40 Years of Oscar (how many have you seen?)

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As I watched the Academy Awards last night, I realized that I’d only seen one of the films nominated for best picture (No Country for Old Men). This got me to wondering how many Academy Award nominated pictures I’ve seen over the years. I went to a Wikipedia entry that listed all of them, and realized I’d never even heard of some of the earlier nominees. Since we now have 80 years of this stuff in the books, I thought I’d go through and see how many of the them I’ve actually watched. Usually there’s some better stuff nominated than has actually won (and usually more than a few better films that don’t even get a nomination).

Here’s a list of all nominees of the last 40 years, an arbitrary number, to be sure, but probably within the memory of enough folks here to make it interesting.
Winner: 1968 Oliver!
o Funny Girl
o The Lion in Winter
o Rachel, Rachel
o Romeo and Juliet
Winner: 1969 Midnight Cowboy
o Anne of the Thousand Days
o Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
o Hello, Dolly!
o Z
Winner: 1970 Patton
o Airport
o Five Easy Pieces
o Love Story
o MASH
Winner: 1971 The French Connection
o A Clockwork Orange
o Fiddler on the Roof
o The Last Picture Show
o Nicholas and Alexandra
Winner: 1972 The Godfather
o Cabaret
o Deliverance
o Sounder
o The Emigrants
Winner: 1973 The Sting
o American Graffiti
o The Exorcist
o A Touch of Class
o Cries and Whispers
Winner: 1974 The Godfather Part II
o Chinatown
o The Conversation
o Lenny
o The Towering Inferno
Winner: 1975 (48th) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
o Barry Lyndon
o Dog Day Afternoon
o Jaws
o Nashville
Winner: 1976 (49th) Rocky
o All the President’s Men
o Bound for Glory
o Network
o Taxi Driver
Winner: 1977 (50th) Annie Hall
o The Goodbye Girl
o Julia
o Star Wars
o The Turning Point
Winner: 1978 (51st) The Deer Hunter
o Coming Home
o Heaven Can Wait
o Midnight Express
o An Unmarried Woman
Winner: 1979 (52nd) Kramer vs. Kramer
o Apocalypse Now
o All That Jazz
o Breaking Away
o Norma Rae
Winner: 1980 Ordinary People
o Coal Miner’s Daughter
o The Elephant Man
o Raging Bull
o Tess
Winner: 1981 (54th) Chariots of Fire
o Atlantic City
o On Golden Pond
o Raiders of the Lost Ark
o Reds
Winner: 1982 (55th) Gandhi
o E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
o Missing
o Tootsie
o The Verdict
Winner: 1983 (56th) Terms of Endearment
o The Big Chill
o The Dresser
o The Right Stuff
Winner: 1984 (57th) Amadeus
o The Killing Fields
o A Passage to India
o Places in the Heart
o A Soldier’s Story
Winner: 1985 Out of Africa
o The Color Purple
o Kiss of the Spider Woman
o Prizzi’s Honor
o Witness
Winner: 1986 (59th) Platoon
o Children of a Lesser God
o Hannah and Her Sisters
o The Mission
o A Room with a View
Winner: 1987 The Last Emperor
o Broadcast News
o Fatal Attraction
o Hope and Glory
o Moonstruck
Winner: 1988 Rain Man
o The Accidental Tourist
o Dangerous Liaisons
o Mississippi Burning
o Working Girl
Winner: 1989 Driving Miss Daisy
o Born on the Fourth of July
o Dead Poets’ Society
o Field of Dreams
o My Left Foot
Winner: 1990 Dances with Wolves
o Awakenings
o Ghost
o The Godfather, Part III
o Goodfellas
Winner: 1991 The Silence of the Lambs
o Beauty and the Beast
o Bugsy
o JFK
o The Prince of Tides
Winner: 1992 Unforgiven
o The Crying Game
o A Few Good Men
o Howards End
o Scent of a Woman
Winner: 1993 (66th) Schindler’s List
o The Fugitive
o In the Name of the Father
o The Piano
o The Remains of the Day
Winner: 1994 Forrest Gump
o Four Weddings and a Funeral
o Pulp Fiction
o Quiz Show
o The Shawshank Redemption
Winner: 1995 Braveheart
o Apollo 13
o Babe
o Il Postino (The Postman)
o Sense and Sensibility
Winner: 1996 The English Patient
o Fargo
o Jerry Maguire
o Secrets & Lies
o Shine
Winner: 1997 Titanic
o As Good as It Gets
o The Full Monty
o Good Will Hunting
o L.A. Confidential
Winner: 1998 Shakespeare in Love
o Elizabeth
o Life Is Beautiful
o Saving Private Ryan
o The Thin Red Line
Winner: 1999 American Beauty
o The Cider House Rules
o The Green Mile
o The Insider
o The Sixth Sense
Winner: 2000 Gladiator
o Chocolat
o Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
o Erin Brockovich
o Traffic
Winner: 2001 A Beautiful Mind
o Gosford Park
o In the Bedroom
o The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
o Moulin Rouge!
Winner: 2002 Chicago
o Gangs of New York
o The Hours
o The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
o The Pianist
Winner: 2003 (76th) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
o Lost in Translation
o Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
o Mystic River
o Seabiscuit
Winner: 2004 Million Dollar Baby
o The Aviator
o Finding Neverland
o Ray
o Sideways
Winner: 2005 Crash
o Brokeback Mountain
o Capote
o Good Night, and Good Luck.
o Munich
Winner: 2006 The Departed
o Babel
o Letters from Iwo Jima
o Little Miss Sunshine
o The Queen
Winner: 2007 (80th) No Country for Old Men
o Atonement
o Juno
o Michael Clayton
o There Will Be Blood

