (film

Babes in Arms is the 1939 film version of the 1937 Broadway musical of the same name. The film version stars Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee, June Preisser, Grace Hayes and Betty Jaynes. The movie was written by Jack...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Mickey Rooney

The Philadelphia Story

The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor, starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart. Based on a Broadway play of the same name by Philip Barry, with screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart and an...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: George Cukor

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Katharine Hepburn

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Joseph L. Mankiewicz,; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator is a comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin. First released in October 1940, it was Chaplin's first true talking picture, and more importantly was the only major film of its period to bitterly satirize Nazism and...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Charlie Chaplin

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Charlie Chaplin,; United Artists

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Charlie Chaplin

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Abe Lincoln in Illinois

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States. The film stars Raymond Massey and Howard Da Silva revived...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Raymond Massey

Rebecca

Rebecca (1940) is a psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock as his first American project, and his first film produced under his contract with David O. Selznick. The film's screenplay was an adaptation by Joan Harrison and Robert E....

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Laurence Olivier

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Alfred Hitchcock

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Joan Fontaine

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The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath (1940) is an American drama film directed by Academy Award Winner Best Director, John Ford. It was based on the Pulitzer Prize winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939), written by John Steinbeck. The screenplay was written by Nunnally...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Henry Fonda

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: John Ford

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Nunnally Johnson,; Darryl F. Zanuck,; 20th Century Fox

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Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film, and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. It was nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories, but won only for Best Original Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles. It was released by...

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