31 Days of Oscar


January 23, 2025
31 Days Of Oscar

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February 1 kicks off a special time of the year, TCM’s annual 31 Days of Oscar showcase! Cementing its 31st year, the next 31 days are dedicated to celebrating Academy Award-winning and nominated films throughout history leading up to the 97th annual Academy Awards airing live on March 2. This year’s offerings begin with one Paul Muni biopic, the Best Picture winner The Life of Emile Zola (1937), and conclude early on March 4 with another, The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936), for which Muni won his only Best Actor Oscar. In between, the series spans 1928-2017 and is organized in a unique, fun way. Daytime programming features winners and nominees grouped by Oscar category (with weekends reserved for Best Picture), while the primetime/overnight hours are devoted to nominated and winning actors grouped by the types of characters they portray: Oscar-Worthy Teachers, Prisoners, Patients, Cowboys and so on.

This allows for some enjoyable and offbeat groupings. Take Oscar-Worthy Criminals on February 3: four all-time essential and beloved films are mixed with one that deserves to be far better known. First is The Sting (1973), which earned Robert Redford his only acting nomination as the small-time grifter Johnny Hooker, who teams with Paul Newman’s Henry Gondorff in Depression-era Chicago to pull off the biggest con of their lives. Both stars generate so much chemistry that even now it’s surprising they only worked together twice. The Sting catapulted Redford to the top of the industry list of money-making stars, a ranking he held for three years.

The influential gangster classic Bonnie and Clyde (1967) stands as one of nine films in Oscar history to garner five acting nominations—for Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Michael J. Pollard and Estelle Parsons, who won Best Supporting Actress for her turn as the shrewish Blanche Yarrow. While she famously—or infamously—shrieks through the film, Yarrow also provides some of its most haunting moments and is unforgettable in the role. 

Barbara Stanwyck set the mold for film noir femmes fatales in Double Indemnity (1944), earning her third of four Oscar nominations. Keep an eye out for a shot that holds on her in the back seat of a car, as her face registers the unseen murder happening in the front seat—a great bit of acting and as icy a noir moment as they come. Sam Jaffe, meanwhile, received his only career nomination for The Asphalt Jungle (1950), a classic heist noir in which he plays a criminal mastermind with a mischievous glint. “One way or another, we all work for our vice,” he says, and his own vice will memorably do him in.

The final film of the bunch is the excellent Algiers (1938), which not only nabbed Charles Boyer the second of his four career acting nominations but propelled him to top stardom. While the film is unfortunately not revived much today, Algiers made both Boyer and Hedy Lamarr household names, with Boyer forever cemented as the consummate French lover of Hollywood cinema. He plays Pepe, a criminal king hiding in the native quarter of Algiers known as the Casbah. Perhaps only Boyer could convincingly woo his lover by telling her that she reminds him of the Paris subway—which prompts a delirious sequence in which he and Lamarr romantically recite the names of subway stops.

In a cheeky bit of scheduling, a night of Oscar-Worthy Prostitutes on February 13 is followed on Valentine’s Day by Oscar-Worthy Lovers. The prostitutes range from pre-Code Greta Garbo (Anna Christie, 1930) and Helen Hayes (The Sin of Madelon Claudet, 1931) to Elizabeth Taylor (BUtterfield 8, 1960) and Jane Fonda (Klute, 1971), but also included is the little-remembered Marjorie Rambeau, who earned a Best Supporting Actress nod for Primrose Path (1940).

Directed by Gregory La Cava, it’s a gem in which Rambeau supports her family—which includes her no-good alcoholic husband and their two daughters—by prostituting herself. Her mother, also a former sex worker, lives in the same shantytown shack, and all this sordid home life presents a problem for daughter Ginger Rogers as she starts a tenuous romance with Joel McCrea. Rambeau is unforgettable: a wise and world-weary mother who understands life and compassionately supports her daughter. “Somebody’s gotta take care of the family,” she tells Rogers, “And while it ain’t just like I might have asked for, I done the best I knew how.” Rambeau’s performance will tug at your heartstrings.

