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Sunrise

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, also known as Sunrise, is a 1927 American film directed by German film director F. W. Murnau. The story was adapted by Carl Mayer from the short story Die Reise nach Tilsit by Hermann Sudermann. Sunrise won an Academy...

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x Year:: 1927

x Award:

x Award Nominee:: Janet Gaynor

x Year:: 1928

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Janet Gaynor

Seventh Heaven

Seventh Heaven (1927) is a silent film and one of the first films to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture (then called "Best Picture, Production"). The film was written by H.H. Caldwell (titles), Benjamin Glazer, Katherine Hilliker ...

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x Year:: 1928

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Frank Borzage

x Year:: 1927

x Award:

x Award Nominee:: Janet Gaynor

x Year:: 1928

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Janet Gaynor

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A Ship Comes In

A Ship Comes In (also known as His Country) is a 1928 silent film which tells the story of immigrants coming to the United States. It stars Rudolph Schildkraut, Louise Dresser, Milton Holmes, Linda Landi, and Fritz Feld. The movie was written by...

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x Year:: 1928

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Louise Dresser

Street Angel

Street Angel (1928) is a silent film about a spirited young woman (Janet Gaynor) who finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter (Charles Farrell). Directed by Frank Borzage ...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1928

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Janet Gaynor

Sadie Thompson

Sadie Thompson (1928) is a silent film which tells the story of a "fallen" woman who comes to Pago Pago on the island of Tutuila to start a new life, but encounters a zealous missionary who wants to force her back to her former life in San Francisco...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1928

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Gloria Swanson

The Broadway Melody

The Broadway Melody is a 1929 musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Bessie Love

x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Harry Beaumont

x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,; Harry Rapf

Coquette

Coquette is a 1929 film which tells the story of a flirtatious young woman whose father warns off her honorable boyfriend, only to cause tragedy. It stars Mary Pickford, Johnny Mack Brown, John St. Polis, Matt Moore, and Louise Beavers. The film was...

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x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Mary Pickford

The Barker

The Barker (1928) film which tells the story of a woman who comes between a man and his estranged son. It stars Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Betty Compson, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and released by First National Pictures in December 1928. (First...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Betty Compson

The Letter

The Letter (1929) is a drama film which was made in both silent and talking versions by Paramount Pictures. It was long considered to be a lost film until recently when it was found and restored. The film was adapted by Monta Bell, Mort Blumenstock,...

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x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Jeanne Eagels

Madame X

Madame X is a 1929 drama film directed by Lionel Barrymore, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. Ruth Chatterton was nominated for Best Actress for her performance as a fallen woman. Jacqueline Floriot (Ruth Chatterton) is...

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x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Lionel Barrymore

x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Ruth Chatterton

The Divorcee

The Divorcee is a 1930 American drama film written by Nick Grindé, John Meehan and Zelda Sears, and based on the novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director....

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x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Robert Z. Leonard

x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Norma Shearer

x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,; Robert Z. Leonard

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The Devil's Holiday

The Devil's Holiday (1930) is a film which tells the story of a golddigger who marries a young man for his money, but finds that she really loves him and wants to keep him despite his family's disapproval. It stars Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes,...

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x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Nancy Carroll

Sarah and Son

Sarah and Son is a 1930 film which tells the story of a woman who searches for the son that her abusive husband sold to a wealthy family. It stars Ruth Chatterton, Fredric March, Fuller Mellish Jr., Gilbert Emery and Doris Lloyd. The movie was...

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x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Ruth Chatterton

Anna Christie

Anna Christie is a play in four acts by Eugene O'Neill. It made its Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 2, 1921. O'Neill received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his work. Anna Christie is the story of a former prostitute who...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Greta Garbo

Their Own Desire

Their Own Desire (1929) is a romantic drama film starring Norma Shearer, Belle Bennett, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery, and Helene Millard. The movie was adapted by James Forbes and Frances Marion from the novel by Sarita Fuller, and was directed by...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Norma Shearer

The Trespasser

The Trespasser (1929) is a film which tells the story of a "kept woman" who maintains a lavish life style with the help of her lover. It stars Gloria Swanson, Robert Ames, Purnell Pratt, Henry B. Walthall, and Wally Albright. The movie was written...

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x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Gloria Swanson

Morocco

Morocco is a 1930 film in which a Foreign Legionnaire meets and falls in love with a sultry seductress. It was directed by Josef von Sternberg and stars Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich and Adolphe Menjou. The story was adapted by Jules Furthman from...

