Unfound Oscar Noms
by bluesoldier | created - 26 Jan 2020 | updated - 20 Apr 2021 | PublicList of Oscar Nominees I haven't been able to find. If you know where to find any of these (besides in archives), please let me know. E-mail treadwaynathan at gmail
I'm aware there are lost films on this list. There's also a few I've been able to find, but, I need English subtitles for them.
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1. The Way of All Flesh (1927)
94 min | Drama
A happy bank clerk loses his identity after a robbery and is then presumed dead.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Emil Jannings, Belle Bennett, Phyllis Haver, Donald Keith
Votes: 224 | Gross: $0.86M
3. The Dove (1927)
Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A despot falls for a dancing girl. After she rejects him, he has her other beau framed for murder.
Director: Roland West | Stars: Norma Talmadge, Noah Beery, Gilbert Roland, Eddie Borden
Votes: 99
4. Krakatoa (1933)
23 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary describing the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa in the Dutch East Indies, destroying 70% of the island and its surrounding archipelago.
Stars: Graham McNamee, Joseph Cotten
Votes: 43
5. The Patriot (1928)
113 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Paul I, the Emperor of All Russia, becomes the target of a deadly conspiracy.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Emil Jannings, Lewis Stone, Florence Vidor, Vera Voronina
6. Busy Little Bears (1939)
Approved | 10 min | Short, Family
Three bear cubs are observed exploring the forests of the Sierra Nevadas, encountering other wildlife, and invading the kitchen of a local ranch house.
Director: John A. Haeseler | Star: Frank Crumit
Votes: 22
7. Amphibious Fighters (1943)
10 min | Short
Director: Russell T. Ervin | Star: Ted Husing
Votes: 23
8. Climbing the Matterhorn (1947)
21 min | Short, Documentary
Iring Allen was filming High Conquest when he shot this short film. Locale villagers rescue a couple trapped om the mountain.
Director: Irving Allen | Star: Warren Douglas
Votes: 21
9. Design for Death (1947)
Approved | 48 min | Documentary
An Academy Award winner for best documentary, the film opens with a notice that..."Exhibition of confiscated Japanese film material authorized by permission of the Alien Property Custodian ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Kent Smith, Hans Conried
Votes: 48
10. Benjy (1951)
31 min | Short, Drama
An orthopedic pediatrician wants to cure a scoliosis patient, but first he needs to convince the parents, who have rejected the child because of his disabilities.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Lee Aaker, Neville Brand, Helen Brown, Henry Fonda
Votes: 47
11. Light in the Window (1952)
Approved | 10 min | Short, History
An innovative profile of the painter Johannes Vermeer.
Director: Jean Oser
Votes: 22
13. The True Story of the Civil War (1957)
29 min | Documentary, Short
Academy-Award winning short subject documentary that chronicles the Civil War through nearly 400 authentic artifacts, as opposed to using actors or sets.
Director: Louis Clyde Stoumen | Star: Raymond Massey
Votes: 47
14. Ama Girls (1958)
G | 29 min | Documentary, Short
A depiction of the lives of "ama" divers, Japanese women who dive for pearls.
Director: Ben Sharpsteen
Votes: 69
15. Day of the Painter (1960)
15 min | Short, Comedy
An extremely funny film of abstract-expressionist painting.
Director: Robert P. Davis | Star: Ezra R. Baker
Votes: 42
16. Casals Conducts: 1964 (1964)
20 min | Short
While at his workshop in Puerto Rico, Pablo Casals prepares to conduct a Bach suite for a concert performance.
Director: Larry Sturhahn | Star: Pau Casals
Votes: 20
17. The Dollar Bottom (1981)
G | 33 min | Short
Light-hearted tale about an enterprising Edinburgh boarding school boy who sets up an insurance scheme for fellow pupils in 1953 against getting caned, which quickly earns him a small fortune
Director: Roger Christian | Stars: Robert Urquhart, Rikki Fulton, Jonathan McNeil, Angus Kittler Reid
Votes: 47
18. Sal of Singapore (1928)
Passed | 70 min | Drama
Sailors find a baby in a rowboat and head to shore to find a woman who knows how to care for it.
