The Alternate Oscars: Best Picture (1927-1968)
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 12:44 am
Suggested by several other posters on the forum, here is a stab at constructing an Alternate Best Picture List. I've split eighty years of the Oscars in half, with this list covering the ceremonies up through the end of the Hays Code in '68.
I'm setting the voting for this first half far into the future, and I feel it can run concurrently with the current decade lists projects without any detrimental interference. Every year gets one vote for one film, just like the real Oscars.
What I'd love to see in the meantime though is people posting about years where they've seen all the nominated films, and weighing in on their thoughts of all five (or ten!) of a year's nominees in relation to each other-- though obviously any discussion is welcome. I think unless you're steeped in Oscar lore, some of these choices are surprising and not all have stood the test of time. Besides the fun of making another list, I think there's a real wealth of untapped discussion here. I suspect this thread will be best served as a means of reassessing, reevaluating, and rediscovering films that were at one time inducted into an artificial canon.
Below are the complete nominees (1927-1968), along with DVD (and in some cases VHS) details--Special thanks to Reno Dakota for tracking down many of the VHS releases-- If there's a blank detail you can fill, please comment or PM me!
1927-8
Unique and Artistic Production
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (Cooper/Schoedsack) R1 Image
the Crowd (Vidor) R0 Bo Ying (or NTSC VHS Warner)
Sunrise (Murnau) R1 Fox
Production
the Racket (Milestone) R1 PD
Seventh Heaven (Borzage) R1 Fox
Wings (Wellman) R1/A Paramount
1929
Alibi (West) R1 Kino
the Broadway Melody (Beaumont) R1 Warner
the Hollywood Revue of 1929 (Reisner) R1 Warner Archives
In Old Arizona (Cummings) R1 Fox
the Patriot (Lubitsch) Lost
1930
The Big House (Hill) R1 Warner Archives
All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone) R1/A Universal
Disraeli (Green) NTSC VHS MGM
the Divorcee (Leonard) R1 Warner
the Love Parade (Lubitsch) R1 Eclipse
1931
Cimarron (Ruggles) R1 Warner
East Lynne (Lloyd)
the Front Page (Milestone) PD- R1 Pick whichever copy is above the fold
Skippy (Taurog)
Trader Horn (Van Dyke) NTSC VHS MGM
1932
Arrowsmith (Ford) R1 MGM
Bad Girl (Borzage) R1 Fox
the Champ (Vidor) R1 Warner
Five Star Final (LeRoy) R1 Warner Archives
Grand Hotel (Goulding) R1 Warner
One Hour With You (Lubitsch) R1 Eclipse
Shanghai Express (Sternberg) R1 TCM / R2 Universal
the Smiling Lieutenant (Lubitsch) R1 Eclipse
1933
42nd Street (Bacon) R1 Warner
A Farewell to Arms (Borzage) R1 Image
Cavalcade (Lloyd) R1/A Fox
I Am A Fugitive From a Chain Gang! (LeRoy) R1 Warner
Lady For a Day (Capra) R1/A Image
Little Women (Cukor) R1 Warner
the Private Life of Henry VIII (Korda) R1 Eclipse
She Done Him Wrong (Sherman) R1 Universal
Smilin' Through (Franklin) (NTSC VHS MGM)
State Fair (King)
1934
the Barretts of Wimpole Street (Franklin) NTSC VHS MGM
Cleopatra (DeMille) R1 Universal
Flirtation Walk (Borzage) (NTSC VHS MGM)
the Gay Divorcee (Sandrich) R1 Warner
