One of my Mighty List items is to watch all of the Academy Award Best Picture winners. Those I haven’t seen are in bold.
- 2011 – “The Artist”
- February 3, 2012. Rockford and I saw this on our annual anniversary movie extravaganza. It was unlike any movie I’d seen before, but I didn’t love the characters.
- 2010 – “The King’s Speech”
- 2009 – “The Hurt Locker”
- 2008 – “Slumdog Millionaire”
- 2007 – “No Country for Old Men”
- 2006 – “The Departed”
- 2009 – “The Hurt Locker”
- I saw this with a group of moms I’d never met before. I loved the movie. I never did anything else with the group, though.
- 2005 – “Crash”
- 2004 – “Million Dollar Baby”
- 2003 – “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”
- 2004 – “Million Dollar Baby”
- My mother-in-law refers to the LOTRs trilogy as “The Movie.”
- 2002 – “Chicago”
- 2001 – “A Beautiful Mind”
- 2000 – “Gladiator”
- 2001 – “A Beautiful Mind”
- I remember walking out of the theater laughing with Rockford about how terrible this movie was. I still can’t believe it won best picture.
- 1999 – “American Beauty”
- I saw a plastic bag caught on the wind the other day. It was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen. (Or at least it made me think of “American Beauty.”)
- 1998 – “Shakespeare in Love”
- 1997 – “Titanic”
- 1996 – “The English Patient”
- 1995 – “Braveheart”
- 1994 – “Forrest Gump”
- 1997 – “Titanic”
- I will always love “Forrest Gump.”
- 1993 – “Schindler’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”
- 1992 – “Unforgiven”
- April 5, 2012.
- 1986 – “Platoon”
- 1985 – “Out of Africa”
- March 17, 2012. “‘Out of Africa’ is a languid movie, by which I don’t necessarily mean boring, really, just that it’s an excellent film for watching while you convalesce on your couch while an early-spring breeze gently stirs your curtains.”
- 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”
- 1983 – “Terms of Endearment”
- Rockford and I went to see this when a local theater showed it as a fundraiser. Rockford got the chills midway through the movie. It was the full-blown flu by the time we got home. I liked the movie anyway.
- 1971 – “The French Connection”
- 1970 – “Patton”
- 1969 – “Midnight Cowboy”
- 1970 – “Patton”
- August 30, 2013. Well I sure did hate that.
- 1968 – “Oliver!”
- 1967 – “In the Heat of the Night”
- March 1, 2012. “I stayed up far too late last night watching ‘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”
- 1965 – “The Sound of Music”
- March 16, 2012. “Perhaps I did “An American in Paris” a disservice by watching it while taking dialaudid during a thunderstorm. I’m not sure that it would’ve made much more sense had I not been drowsy and occasionally hallucinating, though. …”
- 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”
- 1949 – “All the Kings Men”
- March 16, 2012. “I’ve come to realize that everyone in ‘Rebecca’ annoys me.”
- 1939 – “Gone with the Wind”
- I was mildly obsessed with this book when I was a teenager. Rockford took me to see the movie when it was re-released in 1998. It was very long, and my seat was weird and slopey. I felt like I was sliding out the whole time.
- 1938 – “You Can’t Take It with You”
- April 3, 2012. “… And then when the kids were done with their shows they came up and watched the end of it with me, and Poppy wanted to know why there were so many grandpas in the basement. (Which would entirely make sense if you’d seen the movie, which is heavily peppered with white-haired men.) …”
- 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”
- 1936 – “The Great Ziegfeld”