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Oscar Best Picture Challenge

My friend and I are attempting to watch all the movies nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Here’s my list.

2010

  • The King’s Speech
  • Black Swan
  • Inception
  • The Social Network
  • The Kids Are All Right
  • The Fighter
  • Toy Story 3
  • 127 Hours
  • True Grit
  • Winter’s Bone

2009 

  • The Hurt Locker
  • Avatar
  • The Blind Side
  • District 9 
  • An Education
  • Inglorious Basterds
  • Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
  • A Serious Man
  • Up
  • Up in the Air 

2008

  • Slumdog Millionaire 
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 
  • Frost/Nixon 
  • Milk 
  • The Reader 

2007

  • No Country for Old Men
  • Atonement 
  • Juno
  • Michael Clayton 
  • There Will Be Blood

2006

  • The Departed
  • Babel
  • Letters from Iwo Jima
  • Little Miss Sunshine
  • The Queen

2005

  • Crash
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Capote
  • Good Night, and Good Luck
  • Munich

2004

  • Million Dollar Baby
  • The Aviator
  • Finding Neverland
  • Ray
  • Sideways 

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 

2002

  • Chicago
  • Gangs of New York
  • The Hours 
  • The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers 
  • The Pianist

2001

  • A Beautiful Mind
  • Gosford Park
  • In the Bedroom
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Moulin Rouge!

2000

  • Gladiator
  • Chocolat
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  • Erin Brockovich
  • Traffic  

1999 

  • American Beauty
  • The Cider House Rules
  • The Green Mile
  • The Insider
  • The Sixth Sense 

1998

  • Shakespeare in Love
  • Elizabeth
  • Life is Beautiful
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • The Thin Red Line 

1997 

  • Titanic
  • As Good as It Gets
  • The Full Monty
  • Good Will Hunting
  • L.A. Confidential 

1996

  • The English Patient
  • Fargo
  • Jerry Maguire
  • Secrets & Lies
  • Shine

1995

  • Braveheart
  • Apollo 13
  • Babe
  • Il Postino
  • Sense and Sensibility

1994

  • Forrest Gump
  • Four Weddings and a Funeral
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Quiz Show
  • The Shawshank Redemption 

1993 

  • Schindler’s List
  • The Fugitive
  • In the Name of the Father
  • The Piano
  • The Remains of the Day

1992

  • Unforgiven
  • The Crying Game
  • A Few Good Men 
  • Howards End
  • Scent of a Woman

1991 

  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Bugsy
  • JFK
  • The Prince of Tides

1990 

  • Dances with Wolves
  • Awakenings
  • Ghost
  • The Godfather Part III
  • Goodfellas

1989

  • Driving Miss Daisy
  • Born on the Fourth of July
  • Dead Poets Society
  • Field of Dreams
  • My Left Foot

1988

  • Rain Man
  • The Accidental Tourist
  • Dangerous Liaisons
  • Mississippi Burning
  • Working Girl 

1987

  • The Last Emperor
  • Broadcast News
  • Fatal Attraction
  • Hope and Glory
  • Moonstruck

1986

  • Platoon
  • Children of a Lesser God
  • Hannah and Her Sisters
  • The Mission
  • A Room with a View

1985 

  • Out of Africa
  • The Color Purple
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman
  • Prizzi’s Honor
  • Witness

1984 

  • Amadeus
  • The Killing Fields
  • A Passage to India
  • Places in the Heart
  • A Soldier’s Story

1983 

  • Terms of Endearment
  • The Big Chill
  • The Dresser
  • The Right Stuff 
  • Tender Mercies

1982 

  • Gandhi
  • E.T. the Extra- Terrestrial
  • Missing
  • Tootsie
  • The Verdict

1981 

  • Chariots of Fire
  • Reds
  • Atlantic City
  • On Golden Pond
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark

1980 

  • Ordinary People
  • Coal Miner’s Daughter
  • The Elephant Man
  • Raging Bull
  • Tess 

1979 

  • Kramer vs. Kramer
  • Apocalypse Now
  • All That Jazz
  • Breaking Away
  • Norma Rae

