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- DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsBessie LoveAnita PageCharles KingA pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 42% based on 26 reviews.
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Best picture (winner)
Best director
Best leading actress - DirectorRoland WestStarsChester MorrisHarry StubbsMae BuschChick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took Joan, a policeman's daughter, to the theater, sneaked out during the intermission to commit the crime, then used her to support his alibi. The detective squad employs its most sophisticated and barbaric techniques, including planting an undercover agent in the gang, to bring him to justice.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 8 reviews.
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Best picture
Best leading actor
Best production desing - DirectorIrving CummingsRaoul WalshStarsEdmund LoweWarner BaxterDorothy BurgessA charming, happy-go-lucky bandit in old Arizona plays cat-and-mouse with the sheriff trying to catch him while he romances a local beauty.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 56% based on 9 reviews.
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Best picture
Best director
Best leading actor (winner)
Best screenplay
Best cinematography - DirectorCharles ReisnerChristy CabanneNorman HoustonStarsConrad NagelJack BennyJohn GilbertAn all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 43% based on 7 reviews.
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Best picture - DirectorSam TaylorStarsMary PickfordJohnny Mack BrownMatt MooreA flirtatious Southern belle is compromised with one of her suitors.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 44% based on 9 reviews.
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Best leading actress (winner) - DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsMilton SillsDorothy MackaillBetty CompsonA carnival barker wants his son to become a lawyer, but his son gets side-tracked into joining the carnival too.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best leading actress - DirectorClarence BrownStarsGreta GarboJohn GilbertLewis StoneWhen two childhood sweethearts are kept from marrying, misery ensues.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best screenplay - DirectorWesley RugglesStarsRichard DixIrene DunneEstelle TaylorA newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 52% based on 31 reviews.
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Best picture (winner)
Best director
Best leading actress
Best leading actor
Best screenplay (winner)
Best cinematography
Best production design (winner) - DirectorArchie MayoStarsLew AyresJames CagneyDorothy MathewsDespite his efforts to go straight, a young gangster keeps falling back into crime.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 2 reviews.
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Best story - DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsEdward G. RobinsonJames CagneyEvalyn KnappA Greek barber has uncommon skills in playing poker and soon rises in the seedy world of illegal gambling, but pretty blondes remain his Achilles' heel.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 4 reviews.
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Best story - DirectorDavid ButlerStarsEl BrendelMaureen O'SullivanJohn GarrickNew York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't "distinguished" enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientist. The Mars J-21, his friend, and stowaway Single O visit is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best production desing - DirectorEdgar SelwynStarsHelen HayesLewis StoneNeil HamiltonOut of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
Best leading actress (winner) - DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsFredric MarchClaudette ColbertElissa LandiA Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 55% based on 11 reviews.
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Best cinematography - DirectorIrving CummingsStarsLoretta YoungJohn BolesDorothy WilsonThe title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious physical and mental toil they endure in order to become nurses and join the White Parade. It is told mainly through the character of June Arden, who finds romance with Ronald Hall III along the way, with side stories of the other girls who find failure, success, laughter, and tears along the way. The forerunner of umpteen dozens of TV series over the past 40 years.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 57% based on 7 reviews.
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Best picture - DirectorRobert Z. LeonardW.S. Van DykeStarsJeanette MacDonaldNelson EddyFrank MorganIn order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 56% based on 9 reviews.
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Best picture
Best sound mixing (winner) - DirectorRouben MamoulianStarsMiriam HopkinsFrances DeeCedric HardwickeAgainst the backdrop of Napoleon's Waterloo campaign, an ambitious woman from a family of entertainers begins a destructive climb up the social ladder.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 4 reviews.
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Best leading actress - DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsMaurice ChevalierMerle OberonAnn SothernAn entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best dance direction (winner) - DirectorFrank TuttleStarsCarl BrissonMary EllisEdward Everett HortonMovie star changes places with a king who looks exactly like him, causing complications for all concerned.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best dance direction - DirectorMervyn LeRoyMichael CurtizStarsFredric MarchOlivia de HavillandDonald WoodsIn 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 20% based on 10 reviews.
