Day-by-Day Guide to All the Categories, Stars & Movies Featured During TCM’s 31 Days of Oscar 2024

black and white image from the 11th Academy Awards in 1939. from left to right in the horizontal photo are Fay Bainter, Best Supporting Actress winner for
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Producer Jack L. Warner stands between Fay Bainter, left, and Bette Davis, who respectively won Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress Oscars for 1938's Jezebel, one of many films airing during TCM's 31 Days of Oscar 2024

Turner Classic Movies will again be airing its popular annual event, 31 Days of Oscar, beginning Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, and running through the day that this year’s Academy Awards will be given out (the ceremony airs live Sunday, March 10, 2024, on ABC).

This year, each of the 31 days is roughly split in half by daytime and evening lineups of films/stars that were winners and/or nominees in various categories. We’ve got a day-by-day guide to those categories, films, stars, winners and nominees that are featured in this year’s 31 Days of Oscar below the link.

TCM 31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day-by-Day Lineup (All Times Eastern)

 

Friday, Feb. 9
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 1: Best Costume Design
Begins at 6am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are films that won or were nominated for Best Costume Design: Adventures of Don Juan (1948, winner), Raintree County (1957, nominee), The Band Wagon (1953, nominee), Flower Drum Song (1961, nominee), The Night of the Iguana (1964, winner) and Gypsy (1962, nominee).

Beginning in primetime and going into early tomorrow are all Best Costume Design winners: The Sting (1973), Roman Holiday (1953), All That Jazz (1979) and Camelot (1967).

Saturday, Feb. 10
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 2: Best Supporting Actress
Begins at 6am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are films costarring women who won or were nominated for Best Supporting Actress: Merrily We Live (1938, nomination for Billie Burke), Caged (1950, nomination for Hope Emerson), Mogambo (1953, nomination for Grace Kelly), Rebel Without a Cause (1955, nomination for Natalie Wood), Singin’ in the Rain (1952, nomination for Jean Hagen), Harvey (1950, win for Josephine Hull) and Butterflies Are Free (1972, win for Eileen Heckart).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films featuring Best Supporting Actress winners: Written on the Wind (1956, Dorothy Malone); The Miracle Worker (1962, Patty Duke); Pollock (2000, Marcia Gay Harden), making its TCM premiere; A Patch of Blue (1965, Shelley Winters) and The Bad and the Beautiful (1952, Gloria Grahame).

Sunday, Feb. 11
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 3: Best Supporting Actress (continued)
Begins at 6:15am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are more films costarring women who won or were nominated for Best Supporting Actress: Primrose Path (1940, nomination for Marjorie Rambeau), Love Affair (1939, nomination for Maria Ouspenskaya), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, nomination for Agnes Moorehead), Jezebel (1938, win for Fay Bainter), My Man Godfrey (1936, nomination for Alice Brady), Pillow Talk (1959, nomination for Thelma Ritter) and A Passage to India (1984, win for Peggy Ashcroft).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films featuring Best Supporting Actress winners: The Razor’s Edge (1946, Anne Baxter), None but the Lonely Heart (1944, Ethel Barrymore), Key Largo (1948, Claire Trevor) and Anthony Adverse (1936, Gale Sondergaard, the first time this category was awarded).

black and white image from the 1936 film "Anthony Adverse," depicting costar Gale Sondergaard in character wearing late-18th/early-19th century dress.

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Gale Sondergaard in 1936’s Anthony Adverse, for which she was awarded the first Best Supporting Actress Oscar

 

Monday, Feb. 12
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 4: Best Art Direction
Begins at 5:30am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are films that won or were nominated for Best Art Direction: The Merry Widow (1934, winner), Inside Daisy Clover (1965, nominee), George Washington Slept Here (1942, nominee), Pride and Prejudice (1940, winner), Brigadoon (1954, nominee), The Prisoner of Zenda (1937, nominee) and Knights of the Round Table (1953, nominee).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films that all won Best Art Direction: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), The Robe (1953), Black Narcissus (1947), Tess (1979) and The Thief of Bagdad (1940).

Tuesday, Feb. 13
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 5: Best Original Screenplay
Begins at 7:30am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are films that won or were nominated for their original screenplays: La Strada (1956, nominee), Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (1955, nominee), Woman of the Year (1942, winner), It’s Always Fair Weather (1955, nominee), North by Northwest (1959, nominee) and The China Syndrome (1979, nominee).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films that all won Best Original Screenplay: The Great McGinty (1940); Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), making its TCM premiere; Gosford Park (2001), making its TCM premiere; Network (1976); and Princess O’Rourke (1943).

