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Old 01-07-09, 11:20 AM
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Re: The 3rd Annual Academy Award Movie Challenge (1/22 - 2/22)

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I know we have IMDB and Google and all that, but it is pretty unwieldy when you're dealing with hundreds of movies over 80 years of awards shows. I suppose I'm dreaming to think I will even watch that many movies to need to know all the technical winners or even nominees anyway.
What I did last year was just peruse my collection and pick out 10-15 movies that I want to watch and just go to IMDB and check them. It says right on the front under "awards" if it was nominated or won an Oscar, so you don't have to do any digging besides just going to the front page of the movie on IMDB.
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Casablanca and Gone with the Wind

^ I did a similar thing last year. Coincidentally, a lot of the movies I was watching were nominated for sound or music.

I am determined, however, to make this year the year I finally see Casablanca and Gone with the Wind.

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Re: The 3rd Annual Academy Award Movie Challenge (1/22 - 2/22)

has TCM announced/posted it's February calendar of films for their '30 Days of Oscar' yet?
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Re: The 3rd Annual Academy Award Movie Challenge (1/22 - 2/22)

Again, the TCM 31 Days of Oscar link is in the first post and yes I just checked it and the February schedule is on there.

And there is an Academy Award database link in the first post as well. You just type in the movie and it tells you if it's been nominated or won any Award.
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Re: The 3rd Annual Academy Award Movie Challenge (1/22 - 2/22)

Originally Posted by The Monkees
Again, the TCM 31 Days of Oscar link is in the first post and yes I just checked it and the February schedule is on there.

And there is an Academy Award database link in the first post as well. You just type in the movie and it tells you if it's been nominated or won any Award.
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Re: The 3rd Annual Academy Award Movie Challenge (1/22 - 2/22)

Just to clear something up. Is there a limit to how many times one can count a particular film IF there are multiple commentary tracks and each one is watched/listened to.
For example If I watch Casablanca. Then watch if again with the Ebert Commentary. Then WAtch it a 3rd time with the other commentary on can I count the film 3 times since it was watched/listened all 3 times.?
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Re: The 3rd Annual Academy Award Movie Challenge (1/22 - 2/22)

Originally Posted by chris_sc77
Just to clear something up. Is there a limit to how many times one can count a particular film IF there are multiple commentary tracks and each one is watched/listened to.
For example If I watch Casablanca. Then watch if again with the Ebert Commentary. Then WAtch it a 3rd time with the other commentary on can I count the film 3 times since it was watched/listened all 3 times.?
Yes. I never thought of that. But yes you can.
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Re: The 3rd Annual Academy Award Movie Challenge (1/22 - 2/22)

Looking forward to this, thanks again for hosting us.
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Re: The 3rd Annual Academy Award Movie Challenge (1/22 - 2/22)

Well, I'm fairly new to the board but I was lurking during the Holiday Challenge and I loved the idea, I figured I would have to wait until the horror one in October as I didn't know there was an Oscar one.

I'm ready to participate, although I'm setting a low, achievable goal for myself given it's my first challenge. I'm at a disadvantage to begin with as I don't get TCM.

Will give a reason to finally watch The Godfather Trilogy
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Re: The 3rd Annual Academy Award Movie Challenge (1/22 - 2/22)

Originally Posted by Corey31
Well, I'm fairly new to the board but I was lurking during the Holiday Challenge and I loved the idea, I figured I would have to wait until the horror one in October as I didn't know there was an Oscar one.

I'm ready to participate, although I'm setting a low, achievable goal for myself given it's my first challenge. I'm at a disadvantage to begin with as I don't get TCM.

Will give a reason to finally watch The Godfather Trilogy
There's also a Sci-Fi challenge in July, if I remember correctly.
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Re: The 3rd Annual Academy Award Movie Challenge (1/22 - 2/22)

Awesome. Time to use the database.
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time to finally watch forrest gump
Old 01-20-09, 01:42 AM
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Re: The 3rd Annual Academy Award Movie Challenge (1/22 - 2/22)

Lists thread is now up!

