As the Depression, now its third year, ground on with no end in sight, movie goers and Oscar voters alike flocked to a big budget spectacl...

Much celebrated in her day, Norma Shearer's name is now met by many with derision — including, once upon a time, by the sock monkey w...

August 1, 1930-to-July 31, 1931, was one of those movie years where the list of the Academy's nominees and winners would give you a ...

The 1931 western Cimarron is on a short list of Oscar's most obscure best picture winners, and in a year that included such award-el...