Director: Howard Higgin | Stars: Phyllis Haver, Alan Hale, Fred Kohler, Noble Johnson
Votes: 59
19. The Barker (1928)
Passed | 80 min | Drama
A carnival barker wants his son to become a lawyer, but his son gets side-tracked into joining the carnival too.
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Betty Compson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Votes: 123
20. The Cop (1928)
Passed | 77 min | Drama
Pete Smith, a lift bridge operator in a harbor, feels lonely in his cabin, his only visitor being a policeman on patrol, Sgt. Coughlin. One night, after hearing shots, Smith gives shelter ... See full summary »
Director: Donald Crisp | Stars: William Boyd, Alan Hale, Jacqueline Logan, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 56
21. Drag (1929)
85 min | Drama
A writer is torn between his wife, and a more sophisticated woman that he lusts after.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Lucien Littlefield, Kathrin Clare Ward, Alice Day
Votes: 70
22. The Right to Love (1930)
Passed | 79 min | Drama
A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, David Manners, Irving Pichel
Votes: 60
23. Scratch-As-Catch-Can (1931)
19 min | Short, Comedy
A couple of down-at-heel specimens (Clark and McCullough) take on the job of insurance men, and, after exploiting their wrestling powers, manage to sell insurance to the president of the ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Bobby Clark, Paul McCullough, James Finlayson, Phil Dunham
Votes: 61
24. Stout Hearts and Willing Hands (1931)
Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy
This Masquers short (the first of the series) is a parody of every old-time melodrama that trod the stages or graced the silver screen...Our Nell...the Old Folks at Home...the Old Homestead... See full summary »
Director: Bryan Foy | Stars: Frank Fay, Lew Cody, Laura La Plante, Alec B. Francis
Votes: 33
25. Screen Souvenirs (1932)
Short
Old silent movies were edited and given silly soundtracks in this Paramount short subject series that ran from1931 to 1934. Of interest is that some now lost films are included here and are at least partially saved.
Votes: 23
26. The Loud Mouth (1932)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Del Lord, famous director of the Three Stooges shorts, directed this story of one man in various comical vignettes playing the "loud mouth" - a guy who can't keep a secret and is always ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Matt McHugh, Marjorie Kane, Franklin Pangborn, Ray Cooke
Votes: 24
27. A Preferred List (1933)
Approved | 20 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Ken Murray, Dorothy Lee, Chick Chandler, John Sheehan
Votes: 20
28. Mister Mugg (1933)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Director: James W. Horne | Stars: James Gleason, Dorothy Christy, Ben Alexander, Otis Harlan
Votes: 15
29. The Sea (1933)
9 min | Documentary, Short
A variety of sea creatures are filmed in their natural habitat. Included are seaweed, a sea snail, crabs, a starfish opening a mussel, a sea anemone eating an eel, a sea urchin, hermit crab, an octopus fleeing a crab, and a sea cucumber.
Directors: Wanda Jakubowska, Stanislaw Wohl, Stacy Woodard, Jerzy Zarzycki | Star: Gayne Whitman
30. Bosom Friends (1934)
10 min | Short
Through the adorably persuasive antics of a menagerie of cats, dogs, monkeys, lion cubs, and other animals great and small, Bosom Friends delivers a species-transcending message of tolerance. (Source: UCLA Film & Television Archive)
Star: James F. Clemenger
32. Oh, My Nerves (1935)
Passed | 18 min | Comedy, Short
Monty's nerves are shot, so he decides to go on a nice, relaxing trip to the country. Unfortunately, his brother-in-law Tom brings along the rest of the family. Comic chaos ensues. "Oh, My ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Monte Collins, Tom Kennedy, Ruth Hiatt, Elaine Waters
Votes: 18
33. Popular Science (II) (1935)
Approved | 11 min | Short
Considers marvels of modern science: contact lenses, kitchen gadgets, bubble bath (with cheesecake), diatoms, Boulder Dam.
