Oscar meme

[my_daroga]

From stefanie_bean.

Those I've seen in bold.


Wings
The Broadway Melody of 1929
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
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
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


Looking at them in a list just reminds me how worthless I think the Oscars are as a measure of quality.

Comments

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

It so happens I did this at work today, so I happen to know that I've seen 62/80. And yes, winning an Oscar does not mean that was the best picture of the year.

[my_daroga]

I know there are some I should see, still. But what an awful list!

[agentdanak.livejournal.com]

i've only seen 11 of them all the way through. maybe parts of another 3.

[my_daroga]

Wow. As I've said elsewhere, it's not like they're all bad. Some of my favorites are on this list. But it's so varied in quality, it's ridiculous.

[phantoms-siren.livejournal.com]

hmmmm if I did that I'd have to list the ones i'd seen and the ones I was forced to see that i thought were the worst movie of that year.

[my_daroga]

That would actually be a nice twist.

[men-in-full.livejournal.com]

Looking at them in a list just reminds me how worthless I think the Oscars are as a measure of quality.

LOL, but we saw them anyway, didn't we?

[my_daroga]

I'm not saying none of them deserved it. Several of my favorites are on that list. I'm not even saying I disliked all of them or think they're bad movies. But Best Movie of the Year? Rocky? The Sting? C'mon, it was the 70's! Do you know how many utterly brilliant films came out then?

[filmnoir6.livejournal.com]

italics=own on video or DVD bold=seen

Wings
The Broadway Melody of 1929
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
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
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

[my_daroga]

FINE. YOU WIN!

:)

[filmnoir6.livejournal.com]

heh :p

Not all of those Best Picture winners were the "best" of their nominee field though.

[my_daroga]

Definitely not. I actually hate this crap.