Oscar Vault Monday
Oscar Vault Monday is my attempt to discuss one film from each year of the Academy Awards’ 83-year history. After I’ve discussed a film from each year, I will begin to repeat years. The number inside the brackets [ ] indicates in which ceremony the film was nominated.
- 04.19.10 – Quiz Show, 1994 (dir. Robert Redford) [67th]
- 04.26.10 – The Color Purple, 1985 (dir. Steven Spielberg) [58th]
- 05.03.10 – L.A. Confidential, 1997 (dir. Curtis Hanson) [70th]
- 05.17.10 – The Goodbye Girl, 1977 (dir. Herbert Ross) [50th]
- 05.31.10 – The Thin Red Line, 1998 (dir. Terrence Malick) [71st]
- 06.07.10 – Gosford Park, 2001 (dir. Robert Altman) [74th]
- 06.14.10 – The Cider House Rules, 1999 (dir. Lasse Hallström) [72nd]
- 06.21.10 – Chinatown, 1974 (dir. Roman Polanski) [47th]
- 06.28.10 – Sunset Blvd., 1950 (dir. Billy Wilder) [23rd]
- 07.05.10 – Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981 (dir. Steven Spielberg) [54th]
- 07.12.10 – Giant, 1956 (dir. George Stevens) [29th]
- 07.19.10 – A Clockwork Orange, 1971 (dir. Stanley Kubrick) [44th]
- 07.26.10 – Babe, 1995 (dir. Chris Noonan) [68th]
- 08.02.10 – Moonstruck, 1987 (dir. Norman Jewison) [60th]
- 08.09.10 – Chocolat, 2000 (dir. Lasse Hallström) [73rd]
- 08.16.10 – Jaws, 1975 (dir. Steven Spielberg) [48th]
- 08.23.10 – Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, 1958 (dir. Richard Brooks) [31st]
- 08.30.10 – A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951 (dir. Elia Kazan) [24th]
- 09.06.10 – American Graffiti, 1973 (dir. George Lucas) [46th]
- 09.13.10 – Beauty and the Beast, 1991 (dir. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise) [64th]
- 09.20.10 – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1966 (dir. Mike Nichols) [39th]
- 09.28.10 – La grande illusion, 1937 (dir. Jean Renoir) [11th]
- 10.04.10 – Goodfellas, 1990 (dir. Martin Scorsese) [63rd]
- 10.11.10 – Working Girl, 1988 (dir. Mike Nichols) [61st]
- 10.18.10 – Citizen Kane, 1941 (dir. Orson Welles) [14th]
- 10.25.10 – Funny Girl, 1968 (dir. William Wyler) [41st]
- 11.08.10 – Lilies of the Field, 1963 (dir. Ralph Nelson) [36th]
- 11.15.10 – The Crying Game, 1992 (dir. Neil Jordan) [65th]
- 11.22.10 – The Red Shoes, 1948 (dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger) [21st]
- 11.29.10 – Sounder, 1972 (dir. Martin Ritt) [45th]
- 12.06.10 – Heaven Can Wait, 1978 (dir. Warren Beatty, Buck Henry) [51st]
- 12.13.10 – The Bishop’s Wife, 1947 (dir. Henry Koster) [20th]
- 12.20.10 – It’s A Wonderful Life, 1946 (dir. Frank Capra) [19th]
- 12.27.10 – Capote, 2005 (dir. Bennett Miller) [78th]
- 01.03.11 – Raging Bull, 1980 (dir. Martin Scorsese) [53rd]
- 01.10.11 – The Piano, 1993 (dir. Jane Campion) [66th]
- 01.17.11 – Double Indemnity, 1944 (dir. Billy Wilder) [17th]
- 01.24.11 – Missing, 1981 (dir. Costa-Gavras) [55th]
- 01.31.11 – The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942 (dir. Orson Welles) [15th]
- 02.07.11 – The Divorcee, 1930 (dir. Robert Z. Leonard) [3rd]
