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 for June. Each evening also will 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, June 7th at 7:30 p.m.

(1929/30) Starring Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier, directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Sexual innuendo reached a new and delightfully sophisticated peak in this musical story of a Parisian tailor and his conquest of the Queen of Sylvania. It will be presented with a print restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The film received six nominations including Best Picture, Actor (Chevalier), Art Direction (Hans Dreier), Cinematography (Victor Milner), Directing (Lubitsch) and Sound Recording.

Monday, June 14th at 7:30 p.m.

(1930/31) Starring Jackie Cooper and Robert Coogan, directed by Norman Taurog. Based on the popular Percy Crosby comic strip of a young boy’s misadventures as he tries to save his Shantytown friend’s dog from the pound, the film received four nominations including Best Picture, Actor (Cooper) and Writing -- Adaptation (Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Sam Mintz). It earned an Oscar for Directing (Taurog).

Monday, June 21st at 7:30 p.m.

(1931/32) Starring Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper, directed by King Vidor. The success of this touching portrait of a washed-up boxer and his faithfully adoring son would lead to several later pairings of Beery and Cooper. The film received four nominations including Best Picture, Directing (Vidor) and Oscars for Actor (Beery) and Writing -- Original Story (Frances Marion).

Monday, June 28th at 7:30 p.m.

(1932/33) Starring May Robson and Warren William, directed by Frank Capra. Adapted from Damon Runyon’s “Madame La Gimp,” this charming story offers a poor street vendor a chance to transform herself with the help of a racketeer when her daughter returns after being raised abroad. The film’s four nominations included Best Picture, Actress (Robson), Directing (Capra) and Writing --Adaptation (Robert Riskin).

Additional titles in the “Great To Be Nominated” Monday night series include:
July 12th – One Night of Love (1934)
July 19th – Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
July 26th – Anthony Adverse (1936)
August 2nd – A Star is Born (1937)
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.