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.
10 Sunday Apr 2016
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Directed: George Cukor
Year: 1933
Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – George Cukor
Plot in 25 Words: A classic piece of literature gets the Hollywood treatment. Wonderfully to the book with only some minor squabbles missing. A wonderful film with wonderful acting.
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.
02 Monday Nov 2015
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Directed: King Vidor
Year: 1931
Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Frank Borzage, Best Actor – Wallace Beery
Won: Best Actor – Wallace Beery
Plot in 25 Words: I can’t think of 25 words to describe this film because my brain is drowning from my tears. It’s been a month, I’m still crying.
19 Sunday Jul 2015
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Directed: Josef von Sternberg
Year: 1932
Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Josef von Sternberg
Plot in 25 Words: A train carrying urgently required medical staff and the infamous Shanghai Lily is stopped by Chinese soldiers. Messy murders and a very complicated love story.
13 Monday Jul 2015
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Directed: Frank Borzage
Year: 1931
Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Frank Borzage
Won: Best Director – Frank Borzage
Plot in 25 Words: A very ordinary film about the very ordinary lives of very ordinary people. Lots of casual sexism and a terrifying insight into a 1930’s childbirth.
07 Tuesday Jul 2015
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Directed: Norman Taurog
Year: 1931
Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Norman Taurog, Best Actor – Jackie Cooper
Won: Best Director – Norman Taurog
Plot in 25 Words: Two young boys deal with responsibility and the heartbreaking loss of a pet. Heartbreaking film set in the slums and the suburbs. Made me cry.
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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