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Best supporting actress (winner)
Best film editing (winner)
Best cinematography (winner)
Best music (score) (winner)
Best assistant director
Best production design - DirectorRichard BoleslawskiStarsMarlene DietrichCharles BoyerTilly LoschThe star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 36% based on 11 reviews.
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Best music (score)
Best assistant director - DirectorHenry HathawayStarsSylvia SidneyHenry FondaFred MacMurrayA railroad man from the city befriends a mountain girl in a Kentucky family feud.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 25% based on 4 reviews.
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Best song - DirectorLloyd CorriganStarsCharles CollinsFrank MorganSteffi DunaThe story of a Boston dance teacher who gets shanghaied by buccaneers who might make his next steps be off the plank!Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 2 reviews.
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Best dance direction - DirectorJulien DuvivierVictor FlemingJosef von SternbergStarsLuise RainerFernand GraveyMiliza KorjusIn 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauss II (Fernand Gravey) - 'Jonahi' to his friends - would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered proper society music. After he is fired from his clerical bank job because of his preoccupation with composing, he decides to follow his passion and form an orchestra. After some famed opera singers, including Carla Donner (Miliza Korjus), hear his music, they expose Johani's music to the masses, to royalty and to music publisher Julius Hofbauer (Hugh Herbert). As such, Johani becomes the toast of Vienna. With his new found musical fame, Johani's life, which includes his work in the European Revolutions, changes. He becomes torn for his love for his loving and faithful wife Poldi Vogelhuber (Luise Rainer) and his more emotionally passionate but somewhat destructive love for Carla Donner, who herself is involved with Count Anton Hohenfried (Lionel Atwill).Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best supporting actress
Best film editing
Best cinematography (winner) - DirectorClarence BrownStarsWalter HustonJames StewartGene ReynoldsEthan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 1 review.
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Best supporting actress - DirectorMark SandrichStarsFred AstaireGinger RogersRalph BellamyA psychiatrist falls in love with the woman he's supposed to be nudging into marriage with someone else.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 57% based on 7 reviews.
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Best scoring of music (adaptation or treatment)
Best song
Best production design - DirectorMitchell LeisenJames P. HoganStarsW.C. FieldsMartha RayeDorothy LamourThe Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best song (winner) - DirectorGeorge MarshallH.C. PotterStarsAdolphe MenjouAndrea LeedsThe Ritz BrothersMovie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person. Hit song: "Love Walked In.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 33% based on 3 reviews.
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Best scoring of music (adaptation or treatment)
Best production design - DirectorJack ConwayLeslie FentonStarsRobert TaylorHedy LamarrJoseph SchildkrautPlayboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 2 reviews.
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Best Cinematography (Black and white) - DirectorArchie MayoStarsJascha HeifetzJoel McCreaAndrea LeedsA boy runs away from home and ends up at a music school for poor children. When the school suffers hard times, he enlists the aid of violinist Heifetz to save the day.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 1 review.
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Best scoring of music (adaptation or treatment) - DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsIrene DunneCharles BoyerBarbara O'NeilA concert pianist unhappily married to a mentally ill woman falls in love with a waitress.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best sound mixing (winner) - DirectorH.C. PotterStarsFred AstairePaulette GoddardArtie ShawWhen perennial college students Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are forced to make it on their own, the competitive pair get jobs with Artie Shaw's band and reunite with ex-manager Ellen Miller.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best scoring of music (adaptation or treatment)
Best song - DirectorDavid ButlerStarsKay KyserPeter LorreBoris KarloffThe manager of Kay Kyser's band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 1 review.
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Best song - DirectorRichard WallaceStarsVictor MatureLouise PlattLeo CarrilloWhen her father dies, a young woman helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best sound mixing - DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsGreer GarsonWalter PidgeonFelix BressartAfter losing her young son, Edna Gladney opposes the unfair laws discriminating against children whose parents are unknown, and opens an orphanage for those children.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 33% based on 9 reviews.
