Best Picture Winner
Cavalcade
Director: Frank Lloyd
Studio: Fox
Three decades in the lives of an upper-class English family, from the Boer War through World War I.
From the Worthy Podcast
Maybe a recap of the first few films? This is the last double year and see how the Oscars have progressed to this point? (We did five eps so I think it’s a great idea to kinda summarize what we’ve seen so far) This feels like the first film that we can truly start comparing it to other BP winners. Hits on the same thematic elements as Wings and AQOTWF with a similar story structure to Cimarron
World War 1? This is the last film to focus on it pre-WW2 and how war continues to be a central theme for Best Picture winners
Fiction film vs nonfiction and when to split the two
“THE ACADEMY awards met with the approval of Hollywood, there being practically no dissension… The Academy went out of its way to make the results honest and announced that balloting would continue until 8:00 o’clock of the banquet evening… Then many players arrive late and demanded the right to vote… So voting continued until 10 o’clock or for two hours after the ballot boxes were supposed to be closed… It was King Vidor who said: “This year the election is on the level”…Which caused everyone to comment about the other years… Although Katharine Hepburn wasn’t present to receive her Oscar, her constant companion and the gal she resides with in Hollywood, Laura Harding, was there to hear Hepburn get a round of applause for a change…” - Sidney Skolsky, March 16 1934. First mention of the word Oscar
https://qrius.com/how-the-academy-awards-came-to-be-called-the-oscars/ (article with an excerpt from Sidney Skolsky’s book. I checked sources and this seems accurate)