The “Great To Be Nominated” series, featuring the picture from each Academy year which received the most nominations without winning the Best Picture Award, continues with four more titles. Each evening will also include animated and live action short subjects, original advertising trailers, out-takes, newsreels and other surprises to recreate an evening at the movies of that particular year. The very best prints available will be screened at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater, one of the finest screening facilities in the world.

Monday, July 12th at 7:30 p.m.

(1934) Starring Grace Moore and Lyle Talbot, directed by Victor Schertzinger. This musical tale of an aspiring opera singer and her perfectionist instructor who try desperately to avoid falling in love was nominated for six Oscars including Best Picture, Actress (Moore), Directing (Schertzinger) and Editing (Gene Milford), with wins for Music (Louis Silvers) and Sound Recording (John Livadary). It also received a Scientific and Technical award for its method of sound recording. The feature will be preceded by cartoon nominee Holiday Land and the short subject Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove.

Monday, July 19th at 7:30 p.m.

(1935) Starring Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone, directed by Henry Hathaway. This bold adventure film is set in colonial India as the British 41st Bengal Lancers fight against the Indian rebels. It received seven Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Art Direction (Hans Dreier), Directing (Hathaway), Editing (Ellsworth Hoagland), Sound Recording (Franklin Hansen) and Writing—Adaptation (Screenplay by Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston and Achmed Abdullah; Adaptation by Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt). It received an Oscar in the Assistant Director category (Clem Beauchamp and Paul Wing). The feature will be preceded by cartoon nominee Who Killed Cock Robin? and live-action short subject nominee Tit for Tat.

Monday, July 26th at 7:30 p.m.

(1936) Starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland, directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Based on Hervey Allen’s bestselling epic novel, this 19th century drama portrays the life of a young hero struggling against the dangers of the Napoleonic era. The film received seven nominations including Best Picture, Art Direction (Anton Grot) and Assistant Director (William Cannon), with Oscars received for Actress in a Supporting Role (Gale Sondergaard, winning in the category’s first year), Cinematography (Gaetano Gaudio), Editing (Ralph Dawson) and Music Scoring (Erich Wolfgang Korngold). The feature will be preceded by cartoon nominee Popeye Meets Sinbad and live-action short subject nominee Bored of Education.

And first up next month...

Monday, August 2nd at 7:30 p.m.

(1937) Starring Fredric March and Janet Gaynor, directed by William Wellman. This classic story of an aging self-destructive film star and the young movie hopeful he falls in love with will be presented in glorious color in a restored print from the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The production received seven nominations including Best Picture, Actor (March), Actress (Gaynor), Assistant Director (Eric Stacey), Directing (Wellman), Writing—Screenplay (Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell and Robert Carson), and won the Oscar for Writing – Original Story (William Wellman and Robert Carson). W. Howard Greene also received a special award for his color photography. The feature will be preceded by cartoon nominee Little Match Girl and live-action short subject nominee A Night at the Movies.

Additional titles in the “Great To Be Nominated” Monday night series include:
August 9th – Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938)
August 16th – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Previous titles in the "Great To Be Nominated" Monday night series may be found here: May titles  |  June titles