Sunday, February 22, 2009

Oscar extras

For movie fans tuning in to the Oscars tonight I thought I'd collect some links and add a little game (inspired by 100 Books in Facebook) in case the proceedings are moving a little slow.

The main site - http://www.oscar.com/
Big winners and nominations - http://www.filmsite.org/oscars2.html
IMDB - http://www.imdb.com/features/poweroffilm/ - my movie bible.

Unfortunately I have seen very few of the nominated movies and performances this year. Having a quick look, I saw The Dark Knight (Ledger), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Cruz), Ironman (sound and FX) and Wanted (sound).

Past 25 Best Picture winners - seen 'em all. How many have you seen ? My faves with an *
  1. 1983 Terms of Endearment
  2. 1984 Amadeus*
  3. 1985 Out of Africa
  4. 1986 Platoon
  5. 1987 The Last Emperor
  6. 1988 Rain Man
  7. 1989 Driving Miss Daisy
  8. 1990 Dances with Wolves
  9. 1991 Silence of the Lambs*
  10. 1992 Unforgiven
  11. 1993 Schindler's List*
  12. 1994 Forest Gump
  13. 1995 Braveheart
  14. 1996 English Patient*
  15. 1997 Titanic
  16. 1998 Shakespeare in Love*
  17. 1999 American Beauty*
  18. 2000 Gladiator
  19. 2001 Beautiful Mind*
  20. 2002 Chicago
  21. 2003 Lord of Rings - Return of the King
  22. 2004 Million Dollar Baby
  23. 2005 Crash**
  24. 2006 The Departed*
  25. 2007 No Country for Old Men
I do watch a ton of movies, all my reviews are on Facebook - Flixster.

My pics for tonight:

Actor: Rourke
Actress: Winslet
Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Supporting Actor: Ledger
Supporting Actress: Cruz

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2 comments:

Kelly said...

I liked the show tonight. I haven't had the chance to see many of the nominated movies this year either - I usually do a bit better! I really thought Mickey Rourke would win as well but maybe they were just too afraid of what he might say - lol. Happy for Sean Penn though as he's very talented and made a very socially relevant film.

As for the past 25 Best Pic winners, I have missed the last two and haven't had a chance to see Slumdog yet. I have some catching up to do!

12:12 AM
Suzanne Sewell said...

I thought the winners were very predictable. Of the top 8 awards, I guessed them all right as most other people I would expect.

When the same people win all the other award shows it makes the Oscars a bit redundant.

Wouldn't it have been great if Slumdog had won without already having won all the other awards? Amazing to think that Slumdog being the big winner was predictable. It's a shame really.

11:56 AM

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