All films nominated for an Academy Award in any category
by Erinaceus | created - 17 Mar 2015 | updated - 19 Mar 2018 | PublicSpecial Awards not included.
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1. Wings (1927)
PG-13 | 144 min | Drama, Romance, War
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.
Directors: William A. Wellman, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Stars: Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen, Jobyna Ralston
Votes: 14,529 | Gross: $6.59M
Winner - Outstanding Picture Winner - Best Engineering Effects
2. The Racket (1928)
Passed | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An honest police captain vows to bring down a powerful bootlegger who is protected by corrupt politicians and judges.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Louis Wolheim, Marie Prevost, G. Pat Collins
Votes: 1,585
Nominated - Outstanding Picture
3. 7th Heaven (1927)
110 min | Drama, Romance
A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard, Albert Gran
Votes: 4,161 | Gross: $3.92M
Nominated - Outstanding Picture Winner - Best Director, Dramatic Picture for Frank Borzage Winner - Best Actress in a Leading Role for Janet Gaynor Winner - Best Writing, Adapted Story for Benjamin Glazer Nominated - Best Art Direction for Harry Oliver
4. Sunrise (1927)
Passed | 94 min | Drama, Romance
A sophisticated city woman seduces a farmer and convinces him to murder his wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when he changes his mind at the last moment.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing
Votes: 53,834 | Gross: $0.54M
Winner - Unique and Artistic Production Winner - Best Actress in a Leading Role for Janet Gaynor Winner - Best Cinematography for Charles Rosher and Karl Struss Nominated - Best Art Direction for Rochus Gliese
5. Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927)
Passed | 69 min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama
A snapshot of life in the jungles of Northern Siam.
Directors: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Kru, Chantui, Nah, Ladah
Votes: 1,120 | Gross: $0.61M
Nominated - Unique and Artistic Production
6. The Crowd (1928)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Romance
The life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles, and downfalls.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Bert Roach, Estelle Clark
Votes: 9,165
Nominated - Unique and Artistic Production Nominated - Best Director, Dramatic Picture for King Vidor
7. Two Arabian Knights (1927)
TV-G | 92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Two American soldiers are captured by the Germans on the Western Front during World War One and escape a POW camp only to stumble into further life-threatening adventures when they come across an Arabian king's daughter while on the lam.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: William Boyd, Mary Astor, Louis Wolheim, Ian Keith
Votes: 1,142 | Gross: $0.51M
Winner - Best Director, Comedy Picture for Lewis Milestone
8. Speedy (1928)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Comedy, Family
Harold "Speedy" Swift, a fan of Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, saves from extinction the city's last horse-drawn trolley, operated by his girlfriend's grandfather.
Director: Ted Wilde | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Babe Ruth
Votes: 4,267
Nominated - Best Director, Comedy Picture for Ted Wilde
9. Sorrell and Son (1927)
100 min | Drama
Decorated 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. ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: H.B. Warner, Anna Q. Nilsson, Mickey McBan, Carmel Myers
Votes: 85
Nominated - Best Director, Dramatic Picture for Herbert Brenon
10. The Last Command (1928)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, History, Romance
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Jack Raymond
Votes: 4,516
Winner - Best Actor in a Leading Role for Emil Jannings Nominated - Best Writing, Original Story for Lajos Bíró
11. 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
Winner - Best Actor in a Leading Role for Emil Jannings
12. The Noose (1928)
65 min | Drama
A crook blackmails a governor because he knows of the governor's wife's dark past.
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Montagu Love, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Jay Eaton
Votes: 88
Nominated - Best Actor in a Leading Role for Richard Barthelmess
13. The Patent Leather Kid (1927)
150 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
A boxer has difficulty balancing his sport with a budding romance; both are further jeopardized when the United States enters the first World War.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Molly O'Day, Lawford Davidson, Matthew Betz
Votes: 597
Nominated - Best Actor in a Leading Role for Richard Barthelmess
14. Street Angel (1928)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama
A woman on the run from the law finds her past catching up to her just as she is on the verge of true happiness.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Natalie Kingston, Henry Armetta
Votes: 2,567 | Gross: $3.71M
Winner - Best Actress in a Leading Role for Janet Gaynor
15. A Ship Comes In (1928)
70 min | Drama
An immigrant family experiences life in the United States.
