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29 Monday Jun 2015

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1930/31, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Film

Directed: Lewis Milestone

Year: 1931

Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Lewis Milestone, Best Actor – Adolphe Menjou

Plot in 25 Words: A gaggle of newspapermen await news of an execution, but what’s that? An escape! A scrupulous hack hides him to help to clear his name.

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Morocco

19 Friday Jun 2015

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1930/31, Best Actress, Best Director

Directed: Josef von Sternberg

Year: 1930

Nominated: Best Director – Josef von Sternberg, Best Actress – Marlene Dietrich

Plot in 25 Words: A cabaret singer falls for a soldier in the foreign legion. She agrees to marry a rich diplomat before following her soldier into the desert.

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Cimarron

18 Thursday Jun 2015

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1930/31, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Film

Directed: Wesley Ruggles

Year: 1931

Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Wesley Ruggles, Best Actor – Richard Dix, Best Actress – Irene Dunning

Won: Best Film

Plot in 25 Words: Epic film spanning 30 years, two generations and the creation of cities. A fortune seeker drags and abandons his family all over the wild west.

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Romance

29 Friday May 2015

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1929/30, Best Actress, Best Director

Directed: Clarence Brown

Year: 1930

Nominated: Best Director – Clarence Brown, Best Actress – Greta Garbo

Plot in 25 Words: Love across the classes, across the years, and across the language barrier. Betrayal by friends and lovers but ultimately love should win out overall eventually.

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All Quiet on the Western Front

19 Tuesday May 2015

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1929/30, Best Director, Best Film

Directed: Lewis Milestone

Year: 1930

Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Lewis Milestone

Won: Best Film, Best Director – Lewis Milestone

Plot in 25 Words: A bleak and probably quite honest view of life on the front lines. Hunger, disease, injury and death but no glorifying of war. Bleak film.

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Anna Christie

06 Monday Apr 2015

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1929/30, Best Actress, Best Director

Directed: Clarence Brown

Year: 1930

Nominated: Best Director – Clarence Brown, Best Actress – Greta Garbo

Plot in 25 Words: A disgraced woman stays with her father on his barge. She rescues and falls in love with a washed up sailor. Admits her prostitute past!

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The Love Parade

06 Monday Apr 2015

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1929/30, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Film

Directed: Ernst Lubitsch

Year: 1929

Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Ernst Lubitsch, Best Actor – Maurice Chevalier

Plot in 25 Words: Ambassador shags about on duty and is sent home. He falls for and marries the queen, eventually becoming a cuckold. With singing. Lots of singing.

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Hallelujah

06 Monday Apr 2015

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1929/30, Best Director

Directed: King Vidor

Year: 1929

Nominated: Best Director – King Vidor

Plot in 25 Words: An “honest” depiction of slave life in 1920s Southern America. An incredibly green cast perform admirably to create one of America’s first all-black films.

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The Divorcee

15 Sunday Mar 2015

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1929/30, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Film

Directed: Robert Z. Leonard

Year: 1930

Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Robert Z. Leonard, Best Actress – Norma Shearer

Won: Best Actress – Norma Shearer

Plot in 25 Words: A group of friends engage in wife-swapping, hypocrisy, and double standards. But finally, women wearing trousers, working and playing the field like men.

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Weary River

12 Thursday Mar 2015

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1928/29, Best Director

Directed: Frank Lloyd

Year: 1929

Nominated: Best Director – Frank Lloyd

Plot in 25 Words: A framed man turns over a new leaf while in prison. He takes up a career in music and sings on the radio. Quite repetatively.

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