Oscar for Best Picture: Nominees



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Wings

Wings (1927) is a silent movie about World War I fighter pilots, directed by William A. Wellman and released by Paramount Pictures. It was the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture (production) and the only silent film ever to win...

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x Year:: 1927

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Famous Players-Lasky,; Lucien Hubbard,; Paramount Pictures

The Racket

The Racket is an Academy Award-nominated 1928 American crime film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim, and George E. Stone. The film was produced by Howard Hughes and written by Bartlett Cormack and...

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x Year:: 1928

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: United Artists,; Howard Hughes

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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The Racket

The Racket is a 1951 remake of the 1928 film of the same name. This film noir-style black-and-white film was directed by John Cromwell with uncredited directing help from Nicholas Ray and Mel Ferrer. The police crime drama is based on a popular...

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x Year:: 1928

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Howard Hughes,; United Artists

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 Hollywood Revue of 1929

The Hollywood Revue of 1929 is an American musical film/comedy motion picture released in 1929. It was the studio's second feature-length musical, and one of the earliest ventures into the talkie format. Produced by Harry Rapf and directed by Chuck...

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x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

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

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....

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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

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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Alibi

Alibi is a 1928 play by Michael Morton based on The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, a novel by British crime writer Agatha Christie. It opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London's West End on May 15, 1928, starring Charles Laughton as Hercule Poirot....

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x Year:: 1929

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Roland West,; United Artists

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...

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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...

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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 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

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...

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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

East Lynne

East Lynne is an English sensation novel of 1861 by Ellen Wood. East Lynne was a Victorian bestseller. It is remembered chiefly for its elaborate and implausible plot, centering on infidelity and double identities. There have have been numerous...

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x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Winfield R. Sheehan,; 20th Century Fox

x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

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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Trader Horn

Trader Horn is the first non-documentary film shot on location in Africa. The 1931 movie tells of the adventures of real-life trader and adventurer Alfred Aloysius "Trader" Horn on safari in Africa. It featured many authentic shots of African...

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x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

Five Star Final

Five Star Final is a 1931 American crime film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Robert Lord and Byron Morgan from the play by Louis Weitzenkorn, and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The movie stars Edward G. Robinson,...

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x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: First National,; Hal B. Wallis

The Smiling Lieutenant

The Smiling Lieutenant is a 1931 Paramount film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Made in the Pre-Code era, it was written by Samson Raphaelson and Ernest Vajda, from the operetta Ein Walzertraum by Oscar Straus (libretto by Leopold...

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x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Paramount Pictures,; Ernst Lubitsch

Arrowsmith

Arrowsmith is a 1931 film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Sidney Howard from the Sinclair Lewis novel Arrowsmith, and directed by John Ford. The film concerns a young medical researcher (Ronald Colman) who leaves...

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x Year:: 1931

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Goldwyn Pictures,; United Artists,; Samuel Goldwyn

x Year:: 1932

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Sidney Howard

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...

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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

Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel is a 1932 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding. The screenplay by William A. Drake and Béla Balázs is based on the 1930 play of the same title by Drake, who had adapted it from the 1929 novel Menschen im Hotel by Vicki Baum....

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x Year:: 1932

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

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

One Hour with You

One Hour with You is a 1932 film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Samson Raphaelson and his assistant Sam Bellas from the Lothar Schmidt play Only a Dream, and was directed by George Cukor and Ernst Lubitsch. The...

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x Year:: 1932

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Paramount Pictures,; Ernst Lubitsch

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...

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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

Smilin' Through

Smilin' Through is a 1919 play by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin, written under a pseudonym, Allan Langdon Martin. Cowl also starred in the play in a double role and co-directed it with Priestly Morrison. Smilin' Through was produced by The Selwyns and...

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x Year:: 1932

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms is a 1932 American drama film directed by Frank Borzage. The screenplay by Oliver H.P. Garrett and Benjamin Glazer is based on the 1929 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. Set in Europe during World...

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x Year:: 1932

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Adolph Zukor,; Paramount Pictures

She Done Him Wrong

She Done Him Wrong is a Pre-Code 1933 Paramount Pictures comedy/romance motion picture starring Mae West and Cary Grant. Others in the cast include Louise Beavers, Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland, Noah Beery, Sr., and Rochelle Hudson. The film was...

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x Year:: 1933

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Paramount Pictures,; William LeBaron

State Fair

State Fair (1933) is a movie directed by Henry King and starring Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers, and Lew Ayres. The movie was based on a novel by Phil Stong. The film was remade twice, once in 1945 and again in 1962. In 1996 it was adapted for a Broadway...

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x Year:: 1933

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

x Year:: 1933

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Paul Green,; Sonya Levien

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...

