If you’re reading this, consider yourself tagged.
My friend, Miss Giggles, (I’ll bet your CURRENT students don’t call you that) blogged about how many of the films she had seen that had won the “Best Picture” Oscar. I was curious as to how many I have seen.
So here is the list with my comments:
1928 – Wings, Sunrise (one for best production, other for unique and artistic)
1929 – The Broadway Melody of 1929 – Own it on DVD
1930 – All Quiet on the Western Front – Saw it
1931 – Cimmaron
1932 – Grand Hotel – Saw it
1933 – Cavalcade
1934 – It Happened One Night
1935 – Mutiny on the Bounty – Saw It
1936 – The Great Ziegfeld – Saw It
1937 – The Life of Emile Zola
1938 – You Can’t Take It With You – Saw It
1939 – Gone With the Wind – Own it on DVD
1940 – Rebecca
1941 – How Green Was My Valley
1942 – Mrs. Miniver
1943 – Casablanca – Own it on DVD
1944 – Going My Way – Saw it
1945 – The Lost Weekend
1946 – The Best Years of Our Lives
1947 – Gentleman’s Agreement
1948 – Hamlet – Saw it
1949 – All The King’s Men – Saw it
1950 – All About Eve
1951 – An American in Paris – Own it on DVD
1952 – The Greatest Show on Earth – Saw it
1953 – From Here to Eternity – Saw it
1954 – On the Waterfront
1955 – Marty
1956 – Around the World in Eighty Days – Saw it
1957 – The Bridge on the River Kwai – Saw it
1958 – Gigi -Saw it
1959 – Ben-Hur – Saw it
1960 – The Apartment
1961 – West Side Story – Own it on VHS and DVD
1962 – Lawrence of Arabia – Saw it
1963 – Tom Jones
1964 – My Fair Lady – Own it on DVD
1965 – The Sound of Music – Own it on DVD
1966 – A Man For All Seasons
1967 – In the Heat of the Night
1968 – Oliver! – Saw it
1969 – Midnight Cowboy
1970 – Patton
1971 – The French Connection – Saw it
1972 – The Godfather
1973 – The Sting – Own it on DVD
1974 – The Godfather Part II
1975 – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Saw it
1976 – Rocky – Saw it in the theater
1977 – Annie Hall
1978 – The Deer Hunter
1979 – Kramer vs. Kramer
1980 – Ordinary People
1981 – Chariots of Fire – Saw it in the theater
1982 – Ghandi – Saw it
1983 – Terms of Endearment – Saw it on television
1984 – Amadeus – Saw it in the theater
1985 – Out of Africa – Saw it on television
1986 – Platoon – Saw it in the theater
1987 – The Last Emperor
1988 – Rain Man
1989 – Driving Miss Daisy – Own it on DVD
1990 – Dances With Wolves – Saw it in the theater on one of my first dates with my wife
1991 – The Silence of the Lambs – Saw it on television
1992 – Unforgiven
1993 – Schindler’s List
1994 – Forrest Gump – Saw it
1995 – Braveheart – Saw it on television
1996 – The English Patient
1997 – Titanic – Saw it in the theater
1998 – Shakespeare in Love
1999 – American Beauty
2000 – Gladiator
2001 – A Beautiful Mind – Own it on DVD
2002 – Chicago – Saw it
2003 – Lord of the Rings: Return of the King – Saw it in the theater, own it on DVD
2004 – Million Dollar Baby
2005 – Crash
2006 – The Departed
2007 – No Country for Old Men
So here are my totals:
Total number of films: 81
Total I’ve seen: 42 (52%)
Total I saw in the theater: 7 (9%)
Total I own: 11 (14%)
Nope. They don’t call me that. I’d like to figure out how to get them to call me “Miss” instead of “Ms.” though. Don’t ask me why, but I really don’t like the latter. I think it’s because it makes me think of spinsters. And I’m not a spinster.