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Watch the Oscar-nominated movies from the year I was born
 
       
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BUGSY

JFK

THE PRINCE OF TIDES

48 movies were Oscar- Nominated in 1994

out of them I have seen:

1. ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES

2. MRS. DOUBTFIRE

3. THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS



All three of these movies are classics to me so I will most likely watch them again in my life. That leaves me 45 movies and shorts to watch.
1. Forrest Gump

2. Four Weddings and a Funeral

3. Pulp Fiction

4. Quiz Show

5. The Shawshank Redemption

6. Bullets over Broadway

7. Heavenly Creatures

8. Three Colors: Red

9. The Madness of King George

10. Nobody's Fool

11. The Lion King

12. Little Women
Best Picture  



Schindler's List – Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen and Branko Lustig  

The Fugitive – Arnold Kopelson  

In the Name of the Father – Jim Sheridan  

The Piano – Jan Chapman  

The Remains of the Day – John Calley, Mike Nichols and Ismail Merchant  



 Best Original Screenplay  



The Piano – Jane Campion  

Dave – Gary Ross  

In the Line of Fire – Jeff Maguire  

Philadelphia – Ron Nyswaner  

Sleepless in Seattle – Nora Ephron, David S. Ward and Jeff Arch  

 

 Best Adapted Screenplay  



Schindler's List – Steven Zaillian from Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally  

The Age of Innocence – Martin Scorsese and Jay Cocks from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton  

In the Name of the Father – Jim Sheridan and Terry George from Proved Innocent by Gerry Conlon  

The Remains of the Day – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from The Remains of the Dayby Kazuo Ishiguro  

Shadowlands – William Nicholson from Shadowlands by William Nicholson 



 Best Foreign Language Film  



Belle Epoque (Spain) in Spanish – Fernando Trueba  

Farewell My Concubine (Hong Kong) in Mandarin Chinese – Chen Kaige  

Hedd Wyn (United Kingdom) in Welsh  – Paul Turner  

The Scent of Green Papaya (Vietnam) in Vietnamese  – Anh Hung Tran  

The Wedding Banquet (Taiwan) in Mandarin Chinese – Ang Lee 



Best Documentary Feature  



I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School – Susan Raymond and Alan Raymond  

The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter – David Paperny and Arthur Ginsberg  

Children of Fate – Susan Todd and Andrew Young  

For Better or for Worse – David Collier and Betsy Thompson  

The War Room – D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus  



Best Documentary Short  



Defending Our Lives – Margaret Lazarus and Renner Wunderlich  

Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann – Steven Cantor and Peter Spirer  

Chicks in White Satin – Elaine Holliman and Jason Schneider  



Best Live Action Short  



Schwarzfahrer – Pepe Danquart  

Down on the Waterfront – Stacy Title and Jonathan Penner  

The Dutch Master – Susan Seidelman and Jonathan Brett  

Partners – Peter Weller and Jana Sue Memel  

The Screw (La Vis) – Didier Flamand  



Best Animated Short  



Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers – Nick Park  

Blindscape – Stephen Palmer  

The Mighty River – Frédéric Back and Hubert Tison  

Small Talk – Bob Godfrey and Kevin Baldwin  

The Village – Mark Baker  
1-The Godfather part II

2-Chinatown

3-The Conversation

4-Lenny

5-The Towering Inferno



These were all made the year before, but in the 1975 oscar awards
AMADEUS

Saul Zaentz, Producer

NOMINEES

THE KILLING FIELDS

David Puttnam, Producer

A PASSAGE TO INDIA

John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin, Producers

PLACES IN THE HEART

Arlene Donovan, Producer

A SOLDIER'S STORY
Silence of the Lambs (seen)

Beauty and the Beast (seen)

Bugsy

JFK (seen)

The Prince of Tides

Boyz n the Hood

Thelma and Louise

Cape Fear

The Fisher King

Rambling Rose

For the Boys

City Slickers

Barton Fink

Fried Green Tomatoes

Grand Canyon

Europa Europa

Mediterraneo

Children of Nature

The Elementary School

The Ox

Raise the Red Lantern

In the Shadow of the Stars

Death of the Job

Doing Time: Life inside the Big House

The Restless Conscience

Wild by Law

Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment

A Little Vicious

The Mark of the Maker

Birdnesters of Thailand

Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers

Session Man

Birch Street Gym

Last Breeze of Summer

Manipulation

Blackfly

Strings

Hook

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (seen)

Backdraft

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Madame Bovary

The Addams Family (seen)

The Commitments
American Beauty , 1999
I decided not to watch all the nominated movies out of all the categories, since most of the movies appear multiple times, so I would end up just watching the same movies over and over again.



I narrowed it down to these three categories:





MUSIC (Original Score)



Winner

- Beauty and the Beast

Alan Menken



Nominees

- Bugsy

Ennio Morricone



- The Fisher King

George Fenton



- JFK

John Williams



-The Prince of Tides

James Newton Howard





BEST PICTURE:



Winner

-The Silence of the Lambs

Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt and Ron Bozman, Producers



Nominees

- Beauty and the Beast

Don Hahn, Producer



- Bugsy

Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson and Warren Beatty, Producers



- JFK

A. Kitman Ho and Oliver Stone, Producers



- The Prince of Tides

Barbra Streisand and Andrew Karsch, Producers





DIRECTING





Winner

- The Silence of the Lambs

Jonathan Demme



Nominees

-JFK

Oliver Stone



-Thelma & Louise

Ridley Scott



- Boyz N the Hood

John Singleton



- Bugsy

Barry Levinson





1/2/2016 - Platoon - Best picture (W), Director (W), Supporting Actor x2, Original Screenplay, Editing (W), Cinematography, Sound (W)



