How Green Was My Valley: 1941 Best Picture
Are we going to find way more Jeopardy! clues on “Citizen Kane” for 1941 then we are on the Best Picture Oscar winner “How Green was My Valley”? Probably, but...
Are we going to find way more Jeopardy! clues on “Citizen Kane” for 1941 then we are on the Best Picture Oscar winner “How Green was My Valley”? Probably, but...
Daphne Du Maurier’s tale of gothic intrigue, Rebeccca, was put on the big screen with Lawrence Olivier playing that tormented total hottie Maxim de Winter, just a year after playing...
In 1939, so many still great films were nominated for Oscars, that Jeopardy! once devoted a whole category to it: 1939 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $400: Your winner? This period...
At the 11th Academy Awards Columbia’s “You Can’t Take It With You” got 7 nominations but only took home 2 Oscars: Best Picture and Best Director (Frank Capra). “The Adventures...
Paul Muni appeared in three films in 1937. He was nominated for Best Actor for his role in “The Life of Emile Zola”. It won Best Picture, Best Actor in...
In 1936, MGM’s “The Great Ziegfeld” won the Best Picture Oscar over all these films: “Anthony Adverse”, “Dodsworth”, “Libeled Lady”, “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “San Francisco”,...
Ah, a historical film, or at least one loosely based on history. MGM’s “Mutiny on the Bounty” (1935) was adapted from a novel by the same named written by Charles...
Wow, it is really hard to pick a favorite out of these new Weird Al parodies: Here, Weird Al takes on Lorde’s Royals, but now it’s about aluminum foil. At...
Now we are up to 1934, when “It Happened One Night” was up against 11 other films for the Best Picture of the year. It would be another 10 years...
Nine other films besides “Calvalcade” were up for the top prize at the 6th Academy Awards: “42nd Street”, “A Farewell to Arms”, “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang”,...
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