Top Ten Film Lists 1945-1949 (Alphabetical)

1949

• ADAM'S RIB  (George Cukor)

• ALL THE KING'S MEN  (Robert Rossen)

• THE HEIRESS  (William Wyler)

• KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS  (Robert Hamer)

• A LETTER TO THREE WIVES  (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

• ON THE TOWN  (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)

• SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON  (John Ford)

• THE THIRD MAN  (Carol Reed)

• TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH  (Henry King)

• WHITE HEAT  (Raoul Walsh)

1948

• BICYCLE THIEVES  (Vittorio De Sica)

• EASTER PARADE  (Charles Walters)

• HAMLET  (Laurence Olivier)

• JOHNNY BELINDA  (Jean Negulesco)

• RED RIVER  (Howard Hawks & Arthur Rosson)

• THE RED SHOES  (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)

• ROPE  (Alfred Hitchcock)

• THE SEARCH  (Fred Zinnemann)

• THE SNAKE PIT  (Anatole Litvak)

• THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE  (John Huston)

1947

• BLACK NARCISSUS  (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)

• BODY AND SOUL  (Robert Rossen)

• CROSSFIRE  (Edward Dmytryk)

• GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT  (Elia Kazan)

• THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR  (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

• GREAT EXPECTATIONS  (David Lean)

• MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET  (George Seaton)

• MONSIEUR VERDOUX  (Charles Chaplin)

• ODD MAN OUT  (Carol Reed)

• OUT OF THE PAST  (Jacques Tourneur)

1946

• BEAUTY AND THE BEAST  (Jean Cocteau)

• THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES  (William Wyler)

• THE BIG SLEEP  (Howard Hawks)

• GILDA  (Charles Vidor)

• IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE  (Frank Capra)

• THE KILLERS  (Robert Siodmak)

• MY DARLING CLEMENTINE  (John Ford)

• NOTORIOUS  (Alfred Hitchcock)

• THE RAZOR'S EDGE  (Edmund Goulding)

• THE YEARLING  (Clarence Brown)

1945

• BRIEF ENCOUNTER  (David Lean)

• CHILDREN OF PARADISE  (Marcel Carne)

• DEAD OF NIGHT  (Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden & Robert Hamer)

• DETOUR  (Edgar G. Ulmer)

• IVAN THE TERRIBLE, PART ONE  (Sergei M. Eisenstein)

• THE LOST WEEKEND  (Billy Wilder)

• MILDRED PIERCE  (Michael Curtiz)

• ROME, OPEN CITY  (Roberto Rossellini)

• SPELLBOUND  (Alfred Hitchcock)

• A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN (Elia Kazan)

Top Ten Film Lists 1940-1944 (Alphabetical)

1944

• DOUBLE INDEMNITY  (Billy Wilder)

• GASLIGHT  (George Cukor)

• GOING MY WAY  (Leo McCarey)

• HENRY V  (Laurence Olivier)

• LAURA  (Otto Preminger)

• LIFEBOAT  (Alfred Hitchcock)

• MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS  (Vincente Minnelli)

• THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK  (Preston Sturges)

• NATIONAL VELVET  (Clarence Brown)

• TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT  (Howard Hawks)

1943

• CASABLANCA  (Michael Curtiz)

• DAY OF WRATH  (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

• FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS  (Sam Wood)

• THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP  (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)

• MADAME CURIE  (Mervyn LeRoy)

• THE MORE THE MERRIER  (George Stevens)

• THE OX-BOW INCIDENT  (William A. Wellman)

• SHADOW OF A DOUBT  (Alfred Hitchcock)

• THE SONG OF BERNADETTE  (Henry King)

• WATCH ON THE RHINE  (Herman Shumlin)

1942

• BAMBI  (James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield & Norman Wright)

• HOLIDAY INN  (Mark Sandrich)

• THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS  (Orson Welles)

• MRS. MINIVER  (William Wyler)

• NOW, VOYAGER  (Irving Rapper)

• THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES  (Sam Wood)

• RANDOM HARVEST  (Mervyn LeRoy)

• ROAD TO MOROCCO  (David Butler)

• TO BE OR NOT TO BE  (Ernst Lubitsch)

• YANKEE DOODLE DANDY  (Michael Curtiz)

1941

• THE 49TH PARALLEL  (Michael Powell)

• CITIZEN KANE  (Orson Welles)

• DUMBO  (Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts & Ben Sharpsteen)

• HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY  (John Ford)

• THE LADY EVE  (Preston Sturges)

• THE MALTESE FALCON  (John Huston)

• PENNY SERENADE  (George Stevens)

• SERGEANT YORK  (Howard Hawks)

• SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS  (Preston Sturges)

• SUSPICION  (Alfred Hitchcock)

1940

• FANTASIA  (James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield & Ben Sharpsteen)

• THE GRAPES OF WRATH  (John Ford)

• THE GREAT DICTATOR  (Charles Chaplin)

• THE GREAT MCGINTY  (Preston Sturges)

• HIS GIRL FRIDAY  (Howard Hawks)

• THE PHILADELPHIA STORY  (George Cukor)

• PINOCCHIO  (Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts & Ben Sharpsteen)

• REBECCA  (Alfred Hitchcock)

• THE SEA HAWK  (Michael Curtiz)

• THE THIEF OF BAGDAD  (Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell & Tim Whelan)

Top Ten Film Lists 1935-1939 (Alphabetical)

1939

• GONE WITH THE WIND  (Victor Fleming)

• GUNGA DIN  (George Stevens)

• LOVE AFFAIR  (Leo McCarey)

• MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON  (Frank Capra)

• NINOTCHKA  (Ernst Lubitsch)

• ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS  (Howard Hawks)

• THE RULES OF THE GAME  (Jean Renoir)

• STAGECOACH  (John Ford)

• THE WIZARD OF OZ  (Victor Fleming)

• WUTHERING HEIGHTS  (William Wyler)

1938

• THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD  (Michael Curtiz & William Keighley)

• ALEXANDER NEVSKY  (Sergei M. Eisenstein & Dmitri Vasilyev)

• ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES  (Michael Curtiz)

• BRINGING UP BABY  (Howard Hawks)

• THE CITADEL  (King Vidor)

• GRAND ILLUSION  (Jean Renoir)

• JEZEBEL  (William Wyler)

• THE LADY VANISHES  (Alfred Hitchcock)

• PYGMALION  (Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard)

• YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU  (Frank Capra)

1937

• THE AWFUL TRUTH  (Leo McCarey)

• CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS  (Victor Fleming)

• THE GOOD EARTH  (Sidney Franklin)

• IN OLD CHICAGO  (Henry King)

• THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA (William Dieterle)

• MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW  (Leo McCarey)

• THE PRISONER OF ZENDA  (John Cromwell)

• SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS  (William Cottrell, David Hand, Wildred Jakcson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce & Ben Sharpsteen)

• STAGE DOOR  (Gregory La Cava)

• A STAR IS BORN  (William A. Wellman)

1936

• DODSWORTH  (William Wyler)

• FURY  (Fritz Lang)

• THE GREAT ZIEGFELD  (Robert Z. Leonard)

• LIBELED LADY  (Jack Conway)

• MODERN TIMES  (Charles Chaplin)

• MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN  (Frank Capra)

• MY MAN GODFREY  (Gregory La Cava)

• THE PETRIFIED FOREST  (Archie Mayo)

• SAN FRANCISCO  (W.S. Van Dyke)

• SWING TIME  (George Stevens)

1935

• THE 39 STEPS  (Alfred Hitchcock)

• BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN  (James Whale)

• CAPTAIN BLOOD  (Michael Curtiz)

• DAVID COPPERFIELD  (George Cukor)

• THE INFORMER  (John Ford)

• THE LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER  (Henry Hathaway)

• MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY  (Frank Lloyd)

• A NIGHT AT THE OPERA  (Sam Wood)

• TOP HAT  (Mark Sandrich)

• TRIUMPH OF THE WILL  (Leni Riefenstahl)

Top Ten Films Lists 1930-1934 (Alphabetical)

1934

• CLEOPATRA  (Cecil B. DeMille)

• THE GAY DIVORCEE  (Mark Sandrich)

• IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT  (Frank Capra)

• IT'S A GIFT  (Norman Z. McLeod)

• L'ATALANTE  (Jean Vigo)

• THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH  (Alfred Hitchcock)

• ONE NIGHT OF LOVE  (Victor Schertzinger)

• THE SCARLETT EMPRESS  (Josef von Sternberg)

• THE THIN MAN  (W.S. Van Dyke)

• TWENTIETH CENTURY  (Howard Hawks)

1933

• 42ND STREET  (Lloyd Bacon)

• CAVALCADE  (Frank Lloyd)

• DINNER AT EIGHT  (George Cukor)

• DUCK SOUP  (Leo McCarey)

• KING KONG  (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)

• LADY FOR A DAY  (Frank Capra)

• LITTLE WOMEN  (George Cukor)

• THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII  (Alexander Korda)

• SHE DONE HIM WRONG  (Lowell Sherman)

• STATE FAIR  (Henry King)

1932

• BOUDU SAVED FROM DROWNING  (Jean Renoir)

