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Mental Health at the Oscars

These are the Oscar nominated films that are focally about mental health in some way. That means that a character suffering from a mental illness of some kind, such as depression, anxiety, or PTSD, is a focal point of the film. Whether the film is a good representation of mental health is not taken into consideration. Only if the film revolves around the issue of mental health and mental illness.

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  • White Shadows in the South Seas
  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Five Star Final
  • The Champ
  • What Price Hollywood?
  • Cavalcade
  • The Barretts of Wimpole Street
  • Private Worlds
  • Dangerous
  • A Star Is Born
  • Stage Door
  • Test Pilot
  • Wuthering Heights
  • Of Mice and Men
  • Random Harvest
  • The Uninvited
  • Gaslight
  • Christmas Holiday
  • Experiment Perilous
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • Love Letters
  • Spellbound
  • The Lost Weekend
  • Leave Her to Heaven
  • The Seventh Veil
  • The Spiral Staircase
  • The Blue Dahlia
  • The Dark Mirror
  • The Best Years of Our Lives
  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
  • Possessed
  • A Double Life
  • Hamlet
  • The Quiet One
  • The Snake Pit
  • The Men
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • Harvey
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • The Sniper
  • Torch Song
  • A Star Is Born
  • The Country Girl
  • The Man with the Golden Arm
  • I'll Cry Tomorrow
  • Lust for Life
  • The Proud and the Beautiful
  • Gervaise
  • Written on the Wind
  • Anastasia
  • A Hatful of Rain
  • Peyton Place
  • The Three Faces of Eve
  • Vertigo
  • The Goddess
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • Some Came Running
  • Career
  • The Best of Everything
  • Libel
  • Suddenly, Last Summer
  • The Apartment
  • Psycho
  • The Mark
  • Splendor in the Grass
  • Town Without Pity
  • Through a Glass Darkly
  • Pocketful of Miracles
  • Tender Is the Night
  • Sundays and Cybele
  • Long Day's Journey Into Night
  • The Manchurian Candidate
  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  • Freud: The Secret Passion
  • David and Lisa
  • The Caretakers
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • The Pumpkin Eater
  • Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
  • The Slender Thread
  • Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
  • Seconds
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Mister Buddwing
  • The Whisperers
  • Valley of the Dolls
  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
  • Charly
  • Journey Into Self
  • True Grit
  • Leo Beuerman
  • A Long Way from Nowhere
  • The Conformist
  • Dodes'ka-den
  • Sunday Bloody Sunday
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Images
  • The Ruling Class
  • Lady Sings the Blues