Showing posts with label Oscar Best Picture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oscar Best Picture. Show all posts

Sunday, March 12, 2017

Movies I've Seen from Lists... (Oscars Best Pictures)

Of the 89 Films who won the Oscars Best Picture award, 31 (34.83%) of which i've already seen.

Below are the 31 movies, highlighted.

1  Wings (1927/28)
2The Broadway Melody (1928/29)
3All Quiet on the Western Front (1929/30)
4Cimarron (1930/31)
5Grand Hotel (1931/32)
6Cavalcade (1933)
7It Happened One Night (1934)
8Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
9The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
10The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
11You Can't Take It with You (1938)
12Gone with the Wind (1939)
13Rebecca (1940)
14How Green Was My Valley (1941)
15Mrs. Miniver (1942)
16Casablanca (1943)
17Going My Way (1944)
18The Lost Weekend (1945)
19The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
20Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
21Hamlet (1948)
22All the King's Men (1949)
23All About Eve (1950)
24 An American in Paris (1951)
25The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
26From Here to Eternity (1953)
27On the Waterfront (1954)
28Marty (1955)
29Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
30The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
31Gigi (1958)
32Ben-Hur (1959)
33The Apartment (1960)
34West Side Story (1961)
35Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
36Tom Jones (1963)
37My Fair Lady (1964)
38The Sound of Music (1965)
39A Man for All Seasons (1966)
40In the Heat of the Night (1967)
41Oliver! (1968)
42Midnight Cowboy (1969)
43Patton (1970)
44The French Connection (1971)
45The Godfather (1972)
46The Sting (1973)
47The Godfather Part II (1974)
48One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
49 Rocky (1976)
50Annie Hall (1977)
51The Deer Hunter (1978)
52Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
53Ordinary People (1980)
54Chariots of Fire (1981)
55Gandhi (1982)
56Terms of Endearment (1983)
57Amadeus (1984)
58Out of Africa (1985)
59Platoon (1986)
60The Last Emperor (1987)
61Rain Man (1988)
62Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
63Dances with Wolves (1990)
64The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
65Unforgiven (1992)
66Schindler's List (1993)
67Forrest Gump (1994)
68Braveheart (1995)
69The English Patient (1996)
70Titanic (1997)
71Shakespeare in Love (1998)
72American Beauty (1999)
73Gladiator (2000)
74 A Beautiful Mind (2001)
75Chicago (2002)
76The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
77Million Dollar Baby (2004)
78Crash (2005)
79The Departed (2006)
80No Country for Old Men (2007)
81Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
82The Hurt Locker (2009)
83The King's Speech (2010)
84The Artist (2011)
85Argo (2012)
8612 Years a Slave (2013)
87Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
88Spotlight (2015)
89Moonlight (2016)

Bayeee!!!

Monday, February 13, 2017

Going My Way (1944)

I am trying to watch all the Oscars Best Picture winners since 1929's Wings, but i had just started to make some sort of a review after i watched them. I have amassed a good number of movies and if i will watched just 1 movie each day it will take me still a good 19 years before i finish all of them. 

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Short film summary from IMDB :

Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy, but his level gaze and twinkling eyes make it clear that he knows he made the right choice. After joining a parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of kids looking for direction and handle the business details of the church-building fund, winning over his aging, conventional superior, Father Fitzgibbon.

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My Rebyu

The title was first mentioned in a song he sang during Father Chuck's visit to Carol's apartment when she asked him to sing for them (with Ted Jr.) an unpublished song. I like this movie because it's not that heavy to watch and though the main characters are priests it not so over religious, it's not so pushy about faith. During the entire movie you will only see 1 instance where they celebrated a mass or something like that. Bing Crosby is so good at this that i liked him singing (he is an accomplished singer after all..). It's a family movie and a light hearted comedy at the same time. I also loved the performance of Father Fitzgibbon (Barry Fitzgerald), having been nominated both as Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for Oscars in 1944, he won the supporting actor but lost the best actor to co-star Bing Crosby. The songs i loved are Ave Maria, Silent Night and the Going My Way Song.

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"If you are looking for something thoughtful, dramatic, or even controversial, go somewhere else. But if it's a light-hearted comedy you're after, then pull up a chair and check out "Going My Way". - review from one IMDB user

If you want to know more about this movie, click here.
















**all pictures are lifted from IMDB and links from wikipedia.

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