Oscar for Best Supporting Actor: Nominees



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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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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...

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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

Come and Get It

Come and Get It is a 1936 American drama film directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler. The screenplay by Jane Murfin and Jules Furthman is based on the 1935 novel of the same title by Edna Ferber. The story focuses on ruthless Barney Glasgow ...

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x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Walter Brennan

The General Died at Dawn

The General Died at Dawn is a 1936 film that tells the story of a mercenary who meets a beautiful girl while trying to keep arms from getting to a vicious warlord in war-torn China. The movie was written by Charles G. Booth and Clifford Odets, and...

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x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Akim Tamiroff

Pigskin Parade

Pigskin Parade is a 1936 musical comedy film which tells the story of husband and wife college football coaches who convince a backwoods player to play for their team so they can go to the big Bowl Game. It was written by William M. Conselman, Mark...

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x Year:: 1936

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Stuart Erwin

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 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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Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon is a 1937 American drama/fantasy film directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1933 novel of the same title by James Hilton. The film exceeded its original budget by more than $776,000, and it took five...

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x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: H. B. Warner

x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Columbia Pictures,; Frank Capra

Topper

Topper (1937) is a comedy film which tells the story of a stuffy, stuck-in-his-ways man who is haunted by the ghosts of a fun-loving married couple. It was adapted by Eric Hatch, Jack Jevne and Eddie Moran from the novel by Thorne Smith. The film...

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x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Roland Young

The Hurricane

The Hurricane (1937) is a film, directed by John Ford and produced by Samuel Goldwyn, about a tropical cyclone in the Pacific Ocean. It stars Dorothy Lamour and also Jon Hall, with Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond Massey, and...

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x Year:: 1937

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Thomas Mitchell

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...

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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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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...

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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

Algiers

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

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x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Charles Boyer

x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Gene Lockhart

Kentucky

Kentucky is a 1938 Technicolor film with Loretta Young, Richard Greene, and Walter Brennan. It was directed by David Butler. It is a Romeo and Juliet story of lovers Jack and Sally, set amidst Kentucky horseracing, in which a family feud goes back...

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x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Walter Brennan

If I Were King

If I Were King is a 1938 biographical historical drama film starring Ronald Colman as medieval poet François Villon, and featuring Basil Rathbone and Frances Dee. It is based on the 1901 play and novel, both of the same name, by Justin Huntly...

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x Year:: 1938

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Basil Rathbone

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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

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x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Frank Capra,; Columbia Pictures

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: James Stewart

x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Claude Rains

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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...

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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

Juarez

Juarez is a 1939 film with Paul Muni, Brian Aherne, Bette Davis, and John Garfield about the conflict between Maximilian I, a European political dupe who, according to the film, is installed as the puppet ruler of Mexico by the French, and Benito...

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x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Brian Aherne

Beau Geste

Beau Geste is a 1939 film made by Paramount Pictures based on the novel of the same name by P. C. Wren. It was directed and produced by William A. Wellman from a screenplay by Robert Carson. The music score was by Alfred Newman and the...

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x Year:: 1939

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Brian Donlevy

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent is a 1940 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock which tells the story of an American reporter who tries to expose enemy spies in Britain, a series of events involving a continent-wide conspiracy that eventually...

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x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Joan Harrison,; Charles Bennett

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Walter Wanger,; United Artists

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Albert Bassermann

The Great Dictator

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

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x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Charlie Chaplin

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Charlie Chaplin,; United Artists

x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Charlie Chaplin

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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 ...

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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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The Westerner

The Westerner is a 1940 film directed by William Wyler, and written by Niven Busch, Stuart N. Lake, and Jo Swerling. It stars Gary Cooper as fictional interloper Cole Harden and is often remembered for one of Walter Brennan's best performances, as...

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x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Walter Brennan

They Knew What They Wanted

They Knew What They Wanted is a 1940 film with Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton, William Gargan, Harry Carey, and Karl Malden (in his film debut), directed by Garson Kanin. It is based on a 1924 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Sidney Howard.

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x Year:: 1940

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: William Gargan

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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The Devil and Miss Jones

The Devil and Miss Jones is a 1941 comedy film starring Jean Arthur and Charles Coburn. Directed by Sam Wood and scripted by Norman Krasna, the film was the product of an independent collaboration between Krasna and producer Frank Ross. Their short...

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x Year:: 1941

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Norman Krasna

x Year:: 1941

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Charles Coburn

The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 American Warner Bros. film based on novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. Written and directed by John Huston, the movie stars Humphrey Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade, Mary Astor as his femme fatale...

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x Year:: 1941

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

x Year:: 1941

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Sydney Greenstreet

x Year:: 1941

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: John Huston

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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x Year:: 1941

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: John Ford

x Year:: 1941

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

x Year:: 1941

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Donald Crisp

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Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) is a biographical musical film about George M. Cohan (pronounced "Coe-Han"), the actor / singer / dancer / playwright / songwriter / producer / theatre owner / director / choreographer known as "The Man Who Owns Broadway",...

