The Complete Oscar Quest
The initial Oscar Quest was me watching six categories: Picture, Director and the four acting categories. Once that was done, I of course said, “I guess I should do the rest of them now.” Because that’s how crazy works, kids. So what I did was set out to watch all the nominees in the Screenplay categories, Cinematography, Editing, Song, Score, the Sound categories, Visual Effects, Production Design, Costumes, Makeup & Hairstyling and Animated Feature. Which would take me from 6 categories to 19 of the total 24.
As I did the first time, I’ve included this page as a reference for myself and those looking to track my progress. It contains a list of every film remaining that I have yet to see. The original list was close to 800 nominees. Currently, we’re approaching 200 (and depending on when you see this, it may even be below that.) My ultimate goal is to essentially have this list finish by the time we hit Memorial Day, which will mean that within a single decade, I’ll have watched essentially every movie ever nominated for an Oscar.
1st Academy Awards (1927-1928)
2nd Academy Awards (1928-1929)
3rd Academy Awards (1929-1930)
4th Academy Awards (1930-1931)
5th Academy Awards (1931-1932)
6th Academy Awards (1932-1933)
Films Left to See:
1927-1928
- Glorious Betsy
- The Noose
- Sorrell and Son
- Tempest
1928-1929
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- The Cop
- Drag (Lloyd)
- The Leatherneck
- Sal of Singapore
- Skyscraper
1929-1930
- Raffles
- Sally
- The Vagabond King
- With Byrd at the South Pole
1930-1931
- Laughter
- The Right to Love
1931-1932
- Á nous la liberté
- Lady and Gent
- Transatlantic
1932-1933
- Rasputin and the Empress
- When Ladies Meet
1934
- Operator 13
- The Richest Girl in the World
1935
- $1,000 a Minute
- All the King’s Horses
- Broadway Hostess
- King of Burlesque
- Love Me Forever
1936
- Dancing Pirate
- The Magnificent Brute
- One in a Million
- Sing, Baby Sing
- That Girl from Paris
1937
- Make a Wish
- Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
- Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
- Portia on Trial
- Ready, Willing and Able
- Something to Sing About
- Thin Ice
- Way Out West
1938
- Block-Heads
- Breaking the Ice
- Going Places
- The Lady Objects
- Pacific Liner
- Storm Over Bengal
- Tropic Holiday
- Under Western Stars
1939
- Balalaika
- Captain Fury
- The Mikado
- Nurse Edith Cavell
- Second Fiddle
- She Married a Cop
- Swanee River
1940
- Behind the News
- Captain Caution
- The Fight for Life
- The House of the Seven Gables
- The Invisible Man Returns
- Irene
- Lillian Russell
- Music in My Heart
- Rhythm on the River
- Swiss Family Robinson
- Typhoon
- Women in War
1941
- Appointment for Love
- Birth of the Blues
- The Devil Pays Off
- The Flame of New Orleans
- Ice-Capades
- The Invisible Woman
- King of the Zombies
- Las Vegas Nights
- Lydia
- The Men in Her Life
- Mercy Island
- Ridin’ on a Rainbow
- The Son of Monte Cristo
- Sunny
- Tanks a Million
1942
- The Corsican Brothers
- Invisible Agent
- Johnny Doughboy
- The Mayor of 44th Street
- The Navy Comes Through
- The Spoilers
1943
- The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
- Bombardier
- Corvette K-225
- The Fallen Sparrow
- Flight for Freedom
- Hers to Hold
- Johnny Come Lately
- So This Is Washington
- Victory Through Air Power
1944
- The Climax
- The Desert Song
- The Fighting Seabees
- Follow the Boys
- The Hairy Ape
- Irish Eyes Are Smiling
- Jack London
- Knickerbocker Holiday
- The Merry Monahans
- Music in Manhattan
- Secret Command
- Step Lively
- Three Russian Girls
- Woman of the Town
1945
- The Affairs of Susan
- Captain Kidd
- Dillinger
- Earl Carroll Vanities
- Hitchhike to Happiness
- The Man Who Walked Alone
- Marie-Louise
- Paris Underground
- Sunbonnet Sue
- Three Is a Family
1946
- The Dolly Sisters
- Vacation from Marriage
1947
- A Cage of Nightingales
- Shoeshine (De Sica)
1948
- Green Grass of Wyoming
- The Louisiana Story
1949
- Neptune’s Daughter
- Paisan (Rossellini)
- The Quiet One
- Sand
- So Dear to My Heart
1950
- Bitter Rice
- I’ll Get By
- Singing Guns
- Trio
1951
- Go for Broke!
