Day-by-Day Guide to All the Categories, Stars & Movies Featured During TCM’s 31 Days of Oscar 2025

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Best Actress nominees Anne Baxter and Bette Davis in 1950's All About Eve, one of the films kicking off TCM's '31 Days of Oscar 2025'

In 2025, Turner Classic Movies will again be airing its popular annual event, 31 Days of Oscar, beginning Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, and running through Monday, March 3, 2025, the day after this year’s Academy Awards ceremony (which airs live Sunday, March 2, 2025, on ABC).

TCM continues to get fun and creative with how it presents its 31 Days of Oscar lineup each year. For 2025, each daytime will be scheduled with standard lineups of movies and/or stars who won or were nominated for Oscars in a particular non-acting category (Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, etc.).

All titles airing in primetime, though, will feature nominees or winners in an acting category where they played a character type highlighted on that evening. For example, the first nighttime lineup on Feb. 1 is themed around actors who were nominated or won Oscars for playing actors; on another day, you’ll see winners and nominees who played Shakespearean characters, etc.

We’ve got a day-by-day guide to those categories, films, stars, winners and nominees that are featured in the 2025 31 Days of Oscar event.

TCM 31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day-by-Day Lineup, Feb. 1-March 3, 2025 (All Times Eastern)

Saturday, Feb. 1
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 1: Best Picture Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Actors
Begins at 6am

Kicking off this year’s 31 Days of Oscar, starting this morning and going through the afternoon, are films that won or were nominated for Best Picture: The Life of Emile Zola (1937; winner), The Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935; nominee), The Great Dictator (1940; nominee), Sounder (1972; nominee), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954; nominee),  12 Angry Men (1957; nominee) and In the Heat of the Night (1967; winner).

Beginning in primetime, the theme is “Oscar-Worthy Actors” (stars who won or were nominated for playing actors), featuring All About Eve (1950; Best Actress nominees Bette Davis and Anne Baxter), Singin’ in the Rain (1952; Best Supporting Actress nominee Jean Hagen), A Star Is Born (1937; Best Actor nominee Fredric March and Best Actress nominee Janet Gaynor), The Goodbye Girl (1977; Best Actor winner Richard Dreyfuss) and Morning Glory (1933; Katharine Hepburn‘s first Best Actress nomination and win).

Sunday, Feb. 2
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 2: Best Picture Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Teachers
Begins at 6am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won Best Picture: Smilin’ Through (1932; nominee), Four Daughters (1938; nominee), All This, and Heaven Too (1940; nominee), A Passage to India (1984; nominee), Tom Jones (1963; winner) and Oliver! (1968; winner, the last G-rated film to win this category).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Teachers,” featuring Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995; Best Actor nominee Richard Dreyfuss), The Miracle Worker (1962; Best Actress winner Anne Bancroft), The Paper Chase (1973; Best Supporting Actor winner John Houseman), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939; Best Actor winner Robert Donat) and Rachel, Rachel (1968; Best Actress nominee Joanne Woodward).

Monday, Feb. 3
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 3: Best Art Direction Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Criminals
Begins at 6:15am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won Academy Awards for their art direction: The Merry Widow (1934; winner), Pride and Prejudice (1940; winner), Little Women (1949; winner), Young Bess (1953; nominee), Kismet (1944; nominee), Brigadoon (1954; nominee) and Annie Get Your Gun (1950; nominee).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Criminals,” featuring The Sting (1973; Best Actor nominee Robert Redford), Bonnie and Clyde (1967; Best Actor nominee Warren Beatty, Best Actress nominee Faye Dunaway, Best Supporting Actor nominees Gene Hackman and Michael J. Pollard, and Best Supporting Actress winner Estelle Parsons), Double Indemnity (1944, pictured below; Best Actress nominee Barbara Stanwyck), The Asphalt Jungle (1950; Best Supporting Actor nominee Sam Jaffe) and Algiers (1938; Best Actor nominee Charles Boyer).

black and white image from the 1944 film "Double Indemnity." On the right of the photo is Fred MacMurray, holding a drink in his right hand and with his left hand in the pocket of his dress pants as he is looking anxiously toward his left after having just entered a room. To the left, hiding behind the room's open door, is Barbara Stanwyck looking at him.

