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.
28 Thursday Apr 2016
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Directed: Sidney Franklin
Year: 1932
Nominated: Best Film
Plot in 25 Words: The era’s first ghost story? A tragic love story that ends in – wait for it – death! Crossing spiritual plains and time lines to cause tears.
10 Sunday Apr 2016
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Directed: Mervyn LeRoy
Year: 1932
Nominated: Best Film, Best Actor – Paul Muni
Plot in 25 Words: A Soldier ends up on a chain gang before escaping and becoming a minor celebrity. He ends up back on the gang and again escapes.
10 Sunday Apr 2016
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Directed: Alexander Korda
Year: 1933
Nominated: Best Film, Best Actor – Charles Laughton
Won: Best Actor – Charles Laughton
Plot in 25 Words: Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived. A slightly more sympathetic view of history’s greatest womaniser. At times both funny and sad. A wonderfully alternative story.
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.
10 Sunday Apr 2016
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Directed: Frank Borzage
Year: 1932
Nominated: Best Film
Plot in 25 Words: A no good Italian ruins a romantic love story on the front lines. The war goes on, and everybody dies. Bleak and miserable as standard.
03 Sunday Apr 2016
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Directed: Lloyd Bacon
Year: 1933
Nominated: Best Film
Plot in 25 Words: I can’t remember a single thing about this film aside from the title song. It’s a good song with a romping dance number. Top marks!
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.
03 Sunday Apr 2016
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Directed: Lowell Shermann
Year: 1933
Nominated: Best Film
Plot in 25 Words: My first of double entendre riddled performance of Mae West. An undercover Carey Grant tries to bring some order to the proceedings. It doesn’t go well.
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