Director: Robert Carlisle | Star: Gayne Whitman
Votes: 15
34. Double or Nothing (1936)
21 min | Comedy, Musical, Short
Director: Joseph Henabery | Stars: Phil Harris, Leah Ray, Harry Tyler, Vicki Joyce
Votes: 60
36. Deep South (1937)
20 min | Short
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Willie Best, Daisy Bufford, Jesse Graves, Clarence Muse
37. Popular Science (I) (1937)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short
Raising angora rabbits for wool; new marine navigation and safety technology; kitchen gadgets; developing new rose varieties.
Star: Gayne Whitman
Votes: 27
39. Five Times Five (1939)
Approved | 20 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Cecile, Annette, Yvonne, Emile and Marie, the Dionne Quintuplets, turn five years old and have a private birthday party in their garden. Other than the five little French-Canadian ... See full summary »
Director: Frank P. Donovan | Stars: Alexander Woollcott, Annette Dionne, Cecile Dionne, Emilie Dionne
Votes: 13
40. A Letter from Home (1941)
17 min | Short, Drama
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Joyce Grenfell, Kathleen Harrison, Celia Johnson, Edie Martin
Votes: 75
41. Adventure in the Bronx (1941)
12 min | Documentary, Short
Young Boy Visits the Bronx Zoo
Director: Joseph Krumgold | Stars: John Kieran, Michael O'Connell
Votes: 21
43. Beauty and the Beach (1941)
Approved | 11 min | Short, Music
This Paramount Headliner short (in-house number A1-1) was filmed at Jones Beach and features a background of pretty girls, bathing suits and the ocean. Johnny Long and His Orchestra provide... See full summary »
Director: Leslie M. Roush | Stars: Johnny Long, Johnny Long and His Orchestra, Helen Young, Bob Huston
47. Soldiers of the Sky (1941)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Earl Allvine | Star: Paul Douglas
Votes: 16
49. High Stakes in the East (1942)
10 min | Documentary, Short
In the aftermath of the Allied defeat in the battle for Java, after which the island fell into Japanese hands, this propaganda film made for American audiences shows what has been lost.
Director: John Fernhout
Votes: 24
50. Little Isles of Freedom (1943)
19 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Victor Stoloff | Star: Charles Boyer
Votes: 12
51. Paramount Victory Short No. T2-2: We Refuse to Die (1942)
14 min | Documentary, Short, War
Director: William H. Pine
Votes: 16
52. This Is America Series No. 33-101: Private Smith of the U.S.A. (1942)
19 min | Documentary, Short, War
Director: Harry W. Smith
54. Champions Carry on (1943)
10 min | Short
A documentary about how American sports figures are contributing to the war effort.