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Tuesday, Feb. 4
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 4: Best Original Screenplay Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Eccentrics
Begins at 6am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won Academy Awards for their original screenplays: In Which We Serve (1943; nominee Noël Coward, who received an honorary Oscar for his “outstanding production achievement”), Foreign Correspondent (1940; nominees Charles Bennett and Joan Harrison), The North Star (1943; nominee Lillian Hellman), The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947; winner Sidney Sheldon), Designing Woman (1957; winner George Wells), Adam’s Rib (1949; nominees Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin) and The Band Wagon (1953; nominees Betty Comden and Adolph Green).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Eccentrics,” featuring Harvey (1950; Best Actor nominee James Stewart), Auntie Mame (1958; Best Actress nominee Rosalind Russell), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936; Best Actor nominee Gary Cooper), Being There (1979; Best Actor nominee Peter Sellers) and Travels With My Aunt (1972; Best Actress nominee Maggie Smith).

Wednesday, Feb. 5
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 5: Best Original Story Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Royals
Begins at 7:15am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won Academy Awards for Best Original Story, a category awarded from the first Oscars until 1956 (and often overlapping with the screenplay categories, which is probably why it was eventually dropped). Those films are The Doorway to Hell (1930; nominee Rowland Brown), One Way Passage (1932; winner Robert Lord), Manhattan Melodrama (1934; winner Arthur Caesar), Action in the North Atlantic (1943; nominee Guy Gilpatric), The Stratton Story (1949; winner Douglas Morrow), Love Me or Leave Me (1955; winner Daniel Fuchs) and The Brave One (1956; winner Dalton Trumbo, who wrote the story, and was nominated, under the pseudonym “Robert Rich” because he was blacklisted; this was the last Oscar awarded for Best Original Story).

image from the 1968 historical drama "The Lion in Winter." Seated at a banquet table, dressed in 12th-century attire, are, on the left, Peter O'Toole as Henry II, and, to his left, on right of photo, Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine

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The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Royals,” featuring Mrs. Brown (1997; Best Actress nominee Judi Dench), The Lion in Winter (1968, pictured above; Best Actor nominee Peter O’Toole and Best Actress winner Katharine Hepburn, who tied with Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl), the TCM premiere of The Madness of King George (1994; Best Actor nominee Nigel Hawthorne and Best Supporting Actress nominee Helen Mirren), Marie Antoinette (1938; Best Actress nominee Norma Shearer and Best Supporting Actor nominee Robert Morley) and The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933; Best Actor winner Charles Laughton).

Thursday, Feb. 6
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 6: Best Cinematography Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Seafarers
Begins at 7:15am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won Academy Awards for their cinematography: The Great Waltz (1938; winner), Strangers on a Train (1951; nominee), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952; winner), Gypsy (1962; nominee), Million Dollar Mermaid (1952; nominee) and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949; winner).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Seafarers,” featuring Mutiny on the Bounty (1935; Best Actor nominees Clark Gable, Charles Laughton and Franchot Tone; the Best Supporting Actor category was added the following year to prevent three Best Actor nods from occurring again), Captains Courageous (1937; Best Actor winner Spencer Tracy), Ship of Fools (1965; Best Actor nominee Oskar Werner, Best Actress nominee Simone Signoret and Best Supporting Actor nominee Michael Dunn), The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964; Best Actress nominee Debbie Reynolds) and The Old Man and the Sea (1958; Best Actor nominee Spencer Tracy).

Friday, Feb. 7
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 7: Best Original Song Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Patients
Begins at 7:15am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won Academy Awards for their original songs: Blues in the Night (1941; nomination for “Blues in the Night” by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer), Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935; win for “Lullaby of Broadway” by Harry Warren and Al Dubin), Born to Dance (1936; nomination for “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” by Cole Porter), Cabin in the Sky (1943; nomination for “Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe” by Arlen and Yip Harburg), Strike Up the Band (1940; nomination for “Our Love Affair” by Roger Edens and Arthur Freed), The Harvey Girls (1946; win for “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe” by Warren and Mercer) and Calamity Jane (1953; win for “Secret Love” by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Patients,” featuring The Three Faces of Eve (1957; Best Actress winner Joanne Woodward), Love Story (1970; Best Actress nominee Ali MacGraw), the TCM premiere of Amour (2012; Best Actress nominee Emmanuelle Riva, who was nearly 86 at the time and remains the oldest ever nominee for Best Actress), Interrupted Melody (1955; Best Actress nominee Eleanor Parker) and Camille (1936; Best Actress nominee Greta Garbo).

