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I'll second The Enchanted Cottage.
Little Women (1949)
Mervyn LeRoy
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I'll second Little Women.
And that's 128!
Thank you, everyone!
Some stats:
Number of nominations per year:
- 1940: 15
- 1941: 13
- 1942: 14
- 1943: 11
- 1944: 12
- 1945: 13
- 1946: 15
- 1947: 10
- 1948: 12
- 1949: 13
Directors with multiple nominations:
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Akira Kurosawa: Drunken Angel; Stray Dog
Ben Sharpsteen: Dumbo; Pinocchio
Clarence Brown: National Velvet; The Yearling
David Lean: Brief Encounter; Great Expectations
Edward F. Cline: My Little Chickadee; The Bank Dick
Elia Kazan: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Gentleman's Agreement
Frank Capra: Arsenic and Old Lace; It's a Wonderful Life
Mervyn LeRoy: Little Women; Waterloo Bridge
Robert Hamer: Dead of Night; Kind Hearts and Coronets
Robert Siodmak: The Killers; The Spiral Staircase
3
Billy Wilder: Double Indemnity; The Lost Weekend; The Major and the Minor
Ernst Lubitsch: Heaven Can Wait; The Shop Around the Corner; To Be or Not to Be
George Cukor: A Woman's Face; Adam's Rib; Gaslight; The Philadelphia Story
John Huston: Key Largo; The Maltese Falcon; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Michael Curtiz: Casablanca; Mildred Pierce; Yankee Doodle Dandy
4
Jacques Tourneur: Cat People; I Walked with a Zombie; Out of the Past; The Leopard Man
John Ford: How Green Was My Valley; My Darling Clementine; The Grapes of Wrath; They Were Expendable
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger: A Matter of Life and Death; Black Narcissus; The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp; The Red Shoes
Orson Welles: Citizen Kane; The Lady from Shanghai; The Magnificent Ambersons; The Stranger
William Wyler: Mrs. Miniver; The Best Years of Our Lives; The Heiress; The Little Foxes
5
Michael Powell: A Matter of Life and Death; Black Narcissus; The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp; The Red Shoes; The Thief of Bagdad
6
Howard Hawks: His Girl Friday; I Was a Male War Bride; Red River; Sergeant York; The Big Sleep; To Have and Have Not
Preston Sturges: Hail the Conquering Hero; Sullivan's Travels; The Lady Eve; The Miracle of Morgan's Creek; The Palm Beach Story; Unfaithfully Yours
9
Alfred Hitchcock: Foreign Correspondent; Lifeboat; Notorious; Rebecca; Rope; Saboteur; Shadow of a Doubt; Spellbound; Suspicion
Hmm. A list of 40's movies and not one singing cowboy???
I missed the entire thing! :lol:
Still took us eight days this time!
Very eagerly awaiting your usual actor analysis, if you’re able to do it.
Thanks for organizing this, as usual, Mae.
