Best picture winning musicals, ranked. In its 8. 8 years, the Academy Awards have given the top prize to a musical 1. That number is potentially going to dial up to 1. Feb. 2. 6, when the 1. La La Land is favored to triumph. If so, director Damien Chazelle’s film will be only the second musical to win Best Picture in the last 5. In the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, we journey back 6.

Vincente Minnelli and Gene Kelly’s game- changer An American in Paris. The Best Picture winner from 1. Chazelle, “such a stunner.

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It’s an awesome example of how daring some of those old musicals really were.”And its influence is felt not only in La La Land — Chazelle happily admits that the concept for his film’s dream ballet ending was pillaged from An American in Paris‘ finale — but also in decades of movie musicals that followed. Here we rank the 1. Best Picture- winning musicals, from true showstoppers to summer stock. Watch Soldier Blue HD 1080P. Everett Collection. Directed By: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins.

Oscars Won: 1. 0Rotten Tomatoes: 9. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet was updated to New York City in the 1. Broadway and movie musical masterpieces of all time. Pick any scene — “Maria,”“America,” “Tonight” or the snapping prologue — and you’re experiencing a song and dance classic. Everett Collection.

· In its 88 years, the Academy Awards have given the top prize to a musical 10 times. That number is potentially going to dial up to 11 on Feb. 26, when the. The phenomenon began with The Broadway Melody, a 1929 backstage romance released while MGM was still adjusting to the sound era, which the studio embraced later than. Is the rain milk? Is that Debbie Reynolds’ voice? Gene Kelly’s widow busts the myths about Singin’ in the Rain.

Directed By: Robert Wise. Oscars Won: 5. Rotten Tomatoes: 8.

The hills are alive…forever. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s enchanting 1. Broadway show was brought to vivid life by West Side Story director Robert Wise and Julie Andrews, six months after the release of Mary Poppins. During its initial release, it passed Gone With the Wind to become the highest- grossing film of all time, eventually spawning a live TV version (in 2. Austria. Everett Collection.

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Directed By: George Cukor. Oscars Won: 8. Rotten Tomatoes: 9. Best Actor winner Rex Harrison delivers one of the great leading man musical performances of all time as Henry Higgins, who reforms the poor, guttural Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) into a refined British woman. Hepburn certainly has the charm to pull off “I Could Have Danced All Night,” though in a neat bit of Oscar trivia, Julie Andrews (the original Eliza on Broadway, passed over for the film) won that year’s Best Actress for Mary Poppins.

Broadway Melody of 1940 is a 1940 MGM movie musical starring Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell and George Murphy. It was directed by Norman Taurog and features music by. Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz is a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman. It is based on the 1995.

Everett Collection. Directed By: Vincente Minnelli. Oscars Won: 6. Rotten Tomatoes: 9. If some stretches of Minnelli’s tribute to Gershwin and the French capital feel dated, that has nothing to do with the charisma and athleticism of choreographer and star Gene Kelly.

First he woos Leslie Caron along the Seine and then takes the audiences’ hand for one of the most ambitious finales of any musical — a 1. Here’s the sexiest piece.

David James. Bob Fosse, John Kander and Fred Ebb’s prison satire came to life in razzle- dazzle style. Some of the songs play onscreen like music videos, but the central narrative idea — which contrasts the harsh realities of a murderess’ life with her fantasies — is a daring conceit.

And audiences got it. The film earned $1. Directed By: Rob Marshall.

Oscars Won: 6. Rotten Tomatoes: 8. For more Oscars coverage, pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on stands now, or buy it here — and subscribe for more exclusive interviews and photos, only in EW. Everett Collection. This big- hearted adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist was the fourth musical of the 1. Oscar’s highest honor — and maybe the corniest. Food, Glorious, Food” is a terrific opening number, but the production lacks Dickens’ bite. The next year’s Best Picture winner was the X- rated Midnight Cowboy — and Oliver! stands as a fascinating blast of family entertainment before the Academy embraced the dark side. Directed By: Carol Reed.

Oscars Won: 5. Rotten Tomatoes: 8. Everett Collection. Directed By: Leo Mc.

Carey. Oscars Won: 7. Rotten Tomatoes: 7. Actors Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald both won Oscars as New York City priests in conflict over how to run their parish. Songs include the wondrous “Swinging on a Star,” but the film, more than seven decades later, is cloyingly sweet and too sentimental by half.

Gigi (1. 95. 8)Everett Collection. Directed By: Vincente Minnelle. Oscars Won: 9. Rotten Tomatoes: 7. Gigi introduced the world to “Thank Heaven for Little Girls,” and swept all nine Oscars it was nominated for, but the story is simply flat as a crepe. The scenery is bright and lush, but the adaptation Colette’s 1. French novella — a naughtier version of Pygmalion, the basis for My Fair Lady — contains none of its source material’s bite.

Everett Collection. Directed By: Robert Z. Leonard. Oscars Won: 3. Rotten Tomatoes: 6. Starring William Powell as Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., this lavish three- hour bio- musical was considered a standard bearer in the 1. Some of the song and dance sequences (like this one) still impress, but the dramatic scenes are bloated and melodramatic. Luise Rainer won Best Actress for a particularly overcooked performance.

Everett Collection. Directed By: Harry Beaumont. Oscars Won: 1. Rotten Tomatoes: 3. The first film with recorded dialogue (The Jazz Singer) was a musical; so was the first Best Picture winner with recorded dialogue. Neither has aged well.

This story of two dancer sisters was victorious at the 2nd Academy Awards. Though it was considered innovative in its day (especially for one Technicolor sequence), the production is mostly a filmed theater piece. And quite a slog to sit through nowadays.

Broadway Melody of 1. When ELEANOR POWELL and FRED ASTAIRE do their glittering "Begin the Beguine" number on a polished black- mirror floor wearing white outfits and tapping their way through a jazzed up version of the song, they can do no wrong. It's clearly the highlight of the whole musical and well worth waiting for. In fact, it's more than that- -it's an iconic musical moment. The story involves a slight case of mistaken identity that has to be straightened out before Powell can see that FRED ASTAIRE is the man she loves, not GEORGE MURPHY.

Poor George always had the secondary role in these things- -even with all that talent. It's reminiscent of the treatment he got in FOR ME AND MY GAL with Judy Garland being won by Gene Kelly instead of Murphy. Watch The Normal Heart Online Freeform there.

The reason for the high rating is simply this- -FRED ASTAIRE and ELEANOR POWELL are without a doubt two of the greatest talents in the musical genre and their "Begin the Beguine" is the show stopper of show stoppers. Unforgettable. Nothing else really matters, except to mention that their "Juke Box Dance" is also a treat to watch. Powell really excelled as a solo performer but when she and Astaire do manage to do a duo together it's well worth watching. The genial supporting cast includes FRANK MORGAN at his blustery best and the lovely FLORENCE RICE, who appeared in quite a few of MGM's "A" films before disappearing from the screen.