- Never got around to seeing The English Patient or Crash, but they’re in my Netflix queue. The King’s Speech hasn’t arrived in Panama yet.
All of them.
I’ve seen many from the entire Best Picture list from the 1930’s on, mainly because they were shown on TCM last month for their annual 31 days of Oscar. Which is a dream come true if you’re at all interested in film history.
19 total. Not bad.
Haven’t seen
Driving Miss Daisy
English Patient
Chicago
The King’s Speech
The Lord of the Rings
Shakespeare in Love
Other than The King’s Speech, I have no desire to see any of the ones I’ve missed. So I’m good.
Only 8. Guess that’s why I never watch the Oscars: they’re awarding movies that they couldn’t get my interest in with a 2 minute trailer.
Don’t know about that. Schindler’s List was a great movie, even if it WAS the academy forcing Spielberg to do a movie about the Holocaust to win his first Best Director Oscar.
I mean, for crying out loud, he’s made some of the best films in history, and he has only won two Best Director Oscars, the first being Schindler’s List, and the second being Saving Private Ryan. Thank goodness for WWII and the jews. (He was nominated for Munich, but I guess he didn’t show enough suffering to wow the Acadamy. Also nominated for "Letters from Iwo Jima, but there weren’t any concentration camps on the pacific islands).
If the Academy wasn’t making Speilberg shoot a Holocaust epic, how do you explain him not winning for “The Color Purple”?, not to mention ET, or the hundred other block buster movies he’s cranked out since the 70’s?
Yes, I think old S.S. has been under appreciated. Down with the Acadamy!
Clint Eastwood directed Letters from Iwo Jima (and was nominated for the Best Director Award). Spielberg was only co-producer (and thus shared the nomination for Best Picture).
There are other ways for movies to succeed besides through the directing, and it’s often hard to separate directing qualities from others. Looking through Spielberg’s filmography, the one that strikes me as having benefited most clearly from directorial choices is Raiders of the Lost Ark. E.T. would have won except it was matched against freaking Gandhi. Beyond that… Spielberg directed exactly eight other pictures between those and Schindler’s List; I’m really not seeing where he missed the recognition on those.
I have of course, seen bits and pieces of most of them. But have only sat down and watched 8 of them all the way through.
15, if American Beauty is the right movie for 1999. More than I expected, really.
Nine, all in theaters. I saw neither The Cider House Rules nor American Beauty, so 1999 didn’t prove to be a problem.
The movies came in two clumps which correlate to two specific points in my life when I was seeing a lot of films in general. 1988-1991, when I was a teenager with a lot of spending money and no social life, and 1998 to 2002 (excluding 1999), when I was married and movies were an easy way to start a weekend out with the wife. The drought from 1992 to 1997 reflects a period of severe poverty, and from 2003 on reflects the time I’ve been in school.
Clint Eastwood directed “Letters.”