See all the films that have won the Best Picture Oscar

I love movies

At 188 minutes, this one is an OCCASION. So J. and I got Indian takeout (see pic: my photography doesn’t do the yumminess justice!) and some beers and settled in for the long haul. Ben Kingsley was AMAZING, especially when we watched the bonus feature of the real Gandhi newsreels. I don’t think I could have told them apart.
It was very moving to see how far one person can go to change the world and himself, but at the same time a bit discouraging when one sees how never-ending of a task this is. I loved watching in his early days: insecure with speaking, unsure of what he’s doing, his first “protest” when about 25 people came. It’s sometimes astonishing to realize who “great people” were before they became great. They didn’t all emerge from the womb that way. There’s hope for the rest of us to acheive change.

Me and the Hubby have decided to do this together! We are going to start with the first winner from the 1927-28 Oscars (Wings) all the way to the current winner, which might be next year’s winner by the time we finish haha :) We have watched some of the movies but we are going to go chronologically and rewatch any movie we might have seen along with the ones we haven’t. Thank goodness we have netflix! And Wings(1927) is on youtube!!

I’ve made this my goal to watch all of them with my dad before I leave for college. So far I’ve watched 30 and I have 5 months to do it, which is crazy insane, but I’m determined!

Three years and I’m FINISHED!!!!

HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just added this goal today, and I’ve already seen 23. Not a bad start, but so many more that I have to see!

• No Country for Old Men
• The Departed
• Crash

The only one left now is Slumdog Millionaire which comes out on DVD this Tuesday. It’s been a long time, and I’m almost done now!

4 to go!

What a lovely movie. We saw this one a couple months ago. Walter had seen parts of this movie before but it was his first time all the way through and my first time for any of it. I’m sort of glad I saw it at this age. I think it would have been a different movie for me when I was younger and I might have wished for a different ending. But as it was I loved the movie and the ending. It was romantic, but not over the top.

• Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• Chicago
• A Beautiful Mind
• Gladiator

And only 5 left!!!