(more to follow)

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Given this subset of the Academy Award nominated films, I’d like to discuss:

  • How many of these have you seen? Do you notice any trends?
  • What are some of the best nominees out there that didn’t win?
  • Which Oscar wins surprised you the most, given the quality of the other nominees?
  • What are some of the best films that didn’t even get a nod?
  • Which of these best stands the test of time? Which don’t?
  • Anything else along these lines.
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Note:

Tender Mercies

was also nominated in 1983. It got chopped off in the edit. My apologies to Robert Duvall.

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I’ve seen 25. That’s actually more than I was expecting. I don’t see many movies. I kept a tally last night when they went through the list of the ones that had won (from all 80 years), and I’ve seen… six. (Gone with the Wind, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, Amadeus, Titanic, and Return of the King.)

Completely not qualified to answer the rest of the questions, so I won’t. :o

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Of the 200 movies listed, I’ve seen (or recall seeing, left out ones that I have only a hazy recollection or only saw bits and pieces) 131.

I’ve seen 33 of the 40 winners, which surprised me a bit.

I’ve not seen any of the nominated movies from 1980, which was the year I graduated from High School. Not sure exactly why, most likely none of those really interests me enough to go back and watch them. I’d probably like Raging Bull and maybe Elephant Man from that year.

I’ve never seen (all of) Patton (1970) or Titanic (1997), even though I’ve seen all of the other nominated movies in those years. I was kind of young to see Patton in the theater, and never got around to watching it. Titanic just doesn’t really interest me enough to sit through a film that long, especially since I know how it ends.

I’ve seen all of the nominees and winners only from 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2003.

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I have seen 141 of the 200 movies:

      o The Lion in Winter
      o Romeo and Juliet

Winner: 1969 Midnight Cowboy
o Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Winner: 1970 Patton
o Airport
o Five Easy Pieces
o Love Story
o MASH
Winner: 1971 The French Connection
o A Clockwork Orange
o The Last Picture Show
Winner: 1972 The Godfather
o Deliverance
o Sounder
Winner: 1973 The Sting
o American Graffiti
o The Exorcist
Winner: 1974 The Godfather Part II
o Chinatown
o The Conversation
o The Towering Inferno
Winner: 1975 (48th) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
o Dog Day Afternoon
o Jaws
o Nashville
Winner: 1976 (49th) Rocky
o All the President’s Men
o Network
o Taxi Driver
Winner: 1977 (50th) Annie Hall
o The Goodbye Girl
o Star Wars
Winner: 1978 (51st) The Deer Hunter
o Midnight Express
o An Unmarried Woman
Winner: 1979 (52nd) Kramer vs. Kramer
o Apocalypse Now
o Norma Rae
Winner: 1980 Ordinary People
o Coal Miner’s Daughter
o The Elephant Man
o Raging Bull
o On Golden Pond
o Raiders of the Lost Ark
o E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
o Tootsie
o The Verdict
Winner: 1983 (56th) Terms of Endearment
o The Big Chill
o The Right Stuff
Winner: 1984 (57th) Amadeus
o The Killing Fields
o The Color Purple
o Prizzi’s Honor
o Witness
Winner: 1986 (59th) Platoon
o Children of a Lesser God
o The Mission
Winner: 1987 The Last Emperor
o Broadcast News
o Fatal Attraction
o Moonstruck
Winner: 1988 Rain Man
o Dangerous Liaisons
o Mississippi Burning
o Working Girl
Winner: 1989 Driving Miss Daisy
o Born on the Fourth of July
o Dead Poets’ Society
o Field of Dreams
Winner: 1990 Dances with Wolves
o Ghost
o The Godfather, Part III
o Goodfellas
Winner: 1991 The Silence of the Lambs
o Beauty and the Beast
o JFK
Winner: 1992 Unforgiven
o The Crying Game
o A Few Good Men
o Howards End
Winner: 1993 (66th) Schindler’s List
o The Fugitive
o In the Name of the Father
o The Piano
o The Remains of the Day
Winner: 1994 Forrest Gump
o Four Weddings and a Funeral
o Pulp Fiction
o Quiz Show
o The Shawshank Redemption
Winner: 1995 Braveheart
o Apollo 13
o Babe
Winner: 1996 The English Patient
o Fargo
o Jerry Maguire
o Shine
Winner: 1997 Titanic
o Good Will Hunting
o L.A. Confidential
Winner: 1998 Shakespeare in Love
o Elizabeth
o Saving Private Ryan
Winner: 1999 American Beauty
o The Cider House Rules
o The Insider
o The Sixth Sense
Winner: 2000 Gladiator
o Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
o Erin Brockovich
o Traffic
Winner: 2001 A Beautiful Mind
o Gosford Park
o In the Bedroom
o The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
o Moulin Rouge!
o Gangs of New York
o The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Winner: 2003 (76th) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
o Lost in Translation
o Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
o Mystic River
o Seabiscuit
Winner: 2004 Million Dollar Baby
o The Aviator
o Sideways
Winner: 2005 Crash
o Brokeback Mountain
o Munich
Winner: 2006 The Departed
o Babel
o Letters from Iwo Jima
o Little Miss Sunshine
o The Queen
Winner: 2007 (80th) No Country for Old Men
o Atonement
o Juno
o Michael Clayton
o There Will Be Blood

