Oscar Movies Bucket List

A governess, seven children and the Salzburg hills; still the musical everyone can sing.

Tati's Monsieur Hulot against an ultra-modern house that hates people.

Romeo and Juliet as rival gangs on the Upper West Side, danced by Jerome Robbins.

A Roman prostitute keeps hoping; the ending smile is one of the great last shots.

DeMille's Technicolor circus epic, with a train wreck and a clown who never removes his makeup.

A Jewish widow and her Black chauffeur over 25 years in Atlanta.

An English family through Dunkirk and the Blitz, made to bring America into the war.

The first talkie to win, a backstage musical about two sisters and one man.

A Welsh mining family remembered; the film that beat Citizen Kane.

Clark Gable leads the mutiny against Charles Laughton's Captain Bligh.

A populist governor's rise and rot, drawn from Huey Long.

Three veterans come home to the same small town and cannot fit back in.

German schoolboys march to the trenches in the film that defined the anti-war picture.

Bette Davis's ageing star and the fan who takes everything; "fasten your seatbelts".

A writer is tried for her husband's death, with only their blind son as witness.

The Oklahoma land rush and forty years of a frontier newspaper; the first western to win.

Thirty years of a London family, from the Boer War to the Jazz Age, from Noel Coward's play.

Four days of an alcoholic writer, the first Hollywood film to take addiction seriously.

The first Best Picture: a silent Great War dogfight epic with real biplanes and Clara Bow.

The novelist takes on the Dreyfus affair; the first biopic to win.

A rat with a palate cooks in Paris, and a critic remembers his mother's food.

Bing Crosby as a young priest who sings his way through a struggling parish.

Rick, Ilsa, the letters of transit and the most quoted script ever written.

A journalist poses as Jewish to write about antisemitism in postwar America.

Capra's screwball comedy about a family that refuses to be respectable.

Garbo, Crawford and the Barrymores cross paths in a Berlin hotel; "I want to be alone."

Hitchcock's only Best Picture: a second wife haunted by the first at Manderley.

Scarlett O'Hara, the burning of Atlanta and the biggest box office in inflation-adjusted history.

Gene Kelly dances a seventeen-minute Gershwin ballet through painted Paris.

Three hours of Broadway spectacle around the impresario who invented the revue.