Oscar meme

[diandrahollman]

I'll take any excuse to avoid recapping the new "X-Files" movie, apparently... Below are all of the Best Picture winners. Bold those you've seen, underline your favorites, and strikeout the ones you don't like.

1920s
1927-1928 (Best Production) Wings
1928-1929 The Broadway Melody
1929-1930 All Quiet on the Western Front 

1930s
1930-1931 Cimarron
1931-1932 Grand Hotel
1932-1933 Cavalcade
1934 It Happened One Night
1935 Mutiny on the Bounty (I've seen the remake with Anthony Hopkins, Mel Gibson and Liam Neeson though. Couldn't really be bad)
1936 The Great Ziegfeld
1937 The Life of Emile Zola
1938 You Can't Take It with You
1939 Gone with the Wind (It was *long*)

1940s
1940 Rebecca
1941 How Green Was My Valley
1942 Mrs. Miniver
1943 Casablanca
1944 Going My Way
1945 The Lost Weekend
1946 The Best Years of Our Lives
1947 Gentleman's Agreement
1948 Hamlet (I've seen two adaptations of this and neither was this particular one)
1949 All the King's Men

1950s
1950 All About Eve (Great acting. Not sure about best *picture*, but I guess they had to make up for the fact that they managed to have a record number of nominations, many for acting, and only awarded one supporting actor...what?!)
1951 An American in Paris  (Gene Kelly and the best damn dance sequence every put on celluloid)
1952 The Greatest Show on Earth
1953 From Here to Eternity
1954 On the Waterfront
1955 Marty (I thought it was "Marnie". Well, I guess that makes more sense...)
1956 Around the World in Eighty Days
1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958 Gigi
1959 Ben-Hur

1960s
1960 The Apartment
1961 West Side Story
1962 Lawrence of Arabia
1963 Tom Jones
1964 My Fair Lady (Gotta love Audrey Hepburn)
1965 The Sound of Music
1966 A Man for All Seasons
1967 In the Heat of the Night (Sidney Poitier rarely does wrong)
1968 Oliver!
1969 Midnight Cowboy

1970s
1970 Patton
1971 The French Connection
1972 The Godfather
1973 The Sting (Yes! Underline!)
1974 The Godfather Part II
1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976 Rocky
1977 Annie Hall
1978 The Deer Hunter (I couldn't even finish it. I'm not sure how all those Academy members sat through it. Must have been a very different time for movies.)
1979 Kramer vs. Kramer

1980s
1980 Ordinary People
1981 Chariots of Fire
1982 Gandhi (possibly only part of it in a class)
1983 Terms of Endearment
1984 Amadeus
1985 Out of Africa
1986 Platoon
1987 The Last Emperor
1988 Rain Man
1989 Driving Miss Daisy

1990s
1990 Dances with Wolves
1991 The Silence of the Lambs
1992 Unforgiven
1993 Schindler's List
1994 Forrest Gump
1995 Braveheart (FREEEEDOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!!!)
1996 The English Patient (If Naveen Andrews and Juliette Binnoche had been the leads I might have liked it better)
1997 Titanic
1998 Shakespeare in Love (It wasn't *bad* really, but I'm still bitter about the Saving Private Ryan thing)
1999 American Beauty (Best picture? Really? Was 1999 that bad a year for movies?)

2000s
2000 Gladiator
2001 A Beautiful Mind
2002 Chicago
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004 Million Dollar Baby
2005 Crash
2006 The Departed (The best part about this was the Simpsons spoof. "The rat symbolizes obviousness!" Hee.)
2007 No Country for Old Men
2008 Slumdog Millionaire (it was okay, but it didn't really deserve as much hype as it got)
2009 War Movie #58,290,572 (see "Slumdog Millionaire")