TCM 31 Days of Oscar 2024

As my regular readers know, I have always had mixed feelings about Turner Classic Movie's 31 Days of Oscar, the month-long programming block during which TCM shows movies that were either nominated for an Academy Award or won an Academy Award. On the one hand, throughout the month Turner Classic Movies shows a lot of great movies. On the other hand, TCM's usual programming is pre-empted for the whole month (in other words, no Noir Alley). And while TCM shows a lot of great movies, it is often the case that my favourites are scheduled at awkward times. For example, this year Network (1976) doesn't air until 1:00 in the morning. The Naked City (1948) doesn't air until 1:45 AM. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), which one would think TCM would want to air in prime time, doesn't air until 11:00 PM. Sadly, I watch Turner Classic Movies less during 31 Days of Oscar than any other time of year, although I do use the Watch TCM app more than I usually do.

Regardless, this year 31 Days of Oscar runs from Friday, February 9 through the early morning of Monday, March 11. Here are my picks as to what to watch this year. All times are Central.

Friday, February 9
5:00 AM The Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
10:15 AM The Band Wagon (1954)
12:15 PM Flower Drum Song (1961)
7:00 PM The Sting (1976)
9:15 PM Roman Holiday (1953)
11:30 PM All That Jazz (1979)

Saturday, February 10
7:00 AM Caged (1950)
11:00 PM Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
1:00 PM Singin' in the Rain (1952)
3:00 PM Harvey (1950)
9:00 PM The Miracle Worker (1962)

Sunday, February 11
8:30 AM The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
12:00 PM My Man Godfrey (1936)
2:00 PM Pillow Talk (1959)
7:00 PM The Razor's Edge (1946)

Monday, February 12
11:00 AM Pride and Prejudice (1940)
1:00 PM Brigadoon (1954)
3:00 PM The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
7:00 PM The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
11:30 PM Black Narcissus (1947)

Tuesday February 13
4:30 AM The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
6:30 AM La Strada (1954)
10:15 AM Woman of the Year (1942)
12:15 PM It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
2:15 PM North by Northwest (1959)
7:00 PM The Great McGinty (1940)

Wednesday, February 14
1:00 AM Network (1976)
2:45 PM Rebecca (1940)
5:00 PM Wuthering Heights (1939)
7:00 PM The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Thursday February 15
5:00 AM The Public Enemy (1931)
11:30 AM The Strange Love of Matha Ivers (1946)
5:15 PM Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)

Friday, February 16
7:00 PM Bullitt (1948)
9:15 PM The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

Saturday, February 17
1:45 AM The Naked City (1948)
10:00 AM Crossfire (1947)
11:30 AM The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
11:14 AM The Fortune Cookie (1966)

Sunday, February 18
2:00 PM Cool Hand Luke (1967)
4::15 The Dirty Dozen (1967)
7:00 PM Topkapi (1964)
11:30 PM Cabaret (1972)

Monday, February 19
7:15 AM Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
8:15 AM The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
3:00 PM Calamity Jane (1953)
9:15 PM The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

Tuesday, February 20
12:00 PM Of Mice and Men (1939)
3:30 PM The Harvey Girls (1946)
5:15 PM On the Town (1949)
7:00 PM The Red Shoes (1948)
9:30 PM Spellbound (1945)
11:30 PM Now Voyager (1942)

Wednesday, February 21
8:45 PM Harlan County USA (1976)

Thursday, February 22
1:00 AM Woodstock (1970)
7:00 AM Waterloo Bridge (1940)
9:00 AM The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
12:45 PM National Velvet (1944)
9:00 PM The Black Swan (1942)
11:00 PM The Phantom of the Opera (1943)

Friday, February 23
1:00 AM The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
3:00 PM The Blackboard Jungle (1955)
5:00 PM Strangers on a Train (1951)
7:00 PM Laura (1944)
8:45 PM The Defiant Ones (1958)

