The Oscar Challenge
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009Each year, when the Oscar nominees are announced, I set myself a challenge to see as many of the nominees as I can before the awards are given.
I never do particularly well with this challenge — for example, of the 44 films nominated last year, I saw only 12. But this year’s nominations have been announced, so once again I’m going to give it a try. It’s a little easier this time in that there are only 36 films nominated this year, and I’ve already seen five of them.
Will I be able to see 31 movies in the next 31 days? Almost assuredly not, but I’m going to give it my all.
(For the record: the five I’ve seen are The Dark Knight, Iron Man, Rachel Getting Married, Tropic Thunder, and WALL•E. Not a Best Picture nominee in the bunch, but at least I’ve knocked out two Best Supporting Actors, a Best Leading Actress, and a Best Original Screenplay…)