And the Winner Is — 1945

 Our family is working our way through Oscar winners and whichever nominees take our fancy. Also as they are available, since some films are hard to find.

This is the first year that only five films could be nominated. This really cut down on the variety and we missed the wide ranging other possibilities.

Nominated films that we didn't watch because we'd couldn't find them were The Pied Piper and Wake Island.

WINNER

After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, a young, hip priest connects with a gang of boys looking for direction and eventually wins over over the aging, conventional Parish priest.

1945 Oscar winner. It did not age well.

 NOMINEES

Fred MacMurray is the insurance salesman who comes up with the perfect murder scheme to rid femme fatale Barbara Stanwyck of her husband's annoying presence. Edward G. Robinson is MacMurray's boss, a wily insurance investigator who feels that things don't quite add up. 

This should have won. A true classic that we didn't rewatch for this because we've seen it so many times. A Movie You Might Have Missed #10.

A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

Another one that should have won and it's a classic for a reason. If you only know the term "gaslight" but not where it came from, then you need to watch this movie.  A Movie You Might Have Missed #74.

The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States.

We were curious to see what a movie would be like that was made so soon after Wilson's presidency. Oy veh. Hero worship, anyone? Not bad but not really worth watching.

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All the Oscar viewing is here.