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Winner: 1968 Oliver! Yes
o Funny Girl Yes
o The Lion in Winter Yes This should have won.
o Rachel, Rachel
o Romeo and Juliet Yes
Winner: 1969 Midnight Cowboy Yes my third favorite of the three I have seen , but probably the best movie.
o Anne of the Thousand Days
o Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Yes
o Hello, Dolly! Yes
o Z
Winner: 1970 Patton Yes
o Airport Yes
o Five Easy Pieces Yes
o Love Story Yes
o MASH Yes
Winner: 1971 The French Connection Yes
o A Clockwork Orange Yes
o Fiddler on the Roof Yes
o The Last Picture Show Yes
o Nicholas and Alexandra Yes
Winner: 1972 The Godfather Yes Wow, this was so much better than the others.
o Cabaret Yes
o Deliverance Yes
o Sounder Yes
o The Emigrants
Winner: 1973 The Sting Yes
o American Graffiti Yes
o The Exorcist Yes
o A Touch of Class
o Cries and Whispers
Winner: 1974 The Godfather Part II Yes
o Chinatown Yes
o The Conversation
o Lenny
o The Towering Inferno Yes
Winner: 1975 (48th) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Yes
o Barry Lyndon
o Dog Day Afternoon Yes
o Jaws Yes
o Nashville
Winner: 1976 (49th) Rocky Yes
o All the President’s Men Yes
o Bound for Glory
o Network Yes
o Taxi Driver Yes
Winner: 1977 (50th) Annie Hall Yes
o The Goodbye Girl Yes
o Julia
o Star Wars Yes
o The Turning Point
Winner: 1978 (51st) The Deer Hunter Yes
o Coming Home Yes
o Heaven Can Wait Yes
o Midnight Express Yes
o An Unmarried Woman
Winner: 1979 (52nd) Kramer vs. Kramer Yes Maybe the worst of the 5 nominated.
o Apocalypse Now Yes This should have won!
o All That Jazz Yes
o Breaking Away Yes Underrated film
o Norma Rae Yes
Winner: 1980 Ordinary People Yes
o Coal Miner’s Daughter Yes
o The Elephant Man Yes
o Raging Bull Yes
o Tess
Winner: 1981 (54th) Chariots of Fire Yes
o Atlantic City Yes
o On Golden Pond Yes
o Raiders of the Lost Ark Yes
o Reds Yes
Winner: 1982 (55th) Gandhi Yes
o E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Yes
o Missing
o Tootsie Yes
o The Verdict Yes
Winner: 1983 (56th) Terms of Endearment Yes
o The Big Chill Yes
o The Dresser
o The Right Stuff Yes
Winner: 1984 (57th) Amadeus Yes
o The Killing Fields Yes
o A Passage to India
o Places in the Heart
o A Soldier’s Story Yes
Winner: 1985 Out of Africa Yes
o The Color Purple Yes
o Kiss of the Spider Woman Yes
o Prizzi’s Honor Yes
o Witness Yes My favorite of the 5, but I understand the winner.
Winner: 1986 (59th) Platoon Yes
o Children of a Lesser God Yes
o Hannah and Her Sisters Yes Boring, this was the automatic Woody nom.
o The Mission Yes
o A Room with a View Yes
Winner: 1987 The Last Emperor Yes
o Broadcast News Yes
o Fatal Attraction Yes
o Hope and Glory Yes
o Moonstruck Yes
Winner: 1988 Rain Man Yes
o The Accidental Tourist Yes
o Dangerous Liaisons Yes
o Mississippi Burning Yes
o Working Girl Yes
Winner: 1989 Driving Miss Daisy Yes
o Born on the Fourth of July Yes
o Dead Poets’ Society Yes
o Field of Dreams Yes
o My Left Foot Yes
Winner: 1990 Dances with Wolves Yes Yuck!
o Awakenings Yes
o Ghost Yes
o The Godfather, Part III Yes
o Goodfellas Yes The Best Mafia movie of the year. :wink:
Winner: 1991 The Silence of the Lambs Yes
o Beauty and the Beast Yes
o Bugsy Yes
o JFK Yes
o The Prince of Tides
Winner: 1992 Unforgiven Yes
o The Crying Game Yes
o A Few Good Men Yes
o Howards End Yes
o Scent of a Woman Yes
Winner: 1993 (66th) Schindler’s List Yes
o The Fugitive Yes
o In the Name of the Father Yes
o The Piano Yes
o The Remains of the Day Yes
Winner: 1994 Forrest Gump Yes
o Four Weddings and a Funeral Yes
o Pulp Fiction Yes
o Quiz Show Yes
o The Shawshank Redemption Yes
Winner: 1995 Braveheart Yes
o Apollo 13 Yes
o Babe Yes
o Il Postino (The Postman) Yes
o Sense and Sensibility
Winner: 1996 The English Patient Yes
o Fargo Yes
o Jerry Maguire Yes
o Secrets & Lies
o Shine
Winner: 1997 Titanic Yes Yuck!
o As Good as It Gets Yes
o The Full Monty
o Good Will Hunting Yes This was probably the best film
o L.A. Confidential Yes
Winner: 1998 Shakespeare in Love Yes
o Elizabeth Yes
o Life Is Beautiful Yes
o Saving Private Ryan Yes This should have won.
o The Thin Red Line Yes
Winner: 1999 American Beauty Yes
o The Cider House Rules
o The Green Mile Yes
o The Insider
o The Sixth Sense Yes
Winner: 2000 Gladiator Yes
o Chocolat
o Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
o Erin Brockovich Yes
o Traffic
Winner: 2001 A Beautiful Mind
o Gosford Park
o In the Bedroom
o The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Yes
o Moulin Rouge! Yes
Winner: 2002 Chicago Yes
o Gangs of New York Yes
o The Hours
o The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Yes
o The Pianist Yes
Winner: 2003 (76th) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Yes
o Lost in Translation Yes
o Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Yes
o Mystic River
o Seabiscuit Yes
Winner: 2004 Million Dollar Baby
o The Aviator Yes
o Finding Neverland Yes
o Ray (In Queue on Netflix)
o Sideways (I have the DVD ready to play on my dresser)
Winner: 2005 Crash
o Brokeback Mountain
o Capote
o Good Night, and Good Luck.
o Munich
Winner: 2006 The Departed Yes
o Babel
o Letters from Iwo Jima
o Little Miss Sunshine (In Queue)
o The Queen
Winner: 2007 (80th) No Country for Old Men
o Atonement
o Juno
o Michael Clayton
o There Will Be Blood

