Buzzfeed puts us to the test to see how many Best Picture winners we’ve actually seen. I missed six, though I suspect I will have to watch all of them so I can say I’ve seen them all. I get bogged down most in the very early Best Picture winners. Take the quiz and tell us how you did.
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I’ve now seen all of them. Here’s my order, and in parenthesis are the movie I think should have won (whenever I don’t agree with the Oscar pick).
*****
1. Casablanca
2. The Godfather Part II
3. Gone with the Wind
4. The Godfather
5. The Best Years of Our Lives
6. The Artist
7. Forrest Gump
8. On the Waterfront
9. The Sting
10. All about Eve (Sunset Blvd.)
11. Grand Hotel
12. All Quiet on the Western Front
13. Mrs. Miniver
14. The Apartment (Psycho)
15. Lawrence of Arabia (The Manchurian Candidate)
16. American Beauty
17. Rebecca (The Great Dictator)
18. Rain Man
19. Amadeus
20. Slumdog Millionaire (Wall-E)
21. Patton (Woodstock)
22. Ben-Hur (Some Like It Hot)
23. The Lost Weekend
24. Oliver (2001: A Space Odyssey)
25. Argo (Les Miserables)
26. The Silence of the Lambs
27. Unforgiven
28. It Happened One Night (The Thin Man)
29. Ordinary People (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back)
30. Kramer vs. Kramer (Apocalypse Now)
31. All the King’s Men (On the Town)
32. Schindler’s List
****
33. An American in Paris (A Place in the Sun)
34. Annie Hall (Star Wars)
35. The Departed (A Prairie Home Companion)
36. You Can’t Take It with You (Grand Illusion)
37. Chicago (Bowling for Columbine)
38. Million Dollar Baby (Finding Neverland)
39. The King’s Speech (The Social Network)
40. Rocky (Network)
41. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Dog Day Afternoon)
42. Midnight Cowboy (Easy Rider)
43. Around the World in 80 Days (The Killing)
44. The Life of Emile Zola (Captain’s Courageous)
45. Marty (Rebel without a Cause)
46. The Greatest Show on Earth (Singin’ in the Rain)
47. In the Heat of the Night (In Cold Blood)
48. Crash (Capote)
49. Wings (Metropolis)
50. Driving Miss Daisy (Do the Right Thing)
51. Out of Africa (The Color Purple)
52. The Last Emperor (Moonstruck)
***
53. Shakespeare in Love (Smoke Signals)
54. My Fair Lady (Dr. Strangelove)
55. Hamlet (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
56. Gandhi (E.T.)
57. The Great Ziegfeld (Modern Times)
58. How Green Was My Valley (Citizen Kane)
59. A Beautiful Mind (Moulin Rouge)
60. The Sound of Music (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)
61. Going My Way (Lifeboat)
62. Gigi (Vertigo)
63. The French Connection (A Clockwork Orange)
64. Cimarron (Frankenstein)
65. The Broadway Melody (The Passion of Joan of Arc)
66. The Hurt Locker (Inglourious Basterds)
**
67. No Country for Old Men (Once)
68. The Deer Hunter (Coming Home)
69. Platoon (A Room with a View)
70. Mutiny on the Bounty (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
71. The Bridge on the River Kwai (12 Angry Men)
72. 12 Years a Slave (The Butler)
73. Tom Jones (8 1/2)
74. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Lost in Translation)
75. The English Patient (Fargo)
76. Gentleman’s Agreement (Black Narcissus)
77. Cavalcade (M)
78. Titanic (The Full Monty)
79. Braveheart (Sense and Sensibility)
80. A Man for All Seasons (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
81. Terms of Endearment (A Christmas Story)
*
82. Dances with Wolves (The Godfather Part III)
83. Chariots of Fire (On Golden Pond)
84. From Here to Eternity (Stalag 17)
85. West Side Story (Judgment at Nuremberg)
86. Gladiator (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
What:???
The average shot length in Annie Hall: 14.5 seconds
No wonder I have multiple-scene personality!!
I have just “mentally orgasmd” twice. I can now add The Sting and Annie Hall to my to list. Boo ya!!!
La di da, la di (fuckin’) da!!
