In case you haven’t kept up with the torrid pace that I’ve been at in putting out new years for Solonor’s Oscar Do-Overs (57 entries in a year… not really as bad as I thought, actually), here are the winners so far:
Pre-1927: Intolerance
1927: Metropolis
1928: The Passion of Joan of Arc
1929: (tie) The Broadway Melody and Alibi
1930: All Quiet on the Western Front
1931: Frankenstein
1932: A Farewell to Arms
1933: Duck Soup
1934: (tie) It Happened One Night and The Thin Man
1935: A Night at the Opera
1936: Modern Times
1937: (tie) Lost Horizon and A Day at the Races
1938: Bringing Up Baby
1939: The Wizard of Oz
1940: Rebecca
1941: Citizen Kane
1942: Casablanca
1943: For Whom the Bell Tolls
1944: Arsenic and Old Lace
1945: Spellbound
1946: It’s A Wonderful Life
1947: Gentleman’s Agreement
1948: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949: The Third Man
1950: Sunset Boulevard
1951: Strangers on a Train
1952: High Noon
1953: The War of the Worlds
1954: Rear Window
1955: Mister Roberts
1956: The King and I
Ahhh! A fellow Marx Bros. fan, I see!
Wheeee!
I’ll get up at 4AM to watch a Thin Man movie. Does anyone else think Mynra Loy was reincarnated in Debra Messing?
Gratuitous Linkage
I’m feeling happy and perky today, so I figured I’d hand out as much gratuitous linkage as I can squeeze in before my mood changes again. So…….