The Complete Oscar Quest
I did my original Oscar Quest in 2010/2011, which was only the Picture, Director, Actor, Actor, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress categories. Once that was done, I very quickly said, “I guess I have to do them all now.” Because that’s how crazy works, kids.
This time, I’m including all other categories except Foreign Language. Film, Documentary and the three Shorts categories (Documentary, Live Action and Animated). So, the Screenplays, Cinematography, Editing, Song, Score, the Sound categories, Visual Effects, Production Design, Costumes, Makeup & Hairstyling, and Animated Feature. Which, once I complete that list, I’ll have seen nearly everything across 19 of the 24 Oscar categories. (2019 update: I’ve also accumulated almost all of the Animated Short and Foreign Language Film nominees to eventually watch as well. Told you I was nuts.)
This page contains every nominee from those categories I’m working on that I’ve yet to see. I’m gonna keep updating it as I watch them. It also contains links to every Oscar nominee ever. I’ve linked to all the ceremonies, and eventually they will contain some form of write up containing my thoughts on all the categories. We’re not quite there yet, though. We’re putting Descartes before the horse. And he’s just going, “Is it, though?”
Currently, this is just my list of movies I need to finish watching as I slowly make my way toward ostensibly seeing every single Oscar nominee ever.
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
- The Doorway to Hell (Mayo)
- Laughter
- The Right to Love
1931-1932
- Á nous la liberté (Clair)
- Lady and Gent
- Transatlantic
1932-1933
- Rasputin and the Empress
- Reunion in Vienna (Franklin)
- When Ladies Meet
1934
- Operator 13
- The Richest Girl in the World
- She Loves Me Not (Nugent)
1935
- $1,000 a Minute
- All the King’s Horses
- Broadway Hostess
- The Gay Deception (Wyler)
- King of Burlesque
- Love Me Forever
- The Scoundrel (Hecht, MacArthur)
1936
- Dancing Pirate
- The Magnificent Brute
- One in a Million
- Pennies from Heaven (McLeod)
- Sing, Baby Sing
- That Girl from Paris
1937
- Ali Baba Goes to Town (Butler)
- The Girl Said No (Stone)
- 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
- Wings Over Honolulu (Potter)
1938
- Block-Heads
- Breaking the Ice
- Going Places
- The Lady Objects
- Pacific Liner
- Storm Over Bengal
- There Goes My Heart (McLeod)
- Tropic Holiday
- Under Western Stars
1939
- Balalaika
- Captain Fury
- The Mikado
- Nurse Edith Cavell
- Second Fiddle
- She Married a Cop
- Swanee River
- Topper Takes a Trip (McLeod)
- When Tomorrow Comes (Stahl)
1940
- Behind the News
- Captain Caution
- Dr. Cyclops
- The Fight for Life
- Hit Parade of 1941 (2)
- 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
- Back Street (Stevenson)
- 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
- Tall, Dark and Handsome (Humberstone)
- Tanks a Million
- That Uncertain Feeling (Lubitsch)
- This Woman Is Mine (Lloyd)
1942
- The Corsican Brothers
- Hellzapoppin’ (Potter)
- Invisible Agent
- Johnny Doughboy
- The Mayor of 44th Street
- The Navy Comes Through
- The Spoilers
- To the Shores of Tripoli (Humberstone)
- The War Against Mrs. Hadley (Bucquet)
1943
- The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
- Bombardier
- Corvette K-225
- The Fallen Sparrow
- Flight for Freedom
- Hers to Hold
- Hi Diddle Diddle (Stone)
- Johnny Come Lately
- The Moon and the Sixpence (Lewin)
- So This Is Washington