Saturday, Feb. 8
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 8: Best Picture Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Moms
Begins at 6:15am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won Best Picture: Flirtation Walk (1934; nominee), Here Comes the Navy (1934; nominee), Captain Blood (1935; nominee), Cimarron (1931; winner), How the West Was Won (1962; nominee) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930; winner).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Moms,” featuring Places in the Heart (1984; Best Actress winner Sally Field), the TCM premiere of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017; Best Actress winner Frances McDormand), Imitation of Life (1959; Best Supporting Actress nominee Juanita Moore), Mildred Pierce (1945; Best Actress winner Joan Crawford) and Mrs. Miniver (1942; Best Actress winner Greer Garson).

black and white still from March 7, 1946, with Joan Crawford accepting her Best Actress Oscar statuette for "Mildred Pierce" while in bed in her bedroom. She is on the left, wearing white nightclothes, holding the Oscar, with her lower body underneath the bed's white sheets and blankets. On the right, two men from the press photograph her as she speaks.

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March 7, 1946: Members of the press visit Joan Crawford in her bedroom, where she accepted her Best Actress Oscar for Mildred Pierce after feigning an illness and not attending the ceremony

 

Sunday, Feb. 9
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 9: Best Picture Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Lawyers
Begins at 6:45am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won Best Picture: One Foot in Heaven (1941; nominee), The Good Earth (1937; nominee), Lady for a Day (1933; nominee), Libeled Lady (1936; nominee), Gigi (1958; winner) and My Fair Lady (1964; winner).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Lawyers,” featuring To Kill a Mockingbird (1962; Best Actor winner Gregory Peck), Witness for the Prosecution (1957; Best Actor nominee Charles Laughton), Inherit the Wind (1960; Best Actor nominee Spencer Tracy), Trial (1955; Best Supporting Actor nominee Arthur Kennedy) and A Free Soul (1931; Best Actor winner Lionel Barrymore).

Monday, Feb. 10
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 10: Best Art Direction Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Kids
Begins at 6:30am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won Academy Awards for their art direction: Rashomon (1950; nominee), The Prisoner of Zenda (1937; nominee), The Thief of Bagdad (1940; winner), America America (1963; winner), Moulin Rouge (1952; winner) and The Red Shoes (1948; winner).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Kids,” featuring Kramer vs. Kramer (1979; Best Supporting Actor nominee Justin Henry, who was just under 9 years old at the time and is still the youngest nominee for any competitive category in Oscar history), Shane (1953; Best Supporting Actor nominee Brandon De Wilde), These Three (1936; Best Supporting Actress nominee Bonita Granville), Skippy (1931; Best Actor nominee Jackie Cooper) and The Bad Seed (1956; Best Supporting Actress nominee Patty McCormack).

Tuesday, Feb. 11
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 11: Best Original Screenplay Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Drama Queens
Begins at 6am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won Academy Awards for their original screenplays: The Seventh Veil (1945; winners Muriel Box and Sydney Box), Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953; nominees Jacques Tati and Henri Marquet), I Vitelloni (1953; nominees Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli), The 400 Blows (1959; nominees François Truffaut and Marcel Moussy), Splendor in the Grass (1961; winner William Inge), The Candidate (1972; winner Jeremy Larner) and North by Northwest (1959; nominee Ernest Lehman).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Drama Queens,” featuring Jezebel (1938; Best Actress winner Bette Davis), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951; Best Actress winner Vivien Leigh and Best Supporting Actress winner Kim Hunter), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966; Best Actress winner Elizabeth Taylor), Johnny Belinda (1948; Best Actress winner Jane Wyman) and Possessed (1947; Best Actress nominee Joan Crawford).

Wednesday, Feb. 12
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 12: Best Original Score Winners/Oscar-Worthy Boxers
Begins at 6:45am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features six films with musical scores that won Academy Awards: Summer of ’42 (1971; winner Michel Legrand), Easter Parade (1948; winners Johnny Green and Roger Edens), Camelot (1967; winners Alfred Newman and Ken Darby), Anchors Aweigh (1945; winner George Stoll), On the Town (1949; winners Roger Edens and Lennie Hayton) and Oklahoma! (1955; winners Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton and Adolph Deutsch).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Boxers,” featuring The Champ (1931; Best Actor winner Wallace Beery, who tied with Fredric March for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), the TCM premiere of The Fighter (2010; Best Supporting Actor winner Christian Bale) and Raging Bull (1980; Best Actor winner Robert De Niro).

