ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST STORY (1928-1956) - OSCARS

Underworld

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:08:43 GMT

1928 - Ben Hecht Nominees: The Last Command - Lajos Biró The Patent Leather Kid - Rupert Hughes

The Dawn Patrol

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:11:37 GMT

1931 - John Monk Saunders Nominees: Doorway to Hell - Rowland Brown Laughter - Harry D'Arrast, Douglas Doty, Donald Stewart The Public Enemy - John Bright, Kubec Glasmon Smart Money - Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Jackson

The Champ

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:14:54 GMT

1932 - Frances Marion Nominees: Lady and Gent - Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt Star Witness - Lucien Hubbard What Price Hollywood? - Adela St. John

One Way Passage

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:15:43 GMT

1933 - Robert Lord Nominees: The Prizefighter and the Lady - Frances Marion Rasputin and the Empress - Charles MacArthur

Manhattan Melodrama

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:19:10 GMT

1934 - Arthur Caesar Nominees: Hide Out - Mauri Grashin The Richest Girl in the World - Norman Krasna

The Scoundrel

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:20:19 GMT

1935 - Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur Nominees: Broadway Melody of 1936 - Moss Hart The Gay Deception - Stephen Avery, Don Hartman Write in Candidate: G-Men - Gregory Rogers (pseudonym of Darryl F. Zanuck)

The Story of Louis Pasteur

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:22:17 GMT

1936 - Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney Nominees: Fury - Norman Krasna The Great Ziegfeld - William McGuire San Francisco - Robert Hopkins Three Smart Girls - Adele Commandini

A Star is Born

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:23:12 GMT

1937 - Robert Carson, William Wellman Nominees: Black Legion - Robert Lord In Old Chicago - Niven Busch The Life of Emile Zola - Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg One Hundred Men and a Girl - Hans Kraly

Boys Town

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:24:02 GMT

1938 - Eleanore Griffin, Dore Schary Nominees: Alexander's Ragtime Band - Irving Berlin Angels with Dirty Faces - Rowland Brown Blockade - John Howard Lawson Mad About Music - Marcella Burke, Frederick Kohner Test Pilot - Frank Wead

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:24:51 GMT

1939 - Lewis Foster Nominees: Bachelor Mother - Felix Jackson Love Affair - Mildred Cram, Leo McCarey Ninotchka - Melchior Lengyel Young Mr. Lincoln - Lamar Trotti

Arise, My Love

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:28:17 GMT

1940 - Benjamin Glazer, John Toldy Nominees: Comrade X - Walter Reisch Edison, the Man - Hugo Butler, Dore Schary My Favorite Wife - Leo McCarey, Bella Spewack, Samuel Spewack The Westerner - Stuart Lake

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:30:16 GMT

1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan - Harry Segall Nominees: Ball of Fire - Thomas Monroe, Billy Wilder The Lady Eve - Monckton Hoffe Meet John Doe - Richard Connell, Robert Presnell Night Train to Munich - Gordon Wellesley

49th Parallel

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:31:13 GMT

1942 - Emeric Pressburger Nominees: Holiday Inn - Irving Berlin The Pride of the Yankees - Paul Gallico The Talk of the Town - Sidney Harmon Yankee Doodle Dandy - Robert Buckner

The Human Comedy

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:32:30 GMT

1943 - William Saroyan Nominees: Action in the North Atlantic - Guy Gilpatric Destination Tokyo - Steve Fisher The More the Merrier - Frank Ross, Robert Russell Shadow of a Doubt - Gordon McDonell

Going My Way

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:33:19 GMT

1944 - Leo McCarey Nominees: A Guy Named Joe - David Boehm, Chandler Sprague Lifeboat - John Steinbeck None Shall Escape - Alfred Neumann, Joseph Than The Sullivans - Edward Doherty, Jules Schermer

The House on 92nd Street

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:39:27 GMT

1945 - Charles Booth Nominees: The Affairs of Susan - Laszlo Gorog, Thomas Monroe A Medal for Benny - John Steinbeck, Jack Wagner Objective, Burma! - Alvah Bessie A Song to Remember - Ernst Marischka

Perfect Strangers

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:42:22 GMT

1946 - Clemence Dane Nominees: The Dark Mirror - Vladimir Pozner The Strange Love of Martha Ivers - Jack Patrick The Stranger - Victor Trivas To Each His Own - Charles Brackett

Miracle on 34th Street

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:43:28 GMT

1947 - Valentine Davies Nominees: A Cage of Nightingales - Georges Chaperot, René Wheeler It Happened on Fifth Avenue - Herbert Lewis, Frederick Stephani Kiss of Death - Eleazar Lipsky Smash Up - The Story of a Woman - Frank Cavett, Dorothy Parker

The Search

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:44:22 GMT

1948 - Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler Nominees: The Louisiana Story - Robert J. Flaherty, Frances H. Flaherty The Naked City - Marvin Wald Red River - Borden Chase The Red Shoes - Emeric Pressburger

The Stratton Story

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:45:12 GMT

1949 - Douglas Morrow Nominees: Come to the Stable - Clare Luce It Happens Every Spring - Valentine Davies, Shirley Smith Sands of Iwo Jima - Harry Brown White Heat - Virginia Kellogg

Panic in the Streets

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:46:00 GMT

1950 - Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt Nominees: Bitter Rice - Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani The Gunfighter - William Bowers, Andre de Toth Mystery Street - Leonard Spigelglass When Willie Comes Marching Home - Sy Gomberg

Seven Days to Noon

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:47:11 GMT

1951 - James Bernard, Paul Dehn Nominees: The Bullfighter and the Lady - Budd Boetticher, Ray Nazarro The Frogmen - Oscar Millard Here Comes the Groom - Liam O'Brian, Robert Riskin Teresa -Alfred Hayes, Stewart Stern

The Greatest Show on Earth

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:48:40 GMT

1952 - Frank Cavett, Frederic Frank, Theodore St. John Nominees: My Son John - Leo McCarey The Narrow Margin - Martin Goldsmith, Jack Leonard The Pride of Saint Louis - Guy Trosper The Sniper - Edward Anhalt, Edna Anhalt

Roman Holiday

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:49:50 GMT

1953 - Dalton Trumbo Nominees: Above and Beyond - Beirne Lay The Captain's Paradise - Alec Coppel Hondo - Louis L'Amour Little Fugitive - Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin Little Fugitive - Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin

Broken Lance

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:51:54 GMT

1954 - Philip Yordan Nominees: Bread, Love and Dreams - Ettore Margadonna Forbidden Games - François Boyer Night People - Jed Harris, Tom Reed There's No Business Like Show Business - Lamar Trotti (posthumous nomination)

Love Me or Leave Me

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:52:57 GMT

1955 - Daniel Fuchs Nominees: The Private War of Major Benson - Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher Rebel Without a Cause - Nicholas Ray The Sheep Has Five Legs - Jean Marsan, Henri Troyat, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil, Raoul Ploquin Strategic Air Command - Beirne Lay

The Brave One

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:53:55 GMT

1956 - Robert Rich (aka Dalton Trumbo) Nominees: The Eddie Duchin Story - Leo Katcher High Society - Edward Burnds, Elwood Ullman The Proud and the Beautiful - Jean-Paul Sartre Umberto D - Cesare Zavattini