Wednesday, Feb. 14
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 6: Best Adapted Screenplay
Begins at 6am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are films that won or were nominated for their screenplay adaptations. Today being Valentine’s Day, the movies chosen all have some sort of love story at their hearts: Pygmalion (1938, winner), Random Harvest (1942, nominee), Kitty Foyle (1940, nominee), A Foreign Affair (1948, nominee), Brief Encounter (1946, nominee), Rebecca (1940, nominee) and Wuthering Heights (1939, nominee).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films that all won Best Adapted Screenplay and again have some romantic element to them: The Philadelphia Story (1940), Doctor Zhivago (1965), From Here to Eternity (1953) and Little Women (1933).

 

Thursday, Feb. 15
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 7: Best Original Story
Begins 6am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are films that won or were nominated for Best Original Story: The Public Enemy (1931, nominee), Bachelor Mother (1939, nominee), My Favorite Wife (1940, nominee), The Search (1948, winner), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946, nominee), The Narrow Margin (1952, nominee), A Guy Named Joe (1943, nominee) and Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941, winner).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films that all won Best Original Story: A Star Is Born (1937), One Way Passage (1932), Love Me or Leave Me (1955), The Stratton Story (1949) and 49th Parallel (1941).

Friday, Feb. 16
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 8: Best Film Editing
Begins at 5:45am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are films that won or were nominated for Best Film Editing: Test Pilot (1938, nominee); Crazylegs (1953, nominee), making its TCM premiere; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941, nominee); The Window (1949, nominee); Objective, Burma! (1945, nominee); Odd Man Out (1947, nominee); and How the West Was Won (1962, winner).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films that all won Best Film Editing: Bullitt (1968), The Pride of the Yankees (1942), Raging Bull (1980), The Naked City (1948) and Eskimo (1933).

Saturday, Feb. 17
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 9: Best Supporting Actor
Begins at 6:30am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are films costarring men who won or were nominated for Best Supporting Actor: Four Daughters (1938, nomination for John Garfield), Sayonara (1957, win for Red Buttons), Crossfire (1947, nomination for Robert Ryan), The Asphalt Jungle (1950, nomination for Sam Jaffe), The Barefoot Contessa (1954, win for Edmond O’Brien) and The Big Country (1958, win for Burl Ives).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films featuring Best Supporting Actor winners: How Green Was My Valley (1941, Donald Crisp), The More the Merrier (1943, Charles Coburn), The Fortune Cookie (1966, Walter Matthau), Being There (1979, Melvyn Douglas) and Sweet Bird of Youth (1962, Ed Begley).

Sunday, Feb. 18
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 10: Best Supporting Actor (continued)
Begins at 7am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are more films costarring men who won or were nominated for Best Supporting Actor: Romeo and Juliet (1936, nomination for Basil Rathbone), Friendly Persuasion (1956, nomination for Anthony Perkins), Quo Vadis (1951, nominations for Leo Genn and Peter Ustinov), Cool Hand Luke (1967, win for George Kennedy) and The Dirty Dozen (1967, nomination for John Cassavetes).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films featuring Best Supporting Actor winners: Topkapi (1964, Peter Ustinov); Adaptation (2002, Chris Cooper), making its TCM premiere; Cabaret (1972, Joel Grey); Come and Get It (1936, Walter Brennan, the first time this Oscar category was awarded); and Lust for Life (1956, Anthony Quinn).

black and white image of the 9th Academy Awards on March 4, 1937. Walter Brennan, wearing a tuxedo, smiles proudly as he poses with the Best Supporting Actor Oscar he won for 1936's "Come and Get It." This was the first year that category was awarded.

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Walter Brennan, winner of the first Best Supporting Actor Oscar ever awarded for Come and Get It, proudly holds his statuette at the 9th Academy Awards on March 4, 1937

 

Monday, Feb. 19
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 11: Best Original Song
Begins at 6:45am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are films with original songs that won or were nominated for Oscars: Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (1937, nomination for “Remember Me”); Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, nomination for “The Trolley Song”); The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1965, nomination for “I Will Wait for You”); The Triplets of Belleville (2003, nomination for “Belleville Rendez-Vous”), making its TCM premiere; The Sandpiper (1965, win for “The Shadow of Your Smile”); Calamity Jane (1953, win for “Secret Love”); and The Gay Divorcee (1934, win for “The Continental”).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films featuring Best Original Song winners: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956, “Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)”), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968, “The Windmills of Your Mind”), Fame (1980, “Fame”), A Star Is Born (1976, “Evergreen (Love Theme From A Star Is Born)”) and Lady Be Good (1941, “The Last Time I Saw Paris”).

