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, 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.

Monday, August 9th at 7:30 p.m.

(1938) Starring Tyrone Power, Alice Faye and Don Ameche, directed by Henry King. Many of Irving Berlin’s most memorable songs are interwoven through this backstage triangle of romance. The film received six nominations including Best Picture, Art Direction (Bernard Herzbrun and Boris Leven), Film Editing (Barbara McLean), Song (“Now It Can Be Told” by Irving Berlin), Writing – Original Story (Irving Berlin), and received the Oscar for Music – Scoring (Alfred Newman). The feature will be preceded by cartoon nominee Mother Goose Goes Hollywood and the live-action short subject Cinema Circus.

Monday, August 16th at 7:30 p.m.

(1939) Starring Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur, directed by Frank Capra. This portrait of a young idealistic Senator battling the staid and corrupt factions of the U.S. Senate earned eleven nominations including Best Picture, Actor (Stewart), Actors in a Supporting Role (Harry Carey and Claude Rains), Art Direction (Lionel Banks), Directing (Capra), Editing (Gene Havlick and Al Clark), Music – Scoring (Dimitri Tiomkin), Sound Recording (John Livadary), Writing – Screenplay (Sidney Buchman), and took home the Oscar for Writing – Original Story (Lewis R. Foster). The feature will be preceded by cartoon nominee The Pointer, live-action nominee Busy Little Bears and the live-action short A Day On Treasure Island.

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