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Best picture
Best leading actress
Best cinematography (color)
Best art direction (color) (winner) - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsErrol FlynnFred MacMurrayRalph BellamyA military surgeon teams with a ranking Navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 2 reviews.
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Best cinematography (color) - DirectorIrving CummingsStarsBob HopeVera ZorinaVictor MooreA bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 1 review.
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Best art direction (color) - DirectorTay GarnettStarsMartha ScottWilliam GarganEdmund GwennDedicated Midwestern teacher Ella Bishop is distressed when her fiancé runs off with her vixenish cousin Amy. After Amy dies in childbirth, Ella is left to care for Amy's daughter Hope.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best original dramatic score - DirectorJean YarbroughStarsDick PurcellJoan WoodburyMantan MorelandOn a spooky island, three stranded travelers find an evil doctor working with foreign spies and in control of zombies.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 2 reviews.
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Best original dramatic score - DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsJoan CrawfordRobert TaylorGreer GarsonA successful novelist falls in love with her married publisher, to the consternation of her boyfriend, who arranges for her to meet the publisher's wife.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best art direction (black and white) - DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsRobert TaylorLana TurnerEdward ArnoldThe step-daughter of a district attorney falls in love with a gangster on parole who her father originally imprisoned.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 33% based on 3 reviews.
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Best supporting actor (winner) - DirectorVictor FlemingStarsSpencer TracyHedy LamarrJohn GarfieldDanny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 1 review.
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Best supporting actor - DirectorZoltan KordaStarsSabuJoseph CalleiaJohn QualenA boy raised by wild animals tries to adapt to human village life.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 54% based on 13 reviews.
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Best cinematography (color)
Best score (drama or comedy)
Best art direction (color)
Best effects (special effects) - DirectorH. Bruce HumberstoneStarsJohn PayneMaureen O'HaraRandolph ScottLife at the Marine Training Base in San Diego on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 1 review.
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Best cinematography (color) - DirectorJo GrahamStarsKay FrancisWalter HustonGloria WarrenAfter many years, MacKenzie Scott is pardoned from prison, but his wife is already involved with another man. Nevertheless, he travels incognito to his family's town. There he befriends his daughter Victoria, who doesn't recognize him, and encourages her musical abilities.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 1 review.
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Best song - DirectorArchie MayoStarsGeorge MontgomeryAnn RutherfordGlenn Miller and His OrchestraConnie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the bands tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 4 reviews.
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Best song - DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsAnne BaxterDana AndrewsWalter HustonA Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the German invasion of June 1941.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best original screenplay
Best cinematography (black and white)
Best score (drama or comedy)
Best art direction (black and white)
Best sound mixing
Best effects (special effects) - DirectorH. Bruce HumberstoneStarsAlice FayeJohn PayneJack OakieIn turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 1 review.
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Best cinematography (color)
Best song (winnwer) - DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsKathryn GraysonGene KellyMary AstorAcrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her father. Eddie's also plagued by fear of having an accident during his family's trapeze act in the army variety show, which also features a gallery of MGM stars.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 1 review.
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Best cinematography (color)
Best score (musical)
Best art direction (color) - DirectorJohn FarrowStarsPaul MuniAnna LeeLillian GishA gentle widower, enraged at German atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 2 reviews.
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Best score (drama or comedy) - DirectorAlbert S. RogellStarsJohn WayneMartha ScottAlbert DekkerIn 1906, on Oklahoma's Indian lands, a cowboy fights for oil lease rights against a greedy oilman while a pretty schoolteacher steals both men's hearts.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best score (drama or comedy)
Best sound mixing - DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsJames CagneyGrace GeorgeMarjorie MainNewspaper man wanders about and helps older woman save her paper.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 43% based on 7 reviews.
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Best score (drama or comedy) - DirectorEdward H. GriffithStarsFred AstaireJoan LeslieRobert BenchleyFred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days off.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best score (musical)
Best song - DirectorRichard WallaceLambert HillyerStarsPat O'BrienRandolph ScottAnne ShirleyMajor "Chick" Davis is convinced that high-level bombing will win the next war. He convinces the powers-that-be to set up a bombardier school. He efficiently sets about training the USAAF's first generation of high-level bombardiers.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 1 review.