• A FAREWELL TO ARMS  (Frank Borzage)

• FREAKS  (Tod Browning)

• GRAND HOTEL  (Edmund Goulding)

• I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG  (Mervyn LeRoy)

• THE MUSIC BOX  (James Parrott)

• ONE HOUR WITH YOU  (Ernst Lubitsch)

• SCARFACE  (Howard Hawks & Richard Rosson)

• SHANGHAI EXPRESS  (Josef von Sternberg)

• TROUBLE IN PARADISE  (Ernest Lubitsch)

1931

• A VOUS LA LIBERTE  (Rene Clair)

• THE CHAMP  (King Vidor)

• CIMARRON  (Wesley Ruggles)

• CITY LIGHTS  (Charles Chaplin)

• DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE  (Rouben Mamoulian)

• DRACULA  (Tod Browning)

• FRANKENSTEIN  (James Whale)

• LITTLE CAESAR  (Mervyn LeRoy)

• M  (Fritz Lang)

• THE PUBLIC ENEMY  (William A. Wellman)

1930

• ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT  (Lewis Milestone)

• ANIMAL CRACKERS  (Victor Heerman)

• THE BIG HOUSE  (George W. Hill)

• THE BLUE ANGEL  (Josef von Sternberg)

• EARTH  (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)

• HELL'S ANGELS  (Howard Hughes)

• L'AGE D'OR  (Luis Bunuel)

• MONTE CARLO  (Ernst Lubitsch)

• MOROCCO  (Josef von Sternberg)

• UNDER THE ROOFS OF PARIS  (Rene Clair)

Top Ten Films Lists 1925-1929 (Alphabetical)

1929

• APPLAUSE  (Rouben Mamoulian)

• BLACKMAIL  (Alfred Hitchcock)

• THE BROADWAY MELODY  (Harry Beaumont)

• BULLDOG DRUMMOND  (F. Richard Jones)

• DISRAELI  (Alfred E. Green)

• HALLELUJAH  (King Vidor)

• IN OLD ARIZONA  (Irving Cummings)

• THE LOVE PARADE  (Ernst Lubitsch)

• PANDORA'S BOX  (Georg Wilhelm Pabst)  [Pictured]

• QUEEN KELLY  (Erich von Stroheim)

1928

• THE CAMERAMAN  (Edward Sedgwick)

• THE CIRCUS  (Charles Chaplin)

• THE CROWD  (King Vidor)

• THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK  (Josef von Sternberg)

• THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER  (Jean Epstein)

• THE LAST COMMAND  (Josef von Sternberg)

• THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC  (Carl Theodor Dreyer)  [Pictured]

• STEAMBOAT BILL, JR.  (Charles Reisner)

• UN CHIEN ANDALOU  (Luis Bunuel)

• THE WIND  (Victor Sjostrom)

1927

• CHANG  (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)

• THE GENERAL  (Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton)

• THE JAZZ SINGER  (Alan Crosland)

• THE KID BROTHER  (Ted Wilde & J.A. Howe)

• METROPOLIS  (Fritz Lang)

• NAPOLEON  (Abel Gance)

• SEVENTH HEAVEN  (Frank Borzage)

• SUNRISE  (F.W. Murnau)  [Pictured]

• UNDERWORLD  (Josef von Sternberg)

• WINGS  (William A. Wellman)

1926

• THE BLACK PIRATE  (Albert Parker)

• FAUST  (F.W. Murnau)

• FLESH AND THE DEVIL  (Clarence Brown)

• LA BOHEME  (King Vidor)

• THE LODGER  (Alfred Hitchcock)

• MOANA  (Robert J. Flaherty)

• MOTHER  (Vsevolod Pudovkin)

• THE SON OF THE SHEIK  (George Fitzmaurice)  [Pictured]

• THE TEMPTRESS  (Fred Niblo)

• THE WINNING OF BARBARA WORTH  (Henry King)

1925

• BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN  (Sergei M. Eisenstein)

• BEN-HUR  (Fred Niblo)

• THE BIG PARADE  (King Vidor)

• THE GOLD RUSH  (Charles Chaplin)  [Pictured]

• GRASS  (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)

• THE LOST WORLD  (Harry O. Hoyt)

• THE MERRY WIDOW  (Erich von Stroheim)

• THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA  (Rupert Julian)

• SEVEN CHANCES  (Buster Keaton)

• STRIKE  (Sergei M. Eisenstein)

I'm back!

Hey everybody. Happy to be back after over a month, and what a month it's been. Long story short = I woke up one morning and the motherboard on my laptop decided to quit on me. So I've been living online vicariously through my cell phone for about a month, but there was no reasonable way I could do any sort of updating to the site.