This was a long time in coming but here’s my reply: I got 29…..but a few of them I have either seen in such pieces or so long ago that I’m almost reluctant to give myself credit for them….I still think it’s safe to say I’ve seen a third of them including the latest winner 12YAS. I guess there’s movies I better go back and see again straight through or just for refreshing—and so much more to see. I just did see The English Patient for the first time days ago.
Seen all 86 winners as well as 510/512 of all nominees (tracking some of them down was a pain in the ass), just missing 1928s ‘The Patriot’, which is the only nominee that is missing (check your attic and basement people) and 1934s ‘White Parade’ which is only available at the UCLA film archives. Funnily enough 1931s ‘East Lynne’ was also only available at UCLA but a bootleg somehow popped up online and I was able to nab it.
I got 79 out of 86. Missing – The Broadway Melody, Cimarron, Cavalcade, The Life of Emile Zola, Going My Way, The Best Years of Our lives, Hamlet (being British – am slightly embarrassed about the last one!
Feel like I saw some of them sooooo long ago that I should revisit.
I hope to catch some of the missing ones this year.
Good luck everyone!
74 out of 86. Actually thought it would be higher but then realized most of the films I hadn’t seen I will probably never see simply because the subject matter just didn’t stimulate my brain cells. There was indeed one film in the group of films I haven’t seen that I don’t even know why I haven’t seen it and that’s The Artist. But like Ryan I find some of the nominees that lost more interesting than some that won.
83 out of 86. Missing Cavalcade, Oliver and The Great Ziegfeld. Oddly enough, I own those three on DVD or Blu-ray, I just haven’t gotten around to watching them yet, they don’t seem to hold much appeal to me. Favorite Best Picture is definitely The Silence of the Lambs. Damn near a perfect film as there ever was.
If it’s not here: I haven’t seen it, I am not interested, it bored me to pieces, it wasn’t anywhere near “great”, it was meh, it was no good.
1. THE GODFATHER
2. THE GODFATHER PART II
3. ON THE WATERFRONT
4. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
5. UNFORGIVEN
6. ANNIE HALL
7. CASABLANCA
8. THE APARTMENT
9. SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS
10. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
11. REBECCA
12. THE FRENCH CONNECTION
13. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
14. SCHINDLER’S LIST
15. ALL ABOUT EVE
16. THE DEER HUNTER
17. THE STING
18. ALL THE KING’S MEN
19. PLATOON
20. THE LOST WEEKEND
21. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
22. TITANIC
23. THE HURT LOCKER
24. GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT
25. GLADIATOR
26. ORDINARY PEOPLE
27. THE DEPARTED
28. HAMLET
29. AMERICAN BEAUTY
30. 12 YEARS A SLAVE
31. MIDNIGHT COWBOY
32. DRIVING MISS DAISY
33. PATTON
34. HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
35. THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
36. THE LAST EMPEROR
37. THE RETURN OF THE KING
38. TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
39. CHARIOTS OF FIRE
40. IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
Didn’t set out to end up with such a neat number of titles, but cool uh?
Favorites
Lord of the rings the return of the king
The godfather
Braveheart
Rain man
12 years a slave
Ben hur
Schindlers list
The apartment
Titanic
The sound of music
Rocky
It happened one night
Argo
Least favorite
The English patient
Shakespeare in love
Crash
The departed
One flew over the cuckoos nest
No country for old men
Slumdog millionaire
Kramer vs. Kramer
Chicago
48 out of 86
I did 77/86. I got 9 to catch on.
This would be a fun quiz to complete with the films which were awarded Best Actor and Best Actress too. I bet the scores wouldn’t be as high if we took quizzes for those 2 categories. For instance, I doubt if there are that many people who have seen Anna Magnani’s “The Rose Tattoo” or Sophia Loren’s “Two Women”. (I personally have not – but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to!) It just means we haven’t had the time to view them. So, really, there is no need for anyone out there to apologize for having not seen AMPAS films. Look at it this way . . . just gives you something to look forward to watching!
Is it possible to do the same quiz for all the previous Best Actresses too? I know it’s probably time-consuming to set up, but the Best Picture was a fun quiz to complete. I learned something about this blog.
I have seen all 86 bp winners . Most should not have won. The best bp is the Godfather the worst chariots of fire. The best films not to have won Nashville and citizen Kane. Annie Hall is much better than Star Wars .