Star: Ed Thorgersen
56. Mardi Gras (1943)
Approved | 19 min | Short, Music
The first of a series of six two-reel "Musical Parade" shorts produced in Technicolor for the Paramount 1943-44 production season. The series would continue into 1948, and then were ... See full summary »
Director: Hugh Bennett | Stars: Betty Jane Rhodes, Johnny Johnston, Val Setz, Adriana
Votes: 19
57. Screen Snapshots Series 23, No. 1: Hollywood in Uniform (1943)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
Several prominent actors are seen in their new roles as WWII military officers and enlisted men. Highlights include Robert Stack (a former amateur skeet shooting champion) displaying his ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Eddie Albert, Desi Arnaz, Gene Autry, Art Baker
Votes: 51
58. Three Russian Girls (1943)
81 min | Comedy, War
The Soviet Union, just after the German invasion in 1941. Natasha is a Red Cross volunteer who is dispatched to a field hospital located in an old pre-revolution mansion. The American test ... See full summary »
Directors: Henry S. Kesler, Fyodor Otsep | Stars: Anna Sten, Kent Smith, Mimi Forsythe, Alexander Granach
Votes: 43
62. Bombalera (1945)
20 min | Musical, Short
Director: Noel Madison | Stars: Olga San Juan, Johnny Johnston, Mikhail Rasumny, Frank Faylen
Votes: 20
63. Rippling Romance (1945)
8 min | Animation, Short
Director: Bob Wickersham | Star: Harry Lang
Votes: 20
64. Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 1: 25th Anniversary (1945)
Approved | 9 min | Documentary, Short
A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in the series are featured, along with a ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Cecil B. DeMille, Louella Parsons, Walt Disney, Rosalind Russell
Votes: 30
65. The Little Witch (1945)
Approved | 20 min | Short, Musical, Romance
Olga San Juan is the singing and dancing star of a night club in a South America country,and is in love with Bob Graham, the orchestra leader and vocalist, whose wealthy parents are unaware... See full summary »
Director: George Templeton | Stars: Olga San Juan, Bob Graham, Adeline De Walt Reynolds, Pedro de Cordoba
Votes: 13
67. Along the Rainbow Trail (1946)
Approved | 8 min | Documentary, Short
This 1946 entry in the "Movietone Adventures" series of shorts was in Technicolor when originally released. Narrated by Lowell Thomas, it is a trip from Medicine Hat in southern Utah down ... See full summary »
Star: Lowell Thomas
Votes: 12
68. College Queen (1946)
Approved | 19 min | Short, Musical, Comedy
Tom Cannon, a tap-dancer senior at State University sets out to find a College Queen for the upcoming competition. He selects Cindy Harris, a girl who is working her way through college as ... See full summary »
Director: George Templeton | Stars: Pat Phelan, Noel Neill, Audrey Young, George M. Carleton
71. A Voice Is Born (1947)
Approved | 21 min | Short, Biography, Drama
This Columbia short (part of their "Two-Reel Special" series) tells the story of the Hungarian tenor, Miklos Gafni, who learned to sing while being confined in a Nazi slave-labor/... See full summary »
Director: George Blake | Star: Miklos Gafni
72. Passport to Nowhere (1947)
19 min | Documentary, Short
Concerning the plight of Europe's six million displaced persons. Al but 850,000 who have not yet returned home after the war for fear of reprisals for their political or religious beliefs.
Star: Dwight Weist
Votes: 16
73. The World Is Rich (1947)
46 min | Documentary
An examination of the problems of world food distribution following World War II, outlining steps underway to deal with the problems.
Director: Paul Rotha | Stars: Robert Adams, Elizabeth Cowell, Valentine Dyall, James McKechnie
Votes: 20
74. Cinderella Horse (1948)
10 min | Short
Directors: De Leon Anthony, Harry O. Hoyt, Edwin E. Olsen | Star: Art Gilmore
75. Samba-Mania (1948)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Musical, Romance
Night club owner Russ Vincent hires boogie-woogie dancer Betty Hannon for a spot in a South American revue which is headed by Lita Baron (as Isabelita). The latter is wary of Hannon's ... See full summary »
Director: Billy Daniel | Stars: Lita Baron, Russ Vincent, Billy Daniel, Betty Hannon
76. Snow Capers (1948)
19 min | Short
Winter sports in the Rocky Mountains.
Director: Arthur Cohen | Star: Mel Allen
77. Boy and the Eagle (1949)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Adventure, Drama
A crippled boy discovers a wounded bald eagle, nurses it back to health, tames and teaches it to fly. One day, a rattlesnake is about to strike the boy, when the bird attacks the snake and ... See full summary »
Directors: William Lasky, Dickie Moore | Star: Dickie Moore
Votes: 34
79. Kenji Comes Home (1949)
30 min | Documentary
Kenji is torn between the glowing promises of communism and ideals of his girlfriend Aki's Christian religion.
Director: Charles F. Schwep | Star: William Canfield
80. 1848 (1950)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Marguerite de la Mure, Victoria Mercanton, Albert Soboul | Star: Bernard Blier
Votes: 21
82. Balzac (1951)
24 min | Short
Balzac is a 1951 short documentary film by French director Jean Vidal. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1952 and won first prize for best director at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival the same year.
Director: Jean Vidal | Star: Sherry Managan
83. Danger Under the Sea (1951)
12 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Jacques-Yves Cousteau | Star: Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Votes: 16
84. The Seeing Eye (1951)
20 min | Documentary, Short
An updated Technicolor followup to a black & white Broadway Brevity (1941) tour of the Morristown, New Jersey seeing eye dog training program. Much of the narration comes from the canine's point of view.
Director: Owen Crump | Star: Marvin Miller
85. Athletes of the Saddle (1952)
Approved | 10 min | Short, Sport
This Grantland Rice Sportlight visits the internationally famous Mexican Army Equestrian Teams as it puts on a demonstration if the finest in horsemanship.
Director: Jack Eaton | Star: Ward Wilson
86. The Garden Spider (1952)
10 min | Documentary, Short
A close-up study of a spider at work.
Director: Alberto Ancilotto
88. Thar She Blows! (1952)
20 min | Short
Color footage of a whale hunt, filmed in a five month period near Antarctica.
Director: Richard Statile | Star: Art Gilmore
89. Christ Among the Primitives (1953)
10 min | Short
Primitive sculptures trace the evolution of religious motives in early man.
Director: Vincenzo Lucci-Chiarissi
Votes: 14
91. Vesuvius Express (1953)
16 min | Documentary, Short
The first travelogue released by Twentieth Century-Fox in CinemaScope, produced and directed by Otto Lang, is a photographic record of a journey from Milan to Naples, through Florence and ... See full summary »
Director: Otto Lang
Votes: 21
92. Wee Water Wonders (1953)
9 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Russell T. Ervin | Star: Ward Wilson
95. Devil Take Us (1955)
Approved | 21 min | Short, Drama
A motorcycle cop buys a used car to take his family on vacation to the East Coast. Minor car trouble along the way causes him to meet first a reckless driver, and then a highway patrolman ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Morgan | Star: Del Kuhn
96. Where Mountains Float (1955)
49 min | Documentary, Family
Drama documentary about the 10-year-old boy Mikisoq (Hannibal Mathiesen), who lives with his family in a remote settlement on the west coast of Greenland.
Director: Bjarne Henning-Jensen | Stars: Lars Henning-Jensen, Hannibal Mathiasen, Frederikke Fly, Hans Henningsen
Votes: 24
97. Switzerland (1955)
33 min | Documentary, Short, Family
The film visits cities and small towns of Switzerland to explore the local customs and activities during the seasons. The climax is a climb to the top of the Matterhorn with three mountaineers.
Director: Ben Sharpsteen
Votes: 47
98. Three Kisses (1955)
10 min | Short
A young hurler relates an account of the sport in the fictional Irish town of Ballykilly.
Director: Justin Herman
Votes: 24
99. Samoa (1956)
32 min | Documentary, Short, Family
The story of a happy people on an island paradise begins with a description of life and cultural events in the communities. There are glimpses of fishing and local foods being prepared, and the building of a guest house is shown.
Director: Ben Sharpsteen | Star: Winston Hibler
Votes: 44
100. The Dark Wave (1956)
Approved | 23 min | Documentary, Short
A young girl, played by Pamela Beaird, normal in every way is affected with severe epilepsy. What happens, in regard to her parents and school friends and their reactions, is shown. In ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Charles Bickford, Nancy Reagan, Cornell Borchers, Russ Conway
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