31 Days of Oscars: Casablanca

"We'll always have Paris..." 

via TCM

This is an iconic movie for obvious reasons, but I also think that as a gateway film to old Hollywood, you can't really do better than peak Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart. 

Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director (Michael Curtiz), Best Actor in a Leading Role (Humphrey Bogart), Best Supporting Actor (Claude Rains), Best Screenplay (Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard E. Koch, based on Everybody Comes to Rick's by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison), Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture (Max Steiner), Best Cinematography – Black-and-White (Arthur Edeson), Best Film Editing (Owen Marks)

Won: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay