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Oscar for Best Supporting Actress
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception,...
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Anthony Adverse
Anthony Adverse is a 1936 American drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Sheridan Gibney is based on the sprawling 1,224-page novel of the same title by Hervey Allen. Neither Michael Curtiz, who assisted with the direction, nor...
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- 1936
- x Award Nominee:
- Gale Sondergaard
- x Year:
- 1936
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Picture
- x Award Nominee:
- Warner Bros. Entertainment,
- Henry Blanke
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 Gorgeous Hussy
The Gorgeous Hussy is a 1936 motion picture directed by Clarence Brown, and starring Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor. The film's plot tells a fictional account of President of the United States Andrew Jackson and an innkeeper's daughter. The...
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- x Year:
- 1936
- x Award Nominee:
- Beulah Bondi
These Three
These Three is a 1936 American drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Lillian Hellman is based on her 1934 play The Children's Hour.
A 1961 remake of the film directed by Wyler was released as The Children's Hour in the US and The...
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- x Year:
- 1936
- x Award Nominee:
- Bonita Granville
Dodsworth
Dodsworth is a 1936 American drama film directed by William Wyler. Sidney Howard based the screenplay on his 1934 stage adaptation of the 1929 novel by Sinclair Lewis. Through the title character, it examines the differences between US and European...
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- x Year:
- 1936
- x Award Nominee:
- Maria Ouspenskaya
- x Year:
- 1936
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Picture
- x Award Nominee:
- Goldwyn Pictures,
- United Artists,
- Samuel Goldwyn,
- more ▼
- United Artists,
Dead End
Dead End is a 1937 crime drama film. It is an adaptation of the Sidney Kingsley 1935 Broadway play of the same name. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea, and Sylvia Sidney. It is notable as being the first film appearance of the Dead End Kids.
In...
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- x Year:
- 1937
- x Award Nominee:
- Claire Trevor
- x Year:
- 1937
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Picture
- x Award Nominee:
- Goldwyn Pictures,
- United Artists,
- Samuel Goldwyn,
- more ▼
- United Artists,
In Old Chicago
In Old Chicago is a 1937 dramatic film. It tells the story of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, with a fictionalized plot, the story of the two sons of Mrs. O'Leary (Alice Brady) (the owner of the cow which started the fire), one a rogue (Tyrone Power...
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- x Year:
- 1937
- x Award Nominee:
- Alice Brady
- x Year:
- 1937
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Picture
- x Award Nominee:
- 20th Century Fox,
- Darryl F. Zanuck,
- Kenneth Macgowan
- Darryl F. Zanuck,
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 Nominee:
- Andrea Leeds
- x Year:
- 1937
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Picture
- x Award Nominee:
- RKO Pictures,
- Pandro S. Berman
- more ▼
Stella Dallas
Stella Dallas is a 1937 film based on the novel of the same name. It stars Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil, Alan Hale, Sr., Marjorie Main and Tim Holt. It was adapted by Joe Bigelow, Harry Wagstaff Gribble, Victor Heerman,...
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- x Year:
- 1937
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actress
- x Award Nominee:
- Barbara Stanwyck
- x Year:
- 1937
- x Award Nominee:
- Dawn Evelyn Paris
Night Must Fall
Night Must Fall is a 1937 film adaptation of the Emlyn Williams play of the same name. It was directed by Richard Thorpe and adapted by John Van Druten. It stars Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, and Dame May Whitty. Whitty reprised her role from...
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- x Year:
- 1937
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Nominee:
- Robert Montgomery
- x Year:
- 1937
- x Award Nominee:
- May Whitty
Jezebel
Jezebel is an American drama film released in 1938 and directed by William Wyler. It stars Bette Davis and Henry Fonda, supported by George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp, Richard Cromwell, and Fay Bainter. The film was adapted by Clements...
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- x Year:
- 1938
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actress
- x Award Nominee:
- Bette Davis
- x Year:
- 1938
- x Award Nominee:
- Fay Bainter
Of Human Hearts
Of Human Hearts is a 1938 film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Walter Huston, James Stewart and Beulah Bondi. Bondi was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In the days leading up to the American Civil War, a young...
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- x Year:
- 1938
- x Award Nominee:
- Beulah Bondi
Merrily We Live
Merrily We Live is a 1938 film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Constance Bennett, Bonita Granville, Brian Aherne, Alan Mowbray, Billie Burke, Clarence Kolb, Tom Brown, Patsy Kelly, Willie Best, Marjorie Kane, and Ann Dvorak. The film was...
