Topic: The Academy Awards Marathon

[m.cellophane]

The Academy Awards Marathon

Every year after the Oscar nominations are announced, I try to see as many of the nominees as I can before the ceremony. By necessity, this is a mixed media marathon, since many of the films are still in the theater. But I do the best I can. Netflix helps a lot.  Anyone want to get up to speed with me on the nominees this year?

You can do only nominees on DVD, or you could include theater films. A modification could be to include any film that has ever won an Oscar. If you are still having trouble choosing, you could expand to any film ever nominated for an Oscar.

But the theme is Oscar! And you'd better hurry because it's over on the 24th.  This ain't no month long marathon!

Linkage:
Official Academy Awards Site
IMDb Road to the Oscars 08
Amazon's Oscar Central
Awards Daily's Oscar Watch

Keeping it simple with Jimmy's smiley scale:
  = perfect
  = Not so bad
  = Not bad but not good either
  = Boring
  = A waste of time

ITEM	TITLE	AWARD YEAR	DATE	FORMAT	RATING
1	Ratatouille	2008 Nominee	1	Blu-ray
2	Evita	1997 Winner	1	DVD
3	The Mirror Has Two Faces	1997 Nominee	2	DVD
4	Tootsie	1983 Winner	5	DVD
5	The Goodbye Girl	1978 Winner	7	DVD
6	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	1978 Winner	9	Blu-ray
7	House of Flying Daggers	2005 Nominee	10	Blu-ray
8	La vie en rose	2008 Nominee	10	DVD
9	Heaven Can Wait	1979 Winner	11	DVD
10	All That Jazz	1980 Winner	11	DVD
11	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	2008 Nominee	13	Blu-ray
--	---------------------------------------------------------------	---------------	--	-------	--

I had a Real Life Intrusion that threw me off the marathon. I did see The Accidental Tourist on 2/15 but I don't have time to linky-fy it presently. Achim is kicking my butt on this marathon. 

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[richierich]

As an assist - all of the films nominated in categories this year...

12 (Russia)
3:10 to Yuma
Across the Universe
American Gangster
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
At Night
Atonement
August Rush
Away from Her
Beaufort Israel
Bourne Ultimatum
Charlie Wilson's War
Counterfeiters
Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Eastern Promises
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Enchanted
Freeheld
Golden Compass
Gone Baby Gone
I Met the Walrus
Il Supplente (The Substitute)
I'm Not There
In the Valley of Elah
Into the Wild
Juno
Katyn
Kite Runner
La Corona (The Crown)
La Vie en Rose
Lars and the Real Girl
Le Mozart des Pickpockets
Madame Tutli-Putli
Même les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)
Michael Clayton
Mongol
My Love
No Country for Old Men
No End in Sight
Norbit
Once
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Persepolis
Peter & the Wolf
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Ratatouille
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother
Savages
Sicko
Surf's Up
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tanghi Argentini
Taxi to the Dark Side
The Tonto Woman
There Will Be Blood
Transformers

[Tom]

I have seen only 5 of those and currently do not own any of those 

3:10 to Yuma
Atonement
Bourne Ultimatum
Ratatouille
Transformers

[addicted2dvd]

no Academy marathon for me! I have none of them (nor have I seen any)... though I can slip in one... as my daughter has Ratatouille. 

[DJ Doena]

I only own two or three of those, the most haven't even been in the theatres yet.

[Achim]

I wouldn't have enough of the current Awards nominees, so I'll play more loosely, simply watching films that have some relation to the Academy Awards (won or nominated, in any category).

No.	Title	Date	Rating
1	Goodfellas	2/2
2	The Elephant Man	2/2
3	The Quick and the Dead	2/3
4	Rocky	2/3
5	M. Hulot's Holiday	2/4
6	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	2/4
7	A Fish Called Wanda	2/5
8	The Third Man	2/5
9	The Princess Bride	2/5
10	The Killers (1946)	2/5
11	The Hustler	2/6
12	The Right Stuff	2/6
13	Shadow of a Doubt	2/7
14	The French Connection	2/8
15	All the President's Men	2/8
16	Citizen Kane	2/9
17	Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds	2/9
18	Enchanted [cinema]	2/10
19	Dog Day Afternnoon	2/10
20	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?	2/10
21	Seven Samurai	2/11
22	Black Rain	2/11
23	She	2/14
24	Mulholland Dr.	2/15	--- (it's Lynch...)
25	High Noon	2/17
26	Double Indemnity	2/20
----	--------------------------------------------------	-------	-------

[m.cellophane]

As an assist - all of the films nominated in categories this year...

+1 Film List Point awarded. 

I have seen only 5 of those and currently do not own any of those 

You are ahead of me in terms of films watched. 

no Academy marathon for me! I have none of them (nor have I seen any)... though I can slip in one... as my daughter has Ratatouille. 

Ratatouille was awesome! It received 4 other nominations in addition to animated feature. I'm surprised it wasn't nominated for best picture. 

I wouldn't have enough of the current Awards nominees, so I'll play more loosely, simply watching films that have some relation to the Academy Awards (won or nominated, in any category).

I'm doing the same. I'll make an effort to include current year nominees, but will include other years so I have enough to choose from. 

[Kathy]

Ratatouille was awesome! It received 4 other nominations in addition to animated feature. I'm surprised it wasn't nominated for best picture. 

Hmmm that makes me wonder, has an animated feature ever been nominated for best picture?

[m.cellophane]

Yup. Beauty and the Beast was the first and only as far as I know.

[Achim]

I'm doing the same. I'll make an effort to include current year nominees, but will include other years so I have enough to choose from. 

I will try to add Ratatouille to the marathon, it's on it's way and if it arrives right after Chinese New Year I can watch it before the marathon ends.

Enchanted is open in theaters here on Wednesday, I am considering to see that, as I keep hearing good things.

I own Transformers, but as I just watched it fairly recently, I don't think I'll rewatch it already. Pirates of the Caribbean 3 is still unwatched (seen it in theaters last summer), so I may give that one a spin (maybe even today).

[m.cellophane]

Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds

[Achim]

Achim is kicking my butt on this marathon. 

Well, I had it easy, as we had Chinese New Year, meaning I had 10 days off where I could easily watch a sufficient amount of films.

I just wondered now if you ever managed to finish? (As I type this the list in your post only goes up to 11...)

[m.cellophane]

I just wondered now if you ever managed to finish? (As I type this the list in your post only goes up to 11...)

Unfortunately I didn't. My father in law passed away on the 16th. That turned my life upside down for a while. I did get to see the awards, thankfully. Things are getting back to normal again though. 

[Achim]

Sorry to hear about your father in law.

Good to hear things are getting back to normal already.