20 Monday Jun 2016
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Directed: Sidney Franklin
Year: 1934
Nominated: Best Film, Best Actress – Norma Shearer
Plot in 25 Words: Based on the true love story of two poets, complete with a tyrannical father and a cocker spaniel named Flush. Can their love beat Edward?
16 Thursday Jun 2016
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Directed: Victor Schertzinger
Year: 1934
Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Frank Borzage, Best Actress – Grace Moore
Plot in 25 Words: A romantic drama set in the romantic, dramatic world of opera. Love triangles and inappropriate workplace romances prevent a young star from realising her dream.
16 Thursday Jun 2016
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Directed: Frank Capra
Year: 1934
Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Frank Capra, Best Actor – Clark Gable, Best Actress – Claudette Colbert
Won: Best Film, Best Director – Frank Capra, Best Actor – Clark Gable, Best Actress – Claudette Colbert
Plot in 25 Words: A zany, road trip love story. A newspaper reporter and heiress are forced together on a cross-country expedition. Hilarious multi-Oscar winner – deserved more.
28 Thursday Apr 2016
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Directed: Frank Lloyd
Year: 1933
Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Frank Lloyd, Best Actress – Diana Wynyard
Won: Best Film, Best Director – Frank Lloyd
Plot in 25 Words: An awesome trip through time and the memories of the Marryot family. Marriages, deaths and tragedies are all visited. A great Hollywood great with true class.
03 Sunday Apr 2016
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Directed: Frank Capra
Year: 1933
Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Frank Capra, Best Actress – May Robson
Plot in 25 Words: An elderly fruit vendor enlists several unsavoury characters to perform a class-adjusting charade.
24 Thursday Mar 2016
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Directed: Lowell Sherman
Year: 1933
Nominated: Best Actress – Katherine Hepburn
Won: Best Actress – Katherine Hepburn
Plot in 25 Words: Highly excitable and equally naive actress” tries to make it big in Hollywood. She gatecrashes, and drinks her way to the top. Without stopping talking.
02 Monday Nov 2015
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Directed: Edgar Selwyn
Year: 1931
Nominated: Best Actress – Helen Hayes
Won: Best Actress – Helen Hayes
Plot in 25 Words: A bitter depressing tale of the result of having an illegitimate child, serving time in prison, and becoming a prostitute. Fairly bleak ending. Not cheerful.
12 Sunday Jul 2015
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Directed: Clarence Brown
Year: 1932
Nominated: Best Actress – Marie Dressler
Plot in 25 Words: A nanny coddles, cares for, and loves a family, til the spiteful bastards turn on her and accuse her of murder. She finds another family.
29 Monday Jun 2015
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Directed: Edward H. Griffith
Year: 1930
Nominated: Best Actress – Ann Harding
Plot in 25 Words: Two social classes collide when Johnny and Julia fall in love. After she tries to change his fortunes, Johnny runs off with Julia’s sister Linda.
29 Monday Jun 2015
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Directed: Clarence Brown
Year: 1931
Nominated: Best Director – Clarence Brown, Best Actor – Lionel Barrymore, Best Actress – Norma Shearer
Won: Best Actor – Lionel Barrymore
Plot in 25 Words: An alcoholic lawyer defends a mobster for murder, then has to defend HIS murderer after he abuses his daughter. Truly terrible romance decisions are made.
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