Here Comes the Navy (Bacon)
the House of Rothschild (Werker)
Imitation of Life (Stahl) R1 Universal
It Happened One Night (Capra) R1 Columbia
One Night of Love (Schertizinger) NTSC VHS Columbia
the Thin Man (Van Dyke) R1 Warner
Viva Villa! (Conway/Hawks/Wellman)
the White Parade (Cummings)
1935
Alice Adams (Stevens) R1 Warner
Broadway Melody of 1936 (Del Ruth/Van Dyke) R1 Warner
Captain Blood (Curtiz) R1 Warner
the Informer (Ford) R1 Warner
the Lives of a Bengal Lancer (Hathaway) R1 Universal
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Dieterle/Reinhardt) R1 Warner
Les Miserables (Boleslawski) R1 Fox
Mutiny on the Bounty (Lloyd) R1/A Warner
Naughty Marietta NTSC VHS MGM
David Copperfield (Cukor) R1 Warner
Ruggles of Red Gap (McCarey) R1 Universal MOD / R2/B MoC
Top Hat (Sandrich) R1 Warner
1936
Anthony Adverse (LeRoy/Curtiz) NTSC VHS Warner
Dodsworth (Wyler) R1 MGM
the Great Ziegfeld (Leonard) R1 Warner
Libeled Lady (Conway) R1 Warner
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Capra) R1 Columbia
Romeo and Juliet (Cukor) R1 Warner
San Francisco (Van Dyke) R1 Warner
the Story of Louis Pasteur (Dieterle) NTSC VHS MGM
A Tale of Two Cities (Conway/Leonard) R1 Warner
Three Smart Girls (Koster) R1 Universal
1937
the Awful Truth (McCarey) R1 Columbia
Captains Courageous (Fleming) R1 Warner
Dead End (Wyler) R1 MGM
the Good Earth (Franklin) R1 Warner
In Old Chicago (King) R1 Fox
the Life of Emile Zola (Dieterle) R1 Warner
Lost Horizon (Capra) R1 Columbia
One Hundred Men and a Girl (Koster) NTSC VHS Universal
Stage Door (La Cava) R1 Warner
A Star is Born (Wellman) PD
1938
the Adventures of Robin Hood (Curtiz/Keighley) R1/A Warner
Alexander's Ragtime Band (King) R1 Fox
Boys Town (Taurog) R1 Warner
the Citadel (Vidor) R1 Warner Archive
Four Daughters (Curtiz) R1 Warner Archives
Grand Illusion (Renoir) R1 Criterion / RA Studio Canal Lionsgate
Jezebel (Wyler) R1 Warner
Pygmalion (Asquith/Howard) R1 Criterion
Test Pilot (Fleming) NTSC VHS MGM
You Can't Take It With You (Capra) R1 Columbia
1939
Dark Victory (Goulding) R1 Warner
Gone With the Wind (Fleming) R1/A Warner
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Wood) R1 Warner
Love Affair (McCarey) PD- R1 Love a fair deal, go with the cheapest
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra) R1 Columbia
Ninotchka (Lubitsch) R1 Warner
Of Mice and Men (Milestone) R1 Image
Stagecoach (Ford) R1 Warner / R1/A Criterion
the Wizard of Oz (Fleming) R1/A Warner
Wuthering Heights (Wyler) R1 Warner
1940
All This, and Heaven Too (Litvak) R1 Warner
Foreign Correspondent (Hitchcock) R1 Warner
the Grapes of Wrath (Ford) R1 Fox
the Great Dictator (Chaplin) R1/A Criterion
Kitty Foyle: the Natural History of a Woman (Wood) R1 Warner
the Letter (Wyler) R1 Warner
the Long Voyage Home (Ford) R1 Warner
Our Town (Wood) PD- R1 Eenie or Meenie, either
the Philadelphia Story (Cukor) R1 Warner
Rebecca (Hitchcock) R1 Criterion / R1/A MGM
1941
Blossoms in the Dust (LeRoy) R1 Warner
Citizen Kane (Welles) R1/A Warner
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Hall) R1 Sony
Hold Back the Dawn (Leisen)
How Green Was My Valley (Ford) R1/A Fox
the Little Foxes (Wyler) R1 MGM