Golly, I was terrible. 32. Ugh. My problem is I truly don’t watch films that don’t interest me. A good portion of that 32 were films forced upon my by parents (My Fair Lady and such – not that I didn’t end up LOVING it, I just don’t care for Audrey) or teachers (All Quiet on the Western Front – still hate it). However, I’ve seen plenty of films featuring nominated performances, as that’s the category of my film benders (Ingrid Bergman Oscar-nominated performances this weekend – and the like).
Funny how I truly feel like I must justify my terrible score. It is unjustifiable.
Ryan: These are 21 of the movies nominated for Best Film on your large list with which I concur most wholeheartedly. Isn’t it amazing that these films look like a more impressive list than the AMPAS winners? All of them hold up really, really well – the true sign of a “classic”. (Despite the inclusion of typewriters in the office, “Network” seems just as fresh today as it was in 1976. Then, again, nobody in Hollywood would have the balls to make it now. Where is Howard Gottfried when we need him?)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Chinatown (1974)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Goodfellas (1990)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
The Exorcist (1973)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
All the President’s Men (1976)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Network (1976)
Fargo (1996)
Reds (1981)
JFK (1991)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Shanghai Express (1931)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Tootsie (1982)
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Another true test of a classic film, for me, is that I can watch a film again and again and again(as I have all the above) and I can STILL glean some insight that I missed upon previous viewings. It always blows me away when I realize, “Heh, how could I have missed that?”
I’d like to add one more to my list above.
The Birds (1963) – I’ve probably seen Hitchcock’s masterpiece 10 or more times. It always impresses me.
just below half – 42?! I have some work to do, especially since I own several of the ones I have not seen. Many still have not been released to Blu-ray yet, surprisingly.
I also forgot to list a Best Picture winner that I couldn’t stand watching: “The Deer Hunter”. I’ve recently watched it for the second time – just to make sure my original response (detested it) was still ringing true. It was. Truly an overrated film.
I can’t believe I’ve never seen “You Can’t Take It With You”. That film looks like a real rompfest.
74 out of 86
Top Winners:
1) The Godfather (1+2)
2) Shakespeare in Love
3) All about Eve
4) How Green Was My Valley
5) You Can’t Take It With You
All of ’em. With the exception of 12 Years, they’re all sat pride of place in my lounge 🙂
I have only seen 42. I have some catching up to do(most of the one’s I missed were released prior to the mid-seventies.
I loved both your lists Ryan. I would be interested in seeing the remainder of it.
The year Slumdog won I spent January and February watching the 20-30 I hadn’t yet seen (some on dvd, some through dubious means). After ordering some dvds from China of all places I managed to complete my task just before the ceremony, so I have seen all 86. The worst period is the early 30s where the visuals suffer because of the limited sound recording technology (even though I quite liked Grand Hotel, kind of archetype of an Altman movie). The low point was Cavalcade, a stodgy, visually drab movie that seemed to be about the tragedy of people from lower classes getting uppity. Awful. Still think the best ones are Lawrence of Arabia and the two Godfather movies.
77.
My brothers seen them all, bastard.
My favourites are Unforgiven, The Apartment and Bridge on the River Kwai.
Can’t stand An American in Paris (fucking interpretive dance sequences nearly ruined Singing in the Rain)
Wiill defend Ordinary People, didn’t necessarily deserve to win, but definitely doesn’t deserve to be ‘the film that stole Raging Bulls oscar and murdered my children’
Still havnt seen Ghandi, and I don’t know why.
Absolute dream winner – Raiders of the Lost Ark
I’ve seen 41. Most are from the 90’s and 2000’s.
Favorite win: “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991)
Least favorite win: “Terms of Endearment” (1983) -> well, to soap opera-ish for me, though I don’t mind Shirley MacLaine’s win
Surprisingly good: “Dances with Wolves” (1990) -> I really expected it to be boring, but for me, it wasn’t.
I totted up 70. I honestly thought it would be much less than that. I now must make it to 86.
The 16 I need to see are:
The Godfather I and II, 12 Years A Slave, The Artist, Casablanca, The Silence of the Lambs, Schindler’s List — Yes, of course I am messing around with that list!
Buzz told me: “You checked off 55 out of 86 on this list!
OK, so you’ve seen a lot of great films, but there are more out
There. Luckily, most of them are on Netflix!”
Yeah right . . . . If only we had Netflix but everywhere we be eh?
