As I was watching the Academy Wards the other night I watched the montage they showed of all 79 Best Picture winners and realized that I haven't seen very many of the winners. Now there are 80 of them and I am going to try to watch all of the ones that I haven't seen or at least the ones I can get on Netflix. The ones with stars next to them are the movies that I have already seen. As you can see I have my work cut out for me.
Wings
The Broadway
Melody
All Quiet on the Western Front
Cimarron
Grand Hotel
Cavalcade
It Happened One Night
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Great Ziegfeld
The Life of Emile Zola
You Can’t Take It with You
*Gone With the Wind
Rebecca
How Green Was My Valley
Mrs. Miniver
*Casablanca
Going My Way
The Lost Weekend
The Best Years of Our Lives
Gentleman’s Agreement
Hamlet
All the King’s Men
All About Eve
An American in Paris
The Greatest Show on Earth
From Here to Eternity
On the Waterfront
Marty
Around the World in 80 Days
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Gigi
Ben Hur
The Apartment
West Side Story
Lawrence of Arabia
Tom Jones
My Fair Lady
*The Sound of Music
A Man for All Seasons
In the Heat of the Night
Oliver!
Midnight Cowboy
Patton
The French Connection
*The Godfather (I don't see how anything will be better than this.)
The Sting
The Godfather Part II
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
*Rocky
Annie Hall
The Deer Hunter
*Kramer v. Kramer
Ordinary People
Chariots of Fire
Gandhi
*Terms of Endearment
*Amadeus
Out of Africa
Platoon
The Last Emperor
*Rain Man
Driving Miss Daisy
Dances with Wolves
The Silence of the Lambs
Unforgiven
*Schindler’s List
*Forrest Gump
Braveheart
The English Patient (this movie always reminds me of Elaine on Seinfeld)
*Titanic
Shakespeare in Love
*American Beauty
Gladiator
A Beautiful Mind
*Chicago
Lord of the Rings III
Million Dollar Baby
*Crash
*The Departed
No Country for Old Men
I will let you know how it goes. I am not sure which order I will go in, maybe from first to last or more likely I will watch them randomly.
3 comments:
Just to prepare you, Godfather is waaaaaay better than G-II. G-III is also better than II.
Ones I have seen (that you haven't seen) and that I LOVE! You must see them!:
West Side Story! so good!
My Fair Lady! love Audrey Hepburn and the songs!
Gandhi! you will love Gandhi after you see this, also you will probably love Ben Kingsley
Shakespeare in Love-actually I didn't "love" this but it has its good parts. love Judi Dench
A Beautiful Mind-this one makes me cry.
Million-Dollar Baby-I only saw it once but I totally cried and loved it. If you know the ending (which I didn't and was totally surprised about) then it might not be as good.
Ones I saw and was lukewarm about:
Rebecca (I should watch this again, it was a long time ago and I fell asleep)
Oliver
Good luck! I like this idea, maybe I will borrow it.
Cool! I am excited to see West Side Story and Gandhi.
I can't believe that I haven't seen a lot of them. I certainly watch enough bad movies that it will be nice too see all of these.
This will fit in with those nice long Sundays that you like to spend in bed!
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