The Great Ziegfeld competed for the Best Picture Oscar with nine other films: Anthony Adverse, Dodsworth, Libeled Lady, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Romeo and Juliet, San Francisco, The Story of Louis Pasteur, A Tale of Two Cities, and Three Smart Girls. The other most nominated films were William Wyler's Dodsworth, with 7 citations, winning one, for Richard Day's Interior Decoration, and Anthony Adverse, which won the largest number of awards (4) of it 7 nominations.
Oscar Movies: Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
December 25, 2006 by
Mutiny on the Bounty is still the only film in Oscar’s history, in which three actors were nominated in the lead category (probably canceling each other out), plus Gable had won the Oscar the year before; the winner was Victor McLaglen for The Informer.
Oscar Movies: Broadway Melody, MGM Musical–One of Worst Best Picture Winners
December 25, 2006 by
MGM's “Broadway Melody” competed for the Best Picture Oscar with four other films: MGM's other big musical that year, “Hollywood Revue of 1929,” UA's drama “Alibi,” Fox's Western “In Old Arizona,” and Paramount's The Patriot.”
Oscar Movies: Rebecca (1940)
December 25, 2006 by
Like Hitchcock, who was represented in the Oscar race with Rebecca and Foreign Correspondence, John Ford also had two movies in contention: The Grapes of Wrath, starring Henry Fonda, and The Long Voyage Home with John Wayne.
Oscar Movies: Gone With the Wind (1939)
December 25, 2006 by
At Oscar time, the David O. Selznick movie (released by MGM) achieved a record with its multiple Oscar nominations, winning 8 (10, if you include the Special Oscars for Selznick and for William Cameron Menzies for use of color enhancement).
