Oscar’s Best

This is a short that was compiled by Chuck Workman celebrating “100 Years at the Movies” for the 1994 Academy Awards. It is nine minutes long; it includes clips from at least 225 movies. Here is my labor of love, the clip-by-clip detail of this much discussed short. I used a combination of information already posted on TCM’s message boards, what I found on imdb.com, and my own movie knowledge. This listing has been recently enhanced by Tim Dirks on his (Best of the Web) film site here.

Opening Credits (sometimes through the number 100, like binoculars)

• To Catch a Thief (1955)
• Letter The (1940)
• Shane (1953)
• Sunset Blvd. (1950)
• The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
• White Heat (1949)
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
• To Have and Have Not (1944)
• Lolita (1962)
• Wizard of Oz The (1939)
• San Francisco (1936)
• North By Northwest (1959)
• Footlight Parade (1933)
• Swing Time (1936)
• Star is Born A (1954)
• Philadelphia Story The (1940)
• Some Like it Hot (1959)
• Stalag 17 (1953)
• Queen Christina (1933)
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
• Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
• Ten Commandments The (1956)
• Hunchback of Notre Dame The (1939)
• Network (1976)
• The Searchers (1956)
• Scaramouche (1952)
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
• Giant (1956)
• Now Voyager (1942)
• Psycho (1960)
• Woman of the Year (1942)
• Gunga Din (1939)
• Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
• Jazz Singer The (1927)
• King Kong (1933)
• She Done Him Wrong (1933)
• Face In The Crowd A (1957)
• National Velvet (1944)
• Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
• Thin Man The (1934)
• High Noon (1952)
• Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
• Jaws (1975)
• Tootsie (1982)
• Maltese Falcon The (1941)
• Mister Roberts (1955)
• Sergeant York (1941)
• Roman Holiday (1953)
• Star Wars (1977)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• The Sting (1973)
• The Last Emperor (1987)
• The Godfather Part II (1974)
• On the Waterfront (1954)
• Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
• Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
• It Happened One Night (1934)
• Oliver! (1968)
• The Godfather (1972)
• Terms of Endearment (1983)
• From Here to Eternity (1953)
• Schindler’s List (1993)
• Gone With the Wind (1939)
• The French Connection (1971)
• The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
• Midnight Cowboy (1969)
• Grand Hotel (1932)
• Wings (1927) – full length review!
• Three Musketeers The (1948)
• Flesh and the Devil (1926)
• Last Picture Show The (1971)
• Scarface (1932)
• Flying Down to Rio (1933)
• Pat and Mike (1952)
• Music Box The (1932) – full review!
• Good Earth The (1937)
• Great Escape The (1963)
• Raging Bull (1980)
• Place in the Sun A (1951)
• Red River (1948)
• Hud (1963)
• Rocky (1976)
• Little Caesar (1931)
• Postman Always Rings Twice The (1946)
• Frankenstein (1931)
• West Side Story (1961)
• She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
• Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939)
• Min and Bill (1930) – full review!
• Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
• Treasure of the Sierra Madre The (1948)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• Anchors Aweigh (1945)
• American Graffiti (1973)
• Cabin in the Sky (1943)
• Captains Courageous (1937)
• Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
• Clash of the Wolves (1925)
• Double Indemnity (1944)
• Cimarron (1931)
• Ben-Hur (1959)
• Dances With Wolves (1990)
• Asphalt Jungle The (1950)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
• Doctor Zhivago (1965)
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
• E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
• Boys Town (1938)
• David Copperfield (1935)
• Amadeus (1984)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• Dial M for Murder (1954)
• Defiant Ones The (1958)
• Crowd The (1928)
• Adventures of Robin Hood The (1938)
• Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1963)
• An American in Paris (1951)
• Casablanca (1942)
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• 42nd Street (1933)
• Political Campaign Films