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Throughout this month, I have decided to post a series of Oscar-related articles in anticipation to the 89th Academy Awards ceremony on February 26. To start things off, I thought I would like to share with you my top 10 favorite Best Picture winners from 1929 to 1969. Please bear in mind that this is my own personal opinion, which of course is limited to the films I have seen so far. 10. The Sound of Music (1965)   Directed by Robert Wise | Starring Julie Andrews (Maria), Christopher Plummer (Captain von Trapp), Eleanor Parker (Baroness Elsa von Schraeder), Richard Haydn (Max Detweiler) and Charmian Carr (Liesl von Trapp) | 20th Century Fox | 174 minutes Captain Von Trapp: You brought music back into the house. I had forgotten.     9. The Lost Weekend (1945)   Directed by Billy Wilder | Starring Ray Milland (Don Birnam), Jane Wyman (Helen St. James), Phillip Terry (Wick Birnam), Howard Da Silva (Nat), Doris Dowling (Gloria) and Frank Faylen («Bim» Nolan) | Paramo...

For my last Oscar-themed "Film Friday" I decided to bring you the Best Picture winner of 1947. This was t he second Gregory Peck film I saw — the first was Designing Woman (1957) — and my first time seeing bo th John Garfield and Dorothy McGuire on scre en. Origin al release poster Directed by Elia Kazan, Gentleman's Agreement (1947) tells the story of Philip Schuyler Green (Gregory Peck), a widowed journalist who moves to New York with his son Tommy (Dean Stockwell) and mother (Anne Revere) to work for a magazine called Smith's Weekly . Hi s publisher, John Minify (Albert Dekker), want s him to wr ite a series of art icles on the sub ject of anti-Semitism . The project was suggested by Minify's divorced nie ce Kathy Lacey (Dorothy McGuire), with whom Phil soon falls in love. In order to get genuine insight into the matter, Phil, a gentile, decide s to adopt a Jewish identity ( "Phil Greenberg") and write about his first-hand experiences...