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- x Year:
- 1938
- x Award Nominee:
- Billie Burke
The Great Waltz
The Great Waltz is a 1938 biographical film based very loosely on the life of Johann Strauss II. It starred Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravet (Gravey) and Miliza Korjus. Rainer received top billing at the producer's insistence, but her role is...
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- x Year:
- 1938
- x Award Nominee:
- Miliza Korjus
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...
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- 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 Nominee:
- Spring Byington
Love Affair
Love Affair is a 1939 romantic film starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer and featuring Maria Ouspenskaya. It was directed by Leo McCarey and written by Delmer Daves and Donald Ogden Stewart, based on a story by McCarey and Mildred Cram.
Love...
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- x Year:
- 1939
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actress
- x Award Nominee:
- Irene Dunne
- x Year:
- 1939
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Picture
- x Award Nominee:
- Leo McCarey,
- RKO Pictures
- x Year:
- 1939
- x Award Nominee:
- Maria Ouspenskaya
Drums Along the Mohawk
Drums Along the Mohawk is a 1939 historical Technicolor film based upon a 1936 novel of the same name by American author, Walter D. Edmonds. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and directed by John Ford. Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert...
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- x Year:
- 1939
- x Award Nominee:
- Edna May Oliver
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...
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- 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
- more ▼
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,...
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- 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
- more ▼
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...
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- 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
- more ▼
All This and Heaven Too
All This, and Heaven Too is a 1940 drama film made by Warner Bros.-First National Pictures, produced and directed by Anatole Litvak with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer. The screenplay was adapted by Casey Robinson from the novel by Rachel Field...
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- x Year:
- 1940
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Picture
- x Award Nominee:
- David Lewis,
- Hal B. Wallis,
- Jack Warner,
- more ▼
- Hal B. Wallis,
- x Year:
- 1940
- x Award Nominee:
- Barbara O'Neil
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....
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- 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
- more ▼
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...
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- x Year:
- 1940
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Nominee:
- Henry Fonda
- x Year:
- 1940
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Director
- x Year:
- 1940
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Picture
- x Award Nominee:
- Nunnally Johnson,
- Darryl F. Zanuck,
- 20th Century Fox
- Darryl F. Zanuck,
- more ▼
Primrose Path
Primrose Path is a 1940 film about a young woman determined not to follow the profession of her mother and grandmother, prostitution. It stars Ginger Rogers and Joel McCrea. The film was based on the play of the same name by Robert L. Buckner and...
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- x Year:
- 1940
- x Award Nominee:
- Marjorie Rambeau
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 Nominee:
- Harry Chandlee,
- Abem Finkel,
- Howard Koch,
- more ▼
- Abem Finkel,
- x Year:
- 1941
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Picture
- x Award Nominee:
- Hal B. Wallis,
- Jesse L. Lasky,
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
- Jesse L. Lasky,
- more ▼
The Great Lie
The Great Lie is a 1941 black-and-white Drama film with Mary Astor, Bette Davis and George Brent. It was directed by Edmund Goulding from an adaptation by Lenore J. Coffee of the novel The Far Horizon by Polan Banks.
Sandra Kovak (Astor), a concert...
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- x Year:
- 1941
- x Award Nominee:
- Mary Astor
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 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
- more ▼
The Little Foxes
The Little Foxes is a 1941 American drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Lillian Hellman is based on her 1939 play of the same name. Hellman's ex-husband Arthur Kober, close friend Dorothy Parker, and Parker's husband Alan...
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- x Year:
- 1941
- x Award Nominee:
- Teresa Wright
- x Year:
- 1941
- x Award Nominee:
- Patricia Collinge
- x Year:
- 1941
- x Award Nominee:
- Lillian Hellman
Random Harvest
Random Harvest is a 1942 film based on the 1941 James Hilton novel of the same name, directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Claudine West, George Froeschel and Arthur Wimperis adapted the novel for the screen, and received an Academy Award nomination for their...
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- x Year:
- 1942
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Nominee:
- Ronald Colman
- x Year:
- 1942
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Director
- x Award Nominee:
- Mervyn LeRoy
- x Year:
- 1942
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Picture
- x Award Nominee:
- Sidney Franklin,
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- more ▼
Now, Voyager
Now, Voyager is a 1942 American drama film directed by Irving Rapper. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Olive Higgins Prouty, who borrowed her title from a line in the Walt Whitman poem "The Untold Want,...
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- x Year:
- 1942
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actress
- x Award Nominee:
- Bette Davis
- x Year:
- 1942
- x Award Nominee:
- Gladys Cooper
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1942 American drama film written and directed by Orson Welles. His second feature film, it is based on the 1918 novel of the same title by Booth Tarkington and stars Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim...
