31 Days of Oscar: ‘Comedy’
It’s nonstop laughs on Turner Classic
Movies as the network’s 31 Days of Oscar event devotes an entire day to Academy Award-winning and -nominated comedies. The 12-film lineup features The Front Page (1931) — three nominations: Best Picture, Actor (Adolphe Menjou) and Director (Lewis Milestone); 1939’s Ninotchka (pictured)
— four nominations, including Best Picture and Actress (Greta Garbo); Adam’s Rib (1949) — one nomination, for the screenplay by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin; Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) — five nominations, including Best Picture and Actor (Gary Cooper), and one win, for director Frank Capra; Harvey (1950) — a Best Actor nomination for James Stewart and a Best Supporting Actress win for Josephine Hull; Born Yesterday (1950) — five nominations, including Best Director (George Cukor), and one win: Best Actress (Judy Holliday); Some
Like It Hot (1959) — six nominations, including Best Actor (Jack Lemmon), Director (Billy Wilder) and the screenplay adaptation by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, and one win, for costume designer Orry-kelly; Tom Jones (1963) — 10 nominations, including Best Actor (Albert Finney), Supporting Actor (Hugh Griffith) and Supporting Actress (Diane Cilento, Edith Evans and Joyce Redman), and four wins, including Best Picture and Director (Tony Richardson); It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) — six nominations, one win, for Walter Elliott’s sound effects; You Can’t Take It With You (1938) — seven nominations, including Best Supporting Actress (Spring Byington), and two wins: Best Picture and Director (Capra); To Be or Not to Be (1942) — one nomination, for its musical score by Werner R. Heymann; and Block-heads (1938) — one nomination, for its musical score by Marvin Hatley.