1978 

  • The Deer Hunter
  • Coming Home
  • Heaven Can Wait
  • Midnight Express
  • An Unmarried Woman

1977 

  • Annie Hall
  • The Goodbye Girl
  • Julia
  • Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
  • The Turning Point

1976 

  • Rocky
  • All the President’s Men
  • Bound for Glory
  • Network
  • Taxi Driver

1975 

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  • Barry Lyndon
  • Dog Day Afternoon
  • Jaws
  • Nashville

1974 

  • The Godfather Part II
  • Chinatown
  • The Conversation
  • Lenny
  • The Towering Inferno 

1973 

  • The Sting
  • American Graffiti
  • The Exorcist
  • A Touch of Class
  • Cries and Whispers

1972 

  • The Godfather
  • Cabaret
  • Deliverance
  • Sounder
  • The Emigrants 

1971 

  • The French Connection
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Fiddler on the Roof
  • The Last Picture Show
  • Nicholas and Alexandra

1970 

  • Patton
  • Airport
  • Five Easy Pieces
  • Love Story
  • MASH 

1969

  • Midnight Cowboy
  • Anne of the Thousand Days
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • Hello, Dolly!
  • Z

1968 

  • Oliver!
  • Funny Girl
  • The Lion in Winter
  • Rachel, Rachel
  • Romeo and Juliet

1967 

  • In the Heat of the Night
  • Bonnie and Clyde
  • Doctor Dolittle
  • The Graduate
  • Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner 

1966 

  • A Man for All Seasons
  • Alfie
  • The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
  • The Sand Pebbles
  • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1965 

  • The Sound of Music
  • Darling
  • Doctor Zhivago
  • Ship of Fools
  • A Thousand Clowns

1964 

  • My Fair Lady
  • Becket
  • Dr. Strangelove
  • Mary Poppins
  • Zorba the Greek

1963 

  • Tom Jones
  • America, America
  • Cleopatra
  • How the West Was Won
  • Lilies of the Field 

1962 

  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • The Longest Day
  • The Music Man
  • Mutiny on the Bounty
  • To Kill a Mockingbird

1961 

  • West Side Story
  • Fanny
  • The Guns of Navarone
  • The Hustler
  • Judgment at Nuremberg

1960 

  • The Apartment
  • The Alamo
  • Elmer Gantry
  • Sons and Lovers
  • The Sundowners 

1959 

  • Ben-Hur
  • Anatomy of a Murder
  • The Diary of Anne Frank
  • The Nun’s Story
  • Room at the Top 

1958 

  • Gigi
  • Auntie Mame
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • The Defiant Ones
  • Separate Tables 

1957 

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Peyton Place
  • Sayonara
  • 12 Angry Men
  • Witness for the Prosecution 

1956 

  • Around the World in 80 Days
  • Friendly Persuasion
  • Giant
  • The King and I
  • The Ten Commandments 

 1955 

  • Marty
  • Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
  • Mister Roberts
  • Picnic
  • The Rose Tattoo

1954 

  • On the Waterfront
  • The Caine Mutiny
  • The Country Girl
  • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
  • Three Coins in the Fountain

1953 

  • From Here to Eternity
  • Julius Caesar
  • The Robe
  • Roman Holiday
  • Shane

1952 

  • The Greatest Show on Earth
  • High Noon
  • Ivanhoe
  • Moulin Rouge
  • The Quiet Man 

1951 

  • An American in Paris
  • Decision Before Dawn
  • A Place in the Sun
  • Quo Vadis
  • A Streetcar Named Desire

1950 

  • All About Eve
  • Born Yesterday
  • Father of the Bride
  • King Solomon’s Mines
  • Sunset Boulevard

1949 

  • All the King’s Men
  • Battleground
  • The Heiress
  • A Letter to Three Wives
  • Twelve O’Clock High 

1948 

  • Hamlet 
  • Johnny Belinda
  • The Red Shoes
  • The Snake Pit
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1947 

  • Gentleman’s Agreement
  • The Bishop’s Wife
  • Crossfires
  • Great Expectations
  • Miracle on 34th Street 

1946 

  • The Best Years of Our Lives
  • Henry V
  • It’s a Wonderful Life
  • The Razor’s Edge
  • The Yearling 

1945 

  • The Lost Weekend
  • Anchors Aweigh
  • The Bells of St. Mary’s
  • Mildred Pierce
  • Spellbound

1944 

  • Going My Way
  • Double Indemnity
  • Gaslight
  • Since You Went Away
  • Wilson 

1943 

  • Casablanca 
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls
  • Heaven Can Wait
  • The Human Comedy
  • In Which We Serve
  • Madame Curie
  • The More the Merrier
  • The Ox-Bow Incident
  • The Song of Bernadette
  • Watch on the Rhine

1942 

  • Mrs. Miniver 
  • 49th Parallel
  • King’s Row
  • The Magnificent Ambersons
  • The Pied Piper
  • The Pride of the Yankees
  • Random Harvest
  • The Talk of the Town
  • Wake Island
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy

1941 

  • How Green Was My Valley 
  • Blossoms in the Dust
  • Citizen Kane
  • Here Comes Mr. Jordan
  • Hold Back the Dawn
  • The Little Foxes
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • One Foot In Heaven
  • Sergeant York
  • Suspicion

1940 

  • Rebecca
  • All This, and Heaven Too
  • Foreign Correspondent
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • The Great Dictator
  • Kitty Foyle
  • The Letter
  • The Long Voyage Home
  • Our Town
  • The Philadelphia Story 

1939 

  • Gone with the Wind
  • Dark Victory
  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips
  • Love Affair
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • Ninotchka
  • Of Mice and Men
  • Stagecoach
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • Wuthering Heights 

1938 

  • You Can’t Take It with You
  • The Adventures of Robin Hood
  • Alexander’s Ragtime Band
  • Boys Town
  • The Citadel
  • Four Daughters
  • Grand Illusion
  • Jezebel
  • Pygmalion
  • Test Pilot 

1937 

  • The Life of Emile Zola
  • The Awful Truth
  • Captains Courageous
  • Dead End
  • The Good Earth
  • In Old Chicago
  • Lost Horizon
  • One Hundred Men and a Girl
  • Stage Door
  • A Star Is Born 

1936 

  • The Great Ziegfeld 
  • Anthony Adverse
  • Dodsworth
  • Libeled Lady
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • San Francisco
  • The Story of Louis Pasteur
  • A Tale of Two Cities
  • Three Smart Girls

1935 

  • Mutiny on the Bounty
  • Alice Adams
  • Broadway Melody of 1936 
  • Captain Blood
  • David Copperfield
  • The Informer
  • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • Les Miserables
  • Naughty Marietta
  • Ruggles of Red Gap
  • Top Ha

1934 

  • It Happened One Night 
  • The Barretts of Wimpole Street
  • Cleopatra
  • Flirtation Walk
  • The Gay Divorcee
  • Here Comes the Navy
  • The House of Rothschild
  • Imitation of Life
  • One Night of Love
  • The Thin Man
  • Viva Villa!
  • The White Parade

1932-1933 

  • Cavalcade
  • 42nd Street
  • A Farewell to Arms
  • I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
  • Lady for a Day
  • Little Women
  • The Private Life of Henry VIII
  • She Done Him Wrong
  • Smilin’ Through
  • State Fair 

1931-1932 

  • Grand Hotel 
  • Arrowsmith
  • Bad Girl
  • The Champ
  • Five Star Final
  • One Hour with You
  • Shanghai Express
  • The Smiling Lieutenant 

1930-1931 

  • Cimarron
  • Easy Lynne
  • The Front Page
  • Skippy
  • Trader Horn 

1929-1930 

  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • The Big House
  • Disraeli
  • The Divorcee
  • The Love Parade 

1928-1929 

  • The Broadway Melody
  • Alibi
  • The Hollywood Revue of 1929 
  • In Old Arizona
  • The Patriot 

1927-1928 

  • Wings
  • The Racket
  • Seventh Heaven