Category: Academy Awards History

European film-making, which had been suppressed during World War II, re-emerged in earnest after the war. Beginning in 1946, films made at the end of the war, and some that had managed to get made during the war, found their way to the States and Oscar took notice. From the United Kingdom came such films…

Handicapping the 1944 Oscars for the ten most likely Best Picture nominees was relatively easy compared to 1945. 1945’s five Best Picture nominees were Anchors Aweigh; The Bells of St. Mary’s; The Lost Weekend; Mildred Pierce and Spellbound. The directors of three of them, Leo McCarey (The Bells of St. Mary’s); Billy Wilder (The Lost…