The Monkees

How about in like February or March we do a challenge to watch so many academy award winning films in the month?

Anyone?

R_3

Does this mean best picture or any academy award category?

RobCA

Sounds good, especially if you mean any category, not just Best Picture.

Rob

The Monkees

Yeah, any category...it could have won one award and it would be okay

JerryKILL

I think even "nominees" should count, really opens the door to many films, and interesting lists.

Drexl

Doesn't Turner Classic Movies show an academy award-winning movie each night of the month of the awards? That could help get people some more to watch.

The Monkees

I thought of that too. Sure why not?

Mr. Cinema

I'm all for it. Any Oscar nominated film. But I would have the contest in January or February. The Oscars are on 2/25/07. This would be a better contest as all genres are allowed. It's tough for me to devote an entire month to 1 type of film. Plus, you can watch Armageddon and it would count.

RobCA

...and My Cousin Vinny!

I like the idea of including Oscar nominees, I don't think I'd have all that many DVDs that qualify if it was just winners... looking forward to this!

Rob

Muad'Dib

I'm up for this one too. Feb would be a good month IMHO.

Giles

funny, I was thinking March...

no, there's March Madness, so nix that idea

exharrison

^Yeah, I'm ACC-territory born and raised. March is consumed by basketball.

NoirFan

Sounds good. Also like to do a film noir month, or a month for every decade.

JerryKILL

Horror, Christmas and Academy Awards I've been doing for a few years, so already in my schedule. I also do months for "animation" (all types thereof), and one month I call "Schlock-O-Rama" (inspired by Al Adamson, includes all types of 'schlock' cinema). I need to do a TV-on-DVD month to catch up with all of those box sets.

John Galt

What about an AFI Top 100 month? There's quite a few different top 100 lists that they have out.

kitkat

That sounds like fun. I'm not particularly interested in horror or holiday films - while there are plenty of examples of both genres that I do enjoy, I'd sooner gouge my eyes out than devote an entire month to either - but this i could get behind. I think i might play along if this goes forward, seeing as you all seem to have a good time doing these.

starman9000

Seems like limiting it to Oscar Winners would be better. There would still be a lot of movies to chose from. Oscar nominated seems almost to broad to bother with.

Mao

However, you could simply watch TCM's "30 Days of Oscar" and hit the jackpot!