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Rudolph Schildkraut, Louise Dresser, Milton Holmes, Linda Landi
Votes: 215
Nominated - Best Actress in a Leading Role for Louise Dresser
16. Sadie Thompson (1928)
Unrated | 97 min | Drama
A prostitute seeking a fresh start becomes the obsession of a religious extremist.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Blanche Friderici, Charles Lane, Florence Midgley
Votes: 2,822 | Gross: $2.18M
Nominated - Best Actress in a Leading Role for Gloria Swanson Nominated - Best Cinematography for George Barnes
17. Underworld (1927)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
Directors: Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson | Stars: George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, Fred Kohler
Votes: 3,475 | Gross: $1.64M
Winner - Best Writing, Original Story for Ben Hecht
18. Glorious Betsy (1928)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, History
The real-life courtship, marriage, and forced breakup of Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, and his rich wife from the American south, Elizabeth Patterson. Napoleon did not approve of the union and fixes him up with another girl.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, John Miljan, Marc McDermott
Votes: 159
Nominated - Best Writing, Adapted Story for Anthony Coldeway
19. The Jazz Singer (1927)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Music, Musical
The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer
Votes: 11,067 | Gross: $7.63M
Nominated - Best Writing, Adapted Story for Alfred A. Cohn
20. The Devil Dancer (1927)
Passed | 73 min | Drama, Romance
An English explorer disturbed by the practices of an isolated tribe attempts to rescue a native girl with whom he has become fascinated.
Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: Gilda Gray, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Serge Temoff
Votes: 66
Nominated - Best Cinematography for George Barnes
21. The Magic Flame (1927)
Passed | 100 min | Drama, Romance
A love triangle involving two members of a travelling circus and an aristocrat has serious consequences for all three individuals.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Agostino Borgato, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Votes: 64 | Gross: $0.62M
Nominated - Best Cinematography for George Barnes Nominated - Best Writing, Title Writing for George Marion, Jr.
22. 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
Winner - Best Art Direction for William Cameron Menzies
23. Tempest (1928)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance
In Czarist Russia, a peasant officer, resented by the aristocrats, falls in love with a princess.
Directors: Sam Taylor, Lewis Milestone, Viktor Tourjansky | Stars: John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Louis Wolheim, Boris de Fast
Votes: 522
Winner - Best Art Direction for William Cameron Menzies
24. The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927)
Passed | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Queen Helen of Troy, in response to her husband Menelaus' lack of interest in her, elopes with Paris to Sparta. Menelaus, egged on by his henchman, starts a war with Paris, finally ... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: María Corda, Lewis Stone, Ricardo Cortez, George Fawcett
Votes: 94 | Gross: $0.48M
Nominated - Best Writing, Title Writing for Gerald Duffy
25. The Broadway Melody (1929)
Passed | 100 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Bessie Love, Anita Page, Charles King, Eddie Kane
Votes: 8,002 | Gross: $6.12M
Winner - Outstanding Picture Nominated - Best Director for Harry Beaumont Nominated - Best Actress for Bessie Love
26. Alibi (1929)
Passed | 91 min | Action, Crime, Romance
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took ... See full summary »
Director: Roland West | Stars: Chester Morris, Harry Stubbs, Mae Busch, Eleanor Griffith
Votes: 949
Nominated - Outstanding Picture Nominated - Best Actor for Chester Morris Nominated - William Cameron Menzies
27. In Old Arizona (1928)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, Western
A charming, happy-go-lucky bandit in old Arizona plays cat-and-mouse with the sheriff trying to catch him while he romances a local beauty.
