Saturday, January 24, 2009

Your Homework Before Oscar Night

There are only four weeks until Oscar night and there are 38 films nominated. So it's time to get crackin. Here's a list of all the movies you should see before Oscar night in order of importance. This is based purely on nominations and not on likeliness of winning, giving more weight to more important categories. Race you to the finish!

1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. Milk
3. Slumdog Millionaire
4. Frost/Nixon
5. The Reader
6. Doubt
7. The Dark Knight
8. Wall-E
9. The Wrestler
10. Frozen River
11. Changeling
12. Revolutionary Road
13. Rachel Getting Married
14. The Visitor
15. Waltz with Bashir
16. The Baader Meinhof Complex
17. The Class
18. Departures
19. Revanch
20. Man on Wire
21. Encounters at the End of the World
22. Trouble the Water
23. The Betrayal
24. The Garden
25. Kung Fu Panda
26. Bolt
27. Tropic Thunder
28. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
29. Happy-Go-Lucky
30. In Bruges
31. Iron Man
32. The Duchess
33. Wanted
34. Defiance
35. Australia
36. The Nominated Animated Shorts
37. The Nominated Live-Action Shorts
38. The Nominated Documentary Shorts

I've seen 15 so far, but I would like to get at least another 5 or 6 in. So, let's get watching!

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