Tuesday, Feb. 20
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 12: Best Original Score
Begins at 7:15am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are films that won or were nominated for Best Original Score: Carefree (1938, nominee), Night and Day (1946, nominee), The Enchanted Cottage (1945, nominee), Of Mice and Men (1939, nominee), The Old Man and the Sea (1958, winner), The Harvey Girls (1946, nominee) and On the Town (1949, winner).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films featuring Best Original Score winners: The Red Shoes (1948), Spellbound (1945), Now, Voyager (1942), A Little Romance (1979) and Lili (1953).

Wednesday, Feb. 21
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 13: Best Documentary
Begins at 6:15am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are films that won or were nominated for Best Documentary: The Sea Around Us (1952, winner), The Secret Land (1948, winner), Freedom on My Mind (1994, nominee), Four Days in November (1964, nominee), Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt (1989, winner), For All Mankind (1989, nominee), When We Were Kings (1996, winner) and Winged Migration (2001, nominee), which is making its TCM premiere.

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films featuring Best Documentary winners: The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975), making its TCM premiere; Harlan County USA (1976), Anne Frank Remembered (1995) and Woodstock (1970). 

Thursday, Feb. 22
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 14: Best Cinematography
Begins at 6am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are films that won or were nominated for Best Cinematography: Algiers (1938, nominee), Waterloo Bridge (1940, nominee), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939, nominee), Kismet (1944, nominee), National Velvet (1944, nominee), Jungle Book (1942, nominee) and King Solomon’s Mines (1950, winner).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films that all won for Best Cinematography: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), The Black Swan (1942), Phantom of the Opera (1943), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) and Cries and Whispers (1972).

Friday, Feb. 23
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 15: Best Cinematography (continued)
Begins at 6am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are more films that won or were nominated for Best Cinematography: Captains of the Clouds (1942, nominee), Million Dollar Mermaid (1952, nominee), Northwest Passage (1940, nominee), Lassie Come Home (1943, nominee), Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956, winner), Blackboard Jungle (1955, nominee) and Strangers on a Train (1951, nominee).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films that all won for Best Cinematography: Laura (1944), The Defiant Ones (1958), Mississippi Burning (1988), Ryan’s Daughter (1970) and The Good Earth (1937). 

Saturday, Feb. 24
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 16: Best Actress
Begins at 7:45am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are films led by women who won or were nominated for Best Actress: The Valley of Decision (1945, nomination for Greer Garson), Alice Adams (1935, nomination for Katharine Hepburn), Suspicion (1941, win for Joan Fontaine), Wait Until Dark (1967, nomination for Audrey Hepburn), Born Yesterday (1950, win for Judy Holliday) and Auntie Mame (1958, nomination for Rosalind Russell).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films starring Best Actress winners: Driving Miss Daisy (1989, Jessica Tandy), Funny Girl (1968, Barbra Streisand, who tied with Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter), Mildred Pierce (1945, Joan Crawford), Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974, Ellen Burstyn) and Two Women (1961, Sophia Loren).

Sunday, Feb. 25
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 17: Best Actress (continued)
Begins at 6:30am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are more films led by women who won or were nominated for Best Actress: Camille (1937, nomination for Greta Garbo); I’ll Cry Tomorrow (1955, nomination for Susan Hayward); Baby Doll (1956, nomination for Carroll Baker); A Star Is Born (1954, nomination for Judy Garland); Far From Heaven (2002, nomination for Julianne Moore), making its TCM premiere; and Gaslight (1944, win for Ingrid Bergman).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films starring Best Actress winners: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, Vivien Leigh), Moonstruck (1987, Cher), The Country Girl (1954, Grace Kelly), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966, Elizabeth Taylor) and Dangerous (1935, Bette Davis, the first of her two Best Actress wins).

black-and-white image taken backstage after the 27th Academy Awards on March 30, 1955. It shows Grace Kelly posing and smiling while holding the Best Actress statuette she won for her performance in 1954's "The Country Girl." Kelly is standing in profile with her left side toward the camera. She is clutching the Oscar's body with her right hand and supporting it from below with her left. She is dressed in an evening gown with straps, is wearing long formal gloves and has a purse dangling from her left arm.

