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31 Days of Oscar: ‘Westerns’
TCM, Beginning at 3 a.m.
Saddle up and get ready to ride as Turner Classic Movies’ 31 Days of Oscar presents 11 Academy Award-nominated and/or -winning Western favorites. The lineup features: Viva Villa! (1934) — four nominations, including Best Picture, and one win, for Best Assistant Director (John Waters); The Westerner (1940) — three nominations, one win: Best Supporting Actor (Walter Brennan); 1931’s Cimarron (pictured) — won three Oscars, including Best Picture, and among its four other nominations were Best Actor (Richard Dix) and Best Actress (Irene Dunne, in what was just her second feature film, earning the first of five Best Actress nominations she would receive in her career); Stagecoach (1939) — seven nominations, including Best Picture and Director (John Ford), and two wins, including Supporting Actor (Thomas Mitchell); She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) — winner in its only nominated category: Cinematography, Color (Winton C. Hoch); Giant (1956) — won Best Director (George Stevens), and among its nine other nominations were Best Picture, two Best Actor nods (James Dean, with a second consecutive posthumous nomination, and Rock Hudson) and Supporting Actress (Mercedes Mccambridge); Hud (1963) — seven nominations, including Best Actor (Paul Newman), and three wins: Best Actress (Patricia Neal), Supporting Actor (Melvyn Douglas) and Cinematography, Black-and-white (James Wong Howe); How the West Was Won (1962) — eight nominations, including Best Picture, and three wins, including Original Screenplay (James R. Webb); The Naked Spur (1953) — one nomination, for Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom’s screenplay; Cat Ballou (1965) — five nominations, one win: Best Actor (Lee Marvin); and The Big Sky (1952) — two nominations: Best Supporting Actor (Arthur Hunnicutt) and Cinematography, Black-and-white (Russell Harlan).