The 1st Annual Academy Award Movie Challenge (January 25, 2007 to February 25, 2007)
01-01-07, 02:46 PM
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The 1st Annual Academy Award Movie Challenge (January 25, 2007 to February 25, 2007)
With the success of the Horror Movie Challenge and the Holiday Movie Challenge for the last 2 years I thought up this neat new idea for a challenge. With the upcoming Acadmey Awards coming soon (February 25th) we will start up a new challenge.
The object of this new challenge is just like the horror movie challenge. The goal is 100 movies in one month.
Here of the Official Rules:
-The movies can be films that won Academy Awards or were nominated and lost.
-It doesn't matter what the film was nominated for Best Picture or Best Art Direction it will count as long as it was nominated or won.
-A movie can be viewed once normally then with a commentary and you can count that twice.
-NEW RULE You can NO LONGER watch sequels to films that have won Best Picture. I chose to drop this as an allowment because it really doesn't make much sense. Also while going through my own movies I found tons of films that were nominated that I didn't even know about.
The thread is up to put your lists in here:
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=490524
The challenge begins at 12:00 midnight on Thursday January 25, 2007. A new thread will be started to post the lists in again. Everyone is invited!
The object of this new challenge is just like the horror movie challenge. The goal is 100 movies in one month.
Here of the Official Rules:
-The movies can be films that won Academy Awards or were nominated and lost.
-It doesn't matter what the film was nominated for Best Picture or Best Art Direction it will count as long as it was nominated or won.
-A movie can be viewed once normally then with a commentary and you can count that twice.
-NEW RULE You can NO LONGER watch sequels to films that have won Best Picture. I chose to drop this as an allowment because it really doesn't make much sense. Also while going through my own movies I found tons of films that were nominated that I didn't even know about.
The thread is up to put your lists in here:
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=490524
The challenge begins at 12:00 midnight on Thursday January 25, 2007. A new thread will be started to post the lists in again. Everyone is invited!
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01-01-07, 02:58 PM
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Count me in, I need to get caught up on some of the Academy nominated movies and performances from the last few years....this way I am motivated and in full swing to win this year's office pool 
Question: Can we count Academy nominated 'performances' in the challenge? I have yet to watch Walk the Line for Reese Witherspoon's performance (in fact, I've not seen most from last year).
Question: Can we count Academy nominated 'performances' in the challenge? I have yet to watch Walk the Line for Reese Witherspoon's performance (in fact, I've not seen most from last year).
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01-01-07, 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Sparrow
Question: Can we count Academy nominated 'performances' in the challenge? I have yet to watch Walk the Line for Reese Witherspoon's performance (in fact, I've not seen most from last year).
Originally Posted by TomOpus
What about Best Documentary (feature/short), Short (animated/live), Animated Feature?
Originally Posted by Bill Geiger
Shouldn't this be in the Movie forum?
01-01-07, 04:49 PM
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With college and two jobs I don't think I could watch 100 films in a month (though I can try,) but this may give me the proper motivation to finally catch up on the 20 or so Best Picture winners I have yet to watch.
01-01-07, 06:44 PM
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I don't get why this one was moved, when the last two weren't. Oh well...
I came up with 75 DVDs that will qualify for this challenge; I put them in a separate DVDSpot filter, so that I'll know which ones I still need to watch... I doubt I'll be able to watch them all, but my goal is to at least get to 50.
Rob
I came up with 75 DVDs that will qualify for this challenge; I put them in a separate DVDSpot filter, so that I'll know which ones I still need to watch... I doubt I'll be able to watch them all, but my goal is to at least get to 50.
Rob
01-01-07, 07:19 PM
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I went through my collection and I have 87 movies that qualify. I am debating if I should watch movies I have already seen, or if I should watch movies that I normally would not watch. I guess I have a little time to think about it.
01-01-07, 09:50 PM
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Shoot, I only watched 130 or so movies in all of 2006. I doubt I could watch 100 movies all in one month (even if I was inclined to, which I'm not, I have other things I like to do as well!). But have fun all, sounds like a daunting challenge!
01-03-07, 11:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Dalvin
If Helen Mirren doesn't win Best Actress for her role in "The Queen" it will be a travesty.
I'll plan to draft up a list as well, this challenge should be exceedingly fun.