Oscar-Nominated Movies I've Seen
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- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsGeorge O'BrienJanet GaynorMargaret LivingstonA sophisticated city woman seduces a farmer and convinces him to murder his wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when he changes his mind at the last moment.Wins:
Best Unique and Artistic Picture
Best Actress - Janet Gaynor
Best Cinematography
Nominations:
Best Production Design - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinMerna KennedyAl Ernest GarciaThe Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.Wins:
Academy Honorary Award - Charles Chaplin - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsErrol FlynnOlivia de HavillandLionel AtwillAfter treating a Monmouth rebel against King James II in 1680s England, a young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.Nominations:
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Original Score
Best Sound - DirectorJames WhaleStarsBoris KarloffElsa LanchesterColin CliveMary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.Nominations:
Best Sound - DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerMae QuestelLou FleischerThe legendary sailors Popeye and Sindbad do battle to see which one is the greatest.Nominations:
Best Animated Short Film - DirectorFrank CapraStarsRonald ColmanJane WyattEdward Everett HortonWhen a revered diplomat's plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay.Wins:
Best Production Design
Best Film Editing
Nominations:
Best Picture
Best Supporting Actor - H.B. Warner
Best Original Score
Best Sound
Best Assistant Director - DirectorWilliam CottrellDavid HandWilfred JacksonStarsAdriana CaselottiHarry StockwellLucille La VerneExiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household.
- DirectorMichael CurtizWilliam KeighleyStarsErrol FlynnOlivia de HavillandBasil RathboneWhen Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement.Wins:
Best Original Score
Best Production Design
Best Film Editing
Nominations:
Best Picture - DirectorJean RenoirStarsJean GabinDita ParloPierre FresnayDuring WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.Nominations:
Best Picture - DirectorVictor FlemingGeorge CukorSam WoodStarsClark GableVivien LeighThomas MitchellA sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.Wins:
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actress - Vivien Leigh
Best Supporting Actress - Hattie McDaniel
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Production Design
Best Cinematography, Color
Best Film Editing
Nominations:
Best Actor - Clark Gable
Best Supporting Actress - Olivia de Havilland
Best Original Score
Best Sound
Best Special Effects - DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneClaire TrevorAndy DevineA group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.Wins:
Best Supporting Actor - Thomas Mitchell
Best Scoring
Nominations:
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Production Design
Best Cinematography, Black and White
Best Film Editing - DirectorVictor FlemingKing VidorStarsJudy GarlandFrank MorganRay BolgerYoung Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.Wins:
Best Original Score
Best Original Song - "Over the Rainbow"
Nominations:
Best Picture
Best Production Design
Best Special Effects - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardJack OakieDictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.Nominations:
Best Picture
Best Actor - Charles Chaplin
Best Supporting Actor - Jack Oakie
Best Original Screenplay
Best Original Score - DirectorLudwig BergerMichael PowellTim WhelanStarsConrad VeidtSabuJune DuprezAfter being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.Wins:
Best Production Design, Color
Best Cinematography, Color
Best Special Effects
Nominations:
Best Original Score - DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy ComingoreFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'Wins:
Best Original Screenplay
Nominations:
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actor - Orson Welles
Best Original Score
Best Sound
Best Production Design, Black and White
Best Cinematography, Black and White
Best Film Editing - DirectorDave FleischerSteve MuffatiStarsBud CollyerJoan AlexanderJackson BeckThe Man of Steel fights a mad scientist who is destroying Metropolis with an energy cannon.Nominations:
Best Animated Short Film - DirectorSamuel ArmstrongNorman FergusonWilfred JacksonStarsSterling HollowayEdward BrophyHerman BingRidiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential.Nominations:
Best Original Score, Musical
Best Original Song - "Baby Mine" - DirectorJames AlgarSamuel ArmstrongFord Beebe Jr.StarsLeopold StokowskiDeems TaylorThe Philadelphia OrchestraA series of eight famous pieces of classical music, conducted by Leopold Stokowski and interpreted in animation by Walt Disney's team of artists.Wins:
Academy Honorary Award - Leopold Stokowski - DirectorJohn FordStarsHenry FondaJane DarwellLogan RamseyThe Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened.Wins:
Best Documentary - DirectorHumphrey JenningsStewart McAllisterStarsLeonard BrockingtonJoseph MacleodBud FlanaganA depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the war, all without narration.Nominations:
Best Documentary - DirectorJack KinneyBen SharpsteenStarsPinto ColvigCharles JudelsBilly BletcherDonald Duck has a nightmare that he lives in Germany slaving under the Nazi regime.Wins:
Best Animated Short Film - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinMack SwainTom MurrayA prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl he sees in a dance hall.Nominations:
(1942 re-release)
Best Original Score
Best Sound - DirectorRené ClairStarsFredric MarchVeronica LakeRobert BenchleyA beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.Nominations:
Best Original Score - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul HenreidA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.Wins:
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Adapted Screenplay
Nominations:
Best Actor - Humphrey Bogart
Best Supporting Actor - Claude Rains
Best Original Score
Best Cinematography, Black and White
Best Film Editing - DirectorJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsWilliam HannaIn honor of the U.S. military during WWII, Tom and Jerry do battle in the basement, using household items as war weapons and vehicles.Wins:
Best Animated Short Film