Among the daytime programming, February 5 is notable for honoring a category that went defunct after 1956: Best Original Story. The history of Oscar’s writing categories is convoluted. At various times since 1928, there have been awards for Original Story, Motion Picture Story, Original Motion Picture Story, Story and Screenplay, Original Screenplay, Screenplay, Adapted Screenplay and Writing. (Today there are awards for Original Screenplay and Adapted Screenplay.) Best Original Story was meant to honor what might be considered the screenplay’s treatment: the overall action and progression of the story without the dialogue. In the studio era, the story and screenplay for a particular film were often assigned to different writers, so there was a logic to the differentiation. 

Included within the seven films showcased for their nominations or wins in that category, One Way Passage (1932) stands out for a deeply romantic and wrenching story that still brings audiences to tears. It’s the tale of a doomed love affair between a dying woman and a condemned convict who meet aboard an ocean liner headed for San Francisco. The final pairing of stars William Powell and Kay Francis, the film is arguably the finest of the six they made together. Robert Lord won the Original Story Oscar, but his win was tinged with some irony. Director Tay Garnett, who had started as a writer himself, recounted that there had been several screenplay drafts prepared from Lord’s story, and none had worked because they were too purely tragic, a tough sell in the Depression Era. Garnett had the idea to inject some comedy and lightness as a counterpoint to the somber plot. Warner Bros. liked the approach and assigned him to write a new treatment and direct the film. (Writers Wilson Mizner and Joseph Jackson also contributed to the final script.) Garnett chose not to take any writing credit because, as he said, it was his first film for the studio, and he didn’t want to press his luck. Be that as it may, the story, direction, performances and overall film have stood the test of time beautifully and should not be missed.

The last writer to receive a Best Original Story Oscar was Dalton Trumbo for The Brave One (1956), a touching tale of a peasant boy in Mexico who befriends a bull destined for the bullring. Trumbo, however, didn’t receive his Oscar until 1975. He had been credited onscreen under the pseudonym Robert Rich because he was blacklisted at the time for his personal political beliefs. No one showed up to accept the Oscar at the 1957 Academy Awards, and it went unclaimed until 1975, when it was presented to Trumbo with his name rightfully engraved on its base. Trumbo died a year later. In 2000, his name was restored to the film’s credits for all future screenings and airings.

TCM is presenting two days’ worth of films in the Best Original Song category, and the first on February 7, is devoted almost entirely to the 1930s and 1940s, a golden age for American standards. The embarrassment of riches in that era’s songwriting is well illustrated by the fact that Cole Porter’s “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” in Born to Dance (1936), was nominated but didn’t win the award. This sounds astonishing until one realizes that the winner that year was Jerome Kern for “The Way You Look Tonight,” another now-iconic standard, in Swing Time (1936), which can be seen on February 14.

The art of film editing has often been best demonstrated by action movies, and some prime examples are in store on February 19. Bullitt (1968) is prized for arguably the most thrilling, gravity-defying car chase ever put to film, and editor Frank P. Keller likely won the Academy Award for that sequence alone. The Great Escape (1963) and The Dirty Dozen (1967), meanwhile, are exhilarating World War II dramas—the former about an attempted escape from a POW camp, and the latter about a motley group of convicts assigned to what is likely to be a suicide commando mission. Both films are lengthy (172 and 150 minutes, respectively), but they both contain razor-sharp, fluid editing that makes those running times feel much briefer.

One of The Great Escape’s signature moments comes when Steve McQueen’s character steals a motorcycle and jumps it over a six-foot-high barbed wire fence. To achieve the jump, which was performed by stunt double Bud Ekins, a depression was dug into the ground to allow for a natural ramp-like incline. McQueen rides from a close-up into a long shot toward the fence, and a perfectly timed cut then picks up Ekins riding the bike up and over. As critic Sheila O’Malley has written, “Editor Ferris Webster deserved his Oscar nomination for that cut alone. The illusion that it is the actor himself is total.”

