one of the things i've been doing in my quest to do new, ambitious things is to watch all of the Academy Award Best Picture winners. by the end of this weekend, i will be one-fourth of the way through the list. in celebration of this, i thought i would share what i have seen.

1929 - The Broadway Melody
1932 - Grand Hotel - i really liked this one!
1939 - Gone with the Wind - i actually had never seen this one. i had always been under the impression that Scarlett O'Hara was some wonderful heroine so you can imagine my distaste at discovering what a self-center, devious women she was!
1941 - How Green Was My Valley - the ups and downs of a mining town told from the perspective of a boy
1964 - My Fair Lady - of course, i love it!
1965 - The Sound of Music - and this one too
1968 - Oliver!
1976 - Rocky
1980 -Ordinary People - i actually watched this for my communications class in undergrad...it's odd, but interesting
1984 - Amadeus
1990 - Dances with Wolves
1993 - Schindler's List
1994 - Forrest Gump - is this movie really 15 years old already?!
1997 - Titanic
1998 - Shakespeare in Love
1999 - American Beauty
2001 - A Beautiful Mind
2003 - Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - it's the only one of the trilogy to win
2005 - Crash
2006 - The Departed

next two to watch: 1937 - The Life of Emile Zola and 1985 - Out of Africa