1/1/2016 - Hannah and Her Sisters - Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (W), Supporting Actress (W), Original Screenplay (W), Editing, Art Direction



Children of a Lesser God - Best Picture, Actor, Actress (W), Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay



A Room with a View - Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay (W), Cinematography, Art Direction (W), Costume Design (W)



The Mission - Best Picture, Director, Editing, Cinematography (W), Art Direction, Costume Design, Original Score (W)



Blue Velvet - Best Director



The Color of Money - Best Actor (W), Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction



Mona Lisa - Best Actor



'Round Midnight - Best Actor, Original Score (W)



Slavador - Best Actor, Original Screenplay



Aliens - Best Actress, Editing, Art Direction, Best Visual Effects (W), Sound, Sound Editing (W), Original Score



Peggy Sue Got Married - Best Actress, Cinematography, Costume Design



The Morning After - Best Actress



Crimes of the Heart - Best Actress, Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay



Hoosiers - Best Supporting Actor (W), Original Score



Crocodile Dundee - Best Original Screenplay



My Beautiful Laundrette - Best Original Screenplay



Stand by Me - Best Adapted Screenplay



Top Gun - Best Editing, Sound, Sound Editing, Original Song (W)



Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - Best Cinematography, Sound, Sound Editing, Original Score



Pirates (1986) - Best Costume Design



The Fly - Best Makeup (W)



Legend - Best Makeup



The Clan of the Cave Bear - Best Makeup



Poltergeist II: The Other Side - Best Visual Effects



Little Shop of Horrors - Best Visual Effects, Original Song



Heartbreak Ridge - Best Sound



The Karate Kid Part II - Best Original Song



An American Tail - Best Original Song



That's Life - Best Original Song
Dead Poets Society - Watched and enjoyed it.

Driving Miss Daisy - Started but fell asleep, will try again.

Born On The 4th Of July - Haven't started

Field Of Dreams - Haven't started.

My Left Foot: The Story Of Christy Brown - Haven't started.

Still to watch

THE ADDAMS FAMILY

BACKDRAFT

BARTON FINK

BIRCH STREET GYM

BIRDNESTERS OF THAILAND (AKA SHADOW HUNTERS)

BLACKFLY

BOYZ N THE HOOD

2 NOMINATIONS

BUGSY

CAPE FEAR

CHILDREN OF NATURE

CITY SLICKERS

THE COMMITMENTS

DEADLY DECEPTION: GENERAL ELECTRIC, NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND OUR ENVIRONMENT

DEATH ON THE JOB

DOING TIME: LIFE INSIDE THE BIG HOUSE

THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

EUROPA EUROPA

THE FISHER KING

FOR THE BOYS

FRIED GREEN TOMATOES

GRAND CANYON

HOOK

IN THE SHADOW OF THE STARS

JFK

LAST BREEZE OF SUMMER

A LITTLE VICIOUS

MADAME BOVARY

MANIPULATION

THE MARK OF THE MAKER

MEDITERRANEO

MEMORIAL: LETTERS FROM AMERICAN SOLDIERS

THE OX

THE PRINCE OF TIDES

RAISE THE RED LANTERN

RAMBLING ROSE

THE RESTLESS CONSCIENCE

ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES

SESSION MAN

STAR TREK VI THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY

STRINGS

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY

WILD BY LAW
1991 Oscar Nominated Films



1. The Hunt for Red October

2. Flatliners

3. Total Recall

4. Edward Scissorhands SEEN

5. Cyrano de Bergerac

6. Dick Tracy

7. Metropolitan

8. Green Card

9. Avalon

10. Alice

11. Ghost

12. Reversal of Fortune

13. The Grifters

14. Good Fellas

15. Awakenings

16. Dances with Wolves

17. Home Alone

18. The Godfather, Part III

19. Postcards from the Edge

20. Young Guns II

21. Days of Thunder

22. Havana

23. Hamlet

24. Henry and June

25. Wild at Heart

26. Pretty Woman SEEN

27. Misery

28. Mr and Mrs Bridge

29. Longtime Companion

30. The Field

31. Journey of Hope (Swiss)

32. Ju Dou (China)

33. The Nasty Girl (Germany)

34. Open Doors (Italy)



Short Films

1. The Lunch Date

2. Bronx Cheers

3. Dear Rosie

4. Senzeni Na

5. 12:01 PM

6. Grasshoppers (Cavallette)

7. A Grand Day Out

8. Creature Comforts



Documentaries

1. American Dream

2. Berkeley in the Sixties

3. Building Bombs

4. Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Parade

5. Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey

6. Days of Waiting

7. Burning Down Tomorrow

8. Chimps: So Like Us

9. Journey into Life: The World of the Unborn

10. Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember
1980 - Kramer vs. Kramer, All That Jazz, Apocalypse Now, Breaking Away, Norma Rae
Shakespeare in Love - 13 nominations, 7 awards

1. Out of Africa - Watched 20/04/15 - gotta admit I didn't get into it

2. The Color Purple - watched 25/04/15 - awesome!

3. Kiss of the Spider Woman

4. Prizzi's Honour

5. Witness
THE STING

Tony Bill, Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips, Producers

NOMINEES

AMERICAN GRAFFITI

Francis Ford Coppola, Producer; Gary Kurtz, Co-Producer

CRIES AND WHISPERS

Ingmar Bergman, Producer

THE EXORCIST

William Peter Blatty, Producer

A TOUCH OF CLASS

Melvin Frank, Producer
Fiddler on the Roof-good

Nicholas and Alexandra-good but long

Clockwork Orange-bizarre and awful

French Connection-ok

The Last Picture Show
Best Picture



Driving Miss Daisy

Born on the Fourth of July

Dead Poets Society

Field of Dreams

My Left Foot
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