Directors: Irving Cummings, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Warner Baxter, Dorothy Burgess, Henry Armetta
Votes: 1,292 | Gross: $2.83M
Nominated - Outstanding Picture Nominated - Best Director for Irving Cummings Winner - Best Actor for Warner Baxter Nominated - Best Writing for Tom Barry Nominated - Best Cinematography for Arthur Edeson
28. The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
Passed | 130 min | Comedy, Music
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
Directors: Charles Reisner, Christy Cabanne, Norman Houston | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Jack Benny, John Gilbert, Norma Shearer
Votes: 2,254
Nominated - Outstanding Picture
29. 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
Nominated - Outstanding Picture Nominated - Best Director for Ernst Lubitsch Nominated - Best Actor for Lewis Stone Winner - Best Writing for Hanns Kräly Nominated - Best Art Direction for Hans Dreier
30. The Divine Lady (1928)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, History, Romance
The story of the romance between Emma, Lady Hamilton, and British war hero Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian Keith
Votes: 934
Winner - Best Director for Frank Lloyd Nominated - Best Actress for Corinne Griffith Nominated - Best Cinematography for John F. Seitz
31. Madame X (1929)
Passed | 95 min | Drama
A young lawyer unknowingly defends his mother who abandoned him when he was three.
Director: Lionel Barrymore | Stars: Lewis Stone, Ruth Chatterton, Raymond Hackett, Holmes Herbert
Votes: 559
Nominated - Best Director for Lionel Barrymore Nominated - Best Actress for Ruth Chatterton
32. 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
Nominated - Best Director for Frank Lloyd
33. Weary River (1929)
Passed | 86 min | Drama, Romance
A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations abound.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, William Holden, Louis Natheaux
Votes: 562
Nominated - Best Director for Frank Lloyd
34. Thunderbolt (1929)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl. ... See full summary »
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Eugenie Besserer
Votes: 881
Nominated - Best Actor for George Bancroft
35. The Valiant (1929)
66 min | Drama
After killing an unknown man for an unknown reason, a mysterious drifter turns himself to the law under a false name, intending to protect his own family's honor. But when the news of his ... See full summary »
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Paul Muni, Marguerite Churchill, Johnny Mack Brown, DeWitt Jennings
Votes: 535
Nominated - Best Actor for Paul Muni Nominated - Best Writing for Tom Barry
36. Coquette (1929)
Unrated | 76 min | Drama, Romance
A flirtatious Southern belle is compromised with one of her suitors.
Director: Sam Taylor | Stars: Mary Pickford, Johnny Mack Brown, Matt Moore, John St. Polis
Votes: 2,317
Winner - Best Actress for Mary Pickford
37. 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
Nominated - Best Actress for Betty Compson
38. The Letter (1929)
Passed | 65 min | Drama
Jeanne Eagels plays the bored and restless Leslie Crosbie who turns to another man, Geoffrey Hammond (Herbert Marshall) for attention when neglected by her husband Robert (Reginald Owen). ... See full summary »
Director: Jean de Limur | Stars: Jeanne Eagels, Reginald Owen, Herbert Marshall, Irene Browne
Votes: 875
Nominated - Best Actress for Jeanne Eagels
39. 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
Nominated - Best Writing for Elliot Clawson
40. The Leatherneck (1929)
Passed | 65 min | Drama
A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans (William Boyd and Robert Armstrong) befriend a simple minded German (Alan Hale) and win him over into becoming an American. All ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Higgin | Stars: William Boyd, Alan Hale, Robert Armstrong, Fred Kohler
Votes: 156
Nominated - Best Writing for Elliot Clawson
41. 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
Nominated - Best Writing for Elliot Clawson
42. Skyscraper (1928)
68 min | Drama
A man pretends to be interested in his fellow steel worker's sweetheart, in order to help the man recover his spirit and come out of depression.
Director: Howard Higgin | Stars: William Boyd, Alan Hale, Sue Carol, Alberta Vaughn
Votes: 149
Nominated - Best Writing for Elliot Clawson
43. The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
At an elegant gathering of English nobility, young widow Fay Cheyney wins with her beauty, musicality and clever repartee. Cheyney, however, is not who she claims to be.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Norma Shearer, Basil Rathbone, George Barraud, Herbert Bunston
Votes: 579
Nominated - Best Writing for Hanns Kräly
44. Our Dancing Daughters (1928)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
A flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire.