the Maltese Falcon (Huston) R1 Warner
One Foot in Heaven (Rapper)
Sgt. York (Hawks) R1 Warner
Suspicion (Hitchcock) R1 Warner
1942
49th Parallel (Powell) R1 Criterion
Kings Row (Wood) R1 Warner
the Magnificent Ambersons (Welles) R1 Warner
Mrs. Miniver (Wyler) R1/A Warner
the Pied Piper (Pichel)
the Pride of the Yankees (Wood) R1 MGM
Random Harvest (LeRoy) R1 Warner
the Talk of the Town (Stevens) R1 Columbia
Wake Island (Farrow) R1 Universal
Yankee Doodle Dandy (Curtiz) R1 Warner
1943
Casablanca (Curtiz) R1/A Warner
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Wood) R1 Universal
Heaven Can Wait (Lubitsch) R1 Criterion
the Human Comedy (Brown) R1 Warner Archives
In Which We Serve (Coward/Lean) R1/A Criterion
Madame Curie (LeRoy) R1 Warner
the More the Merrier (Stevens) R1 Sony
the Ox-Bow Incident (Wellman) R1 Fox
the Song of Bernadette (King) R1 Fox / RA Twilight Time
Watch on the Rhine (Shumlin/Mohr) R1 Warner
1944
Double Indemnity (Wilder) R1 Universal / RB MoC
Gaslight (Cukor) R1 Warner
Going My Way (McCarey) R1 Universal
Since You Went Away (Cromwell) R1 MGM
Wilson (King) R1 Fox MOD
1945
Anchors Aweigh (Sidney) R1 Warner
the Bells of St. Mary's (McCarey) R1 Republic
the Lost Weekend (Wilder) R1 Universal / RB MoC
Mildred Pierce (Curtiz) R1 Warner
Spellbound (Hitchcock) R1 Criterion / R1/A MGM
1946
the Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler) R1/A Warners
Henry V (Olivier) R1 Criterion
It's a Wonderful Life (Capra) R1/A Paramount
the Razor's Edge (Goulding) R1 Fox
the Yearling (Brown) R1 Warner
1947
the Bishop's Wife (Koster) R1/A Warners
Crossfire (Dmytryk) R1 Warner
Gentleman's Agreement (Kazan) R1/A Fox
Great Expectations (Lean) R1 Criterion
Miracle on 34th Street (Seaton) R1 Fox
1948
Hamlet (Olivier) R1 Criterion
Johnny Belinda (Negulesco) R1 Warner
the Red Shoes (Powell) R1/A Criterion
the Snake Pit (Litvak) R1 Fox
the Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston) R1/A Warner
1949
All the King's Men (Rossen) R1 Columbia
Battleground (Wellman) R1 Warner
the Heiress (Wyler) R1 Universal
A Letter to Three Wives (Mankiewicz) R1/A Fox
Twelve O'Clock High (King) R1/A Fox
1950
All About Eve (Mankiewicz) R1/A Fox
Born Yesterday (Cukor) R1 Columbia
Father of the Bride (Minnelli) R1 Warner
King Solomon's Mines (Bennett/Marton) R1 Warner
Sunset Blvd. (Wilder) R1/A Paramount
1951
An American in Paris (Minnelli) R1/A Warner
Decision Before Dawn (Litvak) R1 Fox
A Place in the Sun (Stevens) R1 Paramount
Quo Vadis (LeRoy/Mann) R1/A Warner
A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan) R1/A Warner
1952
the Greatest Show on Earth (DeMille) R1 Paramount
High Noon (Zinnemann) R1/A Olive
Ivanhoe (Thorpe) R1 Warner
Moulin Rouge (Huston) R1 MGM
the Quiet Man (Ford) R1/A Olive
1953
From Here to Eternity (Zinnemann) R1/A Sony
Julius Caesar (Mankiewicz) R1 Warner
the Robe (Koster) R1/A Fox
Roman Holiday (Wyler) R1 Paramount
Shane (Stevens) R1/A Paramount
1954
the Caine Mutiny (Dmytryk) R1/A Sony
the Country Girl (Seaton) R1 Paramount
On the Waterfront (Kazan) R1/A Criterion
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (Donen) R1 Warner
Three Coins in the Fountain (Negulesco) R1 Fox
1955
