Favorite Movies by Year --WMK
WMK's five nominees for Best Movie; from 1930 on, followed by rest of Top Ten.
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- DirectorGeorge W. HillStarsMarie DresslerWallace BeeryDorothy JordanMin, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.Other Nominees: All Quiet on the Western Front, Cimarron, M, The Public Enemy // Animal Crackers, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, City Streets, An American Tragedy, Dracula
- DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsGreta GarboJohn BarrymoreJoan CrawfordA group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.Other Nominees: Frankenstein, The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Shanghai Express, The Most Dangerous Game // Red Dust, Smilin' Through, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, One Way Passage, Trouble in Paradise
- DirectorMerian C. CooperErnest B. SchoedsackStarsFay WrayRobert ArmstrongBruce CabotA film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde starlet, and bring him back to New York City.Other Nominees: Cavalcade, 42nd Street, The Invisible Man, Morning Glory // Footlight Parade, The World Gone Mad, When Ladies Meet, Baby Face, Ever in My Heart
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsMarie DresslerJohn BarrymoreWallace BeeryAffluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal.Other Nominees: The Thin Man, Imitation of Life, Of Human Bondage, Marie Galante // L'Atalante, The Gay Divorcee, It Happened One Night, The Merry Widow, Twentieth Century
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsCharles LaughtonClark GableFranchot ToneFirst mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.Other Nominees: Lives of a Bengal Lancer, David Copperfield, Bride of Frankenstein, Things to Come // The 39 Steps, Les Liserables, The Informer, Alice Adams, Dangerous
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsClark GableJeanette MacDonaldSpencer TracyA Barbary Coast saloonkeeper and a Nob Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally and professionally, in 1906 San Francisco.Other Nominees: Dodsworth, Fury, Anthony Adverse, The Great Ziegfeld // These Three, Theodora Goes Wild, The Petrified Forest, Come and Get It, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
- DirectorSidney FranklinVictor FlemingGustav MachatýStarsPaul MuniLuise RainerWalter ConnollyAlthough married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.Other Nominees: Lost Horizon, The Hurricane, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Dead End // In Old Chicago, The Awful Truth, The Edge of the World, Stage Door, Stella Dallas
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJean ArthurJames StewartLionel BarrymoreThe son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.Other Nominees: Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Lady Vanishes, Jezebel, The Citadel // Algiers, Angels With Dirty Faces, The Sisters, Bringing Up Baby, Drums
- DirectorVictor FlemingGeorge CukorSam WoodStarsClark GableVivien LeighThomas MitchellA sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.Other Nominees: The Women, The Rains Came, Drums Along the Mohawk, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington // Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, On Borrowed Time, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Destry Rides Again
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsLaurence OlivierJoan FontaineGeorge SandersA self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.Other Nominees: The Grapes of Wrath, The Letter, The Great Dictator, The Philadelphia Story // Kitty Foyle, Fantasia, Pinocchio, Foreign Correspondent, The Stars Look Down
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy ComingoreFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'Other Nominees: How Green Was My Valley, The Maltese Falcon, Dumbo, The Little Foxes // Sullivan's Travels, Meet John Doe, High Sierra, Suspicion, The Lady Eve
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGreer GarsonWalter PidgeonTeresa WrightA British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.Other Nominees: Reap the Wild Wind, Random Harvest, Bambi, Kings Row // Holiday Inn, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Cat People, To Be or Not To Be, Saboteur
- DirectorFred M. WilcoxStarsRoddy McDowallDonald CrispMay WhittyAfter her destitute family is forced to sell her, a collie named Lassie escapes from her new owner and begins the long trek from Scotland to her Yorkshire home.Other Nominees: The Ox-Bow Incident, Casablanca, Shadow of a Doubt, The Human Comedy // Watch on the Rhine, In Which We Serve, So Proudly We Hail, Madame Curie, Song of Bernadette
- DirectorOtto PremingerRouben MamoulianStarsGene TierneyDana AndrewsClifton WebbA police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.Other Nominees: Meet Me in St. Louis, The Story of Dr. Wassell, Arsenic and Old Lace, Mr. Skeffington // Double Indemnity, Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, Dragon Seed, White Cliffs of Dover, Since You Went Away, Tomorrow the World
- DirectorWalter LangStarsJeanne CrainDana AndrewsDick HaymesEach member of the Frake clan has his/her own reason for attending the annual Iowa State Fair.SOther Nominees: National Velvet, Leave Her to Heaven, The House on 92nd Street, A Thousand and One Nights // The Picture of Dorian Gray, Mildred Pierce, Sudan, The Keys of the Kingdom, And Then There Were None
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsDorothy McGuireGeorge BrentEthel BarrymoreIn 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions"; one night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.Other Nominees: The Jolson Story, Duel in the Sun, The Yearling, The Best Years of Our Lives // Gilda, The Razor's Edge, Notorious, My Darling Clementine, The Harvey Girls
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsVan HeflinLana TurnerDonna ReedA young man loved by two sisters becomes a naval officer and sails to New Zealand, where he drunkenly writes a marriage proposal to the wrong sister, profoundly affecting the life of the other.Other Nominees: The Red House, Life With Father, Black Narcissus,Great Expectations // Out of the Past, The Paradine Case, The Foxes of Harrow, Nora Prentiss, The Egg and I
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn WayneGail RussellGig YoungDuring the 1860s in the South Pacific, Capt. Ralls, skipper of the Red Witch, has a series of adventures involving sunken gold bullion, pearls, natives, an unscrupulous ship owner and a giant octopus.Other Nominees: The Snake Pit, Key Largo, Sorry Wrong Number, Good Sam // Sitting Pretty, Johnny Belinda, I Remember Mama, Sleep My Love, Red River
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsDavid BrianClaude Jarman Jr.Juano HernandezIn 1940s Mississippi, two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.Other Nominees: All the King's Men, Streets of Laredo, Pinky, A Letter to Three Wives // The Fallen Idol, The Window, Edward My Son, Mighty Joe Young, Sands of Iwo Jima
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsJudy HollidayWilliam HoldenBroderick CrawfordA tycoon hires a tutor to teach his lover proper etiquette, with unexpected results.Other Nominees: Harvey, King Solomon's Mines, The Third Man, Riding High // Cheaper by the Dozen, Three Secrets, Sunset Boulevard, Rocketship X-M, Ticket to Tomahawk
- DirectorChristian NybyHoward HawksStarsKenneth TobeyMargaret SheridanJames ArnessScientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.Other Nominees: When Worlds Collide, The Lemon Drop Kid, Fourteen Hours, Strangers on a Train // Show Boat, The African Queen, The Day the Earth Stood Still, That's My Boy, Quo Vadis
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsGary CooperGrace KellyThomas MitchellA town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at "high noon" when the gang leader, an outlaw he "sent up" years ago, arrives on the noon train.Other Nominees: The Greatest Show on Earth, Singin' in the Rain, The Bad and the Beautiful, Sudden Fear // Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Narrow Margin, Diplomatic Courier, The Quiet Man, With a Song in My Heart
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsClifton WebbBarbara StanwyckRobert WagnerAn unhappily married couple struggle to deal with their problems while on board the luxurious, ill-fated RMS Titanic.Other Nominees: Shane, The Robe, Niagara, Stalag 17 // War of the Worlds, Lili, From Here to Eternity, It Came from Outer Space, Destination Gobi
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsJohn WayneClaire TrevorLaraine DayWhen a commercial airliner develops engine problems on a trans-Pacific flight and the pilot loses his nerve, it is up to the washed-up co-pilot Dan Roman to bring the plane in safely.Other Nominees: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Caine Mutiny, Rear Window, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea // The Naked Jungle, Witness to Murder, Track of the Cat, Elephant Walk, Carmen Jones
- DirectorJoshua LoganStarsWilliam HoldenKim NovakBetty FieldEmotions are ignited among the complacent townsfolk when a handsome drifter arrives in a small Kansas community on the morning of the Labor Day picnic.Other Nominees: East of Eden, Trial, Oklahoma, Pete Kelly's Blues // Night of the Hunter, Mr. Roberts, Battle Cry, The Desperate Hours, The Blackboard Jungle