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Nils Asther, Dorothy Sebastian
Votes: 1,965 | Gross: $0.76M
Nominated - Best Writing for Josephine Lovett Nominated - Best Cinematography for George Barnes
45. A Woman of Affairs (1928)
Passed | 98 min | Drama
When two childhood sweethearts are kept from marrying, misery ensues.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown
Votes: 1,693 | Gross: $0.85M
Nominated - Best Writing for Bess Meredyth
46. Wonder of Women (1929)
95 min | Drama
A German pianist is going to break up with his unfaithful wife, when he receives the message that his favourite stepchild has died.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams, Peggy Wood, Harry Myers
Votes: 89
Nominated - Best Writing for Bess Meredyth
47. White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance
An alcoholic doctor on a Polynesian island, disgusted by white exploitation of the natives, finds himself marooned on a pristinely beautiful island.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Robert J. Flaherty | Stars: Monte Blue, Raquel Torres, Robert Anderson, Renee Bush
Votes: 962
Winner - Best Cinematography for Clyde De Vinna
48. 4 Devils (1928)
Passed | 100 min | Drama
Four orphans, raised by an aging clown, becomes a high wire act in a circus.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Mary Duncan, Charles Morton, Barry Norton
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Ernest Palmer
49. Street Angel (1928)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama
A woman on the run from the law finds her past catching up to her just as she is on the verge of true happiness.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Natalie Kingston, Henry Armetta
Votes: 2,567 | Gross: $3.71M
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Ernest Palmer Nominated - Best Art Direction for Harry Oliver
50. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929)
86 min | Drama
A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.
Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Lili Damita, Ernest Torrence, Raquel Torres, Don Alvarado
Votes: 101
Winner - Best Art Direction for Cedric Gibbons
51. Dynamite (1929)
Passed | 129 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford, Julia Faye
Votes: 489
Nominated - Best Art Direction for Mitchell Leisen
52. The Awakening (1928)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance, War
In Alsace just before the World War, beautiful, virtuous peasant Marie Ducrot, who falls in love with Count Karl von Hagen--a lieutenant in the German Army--is seen visiting Karl in his ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Vilma Bánky, Walter Byron, Louis Wolheim, George Davis
Votes: 91
Nominated - Best Art Direction for William Cameron Menzies
53. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Passed | 152 min | Drama, War
A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy
Votes: 67,655 | Gross: $3.27M
Winner - Outstanding Production Winner - Best Director for Lewis Milestone Nominated - Best Writing for George Abbott, Maxwell Anderson and Del Andrews Nominated - Best Cinematography for Arthur Edeson
54. The Big House (1930)
Passed | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A convict falls in love with his new cellmate's sister, only to become embroiled in a planned break-out which is certain to have lethal consequences.