The Dirty Dozen was edited by Michael Luciano, who had started in poverty row films of the 1930s and worked his way up in the industry to become the most frequent editor for director Robert Aldrich. Luciano’s four Oscar nominations were all for Aldrich films, including The Dirty Dozen, whose long, climactic commando raid sequence remains a model of action movie editing: fluid, lean and completely cinematic in how the cutting is used to tell the story.

All in all, from silent movies to six relatively recent titles making their TCM premieres— Working Girl (1988), Henry V (1989), The Madness of King George (1994), The Fighter (2010), Amour (2012) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)—these 31 days and nights truly offer something for everyone. 

For the full list of programming, please see below or check out the PDF schedule.

All primetime titles feature the nominated or winning actor in parentheses.  

Saturday, February 1


Best Picture Winners and Nominees

  6:00 AM          The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
  8:00 AM          The Broadway Melody of 1936 (1936)
  9:45 AM          The Great Dictator (1940)
12:00 PM           Sounder (1972)
  2:00 PM           Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
  4:00 PM           12 Angry Men (1957)
  6:00 PM           In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Oscar Worthy Actors

  8:00 PM           All About Eve (1950) (Bette Davis, Anne Baxter)
10:30 PM           Singin' in the Rain (1952) (Jean Hagen)
12:30 AM          A Star is Born (1937) (Fredric March, Janet Gaynor)
  2:30 AM          The Goodbye Girl (1977) (Richard Dreyfuss)
  4:30 AM          Morning Glory (1933) (Katharine Hepburn)

Sunday, February 2 


Best Picture Winners and Nominees 

  6:00 AM          Smilin' Through (1932)
  7:45 AM          Four Daughters (1938)
  9:30 AM          All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
12:00 PM           A Passage to India (1984)
  3:00 PM           Tom Jones (1963)
  5:15 PM           Oliver! (1968)

Oscar Worthy Teachers

  8:00 PM           Mr. Holland 's Opus (1995) (Richard Dreyfuss)
10:30 PM           The Miracle Worker (1962) (Anne Bancroft)
12:30 AM          The Paper Chase (1973) (John Houseman)
  2:30 AM          Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) (Robert Donat)
  4:30 AM          Rachel, Rachel (1968) (Joanne Woodward)

Monday, February 3


Best Art Direction Winners and Nominees

  6:15 AM           The Merry Widow (1934)
  8:00 AM           Pride and Prejudice (1940)
10:00 AM           Little Women (1949)
12:15 PM            Young Bess (1953)
  2:15 PM            Kismet (1944)
  4:00 PM           Brigadoon (1954)
  6:00 PM           Annie Get Your Gun (1950)

Oscar Worthy Criminals

  8:00 PM           The Sting (1973) (Robert Redford)
10:15 PM           Bonnie and Clyde (1967) (Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons)
12:15 AM          Double Indemnity (1944) (Barbara Stanwyck)
  2:15 AM          The Asphalt Jungle (1950) (Sam Jaffe)
  4:15 AM          Algiers (1938) (Charles Boyer)

Tuesday, February 4


Best Original Screenplay Winners and Nominees

  6:00 AM          In Which We Serve (1942)
  8:00 AM          Foreign Correspondent (1940)
10:15 AM          The North Star (1943)
12:15 PM           The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
  2:00 PM           Designing Woman (1957)
  4:00 PM           Adam's Rib (1949)
  6:00 PM           The Band Wagon (1953)

Oscar Worthy Eccentrics

  8:00 PM           Harvey (1950) (James Stewart)
10:00 PM           Auntie Mame (1958) (Rosalind Russell)
12:30 AM          Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) (Gary Cooper)
  2:45 AM          Being There (1979) (Peter Sellers)
  5:00 AM          Travels with My Aunt (1972) (Maggie Smith)

