Academy Award Best Picture Project

So last year (or maybe a little longer ago) I decided to force a little more culture into our household by buying and watching every movie that had ever won the Academy Award for Best Picture with wasabigirl.  Tonight we watched Citizen Kane for the first time (which didn’t win, but I snuck in as an old movie anyway!), and I thought I should take the time to update our list.  Here’s what we’ve watched thus war, own but haven’t watched yet, and things still on the list…

OWNED & WATCHED
2006 – The Departed
2005 – Crash
2004 – Million Dollar Baby
2003 – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2002 – Chicago
2001 – A Beautiful Mind
2000 – Gladiator
1998 – Shakespeare in Love
1997 – Titanic
1994 – Forrest Gump
1993 – Schindler’s List
1991 – The Silence of the Lambs
1990 – Dances with Wolves
1988 – Rain Man
1986 – Platoon
1984 – Amadeus
1976 – Rocky
1974 – The Godfather: Part II
1973 – The Sting
1972 – The Godfather
1964 – My Fair Lady
1962 – Lawrence of Arabia
1950 – All About Eve
1941 – Casablanca
1939 – Gone with the Wind

OWN, BUT NEED TO WATCH
1999 – American Beauty
1975 – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1968 – Oliver!
1965 – The Sound of Music
1959 – Ben Hur
1955 – Marty
1945 – The Lost Weekend

ON THE LIST…
1996 – The English Patient
1995 – Braveheart
1992 – Unforgiven
1989 – Driving Miss Daisy
1987 – The Last Emperor
1985 – Out of Africa
1983 – Terms of Endearment
1982 – Gandhi
1981 – Chariots of Fire
1980 – Ordinary People
1979 – Kramer vs. Kramer
1978 – The Deer Hunter
1977 – Annie Hall
1971 – The French Connection
1970 – Patton
1969 – Midnight Cowboy
1967 – In the Heat of the Night
1966 – A Man for All Seasons
1963 – Tom Jones
1961 – West Side Story
1960 – The Apartment
1958 – Gigi
1957 – The Bridge on the River Kwai
1956 – Around the World in Eighty Days
1954 – On the Waterfront
1953 – From Here to Eternity
1952 – The Greatest Show on Earth
1951 – An American in Paris
1949 – All the King’s Men
1948 – Hamlet
1947 – Gentleman’s Agreement
1946 – The Best Years of Our Lives
1944 – Going My Way
1942 – Mrs. Miniver
1941 – How Green Was My Valley
1940 – Rebecca
1938 – You Can’t Take It with You
1937 – The Life of Emile Zola
1936 – The Great Ziegfeld
1935 – Mutiny on the Bounty
1934 – It Happened One Night
1933 – Cavalcade
1931 – Grand Hotel
1930 – Cimarron
1929 – All Quiet on the Western Front
1929 – The Broadway Melody
1928 – Wings

Note 1: There was no awards ceremony in 1933. The 1932/33 Academy Awards were presented on March 16, 1934 and covered a full 17 months period (August 1932 – December 1933). 1932-33 was the last year that eligibility for Oscar nominees ran for films released from August thru July (actually December this time) – to allow the next ceremony to cover films for a single calendar year. The Academy had finally decided to match the eligibility period to the calendar year, beginning in the next year, 1934. (From then on, the nominating selections and the award ceremony would cover the same calendar year.)

Note 2: While there are movies we have obviously seen on the not watched yet list, the purpose is to own them all on DVD and watch them again.