Brooke has a friend that’s slowly making their way through all the “Best Picture” winners via Netflix, so we figured that, as we aren’t really devoted to a single show right now in our Netflix Queue, we can probably start heading that way, too. We’ve seen quite a few of the more recent ones, so I’ll just highlight the ones below that we’re going to try and watch. Movies that aren’t highlighted are those that either we’ve both seen, or one of us has seen and can’t convince the other to watch it (I’m looking at you, “Return of the King” and “Titanic“).
This will take practically forever to accomplish, but I figured it was worth posting. We’re only going back to the year of my birth, at this point. Once we get that far, then we’ll re-evaluate whether we want to go further.
Academy Award “Best Picture” Winners
- The King’s Speech (2011)
- The Hurt Locker (2010)
- Slumdog Millionaire (2009)
- No Country For Old Men (2008)
- The Departed (2007)
- Crash (2006)
- Million Dollar Baby (2005)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2004)
- Chicago (2003)
- A Beautiful Mind (2002)
- Gladiator (2001)
- American Beauty (2000)
- Shakespeare In Love (1999)
- Titanic (1998)
- The English Patient (1997)
- Braveheart (1996)
- Forrest Gump (1995)
- Schindler’s List (1994)
- Unforgiven (1993)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1992)
- Dances with Wolves (1991)
- Driving Miss Daisy (1990)
- Rain Man (1989)
- The Last Emperor (1988)
- Platoon (1987)
- Out Of Africa (1986)
- Amadeus (1985)
- Terms of Endearment (1984)
- Gandhi (1983)
- Chariots of Fire (1982)
I know at one time Brooke was trying to watch “the classics” like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. It will be interesting to see how far you get on your list!
I’ve seen 20 of those. Braveheart 30-40 times… personally I believe the movie Hannibal was better than Silence of the Lambs. It’s one of my favorite movies of all time. It would be easier if more of these were on Netflix streaming.
“Hannibal” was not a better movie than “Silence of the Lambs.” Heck, “Red Dragon” was better than “Hannibal.” I disagree with you, sir.