The Oscar Quest

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I did this Oscar Quest after I graduated college in 2010. Over the next 13 months or so, I watched (nearly) every movie ever nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. This website began as a way of documenting all of this.

I had an article where I tracked my progress, listing what films I’d yet to see. You can see that article here. (Spoiler alert: there are only three films left on it, which only exist in print form in various archives around the country.)

I then wrote up each of the categories over the course of 18 months and compiled everything into a series of articles. Let’s call them The Oscar Quest, Mach 1. They’re very much a reflection of where I was back in 2011/2012. You can go see them en masse here, but I’ll link to the pertinent ones down below.

In 2016/2017, I decided to redo all the Oscar Quest articles. This was done for two reasons: first, I knew those original articles were very dated and that a lot of my opinions had changed and grown, so I didn’t want to be held to what I said back then as my everlasting opinion (especially since I hadn’t updated any of the articles since I wrote them, and honestly don’t even remember anything I wrote in them), and more practically — five years had past. That seemed like a good reason to revisit everything and actually reevaluate my opinions.

These will be the primary articles going forward. I’ll leave the link to the original pages up there, because I did write them, and they do (to an extent) reflect where I was back in 2011/2012. But these are the ones I want to be the primary articles. I don’t so much care about the extra stuff I bothered with last time.

I’m going to try to keep this as updated as I can, and assuming I haven’t died tragically or abandon this site, I’ll keep updating my opinions every five years in a longer form than just lists.

The goal is to eventually have breakdowns of every category. And to go back and write up the My Oscar Nominations articles for real. I could probably do the latter again, but I just don’t have the energy for it now. So maybe one day you’ll see those up here.

The Oscar Quest: A Viewer’s Guide

Best Picture

Best Director

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

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The Oscar Quest: Rankings

Best Picture

Best Director

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

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Best Picture

Best Director

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

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