29 Monday Jun 2015
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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.
19 Friday Jun 2015
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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.
18 Thursday Jun 2015
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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.
29 Friday May 2015
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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.
19 Tuesday May 2015
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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.
06 Monday Apr 2015
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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!
06 Monday Apr 2015
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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.
06 Monday Apr 2015
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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.
15 Sunday Mar 2015
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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.
12 Thursday Mar 2015
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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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