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. Watch The Makeover Hindi Full Movie. If so, director Damien Chazelles 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 Kellys game changer An American in Paris. The Best Picture winner from 1. Chazelle, such a stunner. Its 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 films dream ballet ending was pillaged from An American in Paris finale but also in decades of movie musicals that followed. Watch Finding Dory Online Mic there. Here we rank the 1. Best Picture winning musicals, from true showstoppers to summer stock. Everett Collection. The hit London stage adaptation of 1984, the George Orwell novel that has suddenly become a bestseller in the age of Trump, will come to Broadway this summer in. The Rodgers Hammerstein Organization. Fan Info THE SOUND OF MUSIC Family Scrapbook. Learn more. THE SOUND OF MUSIC movie kids. Everett Collection. Directed By Harry Beaumont Oscars Won 1 Rotten Tomatoes 35. The first film with recorded dialogue The Jazz Singer was a musical. TCM/Images/Dynamic/i390/broadwaymelody29_theboyfriend_FC_470x264_020920160441.jpg' alt='The Broadway Melody Full Movie Part 1' title='The Broadway Melody Full Movie Part 1' />Directed By Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. Oscars Won 1. 0Rotten Tomatoes 9. Shakespeares 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 youre experiencing a song and dance classic. Everett Collection. Directed By Robert Wise. Oscars Won 5. Rotten Tomatoes 8. The hills are aliveforever. Rodgers and Hammersteins 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. 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 years Best Actress for Mary Poppins. Everett Collection. Directed By Vincente Minnelli. Oscars Won 6. Rotten Tomatoes 9. If some stretches of Minnellis 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. Heres the sexiest piece. David James. Bob Fosse, John Kander and Fred Ebbs 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. Oscars highest honor and maybe the corniest. Food, Glorious, Food is a terrific opening number, but the production lacks Dickens bite. The next years 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. 8Everett 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 Colettes 1. French novella a naughtier version of Pygmalion, the basis for My Fair Lady contains none of its source materials 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. Original Chorus Line Cast Remembers Sweetness and Sorrow of The Broadway Sensation. Baayork Lee, Connie Wong and original Dance Captain. Proudest Personal Achievement of the Past 4. Years My proudest personal achievement I believe is when I formed the company National Asian Artists Project NAAP with Steven Eng and Zoie Lam. The results have gone way beyond my dream. Not only do we provide a platform for Asian actors to perform non traditional roles, we are introducing theater to PS1. Theater Club, after school program4. Sing A Long workshop for Seniors in Chinatown, and give a weekly opportunity for our 4. NAAP Broadway Community Chorus. Most Vivid Memory of Working With Marvin Hamlisch Marvin being in London when I was directing a English actors Tel Aviv company of ACL. He had just finished a concert at Albert Hall and early the next morning he came on a one hour drive to the Sound Studios we were rehearsing. He watched the entire run thru taking copious notes and met the cast and orchestra. He gave background on why numbers were written and why they needed to be sung or played with his intention. We all learned ACL history that day. How has your perspective on the show changed over the past four decades I have been blessed to have been involved from day one till the present with the show. When I was first given the assignment to maintain the quality and integrity of the show, I ran it like my fathers Chinese restaurant. Nothing changed and all was intact. In 2. 00. 6 Bob Avian directed the revival on Broadway and gave me permission to be more flexible with the show and still maintain the integrity. It is always a joy to give the gift of the show to this next generation of actors and dancers. They can identify with the show and characters and make it their own. Where Do You Keep You Costume and Other ACL Memorabilia I do have my hat and shoes and they are in a closet tucked away safe Carole Schweid, understudy for Diana and BebeWhat are your proudest personal and professional achievements of the past 4. For the past 1. 3 years, Ive been co producing a popular lunchtime play reading series in Westport, Fairfield, and Greenwich, CT, called Play With Your Food. Audiences get to see one act plays read, but rehearsed by professional actors, preceded by a buffet lunch and followed by a short discussion. On January 2. 