1934 Shortlist [deadline Sep 30th]

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Best Film
L'Atalante
The Gay Divorcee
Le grand jeu
It Happened One Night
Les Misérables
Maskerade / Masquerade in Vienna
The Scarlet Empress
Shen nu / The Goddess
The Thin Man
Twentieth Century

Best Director
Frank Capra (It Happened One Night)
Howard Hawks (Twentieth Century)
Jacques Feyder (La grand jeu)
Jean Vigo (L'Atalante)
W.S. Van Dyke (The Thin Man)

Best Actor
Clark Gable (It Happened One Night)
Harry Baur (Les Misérables)
John Barrymore (Twentieth Century)
William Powell (The Thin Man)

Best Actress
Carole Lombard (Twentieth Century)
Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night)
Marlene Dietrich (The Scarlet Empress)
Myrna Loy (The Thin Man)
Ruan Lingyu (Shen nu / The Goddess)

Best Supporting Actor
Edward Everett Horton (The Gay Divorcee)
Michel Simon (L'Atalante)
Sam Jaffe (The Scarlet Empress)
Wallace Beery (Treasure Island)
Walter Connolly (Twentieth Century)

Best Supporting Actress
Alice Brady (The Gay Divorcee)
Louise Dresser (The Scarlet Empress)
Una Merkel (The Merry Widow)

Best Writing
L'Atalante
It Happened One Night
Manhattan Melodrama
The Thin Man
Twentieth Century

Best Cinematography
L'Atalante
It Happened One Night
Les Misérables 
The Scarlett Empress

Best Music
Howard Jackson & Louis Silvers (It Happened One Night)
Max Steiner (Of Human Bondage)
Max Steiner & co. (The Gay Divorcee)

Best Short Film
A Dream Walking (Dave Fleischer)
Fetiche / The Mascot (Wladyslaw Starewicz)
The Grasshopper and the Ants (Wilfred Jackson)
La joie de vivre (Anthony Gross & Hector Hoppin)
The Wise Little Hen (Wilfred Jackson)

Best Documentary
L'hippocampe, ou 'Cheval marin' / The Seahorse (Jean Painlevé)
Man of Aran (Robert Flaherty)
The Song of Ceylon (Basil Wright)

note: Fetiche is now listed as 1933 on IMDB which should exclude it, by the rules. However when we did 1933 I think it was down as being 1934 so I've kept it in this time.

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All best film nominees, ranked by points: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls079157184/

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Best Film on No Official ICM Lists


Manhattan Melodrama

[mathiasa]

i see the director poll doubled.

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i see the director poll doubled.

I was watching Rick & Morty at same time and not concentrating. Oh for a poll edit function.

[Caracortada]

i see the director poll doubled.

Jean Vigo is doing much better in the first. An anti-French conspiracy?

[mathiasa]

i see the director poll doubled.

Jean Vigo is doing much better in the first. An anti-French conspiracy?

yeah, the polls are rigged. or the voters insane.

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Anyone else care to vote? Sure would be nice for some of these ties to be untied. Results will be done roughly 24 hrs from now.