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x Year:: 1942

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Michael Curtiz

x Year:: 1942

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: William Cagney,; Hal B. Wallis,; Jack Warner,; more ▼

x Year:: 1942

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: James Cagney

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Wake Island

Wake Island is a 1942 film which tells the story of the United States military garrison on Wake Island and the onslaught by the Japanese following the attack on Pearl Harbor. The movie was written by W.R. Burnett and Frank Butler, and directed by...

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x Year:: 1942

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: John Farrow

x Year:: 1942

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Frank Butler,; William R. Burnett

x Year:: 1942

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Joseph Sistrom,; Paramount Pictures

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Johnny Eager

Johnny Eager is a 1942 film noir starring Robert Taylor and Lana Turner. Van Heflin won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The film is featured in the comedy spoof Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982).

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x Year:: 1942

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Van Heflin

Tortilla Flat

Tortilla Flat is a 1942 film with Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield, Frank Morgan, Akim Tamiroff, and Sheldon Leonard based on the novel by John Steinbeck. It was directed by Victor Fleming. Danny (John Garfield) inherits two houses, so...

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x Year:: 1942

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Frank Morgan

Mrs. Miniver

Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Greer Garson in the title role. It was produced as a propaganda film aimed at ending American isolation from World War II, and was based on the fictional English housewife...

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x Year:: 1942

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Walter Pidgeon

x Year:: 1942

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: William Wyler

x Year:: 1942

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

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Casablanca

Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Set during World War II, it focuses...

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x Year:: 1943

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Humphrey Bogart

x Year:: 1943

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Michael Curtiz

x Year:: 1943

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

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The More the Merrier

The More the Merrier is a 1943 comedy film made by Columbia Pictures which makes fun of the housing shortage during World War II, especially in Washington, D.C.. It stars Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Stanley Clements and Richard Gaines....

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x Year:: 1943

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: George Stevens

x Year:: 1943

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Jean Arthur

x Year:: 1943

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: George Stevens,; Columbia Pictures

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The Song of Bernadette

The Song of Bernadette is a 1943 drama film which tells the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who, from February to July 1858 in Lourdes, France, reported 18 visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It was directed by Henry King. The film was adapted...

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x Year:: 1943

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Henry King

x Year:: 1943

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: William Perlberg,; 20th Century Fox

x Year:: 1943

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Jennifer Jones

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Sahara

Sahara is a 1943 war film directed by Zoltán Korda. Humphrey Bogart stars as a U.S. tank commander in Egypt during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II. The movie earned three Academy Award nominations: Best Sound, Best Cinematography (Black...

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x Year:: 1943

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: J. Carrol Naish

For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 film in Technicolor based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff and Katina Paxinou. This was Ingrid Bergman's first technicolor film. Hemingway handpicked Cooper and...

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x Year:: 1943

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Gary Cooper

x Year:: 1943

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Ingrid Bergman

x Year:: 1943

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Sam Wood,; Paramount Pictures

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Going My Way

Going My Way, a 1944 film directed by Leo McCarey. It is a light-hearted musical comedy/drama about a new young priest (Bing Crosby) taking over a parish from an established old veteran (Barry Fitzgerald). Crosby sings five songs in the film. It was...

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x Year:: 1944

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Barry Fitzgerald

x Year:: 1944

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Leo McCarey

x Year:: 1944

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Leo McCarey,; Paramount Pictures

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Laura

Laura is a 1944 American film noir directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Elizabeth Reinhardt is based on the 1943 novel of the same title by Vera Caspary. In 1999, Laura was selected for preservation in...

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x Year:: 1944

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Otto Preminger

x Year:: 1944

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Clifton Webb

x Year:: 1944

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Samuel Hoffenstein,; Jay Dratler,; Betty Reinhardt

Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away is a 1944 film distributed by United Artists. It was directed by John Cromwell and adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret Buell Wilder. The...

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x Year:: 1944

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: David O. Selznick,; United Artists

x Year:: 1944

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Claudette Colbert

x Year:: 1944

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Monty Woolley

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Mr. Skeffington

Mr. Skeffington is a 1944 drama film about a beautiful woman whose many suitors, and self-love, distract her from returning the affections of her husband, Job Skeffington. It also makes a point about Skeffington's status as a Jew in 1914 high...

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x Year:: 1944

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Bette Davis

x Year:: 1944

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Claude Rains

The Seventh Cross

The Seventh Cross is a 1944 film starring Spencer Tracy, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Cronyn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. It was the first film in which Cronyn and Tandy, who were married, appeared together. This...

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x Year:: 1944

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Hume Cronyn

Spellbound

Spellbound is a psychological mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1945. It tells the story of the new head of a mental asylum who turns out not to be what he claims. The film stars Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov and...

