On Sunday 26 one of the most watched award shows in the world is taking place for the 84th time. Leading you to this year’s spectacular event, MGM Channel offers you a wide array of carefully selected movies that were either nominated or that were lucky enough to receive the most important award in the film business – the Oscar®.

Celebrate from your home television and get entertained with award winning movies all week long including the adventurous action drama The Last Of The Mohicans starring Daniel Day-Lewis that won the award for its outstanding spherical sound. Maximilian Schell received the Oscar® for best actor in the historical drama Judgement At Nuremburg and Shaft was rewarded for its impressive soundtrack. Watch In The Heat Of The Night - the best movie of the year in 1967. Be inspired by the award winning makeup in Beetlejuice and get lost in lavish costumes and contemporary scenery in The Madness Of King George. Those are of course only a few movies of the weeklong Oscar® special.

But there are not only winners at the Oscars®. Even when a nominee cannot take the golden statue home at the end of the night - it is also a huge honor to be nominated for the highly appreciated movie award as a nomination is an acknowledgment that they are one of the best in the business. See for yourself that the so called “lucky losers” are no losers after all...

During the MGM Oscar® Week MGM Channel presents you the following nominees that unfortunately missed out at the award show. Starting with Wyatt Earp that was nominated for its outstanding cinematography, followed by Witness For The Prosecution which was nominated in six different categories including best picture and best director for Billy Wilder.
The Color Purple will be remembered as the biggest “loser” of them all, being nominated in - believe it or not - eleven categories and not taking home one single award.
Also see A Dry White Season with Marlon Brando who has been nominated as best actor in a supporting role. Make sure you do not miss Man Of La Mancha, Wargames, Four Days In November and Woody Allen’s Alice.

And the Oscar® goes to… tune in every day during the MGM Oscar ® Week and watch award winning movies.

Monday, February 20

16:40 CET
Wyatt Earp
1994
CINEMATOGRAPHY (nominated)

20:00 CET
The Last Of The Mohicans
1992
SOUND

22:00 CET
Bound For Glory
1976
CINEMATOGRAPHY
MUSIC

Tuesday, February 21

17:50 CET
Witness For The Prosecution
1957
ACTOR -- Charles Laughton (nominated)
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Elsa Lanchester (nominated)
DIRECTING -- Billy Wilder (nominated)
FILM EDITING (nominated)
BEST MOTION PICTURE (nominated)
SOUND RECORDING (nominated)

20:00 CET
Judgement At Nuremburg
1961
ACTOR -- Maximilian Schell
WRITING

23:10 CET
A Dry White Season
1989
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Marlon Brando (nominated)

Wednesday, February 22

01:20 CET
Hotel Terminus
1988
DOCUMENTARY

17:40 CET
Man Of La Mancha
1972
MUSIC (nominated)

20:00 CET
The Big Country
1958
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Burl Ives

23:00 CET
A Thousand Clowns
1965
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Martin Balsam

Thursday, February 23

01:05 CET
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
1966
MUSIC

17:55 CET
Wargames
1983
CINEMATOGRAPHY (nominated)
SOUND (nominated)
WRITING (nominated)

20:00 CET
Shaft
1971
MUSIC

Friday, February 24

17:45 CET
Four Days In November
1964
DOCUMENTARY (nominated)

20:00 CET
In The Heat Of The Night
1967
ACTOR -- Rod Steiger
FILM EDITING
BEST PICTURE
SOUND
WRITING

22:05 CET
Goodfellas
1990
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Joe Pesci

Saturday, February 25

17:50 CET
Alice
1990
WRITING -- Woody Allen (nominated)

20:00 CET
Beetlejuice
1988
MAKEUP

21:45 CET
Bullitt
1968
FILM EDITING

Sunday, February 26

11:15 CET
The Hurricane
1937
SOUND RECORDING

13:10 CET
The Barefoot Contessa
1954
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Edmond O'Brien

15:30 CET
The Woman In Red
1984
MUSIC

17:15 CET
The Color Purple
1985
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE -- Whoopi Goldberg (nominated)
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Margaret Avery (nominated)
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Oprah Winfrey (nominated)
ART DIRECTION (nominated)
CINEMATOGRAPHY (nominated)
COSTUME DESIGN (nominated)
MAKEUP (nominated)
MUSIC (Original Score) (nominated)
MUSIC (Original Song) (nominated)
BEST PICTURE (nominated)
WRITING (nominated)

20:00 CET
The Madness Of King George
1994
ART DIRECTION

22:10 CET
Tom Jones
1963
DIRECTING
MUSIC
BEST PICTURE
WRITING