Thinking about the Oscar nominations last night, I decided to list out all the Best Picture nominees that I have ever seen. It's a long list, but still woefully short for someone who considers himself to be a movie buff. For instance, I've seen none of the movies from 1920s and only a handful from the 1930s. And, of course, I haven't seen any of the Best Picture nominees for the past two years and only one each from 2005 and 2006.
So following the first list, I put together another list of the Best Picture nominees that I would like to see. I don't know enough about a lot of the early films to know whether I would like them or not. One thing is for sure, though, I need to spend more time watching TCM.
(an * means I saw all the nominees that year)
1934
The Thin Man
1935
Captain Blood
1936
The Story of Louis Pasteur
1938
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1939
Gone With the Wind
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Stagecoach
The Wizard of Oz
1940
The Grapes of Wrath
The Philadelphia Story
1941
Citizen Kane
The Maltese Falcon
1942
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Pride of the Yankees
1943
Casablanca
The Ox-Bow Incident
1944
Going My Way
Double Indemnity
1945
The Bells of St. Mary’s
1946
It’s a Wonderful Life
1947
The Bishop’s Wife
Miracle on 34th Street
1948
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1951
An American in Paris
1952
High Noon
The Quiet Man
1953
From Here to Eternity
Roman Holiday
Shane
1954
On the Waterfront
1955
Mister Roberts
1956
Friendly Persuasion
Giant
The King and I
The Ten Commandments
1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958
Gigi
1959
Ben Hur
1960
The Apartment
The Alamo
1961
West Side Story
The Guns of Navarone
1962
Lawrence of Arabia
The Longest Day
The Music Man
To Kill a Mockingbird
1964
My Fair Lady
Dr. Strangelove
Mary Poppins
1965
The Sound of Music
1966
The Sand Pebbles
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967
Bonnie and Clyde
The Graduate
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
1968
Funny Girl
1969
Midnight Cowboy
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1970
Patton
MASH
1971
The French Connection
A Clockwork Orange
1972
The Godfather
Cabaret
Deliverance
1973
The Sting
American Graffiti
Cries and Whispers
1974
The Godfather Part II
Chinatown
The Towering Inferno
1975
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Dog Day Afternoon
Jaws
1976
Rocky
All the President’s Men
Taxi Driver
1977
Annie Hall
Star Wars
1978
The Deer Hunter
Heaven Can Wait
1979
Apocalypse Now
Breaking Away
1981
Chariots of Fire
On Golden Pond
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982
Gandhi
E.T.
Tootsie
The Verdict
1983
The Right Stuff
1984
Amadeus
1985
Witness
1986
Platoon
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Mission
A Room With a View
1987
The Last Emperor
Broadcast News
Fatal Attraction
Moonstruck
1988*
Rain Man
The Accidental Tourist
Dangerous Liaisons
Mississippi Burning
Working Girl
1989*
Driving Miss Daisy
Born on the Fourth of July
Dead Poet’s Society
Field of Dreams
My Left Foot
1990*
Dances With Wolves
Awakenings
Ghost
The Godfather Part III
Goodfellas
1991
The Silence of the Lambs
Beauty and the Beast
Bugsy
JFK
1992*
Unforgiven
The Crying Game
A Few Good Men
Howard’s End
Scent of a Woman
1993
Schindler’s List
The Fugitive
The Piano
The Remains of the Day
1994*
Forrest Gump
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Pulp Fiction
Quiz Show
The Shawshank Redemption
1995
Braveheart
Apollo 13
Babe
Sense and Sensibility
1996
The English Patient
Fargo
Jerry Maguire
Shine
1997*
Titanic
As Good as it Gets
The Full Monty
Good Will Hunting
L.A. Confidential
1998
Shakespeare in Love
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line
1999
The Cider House Rules
The Green Mile
The Insider
The Sixth Sense
2000
Gladiator
Chocolat
Erin Brockovich
2001
A Beautiful Mind
Gosford Park
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Moulin Rouge!
2002
Chicago
Gangs of New York
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Pianist
2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Lost in Translation
Master and Commander
Seabiscuit
2004
Million Dollar Baby
The Aviator
Finding Neverland
Ray
2005
Good Night and Good Luck
2006
The Queen
And now for the list of best picture nominees I would like to see:
Grand Hotel
42nd Street
It Happened One Night
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
You Can’t Take it with You
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Wuthering Heights
The Great Dictator
How Green Was My Valley
Sergeant York
Suspicion
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Gaslight
Anchors Aweigh
The Best Years of Our Lives
Twelve O’Clock High
All About Eve
King Solomon’s Mines
Sunset Boulevard
Quo Vadis
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Greatest Show on Earth
Ivanhoe
The Robe
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Three Coins in a Fountain
Around the World in Eighty Days
12 Angry Men
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Defiant Ones
Anatomy of a Murder
Elmer Gantry
The Hustler
Judgment at Nuremberg
Tom Jones
How the West was Won
Zorba the Greek
Doctor Zhivago
A Man for All Seasons
Doctor Doolittle
The Lion in Winter
Hello, Dolly!
Airport
Five Easy Pieces
Fiddler on the Roof
The Exorcist
The Conversation
Lenny
Barry Lyndon
Nashville
Network
The Goodbye Girl
Midnight Express
All That Jazz
Norma Rae
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Raging Bull
Reds
Missing
In the Name of the Father
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Mystic River
Capote
Munich
The Departed
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
No Country For Old Men
Juno
Michael Clayton
There Will Be Blood
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
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