Directors: George W. Hill, Ward Wing | Stars: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery
Votes: 2,590
Nominated - Outstanding Production Nominated - Best Actor for Wallace Beery Winner - Best Writing for Frances Marion Winner - Best Sound Recording for Douglas Shearer
55. Disraeli (1929)
Passed | 90 min | Biography, Drama, History
Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, David Torrence, Joan Bennett
Votes: 1,379
Nominated - Outstanding Production Winner - Best Actor for George Arliss Nominated - Best Writing for Julien Josephson
56. The Divorcee (1930)
Passed | 84 min | Romance, Drama
When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond to his infidelities in kind.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel
Votes: 3,653
Nominated - Outstanding Production Nominated - Best Director for Robert Z. Leonard Winner - Best Actress for Norma Shearer Nominated - Best Writing for John Meehan
57. The Love Parade (1929)
Passed | 107 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane, Lillian Roth
Votes: 2,618
Nominated - Outstanding Production Nominated - Best Director for Ernst Lubitsch Nominated - Best Actor for Maurice Chevalier Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Franklin Hansen Nominated - Best Cinematography for Victor Milner Nominated - Best Art Direction for Hans Dreier
58. Anna Christie (I) (1930)
Passed | 89 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion, Marie Dressler
Votes: 3,502 | Gross: $1.01M
Nominated - Best Director for Clarence Brown Nominated - Best Actress for Greta Garbo Nominated - Best Cinematography for William H. Daniels
59. Romance (1930)
Approved | 76 min | Drama, Romance
Young Harry is in love and wants to marry an actress, much to the displeasure of his family. Harry thinks that Bishop Armstrong knows nothing about love, so Armstrong tells him the story of... See full summary »
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Gavin Gordon, Elliott Nugent
Votes: 1,032 | Gross: $1.60M
Nominated - Best Director for Clarence Brown Nominated - Best Actress for Greta Garbo
60. Hallelujah (1929)
Passed | 109 min | Drama, Musical
A sharecropper decides to become a preacher after falling for a vamp from the city.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine, Harry Gray
Votes: 2,001
Nominated - Best Director for King Vidor
61. The Green Goddess (1930)
Passed | 73 min | Adventure
An airplane carrying three Brits--Major Crespin, his wife Lucille, and Dr. Trahern--crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh. The Rajah holds them prisoner because the British are about to ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: George Arliss, Ralph Forbes, H.B. Warner, Alice Joyce
Votes: 440
Nominated - Best Actor for George Arliss
62. The Big Pond (1930)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A tour guide in Venice romances a visiting American tourist whose father owns a chewing-gum factory back in the U.S. She sets out to convince her skeptical father to bring the tour guide to America and give him a job in the plant.
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Frank Lyon, George Barbier
Votes: 324
Nominated - Best Actor for Maurice Chevalier
63. Bulldog Drummond (1929)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A bored WWI veteran helps out a young woman whose uncle is being held hostage by embezzlers.
Director: F. Richard Jones | Stars: Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love
Votes: 1,327
Nominated - Best Actor for Ronald Colman Nominated - Best Art Direction for William Cameron Menzies
64. Condemned! (1929)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama
Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Ronald Colman, Ann Harding, Louis Wolheim, William Elmer
Votes: 584
Nominated - Best Actor for Ronald Colman
65. The Rogue Song (1930)
104 min | Musical, Romance
In tsarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy one.
Directors: Lionel Barrymore, Hal Roach | Stars: Lawrence Tibbett, Catherine Dale Owen, Nance O'Neil, Judith Vosselli
Votes: 212
Nominated - Best Actor for Lawrence Tibbett
66. The Devil's Holiday (1930)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
A savvy city girl is hired to sugar an earnest farm boy into a business deal, but loses her heart.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, James Kirkwood, Hobart Bosworth
Votes: 256
Nominated - Best Actress for Nancy Carroll
67. Sarah and Son (1930)
Passed | 86 min | Drama, Romance
After years of abusing his wife, a ne'er-do-well husband disappears with their son--and winds up selling him to a wealthy family. Years later, the wife, now a world-famous opera singer, ... See full summary »
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Fredric March, Fuller Mellish Jr., Gilbert Emery
Votes: 336
Nominated - Best Actress for Ruth Chatterton
68. Their Own Desire (1929)
Approved | 65 min | Drama, Romance
Lally is a rich girl whose father writes books and plays Polo. After 23 years of marriage, he decides to divorce his wife, and marry Mrs. Chevers. This sours Lally on all men, while on ... See full summary »
Director: E. Mason Hopper | Stars: Norma Shearer, Belle Bennett, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery
Votes: 789
Nominated - Best Actress for Norma Shearer
69. The Trespasser (1929)
90 min | Drama, Romance
The trial and tribulations of a strong-willed woman who elopes and gives birth out of wedlock without telling her ex-husband.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Robert Ames, Purnell Pratt, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 1,442
Nominated - Best Actress for Gloria Swanson
70. Street of Chance (1930)
Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A big-time, but honest gambler has to prevent his younger brother from following in his footsteps, and taking up gambling.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: William Powell, Jean Arthur, Kay Francis, Regis Toomey
Votes: 416
Nominated - Best Writing for Howard Estabrook
71. The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930)
Passed | 91 min | Drama, History, Romance
Sergeant Gischa Patrotkin (Chester Morris), a simple-minded Russian soldier, escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp. He hides out for awhile with a peasant girl named Babka (Betty ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Chester Morris, Betty Compson, Alec B. Francis, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Votes: 62
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for John E. Tribby
72. Raffles (1930)
72 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a woman and falls in love he decides to "... See full summary »
Directors: George Fitzmaurice, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Stars: Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, David Torrence, Frederick Kerr
Votes: 1,121 | Gross: $1.00M
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Oscar Lagerstrom
73. The Song of the Flame (1930)
96 min | Musical, Romance
This was a screen version of the 1925 operetta by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Herbert Stohart, and George Gershwin. The story of the movie is about a peasant who is known as "The ... See full summary »
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Alexander Gray, Bernice Claire, Noah Beery, Alice Gentle
Votes: 62
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for George Groves
74. With Byrd at the South Pole (1930)
Passed | 82 min | Documentary, Adventure
Account of Admiral Byrd's 1928 expedition to the South Pole. Academy award winning cinematography.
