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Mao

Maybe it was my frame of mind...everyone loved "MTG". I felt disconnected from the subjects...

"Free Solo" is the one to beat, in my mind.

cultshock

If Kanopy is like Hoopla, it depends on what library system you used to sign up with, every system has a different inventory of books, movies, TV, music, etc.

Mao

Okay, I only have enough prizes for one lucky winner. They're all from my personal collection and opened:

Blu-Ray: Dances With Wolves: 20th Anniversary
Blu-Ray: In The Heat Of The Night
Blu-Ray: Shakespeare In Love

lisadoris

Woo hoo, prizes! Thank you Mao.

pacaway

I know, right?! I was thinking, "I guess I have to watch this skateboard movie," and then I was blown away! I would actually LOVE to see it win. But I'd be happy with Free Solo too. Hopefully those that saw FS were able to do so on a big screen (I'm sure it makes a difference).

pacaway

Interesting. I have to say that my library has an AMAZING selection so I hope you others feel the same about yours.

pacaway

Tonight I have The Matrix and Aliens in a theatre at a brand new little film festival here in Calgary called The Escape Film Festival. I will also be seeing E.T., Willow and Starship Troopers, all honored by the Academy, among other classics. Should be a fun weekend!

Darkgod

Mao

Final update --> https://forum.dvdtalk.com/dvd-talk/6...l#post13486396

Added "Border"

lisadoris

We're in the home stretch!

Darkgod

lisadoris

Last day of the challenge. Time to get those last minute views in. I think I'm going to end on Alfred Hitchcock. We're in for severe weather so hopefully, I will have electricity to actually watch movies today.

Trevor

My final day will involve trying to get Roma in at work, and then of course the awards tonight. Finished my personal checklist last week, didn’t really try on the Challenge checklist.

pacaway

Well, I can no longer say I've never seen E.T. and getting to see it in a theatre with a bunch of young families was a special treat!

Trevor

This was strangely synchronous. As a big MST3K fan, this time of year makes me often think of Marooned, aka Space Travelers, the late 1969 Gregory Peck and Gene Hackman film that to date is the only Oscar-winning film riffed by the show. I watch the episode/film pretty much every February for this Challenge. So today, the day of the Oscars, I’m watching Roma, the film set in 1969/1970 and expected to win best picture and other awards tonight, and darn if there isn’t mentions of and a big scene of them watching Marooned in a theater.

So Roma gets double credit, right?

Darkgod

shadokitty

lisadoris

Well, I didn't watch the ceremony (I never do) but there were some good surprises and some not so good surprises.

I kinda figured that The Green Book would win even though I was hoping it wouldn't. It's a film that makes white people feel good about racism so I had a feeling it would win. As folks are already predicting, this one's going down in history in the same vein as Driving Miss Daisy.

Maybe because the Academy knew the backlash they'd get for the Best Picture choice, several black people won: Regina King, Ruth Carter (finally), Hannah Beachler, Peter Ramsey, Mahershala Ali, and Spike Lee/Kevin Willmott.

What say you all: did the Academy get it right?

Cardsfan111

This challenge gives me an opportunity to watch classic films for the first time that I should have seen years ago. This year it was GoodFellas. I just about got to Citizen Kane, but I guess I will save it for 2020.

pacaway

I ended up with exactly the same total as last year, 38 views. However, with my effort to watch as many potential nominees as possible starting around October, I was able to see all but one by the time of Sunday's ceremony, the oddly allusive Never Look Away.

That left me wondering if I'll EVER get to see it... Why? Because I still have never been able to see the only nominee I haven't seen from the 2017 awards, the short film Watani: My Homeland. I don't understand why the producers don't make it available. What good is a documentary about as big an issue as families trying to flee the war-torn Syria if you don't let people see it? I just don't get it, don't they want their story told? I'd pay to see it, but it is completely unavailable, at least in Canada (but I don't see available anywhere else either). Strange.

pacaway

And thanks, lisadoris, for running one of my favourite challenges of the year.

And remember, all, that each category is voted on individually at the same time, and in particular the Best Picture category is scored with preferential balloting, so group collusion about awarding other people of colour to make up for the Green Book victory just isn't probable let alone possible. In fact, I'm sure the voters, who didn't even have to have it in first place on their ballot, thought a GB vote WAS a vote for another anti-racism movie. It may not have been the best choice, but it was high enough on everyone's ballot to score the win. In fact it could have won by being most voter's second choice as long as the first choices were scattered around, as this year's nominees likely were. I wonder what would have won in a straight up vote like in other categories?

lisadoris

They should just do straight up voting for the Best Picture winner though who knows if that would have changed the outcome. We did have Crash and Driving Miss Daisy win for Best Picture so, there's a history of this sort of thing.

Do folks have any suggestions for next year's challenge? I think I am going to put the Checklist in Alpha order since the Oscar Database lists the categories in Alpha order. 2018- will be added to the checklist years.

It doesn't look like too many people took advantage of the Razzie or the Movie That Should Have Been Nominated checklist categories so I can nix those.

Indy24LA

I used Groundhog Day for a movie that should have been nominated (screenplay), but didn't want to abuse it

shadokitty