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (King) R1 Fox / RA Twilight Time
Marty (Mann) R1 MGM
Mister Roberts (Ford/LeRoy) R1 Warner
Picnic (Logan) RA Twilight Time / R1 Sony Kim Novak Collection (WS) - BEWARE of the R1 Sony standalone release (Cropped P+S)
the Rose Tattoo (Mann) R1 Paramount
1956
Around the World in Eighty Days (Anderson) R1 Warner
Friendly Persuasion (Wyler) R1 Universal
Giant (Stevens) R1/A Warner
the King and I (Lang) R1 Fox
the Ten Commandments (DeMille) R1/A Paramount
1957
the Bridge on the River Kwai (Lean) R1/A Sony
Peyton Place (Robson) R1 Fox
Sayonara (Logan) R1 MGM
12 Angry Men (Lumet) R1/A Criterion
Witness For the Prosecution (Wilder) R1 MGM
1958
Auntie Mame (DaCosta) R1 Warner
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Brooks) R1 Warner
the Defiant Ones (Kramer) R1 MGM
Gigi (Minnelli) R1/A Warner
Separate Tables (Mann) R1 MGM
1959
Anatomy of a Murder (Preminger) R1 Columbia (Open Matte) / R1/A Criterion (Widescreen)
Ben-Hur (Wyler) R1/A Warner
the Diary of Anne Frank (Stevens) R1/A Fox
the Nun's Story (Zinnemann) R1 Warner
Room at the Top (Clayton) R1 VCI
1960
the Alamo (Wayne) R1 MGM
the Apartment (Wilder) R1/A MGM
Elmer Gantry (Brooks) R1 MGM
Sons and Lovers (Cardiff) R4 Umbrella Entertainment
the Sundowners (Zinnemann) R1 Warner
1961
Fanny (Logan) R1 Image
Guns of Navarone (Thompson) R1/A Sony
the Hustler (Rossen) R1/A Fox
Judgment at Nuremberg (Kramer) R1 MGM
West Side Story (Wise/Robbins) R1/A MGM
1962
Lawrence of Arabia (Lean) R1/A Columbia
the Longest Day (Annakin/Marton/Wicki) R1/A Fox
the Music Man (DaCosta) R1/A Warner
Mutiny on the Bounty (Milestone/Reed) R1/A Warner
To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan) R1/A Universal
1963
America, America (Kazan) R1 Warners
Cleopatra (Mankiewicz) R1/A Fox
How the West Was Won (Ford/Hathaway/Marshall/Thorpe) R1/A Warner
Lilies of the Field (Nelson) R1 MGM
Tom Jones (Richardson) R1 MGM
1964
Becket (Glenville) R1/A MPI
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick) R1/A Sony
Mary Poppins (Stevenson) R1/A Walt Disney
My Fair Lady (Cukor) R1/A Warner/Paramount
Zorba the Greek (Cacoyannis) R1/A Fox
1965
Darling (Schlesinger) R1 MGM
Doctor Zhivago (Lean) R1/A Warner
Ship of Fools (Kramer) R1 Sony
the Sound of Music (Wise) R1/A Fox
A Thousand Clowns (Coe) R1 MGM MOD
1966
Alfie (Gilbert) R1 Paramount
A Man For All Seasons (Zinnemann) R1 Sony
the Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (Jewison) R1 MGM
the Sand Pebbles (Wise) R1/A Fox
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Nichols) R1 Warner
1967
Bonnie and Clyde (Penn) R1/A Warner
Doctor Dolittle (Fleischer) R1 Fox
the Graduate (Nichols) R1/A MGM
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Kramer) R1 Sony
In the Heat of the Night (Jewison) R1 MGM
1968
Funny Girl (Wyler) R1/A Sony
the Lion in Winter (Harvey) R1 MGM
Oliver! (Reed) R1 Sony
Rachel, Rachel (Newman) R1 Warner
Romeo and Juliet (Zeffirelli) R1 Paramount
I'm setting the voting for this first half far into the future, and I feel it can run concurrently with the current decade lists projects without any detrimental interference. Every year gets one vote for one film, just like the real Oscars.
