My 6th Academy Awards, 1932/33

Below is the list of films I’ve seen and haven’t along with the number of nominations and wins each title received. I’ll follow these up with my reviews (links if available) of each title on the list. I’ve also included a gallery of posters for the films that were nominated in 1932/33 if I can find them. There’s also a way to purchase each title that you can from the list below.

Seen [10 nominations, 4 wins]:

42nd Street [2, 0]
Cavalcade [4, 3]
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang [3, 0]
Little Women [3, 1]

Not Seen [22 nominations, 5 wins]:

Berkeley Square [1, 0]
A Farewell to Arms [4, 2]
Gold Diggers of 1933 [1, 0]
Lady for a Day [4, 0]
Morning Glory [1, 1]
One Way Passage [1, 1] (Warner Archive)
The Private Life of Henry VIII [2, 1]
The Prizefighter and the Lady [1, 0] (Warner Archive)
Rasputin and the Empress [1, 0] (Warner Archive)
Reunion in Vienna [1, 0]
She Done Him Wrong [1, 0]
The Sign of the Cross [1, 0]
Smilin’ Through [1, 0] (VHS Only)

Incomplete or Hard to Find Films [3 nominations, 1 win]:

State Fair [2, 0] (bootleg copies only)
When Ladies Meet [1, 0] (bootleg copies only)

Reviews:

42nd Street (3 stars)
Read the short review here

Cavalcade (1.5 stars)
Read the full review here

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (4 stars)
An indictment of the criminal justice system, this drama stars Paul Muni as an innocent man wrongly convicted of a crime and sent to southern chain gang where the cruel taskmasters impose their vicious control over the prisoners.

Through several escape attempts, Muni’s James Allen wants nothing more than to find his way home, but his only chance for release comes from a bogged-down justice system that must reconsider the charges and work to rescue him before it takes its toll.

Muni is staggering as the jailed innocent, his fierce resilience and resistance are a model for the kind of hard-worked, maltreated protagonists that have been a mainstay of American cinema. Mervyn LeRoy’s direction is superb, but the biggest credit goes to Howard J. Green and Brown Holmes for the screenplay and Robert E. Burns for the story for their stinging indictment of the wicked and repulsive men who took out their malignant aggression on others and who refused to believe that their excessive mistreatment of their prisoners was at odds with morality.

Little Women (4 stars)
Read the short review here