Best Picture Oscar Nominees

Starting as a challenge to watch movies from ‘before my time’, it has expanded to watching all of the Academy Award Best Picture Nominees since 1970.

I watched 189 prior to the challenge, and since have watched 56 (2022), 31 (2023), 10 (2024), & 16 (2025).

Remaining Films

Statistics

By Year: Completed 28/56 or 50%
By Nominated Film: Completed 307/351 or 87%

Updated as of March, 2026

Amour

Life is Beautiful

Shine

The Postman: Il Postino

Quiz Show

The Remains of the Day

Scent of a Woman

JFK

The Godfather Part III

Dangerous Liaisons

Hannah and Her Sisters

The Mission

Prizzi's Honor

The Killing Fields

A Passage to India

Places in the Heart

A Soldier's Story

Terms of Endearment

The Dresser

Gandhi

Missing

Reds

Coal Miner's Daughter

The Elephant Man

Tess

All that Jazz

Coming Home

Midnight Express

An Unmarried Woman

Julia

Bound for Glory

Barry Lyndon

Nashville

The Godfather Part II

The Conversation

Lenny

The Towering Inferno

A Touch of Class

Cabaret

The Emigrants

The French Connection

Fiddler on the Roof

The Last Picture Show

Nicholas and Alexandra

Patton