What I'd love to see in the meantime though is people posting about years where they've seen all the nominated films, and weighing in on their thoughts of all five (or ten!) of a year's nominees in relation to each other-- though obviously any discussion is welcome. I think unless you're steeped in Oscar lore, some of these choices are surprising and not all have stood the test of time. Besides the fun of making another list, I think there's a real wealth of untapped discussion here. I suspect this thread will be best served as a means of reassessing, reevaluating, and rediscovering films that were at one time inducted into an artificial canon.
Below are the complete nominees (1927-1968), along with DVD (and in some cases VHS) details--Special thanks to Reno Dakota for tracking down many of the VHS releases-- If there's a blank detail you can fill, please comment or PM me!
1927-8
Unique and Artistic Production
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (Cooper/Schoedsack) R1 Image
the Crowd (Vidor) R0 Bo Ying (or NTSC VHS Warner)
Sunrise (Murnau) R1 Fox
Production
the Racket (Milestone) R1 PD
Seventh Heaven (Borzage) R1 Fox
Wings (Wellman) R1/A Paramount
1929
Alibi (West) R1 Kino
the Broadway Melody (Beaumont) R1 Warner
the Hollywood Revue of 1929 (Reisner) R1 Warner Archives
In Old Arizona (Cummings) R1 Fox
the Patriot (Lubitsch) Lost
1930
The Big House (Hill) R1 Warner Archives
All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone) R1/A Universal
Disraeli (Green) NTSC VHS MGM
the Divorcee (Leonard) R1 Warner
the Love Parade (Lubitsch) R1 Eclipse
1931
Cimarron (Ruggles) R1 Warner
East Lynne (Lloyd)
the Front Page (Milestone) PD- R1 Pick whichever copy is above the fold
Skippy (Taurog)
Trader Horn (Van Dyke) NTSC VHS MGM
1932
Arrowsmith (Ford) R1 MGM
Bad Girl (Borzage) R1 Fox
the Champ (Vidor) R1 Warner
Five Star Final (LeRoy) R1 Warner Archives
Grand Hotel (Goulding) R1 Warner
One Hour With You (Lubitsch) R1 Eclipse
Shanghai Express (Sternberg) R1 TCM / R2 Universal
the Smiling Lieutenant (Lubitsch) R1 Eclipse
1933
42nd Street (Bacon) R1 Warner
A Farewell to Arms (Borzage) R1 Image
Cavalcade (Lloyd) R1/A Fox
I Am A Fugitive From a Chain Gang! (LeRoy) R1 Warner
Lady For a Day (Capra) R1/A Image
Little Women (Cukor) R1 Warner
the Private Life of Henry VIII (Korda) R1 Eclipse
She Done Him Wrong (Sherman) R1 Universal
Smilin' Through (Franklin) (NTSC VHS MGM)
State Fair (King)
1934
the Barretts of Wimpole Street (Franklin) NTSC VHS MGM
Cleopatra (DeMille) R1 Universal
Flirtation Walk (Borzage) (NTSC VHS MGM)
the Gay Divorcee (Sandrich) R1 Warner
Here Comes the Navy (Bacon)
the House of Rothschild (Werker)
Imitation of Life (Stahl) R1 Universal
It Happened One Night (Capra) R1 Columbia
One Night of Love (Schertizinger) NTSC VHS Columbia
the Thin Man (Van Dyke) R1 Warner
Viva Villa! (Conway/Hawks/Wellman)
the White Parade (Cummings)
1935
Alice Adams (Stevens) R1 Warner
Broadway Melody of 1936 (Del Ruth/Van Dyke) R1 Warner