Thursday, Feb. 13
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 13: Best Cinematography Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Prostitutes
Begins at 2:15am (late-night Feb. 12)

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won Academy Awards for their cinematography: Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956; winner), Cries and Whispers (1972; winner), White Shadows in the South Seas (1928; winner), The Naked City (1948; winner), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945; winner), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939; nominee), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944; nominee), National Velvet (1944; nominee) and Black Narcissus (1947; winner).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Prostitutes,” featuring The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931; Best Actress winner Helen Hayes), BUtterfield 8 (1960; Best Actress winner Elizabeth Taylor), Klute (1971; Best Actress winner Jane Fonda), Primrose Path (1940; Best Supporting Actress nominee Marjorie Rambeau) and Anna Christie (1930; Best Actress nominee Greta Garbo).

Friday, Feb. 14
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 14: Best Original Song Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Lovers
Begins at 5:15am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won Academy Awards for their original songs: A Star Is Born (1954; nomination for “The Man That Got Away” by Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin), The Sandpiper (1965; win for “The Shadow of Your Smile” by Johnny Mandel and Paul Francis Webster), Dear Heart (1964; nomination for “Dear Heart” by Henry Mancini, Ray Evans and Jay Livingston), Swing Time (1936; win for “The Way You Look Tonight” by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964; nomination for “I Will Wait for You” by Michel Legrand, Jacques Demy and Norman Gimbel), The Tender Trap (1955; nomination for “(Love Is) The Tender Trap” by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn) and High Society (1956; nomination for “True Love” by Cole Porter).

The evening theme, fittingly since today is Valentine’s Day, is “Oscar-Worthy Lovers,” featuring Casablanca (1942; Best Actor nominee Humphrey Bogart), Marty (1955; Best Actor winner Ernest Borgnine and Best Supporting Actress nominee Betsy Blair), Pillow Talk (1959; Best Actress nominee Doris Day), Now, Voyager (1942; Best Actress nominee Bette Davis) and Brief Encounter (1945; Best Actress nominee Celia Johnson).

Saturday, Feb. 15
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 15: Best Picture Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Cowboys
Begins at 5:30am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won Best Picture: The Racket (1928; nominee), The Big House (1930; nominee), A Farewell to Arms (1932; nominee), The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934; nominee), Mister Roberts (1955; nominee), The Yearling (1946; nominee) and Around the World in 80 Days (1956; winner).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Cowboys,” featuring True Grit (1969; Best Actor winner John Wayne), Cat Ballou (1965; Best Actor winner Lee Marvin), Giant (1956; Best Actor nominees Rock Hudson and James Dean; this was Dean’s second consecutive posthumous nomination) and The Westerner (1940; Best Supporting Actor winner Walter Brennan).

Sunday, Feb. 16
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 16: Best Picture Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy New Yorkers
Begins at 5:30am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won Best Picture: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935; nominee), Alice Adams (1935; nominee), Watch on the Rhine (1943; nominee), Top Hat (1935; nominee), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938; nominee) and Ben-Hur (1959; winner).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy New Yorkers,” featuring West Side Story (1961; Best Supporting Actor winner George Chakiris and Best Supporting Actress winner Rita Moreno), Annie Hall (1977; Best Actress winner Diane Keaton and Best Actor nominee Woody Allen), the TCM premiere of Working Girl (1988; Best Actress nominee Melanie Griffith, and Best Supporting Actress nominees Sigourney Weaver and Joan Cusack), The Apartment (1960; Best Actor nominee Jack Lemmon, Best Actress nominee Shirley MacLaine and Best Supporting Actor nominee Jack Kruschen) and Dog Day Afternoon (1975; Best Actor nominee Al Pacino and Best Supporting Actor nominee Chris Sarandon).

Monday, Feb. 17
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 17: Best Foreign Film Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Politicians and First Ladies
Begins at 7am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features titles from other countries that were nominated for or won Academy Awards as Best Foreign Language Film/Best International Feature Film: Loves of a Blonde (1966; nominee, from Czechoslovakia), The Virgin Spring (1960; winner, from Sweden), Kapo (1960; nominee, from Italy), The Burmese Harp (1956; nominee, from Japan), Babette’s Feast (1987; winner, from Denmark), Mon Oncle (1958; winner, from France) and La Strada (1954; winner, from Italy).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Politicians and First Ladies,” featuring All the King’s Men (1949; Best Actor winner Broderick Crawford), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939; Best Actor nominee James Stewart), The Best Man (1964; Best Supporting Actor nominee Lee Tracy), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940; Best Actor nominee Raymond Massey), Sunrise at Campobello (1960; Best Actress nominee Greer Garson) and The Gorgeous Hussy (1936; Best Supporting Actress nominee Beulah Bondi).

