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59 movies were nominated for Academy Awards this year. If you exclude the shorts (animated, live action and documentary) and the foreign language nominees– but include the full-length documentaries– that brings us down to 40 films. At my Oscars party last weekend, my friends had seen 21 of those 40 films, and I found that pretty impressive.
It gave me an idea…maybe your friends are watching more Oscar-type movies than you think. So based on an extremely unscientific poll of 13 random people (random to you, not me) all living in the District of Columbia, except for one lone friend/sister in northern Virginia, here it is: The Oscar-nominated films your friends checked out in 2009. So what do you think…are any of the movies they skipped worthy of your Netflix queue in 2010?
Movies They Caught
Avatar
The Blind Side
Coraline
Crazy Heart
District 9
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Food, Inc.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
Julie & Julia
Nine
Precious
A Serious Man
Sherlock Holmes
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Up
Up in the Air
The Young Victoria
Movies They Skipped
Bright Star
Burma VJ
Coco Before Chanel
The Cove
Il Divo
An Education
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
In the Loop
The Last Station
The Lovely Bones
The Messenger
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Paris 36
The Princess and the Frog
Province
The Secret of Kells
A Single Man
Which Way Home
The White Ribbon
I personally have “A Single Man” and “An Education” on my list – hear they are both fantastic.
An Education was also on my list but I didn’t get to see it, in part because when you go to the movies with other people you have to compromise on what you see!
An Education, Bright Star, A Single Man, Coco Before Chanel, The Princess and the Frog – all musts!!
Really want to see The Lovely Bones.