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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

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...

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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

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...

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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

42nd Street

42nd Street is a 1933 Warner Bros. musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon with choreography by Busby Berkeley. The songs were written by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics), and the script was written by Rian James and James Seymour, with...

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x Year:: 1933

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

Little Women

Little Women is a 1933 American drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman is based on the classic novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott. This is the third screen adaptation of the book, following...

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x Year:: 1933

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: RKO Pictures,; Merian C. Cooper,; Kenneth Macgowan

x Year:: 1933

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Sarah Y. Mason

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...

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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...

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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

Flirtation Walk

Flirtation Walk is a 1934 black and white American musical romance about a soldier (Dick Powell) who falls in love with the general's daughter (Ruby Keeler), but her father ships her off before their relationship can blossom. The film was nominated...

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x Year:: 1934

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: First National,; Jack Warner,; Hal B. Wallis,; more ▼

The Gay Divorcee

The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was based on the musical play Gay Divorce written by Dwight Taylor, Kenneth S. Webb, Samuel Hoffenstein, with screenplay by George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost...

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x Year:: 1934

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

Here Comes the Navy

Here Comes the Navy is a 1934 romantic comedy starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien and Gloria Stuart. It was written by Earl Baldwin and Ben Markson, and was directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Of...

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x Year:: 1934

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Warner Bros. Entertainment,; Louis F. Edelman

The House of Rothschild

The House of Rothschild is a 1934 film which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Nunnally Johnson from the play by George Hembert Westley, and directed by Alfred L. Werker. The movie stars George Arliss, Loretta...

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x Year:: 1934

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Twentieth Century Pictures,; United Artists,; Darryl F. Zanuck,; more ▼

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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Viva Villa!

Viva Villa! is a 1934 film starring Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from a biography by Edgecumb Pinchon and Odo B. Stade. The film was directed by Jack...

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x Year:: 1934

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

x Year:: 1934

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Ben Hecht

The White Parade

The White Parade is a 1934 film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Rian James, Jesse Lasky Jr., Sonya Levien and Ernest Pascal, from the novel by Rian James. The film was directed by Irving Cummings....

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x Year:: 1934

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Fox Film,; Jesse L. Lasky

Imitation of Life

Imitation of Life is a 1934 American drama film directed by John M. Stahl. The screenplay by William Hurlbut, based on Fannie Hurst's 1933 novel of the same name, was augmented by eight additional uncredited writers, including Preston Sturges and...

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x Year:: 1934

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Universal Studios,; John M. Stahl

Cleopatra

Cleopatra is a 1934 epic film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and distributed by Paramount Pictures, which retells the story of Cleopatra VII of Egypt. It was written by Waldemar Young, Vincent Lawrence and Bartlett Cormack, and was produced and...

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x Year:: 1934

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Paramount Pictures,; Cecil B. DeMille

Broadway Melody of 1936

Broadway Melody of 1936 is a musical film released by MGM in 1935, despite the title. It was a follow up of sorts to the successful The Broadway Melody, which had been released in 1929, although, beyond the title and some music, there is no story...

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x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

Captain Blood

Captain Blood is a 1935 swashbuckling film made by First National Pictures and Warner Brothers. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Harry Joe Brown and Gordon Hollingshead with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer. The screenplay,...

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x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Warner Bros. Entertainment,; Cosmopolitan Productions,; Hal B. Wallis,; more ▼

x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Casey Robinson

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....

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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 ▼

Les Misérables

Les Misérables (1935) United States drama film based upon the famous Victor Hugo novel of the same name. It was adapted by W. P. Lipscomb and directed by Richard Boleslawski. This was the last film for 20th Century Pictures before it merged with Fox...

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x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Twentieth Century Pictures,; United Artists,; Darryl F. Zanuck

Naughty Marietta

Naughty Marietta is a 1935 film based on the operetta of the same name by Victor Herbert: Jeanette MacDonald stars as a vivacious Princess who trades places with her maid Marietta in order to avoid an arranged marriage. Instead, she sails for New...

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x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger

The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger (usually shortened to David Copperfield) is a 1935 film based upon the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield. Although quite a few characters and...

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x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

Ruggles of Red Gap

Ruggles of Red Gap was serialized beginning December 26, 1914 in the Saturday Evening Post and became a best selling novel in 1915 by Harry Leon Wilson , adapted for the Broadway stage as a musical the same year , and made into a movie several times...

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x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Paramount Pictures,; Arthur Hornblow, Jr.

Top Hat

Top Hat is a 1935 screwball musical comedy in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick (Edward Everett Horton). He meets and attempts to impress Dale Tremont ...

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x Year:: 1935

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

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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