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Best effects (special effects) - DirectorVincent ShermanStarsBette DavisClaude RainsWalter AbelPopular and beautiful Fanny Trellis is forced into a loveless marriage with an older man, Jewish banker Job Skeffington, in order to save her beloved brother Trippy from an embezzlement charge.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 57% based on 7 reviews.
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Best leading actress
Best supporting actor - DirectorTay GarnettStarsGreer GarsonWalter PidgeonEdward ArnoldA widowed matriarch reminisces about her family fortunes, including her romance with a financier/mine owner.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best leading actress
Best supporting actress - DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsLynn BariAkim TamiroffFrancis LedererA rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 33% based on 3 reviews.
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Best score (drama or comedy) - DirectorAlfred SantellStarsWilliam BendixSusan HaywardJohn LoderDuring the 1940s, social class conflict is depicted when a spoiled socialite, traveling on a freighter, calls the ship's head stoker a hairy ape, provoking him into stalking the rich woman once ashore in New York.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 40% based on 5 reviews.
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Best score (drama or comedy) - DirectorAllan DwanStarsMarjorie ReynoldsDennis O'KeefeGail PatrickNewly-married Gary Ainsworth once gave his former sweetheart Mabel a sexy negligee with his initials embroidered in the lacework. It is Gary's unenviable task to retrieve the incriminating undergarment from Mabel's room.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 4 reviews.
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Best score (drama or comedy) - DirectorTim WhelanStarsMichèle MorganJack HaleyFrank SinatraWith their employer bankrupt, servants scheme to marry maid Millie to a rich husband. But Frank Sinatra lives across the street...Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best score (musical)
Best song - DirectorJoseph H. LewisEdgar G. UlmerStarsBenny FieldsGladys GeorgeAlan DinehartThe story of a singer in a minstrel show, from his career highs to the tragedies in his personal life.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best score (musical)
Best song - DirectorA. Edward SutherlandJohn RawlinsStarsGeorge RaftVera ZorinaGrace McDonaldDuring World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 1 review.
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Best song - DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsClaudette ColbertFred MacMurrayIlka ChaseAn upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson River.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best art direction (black and white) - DirectorTim WhelanStarsAdolphe MenjouGeorge MurphyFrank SinatraGordon Miller is rehearsing a musical comedy in the penthouse suite of Gribble's hotel...on credit. The mounting bill is driving Gribble frantic. Chaos increases when playwright Glen Russell, whose dramatic play he thinks Miller is producing, arrives. But it turns out Russell can sing like Sinatra, and Miller has leading lady Christine turn on the charm. Can Miller's crazed machinations save the show?Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best art direction (black and white) - DirectorGeorge SidneyJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsFrank SinatraKathryn GraysonGene KellyA pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 57% based on 14 reviews.
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Best Picture
Best Leading Actor
Best Cinematography (Color)
Best Score Musical (winner)
Best Song - DirectorHenry HathawayStarsWilliam EytheLloyd NolanSigne HassoBill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the F.B.I. in a German spy ring.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 6 reviews.
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Best story (winner) - DirectorJoseph KaneStarsJohn WayneAnn DvorakJoseph SchildkrautA cowboy competes with a gambling tycoon on the Barbary Coast for the hand of a beautiful dance-hall queen.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best score (drama or comedy)
Best sound mixing - DirectorJohn BrahmJohn CromwellAndré De TothStarsAnne BaxterRalph BellamyAline MacMahonA young manipulative woman moves in with her fiancé's family and turns a happy household against itself.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 1 review.
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Best score (drama or comedy) - DirectorIrving RapperStarsRobert AldaJoan LeslieAlexis SmithGeorge Gershwin is a driven composer whose need to succeed destroys his relationship with singer Julie Adams and socialite Christine Gilbert.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 20% based on 5 reviews.