*News flash, Buzz! Meesa’m not in US or Canada . . . . * : (
(But to be honest I would probably get to watch them all already if I had Netflix membership.)
43, exactly half.
My favorite Best Picture winner is Annie Hall.
My least favorite is Chicago.
The one I missed that I can’t believe I still haven’t seen is Ben-Hur.
I have seen the feature film Titanic (!997) as well as other award-winning films.
74
I do have a Top 150 favorite Oscar winners and nominees. But I won’t post the whole list. Just half of it … or 3/5ths
these rankings are rough and constantly shifting. not carved in stone. I won’t even number them because that looks too strict and official. it’s just a slippery stack from most admired and loosely on down.
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Godfather, Part II (1974)
The Godfather (1972)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Chinatown (1974)
All About Eve (1950)
Cabaret (1972)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Goodfellas (1990)
Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
The Exorcist (1973)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Casablanca (1943)
Schindler’s List (1993)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
12 Years a Slave (2013)
The Apartment (1960)
Unforgiven (1992)
Grand Illusion (1938)
Dr Zhivago (1965)
The Red Shoes (1948)
The Departed (2006)
The Last Emperor (1987)
Rebecca (1940)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The Conversation (1974)
Giant (1956)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
M*A*S*H (1970)
High Noon (1952)
Raging Bull (1980)
Sunrise (1927)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
All the President’s Men (1976)
The Hurt Locker (2009)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Annie Hall (1977)
Jaws (1975)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Network (1976)
Nashville (1975)
Fargo (1996)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
The Social Network (2010)
Amadeus (1984)
The Graduate (1967)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Reds (1981)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Life of Pi (2012)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
JFK (1991)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Mildred Pierce (1944)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Out of Africa (1985)
It Happened One Night (1934)
E.T. (1982)
Shanghai Express (1931)
The Love Parade (1929)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
12 Angry Men (1957)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1944)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
The Heiress (1949)
Shane (1953)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Born Yesterday (1950)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
The French Connection (1971)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Patton (1970)
The Hustler (1961)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
The Tree of Life (2011)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Tootsie (1982)
Lenny (1974)
Star Wars (1977)
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
I not only seen them all… I own all of them on DVD…. took a long time to get them (some I bought on eBay as bootleg version)
My top 5 (in order):
1) All About Eve
2) The Silence of the Lambs
3) It Happened One Night
4) Gone with the Wind
5) The Bridge on the River Kwai
My top 20:
The Artist
No Country for Old Men
American Beauty
Shakespeare in Love
Schindler’s List
Unforgiven
The Silence of the Lambs
Platoon
Godfather Part II
Godfather
The Sound of Music
Lawrence of Arabia
The Apartment
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Marty
All About Eve
Casablanca
Rebecca
Gone with the Wind
It Happened One Night
Bottom 5:
The Deer Hunter
Greatest Show on Earth
Crash
Out of Africa
Chariots of Fire
The ones that caught me by surprise on how great they are.
12 Years a Slave
The Hurt Locker
Annie Hall
In the Heat of the Night
All Quiet on the Western Front
Well, looks like we’re on parallel wavelengths today (whew), Ryan
My Top 20 favorite BP Winners:
1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
2. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
3. Annie Hall (1977)
4. The Godfather (1972)
5. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1928) (yeah, I know, but the “special artistic award’ counts for me)
6. From Here to Eternity (1953)
7. All About Eve (1950)
8. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
9. On the Waterfront (1954)
10. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
11. The Hurt Locker (2009)
12. The Godfather Part II (1974)
13. Schindler’s List (1993)
14. The Last Emperor (1987)
15. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
16. The Deer Hunter (1978)
17. The English Patient (1996)
18. It Happened One Night (1934)
19. Shakespeare in Love (1998)
20. No Country for Old Men (2007)
Haven’t updated since 12 Years a Slave won, but would probably slip that one in around 13 or 14.
