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  • Watching the Best Pictures
  • Written by Wendy on November 1, 2005 – 2:51 pm -

    So many movies. So little time. But this summer I finished my goal of seeing all the films that Steven Spielberg has directed. Now I can read the book about him that has been on the shelf for the last six months.

    My new movie goal is one that has been on my life’s to-do list for years: (which you can now find in part, at 43things.com)

    see all the Academy Award Best Picture winners

    Viewing stats: 45 watched/32 not yet watched (the already watched have been crossed off)
    [last updated: June 1, 2006]

    2006   Crash
    2005   Million Dollar Baby
    2004   Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    2003   Chicago
    2002   A Beautiful Mind
    2001   Gladiator
    2000   American Beauty
    1999   Shakespeare in Love
    1998   Titanic
    1997   The English Patient
    1996   Braveheart
    1995   Forrest Gump
    1994   Schindler’s List
    1993   Unforgiven
    1992   The Silence of the Lambs
    1991   Dances With Wolves
    1990   Driving Miss Daisy
    1989   Rain Man
    1988   The Last Emperor
    1987   Platoon
    1986   Out of Africa
    1985   Amadeus
    1984   Terms of Endearment
    1983   Gandhi
    1982   Chariots of Fire
    1981   Ordinary People
    1980   Kramer vs. Kramer
    1979   The Deer Hunter
    1978   Annie Hall
    1977   Rocky
    1976   One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
    1975   The Godfather, Part II
    1974   The Sting
    1973   The Godfather
    1972   The French Connection
    1971   Patton
    1970   Midnight Cowboy
    1969   Oliver!
    1968   In the Heat of the Night
    1967   A Man for All Seasons
    1966   The Sound of Music
    1965   My Fair Lady
    1964   Tom Jones
    1963   Lawrence of Arabia
    1962   West Side Story
    1961   The Apartment
    1960   Ben-Hur
    1959   Gigi
    1958   The Bridge on the River Kwai
    1957   Around the World in 80 Days
    1956   Marty
    1955   On the Waterfront
    1954   From Here to Eternity
    1953   The Greatest Show on Earth
    1952   An American in Paris
    1951   All About Eve
    1950   All the King’s Men
    1949   Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet
    1948   Gentleman’s Agreement
    1947   The Best Years of Our Lives
    1946   The Lost Weekend
    1945   Going My Way
    1944   Casablanca
    1943   Mrs.Miniver
    1942   How Green Was My Valley
    1941   Rebecca
    1940   Gone with the Wind
    1939   You Can’t Take It With You
    1938   The Life of Emile Zola
    1937   The Great Ziegfeld
    1936   Mutiny on the Bounty
    1935   It Happened One Night
    1933   Grand Hotel
    1932   Cimarron
    1931   All Quiet on the Western Front
    1930   The Broadway Melody of 1929
    1929   Wings


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    4 Responses to “Watching the Best Pictures”

    1. Joe Says:

      Hmm…I’ve been meaning to do that someday, too (that and read all the Pulitzer Prize winning novels)

    2. Dawn VanderZyl Says:

      Um, hi! Hopefully the name rings a bell with you - it’s been a really long time and a little curiousity about where life has taken you got me to your website. No need to post this but feel free to email me if you are at all as curious as I am. Oh and if you don’t know who this is then well, I am sad but think back to Summer Games! :-) Hope all is well!!!!

    3. Lisa Says:

      I cant beleive you’ve never seen “Silence of the Lambs”!!! Mike can quote the entire movie for you at mardi gras!

    4. Wendy Says:

      Well, the only time I’ve seen it all the way through was in high school on a trip in a hotel room when it was first out on HBO or something. I know it freaked me out, but I need to really see it, in letterbox, before I will count it.

      puts the lotion in the basket…

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