Stars: Richard E. Byrd, Clair D. Alexander, Bernt Balchen, George H. Black
Votes: 396
Winner - Best Cinematography for Joseph T. Rucker and Willard Van der Veer
75. Hell's Angels (1930)
Passed | 127 min | Drama, War
Brothers Monte and Ray leave Oxford to join the Royal Flying Corps. Ray loves Helen; Helen enjoys an affair with Monte; before they leave on their mission over Germany they find her in still another man's arms.
Directors: Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding, James Whale | Stars: Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow, John Darrow
Votes: 5,962 | Gross: $5.45M
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Tony Gaudio and Harry Perry
76. King of Jazz (1930)
Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Musical
American Pre-Code color film starring Paul Whiteman and his Jazz orchestra.
Directors: John Murray Anderson, Walter Lantz | Stars: Paul Whiteman, John Boles, Laura La Plante, Jeanette Loff
Votes: 1,611
Winner - Best Art Direction for Herman Rosse
77. Sally (1929)
Passed | 103 min | Musical
Sally was an orphan who got her name from the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing and has been practicing since. ... See full summary »
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Marilyn Miller, Alexander Gray, Joe E. Brown, T. Roy Barnes
Votes: 415
Nominated - Best Art Direction for Jack Okey
78. The Vagabond King (1930)
104 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. His ... See full summary »
Directors: Ludwig Berger, Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald, O.P. Heggie, Lillian Roth
Votes: 230
Nominated - Best Art Direction for Hans Dreier
79. Cimarron (1931)
Passed | 123 min | Drama, Western
A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, Nance O'Neil
Votes: 6,922
Winner - Outstanding Production Nominated - Best Director for Wesley Ruggles Nominated - Best Actor for Richard Dix Nominated - Best Actress for Irene Dunne Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for Howard Estabrook Winner - Best Art Direction for Max Rée Nominated - Best Cinematography for Edward Cronjager
80. East Lynne (1931)
Passed | 102 min | Drama, Romance
The 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.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Ann Harding, Clive Brook, Conrad Nagel, Cecilia Loftus
Votes: 336
Nominated - Outstanding Production
81. The Front Page (1931)
Approved | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A crusading newspaper editor tricks his retiring star reporter into covering one last case.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 3,448
Nominated - Outstanding Production Nominated - Best Director for Lewis Milestone Nominated - Best Actor for Adolphe Menjou
82. Skippy (1931)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel dogcatcher.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Robert Coogan, Mitzi Green, Jackie Searl
Votes: 1,000
Nominated - Outstanding Production Winner - Best Director for Norman Taurog Nominated - Best Actor for Jackie Cooper Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Sam Mintz
83. Trader Horn (1931)
Passed | 122 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Two white traders in the darkest Africa of the 1870s find a missionary's daughter, who was captured as a child by a savage tribe and now worshiped as a goddess.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo, Mutia Omoolu
Votes: 1,120
Nominated - Outstanding Production
84. A Free Soul (1931)
Passed | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable
Votes: 2,933
Nominated - Best Director for Clarence Brown Winner - Best Actor for Lionel Barrymore Nominated - Best Actress for Norma Shearer
85. Morocco (1930)
Passed | 92 min | Drama, Romance
A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt
Votes: 7,477
Nominated - Best Director for Josef von Sternberg Nominated - Best Actress for Marlene Dietrich Nominated - Best Art Direction for Hans Dreier Nominated - Best Cinematography for Lee Garmes
86. The Royal Family of Broadway (1930)
82 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her ... See full summary »
Directors: George Cukor, Cyril Gardner | Stars: Ina Claire, Fredric March, Mary Brian, Henrietta Crosman
Votes: 438
Nominated - Best Actor for Fredric March
87. Min and Bill (1930)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Drama
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.
