Best Films – 1931
Willi Fritsch and Lilian Harvey in Congress Dances
FILM
À nous la liberté / Liberty for Us
d, scr: René Clair
City Streets
d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: Max Marcin, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Dashiell Hammett
Daybreak
d: Jacques Feyder; scr: Ruth Cummings, Cyril Hume, Zelda Sears
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: Samuel Hoffenstein, Percy Heath
Five Star Final
d: Mervyn LeRoy; scr: Robert Lord, Byron Morgan
Der Kongreß tanzt / Congress Dances
d: Erik Charell; scr: Norbert Falk, Robert Liebmann
The Maltese Falcon / Dangerous Female
d: Roy del Ruth; scr: Maude Fulton, Lucien Hubbard, Brown Holmes
The New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
d: Sam Wood; scr: Charles MacArthur
The Public Enemy
d: William A. Wellman; scr: Kubec F. Glasmon, John Bright, Harvey F. Thew
Smart Money
d: Alfred E. Green; scr: Kubec Glasmon, John Bright, Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Jackson
Boris Karloff in Frankenstein
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Frankenstein
d: James Whale; scr: John L. Balderston, Francis Edward Faragoh, Garrett Fort
The Front Page
d: Lewis Milestone; scr: Charles Lederer, Bartlett Cormack
Little Caesar
d: Mervyn LeRoy; scr: Robert N. Lee, Francis Edwards Faragoh
The Mad Genius
d: Michael Curtiz; scr: J. Grubb Alexander, Harvey Thew
The Smiling Lieutenant
d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Ernest Vajda, Samson Raphaelson
Transatlantic
d: William K. Howard; scr: Guy Bolton, Lyn Harling
Ricardo Cortez
ACTOR
John Barrymore
The Mad Genius
Ricardo Cortez
The Maltese Falcon
Willy Fritsch
Congress Dances
Boris Karloff
Frankenstein
Edmund Lowe
Transatlantic
Ramon Novarro
Daybreak
Raimu
Marius
Edward G. Robinson
Five Star Final
Edward G. Robinson
Little Caesar
Edward G. Robinson
Smart Money
Michel Simon
La Chienne / The Bitch
Miriam Hopkins in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
ACTRESS
Marlene Dietrich
Dishonored
Greta Garbo
Mata Hari
Lilian Harvey
Congress Dances
Miriam Hopkins
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Miriam Hopkins
The Smiling Lieutenant
Ona Munson
The Hot Heiress
Sylvia Sidney
City Streets
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Charpin
Marius
Dudley Digges
The Maltese Falcon
Boris Karloff
Five Star Final
Guy Kibbee
City Streets
Paul Lukas
City Streets
Otto Matieson
The Maltese Falcon
Carl-Heinz Schroth
Congress Dances
Ernest Torrence
The New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Louise Fazenda
Cuban Love Song
Aline MacMahon
Five Star Final
Janie Marèze
La Chienne
Edna May Oliver
Cimarron
Bela Lugosi and Helen Chandler in Dracula
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Floyd Crosby, Robert Flaherty
Tabu
William H. Daniels
Mata Hari
George J. Folsey
The Smiling Lieutenant
Karl Freund
Dracula
Lee Garmes
City Streets
Merritt B. Gerstad
Daybreak
Carl Hoffman
Congress Dances
James Wong Howe
Transatlantic
Barney McGill
The Mad Genius
Karl Struss
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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I consider the Maltese Falcon as one of the best films ever. It could be that by being Maltese I am biased, but thatis my opinion.
At least Cimarron is not in your list. I still can’t understand how that movie could have won the Academy Award.