Wednesday, February 5


Original Story Winners and Nominees

 7:00 AM           The Doorway to Hell (1930)
 8:45 AM           One Way Passage (1932)
 10:00 AM         Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
11:45 AM          Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
  2:00 PM           The Stratton Story (1949)
  4:00 PM           Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
  6:15 PM           The Brave One (1956)

Oscar Worthy Royals

  8:00 PM           Mrs. Brown (1997) (Judi Dench)
10:00 PM           The Lion in Winter (1968) (Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn)
12:30 AM          The Madness of King George (1994) (Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren)
  2:30 AM          Marie Antoinette (1938) (Norma Shearer, Robert Morley)
  5:15 AM          The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) (Charles Laughton)

Thursday, February 6


Best Cinematography Winners and Nominees

  7:15 AM          The Great Waltz (1938)
  9:15 AM          Strangers on a Train (1951)
11:15 AM          The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
  1:30 PM           Gypsy (1962)
  4:00 PM           Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
  6:00 PM           She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

Oscar Worthy Seafarers

  8:00 PM           Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) (Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone)
10:30 PM           Captains Courageous (1937) (Spencer Tracy)
12:45 AM          Ship of Fools (1965) (Oskar Werner, Simone Signoret, Michael Dunn)
  3:30 AM          The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) (Debbie Reynolds)
  5:45 AM          The Old Man and the Sea (1958) (Spencer Tracy)

Friday, February 7 


Best Original Song Winners and Nominees

  7:15 AM          Blues in the Night (1941)
  8:45 AM          Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
10:30 AM          Born to Dance (1936)
12:30 PM           Cabin in the Sky (1943)
  2:15 PM           Strike Up the Band (1940)
  4:30 PM           The Harvey Girls (1946)
  6:15 PM           Calamity Jane (1953)

Oscar Worthy Patients

  8:00 PM           Three Faces of Eve (1957) (Joanne Woodward)
10:00 PM           Love Story (1970) (Ali McGraw)
12:00 AM          Amour (2012) (Emmanuelle Riva)
  2:15 AM          Interrupted Melody (1955) (Eleanor Parker)
  4:15 AM          Camille (1936) (Greta Garbo)

Saturday, February 8


Best Picture Winners and Nominees

  6:15 AM          Flirtation Walk (1934)

  8:15 AM          Here Comes the Navy (1934)
10:00 AM          Captain Blood (1935)
12:15  PM          Cimarron (1931)
  2:30 PM           How the West Was Won (1962)
  5:30 PM           All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Oscar Worthy Moms

  8:00 PM           Places in the Heart (1984) (Sally Field)
10:00 PM           Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) (Frances McDormand)
12:15 AM          Imitation of Life (1959) (Juanita Moore)
  2:30 AM          Mildred Pierce (1945) (Joan Crawford)
  4:30 AM          Mrs. Miniver (1942) (Greer Garson)

Sunday, February 9


Best Picture Winners and Nominees

  6:45 AM             One Foot in Heaven (1941)
  8:45 AM             The Good Earth (1937)
11:15 AM             Lady for a Day (1933)
  1:00 PM              Libeled Lady (1936)
  2:45 PM              Gigi (1958)
  5:00 PM              My Fair Lady (1964)

Oscar Worthy Lawyers

  8:00 PM           To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) (Gregory Peck)
10:15 PM           Witness for the Prosecution (1957) (Charles Laughton)
12:30 AM          Inherit the Wind (1960) (Spencer Tracy)
  2:45 AM          Trial (1955) (Arthur Kennedy)
  4:45 AM          A Free Soul (1931) (Lionel Barrymore)

Monday, February 10


Best Art Direction Winners and Nominees

  6:30 AM          Rashomon (1950)
  8:15 AM          The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
10:00 AM          The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
12:00 PM           America America (1963)
  3:00 PM           Moulin Rouge (1952)
  5:30 PM           The Red Shoes (1948)