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/dvd-talk/54...ml#post9210240
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Re: The 3rd Annual Academy Award Movie Challenge (1/22 - 2/22)

Should we list what a film was nominated for in our lists?
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Re: The 3rd Annual Academy Award Movie Challenge (1/22 - 2/22)

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Should we list what a film was nominated for in our lists?
I do and most people also do, it makes it easier.
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Re: The 3rd Annual Academy Award Movie Challenge (1/22 - 2/22)

I made it to 53 last year, I would love to top that, but I have been terrible at watching movies lately, although I still have a few shorts collections on my netflix list I haven't watched yet, so maybe. Also really hope AMC runs the best picture nomination day again, it was so much fun last year, would love to make it a tradition. Thank you for running this contest again
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Re: The 3rd Annual Academy Award Movie Challenge (1/22 - 2/22)

I'll try this. I've been looking at my unwatched pile lately and trying to get myself to watch a few more. This should be just the motivation I need. I don't know how many I'll get to watch (surely not the 100 I did in October) but I'll shoot for 20. I'll probably try and stick primarily to Best Pictures I haven't seen.
Old 01-22-09, 01:58 AM
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Re: The 3rd Annual Academy Award Movie Challenge (1/22 - 2/22)

I decided to make a checklist, feel free to add to it:

Watch a Film Winner From the Following Decades:
--- 1920:
--- 1930:
--- 1940:
--- 1950:
--- 1960:
--- 1970:
--- 1980:
--- 1990:
--- 2000:

Watch a Winner from the Following Categories:

--- Best Picture:
--- Best Actor:
--- Best Actress:
--- Best Supporting Actor:
--- Best Supporting Actress:
--- Best Director:
--- Best Original Screenplay:
--- Best Adapted Screenplay:
--- Best Art Direction:
--- Best Film Editing:
--- Best Costume Design:
--- Best Original Score:
--- Best Original Song:
--- Best Makeup:
--- Best Foriegn Language Film:
--- Best Animated Film:
--- Best Animated Short:
--- Best Live Action Short:
--- Best Cinematography:
--- Best Sound:
--- Best Sound Effects Editing (or Best Sound Editing):
--- Best Visual Effects:
--- Best Documentary Feature:
--- Best Documentary (Short Subject):

Watch a Movie with the Following Rating:

--- G
--- PG
--- PG-13
--- R
--- Not Rated
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Re: The 3rd Annual Academy Award Movie Challenge (1/22 - 2/22)

It'd be nice if we could get the list thread set as a "sticky" ... maybe it can replace the Holiday Challenge list that's still up there.
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Re: The 3rd Annual Academy Award Movie Challenge (1/22 - 2/22)

Originally Posted by Fist of Doom
1/23/09 "She's bald, Jerry." "She's bald?" "She's bald!"
1. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Nominee: Art Direction, Visual Effects, Music)
2. Alien3 (Nominee: Visual Effects)
Love your theme for the day.
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Originally Posted by Walker Boh
It'd be nice if we could get the list thread set as a "sticky" ... maybe it can replace the Holiday Challenge list that's still up there.
I requested a sticky was blatantly ignored
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Re: The 3rd Annual Academy Award Movie Challenge (1/22 - 2/22)

Not much discussion for this challenge huh?

How's everyone doing? I've been doing a movie a day so far. I doubt I can keep that pace up, but it's giving me a good start towards my goal. Unfortunately, I had wanted to do half Best Pictures I'd never seen, but that may prove difficult. After going through my collection I've realized I own far fewer Best Pictures than I ever would have guessed.
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Yeah this one is usually pretty under the radar. But I've been trying for one a day too, but am falling a bit behind. I'm not usually really into this one anyway (regardless of the fact that I created it), I think it's because it's the 3rd challenge right in a row with very little down time. Plus it always falls into a point when I'm really into watching horror films since I go to a horror movie convention right after this challenge (usually the last weekend of the challenge is the convention, but not this year)
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I am doing better then I thought I would, and am also trying to do at least 1 a day, that is always a goal of mine, but I always end up screwing it up. I'm really trying to watch movies I've never seen before, especially movies I can't believe I've never seen before (i.e. Casablanca, West Side Story *which I did watch a few days ago*, Gone With the Wind, to name a few). What I think is helping is definitely the checklist. I have tried using one before, but what I did this time is pre-filled it out with the movies I want in each category, trying to only use each movie once. I love completing things, and having it all set is working great for me .
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So far I'm moving toward the goal. It just sucks that I'm watching all these movies and my DVR is steadily filling up with stuff. If I can keep with with two movies M-W and 4 movies Th-Sun then I should hit 100.

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