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This month (and into early March): 31 Days of Oscar - beginning February 1 and ending March 3. (Star of the Month returns in March.)
The 97th Oscars® will take place on Sunday, March 2, 2025, and will air live at 7 p.m. EST/4 p.m. PST on ABC and Hulu (the latter for the first time) and in more than 200 territories worldwide from the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood.
This year's host is Conan O'Brien, who will be hosting for the first time. America demanded it and now its happening: Taco Bells new Cheesy Chalupa Supreme. In other news, Im hosting the Oscars, said OBrien.
The major award categories, known as the Academy Awards of Merit, are presented during a live-televised Hollywood ceremony in February or March. It is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony.
The first Academy Awards were held in 1929. The second ceremony in 1930 was the first one broadcast by radio. The 1953 ceremony was the first one televised.
The Academy Awards are the oldest of the four major annual American entertainment awards. The Oscar statuette depicts a knight, rendered in the Art Deco style.
31 Days of Oscar Daily Schedules At A Glance
(See daily schedules for times and film details.)
Saturday, February 1
- BEST PICTURE
Life of Emile Zola, The (1937)
Broadway Melody of 1936 (1936)
Great Dictator, The (1940)
Sounder (1972)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
12 Angry Men (1957)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- SHOW BUSINESS
All About Eve (1950)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Star Is Born, A (1937)
Goodbye Girl, The (1977)
Morning Glory (1933)
Sunday, February 2
- BEST PICTURE
Smilin' Through (1932)
Four Daughters (1938)
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Passage to India, A (1984)
Tom Jones (1963)
Oliver! (1968)
- TEACHERS
Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
Miracle Worker, The (1962)
Paper Chase, The (1973)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Rachel, Rachel (1968)
Monday, February 3
- BEST ART DIRECTION
Merry Widow, The (1934) (6:15 am ET)
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Little Women (1949)
Young Bess (1953)
Kismet (1944)
Brigadoon (1954)
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
- CRIMINALS
Sting, The (1973)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Asphalt Jungle, The (1950)
Algiers (1938)
Tuesday, February 4
- BEST SCREENPLAY
In Which We Serve (1942)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
North Star, The (1943)
Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, The (1947)
Designing Woman (1957)
Adam's Rib (1949)
Band Wagon, The (1953)
- ECCENTRIC CHARACTERS
Harvey (1950)
Auntie Mame (1958)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Being There (1979)
Travels with My Aunt (1972)
Wednesday, February 5
- BEST WRITING: STORY
Doorway to Hell, The (1930) (7:15 am ET)
One Way Passage (1932)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Stratton Story, The (1949)
Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
Brave One, The (1956)
- ROYALS
Mrs. Brown (1997)
Lion in Winter, The (1968)
Madness of King George, The (1994) (TCM Premiere)
Marie Antoinette (1938)
Private Life of Henry VIII, The (1933)
Thursday, February 6
- BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Great Waltz, The (1938) (7:15 am ET)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952)
Gypsy (1962)
Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
- AT SEA
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Ship of Fools (1965)
Unsinkable Molly Brown, The (1964)
Old Man and the Sea, The (1958)
Friday, February 7
- BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Blues in the Night (1941) (7:15 am ET)
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Born to Dance (1936)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Harvey Girls, The (1946)
Calamity Jane (1953)
- ILLNESSES
Three Faces of Eve, The (1957)
Love Story (1970)
TBA
Interrupted Melody (1955)
Camille (1937)
Saturday, February 8
- BEST PICTURE
Flirtation Walk (1934) (6:15 am ET)
Here Comes the Navy (1934)
Captain Blood (1935)
Cimarron (1931)
How the West Was Won (1962)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- MOTHERS
