Countdown to the Oscars: Top 10 Favourite Best Picture Winners (1929-1969)
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...