- La Ronde (Ophuls) (2)
- The Strip
- Two Tickets to Broadway
1952
- Flat Top
- The Medium
- The Pride of St. Louis
1953
- Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
- The Captain’s Paradise
- Crazylegs
- The Cruel Sea
- The Four Poster
- Small Town Girl
1954
- Bread, Love and Dreams
- The Gate of Hell
- Le Plaisir (Ophuls)
1955
- The Pickwick Papers
- The Sheep Has Five Legs
1956
- The Proud and the Beautiful
- Stagecoach to Fury
1957
- I vitelloni (Fellini)
1958
- The Buccaneer
- White Wilderness
1959
- Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
1960
- The Virgin Spring (Bergman)
1962
- Through a Glass Darkly (Bergman)
1963
- The Four Days of Naples
- Mondo Cane
- Sundays and Cybele (2)
- Wives and Lovers
1964
- The Organizer
- That Man from Rio
- The Visit
1965
- Casanova 70
- A Rage to Live
1966
- An American Dream / See You in Hell, Darling
- Juliet of the Spirits (Fellini) (2)
- Mandragora
- Stop the World – I Want to Get Off
1967
- Banning
- Ulysses
- The War Is Over
1968
- Hot Millions
- War and Peace
1970
- I Girasoli (De Sica)
- The Hawaiians
- My Night at Maud’s
- Pieces of Dreams
1971
- The Conformist (Bertolucci)
- Death in Venice (Visconti)
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (De Sica)
- Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
- What’s the Matter with Helen?
- When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
1972
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel)
- The Little Ark
- Murmur of the Heart (Malle)
- The Stepmother
1974
- Benji
1975
- And Now My Love
- Birds Do It, Bees Do It
- Lies My Father Told Me
- Profumo di donna
- Whiffs
1976
- Half a House
- The Passover Plot
1977
- That Obscure Object of Desire (Bunuel)
- You Light Up My Life
1978
- Caravans
- The Magic of Lassie
1979
- Ice Castles
- The Promise
1980
- Mon Oncle D’Amerique
- My Brilliant Career
- Somewhere in Time
1981
- Heartbeeps
1982
- La Traviata (Zeffirelli) (2)
1983
- The Return of Martin Guerre
1984
- Songwriter
1985
- The Official Story
- Return to Oz
1986
- The Clan of the Cave Bear
- Otello (Zeffirelli)
1987
- Au Revoir les Enfants (Malle)
- Harry and the Hendersons
- Mannequin
1988
- Bagdad Cafe
- Buster
- A Handful of Dust
1989
- Dad
- Harlem Nights
1991
- Europa Europa
1992
- The Lover (Annaud)
- The Mambo Kings
1995
- My Family, Mi Familia
- Shanghai Triad (Yimou)
- Unstrung Heroes
1996
- Angels and Insects
1997
- Oscar and Lucinda
1999
- The Red Violin
2000
- Malena (Tornatore) (2)
2003
- The Barbarian Invasions
2004
- The Chorus
- The Motorcycle Diaries (2)
- The Sea Inside (Amenabar)
2006
- Curse of the Golden Flower (Yimou)
2007
- Persepolis
2009
- Il Divo (Sorrentino)
- Paris 36
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