Places in the Heart (1984)
TBA
Imitation of Life (1959)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Sunday, February 9
- BEST PICTURE
One Foot in Heaven (1941) (6:45 am ET)
Good Earth, The (1937)
Lady for a Day (1933)
Libeled Lady (1936)
Gigi (1958)
My Fair Lady (1964)
- TRIALS
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Trial (1955)
Free Soul, A (1931)
Monday, February 10
- BEST ART DIRECTION
Rashomon (1950) (6:30 am ET)
Prisoner of Zenda, The (1937)
Thief of Bagdad, The (1940)
America America (1963)
Moulin Rouge (1952)
Red Shoes, The (1948)
- CHILDREN
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
TBA
These Three (1936)
Skippy (1931)
Bad Seed, The (1956)
Tuesday, February 11
- BEST WRITING
Seventh Veil, The (1945)
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)
I Vitelloni (1953)
400 Blows, The (1959)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Candidate, The (1972)
North by Northwest (1959)
- TROUBLED WOMEN
Jezebel (1938)
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Johnny Belinda (1948)
Possessed (1947)
Wednesday, February 12
- BEST SCORE
Summer of '42 (1971) (6:45 am ET)
Easter Parade (1948)
Camelot (1967)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
On the Town (1949)
Oklahoma! (1955)
- BOXERS
Champ, The (1931)
TBA
Raging Bull (1980)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
- BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Thursday, February 13
- BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) (6:15 am)
Naked City, The (1948)
Picture of Dorian Gray, The (1945)
Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The (1939)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
National Velvet (1944)
Black Narcissus (1947)
- LADIES OF THE EVENING
Sin of Madelon Claudet, The (1931)
BUtterfield 8 (1960)
Klute (1971)
Primrose Path (1940)
Anna Christie (1930)
- BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Star Is Born, A (1954)
Friday, February 14
- BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Sandpiper, The (1965) (8:15 am ET)
Dear Heart (1964)
Swing Time (1936)
Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The (1964)
Tender Trap, The (1955)
High Society (1956)
- ROMANCE
Casablanca (1942)
Marty (1955)
Pillow Talk (1959)
Now, Voyager (1942)
Brief Encounter (1945)
- BEST PICTURE
Racket, The (1928)
Saturday, February 15
- BEST PICTURE
Big House, The (1930) (7:00 am ET)
Farewell to Arms, A (1932)
Barretts of Wimpole Street, The (1934)
Mister Roberts (1955)
Yearling, The (1946)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
- WESTERNS
TBA
Cat Ballou (1965)
Giant (1956)
Westerner, The (1940)
Midsummer Night's Dream, A (1935)
Sunday, February 16
- BEST PICTURE
Alice Adams (1935) (8:00 am ET)
Watch on the Rhine (1943)
Top Hat (1935)
Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
Ben-Hur (1959)
- NEW YORK
West Side Story (1961)
Annie Hall (1977)
TBA
Apartment, The (1960)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Monday, February 17
- BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Loves of a Blonde (1966) (7:00 am ET)
Virgin Spring, The (1960)
Kapo (1959)
Burmese Harp, The (1956)
Babette's Feast (1987)
Mon Oncle (1958)
La Strada (1954)
- POLITICIANS
All the King's Men (1949)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Best Man, The (1964)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
Tuesday, February 18
- POLITICIANS
Gorgeous Hussy, The (1936) (6:45 am ET)
- BEST SCREENPLAY
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
Pygmalion (1938)
Room at the Top (1959)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Father of the Bride (1950)
Friendly Persuasion (1956)
- SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet (1948)
Henry V (1944)
Romeo and Juliet (1937)
Julius Caesar (1953)
- BEST FILM EDITING
Air Force (1943)
Wednesday, February 19
- BEST FILM EDITING
Odd Man Out (1947) (8:00 am ET)
Z (1969)
Dirty Dozen, The (1967)
TBA
Bullitt (1968)
- COMING OF AGE
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Last Picture Show, The (1971)
American Graffiti (1973)
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The (1968)
- BEST DIRECTOR
Human Comedy, The (1943)
Thursday, February 20
- BEST DIRECTOR
Crowd, The (1928) (6:30 am ET)