- 02.14.11 – I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang, 1932 (dir. Mervyn LeRoy) [6th]
- 02.21.11 – Of Mice and Men, 1939 (dir. Lewis Milestone) [12th]
- 02.28.11 – Ship Of Fools, 1965 (dir. Stanley Kramer) [38th]
- 03.07.11 – High Noon, 1952 (dir. Fred Zinnemann) [25th]
- 03.14.11 – Apocalypse Now, 1979 (dir. Francis Ford Coppola) [52nd]
- 03.21.11 – Hannah and Her Sisters, 1986 (dir. Woody Allen) [59th]
- 03.28.11 – Atonement, 2007 (dir. Joe Wright) [80th]
- 04.04.11 – Jerry Maguire, 1996 (dir. Cameron Crowe) [69th]
- 04.11.11 – 12 Angry Men, 1957 (dir. Sidney Lumet) [30th]
- 04.18.11 – The More The Merrier, 1943 (dir. George Stevens) [16th]
- 04.25.11 – Roman Holiday, 1953 (dir. William Wyler) [26h]
- 05.02.11 – Mystic River, 2003 (dir. Clint Eastwood) [76th]
- 05.09.11 – A Star Is Born, 1937 (dir. William A. Wellman) [10th]
- 05.16.11 – Libeled Lady, 1936 (dir. Jack Conway) [9th]
- 05.23.11 – Picnic, 1955 (dir. Joshua Logan) [28th]
- 05.30.11 – Anatomy of a Murder, 1959 (dir. Otto Preminger) [32nd]
- 06.06.11 – Shanghai Express, 1932 (dir. Josef von Sternberg) [5th]
- 06.13.11 – Bonnie and Clyde, 1967 (dir. Arthur Penn) [40th]
- 06.20.11 – The Right Stuff, 1983 (dir. Philip Kaufman [56th]
- 06.27.11 – Milk, 2008 (dir. Gus Van Sant) [81st]
- 07.04.11 – Born On The Fourth of July, 1989 (dir. Oliver Stone) [62nd]
- 07.11.11 – The Racket, 1928 (dir. Lewis Milestone) [1st]
- 07.18.11 – A Serious Man, 2009 (dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen) [82nd]
- 08.01.11 – The Front Page, 1931 (dir. Lewis Milestone) [4th]
- 08.08.11 – Top Hat, 1935 (dir. Martin Sandrich) [8th]
- 08.15.11 – The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, 2002 (dir. Peter Jackson) [75th]
- 08.22.11 – The Aviator, 2004 (dir. Martin Scorsese) [77th]
- 08.29.11 – Network, 1976 (dir. Sidney Lumet) [49th]
- 09.05.11 – Three Coins In The Fountain, 1954 (dir. Jean Negulesco) [27th]
- 09.12.11 – Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, 1964 (dir. Stanley Kubrick) [37th]
- 09.19.11 – Mildred Pierce, 1945 (dir. Michael Curtiz) [18th]
- 09.26.11 – Elmer Gantry, 1960 (dir. Richard Brooks) [33rd]
- 10.03.11 – The Hustler, 1961 (dir. Robert Rossen) [34th]
- 10.10.11 – The Killing Fields, 1984 (dir. Roland Joffé) [57th]
- 10.17.11 – The Philadelphia Story, 1940 (dir. George Cukor) [13th]
- 10.24.11 – The Thin Man, 1934 (dir. W. S. Van Dyke) [7th]
- 10.31. 11 – In Old Arizona, 1928 (dir. Irving Cummings) [2nd]
- 11.07.11 – Little Miss Sunshine, 2006 (dir. Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris) [79th]
- 11.14.11 – The Heiress, 1949 (dir. William Wyler) [22nd]
- 11.21.11 – Five Easy Pieces, 1970 (dir. Bob Rafelson) [43rd]
- 11.28.11 – To Kill A Mockingbird, 1962 (dir. Robert Mulligan) [35th]
- 12.05.11 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969 (dir. George Roy Hill) [42nd]
- 12.12.11 – Winter’s Bone, 2010 (dir. Debra Granik) [83rd]
- 08.06.12 – Seventh Heaven, 1927 (dir. Frank Borzage) [1st]
- 08.13.12 – Spellbound, 1945 (dir. Alfred Hitchcock) [18th]
