My Film Reviews By Decade (1940s)

  • Best Picture (1940): Rebecca (1940)
  • The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
  • The Great Dictator (1940)
  • Fantasia (1940)
  • Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
  • All This, And Heaven Too (1940)
  • The Bank Dick (1940)
  • Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
  • Foreign Correspondent (1940)
  • The Great McGinty (1940)
  • La Fille du puisatier (“The Well Diggers Daughter” 1940)
  • His Girl Friday (1940)
  • The Letter (1940)
  • The Long Voyage Home (1940)
  • The Mark of Zorro (1940)
  • The Mortal Storm (1940)
  • Our Town (1940)
  • The Philadelphia Story (1940)
  • Pinocchio (1940)
  • Pride and Prejudice (1940)
  • Santa Fe Trail (1940)
  • The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
  • The Thief of Baghdad (1940)
  • The Waterloo Story (1940)
  • The Westerner (1940)
  • Best Picture (1941): How Green Was My Valley (1941)
  • Citizen Kane (1941)
  • The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
  • Dumbo (1941)
  • Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
  • High Sierra (1941)
  • Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
  • The Lady Eve (1941)
  • The Little Foxes (1941)
  • The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  • Meet John Doe (1941)
  • Sergeant York (1941)
  • The Wolf Man (1941)
  • Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
  • Suspicion (1941)
  • The Hamilton Woman (1941)
  • The Wolf Man (1941)
  • Best Picture (1942): Mrs. Minivar (1942)
  • The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
  • Bambi (1942)
  • Gentleman Jim (1942)
  • In Which We Serve (1942)
  • Kings Row (1942)
  • The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
  • Cat People (1942)
  • Now, Voyager (1942)
  • The Palm Beach Story (1942)
  • The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
  • Random Harvest (1942)
  • The Talk of the Town (1942)
  • Gun For Hire (1942)
  • To Be or Not To Be (1942)
  • Woman of the Year (1942)
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
  • Best Picture (1943): Casablanca (1942)
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
  • Forever And A Day (1943)
  • Heaven Can Wait (1943)
  • The Human Comedy (1943)
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
  • Jane Eyre (1943)
  • Madame Curie (1943)
  • The Man in Grey (1943)
  • The More the Merrier (1943)
  • Obsession (1943)
  • The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
  • Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
  • The Song of a Bernadette (1943)
  • Watch on the Rhine (1943)
  • Best Picture (1944): Going My Way (1944)
  • Gaslight (1944)
  • Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
  • A Canterbury Tale (1944)
  • Double Indemnity (1944)
  • Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
  • King Henry V (1944)
  • Ivan the Terrible Part I (1944)
  • Laura (1944)
  • Lifeboat (1944)
  • Meet me in St Louis (1944)
  • The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
  • Murder, My Sweet (1944)
  • National Velvet (1944)
  • None But the Lonely Heart (1944)
  • Since You Went Away (1944)
  • To Have and Have Not (1944)
  • The Uninvited (1944)
  • Best Picture (1945): The Lost Weekend (1945)
  • Anchors Aweigh (1945)
  • And Then There Were None (1945)
  • The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
  • Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)
  • Rome, Open City (1945)
  • Detour (1945)
  • Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
  • Mildred Pierce (1945)
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
  • Scarlet Street (1945)
  • The Seventh Veil (1945)
  • The Southerner (1945)
  • Spellbound (1945)
  • The Spiral Staircase (1945)
  • They Were Expendable (1945)
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
  • A Walk in the Sun (1945)
  • Best Picture: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  • Notorious (1946)
  • The Yearling (1946)
  • La Belle et la Bete (1946)
  • The Big Sleep (1946)
  • Brief Encounter (1946)
  • Duel in the Sun (1946)
  • Gilda (1946)
  • Great Expectations (1946)
  • It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
  • The Killers (1946)
  • My Darling Clementine (1946)
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
  • The Razor’s Edge (1946)
  • The Stranger (1946)
  • To Each His Own (1946)
  • Best Motion Picture (1947): Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
  • Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
  • Lady From Shanghai (1947)
  • The Bishop’s Wife (1947)
  • Black Narcissus (1947)
  • Body and Soul (1947)
  • Boomerang (1947)
  • Crossfire (1947)
  • Dark Passage (1947)
  • A Double Life (1947)
  • The Farmer’s Daughter (1947)
  • The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
  • Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
  • Odd Man Out (1947)
  • Out of the Past (1947)
  • The Paradine Case (1947)
  • Pursued (1947)
  • Secret Beyond the Door (1947)
  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
  • They Won’t Believe Me (1947)
  • Best Motion Picture (1948): Hamlet (1948)
  • Macbeth (1948)
  • 3 Godfathers (1948)
  • An Act of Murder (1948)
  • Bicycle Thieves (1948)
  • Easter Parade (1948)
  • Force of Evil (1948)
  • I Remember Mama (1948)
  • Johnny Belinda (1948)
  • Key Largo (1948)
  • Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
  • Louisiana Story (1948)
  • The Naked City (1948)
  • Oliver Twist (1948)
  • The Paleface (1948)
  • Red River (1948)
  • The Red Shoes (1948)
  • Rope (1948)
  • The Snake Pit (1948)
  • Sorry Wrong Number (1948)
  • Spring in a Small Town (1948)
  • State of the Union (1948)
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  • Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
  • Best Picture (1949): All the King’s Men (1949)
  • The Accused (1949)
  • Adam’s Rib (1949)
  • Battleground (1949)
  • Beyond the Forest (1949)
  • Champion (1949)
  • The Heiress (1949)
  • Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
  • Knock on any Door (1949)
  • On the Town (1949)
  • Orpheus (1949)
  • The Reckless Moment (1949)
  • She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
  • The Third Man (1949)
  • Jour de fête (1949)
  • La Belle Meunière (“The Pretty Miller Girl” 1949)
  • Twelve O’Clock High (1949)
  • Whiskey Galore (1949)
  • White Heat (1949)