Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Best Pictures From the Outside In

Have you seen all of the Best Picture winners over the years? I'm nearing my personal finish line. (Mea culpa. 5 remain unseen: Gentlemen's Agreement, Hamlet, A Man For All Seasons, The French Connection and *gulp* The Godfather Part II. I am deeply ashamed) If you're semi-new to The Film Experience, check out this tri-blog series wherein Nick, Mike and Nathaniel (c'est moi), rescreen the winners starting from both ends of Oscar's chronologally. (We began in 2008 which is why Slumdog Millionaire and The Hurt Locker do not kick the festivities off)

Best Pictures From the Outside In (so far)
episode 1 No Country For Old Men (07) and Wings (27/28)
episode 2
The Departed (06) and Broadway Melody (28/29)
episode 3 Crash (05) and All Quiet on the Western Front (29/30)
episode 4
Million Dollar Baby (04) and Cimarron (30/31)
episode 5
LotR: The Return of the King (03) and Grand Hotel (31/32)


episode 6
Chicago (02) and Cavalcade (32/33)
episode 7 A Beautiful Mind (01) and It Happened One Night (34)
episode 8 Gladiator (00) and Mutiny on the Bounty (35)
episode 9 American Beauty (99) and The Great Ziegfeld (36)
episode 10 Shakespeare in Love (98) and The Life of Emile Zola (37)

episode 11 Titanic (97) and You Can't Take it With You (38)
episode 12 The English Patient (96) and Gone With the Wind (39)
episode 13 Braveheart (95) and Rebecca (40)
episode 14 Forrest Gump (94) and How Green Was My Valley (41)
episode 15 Schindler's List (93) and Mrs. Miniver (42)


episode 16 Unforgiven (92) and Casablanca (43)
episode 17 Silence of the Lambs (91) and Going My Way (44)
episode 18 Dances with Wolves (90) and The Lost Weekend (45)

COMING VERY SOON
Driving Miss Daisy (89) and The Best Years of Our Lives (46)
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