0, 2. President Obamas Inauguration, so our smart suburban audience of 1. I was pretty proud of that. Compare Broadway and the Village in 1. Broadway and the Village in 2. There is no comparison. Broadway was daring, exciting and dangerous. Like the Village. It also felt like the safest place in the world. I loved being part of it. What is your most vivid memory of working with Marvin Hamlisch When I met Marvin he was the rehearsal pianist on Minnies Boys and I was in the chorus. He was always coming up with crazy ideas that nobody would listen to. On the day Chorus Line opened downtown, Marvin sat on the stage and made up songs from our show as if theyd been written by Rodgers and Hammerstein and Stephen Sondheim. I loved the way he talked about the process of creating a show. Sure its great to have a hit, but the real fun was in the creating. How has your perspective on the show changed over the past four decades I am always floored by what a beautiful piece of work it is and Im always a little annoyed that its always done exactly the same way. Where do you keep your costume and other ACL memorabilia I keep an odd collection a NY Times photo of Johnny Dollar, doorman at the Shubert, carrying the Matinee Today sign into Shubert Alley on the day the musician strike ended and the show could officially open my program from Gerry Schoenfelds memorial a copy of Time Magazine maybe it was Newsweek with Donna Mc. Kechnie on the cover things like that. I keep my hat on a bookcase in my living room, my photo of the record breaking performance on the wall, and small bin or two in the back of my closet with newspaper articles, front page headlines, invitations, programs from the Tony Awards, letters, and pictures mixed in with the rest of my theatre history of opening night telegrams, headshots, a window card of Geraldine Page in The Little Foxes taken from the Falmouth Playhouse, my last pair of pointe shoes, etc. Samuel Sammy Williams, Paul What are your proudest personal professional achievements of the past 4. My proudest personal professional achievements in the last 4. Tony Award, the Obie Award, being given a Special Theatre World Award, and winning a Robbie Award here in Los Angeles for ACL. Recently I have been doing my one man show playing to sold out audiences. Theres nothing like standing on stage alone with an audience in the palm of your hand Its an exhilarating feeling. Ive written a play based on my experience of ACL before, during, and after. Its my true story of ACL the Good, the Bad, and the truth as I lived it Its intense and fabulous as it was being part of ACL. How have Broadway and Greenwich Village changed since 1. I havent lived in the city for over 2. I cant really remark about the Village but there is one thing I can say about Broadway. It isnt the same. When I first came to Broadway in 1. Broadway stars. Shows were not spectacles, they were shows. Today a great deal of marketing is bringing in movie and TV personalities to sell tickets. Broadway stars no longer exist. Technology has changed also so shows have become more sophisticated and showier. The Broadway area has become more like a Disneyland adventure. Sadly, my era of Broadway is a long gone distant memory. But we had it when it was at its best Thank you Jesus Most Vivid Memory of Working with Marvin Hamlisch My most vivid memory working with Marvin Hamlisch has to be my audition for A Chorus Line. I was brought to Marvins apartment by Michael Bennett to perform Pauls monologue for him. Afterward they brought me to the piano to sing. Marvin asked several questions about my musical abilities. I had very little at the time. He asked if I could sing a song if he taught it to me. I said yes. The song he taught me was The Way We Were. I sang it for him and afterward he said good job I got the role of Paul San MarcoHow has your perspective on the show changed over the past four decades My perspective of ACL has changed very little in the last four decades. The only cast that ever performed the show the way it was supposed to be performed was the original cast. Every other cast was simply a carbon copy playing their version of the show but not the real show as we lived it Where do you keep your costume and other ACL memorabilia My awards sit on top of a lovely table by a window catching the morning sun. My costume hangs in the closet and other pieces of ACL memorabilia are put away for safekeeping. My Hirschfelds hang in my hallway. I used to have my Tony Award sitting on top of the toilet. I thought at the time the award would be seen by a captive audience Nancy Lane, Bebe What are your proudest personal professional achievements of the past 4. Im very proud of being a working TV actress for 1. ACL involvement. keep those 1. LOL. What is your most vivid memory of working with Marvin Hamlisch I remember Marvin always at the piano with Ed Kleban changing arrangements on the fly during rehearsals and being so generous letting Rene and me stay in his apt in Burbank when we first got to L. A. Also I recall meeting his parents and how proud they were. How has your perspective on the show changed over the past four decades After all of the companies and HS productions weve seen, there was never any way to compare what we did, what talent we all possessed, and the sheer madness we experienced that made the original production what it was. Its like trying to reproduce a masterpiece with crayons. Where do you keep your costume and other ACL memorabilia I have my memories on the walls of my apartment and in a trunk in the garage.