- Victory Through Air Power
1944
- The Climax
- The Desert Song
- The Fighting Seabees
- Follow the Boys
- The Hairy Ape
- His Butler’s Sister (Borzage)
- Irish Eyes Are Smiling
- Jack London
- Knickerbocker Holiday
- The Merry Monahans
- Music in Manhattan
- None Shall Escape (De Toth)
- Secret Command
- Sensations of 1945 (Stone)
- Step Lively
- Sweet and Lowdown (Mayo)
- Three Russian Girls
- Up in Mabel’s Room (Dwan)
- Woman of the Town
1945
- The Affairs of Susan
- Captain Kidd
- Dillinger
- Earl Carroll Vanities
- G.I. Honeymoon (Karlson)
- Hitchhike to Happiness
- The Man Who Walked Alone
- Marie-Louise
- Paris Underground
- Sing Your Way Home (Mann)
- Sunbonnet Sue
- This Love of Ours (Dieterle)
- Three Is a Family
- The Unseen (Allen)
1946
- The Dark Mirror (Siodmak)
- The Dolly Sisters
- The Seventh Veil (Bennett)
- Vacation from Marriage
1947
- A Cage of Nightingales
- Shoeshine (De Sica)
1948
- Deep Waters (King)
- Green Grass of Wyoming
- That Lady in Ermine (Lubitsch)
- The Louisiana Story
1949
- Mother Is a Freshman (Bacon)
- Neptune’s Daughter
- Paisan (Rossellini)
- Passport to Pimlico (Cornelius)
- The Quiet One
- Sand
- So Dear to My Heart
- Tulsa (Heisler)
- The Window (Tetzlaff)
1950
- Bitter Rice
- Captain Carey, U.S.A. (Leisen)
- I’ll Get By
- Louisa (Hall)
- No Sad Songs for Me (Maté)
- Singing Guns
- Trio
- Wabash Avenue (Koster)
1951
- Go for Broke!
- Kind Lady (Sturges)
- La Ronde (Ophuls) (2)
- The Strip
- Two Tickets to Broadway
1952
- Flat Top
- Just for You (Nugent)
- 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
- Unchained
1956
- The Proud and the Beautiful
- Stagecoach to Fury
1957
- I vitelloni (Fellini)
1958
- The Buccaneer
- White Wilderness
1959
- Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
- The Young Land (Tetzlaff)
1960
- The Virgin Spring (Bergman)
- Visit to a Small Planet (Taurog)
1961
- Il General della Rovere (Rossellini)
1962
- Through a Glass Darkly (Bergman)
1963
- The Caretakers
- 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
- The Gospel According to St. Matthew (3)
- 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
- Wild in the Streets
1969
- The Damned (Visconti)
- Krakatoa, East of Java
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
- Tchaikovsky
- 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
1973
- Ludwig (Visconti)
1974
- Benji
1975
- And Now My Love
- Birds Do It, Bees Do It
- Lies My Father Told Me
- Profumo di donna
- Whiffs
1976
- Casanova (Fellini) (2)
- Half a House
- The Passover Plot
1977
- Mohammad, Messenger of God
- That Obscure Object of Desire (Bunuel)
- You Light Up My Life
1978
- Caravans
- The Magic of Lassie
- The Swarm
1979
- Ice Castles
- The Promise
1980
- Kagemusha (Kurosawa)
- Mon Oncle D’Amerique
- My Brilliant Career
- Somewhere in Time
1981
- Heartbeeps
1982
- La Traviata (Zeffirelli) (2)
1983
- The Return of Martin Guerre
1984
- The North
- 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
- Matewan
1988
- Bagdad Cafe
- Buster
- A Handful of Dust
1989
- Dad
- Harlem Nights
1990
- Metropolitan
1991
- Europa Europa
- Madame Bovary
1992
- The Lover (Annaud)
- The Mambo Kings
1993
- Beethoven’s 2nd
- Farewell My Concubine
1994
- Queen Margot
1995
- My Family, Mi Familia
- Shanghai Triad (Yimou)
- Unstrung Heroes
1996
- Angels and Insects
- Lone Star
1997
- Oscar and Lucinda
1999
- The Red Violin
2000
- Malena (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
- The White Ribbon (Haneke)
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