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x Year:: 1945

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Alfred Hitchcock

x Year:: 1945

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: David O. Selznick,; United Artists

x Year:: 1945

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Michael Chekhov

A Medal for Benny

A Medal for Benny is a 1945 American film directed by Irving Pichel. The story was conceived by writer Jack Wagner, who enlisted his longtime friend John Steinbeck to help him put it into script form. The film was released by Paramount Pictures.

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x Year:: 1945

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: J. Carrol Naish

The Story of G.I. Joe

The Story of G.I. Joe (1945), also credited in prints as Ernie Pyle's Story of G.I. Joe, is a war film directed by William Wellman, starring Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Mitchum's...

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x Year:: 1945

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Robert Mitchum

x Year:: 1945

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Leopold Atlas,; Guy Endore,; Philip Stevenson

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is a 1945 film, the first film directed by Greek-American director Elia Kazan, starring James Dunn (who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, and Peggy Ann Garner. The film is...

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x Year:: 1945

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: James Dunn

x Year:: 1945

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Frank Davis,; Tess Slesinger

The Corn Is Green

The Corn Is Green is a 1945 drama film starring Bette Davis as a schoolteacher determined to bring education to a Welsh coal mining town, despite great opposition. It was adapted from the play of the same name by Emlyn Williams. John Dall and Joan...

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x Year:: 1945

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: John Dall

x Year:: 1945

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

x Award Nominee:: Joan Lorring

The Best Years of Our Lives

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) is an American drama film about three servicemen trying to piece their lives back together after coming home from World War II. Samuel Goldwyn was motivated to produce the film after his wife Frances read an August...

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x Year:: 1946

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: William Wyler

x Year:: 1946

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Samuel Goldwyn,; RKO Pictures

x Year:: 1946

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Fredric March

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The Jolson Story

The Jolson Story is a 1946 musical biography which purports to tell the life story of singer Al Jolson. It stars Larry Parks as Jolson, Evelyn Keyes as "Julie Benson" (approximating Jolson's wife, Ruby Keeler), William Demarest as his manager,...

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x Year:: 1946

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Larry Parks

x Year:: 1946

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: William Demarest

Notorious

Notorious (1946) is a thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intimately entangled during an espionage operation. Alicia Huberman (Ingrid...

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x Year:: 1946

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Ben Hecht

x Year:: 1946

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Claude Rains

The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge is the first film version of W. Somerset Maugham's 1944 novel. It was released in 1946 and stars Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall, supporting cast Lucile Watson, Frank Latimore and...

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x Year:: 1946

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

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

x Year:: 1946

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Clifton Webb

x Year:: 1946

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

x Award Nominee:: Anne Baxter

The Green Years

The Green Years is a 1946 comedy-drama film featuring Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, Hume Cronyn, Gladys Cooper, Dean Stockwell, and Jessica Tandy, based on A. J. Cronin's novel of the same title. It tells the story of the coming-of-age of an orphan in...

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x Year:: 1946

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Charles Coburn

Crossfire

Crossfire (1947) is a film noir drama film which deals with the theme of anti-Semitism, as did that year's Academy Award for Best Picture winner, Gentleman's Agreement. The film was directed by Edward Dmytryk and the screenplay was written by John...

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x Year:: 1947

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Edward Dmytryk

x Year:: 1947

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Adrian Scott,; RKO Pictures

x Year:: 1947

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Robert Ryan

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Miracle on 34th Street

Miracle on 34th Street is a 1947 film written by Valentine Davies, directed by George Seaton, and starring Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood and Edmund Gwenn. It is the story of what takes place in New York City following Macy's Thanksgiving...

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x Year:: 1947

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: William Perlberg,; 20th Century Fox

x Year:: 1947

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Edmund Gwenn

x Year:: 1947

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: George Seaton

The Farmer's Daughter

The Farmer's Daughter is a 1947 movie that tells the story of a farmgirl who ends up working as a maid for a Congressman and his politically powerful mother. It stars Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, and Charles Bickford. The movie was...

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x Year:: 1947

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Loretta Young

x Year:: 1947

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Charles Bickford

Kiss of Death

Kiss of Death is a 1947 film noir movie directed by Henry Hathaway and written by Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer from a story by Eleazar Lipsky. The story revolves around the story of the film's protagonist and antagonist (played by Victor Mature and...

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x Year:: 1947

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Richard Widmark

Ride the Pink Horse

Ride the Pink Horse (1947) is an American crime film noir produced by Universal Studios. It was directed by the actor Robert Montgomery from a screenplay by Ben Hecht, which was based on a novel of the same name by Dorothy B. Hughes. The drama...

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x Year:: 1947

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Thomas Gomez

Johnny Belinda

Johnny Belinda is a 1948 drama film based on the play of the same name by Elmer Blaney Harris. The movie was adapted to the screen by Allen Vincent and Irma von Cube, and directed by Jean Negulesco. The story is based on a real life incident that...

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