Favorite Best Picture winners per Decade:
1920s – N/A
1930s – Gone with the Wind
1940s – Casablanca
1950s – From Here to Eternity
1960s – Lawrence of Arabia
1970s – The Godfather
1980s – Rain Man
1990s – Titanic
2000s – The Departed
2010s – Argo
personal favorites
20 favorite Best Picture winners
The Godfather, Part II (1974)
The Godfather (1972)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
All About Eve (1950)
Silence of the Lambs (1991)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Casablanca (1943)
Schindler’s List (1993)
The Apartment (1960)
Unforgiven (1992)
The Departed (2006)
The Last Emperor (1987)
Rebecca (1940)
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
The Hurt Locker (2009)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Annie Hall (1977)
Amadeus (1984)
Out of Africa (1985)
I could list ~125 favorite Best Picture winners and nominees but that would be a lot of scrolling for everybody to skip.
Keifer – All Quiet on the Western Front is #2 on my list (between Lawrence and Anne Hall). Just saw it again a couple months ago and it’s solid, great filmmaking. Think of it every time I see a butterfly. One of a handful of winners that was truly the best film in its year (or any year).
I think there’s a reason the least seen films mentioned are Cimarron, Cavalcade and Broadway Melody – they just aren’t good and time has not been kind. Melody and Cavalcade didn’t age well at all and Cimarron is just godawful.
I’ve seen 81. I have yet to see The Broadway Melody, Cimarron, Cavalcade, The Great Ziegfeld, and Braveheart. I’ll eventually see the first four, but I may never get around to seeing Braveheart.
Oh my god . . . how could I have forgotten to list one of my favorite movies of all time “All About Eve”?
It is possibly the best Oscar ever given to a Best Picture.
It holds up so well, even after 60+ years.
George Saunders totally deserved Best Supporting Actor. It was a shame Davis lost the Best Actress Oscar that year.
84 of 86
I have not watched CIMARRON (1931) and BROADWAY MELODY (1929)
Top 10:
GONE WITH THE WIND
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
CASABLANCA
THE GODFATHER
ALL ABOUT EVE
ON THE WATERFRONT
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
HAMLET
WEST SIDE STORY
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Bottom 10:
RAIN MAN
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
DANCES WITH WOLVES
CRASH
THE KING’S SPEECH
GOING MY WAY
THE STING
THE DEER HUNTER
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
ARGO
Steve50
I noticed that too about the poster for “All Quiet on the Western Front”. At least use the right advertisement, right? The poster used is of the TV movie made with Richard Thomas and Ernest Borgnine (a rather inferior adaptation to that of the 1929 film, I must say).
I’ve seen 58 out of 86 Best Picture Oscar winners. I have 28 more Best Pictures to look forward to.
There are some classics I’m ashamed to say that I haven’t seen (“Ben Hur”, “The Lost Weekend”, “Cavalcade”), but I’m working on watching all of them . . . just so I can justifiably bitch about the AMPAS choices.
My favorite Oscar winners:
“All Quiet on the Western Front”
“The English Patient”
“The Godfather II”
“Gone With the Wind”
“Lawrence of Arabia”
“Chicago”
There are quite a few “mediocre” choices they made:
“Dances With Wolves” (over “Goodfellas”! ! !)
“Rain Man” (over “Dangerous Liasons” ! ! !)
“All the King’s Men”
“Mrs. Miniver”
“The King’s Speech”
Least favorite Oscar winners or movies that I really hated:
“Oliver”
“Titanic”
“My Fair Lady”
“The Greatest Show on Earth”
“Rocky”
“Unforgiven”
I know this is kind of against the grain here, but I like “Cimarron.” “Cavalcade” on the other hand…
86/86, been up to date on these for a long time.
85 out of 86. I live in a remote area where it’s difficult to get to a movie theater showing decent movies, but “12 Years a Slave” is at the top of my Netflix queue, so as soon as a copy becomes available I’ll be able to say 86 out of 86.
“even those that have fallen out of favor with revisionist critics”. Oh revisionists! I wonder….(if they re-voted, what would win?)
My guesses:
1941 – Citizen Kane (How Green Was My Valley)
1977 – Star Wars (Annie Hall)
1980 – Raging Bull (Ordinary People)
1981 – Raiders of the Lost Ark (Chariots of Fire)
1982 – E.T. (Gandhi)
1990 – Goodfellas (Dances with Wolves)
1994 – The Shawshank Redemption (Forrest Gump)
2001 – The Fellowship of the Ring (A Beautiful Mind)
2005 – Brokeback Mountain (Crash) (At least I HOPE this time they would)
I can say this for sure:
My Favorite Best Picture winner is Titanic.