- 08.20.12 – State Fair, 1933 (dir. Henry King) [6th]
- 08.27.12 – Mississippi Burning, 1988 (dir. Alan Parker) [61st]
- 09.03.12 – Lost in Translation, 2003 (dir. Sofia Coppola) [76th]
- 09.10.12 – A Thousand Clowns, 1965 (dir. Fred Coe) [38th]
- 09.17.12 – In the Name of the Father, 1993 (dir. Jim Sheridan)[66th]
- 09.24.12 – Good Will Hunting, 1997 (dir. Gus Van Sant) [70th]
- 10.01.12 – A Place in the Sun, 1951 (dir. George Stevens) [24th]
- 10.08.12 – Ghost, 1990 (dir. Jerry Zucker) [63rd]
- 10.15.12 – Gaslight, 1944 (dir. George Cukor) [17th]
- 10.22.12 – Love Story, 1970 (dir. Arthur Hiller) [43rd]
- 10.29.12 – The Exorcist, 1973 (dir. William Friedkin) [46th]
- 11.05.12 – The Maltese Falcon, 1941 (dir. John Huston) [14th]
- 11.12.12 – Dead End, 1937 (dir. William Wyler) [10th]
- 11.19.12 – Crossfire, 1947 (dir. Edward Dmytryk) [20th]
- 11.26.12 – Witness for the Prosecution, 1957 (dir. Billy Wilder) [30th]
- 12.03.12 – Jezebel, 1938 (dir. William Wyler) [11th]
- 12.10.12 – The Elephant Man, 1980 (dir. David Lynch) [53rd]
- 12.17.12 – A Few Good Men, 1992 (dir. Rob Reiner) [65th]
- 12.24.12 – Born Yesterday, 1950 (dir. George Cukor) [23rd]
- 12.31.12 – Moulin Rouge!, 2001 (dir. Baz Luhrmann) [74th]
- 01.21.13 – Taxi Driver, 1976 (dir. Martin Scorsese) [49th]
- 01.28.13 – The Towering Inferno, 1974 (dir. John Guillermin) [47th]
- 02.04.13 – Cabaret, 1972 (dir. Bob Fosse) [45th]
- 02.11.13 – Four Weddings and a Funeral, 1994 (dir. Mike Newell) [67th]
- 02.18.13 – Random Harvest, 1942 (dir. Mervyn LeRoy) [15th]
- 02.25.13 – La vita è bella (Life Is Beautiful), 1998 (dir. Roberto Benigni) [71st]
- 03.04.13 – The Graduate, 1967 (dir. Mike Nichols) [40th]
- 03.11.13 – Sense and Sensibility, 1995 (dir. Ang Lee) [68th]
- 03.18.13 – A Room with a View, 1986 (dir. James Ivory) [59th]
- 03.25.13 – The Ten Commandments, 1956 (dir. Cecil B. DeMille) [29th]
- 04.01.13 – Dodsworth, 1936 (dir. William Wyler) [9th]
- 04.08.13 – Good Night, and Good Luck., 2005 (dir. George Clooney) [78th]
- 05.06.13 – Midnight in Paris, 2011 (dir. Woody Allen) [84th]
- 05.13.13 – The Last Picture Show, 1971 (dir. Peter Bogdanovich) [44th]
- 05.20.13 – Tootsie, 1982 (dir. Sydney Pollack) [55th]
- 05.27.13 – The Longest Day, 1962 (dir. Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton and Bernhard Wicki) [35th]
- 06.10.13 – Johnny Belinda, 1948 (dir. Jean Negulesco) [21st]
- 06.17.13 – The Hollywood Revue of 1929, 1929 (dir. Charles Reisner) [2nd]
- 06.24.13 – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 2000 (dir. Ang Lee) [73rd]
- 07.01.13 – Inglourious Basterds, 2009 (dir. Quentin Tarantino) [82nd]
- 07.08.13 – Dead Poets Society, 1989 (dir. Peter Weir) [62nd]
- 07.29.13 – Places in the Heart, 1984 (dir. Robert Benton) [57th]
- 08.05.13 – Skippy, 1931 (dir. Norman Taurog) [4th]
- 08.12.13 – The Champ, 1931 (dir. King Vidor) [5th]
- 08.19.13 – Dog Day Afternoon, 1975 (dir. Sidney Lumet) [48th]
- 08.26.13 – Rachel, Rachel, 1968 (dir. Paul Newman) [41st]
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