After watching the Oscars last week, I got curious about how many of the Best Pictures I’ve seen. So, here’s the tally: 38. Bold means I’ve seen it. A “+” means a liked it. A “-” means I didn’t.
+ 2008 – “Slumdog Millionaire”
+ 2007 – “No Country for Old Men”
+ 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”
– 1999 – “American Beauty”
+ 1998 – “Shakespeare in Love”
+ 1997 – “Titanic”
– 1996 – “The English Patient”
+ 1995 – “Braveheart”
+ 1994 – “Forrest Gump”
+ 1993 – “Shindler’s List”
+ 1992 – “Unforgiven”
+ 1991 – “The Silence of the Lambs”
+ 1990 – “Dances with Wolves”
+ 1989 – “Driving Miss Daisy”
+ 1988 – “Rain Man”
– 1987 – “The Last Emperor”
1986 – “Platoon”
– 1985 – “Out of Africa”
+ 1984 – “Amadeus”
– 1983 – “Terms of Endearment”
+1982 – “Gandhi”
1981 – “Chariots of Fire”
1980 – “Ordinary People”
1979 – “Kramer vs. Kramer”
1978 – “The Deer Hunter”
1977 – “Annie Hall”
+ 1976 – “Rocky”
1975 – “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
1974 – “The Godfather Part II”
+ 1973 – “The Sting”
1972 – “The Godfather”
1971 – “The French Connection”
1970 – “Patton”
1969 – “Midnight Cowboy”
+ 1968 – “Oliver!”
1967 – “In the Heat of the Night”
1966 – “A Man for All Seasons”
+ 1965 – “The Sound of Music”
+ 1964 – “My Fair Lady”
1963 – “Tom Jones”
1962 – “Lawrence of Arabia”
+ 1961 – “West Side Story”
1960 – “The Apartment”
+ 1959 – “Ben-Hur”
+ 1958 – “Gigi”
+ 1957 – “The Bridge on the River Kwai”
+ 1956 – “Around the World in 80 Days”
1955 – “Marty”
1954 – “On the Waterfront”
1953 – “From Here to Eternity”
1952 – “The Greatest Show on Earth”
+ 1951 – “An American in Paris”
1950 – “All about Eve”
1949 – “All the Kings Men”
1948 – “Hamlet”
1947 – “Gentleman’s Agreement”
1946 – “The Best Years of Our Lives”
1945 – “The Lost Weekend”
1944 – “Going My Way”
1943 – “Casablanca”
1942 – “Mrs. Miniver”
1941 – “How Green Was My Valley”
1940 – “Rebecca”
+ 1939 – “Gone with the Wind”
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”
1932/1933 – “Cavalcade”
1931/1932 – “Grand Hotel”
1930/1931 – “Cimarron”
1929/1930 – “All Quiet on the Western Front”
1928/1929 – “The Broadway Melody”
1927/1928 – “Wings”
I was surprised by how many I’d seen. Of all of them, the one movie I could probably watch over and over and not be bored would be Shakespeare in Love. It totally violates my deep-seated need to have a happily ever after ending, but there you go.
How many have you seen? Which was your favorite?