Saturday, February 24
10:45 AM Suspicion (1941)
12:30 PM Wait Until Dark (1967)
2:30 PM Born Yesterday (1950)
4:30 PM Auntie Mame (1958)
11:45 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)

Sunday, February 25
9:30 AM Baby Doll (1956)
7:00 PM A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
9:15 PM Moonstruck (1987)

Monday, February 26
1:45 PM Forbbiden Planet (1956)
3:30 PM Topper Returns (1941)
5:15 PM Them! (1954)
7:00 PM Fantastic Voyage (1966)
9:00 PM Blithe Spirit (1945)

Tuesday, February 27
1:30 AM Destination Moon (1950)
11:00 AM The Virgin Spring (1960)
7:00 PM 8 1/2 (1963)
9:30 PM Babbette's Feast (1987)

Wednesday, February 28
11:00 AM The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
4:00 PM It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

Thursday, February 29
9:30 AM Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
11:00 AM The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
7:00 PM The Quiet Man (1952)
9:30 PM Giant

Friday, March 1
1:00 AM All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
7:00 AM The Crowd (1928)
8:45 AM Great Expectations (1946)
3:15 PM 12 Angry Men (1957)
7:00 PM Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
9:15 PM A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
11:15 AM Marty (1955)

Saturday, March 2
1:00 AM The Awful Truth (1937)
3:00 AM Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
5:00 AM The Great Dictator (1940)
11:00 PM Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
2:00 PM Elmer Gantry (1960)
4:45 PM East of Eden (1955)
9:45 PM A Man for All Seasons (1966)

Sunday, March 3
12:00 AM Sergeant York (1941)
2:30 AM Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
5:00 AM The Front Page (1931)
11:00 PM Sounder (1972)
1:00 PM Cat Ballou (1965)
3:00 PM The Lost Weekend (1940)
5:00 PM The Goodbye Girl (1977)
9:00 PM To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Monday, March 4
11:00 AM Stagecoach (1939)
12:45 PM The Caine Mutiny (1954)
3:00 PM Picnic (1955)
5:00 PM Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
7:00 PM An American In Paris (1952)
9:00 PM It Happened One Night (1934)
11:00 PM Mrs. Miniver (1942)

Tuesday, March 5
3:30 AM Grand Hotel (1932)
7:00 AM A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
12:00 PM Anchors Aweigh (1945)
4:45 PM Citizen Kane (1941)
7:00 PM In the Heat of the Night (1967)
9:00 PM Platoon (1988)
11:15 PM No Country For Old Men (2007)

Wednesday, March 6
3:30 AM All the King's Men (1949)
8:45 AM Captain Blood (1935)
11:00 PM Ivanhoe (1952)
1:00 PM The Alamo (1960)
7:00 PM All About Eve (1950)
11:45 PM Going My Way (1944)

Thursday, March 7
9:00 AM 42nd Street (1933)
10:45 AM Foreign Correspondent (1940)
1:00 PM The Letter (1940)
3:00 PM Libeled Lady (1936)
5:00 PM Ninotchka (1939)
7:00 PM Casablanca (1942)

Friday, March 8
12:00 AM My Fair Lady (1964)
10:00 AM The Yearling (1946)
12:15 PM Father of the Bride (1950)
2:00 PM The Music Man (1962)
4:45 PM Mister Roberts (1955)
9:30 PM Annie Hall (1977)
11:15 PM The Apartment (1960)

Saturday, March 9
3:30 AM The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
8:00 AM Top Hat (1935)
10:00 AM The Maltese Falcon (1941)
12:00 PM The Last Emperor (1987)
3:00 PM Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
11:00 PM The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Sunday, March 10 (my birthday)
1:00 PM Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
3:00 PM Gone with the Wind (1939)
10:15 PM Wings (1927)

Monday, March 11
12:45 AM You Can't Take It with You (1938)