Tuesday, Feb. 18
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 18: Best Adapted Screenplay Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Shakespearean Characters
Begins at 8:30am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won for their screenplay adaptations of other works: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931; nominees Percy Heath and Samuel Hoffenstein; based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson), Pygmalion (1938; winner; based on the play by George Bernard Shaw, who was involved with the screenplay adaptation with Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis and W.P. Lipscomb), Room at the Top (1959; winner Neil Paterson; based on the novel by John Braine), Blackboard Jungle (1955; nominee Richard Brooks; based on Evan Hunter’s novel The Blackboard Jungle), Father of the Bride (1950; nominees Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett; based on the novel by Edward Streeter) and Friendly Persuasion (1956; nominee Michael Wilson, who did not receive screen credit because he was blacklisted; based on Jessamyn West’s novel The Friendly Persuasion).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Shakespearean Characters,” featuring Hamlet (1948; Best Actor winner Laurence Olivier and Best Actress nominee Jean Simmons), the TCM premiere of Henry V (1989; Best Actor and Best Director nominee Kenneth Branagh), Romeo and Juliet (1936; Best Actress nominee Norma Shearer and Best Supporting Actor nominee Basil Rathbone) and Julius Caesar (1953; Best Actor nominee Marlon Brando).

Wednesday, Feb. 19
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 19: Best Editing Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Teens
Begins at 5:45am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won Academy Awards for their editing: Air Force (1943; winner), Odd Man Out (1947; nominee), Z (1969; winner), The Dirty Dozen (1967; nominee), The Great Escape (1963; nominee) and Bullitt (1968; winner).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Teens,” featuring Rebel Without a Cause (1955; Best Supporting Actor nominee Sal Mineo and Best Supporting Actress nominee Natalie Wood), The Last Picture Show (1971; Best Supporting Actor nominee Jeff Bridges), American Graffiti (1973; Best Supporting Actress nominee Candy Clark), The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968; Best Supporting Actress nominee Sondra Locke) and The Human Comedy (1943; Best Actor nominee Mickey Rooney).

Thursday, Feb. 20
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 20: Best Director Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Prisoners
Begins at 6:30am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films whose directors were nominated for or won Academy Awards: The Crowd (1928; nominee King Vidor), The Divine Lady (1929; winner Frank Lloyd), Stage Door (1937; nominee Gregory La Cava), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955; nominee John Sturges), The Search (1948; nominee Fred Zinnemann), The Thin Man (1934; nominee W.S. Van Dyke) and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948; winner John Huston).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Prisoners,” featuring Birdman of Alcatraz (1962; Best Actor nominee Burt Lancaster and Best Supporting Actor nominee Telly Savalas), The Defiant Ones (1958; Best Actor nominees Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier, who became the first African American nominated in this category), I Want to Live! (1958; Best Actress winner Susan Hayward), Cool Hand Luke (1967; Best Actor nominee Paul Newman and Best Supporting Actor winner George Kennedy), I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932; Best Actor nominee Paul Muni) and Caged (1950; Best Actress nominee Eleanor Parker).

Friday, Feb. 21
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 21: Best Costume Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Comic Relief
Begins at 8:30am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won Academy Awards for their costume design: Gate of Hell (1954; winner), Les Girls (1957; winner), Adventures of Don Juan (1948; winner), The Night of the Iguana (1964; winner), Indiscretion of an American Wife (1954; nominee) and 8 1/2 (1963; winner).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Comic Relief,” featuring The Circus (1928; an honorary award to Charles Chaplin for writing, directing, producing and starring), Born Yesterday (1950; Best Actress winner Judy Holliday), Some Like It Hot (1959; Best Actor nominee Jack Lemmon), My Favorite Year (1982; Best Actor nominee Peter O’Toole) and Ninotchka (1939; Best Actress nominee Greta Garbo).