But now I have a new CPU, a new life online, and a new vigor for the site. Keep checking for updates, reviews, and in the coming weeks several new aspects that at one point had a spot on the old Beachhouse website (BIG BIG BIG shout out to those from the old days of the site!!!).

Also in the process of working on several different day-to-day jobs, including interviews tomorrow and Wednesday, so keep me in your thoughts! If all goes well, I'll have quite a bit more free time to focus on my film love!

Thanks for sticking around, and the best is yet to come. TTYL all!

Adam

Films reviews...

For the last year or two, I've been thinking about not just posting grades for the films that I see each year, but also a short (paragraph or two) review of each one. I used to do it when I still ran to Oscar Beachhouse website thru Yahoo Geocities. Unfortunately, I lost about 7 years worth of information when the server closed down, and since I started this blog, I've never quite gotten around to it again. But that is officially going to change. Starting right now, already 6 months in (sorry) to the year, I will be posted my thoughts and reviews for each new film that I see from that year, and also likely throwing in older reviews from previous viewed films as well. So far, this year, either in theaters or on DVD, I've been 26 films. And that number will grow on a weekly basis, at the least. In any given year, I see somewhere between 100-150 of the films that are released. Not too shabby.

Just an FYI, it's unlikely that I'll be reviewing many of the films that universally get really bad reviews. A few of them may squeak thru on curiosity alone, but if the general consensus on a film is to absolutely not waste my $... I probably won't.

That said, the reviews are in the works, and will begin to be posted soon. Enjoy!!!

2011 OSCAR BEACHHOUSE AWARD WINNERS

Here is my full list of winners for this year's Oscar Beachhouse awards. A very wide range of films nominated in 26 categories, and when it came down to it, I found myself doling out at least 1 award to 19 different films, which is by far a record for me, with the previous record being 16 (back in 2006). Granted, a few new categories (and one gone [Best Scene]), but still a very wide-cast net this year. A lot of admire, a lot to love, and a lot to reward. In previous years, since I started doing this back in 2000, the Best Pic winners were...
 
2000 -- Gladiator (7 Awards)
               8 total winning films
2001 -- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (9 Awards)
               8 total winning films
2002 -- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (6 Awards)
               11 total winning films
2003 -- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (13 Awards)
               7 total winning films
2004 -- The Passion of the Christ (5 Awards)
               12 total winning films
2005 -- Crash (6 Awards)
               14 total winning films
2006 -- United 93 (4 Awards)
               16 total winning films
2007 -- Ratatouille (3 Awards)
               16 total winning films
2008 -- The Dark Knight (5 Awards)
               14 total winning films
2009 -- The Hurt Locker (3 Awards)
               13 total winning films
2010 -- The Social Network (3 Awards)
               13 total winning films

So here they are, The OSCAR BEACHHOUSE AWARDS, my personal winners for the 2011 film year. 26 categories, 19 winning films. Congratulations to all the inspiring winners! And the Beachhouse goes to...

BEST PICTURE
The Descendants

BEST DIRECTOR
Michel Hazanavicius -- "The Artist"

BEST ACTOR
Jean Dujardin -- "The Artist"

BEST ACTRESS
Michelle Williams -- "My Week with Marilyn"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Andy Serkis -- "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Shailene Woodley -- "The Descendants"

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Midnight in Paris

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Moneyball

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Rango

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Tree of Life

BEST FILM EDITING
Drive

BEST ART DIRECTION

Hugo

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Hugo

BEST SOUND MIXING
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2

BEST SOUND EDITING
Super 8

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Rise of the Planet of the Apes

BEST MAKEUP
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
War Horse

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Life's a Happy Song" - The Muppets

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

A Separation

BEST COMEDY FILM

50/50

BEST ACTION FILM
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Shailene Woodley -- "The Descendants"

BEST BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER
Nicolas Winding Refn -- "Drive"

BEST OVERLOOKED FILM
Win Win

So there you have it. THE DESCENDANTS is the big winner, taking 3 awards. Here's the full breakdown by # of wins.

3
THE DESCENDANTS  (6 nods)

2
THE ARTIST  (9 nods)
DRIVE  (8 nods)
HUGO  (8 nods)
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2  (5 nods)
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES  (4 nods)

1
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN  (4 nods)
WAR HORSE  (4 nods)
50/50  (4 nods)
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS  (3 nods)
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY  (3 nods)
THE TREE OF LIFE  (3 nods)
THE MUPPETS  (3 nods)
MONEYBALL  (2 nods)
SUPER 8  (2 nods)
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL  (2 nods)
RANGO  (1 nod)
A SEPARATION  (1 nod)
WIN WIN  (1 nod)