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- x Year:
- 1942
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Picture
- x Award Nominee:
- Orson Welles,
- RKO Pictures
- x Year:
- 1942
- x Award Nominee:
- Agnes Moorehead
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
- more ▼
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
- more ▼
Watch on the Rhine
Watch on the Rhine is a 1943 drama film that was adapted by Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman from Hellman's play. The film stars Bette Davis, Paul Lukas and Geraldine Fitzgerald and was directed by Herman Shumlin and Hal Mohr (uncredited).
Kurt...
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- x Year:
- 1943
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Picture
- x Award Nominee:
- Hal B. Wallis,
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
- x Year:
- 1943
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Nominee:
- Paul Lukas
- x Year:
- 1943
- x Award Nominee:
- Lucile Watson
- more ▼
So Proudly We Hail!
So Proudly We Hail! is a 1943 film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Mark Sandrich, and starring Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard (who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance), George Reeves and...
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- x Year:
- 1943
- x Award Nominee:
- Allan Scott
- x Year:
- 1943
- x Award Nominee:
- Paulette Goddard
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
- more ▼
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
- more ▼
None but the Lonely Heart
None but the Lonely Heart is a 1944 film which tells the story of a Cockney lad who returns home with no ambitions but finds that his family needs him. Adapted by Clifford Odets from the novel by Richard Llewellyn and directed by Odets, the movie...
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- x Year:
- 1944
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Nominee:
- Cary Grant
- x Year:
- 1944
- x Award Nominee:
- Ethel Barrymore
Mrs. Parkington
Mrs. Parkington is a 1944 drama film which tells the story of a woman's life, told in flashbacks, from hotel maid to society matron. The movie was adapted by Polly James and Robert Thoeren from the novel by Louis Bromfield. It was directed by Tay...
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- x Year:
- 1944
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actress
- x Award Nominee:
- Greer Garson
- x Year:
- 1944
- x Award Nominee:
- Agnes Moorehead
Dragon Seed
Dragon Seed is a 1944 war drama film starring Katharine Hepburn. Based on a best-selling book by Pearl S. Buck, the film portrays a peaceful village in China that has been invaded by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese war....
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- x Year:
- 1944
- x Award Nominee:
- Aline MacMahon
Gaslight
Gaslight is a 1944 mystery-thriller film adapted from Patrick Hamilton's play Angel Street. It was the second version to be filmed; the first, released in Great Britain, had been made a mere four years earlier. This 1944 version of the story was...
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- x Year:
- 1944
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Nominee:
- Charles Boyer
- x Year:
- 1944
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Picture
- x Award Nominee:
- Arthur Hornblow, Jr.,
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- x Year:
- 1944
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actress
- x Award Nominee:
- Ingrid Bergman
- more ▼
National Velvet
National Velvet is a 1944 film based on the novel by Enid Bagnold, published in 1935. It stars Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp and a young Elizabeth Taylor.
In 2003 National Velvet was selected for preservation in the United States National Film...
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- x Year:
- 1945
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Director
- x Award Nominee:
- Clarence Brown
- x Year:
- 1945
- x Award Nominee:
- Anne Revere
Mildred Pierce
Mildred Pierce (1945) is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, and Eve Arden in a noir-ish tale about a long-suffering mother and her ungrateful daughter. The screenplay by Ranald MacDougall,...
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- x Year:
- 1945
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Picture
- x Award Nominee:
- Jerry Wald,
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
- x Year:
- 1945
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actress
- x Award Nominee:
- Joan Crawford
- x Year:
- 1945
- more ▼
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray is an American horror-drama film based on the 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, his only novel. Released in March 1945 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film is directed by Albert Lewin and stars George...
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- x Year:
- 1945
- x Award Nominee:
- Angela Lansbury
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 Year:
- 1945
- x Award Nominee:
- Joan Lorring
Duel in the Sun
Duel in the Sun is a Technicolor 1946 Western film directed by King Vidor, produced and written by David O. Selznick, which tells the story of a Mestiza (half-Native American) girl who goes to live with her Anglo relatives, becoming involved in...
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- x Year:
- 1946
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actress
- x Award Nominee:
- Jennifer Jones
- x Year:
- 1946
- x Award Nominee:
- Lillian Gish
Anna and the King of Siam
Anna and the King of Siam is a 1946 drama film directed by John Cromwell. An adaptation of the 1944 book by Margaret Landon, it was based on the diaries of Anna Leonowens, a British governess in the Royal Court of Siam (now modern Thailand) during...
