Eric, Isaac, and Sean rank and discuss the five nominees for Best Picture of 1931-32.  Once again, the nominees are Arrowsmith, Bad Girl, The Champ, Five Star Final, Grand Hotel, One Hour with You, Shanghai Express, and The Smiling Lieutenant.

Director:  Ernst Lubitsch

Producer:  Ernst Lubitsch

Screenplay:  Ernest Vajda,  Samson Raphaelson, Ernst Lubitsch

Photography:  George J. Folsey

Music:  Clifford Grey, Oscar Straus

Cast:  Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Charles Ruggles, George Barbier

Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 88%/Audience: 66%

Director:  Ernst Lubitsch

Producer:  Ernst Lubitsch

Screenplay:  Ernest Vajda, Samson Raphaelson, Ernst Lubitsch

Photography:  George J. Folsey

Music:  Clifford Grey, Oscar Straus

Cast:  Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Charles Ruggles, George Barbier

Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 88%/Audience: 66%

Director:  Josef von Sternberg

Producer:  Adolph Zukor

Screenplay:  Jules Furthman

Photography:  Lee Garmes, James Wong Howe

Music:  Karl Hajos, W. Franke Harling, Rudolph G. Kopp, John Leipold

Cast:  Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Eugene Pallette

Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 96%/Audience: 79%

Director:  Ernst Lubitsch

Producer:  Ernst Lubitsch

Screenplay:  Samson Raphaelson

Photography:  Victor Milner

Music:  W. Franke Harling, Oscar Straus

Cast:  Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lili Damita, Genevieve Tobin, Pierre Etchepare

Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 86%/Audience: 74%

Director:  Edmund Goulding

Producer:  Irving Thalberg

Screenplay:  Bela Balazs, Edgar Allan Woolf

Photography:  William H. Daniels

Music:  Charles Maxwell

Cast:  Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore

Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 87%/Audience: 77%

Director:  Mervyn LeRoy

Producer:  Hal B. Wallis

Screenplay:  Byron Morgan

Photography:  Sol Polito

Music:  N/A

Cast:  Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H.B. Warner, Anthony Bushell, George E. Stone

Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 91%/Audience: 79%

Director:  King Vidor

Producer:  King Vidor

Screenplay:  Don Marquis, Wanda Tuchock

Photography:  Gordon Avil

Music:  N/A

Cast:  Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates, Edward Brophy

Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 96%/Audience: 76%

Director:  Frank Borzage

Producer:  Frank Borzage

Screenplay:  Edwin J. Burke

Photography:  Chester A. Lyons

Music:  N/A

Cast:  James Dunn, Sally Eilers, Minna Gombell, Frank Darien, William Pawley

Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: --%/Audience: 39%

Director:  John Ford

Producer:  Samuel Goldwyn

Screenplay:  Sidney Howard

Photography:  Ray June

Music:  Alfred Newman

Cast:  Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett, Myrna Loy, Clarence Brooks

Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 89%/Audience: 43%