Divine Lady, The (1929)
Stage Door (1937)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Search, The (1948)
Thin Man, The (1934)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
- CONVICTS
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Defiant Ones, The (1958)
I Want to Live! (1958)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Friday, February 21
- CONVICTS
Caged (1950) (6:45 am ET)
- BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Gate of Hell (1954)
Les Girls (1957)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
Night of the Iguana, The (1964)
Indiscretion of an American Wife (1954)
8 1/2 (1963)
- COMEDY
Circus, The (1928)
Born Yesterday (1950)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
My Favorite Year (1982)
Ninotchka (1939)
Hollywood Revue of 1929, The (1929)
Saturday, February 22
- BEST PICTURE
Tale of Two Cities, A (1935) (7:45 am ET)
Naughty Marietta (1935)
Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
Ivanhoe (1952)
Stagecoach (1939)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
- WAR
Sergeant York (1941)
TBA
Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
Story of G.I. Joe, The (1945)
Battleground (1949)
Sunday, February 23
- BEST PICTURE
49th Parallel (1941) (8:00 am ET)
42nd Street (1933)
Grand Hotel (1932)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
- NEWS REPORTERS
All the President's Men (1976)
China Syndrome, The (1979)
Network (1976)
Woman of the Year (1942)
Front Page, The (1931)
Monday, February 24
- BEST DOCUMENTARY
Battle of Midway, The (1942) (6:45 am ET)
Resisting Enemy Interrogation (1944)
Sea Around Us, The (1952)
Times of Harvey Milk, The (1984)
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)
Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)
Freedom on My Mind (1994)
When We Were Kings (1996)
For All Mankind (1989)
- SUSPENSE
Suspicion (1941)
Psycho (1960)
Gaslight (1944)
Wait Until Dark (1967)
Night Must Fall (1937)
Tuesday, February 25
- BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Little Caesar (1930)
Great Expectations (1946)
Baby Doll (1956)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
TBA
Lolita (1962)
- MUSICALS
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Cabaret (1972)
Lili (1953)
Broadway Melody, The (1929)
Great Ziegfeld, The (1936)
Wednesday, February 26
Sunshine Boys, The (1975) (6:45 am ET)
- BEST SOUND
Topper Returns (1941)
Gay Divorcee, The (1934)
San Francisco (1936)
Grand Prix (1966)
Great Race, The (1965)
- PRIESTS
Going My Way (1944)
TBA
On the Waterfront (1954)
Boys Town (1938)
TBA
Thursday, February 27
- BEST DIRECTOR
Speedy (1928) (7:00 am ET)
Romance (1930)
Informer, The (1935)
Kitty Foyle (1940)
Random Harvest (1942)
Southerner, The (1945)
East of Eden (1955)
- HISTORICAL FIGURES
Gandhi (1982)
Iron Lady, The (2011)
Quo Vadis (1951)
Conquest (1937)
Friday, February 28
- BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Juarez (1939) (6:30 am ET)
Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, The (1962)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Raintree County (1957)
Tess (1979)
- FAMILY DRAMAS
TBA
On Golden Pond (1981)
TBA
Great Santini, The (1979)
Life with Father (1947)
31 Days of Oscar Premieres
Feb 5 - The Madness of King George (1994)
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(1,410 posts)BigmanPigman
(52,529 posts)I plan on hiding for a while and this list of films will be my saving grace. Even though I've seen over 50% of the films on this list I know I will record Dear Heart, Kapo, The Last Picture Show, The Goodbye Girl, and The Paper Chase since I hardly ever see them these days and they are my personal "classics" list.
Many people never saw Kapo. It is based on the attempted escape of prisoners in a WW2 concentration camp that has prisoners resist and attempt to escape, sort of like Soderberg. It's spoken in Italian. I saw it in France, without subtitles, and I still was glued to my hotel TV. It was shown on the anniversary of the European Allies victory at The Battle of the Bulge and an important date signaling the end of the war.
Thanks for posting. I'm going to have to free some space on my DVR. I miss VCRs, you could record and save and share videos. DVRs sucks!!!!!!!!! 2025 SUCKS!!!!!