Basically, my movie going has fallen off in the last few years. From 1986 to 1996 I probably saw 50 films per year at the theater. Often on discount tickets through the Navy or at $2.00 theaters, but I saw a ridiculous number. Now I am lucky if I see a dozen and they are mostly kid’s movies.

  • How many of these have you seen? Do you notice any trends?
    I have seen 148 of the nominated films. That verges on scary.

  • What are some of the best nominees out there that didn’t win?
    Apocalypse Now stands out. Please see my comments for more of my opinions.

  • Which Oscar wins surprised you the most, given the quality of the other nominees?
    The fact that in 1998, “Shakespeare in Love” beat “Saving Private Ryan” and “Elizabeth”. I will never understand this win.

  • What are some of the best films that didn’t even get a nod?
    I never really thought about this.
    “My Favorite Year” comes to mind. This was an Oscar worthy film. It should have been nominated.
    Others I love that I understand not being nominated are everything from Animal House and Star Trek IV to Local Hero. Great movies, but not Oscar movies.

  • Which of these best stands the test of time? Which don’t?
    The Godfather & Godfather part II, Patton, The Sting. It helps that they are all period pieces. It is films like “The Graduate” and “Midnight Cowboy” that do not hold up as well.

The non-period piece that has really held up is Rocky. This is still a great movie.
IMHO, it is tough to take any movie under 20 and determine if it has stood the test of time.

Jim

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  • Do you notice any trends? For some reason, I missed a lot of Warren Beatty’s work.
  • What are some of the best nominees out there that didn’t win? Brokeback Mountain, Star Wars
  • Which Oscar wins surprised you the most, given the quality of the other nominees? Rocky winning over its 1976 competition.
  • What are some of the best films that didn’t even get a nod? Don’t know.
  • Which of these best stands the test of time? Which don’t? Stands: GF1 and 2, Amadeus, Silence, Schindler’s List, Unforgiven. Doesn’t Stand: Rain Man, Driving Miss Daisy, Dances with Wolves, Kramer vs. Kramer.
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I’ve seen 86. I’m shocked that it’s that few - we watch a lot of movies! A lot of movies!

Interestingly, I’d seen more and more the closer we got to the present, until a few years ago when my viewership dropped off sharply. Partly because the nominees have sucked of late and partly because, post-Netflix, we never see hardly anything in the theater. So I run a little behind.

What stands the test of time? Rocky, The Remains of the Day, The Godfather, Unforgiven, Chinatown, The Conversation, The Right Stuff… a lot of the others I haven’t seen recently enough to tell you.

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Make that 142. I just saw the “Tender Mercies” correction on post 3.

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I’ve seen 69 of the movies on the list. Skewed towards the 90s and 00s, unsurprisingly (I’m 25). In fact, from the period before the 90s, I’d seen about 20 of the movies on the list. The only year when I saw all five best picture nominees was 2004 (of which Sideways and Finding Neverland were my favorites – I wasn’t the biggest fan of Million Dollar Baby).

I did notice last night that the 60s were a very good decade for musicals – four Best Picture winners were musicals (West Side Story, My Fair Lady, Sound of Music, Oliver), and several more were nominated.

