Tuesday, March 01, 2011

I've Seen These Oscar Winning Movies

We usually watch the Oscars, and we usually haven't seen most of the movies that are nominated.  Sometimes we've never even heard of them until they get nominated. It makes it really hard to have any idea or even really care who actually wins. Which begs the question why do we even bother watching? Yep, good question. Hooray for Hollywood and all that, I guess.

This year, we actually had seen quite a few of the movies, and that got me to wondering how many of the Best Picture winners have I actually seen?  So I copied this list from oscars.org - not going all the way back, but just since the year I was born - to see exactly how many of them I've seen, and because I know you're dying to know, whether I liked them or not.

RED = Yes, I've seen it, but I really can't remember whether I liked it or not or I really didn't care that much.  RED BOLD text = I liked it. 


2010 - "The King's Speech"
2009 - “The Hurt Locker” (it's on my DVR waiting to be watched)
2008 - “Slumdog Millionaire”
2007 - “No Country for Old Men”
2006 - “The Departed”
2005 - “Crash”
2004 - “Million Dollar Baby”
2003 - “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”
2002 - “Chicago”
2001 - “A Beautiful Mind”
2000 - “Gladiator”
1999 - “American Beauty”
1998 - “Shakespeare in Love”
1997 - “Titanic”
1996 - “The English Patient”
1995 - “Braveheart”
1994 - “Forrest Gump”
1993 - “Schindler’s List”
1992 - “Unforgiven”
1991 - “The Silence of the Lambs”
1990 - “Dances with Wolves”
1989 - “Driving Miss Daisy”
1988 - “Rain Man”
1987 - “The Last Emperor”
1986 - “Platoon”
1985 - “Out of Africa”
1984 - “Amadeus”
1983 - “Terms of Endearment”
1982 - “Gandhi”
1981 - “Chariots of Fire”
1980 - “Ordinary People”
1979 - “Kramer vs. Kramer”
1978 - “The Deer Hunter”
1977 - “Annie Hall”
1976 - “Rocky”
1975 - “One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest”
1974 - “The Godfather Part II”
1973 - “The Sting”
1972 - “The Godfather”
1971 - “The French Connection”
1970 - “Patton”
1969 - “Midnight Cowboy”
1968 - “Oliver!”
1967 - “In the Heat of the Night”
1966 - “A Man for All Seasons”
1965 - “The Sound of Music”

There are quite a few that I still haven't seen.  I suppose I could always track down the DVDs . . .


How about you?  How many Oscar winning movies have you seen in your lifetime?

1 comment:

  1. Mind if I steal this idea? It was fun reading through this. It was also a rude awakening of the fact that I hardly get to watch movies.

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