Captain Blood (Curtiz) R1 Warner
the Informer (Ford) R1 Warner
the Lives of a Bengal Lancer (Hathaway) R1 Universal
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Dieterle/Reinhardt) R1 Warner
Les Miserables (Boleslawski) R1 Fox
Mutiny on the Bounty (Lloyd) R1/A Warner
Naughty Marietta NTSC VHS MGM
David Copperfield (Cukor) R1 Warner
Ruggles of Red Gap (McCarey) R1 Universal MOD / R2/B MoC
Top Hat (Sandrich) R1 Warner
1936
Anthony Adverse (LeRoy/Curtiz) NTSC VHS Warner
Dodsworth (Wyler) R1 MGM
the Great Ziegfeld (Leonard) R1 Warner
Libeled Lady (Conway) R1 Warner
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Capra) R1 Columbia
Romeo and Juliet (Cukor) R1 Warner
San Francisco (Van Dyke) R1 Warner
the Story of Louis Pasteur (Dieterle) NTSC VHS MGM
A Tale of Two Cities (Conway/Leonard) R1 Warner
Three Smart Girls (Koster) R1 Universal
1937
the Awful Truth (McCarey) R1 Columbia
Captains Courageous (Fleming) R1 Warner
Dead End (Wyler) R1 MGM
the Good Earth (Franklin) R1 Warner
In Old Chicago (King) R1 Fox
the Life of Emile Zola (Dieterle) R1 Warner
Lost Horizon (Capra) R1 Columbia
One Hundred Men and a Girl (Koster) NTSC VHS Universal
Stage Door (La Cava) R1 Warner
A Star is Born (Wellman) PD
1938
the Adventures of Robin Hood (Curtiz/Keighley) R1/A Warner
Alexander's Ragtime Band (King) R1 Fox
Boys Town (Taurog) R1 Warner
the Citadel (Vidor) R1 Warner Archive
Four Daughters (Curtiz) R1 Warner Archives
Grand Illusion (Renoir) R1 Criterion / RA Studio Canal Lionsgate
Jezebel (Wyler) R1 Warner
Pygmalion (Asquith/Howard) R1 Criterion
Test Pilot (Fleming) NTSC VHS MGM
You Can't Take It With You (Capra) R1 Columbia
1939
Dark Victory (Goulding) R1 Warner
Gone With the Wind (Fleming) R1/A Warner
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Wood) R1 Warner
Love Affair (McCarey) PD- R1 Love a fair deal, go with the cheapest
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra) R1 Columbia
Ninotchka (Lubitsch) R1 Warner
Of Mice and Men (Milestone) R1 Image
Stagecoach (Ford) R1 Warner / R1/A Criterion
the Wizard of Oz (Fleming) R1/A Warner
Wuthering Heights (Wyler) R1 Warner
1940
All This, and Heaven Too (Litvak) R1 Warner
Foreign Correspondent (Hitchcock) R1 Warner
the Grapes of Wrath (Ford) R1 Fox
the Great Dictator (Chaplin) R1/A Criterion
Kitty Foyle: the Natural History of a Woman (Wood) R1 Warner
the Letter (Wyler) R1 Warner
the Long Voyage Home (Ford) R1 Warner
Our Town (Wood) PD- R1 Eenie or Meenie, either
the Philadelphia Story (Cukor) R1 Warner
Rebecca (Hitchcock) R1 Criterion / R1/A MGM
1941
Blossoms in the Dust (LeRoy) R1 Warner
Citizen Kane (Welles) R1/A Warner
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Hall) R1 Sony
Hold Back the Dawn (Leisen)
How Green Was My Valley (Ford) R1/A Fox
the Little Foxes (Wyler) R1 MGM
the Maltese Falcon (Huston) R1 Warner
One Foot in Heaven (Rapper)
Sgt. York (Hawks) R1 Warner
Suspicion (Hitchcock) R1 Warner
1942
49th Parallel (Powell) R1 Criterion
Kings Row (Wood) R1 Warner