Saturday, Feb. 22
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 22: Best Picture Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Soldiers
Begins at 5:30am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won Best Picture: The Hollywood Revue (1929; nominee), A Tale of Two Cities (1935; nominee), Naughty Marietta (1935; nominee), The Maltese Falcon (1941; nominee), Ivanhoe (1952; nominee), Stagecoach (1939; nominee) and Chariots of Fire (1981; winner).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Soldiers,” featuring Sergeant York (1941; Best Actor winner Gary Cooper), An Officer and a Gentleman (1982; Best Supporting Actor winner Louis Gossett Jr.), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946; Best Actor winner Fredric March and Best Supporting Actor winner Harold Russell), The Story of G.I. Joe (1945; Best Supporting Actor nominee Robert Mitchum) and Battleground (1949; Best Supporting Actor nominee James Whitmore).

Sunday, Feb. 23
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 23: Best Picture Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Journalists
Begins at 8am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won Best Picture: 49th Parallel (1941; nominee), 42nd Street (1933; nominee), Grand Hotel (1932; winner), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958; nominee), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967; nominee) and Driving Miss Daisy (1989; winner).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Journalists,” featuring All the President’s Men (1976; Best Supporting Actor winner Jason Robards), The China Syndrome (1979; Best Actress nominee Jane Fonda), Network (1976; Best Actor winner Peter Finch, a posthumous award), Woman of the Year (1942; Best Actress nominee Katharine Hepburn) and The Front Page (1931; Best Actor nominee Adolphe Menjou).

Monday, Feb. 24
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 24: Best Documentary Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Women in Danger
Begins at 6:45am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup consists of feature documentaries that have won Academy Awards: The Battle of Midway (1942; winner, along with three other war-related documentaries), Resisting Enemy Interrogation (1944; nominee), The Sea Around Us (1952; winner), The Times of Harvey Milk (1984; winner), Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt (1989; winner), Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976; winner), Freedom on My Mind (1994; nominee), When We Were Kings (1996; winner) and For All Mankind (1989; nominee).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Women in Danger,” featuring Suspicion (1941; Best Actress winner Joan Fontaine), Psycho (1960; Best Supporting Actress nominee Janet Leigh), Gaslight (1944; Best Actress winner Ingrid Bergman), Wait Until Dark (1967; Best Actress nominee Audrey Hepburn) and Night Must Fall (1937; Best Supporting Actress nominee May Whitty).

Tuesday, Feb. 25
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 25: Best Adapted Screenplay Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Entertainers
Begins at 6am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won for their screenplay adaptations of other works: Little Caesar (1931; nominees Francis Edward Faragoh and Robert N. Lee; based on the novel by William R. Burnett), Great Expectations (1946; nominees David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan and Ronald Neame; based on the novel by Charles Dickens), Baby Doll (1956; nominee Tennessee Williams, based on his plays 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and The Long Stay Cut Short, or The Unsatisfactory Supper), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961; winner Abby Mann, based on the television play he wrote for Playhouse 90), Elmer Gantry (1960; winner Richard Brooks; based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis) and Lolita (1962; nominee Vladimir Nabokov, based on his novel).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Entertainers,” featuring Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942; Best Actor winner James Cagney), Cabaret (1972; Best Actress winner Liza Minnelli and Best Supporting Actor winner Joel Grey), Lili (1953; Best Actress nominee Leslie Caron), The Broadway Melody (1929; Best Actress nominee Bessie Love), The Great Ziegfeld (1936; Best Actress winner Luise Rainer) and The Sunshine Boys (1975; Best Actor nominee Walter Matthau and Best Supporting Actor winner George Burns).

Wednesday, Feb. 26
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 26: Best Sound Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Nuns and Priests
Begins at 8:45am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won Academy Awards for their sound: Topper Returns (1941; nominee), The Gay Divorcee (1934; nominee), San Francisco (1936; winner), Grand Prix (1966; winner for sound and sound effects) and The Great Race (1965; nominee for sound, winner for sound effects).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Nuns and Priests,” featuring Going My Way (1944; Best Actor winner Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald, the only star to have ever received Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor nominations for the same performance), Dead Man Walking (1995; Best Actress winner Susan Sarandon), On the Waterfront (1954; Best Supporting Actor nominee Karl Malden), Boys Town (1938; Best Actor winner Spencer Tracy) and The Nun’s Story (1959; Best Actress nominee Audrey Hepburn).