The one I have the most Respect for is The Godfather.
Off the top of my head, I think the Best movie to not even get nominated, let alone win Best Picture is The Shining (1980). But 1999 had 2, The Matrix and Fight Club as well…
83 out of 86. still haven’t seen CAVALCADE, BROADWAY MELODY or CIMARRON. i’ll just have to sit down and do it to complete my goal. i love all of them—many i’ve seen numerous times. and yes, even those that have fallen out of favor with revisionist critics. i still adore MRS MINIVER, GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH and AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS.
“and tried to start a ranking challenge on the Community Forum page here, but got no takers”
Aw, sorry steve50. I can go in, and give it a try. It might take me a little while. 🙂
I’ve seen them all, (and tried to start a ranking challenge on the Community Forum page here, but got no takers). There’s something wonky with the test, though, because even though I checked every box I saw, I came up one short.
BTW They’ve got the wrong post for All Quiet on the Western Front – Buzzfeed used the TV version with that kid from The Waltons. tsk tsp – don’t know what’s becoming of these film blogs.
“Think I’d rather say I’ve seen every Alfred Hitchcock, but maybe that’s a future goal.”
Mark, does that include the shorts as well, or only feature-length films?
Years ago, I decided to see them all. And even through clunkers like Cimarron, I finished that goal. Started to do the same with other Oscar categories, but was thrown off that films like Two Arabian Knights (1927 Best Director) and The Way of All Flesh (1927 Best Actor) don’t seem to be available anywhere.
Anyway, I always felt I had a little cache saying I’ve seen every Best Picture winner. Think I’d rather say I’ve seen every Alfred Hitchcock, but maybe that’s a future goal.
54 of 86. Not too shabby. I know so much about a lot that I haven’t seen that I had a hard time checking the right ones for a minute
I’ve seen a LOT of movie that SHOULD’VE won Best Picture:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – 1969
A Clockwork Orange – 1971
The Exorcist – 1973
Jaws – 1975
Star Wars – 1977
Raging Bull – 1980
Raiders of the Lost Ark – 1981
E.T. – 1982
Born on the Fourth of July – 1989
Goodfellas – 1990
Pulp Fiction – 1994
Apollo 13 – 1995
Fargo – 1996
Saving Private Ryan – 1998
Traffic – 2000
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – 2001
Sideways – 2004
Brokeback Mountain – 2005
The Social Network – 2010
The Descendants – 2011
Life of Pi – 2012
41, which is more then I expected to get, I haven’t seen the majority of the ones pre-1960’s
Let’s see,
It Happened One Night – 1934, Mutiny on the Bounty – 1935, Gone with the Wind – 1939, Casablanca – 1942, From Here to Eternity – 1953, On the Waterfront – 1954, Lawrence of Arabia – 1962, Midnight Cowboy – 1969, The French Connection – 1971, The Godfather – 1972, The Godfather: Part II – 1974, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – 1975, Rocky – 1976, Chariots of Fire – 1981, Platoon – 1986, Rain Man – 1988, Dances with Wolves – 1990, The Silence of the Lambs – 1991, Unforgiven – 1992, Schindler’s List – 1993, Forrest Gump – 1994, The English Patient – 1996, Titanic – 1997, Shakespeare in Love – 1998, American Beauty – 1999, Gladiator – 2000, A Beautiful Mind – 2001, Chicago – 2002, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – 2003, Million Dollar Baby – 2004, Crash – 2005, The Departed – 2006, No Country for Old Men – 2007, Slumdog Millionaire – 2008, The Hurt Locker – 2009, The King’s Speech – 2010, The Artist – 2011, Argo – 2012, 12 Years a Slave – 2013
I have seen 39. But long long ago, I saw Gandhi and Amadeus. I don’t remember them AT All, so I don’t count them. Same goes with Braveheart. I think the last time I saw Braveheart, I was maybe 13. I don’t count it if I can’t remember it.
78. Haven’t seen Terms of Endearment, Rocky, Chariots of Fire, Rain Man, Kramer vs Kramer, Platoon, The Last Emperor or Dances With Wolves
I got 83 out of 86. I missed Cimarron, Calvacade, and Million Dollar Baby. In 1998, I wanted to see every best picture winner. I watch every single one of them. I could not find Cimarron and Calvacade. And I never got around to seeing Million Dollar Baby.