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Best score (musical)
Best sound mixing - DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsEvelyn KeyesPhil SilversAdele JergensTongue-in-cheek fantasy film set in Baghdad and loosely based on the One Thousand and One Nights medieval story.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 1 review.
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Best effects (special effects) - DirectorCompton BennettStarsJames MasonAnn ToddHerbert LomA concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best original screenplay - DirectorChester ErskineStarsClaudette ColbertFred MacMurrayMarjorie MainOn their wedding night, Bob reveals to Betty that he has purchased an abandoned chicken farm. Betty struggles to adapt to their new rural lifestyle, especially when a glamorous neighbor seems to set her eyes on Bob.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best supporting actress - DirectorVictor SavilleStarsVan HeflinLana TurnerDonna ReedA young man loved by two sisters becomes a naval officer and sails to New Zealand, where he drunkenly writes a marriage proposal to the wrong sister, profoundly affecting the life of the other.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 1 review.
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Best film editing
Best cinematography (black and white)
Best sound mixing
Best effects (special effects) (winner) - DirectorHenry KingStarsTyrone PowerJean PetersCesar RomeroThe invasion of Mexico by Cortez, as seen by a young Spanish officer fleeing the Inquisition.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 3 reviews.
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Best score (drama or comedy) - DirectorOtto PremingerJohn M. StahlStarsLinda DarnellCornel WildeRichard GreeneIn seventeenth-century England, Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 18% based on 11 reviews.
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Best score (drama or comedy) - DirectorHarve FosterWilfred JacksonStarsRuth WarrickBobby DriscollJames BaskettThe kindly story-teller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 53% based on 15 reviews.
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Best score (musical)
Best song (winner) - DirectorCharles VidorStarsRita HayworthGlenn FordRon RandellA beautiful but amoral gypsy girl entices a young dragoon to betray his honor and get cashiered from the service, and for her sake he soon turns to a life of crime.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 33% based on 3 reviews.
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Best cinematography (color) - DirectorErnst LubitschOtto PremingerStarsBetty GrableDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Cesar RomeroThat Lady in Ermine tells two parallel stories, both taking place in the small Mittel-European duchy of Bergamo, with one set in the 19th century and the other in the 16th.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 1 review.
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Best song - DirectorHenry KingStarsDana AndrewsJean PetersCesar RomeroThe friendship between a fisherman and an orphan boy disturbs others because of the dangers at sea.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best effects (special effects) - DirectorElia KazanJohn FordStarsJeanne CrainEthel BarrymoreEthel WatersA light-skinned black woman falls in love with a white doctor, though he is unaware of her true race.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 57% based on 14 reviews.
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Best leading actress
Best supporting actress (Ethel Barrymore)
Best supporting actress (Ethel Waters) - DirectorCharles WaltersStarsFred AstaireGinger RogersOscar LevantA married musical team splits up so the wife can become a serious actress.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 55% based on 11 reviews.
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Best cinematography (color) - DirectorHarold D. SchusterHamilton LuskeStarsBurl IvesBeulah BondiBobby DriscollThis heartwarming classic tells the tale of a country boy who adopts a mischevious black lamb and learns valuable lessons about love and dedication.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 1 review.
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Best song - DirectorRobert MontgomeryMichael GordonStarsRobert MontgomeryAnn BlythJane CowlAn actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical jewels in occupied Germany and the trail leads to the boyfriend of a young debutante from Bel Air.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best sound mixing - DirectorStuart HeislerStarsSusan HaywardRobert PrestonPedro ArmendárizIn Tulsa, after a rancher dies during a feud with a major oil company, his daughter, driven by revenge, starts digging for oil herself.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best effects (special effects) - DirectorJohn CromwellStarsEleanor ParkerAgnes MooreheadEllen CorbyA gentle, naive, pregnant 19-year-old widow is slowly, inexorably ground down by the hardened criminals, sadistic guards, and matron at a woman's prison. Will she be the same person when her sentence is up?Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best leading actress
Best supporting actress
Best story and screenplay - DirectorNorman TaurogStarsKathryn GraysonMario LanzaDavid NivenA snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing. Her agent lures him away to New Orleans to teach him how to sing opera, but comes to regret this rash decision when the singers fall in love.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 1 review.
