Oscar Meme

[gurdymonkey]

This proves nothing except that cable is a beautiful thing, I have eclectic viewing tastes -  and I haven't gone out to a movie in a theater in way too long. : 
1980 Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter, The Elephant Man, Raging Bull, Tess
1981 Chariots of Fire, Reds, Atlantic City, On Golden Pond, Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 Gandhi, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Missing, Tootsie, The Verdict
1983 Terms of Endearment, The Big Chill, The Dresser, The Right Stuff, Tender Mercies
1984 Amadeus, The Killing Fields, A Passage to India, Places in the Heart, A Soldier's Story
1985 Out of Africa, The Color Purple, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Prizzi's Honor, Witness
1986 Platoon, Children of a Lesser God, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Mission, A Room with a View
1987 The Last Emperor, Broadcast News, Fatal Attraction, Hope and Glory, Moonstruck
1988 Rain Man, The Accidental Tourist, Dangerous Liaisons, Mississippi Burning, Working Girl
1989 Driving Miss Daisy, Born on the Fourth of July, Dead Poets Society, Field of Dreams, My Left Foot
1990 Dances with Wolves, Awakenings, Ghost, The Godfather Part III
1991 The Silence of the Lambs, Beauty and the Beast, Bugsy, JFK, The Prince of Tides
1992 Unforgiven, The Crying Game, A Few Good Men, Howards End, Scent of a Woman
1993 Schindler's List, The Fugitive, In the Name of the Father, 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, Il Postino (The Postman), Sense and Sensibility
1996 The English Patient, Fargo, Jerry Maguire, Secrets & Lies, Shine
1997 Titanic, As Good as It Gets, The Full Monty, Good Will Hunting, L.A. Confidential
1998 Shakespeare in Love, Elizabeth, Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella), Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line
1999 American Beauty, The Cider House Rules, The Green Mile, The Insider, The Sixth Sense
2000 Gladiator, Chocolat, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Erin Brockovich, Traffic
2001 A Beautiful Mind, Gosford Park, In the Bedroom, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Moulin Rouge!
2002 Chicago, Gangs of New York, The Hours, 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: The Far Side of the World, Mystic River, Seabiscuit
2004 Million Dollar Baby, The Aviator, Finding Neverland, Ray, Sideways
2005 Crash, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, Munich
2006 The Departed, Babel, Letters from IwoJima, Little Miss Sunshine, The Queen
2007 No Country for Old Men, Atonement, Juno, Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood.
2008 Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader

Comments

[bronx-baroness.livejournal.com]

The Green Mile is a movie well worth seeing. It's a wonderful story.

[reynardine.livejournal.com]

Kiss of the Spider Woman was an odd movie, but brilliant.

If you ever get an opportunity, see The Cider House Rules. The movie itself is pretty good, but Michael Caine's performance alone is reason enough to see this film.

I used to really stay on top of movies (since I worked at a store that sold DVDs, it was sort of part of the job!), but I've slacked off in the past few years.

[tgrcats-tail.livejournal.com]

So is this to bold all the nominated movies you have seen ever (including cable/dvd) or just the ones you saw in theatre at the time? Not that it makes much difference, Im still able to count them on the fingers of both hands (no thumbs needed ;-)

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

Does it matter? The person who posted it before me did not specify whether it had to be seen in a theatrical release.

[tgrcats-tail.livejournal.com]

Nah, more feline curiosity than anything else. If it is 'in theatre' only then one hand suffices. Maybe I need to get out more ;-)

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

Please bold the movies you've seen. I don't care whether you saw them on the big screen, on video, when stuck on a plane or years after they came out.
I was curious to see how movies compare with the "6 of 100" Books meme that went around last month, and partly because the "Senior year of HighSchool" meme made me think about how often I saw movies then (lots) and now (hardly ever).

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

I read a metric buttload of books (I had over 50 in the book meme, which I didn't actually post). My TV viewing these days is limited to documentary/PBS-ish stuff and movies, so I usually manage to catch most things on cable even if I don't during their theatrical runs.

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

Thanks for answering!