Oscar Worthy Kids

  8:00 PM           Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) (Justin Henry)
10:00 PM           Shane (1953) (Brandon De Wilde)
12:15 AM          These Three (1936) (Bonita Granville)
  2:00 AM          Skippy (1931) (Jackie Cooper)
  3:45 AM          The Bad Seed (1956) (Nancy Kelly)

Tuesday, February 11


Best Original Screenplay Winners and Nominees

  6:00 AM          The Seventh Veil (1945)
  8:00 AM          Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)
  9:30 AM          I Vitelloni (1953)
11:30 AM          The 400 Blows (1959)
  1:15 PM           Splendor in the Grass (1961)
  3:30 PM           The Candidate (1972)
  5:30 PM           North by Northwest (1959)

Oscar Worthy Drama Queens

  8:00 PM           Jezebel (1938) (Bette Davis)
10:00 PM           A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) (Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter)
12:15 AM          Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) (Elizabeth Taylor)
  2:45 AM          Johnny Belinda (1948) (Jane Wyman)
  4:45 AM          Possessed (1947) (Joan Crawford) 

Wednesday, February 12


Best Original Score Winners and Nominees

  6:45 AM          Summer of '42 (1971)
  8:30 AM          Easter Parade (1948)
10:15 AM          Camelot (1967)
  1:15 PM           Anchors Aweigh (1945)
  3:45 PM           On the Town (1949)
  5:30 PM           Oklahoma! (1955)

Oscar Worthy Boxers

  8:00 PM           The Champ (1931) (Wallace Beery)
  9:45 PM           The Fighter (2010) (Christian Bale)
12:00 AM          Raging Bull (1980) (Robert De Niro)

Thursday, February 13


Best Cinematography Winners and Nominees

  2:15 AM          Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)        
  4:15 AM          Cries and Whispers (1972) 
  6:15 AM          White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)
  8:00 AM          The Naked City (1948)
10:00 AM          The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
12:00 PM           The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
  2:00 PM           Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)         
  4:00 PM           National Velvet (1944)
  6:15 PM           Black Narcissus (1947)

Oscar Worthy Prostitutes 

  8:00 PM           The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) (Helen Hayes)
  9:30 PM           BUtterfield 8 (1960) (Elizabeth Taylor)
11:30 PM           Klute (1971) (Jane Fonda)
  1:30 AM          Primrose Path (1940) (Marjorie Rambeau)
  3:30 AM          Anna Christie (1930) (Greta Garbo) 

Friday, February 14


Best Original Song Winners and Nominees

  5:15 AM          A Star is Born (1954)
  8:15 AM          The Sandpiper (1965)
10:15 AM          Dear Heart (1964)
12:15 PM           Swing Time (1936)
  2:00 PM           The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
  4:00 PM           The Tender Trap (1955)
  6:00 PM           High Society (1956)

Oscar Worthy Lovers (Valentine's Day)

  8:00 PM           Casablanca (1942) (Humphrey Bogart)
10:00 PM           Marty (1955) (Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair)
12:00 AM          Pillow Talk (1959) (Doris Day)
  2:00 AM          Now, Voyager (1942) (Bette Davis)
  4:00 AM             Brief Encounter (1945) (Celia Johnson)     

Saturday, February 15


Best Picture Winners and Nominees

  5:30 AM          The Racket (1928)
  7:00 AM          The Big House (1930)
  8:30 AM          A Farewell to Arms (1932)
10:15 AM          The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
12:15 PM           Mister Roberts (1955)
  2:30 PM           The Yearling (1946)
  4:45 PM           Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

Oscar Worthy Cowboys  

  8:00 PM           True Grit (1969) (John Wayne)
10:15 PM           Cat Ballou (1965) (Lee Marvin)
12:00 AM          Giant (1956) (James Dean, Rock Hudson)
  3:30 AM          The Westerner (1940) (Walter Brennan) 

