nominated list

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.

An honest police captain vows to bring down a powerful bootlegger who is protected by corrupt politicians and judges.

A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.

A married farmer falls under the spell of a sophisticated woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

A snapshot of life in the jungles of Northern Siam.

The life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles, and downfalls.

Two American soldiers are captured by the Germans on the Western Front during World War One and escape a POW camp only to stumble into further life-threatening adventures when they come across an Arabian king's daughter while on the lam.

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

Harold "Speedy" Swift, a fan of Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, saves from extinction the city's last horse-drawn trolley, operated by his girlfriend's grandfather.

Decorated war hero Stephen Sorrell has raised his son Kit alone after his wife deserted them in the boy's infancy. He loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter, but he thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe that his mother is dead, but when she shows up wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions.

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

A crook blackmails a governor because he knows of the governor's wife's dark past.

A boxer has difficulty balancing his sport with a budding romance; both are further jeopardized when the United States enters the first World War.

An immigrant family experiences life in the United States.

A prostitute seeking a fresh start becomes the obsession of a religious extremist.

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

The real-life courtship, marriage, and forced breakup of Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, and his rich wife from the American south, Elizabeth Patterson. Napoleon did not approve of the union and fixes him up with another girl.

The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.

A despot falls for a dancing girl. After she rejects him, he has her other beau framed for murder.

In Czarist Russia, a peasant officer, resented by the aristocrats, falls in love with a princess.

An English explorer disturbed by the practices of an isolated tribe attempts to rescue a native girl with whom he has become fascinated.

A love triangle involving two members of a travelling circus and an aristocrat has serious consequences for all three individuals.

Queen Helen of Troy, in response to her husband Menelaus' lack of interest in her, elopes with Paris to Sparta. Menelaus, egged on by his henchman, starts a war with Paris, finally effecting the return of Helen. The time-honored custom demands that he have the pleasure of killing her, but her seductive loveliness restrains him.

A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.

Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took Joan, a policeman's daughter, to the theater, sneaked out during the intermission to commit the crime, then used her to support his alibi. The detective squad employs its most sophisticated and barbaric techniques, including planting an undercover agent in the gang, to bring him to justice.