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I’ve seen 182 of the ones you listed, including all the nominees back through 1996, when I saw all the small/indie films, but missed the big one, Jerry Maguire. I also saw all the nominees from '74 to '83. There are a lot of other biggies I missed. These are the movies I haven’t seen. Some of the big names are really shocking to me:

Winner: 1968 Oliver!
o The Lion in Winter
o Sounder
Winner: 1986 (59th) Platoon
o The Mission
o Mississippi Burning
o Born on the Fourth of July
o Field of Dreams
o Beauty and the Beast
o JFK
Winner: 1992 Unforgiven
o A Few Good Men
o Howards End
Winner: 1993 (66th) Schindler’s List
o In the Name of the Father
o The Piano
o The Remains of the Day
Winner: 1995 Braveheart
o Jerry Maguire

I suppose the pattern is that I didn’t go out to the movies very much in the early-mid 1990’s.

Best, hard to say since it’s so subjective, but perhaps All the President’s Men or Taxi Driver over Rocky, Apocalypse Now over Kramer vs. Kramer, The Elephant Man or Raging Bull over Ordinary People, Reds over Chariots of Fire, The Right Stuff over Terms of Endearment, Goodfellas over Dances with Wolves, Moulin Rouge! or Fellowship of the Ring over A Beautiful Mind, Brokeback Mountain or Munich over Crash, and, of course, There Will Be Blood over No Country For Old Men (though I am thrilled for the Coens and it’s not an egregious loss). The rest of the winners I have no problem with, even if I might have preferred other films in the nominee list (such as LA Confidential, my favorite movie of that year, over Titanic, but Titanic was a great movie and deserved every one of its Oscars).

I think this one takes the cake. And I say that as a fan of that original Rocky movie.

Winner: 1976 (49th) Rocky
o All the President’s Men
o Bound for Glory
o Network Yes
o Taxi Driver Yes

Way too many. I’ll have to think about it. This last year, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford really needed to be in the mix. There are a dozen films that should have been nominated over Juno (I like Juno too).

I think they pretty much all stand the test of time. As I went down the list I kept thinking they were all really good movies. Even the ones I haven’t seen are good movies. Of the winners, both Godfathers probably hold up best. Of the non-winners, Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction.

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How many of these have you seen? Do you notice any trends?

I’ve seen 146.

  • What are some of the best nominees out there that didn’t win?
    “Chinatown” and “The Conversation.” But “The Godfather , Part II” deserved to win. '74 was an incredible year for movies.
    “Goodfellas” losing to “Dances with Wolves” :confused:

  • Which Oscar wins surprised you the most, given the quality of the other nominees?
    “Ordinary People” beating “Raging Bull” Again, “Dances With Wolves.” I remember at the time Pauline Kael’s review saying that Kevin Costner’s character should have been named “Plays With Cameras!”

  • What are some of the best films that didn’t even get a nod?
    “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

  • Which of these best stands the test of time? Which don’t?
    “Chinatown,” “Patton,” “Godfathers 1 & 2,” “Nashville,” “Jaws,” “Amadeus,” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark” stand up just fine.
    “The Big Chill,” “The Goodbye Girl,” and “Working Girl,” don’t stand up well at all.

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I’ve seen 131. Probably 90% of them after the Oscars…I saw Taxi Driver for the first time just this year.

I still haven’t seen any of the movies from 1992.

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Oh my goodness yes. Ultimate answer there. How could I have forgotten?

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Well damn, yes.

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Goodfellas and Taxi Driver both deserved the win in their perspective years. Also I believe Appocalypse now was a far superior film to Kramer vs Kramer. (Hell is that even on DVD?)

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I seriously believe all 4 films nominated were better than Kramer vs Kramer. However, it is on DVD. Amazon has it.

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I have seen every winner since 1974 except for 1992’s Unforgiven. Don’t know how I missed it, but it is on my Netflix queue as of last night. I am not interested in the Godfather series, so the streak won’t go further back than that.

I have seen 147 of the movies, which is not bad, considering I was 8 when the list starts. :slight_smile:

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One trend I noticed is that all the 1983 titles began with the letter “T”, though they wouldn’t alphabetize that way.

Probably not what you’re looking for, though. :wink: