The Winner of the Best Picture for the 4th annual Academy Awards is a movie from 1931 called Cimarron. Produce by RKO, with a $1.5 Million budget, this film is based on a novel by the same name. Set during the years of 1889-1929 it's the story of a family moving to the new territory of Oklahoma with the promise of free land during the land rush. The movie starts about a man with a dream of raising his family in the untamed west. Yancey Cravat makes movies his family and then finds himself not were he wanted to be at in his dream. He wanted to live in the wild not in a boomer town working on a newspaper. When decides to leave for another land rush he leave his wife and two children behind to work on the dream he originally started. Her dream to keep her family together seems to fall apart when both her children begin to grow up and fall in love. She starts new dreams of her own to keep the newspaper alive and to become more involved in her community. This film is a tribute to the fighting spirit of young America to expand and adapt with the changing times. This film won best picture beating out East Lynne by Fox, The Front Page by United Artists, Skippy by Paramount and Trader Horn by MGM. This would be one of only two wins for Best Picture for RKO.
As much as I would love to say I liked this film, I really didn't. I thought the movie was very slow moving and I was way more interested in my phone than in the film at all. I wish I have seen some of the other films that were nominated for that year to get a better gauge as to why it won. However, I have not seen, or heard, of the films so I could not do a comparison. I wouldn't watch it again on my own. I wasn't that impressed with what I saw.
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