My Favourite 1930s - 1960s Best Picture Winners!!

Greer and James at the 15th Annual Academy Awards

Unlike many of my online friends, I am not watching The Oscars tonight. For one thing, we don't have Sky and my laptop does not take kindly to me watching live streams. It's also on rather late here in England. The main reason, however, is that it would be a waste of time because I've only seen one of films from 2010, Inception.If I'm honest, the only other films I'm interested in seeing from the films nominated for Best Picture are The King's Speech, 127 Hours, and Toy Story 3. Anyway, I thought I'd pick my favourite Best Picture winners and also my favourite from the films that were nominated but didn't win, from 1930s-1960s.

1930's Best Picture Winners (also including 1928 and 1929 winners)

1928 - Wings

1929 - The Broadway Melody

1930 - All Quiet on the Western Front

1931 - Cimarron

1932 - Grand Hotel

1933 - Cavalcade

1934 - It Happened One Night

1935 - Mutiny on the Bount

1936 - The Great Ziegfield

1937 - The Life of Emile Zola

1938 - You Can't Take It With You

1939 - Gone With the Wind

Favourite 1930's Nominations

1934 - The Thin Man

Honourable Mentions

1932 - Shanghai Express

1937 - Stage Door

1940's Best Picture Winners

1940 - Rebecca

1941 - How Green Was My Valley

1942 - Mrs. Miniver

1943 - Casablanca

1944 - Going My Way

1945 - The Lost Weekend

1946 - The Best Years of Our Lives

1947 - Gentlemen's Agreement

1948 - Hamlet

1949 - All the King's Men

Favourite Film From Nominations

1942 - Random Harvest

Honourable Mentions

1941 - Blossoms In the Dust

1943 - Madame Curie

1944 - Since You Went Away

1945 - Mildred Pierce

1950's Best Picture Winners

1950 - All About Eve

1951 - An American In Paris

1952 - The Greatest Show on Earth

1953 - From Here To Eternity

1954 - On the Waterfront

1955 - Marty

1956 - Around the World In 80 Days

1957 - The Bridge on the River Kwai

1958 - Gigi

1959 - Ben-Hur

Favourite Film From Nominations

1958 - Auntie Mame

Honourable Mentions

1952 - The Quiet Man

1956 - The King and I

1960's Best Picture Winners

1960 - The Apartment

1961 - West Side Story

1962 - Lawrence of Arabia

1963 - Tom Jones

1964 - My Fair Lady

1965 - The Sound of Music

1966 - A Man For All Seasons

1967 - In the Heat of the Night

1968 - Oliver!

1969 - Midnight Cowboy

Favourite 1960's Nominations

1964 - Mary Poppins

Honourable Mentions

1960 - The Sundowners

1961 - Judgement at Nuremberg

I was going to post a list of the people who should have won several Oscars but who in actual fact didn't win even one (Deborah, Stany, Maureen (she hasn't even been awarded an Honorary Oscar. HANG YOUR HEADS IN SHAME, ACADEMY!)... to name but a few) but that would take too long and I would end up bashing Grace K. and her ridiculous Oscar before moving onto Audrey Hepburn and her almost equally ridiculous RH Oscar (Really though... DEBORAH, AVA AND LESLIE (I haven't seen Maggie in TMiB) and you give the award to Audrey in one of the dullest films of all time?!! I'm sorry, I just can't help myself. You all know I love Audrey... but really?!). Anyway, have a photo of a Greer and Walter kissing at the 15th Academy Awards...

... they make everything better :D

If you're going to be watching the Oscars tonight, enjoy yourself!! And I hope The King's Speech wins everything, even though I haven't seen it, because... come on, the cast is awesome!! ;D

P.S. Let me know which are your favourite winners (and nominated!) films from each decade!!

A Loving Ramble

Hello! I hope you are all well (: I'm still feeling very yucky today, especially seeing as I haven't been able to eat anything for about 5 days! I'm nibbling on crystallised ginger in the hope that it might help my digestion a bit, and Kendal Mint Cake to keep my blood sugar levels up! Oh, and tea - lots of tea for my throat! I suppose I could pretend I'm have a tea party with Deborah and Greer...

...Walter Pidgeon could come if he wanted to, I certainly have no objection!

I'm currently rather annoyed because The Miniver Story seems virtually impossible to get hold of. The only copies I found were on Amazon and started at $15...and they're on VHS. Now, I don't mind getting classic films of VHS if they haven't been released on DVD yet, or if the VHS is considerably cheaper than the DVD, because usually you can copy them onto a DVD. However, I refuse to pay $15 for a VHS. I would pay that much if it were a DVD, but come on...a VHS shouldn't cost that much. Besides, I don't have that much money to spend on films at the moment - everyone seems to have had a birthday the last couple of months! All I want is to see the damn film! Someone's uploaded a couple of clips on youtube...torture me why don't you?! To console myself, I read the plot synopsis. I really shouldn't have done that. That perfect marriage...poor Kay...it made me sad. I didn't expect it to be as sugar-coated as Mrs. Miniver but still...

Hah. So, anyway, if any of you know where I can get hold of a copy of it for less than $15 on DVD or VHS, I would be most obliged. Or even if you know somewhere that I can watch it...

I feel rather stupid because when I watched Caged (1950 - Eleanor Parker) one of the actresses in it reminded me of someone, but I just couldn't place her. Due to my silly brain fog, it never occurred to me to Google her. When I did eventually think of googling her, I was extremely ashamed that I couldn't remember who she was.

Yes, of course it's Agnes Moorehead. How could I not have known that? It's quite atrocious, do you not agree? I apologise from the bottom of my heart, Agnes!

Incidentally, Caged is an amazing film. I can't remember if I talked about it in my post about Eleanor Parker, so forgive me if I'm repeating myself, but you really have to see it!

Eleanor is quite incredible in it. Also, the fact that she had to have all of her lovely blonde hair shaved off for it makes her rather brave too! There isn't a huge amount of people who would be willing to do that...

Well, now I'm going to end with a few photos! A presto!!

I think this photo is so adorable...it's just so...Audrey. More so than her glammed up photos (:

Doris' face is such a lovely, happy face that it makes me feel really happy too!

I think I've only mentioned Lauren once so far, and that's quite atrocious! So, here's a lovely, lovely photo of her!

No post is complete without Deborah, so this is her receiving her honorary Oscar in 1994. If you've not seen the footage of this wonderful moment, here is the video:

It makes me weep a little every time I see it - Deborah is so gracious and charming, but she looks so frail.