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Best song - DirectorHenry HathawayStarsTyrone PowerOrson WellesCécile AubryA disinherited 13th Century Saxon nobleman leaves Norman England with an archer friend to seek his fortune in the Far East.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 1 reviews.
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Best costume design (color) - DirectorCompton BennettStarsErrol FlynnGreer GarsonWalter PidgeonLove among the Forsytes is strange, full of tradition, melancholy and gold digging in this film treatise on Victorian-age rigidity and vestiges of a flawed society.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 2 reviews.
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Best costume design (color) - DirectorRobert PiroshStarsVan JohnsonLane NakanoGeorge MikiThe story of Japanese-American soldiers who fought in Europe during World War II.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 25% based on 4 reviews.
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Best story and screenplay - DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsMario LanzaAnn BlythDorothy KirstenThis film traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera's patrons. Caruso is unacceptable to both women's fathers: to Musetta's because he sings; to Dorothy's because he is a peasant. To New York patricians, Caruso is short, barrel-chested, loud, emotional, and unrefined. Their appreciation comes slowly. The film depicts Caruso's lament that "the man does not have the voice, the voice has the man": he cannot be places he wants to be, because he must be elsewhere singing, including the day his mother dies. Throughout, Mario Lanza and stars from the Met sing.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 33% based on 3 reviews.
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Best costume design (color)
Best sound mixing (winner) - DirectorLloyd BaconStarsMitzi GaynorDale RobertsonDennis DayAgainst the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more popular.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 1 review.
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Best song - DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsJune AllysonVan JohnsonGig YoungEric Wainwright (Van Johnson), a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter (June Allyson), a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When she learns that Wainwright is auditioning young musicians for a children's concert tour, Cynthia dons braces and bobby sox and passes herself off as a child prodigy.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 1 review.
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Best art direction (black and white) - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsJeanne CrainThelma RitterScott BradyMarriage broker Mae Swasey, who somewhat cynically arranges her loser clients' affairs, meets model Kitty Bennett and can't resist meddling in her life, by disentangling her from a married man and fixing her up with a nice radiologist. Of course things go wrong...Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best costume design (black and white) - DirectorMark RobsonStarsDana AndrewsDorothy McGuireFarley GrangerIn 1950, small-town Americans try to deal with military conscription.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 1 review.
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Best sound mixing - DirectorThor HeyerdahlStarsThor HeyerdahlHerman WatzingerErik HesselbergA documentary about the Kon-Tiki expedition of the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 25% based on 4 reviews.
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Best documentary feature (winner) - DirectorGordon DouglasStarsFrank LovejoyDorothy HartPhilip CareyIn Pittsburgh, PA, an F.B.I. agent works to undermine the Communist party, but his brothers and his teenage son think he's a real Red.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 3 reviews.
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Best documentary feature - DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsJames StewartCharlton HestonBetty HuttonThe dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 49% based on 43 reviews.
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Best costume design (color) - DirectorStuart HeislerStarsBette DavisSterling HaydenNatalie WoodA washed-up movie queen finds romance, but still desires a comeback.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 29% based on 7 reviews.
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Best leading actress - DirectorLeo McCareyStarsRobert WalkerHelen HayesVan HeflinThe Jeffersons are the ideal picture-perfect all-American family in a small town, but their eldest son John returns home after a long absence spouting views that cause them to worry he may be a Communist.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 43% based on 7 reviews.
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Best story - DirectorHarmon JonesStarsDan DaileyJoanne DruRichard HyltonThe story of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, a major-league baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs in the 1930s and 1940s.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 33% based on 3 reviews.
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Best story - DirectorJohn BrahmStarsGilbert RolandAngela ClarkeFrank SilveraIn this story based on true events of 1917, three Portuguese children share a miraculous, prophetic vision of the Virgin Mary.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 33% based on 3 reviews.
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