Time flies when you're having fun. Back in May, I posted the final 100 of Oscar's Best Actress nominees I had yet to see. As that figure now nears fifty the number of Best Picture nominees left has just reached the century mark itself. I have purposely left tasty-looking options to avoid a stale anti-climax, and I've also tried to spread the films in terms of decades, although -- as you'll see -- there are rather a lot of 1920s/30s films remaining. I don't know much about many of them, so please feel free to chime in with suggestions of which to get out of the way and which to leave until last.
Here's the list:
1. *Wings (1927-28)
2. The Racket (1927-28)
3. Alibi (1928-29)
4. Hollywood Revue (1928-29)
5. In Old Arizona (1928-29)
6. The Patriot (1928-29)
7. The Big House (1929-30)
8. Disraeli (1929-30)
9. The Love Parade (1929-30)
10. East Lynne (1930-31)
11. Trader Horn (1930-31)
12. Arrowsmith (1931-32)
13. Five Star Final (1931-32)
14. The Smiling Lieutenant (1931-32)
15. Smilin’ Through (1932-33)
16. State Fair (1932-33)
17. Flirtation Walk (1934)
18. Here Comes the Navy (1934)
19. The House of Rothschild (1934)
20. Imitation of Life (1934)
21. Viva Villa! (1934)
22. The White Parade (1934)
23. The Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
24. David Copperfield (1935)
25. Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
26. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935)
27. Les Miserables (1935)
28. Naughty Marietta (1935)
29. Anthony Adverse (1936)
30. Libeled Lady (1936)
31. A Tale of Two Cities (1936)
32. The Good Earth (1937)
33. Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938)
34. Four Daughters (1938)
35. Test Pilot (1938)
36. Of Mice and Men (1939)
37. All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
38. The Great Dictator (1940)
39. The Long Voyage Home (1940)
40. Hold Back the Dawn (1941)41. One Foot in Heaven (1941)
42. Sergeant York (1941)
43. Kings Row (1942)
44. Wake Island (1942)
45. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
46. Watch on the Rhine (1943)
47. Wilson (1944)
48. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
49. Great Expectations (1947)
50. *Hamlet (1948)
51. Father of the Bride (1950)
52. King Solomon’s Mines (1950)
53. Decision Before Dawn (1951)
54. Quo Vadis? (1951)
55. Julius Caesar (1953)
56. The Rose Tattoo (1955)
57. Friendly Persuasion (1956)
58. The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
59. Sons and Lovers (1960)
60. Fanny (1961)
61. The Music Man (1962)
62. America, America (1963)
63. Cleopatra (1963)
64. Becket (1964)
65. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
66. A Thousand Clowns (1965)
67. The Sand Pebbles (1966)
68. *In the Heat of the Night (1967)
69. Doctor Dolittle (1967)
70. Romeo and Juliet (1968)
71. Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
72. Z (1969)
73. American Graffiti (1973)
74. The Towering Inferno (1974)
75. Barry Lyndon (1975)
76. All the President’s Men (1976)
77. Bound For Glory (1976)
78. *The Deer Hunter (1978)
79. Heaven Can Wait (1978)
80. Tess (1980)
81. *Gandhi (1982)
82. Tender Mercies (1983)
83. Kiss of the Spiderwoman (1985)
84. Prizzi’s Honor (1985)
85. The Accidental Tourist (1988)
86. Mississippi Burning (1988)
87. My Left Foot (1989)
88. The Godfather: Part III (1990)
89. Goodfellas (1990)
90. The Prince of Tides (1991)
91. A Few Good Men (1992)
92. Howard’s End (1992)
93. In the Name of the Father (1993)
94. *Braveheart (1995)
95. Il Postino (1995)
96. Jerry Maguire (1996)
97. Good Will Hunting (1997)
98. The Sixth Sense (1999)
99. Traffic (2000)
100. Gangs of New York (2002)
