# How many of the ten Best Picture nominees have you seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 3, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-ten-best-picture-nominees-have-you-seen/569955 "2011-02-03T00:00:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-ten-best-picture-nominees-have-you-seen/569955/1 "2011-02-03T00:00:07Z")
I’ve seen 8 of 10 (still need to see True Grit and Black Swan). For reference: 127 Hours Black Swan The Fighter Inception The Kids are All Right The King’s Speech The Social Network Toy Story 3 True Grit Winter’s Bone mmm ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-ten-best-picture-nominees-have-you-seen/569955/2 "2011-02-03T00:06:30Z")
I’ve seen two, Inception and Black Swan. A third, Toy Story 3, is sitting in my DVD player, waiting to be watched. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-ten-best-picture-nominees-have-you-seen/569955/3 "2011-02-03T00:25:31Z")
Seen _Toy Story 3_. I’ll probably see _Inception_ at some point, but it’s not likely I’ll see any of the others. ---
**Author:** ![Monkey\_Chews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-ten-best-picture-nominees-have-you-seen/569955/4 "2011-02-03T00:33:52Z")
Seven of the ten. _127 Hours_ hasn’t opened in Australia yet, but I will definitely see it when it does. _True Grit_ has just opened and I plan to see it in the next few days. _The Fighter_ opened last week but I just can’t get enthusiastic about it. All the rest I’ve seen and loved. It’s been a good year. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-ten-best-picture-nominees-have-you-seen/569955/5 "2011-02-03T00:38:00Z")
I’ve seen only one: _Toy Story 3_ Nowadays, with a baby son, it’s really difficult to get out of the house to see a movie. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-ten-best-picture-nominees-have-you-seen/569955/6 "2011-02-03T00:49:01Z")
Just three so far: Inception, Winter’s Bone, and True Grit. I will eventually see Black Swan, The Social Network, 127 Hours, and possibly Toy Story 3 and The King’s Speech. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-ten-best-picture-nominees-have-you-seen/569955/7 "2011-02-03T00:49:12Z")
Five, Inception The King’s Speech The Social Network Toy Story 3 True Grit I’ll probably see Black Swan before, but haven’t yet. More than usual and the most since they expanded to ten nominees. Back in the “five” days it was typically two or three. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-ten-best-picture-nominees-have-you-seen/569955/8 "2011-02-03T00:53:06Z")
Three: Toy Story 3 True Grit and The Social Network I’ll likely be seeing Black Swan and Inception soon but it’ll probably be a while before I see any of the others, if ever. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-ten-best-picture-nominees-have-you-seen/569955/9 "2011-02-03T01:12:44Z")
Four: Toy Story 3 True Grit Inception Social Network Inception was clearly the best of that group, I thought. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-ten-best-picture-nominees-have-you-seen/569955/10 "2011-02-03T01:20:27Z")
Seen all of them. But I’m a piker compared to **Equipoise** who sees everything nominated in every category if possible. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-ten-best-picture-nominees-have-you-seen/569955/11 "2011-02-03T01:43:30Z")
Got seven under my belt right now. Winters Bone is sitting on my dining room table, waiting for a snow-shoveling and work-free day. 127 Hours and Black Swan are both playing in my town, and I plan to get to them in the next two weeks. So … that’ll be all ten! My wife and I used to try to see all the movies with big nominees … Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Supporting, Director … but then we had kids. They’re finally in college, so yay, movies! ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-ten-best-picture-nominees-have-you-seen/569955/12 "2011-02-03T02:16:15Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > …My wife and I used to try to see all the movies with big nominees … Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Supporting, Director … but then we had kids. They’re finally in college, so yay, movies! I could have written this myself, Jocko. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-ten-best-picture-nominees-have-you-seen/569955/13 "2011-02-03T02:19:28Z")
I saw _Inception_ and _Toy Story 3_ in the theatre. I have _The Kids Are Alright_ and _The Social Network_ on DVD but I haven’t watched them yet. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-ten-best-picture-nominees-have-you-seen/569955/14 "2011-02-03T03:28:52Z")
Everything but the cartoon, one a day for the past couple weeks. Really helps with comparing and contrasting them. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-ten-best-picture-nominees-have-you-seen/569955/15 "2011-02-03T03:39:25Z")
none ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-ten-best-picture-nominees-have-you-seen/569955/16 "2011-02-03T03:59:31Z")
I haven’t watched any of them. The only ones I’d consider watching are Toy Story 3 and Inception. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-ten-best-picture-nominees-have-you-seen/569955/17 "2011-02-03T06:57:06Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Seen all of them. But I’m a piker compared to **Equipoise** who sees everything nominated in every category if possible. This year I’d seen all the [movies nominated](http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/83/nominees.html) in “regular movie” categories (meaning, every category except for Foreign-language, Documentary and all the Shorts) except for **Animal Kingdom** (Best Supporting Actress nominee Jacki Weaver), **Biutiful** (Best Actor nominee Javier Bardem) and **Country Strong** (Best Original Song “Coming Home”). Of the 5 Documentary nominees, I’d seen 3 (missed **Gasland** and **Restrepo** when they played). I unfortunately haven’t seen any of the Foreign-Language films, which is really terrible considering I saw 329 movies in the theater last year. I have to do better this year. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-ten-best-picture-nominees-have-you-seen/569955/18 "2011-02-03T07:03:05Z")
\*\*I’ve seen: \*\* Inception The Social Network Toy Story 3 True Grit **Would like to see:** The Fighter Winter’s Bone \*\* Ambivalent / not interested in: \*\* 127 Hours Black Swan The Kids are All Right The King’s Speech Of the four I’ve seen, I’d vote for _True Grit_ but enjoyed them all. I’m not an Anglophile and really think royals are over blown. I’ve read very mixed things about _Black Swan_. _The Kids are All Right_ just seemed bad from the trailers, so it would probably exceed my expectations. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-ten-best-picture-nominees-have-you-seen/569955/19 "2011-02-03T07:06:43Z")
Zero. I tend to watch movies years or decades after they come out (my favorites were made in the 30s and 40s). I do plan on seeing “127 Hours” though, because of my personal experience in that location. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-ten-best-picture-nominees-have-you-seen/569955/20 "2011-02-03T07:48:37Z")
So what do I put if I’ve only seen Inception, but I’ve seen it five times? It does seem kind of odd - I see a lot of movies, but I’ve only seen one of the nominees, even though they have ten in recent years. Of the rest, I would have seen 127 Hours, Black Swan, and The Social Network, but my movie partner didn’t want to. I’d probably catch The Kids and Toy Story 3 on cable. Don’t really have much interest in Fighter, King’s Speech, True Grit, or Winter’s Bone. Winter’s Bone in fact I haven’t even heard of. My movie partner did express interest in Toy Story but I wasn’t in the mood for it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-ten-best-picture-nominees-have-you-seen/569955.md?page=2)