The Most Honored Producer Hal B. Wallis holds the record for the producer with the most Best Picture nominations (19, although the award was not officially given to a film's producer before 1951). What nominated Wallis film was a 1942 musical biopic starring James Cagney?
And don't forget to click on over to All Good Things for round two of the March Madness/Best Actress tournament. Some tough match-ups today: Garbo v. Loy, Lombard v. Dietrich, Stanwyck v. Dunne and Shearer v. Colbert. Don't get left out of the action.
You know, I'm going to tote up all the right answers and hand out some sort of award to the winner (of the "pat on the back" variety). The smart money is you, Movie Nut!
Named for Katie-Bar-The-Door, the Katies are "alternate Oscars"—who should have been nominated, who should have won—but really they're just an excuse to write a history of the movies from the Silent Era to the present day.
To see a list of nominees and winners by decade, as well as links to my essays about them, click the highlighted links:
Remember: There are no wrong answers, only movies you haven't seen yet.
The Silent Oscars
And don't forget to check out the Silent Oscars—my year-by-year choices for best picture, director and all four acting categories for the pre-Oscar years, 1902-1927.
Look at me—Joe College, with a touch of arthritis. Are my eyes really brown? Uh, no, they're green. Would we have the nerve to dive into the icy water and save a person from drowning? That's a key question. I, of course, can't swim, so I never have to face it. Say, haven't you anything better to do than to keep popping in here early every morning and asking a lot of fool questions?
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You know, I'm going to tote up all the right answers and hand out some sort of award to the winner (of the "pat on the back" variety). The smart money is you, Movie Nut!
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