Oscar Blogging - The Worst Year to be Nominated for Best Picture

Hands down, 1939. Look at the competition -

Dark Victory -- Warner Bros.-First National

*	Gone with the Wind -- Selznick International Pictures

Goodbye, Mr. Chips -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Love Affair -- RKO Radio

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington -- Columbia

Ninotchka -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Of Mice and Men -- Hal Roach (production company)

Stagecoach -- Walter Wanger (production company)

The Wizard of Oz -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Wuthering Heights -- Samuel Goldwyn Productions

*Winner