Oscar for Best Director: Nominees



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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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Two Arabian Knights

Two Arabian Knights is a 1927 American comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring William Boyd and Mary Astor. A silent film, Two Arabian Knights was produced by Howard Hughes and was distributed by United Artists. The plot centers on two...

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x Year:: 1928

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Lewis Milestone

The Crowd

The Crowd is an American silent film released in 1928 and directed by King Vidor. It is notable for its dramatization of the concerns and dangers of urbanization and modernity. The picture is an influential and acclaimed feature and was nominated...

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x Year:: 1928

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: King Vidor

Sorrell and Son

Sorrell and Son (1927) was a silent film released on December 2, 1927 and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director in the 1st Academy Awards the following year. The film was based on the novel of the same name by Warwick Deeping, Sorrell...

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x Year:: 1928

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Herbert Brenon

Speedy

Speedy is a 1928 silent film that was one of the films to be nominated for the short-lived Academy Award for Best Director of a Comedy. It starred famous comedian Harold Lloyd in the eponymous leading role, and it was his last silent film to be...

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x Year:: 1928

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Ted Wilde

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....

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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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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...

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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

The Divine Lady

The Divine Lady is a 1929 silent film which tells the story of the love affair between Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton. It stars Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian Keith, Marie Dressler, Dorothy Cumming, William Conklin, and Montagu...

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x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Frank Lloyd

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...

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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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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

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Award Nominations

x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Frank Lloyd

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 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...

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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

Romance

Romance (1930) is a film which tells the story of a bishop sharing a cautionary tale with a young man, who is going against the wishes of his family, of the dangers of falling in love with "fallen women," by using a story of naivete from his past....

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x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Clarence Brown

Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! is an 1929 MGM musical directed by King Vidor, starring Daniel L. Haynes and the then unknown Nina Mae McKinney. Filmed in Tennessee and Arkansas and narrating the troubled quest of a sharecropper, Zeke Johnson (Haynes) and his...

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x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: King Vidor

All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 war film set on the Erich Maria Remarque novel of the same name. It was directed by Lewis Milestone, and stars Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy and Ben Alexander. All Quiet on the Western...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Lewis Milestone

x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Universal Studios,; Carl Laemmle Jr.

x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Maxwell Anderson,; George Abbott,; Del Andrews

Anna Christie

Anna Christie is a 1930 MGM drama film adaptation of the 1922 play by Eugene O'Neill. It was adapted by Frances Marion, produced and directed by Clarence Brown with Paul Bern and Irving Thalberg as co-producers. The cinematography was by William H....

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x Year:: 1930

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Clarence Brown

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...

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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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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...

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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

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...

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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

Bad Girl

Bad Girl is a 1931 film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Edwin J. Burke, from the novel and play by Viña Delmar, and directed by Frank Borzage. The movie stars Sally Eilers, James Dunn and Minna Gombell, and...

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x Year:: 1932

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Frank Borzage

x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

x Year:: 1932

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Edwin J. Burke

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...

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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

Shanghai Express

Shanghai Express is an American 1932 film directed by Josef von Sternberg. The pre-Code picture stars Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, and Warner Oland. It was written by Jules Furthman, based on a story by Harry Hervey. It was the...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1932

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Josef von Sternberg

x Year:: 1932

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Paramount Pictures,; Adolph Zukor

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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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....

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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

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...

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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 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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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 adventure film loosely adapted from the 1930 book of the same name by Francis Yeats-Brown. The plot of the movie, which bears little resemblance to Yeats-Brown's memoir, concerns British soldiers defending the...

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x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Henry Hathaway

x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Paramount Pictures,; Louis D. Lighton

x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Waldemar Young,; John L. Balderston,; Achmed Abdullah,; more ▼

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...

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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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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

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

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...

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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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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...

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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...

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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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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...

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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...

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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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Stage Door

Stage Door (1937) is a RKO film, adapted from the play by the same name, that tells the story of several would-be actresses who live together in a boarding house at 158 West 58th Street in New York City. The film stars Katharine Hepburn, Ginger...

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x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Gregory La Cava

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

x Award Nominee:: Andrea Leeds

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

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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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Four Daughters

Four Daughters is a 1938 musical drama film that tells the story of a happy musical family whose lives and loves are disrupted by the arrival of a cynical young composer who interjects himself into the daughters' romantic lives. It stars the Lane...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Michael Curtiz

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: John Garfield

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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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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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You Can't Take It With You

You Can't Take It With You (1938) is a comedy film directed by Frank Capra adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The cast includes James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore and Edward...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Frank Capra

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Frank Capra,; Columbia Pictures

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

x Award Nominee:: Spring Byington

Stagecoach

Stagecoach is a 1939 western film directed by John Ford, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role. The screenplay, written by Dudley Nichols and Ben Hecht, is an adaptation of "The Stage to Lordsburg", a 1937 short story by...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: John Ford

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Walter Wanger,; United Artists

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Thomas Mitchell

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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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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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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Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman

Kitty Foyle, subtitled The Natural History of a Woman, is a 1940 film starring Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Ernest Cossart and Gladys Cooper. On a snowy eve, Kitty Foyle (Ginger Rogers), an executive at Delphine Detaille's fashion...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Sam Wood

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: David Hempstead,; RKO Pictures

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Ginger Rogers

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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...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1941

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Orson Welles

x Year:: 1942

x Award:: Academy Award for Best Cinematography

x Award Nominee:: Gregg Toland

x Year:: 1942

x Award:: Oscar for Best Art Direction

x Award Nominee:: Perry Ferguson,; Van Nest Polglase,; A. Roland Fields,; more ▼

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The Little Foxes

The Little Foxes is a 1939 play by Lillian Hellman. Its title comes from Chapter 2, Verse 15 in the Song of Solomon in the King James version of the Bible, which reads, "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have...

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x Year:: 1941

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: William Wyler

x Year:: 1941

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Bette Davis

x Year:: 1941

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Samuel Goldwyn,; RKO Pictures

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) is a comedy film in which a boxer, mistakenly taken to Heaven before his time, is given a second chance back on Earth. It stars Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains and Evelyn Keyes. The movie was adapted by Sidney Buchman...

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x Year:: 1941

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Robert Montgomery

x Year:: 1941

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Alexander Hall

x Year:: 1941

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Everett Riskin,; Columbia Pictures

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Sergeant York

Sergeant York is a 1941 biographical film about the life of Alvin York, the most-decorated American soldier of World War I. It was directed by Howard Hawks and was the highest-grossing film of the year. The movie was adapted by Harry Chandlee, Abem...

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x Year:: 1941

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Howard Hawks

x Year:: 1941

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Harry Chandlee,; Abem Finkel,; Howard Koch,; more ▼

x Year:: 1941

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

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How Green Was My Valley

How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 American drama film directed by John Ford. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, written by Philip Dunne, and based on the Richard Llewellyn novel of the same name. The film stars Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara...

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