Sunday, February 16


Best Picture Winners and Nominees

  5:30 AM          A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
  8:00 AM          Alice Adams (1935)
10:00 AM          Watch on the Rhine (1943)
12:00 PM           Top Hat (1935)
  2:00 PM           The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
  4:00 PM           Ben-Hur (1959)

Oscar Worthy New Yorkers

  8:00 PM           West Side Story (1961) (George Chakiris, Rita Moreno)
10:45 PM           Annie Hall (1977) (Diane Keaton, Woody Allen)
12:30 AM          Working Girl (1988) (Melanie Griffith, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Cusack)
  2:30 AM          The Apartment (1960) (Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Kruschen)
  4:45 AM          Dog Day Afternoon (1975) (Al Pacino, Chris Sarandon)

Monday, February 17


Best Foreign Film Winners and Nominees

  7:00 AM          Loves of a Blonde (1966)
  8:30 AM          The Virgin Spring (1960)
10:00 AM          Kapo (1960)
12:00 PM           The Burmese Harp (1956)
  2:00 PM           Babette's Feast (1987)
  4:00 PM           Mon oncle (1958)
  6:00 PM           La strada (1954)

Oscar Worthy Politicians

  8:00 PM           All the King's Men (1949) (Broderick Crawford)
10:00 PM           Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) (James Stewart, Claude Rains, Harry Carey)
12:15 AM          The Best Man (1964) (Lee Tracy)
  2:15 AM          Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) (Raymond Massey)

And First Ladies 

  4:15 AM          Sunrise at Campobello (1960) (Greer Garson)
  6:45 AM          The Gorgeous Hussy (1936) (Beulah Bondi)

Tuesday, February 18


Best Adapted Winners and Nominees

  8:30 AM          Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
10:15 AM          Pygmalion (1938)
12:00 PM           Room at the Top (1959)
  2:00 PM           Blackboard Jungle (1955)
  3:45 PM           Father of the Bride (1950)
  5:30 PM           Friendly Persuasion (1956)

Oscar Worthy Shakespearean Characters

  8:00 PM           Hamlet (1948) (Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons)
10:45 PM           Henry V (1989) (Kenneth Branagh)
  1:15 AM          Romeo and Juliet (1936) (Norma Shearer, Basil Rathbone)
  3:30 AM          Julius Caesar (1953) (Marlon Brando)

Wednesday, February 19


Best Editing Winners and Nominees

  5:45 AM          Air Force (1943)
  8:00 AM          Odd Man Out (1947)
10:00 AM          Z (1969)
12:15 PM           The Dirty Dozen (1967)
  3:00 PM           The Great Escape (1963)
  6:00 PM           Bullitt (1968)

Oscar Worthy Teens

  8:00 PM           Rebel Without a Cause (1955) (Sal Mineo, Natalie Wood)     
10:00 PM           The Last Picture Show (1971) (Jeff Bridges)
12:15 AM          American Graffiti (1973) (Candy Clark)
  2:15 AM          The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968) (Sondra Locke)
  4:30 AM          The Human Comedy (1943) (Mickey Rooney)

Thursday, February 20


Best Director Winners and Nominees

  6:30 AM          The Crowd (1928)
  8:15 AM          The Divine Lady (1929)
10:15 AM          Stage Door (1937)
12:15 PM           Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
  2:00 PM           The Search (1948)
  4:00 PM           The Thin Man (1934)
  5:45 PM           The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Oscar Worthy Prisoners

  8:00 PM           Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) (Burt Lancaster)
10:45 PM           The Defiant Ones (1958) (Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier)
12:30 AM          I Want to Live! (1958) (Susan Hayward)
  2:45 AM          Cool Hand Luke (1967) (Paul Newman, George Kennedy)
  5:00 AM          I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) (Paul Muni)
  6:45 AM          Caged (1950) (Eleanor Parker)