Here's where all of the 1940s nominees are currently streaming, by the way, according to JustWatch:
- A Matter of Life and Death: Tubi
- A Night in Casablanca: Tubi, Roku, Pluto, Kanopy, Plex
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- A Woman's Face
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
- Adam's Rib
- All The King's Men: Fubo, DirecTV
- Angel and the Badman: Amazon Prime, Paramount+, Roku, Hoopla, Tubi, Pluto
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- Bambi: Disney+
- Beauty and the Beast: HBO Max, Criterion Channel, Kanopy
- Bicycle Thieves: HBO Max, Criterion Channel, Kanopy
- Black Narcissus: HBO Max, Criterion Channel, Kanopy
- Brief Encounter: HBO Max, Criterion Channel
- Casablanca: HBO Max
- Cat People
- Children of Paradise: Criterion Channel
- Christmas in Connecticut
- Citizen Kane: HBO Max
- Day of Wrath: Criterion Channel
- Dead of Night: Kanopy
- Detour: Amazon Prime, Pamarount+, Hoopla, Criterion Channel, Tubi, Kanopy
- Double Indemnity: Criterion Channel
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Drunken Angel: Criterion Channel, Tubi, Plex
- Dumbo: Disney+
- Fantasia: Disney+
- Foreign Correspondent: HBO Max, Criterion Channel
- Gaslight: Roku
- Gentleman's Agreement
- Gilda: TCM
- Going My Way
- Great Expectations: HBO Max, Criterion Channel
- Hail the Conquering Hero
- Hamlet: HBO Max, Criterion Channel
- Heaven Can Wait
- His Girl Friday: Amazon Prime, Paramount+, Roku, Hoopla, Tubi, Kanopy
- Holiday Inn
- How Green Was My Valley
- I Married a Witch: HBO Max, Criterion Channel
- I Walked with a Zombie
- I Was a Male War Bride
- It's a Wonderful Life: Amazon Prime, Plex
- Jane Eyre: Hoopla
- Key Largo: HBO Max
- Kind Hearts and Coronets: Kanopy
- Lassie Come Home
- Late Spring: HBO Max, Criterion Channel, Tubi, Plex
- Laura: TCM
- Lifeboat
- Little Women
- Meet Me in St. Louis: HBO Max, Criterion Channel
- Mighty Joe Young
- Mildred Pierce
- Miracle on 34th Street: HBO Max
- Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
- Mrs. Miniver
- Murder, My Sweet
- My Darling Clementine
- My Little Chickadee
- National Velvet
- Nightmare Alley
- Notorious: Tubi
- On the Town: HBO Max
- Out of the Past
- Phantom of the Opera: Vudu Free
- Pinocchio: Disney+
- Rebecca
- Red River: Roku, Pluto
- Remember the Night
- Rope
- Saboteur
- Sergeant York
- Shadow of a Doubt
- Spellbound
- Stormy Weather
- Stray Dog: Criterion Channel, Tubi, Plex
- Sullivan's Travels
- Suspicion
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer: HBO Max
- The Bank Dick
- The Best Years of Our Lives: Kanopy, Pluto, TCM
- The Big Sleep: HBO Max
- The Bishop's Wife: Amazon Prime, Roku, Tubi, Kanopy, Pluto
- The Body Snatcher
- The Devil and Daniel Webster: Criterion Channel
- The Enchanted Cottage: TCM
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Great Dictator: HBO Max, Criterion Channel, Kanopy
- The Heiress
- The Killers
- The Lady Eve
- The Lady from Shanghai
- The Leopard Man
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp: HBO Max, Criterion Channel
- The Little Foxes: Kanopy
- The Lost Weekend: Criterion Channel
- The Magnificent Ambersons: Kanopy
- The Major and the Minor
- The Maltese Falcon: HBO Max
- The Mark of Zorro
- The Miracle of Morgan's Creek: Kanopy
- The Ox-Bow Incident
- The Palm Beach Story
- The Philadelphia Story: HBO Max
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The Postman Always Rings Twice: HBO Max
- The Pride of the Yankees: Amazon Prime, Roku, Tubi, Kanopy, Pluto
- The Red Shoes: HBO Max, Criterion Channel, Kanopy
- The Shop Around the Corner
- The Snake Pit
- The Spiral Staircase
- The Stranger: Amazon Prime, Paramount+, Roku, Tubi, Kanopy, Pluto, Plex
- The Thief of Bagdad: HBO Max, Criterion Channel, Tubi
- The Third Man: Criterion Channel
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre: HBO Max
- The Uninvited
- The Wolf Man
- The Yearling
- They Were Expendable
- To Be or Not to Be: HBO Max, Criterion Channel
- To Have and Have Not
- Twelve O'Clock High: Criterion Channel
- Unfaithfully Yours
- Waterloo Bridge
- White Heat
- Yankee Doodle Dandy: TCM
Some are also available free on YouTube, of dubious quality and legality.
Someone's gotta get Rome, Open City in there. They filmed it weeks after the Nazi occupation so the neo-realism is extremely neo-realist!