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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Best Picture Winners: Seen and Unseen

Apologies for the stupid format of this list -- it took me a little while to find a cut-and-paste-able list that listed only the winners.

Here are the ones I've seen:

Oscar Winners for Best Picture: 2000 - The Present
78th Annual Academy Awards - Crash
77th Annual Academy Awards - Million Dollar Baby
75th Annual Academy Awards - Chicago
73rd Annual Academy Awards - Gladiator
72nd Annual Academy Awards - American Beauty

Oscar Winners for Best Picture: 1990 - 1999
71st Annual Academy Awards - Shakespeare in Love
70th Annual Academy Awards - Titanic
68th Annual Academy Awards - Braveheart
67th Annual Academy Awards - Forrest Gump
66th Annual Academy Awards - Schindler's List
65th Annual Academy Awards - Unforgiven
63rd Annual Academy Awards - Dances With Wolves

Oscar Winners for Best Picture: 1980 - 1989
61st Annual Academy Awards - Rain Man
60th Annual Academy Awards - The Last Emperor
57th Annual Academy Awards - Amadeus*
55th Annual Academy Awards - Gandhi*
54th Annual Academy Awards - Chariots of Fire*

* I was really young, and these movies made no impression on me whatsoever. Well, other than a vague memory of Gandhi getting shot and the theme song to "Chariots," which -- along with "Music Box Dancer" -- was my favorite song when I was, like, 5. Sue me.

Oscar Winners for Best Picture: 1970 - 1979
50th Annual Academy Awards - Annie Hall
47th Annual Academy Awards - The Godfather, Part II
46th Annual Academy Awards - The Sting
45th Annual Academy Awards - The Godfather
43rd Annual Academy Awards - Patton

Oscar Winners for Best Picture: 1960 - 1969
41st Annual Academy Awards - Oliver!
40th Annual Academy Awards - In the Heat of the Night
38th Annual Academy Awards - The Sound of Music
34th Annual Academy Awards - West Side Story

Oscar Winners for Best Picture: 1950 - 1959
30th Annual Academy Awards - The Bridge on the River Kwai
27th Annual Academy Awards - On the Waterfront

What does this mean? Here are some of the movies that I've never seen, causing you to say, "Wait! You've never seen [blank]?! How is that even possible?"

A Beautiful Mind, The English Patient, The Silence of the Lambs, Driving Miss Daisy, Platoon, The Deer Hunter, Rocky, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Lawrence of Arabia, Ben-Hur, From Here to Eternity, All the King's Men, Casablanca, and Gone with the Wind.

1 Comments:

  • A Beautiful Mind was dogshit, but Casablanca is frickin' amazing, as is Silence of the Lambs.

    And how did you manage to miss the Lord of the Rings trilogy?

    By Blogger Stewart Bushman, at 5:00 PM  

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