Friday, February 21


Best Costume Winners and Nominees

  8:30 AM          Gate of Hell (1954)
10:15 AM          Les Girls (1957)
12:15 PM           The Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
  2:15 PM           The Night of the Iguana (1964)
  4:15 PM           Indiscretion of an American Wife (1954)
  5:30 PM           8 1/2 (1963)

Oscar Worthy Comic Relief  

  8:00 PM           The Circus (1928) (Charlie Chaplin)
  9:30 PM           Born Yesterday (1950) (Judy Holliday)
11:30 PM           Some Like It Hot (1959) (Jack Lemmon)
  1:45 AM          My Favorite Year (1982) (Peter O'Toole)
  3:30 AM          Ninotchka (1939) (Greta Garbo)

Saturday, February 22


Best Picture Winners and Nominees 

  5:30 AM          The Hollywood Revue (1929)
  7:45 AM          A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
10:00 AM          Naughty Marietta (1935)
12:00 PM           The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  2:00 PM           Ivanhoe (1952)
  4:00 PM           Stagecoach (1939)
  5:45 PM           Chariots of Fire (1981)

Oscar Worthy Soldiers 

  8:00 PM           Sergeant York (1941) (Gary Cooper)
10:30 PM           An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) (Louis Gossett Jr.)          
12:45 AM          The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) (Fredric March, Harold Russell)
  3:45 AM          The Story of G.I. Joe (1945) (Robert Mitchum)
  5:45 AM          Battleground (1949) (James Whitmore)

Sunday, February 23


Best Picture Winners and Nominees

  8:00 AM          49th Parallel (1941)
10:15 AM          42nd Street (1933)
12:00 PM           Grand Hotel (1932)
  2:00 PM           Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
  4:00 PM           Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
  6:00 PM           Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

Oscar Worthy Journalists

  8:00 PM           All the President's Men (1976) (Jason Robards)
10:30 PM           The China Syndrome (1979) (Jane Fonda)
12:45 AM          Network (1976) (Peter Finch)
  3:00 AM          Woman of the Year (1942) (Katharine Hepburn)
  5:00 AM          The Front Page (1931) (Adolphe Menjou) 

Monday, February 24


Best Documentary Winners and Nominees

  6:45 AM          The Battle of Midway (1942)
  7:15 AM          Resisting Enemy Interrogation (1944)
  8:30 AM          The Sea Around Us (1952)
  9:45 AM          The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
11:30 AM          Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)
  1:00 PM           Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
  3:00 PM           Freedom on My Mind (1994)
  5:00 PM           When We Were Kings (1996)
  6:30 PM           For All Mankind (1989)

Oscar Worthy Women in Danger  

  8:00 PM           Suspicion (1941) (Joan Fontaine)
10:00 PM           Psycho (1960) (Janet Leigh)
12:00 AM          Gaslight (1944) (Ingrid Bergman)
  2:00 AM          Wait Until Dark (1967) (Audrey Hepburn)
  4:00 AM          Night Must Fall (1937) (May Whitty)

Tuesday, February 25


Best Adapted Screenplay Winners and Nominees

  6:00 AM          Little Caesar (1930)
  7:30 AM          Great Expectations (1946)
  9:30 AM          Baby Doll (1956)
11:30 AM          Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
  2:45  PM          Elmer Gantry (1960)
  5:15 PM           Lolita (1962)

Oscar Worthy Entertainers

  8:00 PM           Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) (James Cagney)
10:15 PM           Cabaret (1972) (Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey)
12:30 AM          Lili (1953) (Leslie Caron)
  2:00 AM         The Broadway Melody (1929) (Bessie Love)
  3:45 AM          The Great Ziegfeld (1936) (Luise Rainer)
  6:45 AM          The Sunshine Boys (1976) (Walter Matthau, George Burns)

Wednesday, February 26


Best Sound Winners and Nominees

  8:45 AM          Topper Returns (1941)
10:15 AM          The Gay Divorcee (1934)
12:15 PM           San Francisco (1936)
  2:15 PM           Grand Prix (1966)
  5:15 PM           The Great Race (1965)

Oscar Worthy Nuns and Priests

  8:00 PM           Going My Way (1944) (Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald)
10:15 PM           Dead Man Walking (1995) (Susan Sarandon)
12:30 AM          On the Waterfront (1954) (Karl Malden)
  2:30 AM          Boys Town (1938) (Spencer Tracy)
  4:15 AM          The Nun's Story (1959) (Audrey Hepburn)

Thursday, February 27


Best Director Winners and Nominees

  7:00 AM          Speedy (1928)
  8:30 AM          Romance (1930)
10:00 AM          The Informer (1935)
12:00 PM           Kitty Foyle (1940)
  2:00 PM           Random Harvest (1942)
  4:15 PM           The Southerner (1945)
  6:00 PM           East of Eden (1955)

Oscar Worthy Leaders

  8:00 PM           Gandhi (1982) (Ben Kingsley)
11:30 PM           The Iron Lady (2011) (Meryl Streep)
  1:30 AM          Quo Vadis (1951) (Peter Ustinov)
  4:30 AM          Conquest (1937) (Charles Boyer)
  6:30 AM          Juarez (1939) (Brian Aherne)

Friday, February 28


Best Costume Winners and Nominees

  9:00 AM          The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
11:30 AM          What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
  2:00 PM           Raintree County (1957)
  5:00 PM           Tess (1979)

Oscar Worthy Dads

  8:00 PM           Life is Beautiful (1997) (Roberto Benigni)
10:15 PM           On Golden Pond (1981) (Henry Fonda)
12:15 AM          Fiddler on the Roof (1971) (Topol)
  3:30 AM          The Great Santini (1979) (Robert Duvall)
  5:30 AM          Life with Father (1947) (William Powell)

Saturday, March 1


Best Picture Winners and Nominees

  7:30 AM          Five Star Final (1931)
  9:00 AM          Crossfire (1947)
10:45 AM          The Music Man (1962)
  1:30 PM          Doctor Zhivago (1965)
  5:00 PM          The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Oscar Worthy Alcoholics

  8:00 PM           The Lost Weekend (1945) (Ray Milland)
10:00 PM           I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) (Susan Hayward)
12:15 AM          Leaving Las Vegas (1995) (Nicolas Cage)
  2:15 AM          Key Largo (1948) (Claire Trevor)
  4:15 AM          Johnny Eager (1941) (Van Heflin)

Sunday, March 2 (Oscar Ceremony)


Best Picture Winners and Nominees

  6:15 AM          The Divorcee (1930)
  8:00 AM          Little Women (1933)
10:00 AM          The Letter (1940)
11:45 AM          Citizen Kane (1941)
  2:00 PM           Gone with the Wind (1939)
  6:00 PM           An American in Paris (1951)

Oscar Worthy Heiresses

  8:00 PM           My Man Godfrey (1936) (Carole Lombard)
10:00 PM           It Happened One Night (1934) (Claudette Colbert)
12:00 AM          The Heiress (1949) (Olivia de Havilland)
  2:00 AM          The Philadelphia Story (1940) (Katharine Hepburn)
  4:15 AM          Dark Victory (1949) (Bette Davis)

Monday, March 3


Best Visual / Special Effects Winners and Nominees

  6:00 AM          A Stolen Life (1946)
  8:00 AM          Tom Thumb (1958)
  9:45 AM          7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
11:30 AM          The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
  2:00 PM           The Time Machine (1960)
  3:45 PM           Mighty Joe Young (1949)
  5:30 PM           2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Oscar Worthy Heroes

  8:00 PM           Pride of the Yankees (1942) (Gary Cooper)
10:15 PM           Norma Rae (1979) (Sally Field)
12:15 AM          Blossoms in the Dust (1941) (Greer Garson)
  2:15 AM          Sister Kenny (1946) (Rosalind Russell)
  4:15 AM          The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) (Paul Muni)