Thursday, Feb. 27
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 27: Best Director Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Leaders
Begins at 7am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films whose directors were nominated for or won Academy Awards: Speedy (1928; nominee Ted Wilde), Romance (1930; nominee Clarence Brown, who also received a nod for directing Anna Christie), The Informer (1935; winner John Ford), Kitty Foyle (1940; nominee Sam Wood), Random Harvest (1942; nominee Mervyn LeRoy), The Southerner (1945; nominee Jean Renoir) and East of Eden (1955; nominee Elia Kazan).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Leaders,” featuring Gandhi (1982; Best Actor winner Ben Kingsley), The Iron Lady (2011; Best Actress winner Meryl Streep), Quo Vadis (1951; Best Supporting Actor nominee Peter Ustinov), Conquest (1937; Best Actor nominee Charles Boyer) and Juarez (1939; Best Supporting Actor nominee Brian Aherne).

Friday, Feb. 28
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 28: Best Costume Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Dads
Begins at 9am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won Academy Awards for their costume design: The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962; winner in Color category), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962; winner in Black-and-White category), Raintree County (1957; nominee) and Tess (1979; winner).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Dads,” featuring Life Is Beautiful (1997; Best Actor winner, Best Director nominee and Best Original Screenplay co-nominee Roberto Benigni), On Golden Pond (1981; Best Actor winner Henry Fonda), Fiddler on the Roof (1971; Best Actor nominee Topol), The Great Santini (1979; Best Actor nominee Robert Duvall) and Life With Father (1947; Best Actor nominee William Powell).

Hollywood, March 29, 1982: Actress Jane Fonda says, "O dad, I'm so happy and proud for you," as she accepts the Oscar for Henry Fonda as Best Performance by an actor in a leading role for his role in, On Golden Pond. Fonda was at home and unable to attend the 54th Annual Academy Awards presentation at the Music Center.

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March 29, 1982: Jane Fonda accepts the Best Actor Oscar on behalf of her father, and On Golden Pond costar, Henry Fonda

 

Saturday, March 1
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 29: Best Picture Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Alcoholics
Begins at 7:30am

Today’s 31 Days of Oscar daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won Best Picture: Five Star Final (1931; nominee), Crossfire (1947; nominee), The Music Man (1962; nominee), Doctor Zhivago (1965; nominee) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957; winner).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Alcoholics,” featuring The Lost Weekend (1945; Best Actor winner Ray Milland), I’ll Cry Tomorrow (1955; Best Actress nominee Susan Hayward), Leaving Las Vegas (1995; Best Actor winner Nicolas Cage), Key Largo (1948; Best Supporting Actress winner Claire Trevor) and Johnny Eager (1941; Best Supporting Actor winner Van Heflin).

Sunday, March 2
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 30: Best Picture Winners and Nominees/Oscar-Worthy Heiresses
Begins at 6:15am

As the 2025 Academy Awards ceremony airs tonight on ABC, TCM is continuing its 31 Days of Oscar celebration, which wraps up tomorrow. Today’s daytime lineup features films that were nominated for or won Best Picture: The Divorcee (1930; nominee), Little Women (1933; nominee), The Letter (1940; nominee), Citizen Kane (1941; nominee), Gone With the Wind (1939; winner) and An American in Paris (1951; winner).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Heiresses,” featuring My Man Godfrey (1936; Best Actress nominee Carole Lombard), It Happened One Night (1934; Best Actress winner Claudette Colbert), The Heiress (1949; Best Actress winner Olivia de Havilland), The Philadelphia Story (1940; Best Actress nominee Katharine Hepburn) and Dark Victory (1939; Best Actress nominee Bette Davis).

Monday, March 3
31 Days of Oscar 2025 Day 31 (Final Day): Best Visual & Special Effects/Oscar-Worthy Heroes
Begins at 6am

Turner Classic Movies’ 31 Days of Oscar celebration concludes today, beginning with a daytime lineup that features films that were nominated for or won Academy Awards for their visual/special effects: A Stolen Life (1946; nominee), Tom Thumb (1958; winner), 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964; nominee), The Spirit of St. Louis (1957; nominee), The Time Machine (1960; winner), Mighty Joe Young (1949; winner) and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968; winner).

The evening theme is “Oscar-Worthy Heroes,” featuring The Pride of the Yankees (1942; Best Actor nominee Gary Cooper), Norma Rae (1979; Best Actress winner Sally Field), Blossoms in the Dust (1941; Best Actress nominee Greer Garson), Sister Kenny (1946; Best Actress nominee Rosalind Russell) and The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936; Best Actor winner Paul Muni).

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