the Magnificent Ambersons (Welles) R1 Warner
Mrs. Miniver (Wyler) R1/A Warner
the Pied Piper (Pichel)
the Pride of the Yankees (Wood) R1 MGM
Random Harvest (LeRoy) R1 Warner
the Talk of the Town (Stevens) R1 Columbia
Wake Island (Farrow) R1 Universal
Yankee Doodle Dandy (Curtiz) R1 Warner
1943
Casablanca (Curtiz) R1/A Warner
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Wood) R1 Universal
Heaven Can Wait (Lubitsch) R1 Criterion
the Human Comedy (Brown) R1 Warner Archives
In Which We Serve (Coward/Lean) R1/A Criterion
Madame Curie (LeRoy) R1 Warner
the More the Merrier (Stevens) R1 Sony
the Ox-Bow Incident (Wellman) R1 Fox
the Song of Bernadette (King) R1 Fox / RA Twilight Time
Watch on the Rhine (Shumlin/Mohr) R1 Warner
1944
Double Indemnity (Wilder) R1 Universal / RB MoC
Gaslight (Cukor) R1 Warner
Going My Way (McCarey) R1 Universal
Since You Went Away (Cromwell) R1 MGM
Wilson (King) R1 Fox MOD
1945
Anchors Aweigh (Sidney) R1 Warner
the Bells of St. Mary's (McCarey) R1 Republic
the Lost Weekend (Wilder) R1 Universal / RB MoC
Mildred Pierce (Curtiz) R1 Warner
Spellbound (Hitchcock) R1 Criterion / R1/A MGM
1946
the Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler) R1/A Warners
Henry V (Olivier) R1 Criterion
It's a Wonderful Life (Capra) R1/A Paramount
the Razor's Edge (Goulding) R1 Fox
the Yearling (Brown) R1 Warner
1947
the Bishop's Wife (Koster) R1/A Warners
Crossfire (Dmytryk) R1 Warner
Gentleman's Agreement (Kazan) R1/A Fox
Great Expectations (Lean) R1 Criterion
Miracle on 34th Street (Seaton) R1 Fox
1948
Hamlet (Olivier) R1 Criterion
Johnny Belinda (Negulesco) R1 Warner
the Red Shoes (Powell) R1/A Criterion
the Snake Pit (Litvak) R1 Fox
the Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston) R1/A Warner
1949
All the King's Men (Rossen) R1 Columbia
Battleground (Wellman) R1 Warner
the Heiress (Wyler) R1 Universal
A Letter to Three Wives (Mankiewicz) R1/A Fox
Twelve O'Clock High (King) R1/A Fox
1950
All About Eve (Mankiewicz) R1/A Fox
Born Yesterday (Cukor) R1 Columbia
Father of the Bride (Minnelli) R1 Warner
King Solomon's Mines (Bennett/Marton) R1 Warner
Sunset Blvd. (Wilder) R1/A Paramount
1951
An American in Paris (Minnelli) R1/A Warner
Decision Before Dawn (Litvak) R1 Fox
A Place in the Sun (Stevens) R1 Paramount
Quo Vadis (LeRoy/Mann) R1/A Warner
A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan) R1/A Warner
1952
the Greatest Show on Earth (DeMille) R1 Paramount
High Noon (Zinnemann) R1/A Olive
Ivanhoe (Thorpe) R1 Warner
Moulin Rouge (Huston) R1 MGM
the Quiet Man (Ford) R1/A Olive
1953
From Here to Eternity (Zinnemann) R1/A Sony
Julius Caesar (Mankiewicz) R1 Warner
the Robe (Koster) R1/A Fox
Roman Holiday (Wyler) R1 Paramount
Shane (Stevens) R1/A Paramount
1954
the Caine Mutiny (Dmytryk) R1/A Sony
the Country Girl (Seaton) R1 Paramount
On the Waterfront (Kazan) R1/A Criterion
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (Donen) R1 Warner
Three Coins in the Fountain (Negulesco) R1 Fox
