‘Grand Hotel’ won an Oscar at the Academy Awards in the year 1931-32. It is a classic movie, and an all-star epic with high-powered stars of the early 1930s. This classic movie was directed by Edmund Goulding.
‘Grand Hotel’ was nominated only in one category that is Best Picture. To date, it is the only film to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture without being nominated in any other category. William A. Drake’s screenplay was based on his own play adaptation of Vicki Baum’s novel ‘Menschen im Hotel’.
The film, set in Berlin’s famous Grand Hotel, tells the multiple-narrative story of the crisscrossing of the lives of five guests, whose fates intertwine at the hotel.
Doctor Otternschlag, a disfigured veteran of World War I and a permanent resident of the hotel, observes, “People coming, going. Nothing ever happens”.
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