Oscar Nominated Films I Want to Watch
A list of films with major Academy Award nominations that I have yet to see.
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- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsEmil JanningsLewis StoneFlorence VidorPaul I, the Emperor of All Russia, becomes the target of a deadly conspiracy.Nominated for Best Production, Director and Actor. Won Best Screenplay. Lost film.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsAnn HardingClive BrookConrad NagelThe refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships, learns that her son has fallen ill. Despite being nearly blinded as the result of an explosion, she returns home to see her son again.Nominated for Best Picture. One print exists.
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsLoretta YoungJohn BolesDorothy WilsonThe title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious physical and mental toil they endure in order to become nurses and join the White Parade. It is told mainly through the character of June Arden, who finds romance with Ronald Hall III along the way, with side stories of the other girls who find failure, success, laughter, and tears along the way. The forerunner of umpteen dozens of TV series over the past 40 years.Nominated for Best Picture. One print exists.
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsEmil JanningsBelle BennettPhyllis HaverA happy bank clerk loses his identity after a robbery and is then presumed dead.Won Best Actor. Lost film.
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsRichard BarthelmessMontagu LoveRobert Emmett O'ConnorA crook blackmails a governor because he knows of the governor's wife's dark past.Nominated for Best Actor. One print exists.
- DirectorLionel BarrymoreHal RoachStarsLawrence TibbettCatherine Dale OwenNance O'NeilIn tsarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy one.Nominated for Best Actor. Lost film. Partial fragments exist.
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsMilton SillsDorothy MackaillBetty CompsonA carnival barker wants his son to become a lawyer, but his son gets side-tracked into joining the carnival too.Nominated for Best Actress.
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsH.B. WarnerAnna Q. NilssonMickey McBanDecorated war hero Stephen Sorrell has raised his son Kit alone after his wife deserted them in the boy's infancy. He loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter, but he thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe that his mother is dead, but when she shows up wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions.Nominated for Best Director (Dramatic).
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsRichard BarthelmessLucien LittlefieldKathrin Clare WardA writer is torn between his wife, and a more sophisticated woman that he lusts after.Nominated for Best Director
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsWillem DafoeHarvey KeitelBarbara HersheyThe life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.Nominated for Best Director.
- DirectorLeopold LindtbergHermann HallerFranz SchnyderStarsJosiane HeggGermaine TournierHeinrich GretlerAmidst the Nazi invasion of France in 1942, a young girl is evacuated to Switzerland but is still haunted by the terrors she has witnessed.Won Best Original Screenplay.
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsWilliam BoydAlan HaleJacqueline LoganPete 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 to a wounded man, whom he hides from Coughlin. Before leaving, the man, Marcas, promises to return the favor and the coat he borrows from him. Later, Smith enters the police, and his chief, Mather, suspects he is protecting Marcas, who is actually a gangster. Marcas sends a girl, Mary Monks, to deliver a luxurious coat with a fur collar to Smith. Pete and Mary get along well, and for his sake, she betrays Marcas, who is eventually shot to death by the cops, after having stopped his mob from killing Smith. Mary goes away alone into the night, and when Mather finds out that Pete is protecting her, he drops away the evidence of her presence on the spot.Nominated for Best Screenplay.
- DirectorHoward HigginStarsPhyllis HaverAlan HaleFred KohlerSailors find a baby in a rowboat and head to shore to find a woman who knows how to care for it.Nominated for Best Screenplay.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsLewis StoneLeila HyamsPeggy WoodA German pianist is going to break up with his unfaithful wife, when he receives the message that his favourite stepchild has died.Nominated for Best Screenplay. Lost film.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsMarthe KellerAndré DussollierCharles DennerThe movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.Nominated for Best Original Screenplay.