Best Picture Winner
It Happened One Night
Director: Frank Capra
Studio: Columbia
A spoiled heiress running away from her father meets a determined reporter on a bus heading for New York.
From the Worthy Podcast
Pre Code Era (this film came out 4 months prior to the codes strict enforcement)
Romantic Comedies and the influence this film had on them
1 of 3 films to win The Big 5 Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Original/Adapted Screenplay
Pre-Code Era
Martin Scorses once said “CINEMA IS A MATTER OF WHAT’S IN THE FRAME AND WHAT’S OUT.” As we begin this episode, we look back on an era of filmmaking that had almost no rules. The Pre-Code Era. Everything from sex, alochol, drugs, domestic abuse, gender roles, just to name a few, gave filmmakers the freedom to create almost whatever they wanted to talk about.
In 1930 the Motion Picture Production Code was developed in order to appease Hollywood's critics. The Code was a self-regulatory measure which outlined specific dos and don'ts concerning what should appear on American movie screens. The Code was strictly enforced in 1934 when all films were required to have certificates of approval issued by the Production Code Administration. (https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/collections/pre-code-era)