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- DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsBessie LoveAnita PageCharles KingA pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 42% based on 26 reviews.
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Best picture (winner)
Best director
Best leading actress - DirectorRoland WestStarsChester MorrisHarry StubbsMae BuschChick 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 Joan, a policeman's daughter, to the theater, sneaked out during the intermission to commit the crime, then used her to support his alibi. The detective squad employs its most sophisticated and barbaric techniques, including planting an undercover agent in the gang, to bring him to justice.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 8 reviews.
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Best picture
Best leading actor
Best production desing - DirectorIrving CummingsRaoul WalshStarsEdmund LoweWarner BaxterDorothy BurgessA 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.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 56% based on 9 reviews.
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Best picture
Best director
Best leading actor (winner)
Best screenplay
Best cinematography - DirectorCharles ReisnerChristy CabanneNorman HoustonStarsConrad NagelJack BennyJohn GilbertAn all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 43% based on 7 reviews.
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Best picture - DirectorSam TaylorStarsMary PickfordJohnny Mack BrownMatt MooreA flirtatious Southern belle is compromised with one of her suitors.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 44% based on 9 reviews.
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Best leading actress (winner) - 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.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best leading actress - DirectorClarence BrownStarsGreta GarboJohn GilbertLewis StoneWhen two childhood sweethearts are kept from marrying, misery ensues.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best screenplay - DirectorWesley RugglesStarsRichard DixIrene DunneEstelle TaylorA newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 52% based on 31 reviews.
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Best picture (winner)
Best director
Best leading actress
Best leading actor
Best screenplay (winner)
Best cinematography
Best production design (winner) - DirectorArchie MayoStarsLew AyresJames CagneyDorothy MathewsDespite his efforts to go straight, a young gangster keeps falling back into crime.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 2 reviews.
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Best story - DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsEdward G. RobinsonJames CagneyEvalyn KnappA 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.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 4 reviews.
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Best story - DirectorDavid ButlerStarsEl BrendelMaureen O'SullivanJohn GarrickNew 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 ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't "distinguished" enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientist. The Mars J-21, his friend, and stowaway Single O visit is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best production desing - DirectorEdgar SelwynStarsHelen HayesLewis StoneNeil HamiltonOut of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
Best leading actress (winner) - DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsFredric MarchClaudette ColbertElissa LandiA Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 55% based on 11 reviews.
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Best cinematography - 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.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 57% based on 7 reviews.
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Best picture - DirectorRobert Z. LeonardW.S. Van DykeStarsJeanette MacDonaldNelson EddyFrank MorganIn order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 56% based on 9 reviews.
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Best picture
Best sound mixing (winner) - DirectorRouben MamoulianStarsMiriam HopkinsFrances DeeCedric HardwickeAgainst the backdrop of Napoleon's Waterloo campaign, an ambitious woman from a family of entertainers begins a destructive climb up the social ladder.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 4 reviews.
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Best leading actress - DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsMaurice ChevalierMerle OberonAnn SothernAn entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best dance direction (winner) - DirectorFrank TuttleStarsCarl BrissonMary EllisEdward Everett HortonMovie star changes places with a king who looks exactly like him, causing complications for all concerned.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best dance direction - DirectorMervyn LeRoyMichael CurtizStarsFredric MarchOlivia de HavillandDonald WoodsIn 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 20% based on 10 reviews.
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Best picture
Best supporting actress (winner)
Best film editing (winner)
Best cinematography (winner)
Best music (score) (winner)
Best assistant director
Best production design - DirectorRichard BoleslawskiStarsMarlene DietrichCharles BoyerTilly LoschThe star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 36% based on 11 reviews.
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Best music (score)
Best assistant director - DirectorHenry HathawayStarsSylvia SidneyHenry FondaFred MacMurrayA railroad man from the city befriends a mountain girl in a Kentucky family feud.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 25% based on 4 reviews.
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Best song - DirectorLloyd CorriganStarsCharles CollinsFrank MorganSteffi DunaThe story of a Boston dance teacher who gets shanghaied by buccaneers who might make his next steps be off the plank!Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 2 reviews.
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Best dance direction - DirectorJulien DuvivierVictor FlemingJosef von SternbergStarsLuise RainerFernand GraveyMiliza KorjusIn 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauss II (Fernand Gravey) - 'Jonahi' to his friends - would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered proper society music. After he is fired from his clerical bank job because of his preoccupation with composing, he decides to follow his passion and form an orchestra. After some famed opera singers, including Carla Donner (Miliza Korjus), hear his music, they expose Johani's music to the masses, to royalty and to music publisher Julius Hofbauer (Hugh Herbert). As such, Johani becomes the toast of Vienna. With his new found musical fame, Johani's life, which includes his work in the European Revolutions, changes. He becomes torn for his love for his loving and faithful wife Poldi Vogelhuber (Luise Rainer) and his more emotionally passionate but somewhat destructive love for Carla Donner, who herself is involved with Count Anton Hohenfried (Lionel Atwill).Note in Rotten tomatoes: 50% based on 2 reviews.
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Best supporting actress
Best film editing
Best cinematography (winner) - DirectorClarence BrownStarsWalter HustonJames StewartGene ReynoldsEthan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 0% based on 1 review.
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Best supporting actress - DirectorMark SandrichStarsFred AstaireGinger RogersRalph BellamyA psychiatrist falls in love with the woman he's supposed to be nudging into marriage with someone else.Note in Rotten tomatoes: 57% based on 7 reviews.
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Best scoring of music (adaptation or treatment)
Best song
Best production design