Watch all of the Oscar winners for Best Picture

I’m going to start with watching all the Best Pictures since 1980:

Ones I’ve watched: Ordinary People, Chariots of Fire, Terms of Endearment, Amadeus, Platoon, Last Emperor, Rain Man, Dances with Wolves, Silence of the Lambs, Schindler’s List, Forrest Gump, Braveheart, The English Patient, Titanic, Shakespeare in Love, American Beauty, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Chicago, The Lord of the Rings Return of the King, Million Dollar Baby, Crash, The Departed

Ones I haven’t: Gandhi, Out of Africa, Driving Miss Daisy, Unforgiven, No Country for Old Men

well i really want to do this. I love the movies and music, and eventually i would like to be a movie critic. but i’ve pretty much stick to the same movie types; romance and comedies. i’ve just dicsovered the blockbuster card and realized that there’s so many i have seen but wayyyyyy more that i havent. i have a long way to go. i have to at least see the greats before i can review anyone’s film.

2006 The Departed
2003 Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The
2001 Beautiful Mind, A
2000 Gladiator
1997 Titanic
1995 Braveheart
1994 Forrest Gump

Top 5 (no particular order)
1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
2. The Deer Hunter
3. Crash
4. Rebecca/The English Patient
5. Bridge Over the River Kwai/Platoon

Okay so it’s hard to pick 5…

Bottom 5 (no particular order)
1. Ben Hur/Lawrence of Arabia/Braveheart – same movie, different settings
2. Patton
3. Tom Jones
4. Titanic
5. Rocky

I’m glad this was my last Best Picture Oscar because it completely mirrors my own disillusionment with our current political system although I know not everyone is as politically corrupt as Willie Stark. Sadly I do suspect that most politicians do eventually get caught up in the personal power that politics affords. Great story.

Another one that I really tried to like. But I just don’t dig these war epics.

Running. Beaches. the Olympics. Religious conviction. What more could you ask for? Oh yes, probably the most memorable Oscar theme song ever (it certainly makes me want to run in slow motion!) although this could be up for debate if lovers of the Rocky song have their way…

Watching this reminded me of….school. There. I said it! I’ve never really gotten into Shakespeare. It was funny watching this 1948 winner so soon after watching No Country for Old Men. Kinda different.

I’ve only got about 3 or 4 Oscar winners to go…

I think this may have been the first time I’ve watched this all the way through. Ingrid Bergman was truly stunning.

Absolutely gripping. Javier Badem should have got best hairstyle in a leading role. His face was quite incredible to watch in all its inexpressiveness. I thought it was an interesting twist that I felt that evil triumped over good especially near the end where Javier offered to buy the young boy’s shirt in a scene mirroring the one by the US-Mexico border when Josh Brolin paid the college students $500 for a jacket. Javier could have got his for free. Some very interesting cinematography too. Great movie!