Rebecca
1940 Best Picture

100 Words
Readers, if you haven’t treated yourself to a story by Daphne du Maurier, you need to indulge this instant. Responsible for this delicious thriller, the woman also penned the stories that became Don’t Look Now and The Birds. Mrs. Danvers has a bee in her bonnet about the new wife of Maxim de Winter, played by the impeccable Laurence Olivier. Another nomination and loss came in this year for the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. And while Joan Fontaine struggled with off-screen sister Olivia de Havilland, she struggled on screen to make sense of Max’s relationship with his late ex-wife.