Best Picture Reviews: 1928-Present
I’ve recently created a new blog specifically for this project. Check it out here!
Over the course of the next few months (or years, more likely), Lauren and I are going to watch all of the Best Picture winners from the Oscars. After viewing, I’ll review each one here on the blog. I was inspired to do this project after watching the Oscars in 2008, and there was this montage that showed a clip of every winner ever. While sitting and watching this, one of my friends (who we all knew was lying through his teeth) had claimed to have seen well over half of the movies. I lie as much as the next guy, but really?
So we began the project in November 2008, and as of March 2009 are well into the 1940s.
1928 – Wings – not available on DVD from Netflix
1929 – The Broadway Melody – watched 11/8/08 with Lauren and Nick
1930 – All Quiet on the Western Front – watched 11/15/08 with Lauren
1931 – Cimmaron – watched 11/16/08 with Lauren and Nick
1932 – Grand Hotel – watched 11/25/08 with Lauren
1933 – Cavalcade – not available on DVD from Netflix
1934 – It Happened One Night – watched 11/27/08 with Lauren
1935 – Mutiny on the Bounty – watched 12/7/08 with Lauren
1936 – The Great Ziegfeld – watched 12/9/08 with Lauren
1937 – The Life of Emile Zola – watched 12/15/08 with Lauren
1938 – You Can’t Take It With You – watched 12/16/08 with Lauren
1939 – Gone With the Wind – watched 12/20/08 with Lauren and Nick
1940 – Rebecca – Not available on DVD from Netflix at this time.
1941 – How Green Was My Valley - watched 2/9/09 with Lauren.
1942 – Mrs. Miniver – watched 2/21/09 with Lauren.
1943 – Casablanca – watched 2/15/09 with Lauren.
1944 – Going My Way – watched 2/24/09 with Lauren.
1945 – The Lost Weekend – watched 3/1/09 with Lauren.
1946 – The Best Years of Our Lives – watched 3/3/09 with Lauren.
1947 – The Gentleman’s Agreement – watched 3/5/09 with Lauren.
1948 – Hamlet – watched 3/7/09 with Lauren.
1949 – All the King’s Men – watched 3/8/09 with Lauren.
1950 – All About Eve – watched 3/14/09 with Lauren.
1951 – An American in Paris – watched 3/17/09 with Lauren.
1952 – The Greatest Show on Earth – watched 3/18/09 with Lauren.
1953 – From Here to Eternity – watched 3/18/09 with Lauren.
1954 – On the Waterfront – watched 3/23/09 with Lauren.
1955 – Marty – watched 3/24/09 with Lauren.
1956 – Around the World in Eighty Days – watched 3/28/09 with Lauren.
1957 – The Bridge on the River Kwai – watched 3/29/09 with Lauren.
1958 – Gigi - watched 3/31/09 with Lauren.
1959 – Ben Hur - watched 4/2/09 with Lauren.
1960 – The Apartment
1961 – West Side Story - watched 4/12/09 with Lauren.
1962 – Lawrence of Arabia - watched 5/18/09 with Lauren.
1963 – Tom Jones
1964 – My Fair Lady
1965 – The Sound of Music
1966 – A Man for All Seasons
1967 – In the Heat of the Night
1968 – Oliver!*
1969 – Midnight Cowboy
1970 – Patton
1971 – The French Connectioin
1972 – The Godfather
1973 – The Sting
1974 – The Godfather Part II
1975 – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest*
1976 – Rocky*
1977 – Annie Hall
1978 – The Deer Hunter
1979 – Kramer vs. Kramer
1980 – Ordinary People
1981 – Chariots of Fire
1982 – Gandhi
1983 – Terms of Endearment
1984 – Amadeus*
1985 – Out of Africa
1986 – Platoon
1987 – The Last Emperor
1988 – Rain Man*
1989 – Driving Miss Daisy
1990 – Dances with Wolves*
1991 – The Silence of the Lambs
1992 – Unforgiven
1993 – Schindler’s List*
1994 – Forrest Gump*
1995 – Braveheart
1996 – The English Patient
1997 – Titanic*
1998 – Shakespeare in Love
1999 – American Beauty*
2000 – Gladiator*
2001 – A Beautiful Mind*
2002 – Chicago*
2003 – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004 – Million Dollar Baby
2005 – Crash
2006 – The Departed*
2007 – No Country for Old Men*
2008 – Slumdog Millionaire*
*=I’ve already seen it, but not as part of this project, so I’m going to watch it again and review it at a later date.
you don’t rate cb mills 10 commandments? Why? I like Laughton too, but you don’t include him in The Hunchback, you didn’t like the movie?