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x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Josef von Sternberg

x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Marlene Dietrich

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

Min and Bill

Min and Bill (1930) is a film based on Lorna Moon's novel Dark Star, adapted by Frances Marion and Marion Jackson. The movie tells the story of dockside innkeeper Min's tribulations as she tries to protect the innocence of her adopted daughter Nancy...

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x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Marie Dressler

Holiday

Holiday is a 1930 romantic comedy film which tells the story of a playboy who is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family. It stars Ann Harding, Mary Astor, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Ames and...

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x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Ann Harding

x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Horace Jackson

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 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...

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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

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

The Sin of Madelon Claudet is a 1931 American drama film directed by Edgar Selwyn and starring Helen Hayes. The screenplay by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht was adapted from the play The Lullaby by Edward Knoblock. It tells the story of a wrongly...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1932

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Helen Hayes

Emma

Marie Dressler starred in this Clarence Brown directed 1932 film, Emma, about a mature woman who selflessly and lovingly raises a widower's children, giving them constant care and attention as they grow into heedless and spoiled young adults. After...

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x Year:: 1932

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Marie Dressler

Lady for a Day

Lady for a Day is a 1933 American comedy drama film directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the short story Madame La Gimp by Damon Runyon. It was the first film for which Capra received an Academy Award nomination for...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1933

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: May Robson

x Year:: 1933

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Columbia Pictures,; Frank Capra

x Year:: 1933

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Robert Riskin

Morning Glory

Morning Glory (1933) is a pre-Code American drama film which tells the story of an eager but unstable would-be actress whose good looks draw more attention than her acting. It stars Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Adolphe Menjou. The...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1933

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Katharine Hepburn

Cavalcade

Cavalcade is a 1933 American drama film directed by Frank Lloyd. The screenplay by Reginald Berkeley and Sonya Levien is based on the 1931 play of the same title by Noël Coward. Offering a view of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 through New...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1933

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Diana Wynyard

x Year:: 1933

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

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 ...

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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 Barretts of Wimpole Street

The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1934 film depicting the real-life romance between poets Elizabeth Barrett (Norma Shearer) and Robert Browning (Fredric March), despite the opposition of her father Edward Moulton-Barrett (Charles Laughton). The...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1934

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Norma Shearer

x Year:: 1934

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

One Night of Love

One Night of Love is a 1934 musical romance, set in the opera world, starring Grace Moore and Tullio Carminati. It was written by James Gow, S.K. Lauren and Edmund H. North, from the story, Don't Fall in Love, by Charles Beahan and Dorothy Speare....

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1934

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Grace Moore

x Year:: 1934

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Victor Schertzinger

x Year:: 1934

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Columbia Pictures,; Harry Cohn,; Everett Riskin

Dangerous

Dangerous is a 1935 American drama film directed by Alfred E. Green. The screenplay by Laird Doyle is based on his story Hard Luck Dame. Don Bellows, a prominent New York architect, is engaged to the beautiful and wealthy Gail Armitage when he meets...

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x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Bette Davis

Escape Me Never

Escape Me Never is a play written by Margaret Kennedy based upon her 1930's novel The Fool of the Family. Set in pre World War I Europe, it tells the story of two brothers (Caryl and Sebastian Durbok) who are composers, share a flat, and are both in...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Elisabeth Bergner

Private Worlds

Private Worlds is a 1935 film which tells the story of the staff and patients at a mental hospital, and the chief of the hospital who has problems dealing with a female psychiatrist. It stars Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Joel McCrea, Joan...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Claudette Colbert

Becky Sharp

Becky Sharp (1935) is an American film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke, Alison Skipworth, Nigel Bruce, and Alan Mowbray. It is based on the play of the same name by Langdon...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Miriam Hopkins

The Dark Angel

The Dark Angel (1935) is a film which tells the story of three childhood friends, two male, one female. When the woman chooses one of the men to marry, the other, jealous, sends his rival off into a dangerous situation during wartime. The film stars...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Merle Oberon

Alice Adams

Alice Adams, also known as Booth Tarkington's Alice Adams, is a 1935 romantic film remake made by RKO. It was directed by George Stevens and produced by Pandro S. Berman from a screenplay by Dorothy Yost, Mortimer Offner adapted by Jane Murfin from...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Katharine Hepburn

x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: RKO Pictures,; Pandro S. Berman

The Great Ziegfeld

The Great Ziegfeld (1936) is a musical film produced by MGM. Although the film is a fictionalized biography of Florenz Ziegfeld from his show business beginnings to his death, it showcases a series of spectacular musical productions. The film...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Robert Z. Leonard

x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Luise Rainer

x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

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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Theodora Goes Wild

