Directed by William WylerStarring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Henry Travers, Richard Ney, Henry Wilcoxon, Christopher Severn, Brenda Forbes, and Clare Sandars
A movie that was probably selected by the Academy because of it depicted the British home front during the war rather than for its cinematic excellence, Mrs. Miniver is still a rather enjoyable picture. There are good performances all around, and the story moves along nicely, I'm just not sure it holds up like some of the classic films of the era. I feel it's a film that loses a lot of its punch when taken out of the time it was released, so is not nearly as popular nowadays as it would have been in the 40s. Still, worthy to be considered among the better World War II movies actually made during the war.
Other nominees: 49th Parallel (Michael Powell), Kings Row (Sam Wood), The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles), The Pied Piper (Irving Pichel), The Pride of the Yankees (Sam Wood), Random Harvest (Mervyn LeRoy), The Talk of the Town (George Stevens), Wake Island (John Farrow), and Yankee Doodle Dandy (Michael Curtiz)
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