1955
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (King) R1 Fox / RA Twilight Time
Marty (Mann) R1 MGM
Mister Roberts (Ford/LeRoy) R1 Warner
Picnic (Logan) RA Twilight Time / R1 Sony Kim Novak Collection (WS) - BEWARE of the R1 Sony standalone release (Cropped P+S)
the Rose Tattoo (Mann) R1 Paramount
1956
Around the World in Eighty Days (Anderson) R1 Warner
Friendly Persuasion (Wyler) R1 Universal
Giant (Stevens) R1/A Warner
the King and I (Lang) R1 Fox
the Ten Commandments (DeMille) R1/A Paramount
1957
the Bridge on the River Kwai (Lean) R1/A Sony
Peyton Place (Robson) R1 Fox
Sayonara (Logan) R1 MGM
12 Angry Men (Lumet) R1/A Criterion
Witness For the Prosecution (Wilder) R1 MGM
1958
Auntie Mame (DaCosta) R1 Warner
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Brooks) R1 Warner
the Defiant Ones (Kramer) R1 MGM
Gigi (Minnelli) R1/A Warner
Separate Tables (Mann) R1 MGM
1959
Anatomy of a Murder (Preminger) R1 Columbia (Open Matte) / R1/A Criterion (Widescreen)
Ben-Hur (Wyler) R1/A Warner
the Diary of Anne Frank (Stevens) R1/A Fox
the Nun's Story (Zinnemann) R1 Warner
Room at the Top (Clayton) R1 VCI
1960
the Alamo (Wayne) R1 MGM
the Apartment (Wilder) R1/A MGM
Elmer Gantry (Brooks) R1 MGM
Sons and Lovers (Cardiff) R4 Umbrella Entertainment
the Sundowners (Zinnemann) R1 Warner
1961
Fanny (Logan) R1 Image
Guns of Navarone (Thompson) R1/A Sony
the Hustler (Rossen) R1/A Fox
Judgment at Nuremberg (Kramer) R1 MGM
West Side Story (Wise/Robbins) R1/A MGM
1962
Lawrence of Arabia (Lean) R1/A Columbia
the Longest Day (Annakin/Marton/Wicki) R1/A Fox
the Music Man (DaCosta) R1/A Warner
Mutiny on the Bounty (Milestone/Reed) R1/A Warner
To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan) R1/A Universal
1963
America, America (Kazan) R1 Warners
Cleopatra (Mankiewicz) R1/A Fox
How the West Was Won (Ford/Hathaway/Marshall/Thorpe) R1/A Warner
Lilies of the Field (Nelson) R1 MGM
Tom Jones (Richardson) R1 MGM
1964
Becket (Glenville) R1/A MPI
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick) R1/A Sony
Mary Poppins (Stevenson) R1/A Walt Disney
My Fair Lady (Cukor) R1/A Warner/Paramount
Zorba the Greek (Cacoyannis) R1/A Fox
1965
Darling (Schlesinger) R1 MGM
Doctor Zhivago (Lean) R1/A Warner
Ship of Fools (Kramer) R1 Sony
the Sound of Music (Wise) R1/A Fox
A Thousand Clowns (Coe) R1 MGM MOD
1966
Alfie (Gilbert) R1 Paramount
A Man For All Seasons (Zinnemann) R1 Sony
the Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (Jewison) R1 MGM
the Sand Pebbles (Wise) R1/A Fox
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Nichols) R1 Warner
1967
Bonnie and Clyde (Penn) R1/A Warner
Doctor Dolittle (Fleischer) R1 Fox
the Graduate (Nichols) R1/A MGM
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Kramer) R1 Sony
In the Heat of the Night (Jewison) R1 MGM
1968
Funny Girl (Wyler) R1/A Sony
the Lion in Winter (Harvey) R1 MGM
Oliver! (Reed) R1 Sony
Rachel, Rachel (Newman) R1 Warner
Romeo and Juliet (Zeffirelli) R1 Paramount