Director: George W. Hill | Stars: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Jordan, Marjorie Rambeau
Votes: 1,901
Winner - Best Actress for Marie Dressler
88. Holiday (1930)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
Holiday is a 1930 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film which tells the story of a young man who is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Ann Harding, Mary Astor, Robert Ames, Hallam Cooley
Votes: 677
Nominated - Best Actress for Ann Harding Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Horace Jackson
89. The Dawn Patrol (1930)
Passed | 108 min | Action, Drama, War
World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but Courtney is soon promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons about sending subordinates to their deaths.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Neil Hamilton, Frank McHugh
Votes: 2,031
Winner - Best Story for John Monk Saunders
90. The Doorway to Hell (1930)
Passed | 78 min | Crime, Drama
Despite his efforts to go straight, a young gangster keeps falling back into crime.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Lew Ayres, James Cagney, Dorothy Mathews, Leon Janney
Votes: 1,323
Nominated - Best Story for Rowland Brown
91. Laughter (1930)
85 min | Comedy, Romance
A former chorus girl weds a millionaire after the composer she loves leaves. Meanwhile, she strings along an artist in love with her. When the composer returns, she struggles with her needs for security vs love. High jinks and drama ensue.
Director: Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Fredric March, Frank Morgan, Glenn Anders
Votes: 416
Nominated - Best Story for Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, Douglas Doty and Donald Ogden Stewart
92. The Public Enemy (1931)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell
Votes: 23,015 | Gross: $1.01M
Nominated - Best Story for John Bright and Kubec Glasmon
93. Smart Money (1931)
Passed | 81 min | Crime, Drama
A Greek barber has uncommon skills in playing poker and soon rises in the seedy world of illegal gambling, but pretty blondes remain his Achilles' heel.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Evalyn Knapp, Ralf Harolde
Votes: 2,234
Nominated - Best Story for Lucien Hubbard and Joseph Jackson
94. The Criminal Code (1930)
Passed | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Constance Cummings, Boris Karloff
Votes: 1,377
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Seton I. Miller and Fred Niblo, Jr.
95. Little Caesar (1931)
Not Rated | 79 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell, William Collier Jr.
Votes: 14,521
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Francis Edward Faragoh and Robert N. Lee
96. Just Imagine (1930)
Passed | 113 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ...... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: El Brendel, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Garrick, Marjorie White
Votes: 848
Nominated - Best Art Direction for Stephen Goosson and Ralph Hammeras
97. Svengali (1931)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Through hypnotism and telepathic mind control, a sinister music maestro controls the singing voice, but not the heart, of the woman he loves.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Crisp, Bramwell Fletcher
Votes: 2,499
Nominated - Best Art Direction for Anton Grot Nominated - Best Cinematography for Barney McGill
98. Whoopee! (1930)
Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks... See full summary »
Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta, Paul Gregory, Eleanor Hunt
Votes: 1,187
Nominated - Best Art Direction for Richard Day
99. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)
TV-PG | 86 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Anne Chevalier, Matahi, Hitu, Bill Bambridge
Votes: 6,383
Winner - Best Cinematography for Floyd Crosby
100. 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: 59
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Charles Lang
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