This list contains the favorite movies of movie critic Jonathan Rosenbaum who writes for the Chicago Reader. The movies span virtually every decade, and include many an obscure movie.
#1 - #1012: original list
#1013 - #1073: 2008 additions
#1074 - #1133: 2016 additions
Source: https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Cinema-Necessity-Film-Canons/dp/0801889715
List of Nominees and Winners.
LIONEL BARRYMORE "A Free Soul" - WINNER
JACKIE COOPER "Skippy"
RICHARD DIX "Cimarron"
FREDRIC MARCH "The Royal Family of Broadway"
ADOLPHE MENJOU "The Front Page"
MARIE DRESSLER "Min and Bill" - WINNER
MARLENE DIETRICH "Morocco"
IRENE DUNNE "Cimarron"
ANN HARDING "Holiday"
NORMA SHEARER "A Free Soul"
"CIMARRON" Cimarron - WINNER
"JUST IMAGINE" Stephen Goosson, Ralph Hammeras
"MOROCCO" Hans Dreier
"SVENGALI" Anton Grot
"WHOOPEE!" Richard Day
"TABU" Floyd Crosby - WINNER
"CIMARRON" Edward Cronjager
"MOROCCO" Lee Garmes
"THE RIGHT TO LOVE" Charles Lang
"SVENGALI" Barney "Chick" McGill
"SKIPPY" Norman Taurog - WINNER
"CIMARRON" Wesley Rug
"A FREE SOUL" Clarence Brown
"THE FRONT PAGE" Lewis Milestone
"MOROCCO" Josef Von Sternberg
"CIMARRON" RKO Radio
"EAST LYNNE" Fox
"THE FRONT PAGE" The Caddo Company
"SKIPPY" Paramount Publix
"TRADER HORN" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department - WINNER
Samuel Goldwyn - United Artists Studio Sound Department
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department
RKO Radio Studio Sound Department
"CIMARRON" Howard Estabrook - WINNER
"THE CRIMINAL CODE" Seton I. Miller, Fred Niblo, Jr.
"HOLIDAY" Horace Jackson
"LITTLE CAESAR" Francis Faragoh, Robert N. Lee
"SKIPPY" Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Sam Mintz
"THE DAWN PATROL" John Monk Saunders - WINNER
"THE DOORWAY TO HELL" Rowland Brown
"LAUGHTER" Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, Douglas Doty, Donald Ogden Stewart
"THE PUBLIC ENEMY" John Bright, Kubec Glasmon
"SMART MONEY" Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Jackson
A list of the films from the 1930/31 Academy Awards.
Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
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