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Grace Kelly holds the Best Actress Oscar she won for The Country Girl at the 27th Academy Awards on March 30, 1955

 

Monday, Feb. 26
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 18: Best Visual/Special Effects
Begins at 6:30am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are films enhanced by special effects that won or were nominated for Oscars: Green Dolphin Street (1947, winner), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944, winner), Mutiny on the Bounty (1962, nominee), Forbidden Planet (1956, nominee), Topper Returns (1941, nominee) and Them! (1954, nominee).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films whose effects won Oscars: Fantastic Voyage (1966), Blithe Spirit (1946), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Destination Moon (1950) and Tom Thumb (1958).

Tuesday, Feb. 27
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 19: Best Foreign Language Film
Begins at 6am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are productions that won or were nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar: Woman in the Dunes (1964, Japan; nominee), The Shop on Main Street (1965, Czechoslovakia; winner), The Firemen’s Ball (1967, Czechoslovakia; nominee), The Virgin Spring (1960, Sweden; winner), The Last Metro (1980, France; nominee), Mon Oncle (1958, France; winner) and Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987, France; nominee).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are Best Foreign Language Film winners: 8 1/2 (1963, Italy); Babette’s Feast (1987, Denmark); Indochine (1992, France), making its TCM premiere; Sundays and Cybèle (1962, France), also making its TCM premiere; and Closely Watched Trains (1967, Czechoslovakia).

Wednesday, Feb. 28
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 20: Best Sound
Begins at 7am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are films enhanced by sound that won or was nominated for an Oscar: Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933, nominee), Naughty Marietta (1935, winner), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939, nominee), This Land Is Mine (1943, winner), The Brave One (1956, nominee) and It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963, nominee).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films that won the Best Sound Oscar: Grand Prix (1966), The Hurricane (1937), Strike Up the Band (1940) and The Great Caruso (1951).

Thursday, Feb. 29
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 21: Best Director
Begins at 5:30am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are films helmed by people who won or were nominated for Best Director Oscars: Anna Christie (1930, nomination for Clarence Brown); Lady for a Day (1933, nomination for Frank Capra); The Southerner (1945, nomination for Jean Renoir); Bad Day at Black Rock (1955, nomination for John Sturges); The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, win for John Huston, who also won for his screenplay); Never on Sunday (1960, nomination for Jules Dassin); Witness for the Prosecution (1957, nomination for Billy Wilder); and Midnight in Paris (2011, nomination for Woody Allen), making its TCM premiere.

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films whose directors won Oscars: The Quiet Man (1952, John Ford), Giant (1956, George Stevens), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, Lewis Milestone) and The Divine Lady (1929, Frank Lloyd).

black and white photo from the 1949 Oscars ceremony. Deborah Kerr, on the right wearing a white formal dress, hands the Best Original Screenplay Oscar statuette to John Huston, smiling and wearing a tux, for "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."

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Deborah Kerr hands John Huston his Best Screenplay Oscar for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre at the 21st Academy Awards on March 24, 1949. Huston also won for directing the film.

 

Friday, March 1
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 22: Best Director (continued)
Begins at 6:15am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are more films helmed by people who won or were nominated for Best Director: The Informer (1935, first nomination and win for John Ford), The Crowd (1928, nomination for King Vidor), Great Expectations (1946, nomination for David Lean), The Heiress (1949, nomination for William Wyler), I Want to Live! (1958, nomination for Robert Wise), 12 Angry Men (1957, nomination for Sidney Lumet) and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967, nomination for Stanley Kramer).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films whose directors won Oscars: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936, Frank Capra), A Letter to Three Wives (1949, Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Marty (1955, Delbert Mann) and The Awful Truth (1937, Leo McCarey).

Saturday, March 2
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 23: Best Actor
Begins at 4am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are films led by men who won or were nominated for Best Actor: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931, win for Fredric March, who tied with Wallace Beery for The Champ); The Great Dictator (1940, nomination for Charles Chaplin); The Thin Man (1934, nomination for William Powell); Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939, win for Robert Donat); Anatomy of a Murder (1959, nomination for James Stewart); Elmer Gantry (1960, win for Burt Lancaster) and East of Eden (1955, the first of James Dean’s two consecutive posthumous nominations; he also received one the following year for Giant).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films starring Best Actor winners: Lincoln (2012, Daniel Day-Lewis), making its TCM premiere; A Man for All Seasons (1966, Paul Scofield); Sergeant York (1941, Gary Cooper) and Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942, James Cagney).

Sunday, March 3
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 24: Best Actor (continued)
Begins at 6am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are more films led by men who won or were nominated for Best Actor: The Front Page (1931, nomination for Adolphe Menjou), Penny Serenade (1941, nomination for Cary Grant), Watch on the Rhine (1943, win for Paul Lukas), Sounder (1972, nomination for Paul Winfield), Cat Ballou (1965, win for Lee Marvin), The Lost Weekend (1945, win for Ray Milland) and The Goodbye Girl (1977, win for Richard Dreyfuss).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films starring Best Actor winners: A Double Life (1947, Ronald Colman), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, Gregory Peck), On Golden Pond (1981, Henry Fonda), Lilies of the Field (1963, Sidney Poitier, the first African American to win the Best Actor Oscar) and Boys Town (1938, Spencer Tracy, his second consecutive win, after Captains Courageous the year before).

black-and-white image from the 35th Academy Awards. Best Actor winner Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird), wearing a tuxedo and smiling, is on the left of the photo, holding the Oscar he has just won in his right hand. His left arm is around Sophia Loren, also smiling and wearing a white formal dress, who had won Best Actress the previous year and presented Peck with his award.

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Gregory Peck, Best Actor winner for 1962’s To Kill a Mockingbird, receives his award from 1961’s Best Actress, Sophia Loren, at the 35th Academy Awards on April 8, 1963

 

Monday, March 4
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 25: Best Picture
Begins at 6am

As Turner Classic Movies’ 31 Days of Oscar event begins to wind down, it will focus on Best Picture nominees and winners for the next several days, beginning today and continuing through this year’s Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, March 10.

This morning and into the early evening features a lineup of films that were nominated for Best Picture: Five Star Final (1931), The Human Comedy (1943), The Little Foxes (1941), Stagecoach (1939), The Caine Mutiny (1954), Picnic (1955) and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films that won Best Picture: An American in Paris (1951), It Happened One Night (1934, the first of only three movies in history to win all five major Oscar categories), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Cavalcade (1933) and Grand Hotel (1932).

Tuesday, March 5
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 26: Best Picture (continued)
Begins at 6:30am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are more films that were nominated for Best Picture: The Racket (1928), A Tale of Two Cities (1935), The Nun’s Story (1959), Anchors Aweigh (1945), Battleground (1949) and Citizen Kane (1941).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films that won Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night (1967); Platoon (1986), making its TCM premiere; No Country for Old Men (2007); Midnight Cowboy (1969, the only X-rated movie to win Best Picture) and All the King’s Men (1949).

Wednesday, March 6
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 27: Best Picture (continued)
Begins at 6:30am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are more films that were nominated for Best Picture: The Big House (1930), The Private Life of Henry the VIII (1933), Captain Blood (1935), Ivanhoe (1952), The Alamo (1960) and America, America (1963).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films that won Best Picture: All About Eve (1950), Gentleman’s Agreement (1947), Going My Way (1944) and Hamlet (1948).

Thursday, March 7
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 28: Best Picture (continued)
Begins at 5:45am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are more films that were nominated for Best Picture: Madame Curie (1943), Captains Courageous (1937), 42nd Street (1933), Foreign Correspondent (1940), The Letter (1940), Libeled Lady (1936) and Ninotchka (1939).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films that won Best Picture: Casablanca (1942), Out of Africa (1985), My Fair Lady (1964) and Tom Jones (1963).

Friday, March 8
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 29: Best Picture (continued)
Begins at 6:15am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are more films that were nominated for Best Picture: Our Town (1940), The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936), Johnny Belinda (1948), The Yearling (1946), Father of the Bride (1950), The Music Man (1962) and Mister Roberts (1955).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films that won Best Picture: Rain Man (1988), Annie Hall (1977), The Apartment (1960), Gigi (1958) and The Great Ziegfeld (1936).

Saturday, March 9
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 30: Best Picture (continued)
Begins at 7:30am

Starting this morning and going into the early evening are more films that won or were nominated for Best Picture: The Champ (1931, nominee), Top Hat (1935, nominee), The Maltese Falcon (1941, nominee), The Last Emperor (1987, winner) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962, winner).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films that won Best Picture: Ben-Hur (1959), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Cimarron (1931).

Sunday, March 10
31 Days of Oscar 2024 Day 31 (final day): Best Picture (continued)
Begins at 8:30am

Turner Classic Movies’ 31 Days of Oscar event finishes up today, the date of this year’s Academy Awards ceremony (airing this evening on ABC).

This morning and into the early evening, TCM features a lineup of more films that won or were nominated for Best Picture: A Farewell to Arms (1932, nominee), Dark Victory (1939, nominee), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958, nominee), Bonnie and Clyde (1967, nominee) and Gone With the Wind (1939, winner).

Starting in primetime and going into tomorrow morning are films that won Best Picture: Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Wings (1927, the first Best Picture winner), You Can’t Take It With You (1938) and The Broadway Melody (1929).