The Other Nominees: The Awful Truth; Captains Courageous; Dead End; The Good Earth; In Old Chicago; Lost Horizon; One Hundred Men and a Girl; Stage Door; A Star is Born The early days of...
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Every Best Picture: The Great Ziegfeld
The Other Nominees: Anthony Adverse; Dodsworth; Libeled Lady; Mr. Deeds Goes to Town; Romeo and Juliet; San Francisco; The Story of Louis Pasteur; A Tale of Two Cities That’s right, this column is still...
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Every Best Picture: Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Best Picture: Mutiny on the Bounty The Other Nominees: Les Miserables; Alice Adams; Naughty Marietta; Ruggles of Red Gap; David Copperfield; Broadway Melody of 1936; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Lives of a Bengal Lancer; Captain Blood; The Informer; Top Hat A man has been convicted...
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Every Best Picture: It Happened One Night (1934)
Best Picture: It Happened One Night The Other Nominees: The Barretts of Wimpole Street; Vila Villa!; The Thin Man; Here Comes the Navy; Flirtation Walk; The House of Rothschild; The Gay Divorcee; Cleopatra; One Night of Love; Imitation of Life; The White Parade Heading into 1934,...
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Every Best Picture: Cavalcade (1932/33)
Best Picture: Cavalcade The Other Nominees: 42nd Street; A Farewell to Arms; I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang; Lady for a Day; Little Women; The Private Life of Henry VIII; She Done Him Wrong; Smilin’ Through; State Fair By the sixth Academy...
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Every Best Picture: Grand Hotel (1931/32)
Best Picture: Grand Hotel The Other Nominees: Arrowsmith; Bad Girl; The Champ; Five Star Final; One Hour with You; Shanghai Express; The Smiling Lieutenant It’s easy to see the appeal of Grand Hotel, and easy to see why, in the Academy’s infancy, it won...
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Every Best Picture: Cimarron (1930/31)
Best Picture: Cimarron The Other Nominees: East Lynne; The Front Page; Skippy; Trader Horn Cimarron is bad. It’s meandering, scattered, dumb, racist, pretentious, and utterly uninterested in characterization, but more than that, it’s bad. (The Broadway Melody wasn’t good either, but...
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Every Best Picture: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929/30)
Best Picture: All Quiet on the Western Front The Other Nominees: The Big House; Disraeli; The Divorce; The Love Parade The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has always loved war films. When...
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Every Best Picture: The Broadway Melody (1928/29)
Best Picture: The Broadway Melody The Other Nominees: Alibi; Hollywood Revue; In Old Arizona; The Patriot In addition to winning the second-ever Best Picture Oscar, The Broadway Melody was the highest-grossing film of 1929,...
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Every Best Picture: Wings (1927/28)
Welcome to Every Best Picture, yet another new feature here at GAMbIT, wherein I will watch and write about every film to ever win the Academy Award for Best Picture. I won’t keep myself...
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