Theodora Goes Wild (1936) is a comedy film which tells the story of a small town, incensed by a risqué novel, little knowing that it was written under a pseudonym by a member of the town's leading family. It stars Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas. It...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Irene Dunne

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie is a 1936 film which tells the story of a woman who runs an orphanage, fighting for the children against tough odds. It stars Gladys George, Arline Judge, Harry Carey, Isabel Jewell and Hattie McDaniel. The movie was...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Gladys George

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a 1936 film adaptation of the play by Shakespeare, directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Talbot Jennings. The film stars Leslie Howard as Romeo and Norma Shearer as Juliet. Other cast members included John Barrymore as...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Norma Shearer

x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Basil Rathbone

x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

The Good Earth

The Good Earth (1937) is a film about Chinese farmers who struggle to survive. It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the play by Donald Davis and Owen Davis, which was in itself based on the 1931 novel of the same...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Sidney Franklin

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Luise Rainer

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

The Awful Truth

The Awful Truth is a 1937 screwball comedy film starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. The plot concerns the machinations of a soon-to-be-divorced couple, played by Dunne and Grant, who go to great lengths to try to ruin each other's romantic...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Irene Dunne

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Leo McCarey

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Ralph Bellamy

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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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Camille

Camille is a 1936 American romantic drama film directed by George Cukor and produced by Irving Thalberg and Bernard H. Hyman, from a screenplay by James Hilton, Zoe Akins and Frances Marion. The picture is based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Greta Garbo

Stella Dallas

Stella Dallas is a 1937 film based on the novel of the same name. It stars Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil, Alan Hale, Sr., Marjorie Main and Tim Holt. It was adapted by Joe Bigelow, Harry Wagstaff Gribble, Victor Heerman,...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Barbara Stanwyck

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

x Award Nominee:: Dawn Evelyn Paris

White Banners

White Banners is a 1938 Warner Brothers drama motion picture starring Claude Rains, Fay Bainter, Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville, Henry O'Neill, and Kay Johnson. Directed by Edmund Goulding and produced by Henry Blanke and Hal B. Wallis, the...

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x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Fay Bainter

Three Comrades

Three Comrades 1938 is a drama film directed by Frank Borzage and produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz for MGM. The screenplay is by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edward E. Paramore Jr., and was adapted from the novel Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque ...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Margaret Sullavan

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette is a 1938 film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starred Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise, Joseph Schildkraut and Gladys George. It was...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Norma Shearer

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Robert Morley

x Year:: 2007

x Award:: BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design

x Award Nominee:: Milena Canonero

Jezebel

Jezebel is an American drama film released in 1938 and directed by William Wyler. It stars Bette Davis and Henry Fonda, supported by George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp, Richard Cromwell, and Fay Bainter. The film was adapted by Clements...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Bette Davis

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

x Award Nominee:: Fay Bainter

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...

Award Nominations

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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Dark Victory

Dark Victory is a 1939 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding. The screenplay by Casey Robinson was based on the unsuccessful 1934 play of the same title by George Brewer and Bertram Bloch. Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) is a young, carefree...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Bette Davis

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: David Lewis,; Warner Bros. Entertainment

Love Affair

Love Affair is a 1939 romantic film starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer and featuring Maria Ouspenskaya. It was directed by Leo McCarey and written by Delmer Daves and Donald Ogden Stewart, based on a story by McCarey and Mildred Cram. Love...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Irene Dunne

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Leo McCarey,; RKO Pictures

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

x Award Nominee:: Maria Ouspenskaya

Ninotchka

Ninotchka is a 1939 American film made for Metro Goldwyn Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch which stars Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. Ninotchka is Greta Garbo's first full comedy, and her penultimate film. It is one of the first...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Greta Garbo

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Sidney Franklin,; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Charles Brackett,; Billy Wilder,; Walter Reisch

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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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 Letter

The Letter is a 1940 American film noir directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Howard Koch is based on the 1927 play of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham, originally filmed in 1929. On a moonlit night in the opening scene, Leslie Crosbie ...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: William Wyler

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Bette Davis

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

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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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Our Town

Our Town is a 1940 film adaptation of a play of the same name by Thornton Wilder starring William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter, Beulah Bondi, Thomas Mitchell, Guy Kibbee and Frank Craven. It was adapted by Harry Chandlee, Craven and Wilder. It...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Martha Scott

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Sol Lesser,; United Artists

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