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- x Year:
- 1946
- x Award Nominee:
- Gale Sondergaard
- x Year:
- 1946
- x Award Nominee:
- Sally Benson,
- Talbot Jennings
The Spiral Staircase
The Spiral Staircase is a 1945 American psychological thriller film, based on Ethel Lina White's novel Some Must Watch, in which the heroine was crippled rather than mute. The novel was adapted for a radio production starring Helen Hayes before...
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- x Year:
- 1946
- x Award Nominee:
- Ethel Barrymore
Saratoga Trunk
Saratoga Trunk is a 1945 film written by Edna Ferber and Casey Robinson, based on Ferber's best-selling novel of the same name. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Florence Bates, and Flora Robson, who was nominated for a Supporting Actress Oscar...
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- x Year:
- 1946
- x Award Nominee:
- Flora Robson
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...
- Award Nominations
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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 Nominee:
- Anne Baxter
Gentleman's Agreement
Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 drama film about a journalist (played by Gregory Peck) who goes undercover as a Jew to research antisemitism in New York City and the affluent community of Darien, Connecticut. The movie was controversial in its time,...
- Award Nominations
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- x Year:
- 1947
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Nominee:
- Gregory Peck
- x Year:
- 1947
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actress
- x Award Nominee:
- Dorothy McGuire
- x Year:
- 1947
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Director
- x Award Nominee:
- Elia Kazan
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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...
- Award Nominations
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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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The Paradine Case
The Paradine Case (1947) is a courtroom drama film, set in England, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by David O. Selznick. The screenplay was written by Selznick and an uncredited Ben Hecht, from an adaptation by Alma Reville and James...
- Award Nominations
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- x Year:
- 1947
- x Award Nominee:
- Ethel Barrymore
The Egg and I
The Egg and I is a 1947 film directed by Chester Erskine, who co-wrote screenplay with Fred F. Finklehoffe, based on the novel by Betty MacDonald.
This comedy was such a hit with audiences, it spawned the Ma and Pa Kettle film series. On May 5, 1947...
- Award Nominations
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- x Year:
- 1947
- x Award Nominee:
- Marjorie Main
Hamlet
Hamlet is a 1948 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, directed by and starring Sir Laurence Olivier. Hamlet was Olivier's second film as director, and also the second of his three Shakespeare films. It is the only one of...
- Award Nominations
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- x Year:
- 1948
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Director
- x Award Nominee:
- Laurence Olivier
- x Year:
- 1948
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Picture
- x Award Nominee:
- Laurence Olivier,
- J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films
- x Year:
- 1948
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Nominee:
- Laurence Olivier
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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...
- Award Nominations
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- x Year:
- 1948
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Director
- x Award Nominee:
- Jean Negulesco
- x Year:
- 1948
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Picture
- x Award Nominee:
- Jerry Wald,
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
- x Year:
- 1948
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actress
- x Award Nominee:
- Jane Wyman
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I Remember Mama
I Remember Mama is a play by John Van Druten. Based on the fictionalized memoir Mama's Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes, it focuses on a loving family of Norwegian immigrants living on Steiner Street (identified as Larkin Street in the 1948 film) in...
- Award Nominations
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- x Year:
- 1948
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actress
- x Award Nominee:
- Irene Dunne
- x Year:
- 1948
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Supporting Actor
- x Award Nominee:
- Oscar Homolka
- x Year:
- 1948
- x Award Nominee:
- Ellen Corby
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Key Largo
Key Largo is a 1948 crime film starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, and Claire Trevor. This was the fourth and final film pairing of married actors Bogart and Bacall. Trevor won the 1948 Academy Award for...
- Award Nominations
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- x Year:
- 1948
- x Award Nominee:
- Claire Trevor
Come to the Stable
Come to the Stable is a 1949 film which tells the story of two French nuns who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital. It stars Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa...
- Award Nominations
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- x Year:
- 1949
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actress
- x Award Nominee:
- Loretta Young
- x Year:
- 1949
- x Award Nominee:
- Elsa Lanchester
- x Year:
- 1949
- x Award Nominee:
- Celeste Holm
Pinky
Pinky (1949) is a film directed by Elia Kazan. It was adapted by Philip Dunne and Dudley Nichols from the novel by Cid Ricketts Sumner. Originally John Ford was hired to direct the film, but was replaced after one week because producer Darryl F....
- Award Nominations
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- x Year:
- 1949
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actress
- x Award Nominee:
- Jeanne Crain
- x Year:
- 1949
- x Award Nominee:
- Ethel Waters
- x Year:
- 1949
- x Award Nominee:
- Ethel Barrymore
