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

Helen Chandler
The Last Flight

Marion Davies
Five and Ten

Marlene Dietrich
Dishonored

Greta Garbo
Mata Hari

Lilian Harvey
Congress Dances

Miriam Hopkins
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Miriam Hopkins
The Smiling Lieutenant

Ruan Lingyu
The Peach Girl

Dorothy Mackaill
Safe in Hell

Ona Munson
The Hot Heiress

Norma Shearer
Strangers May Kiss

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