Oscar Winners - Best Original Motion Picture Story

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.

The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.

Paul I, the Emperor of All Russia, becomes the target of a deadly conspiracy.

A convict falls in love with his new cellmate's sister, only to become embroiled in a planned break-out which is certain to have lethal consequences.

World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but Courtney is soon promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons about sending subordinates to their deaths.

An alcoholic ex-boxer struggles to provide a good living for his son.

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a restless spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.

The biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine.

Young Esther Victoria Blodgett comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom and achieves them only with the help of alcoholic leading man Norman Maine, whose best days are behind him.

When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys.

A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

Boxer Joe Pendleton dies 50 years too soon due to a heavenly mistake, and is given a new life as a millionaire playboy.

A World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.

Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.

When young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of his new assistant.

Bill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the F.B.I. in a German spy ring.

A dull married couple, separated by their enlistment during World War II, reunite after three years to find that they have become very different people.

After a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistaken.

Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.

A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague.

When a scientist threatens to detonate a powerful bomb in the heart of London, Scotland Yard has just seven days to find him before it is too late.

The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.