Oscars

 Ok, since we're here, I've ranked all the 2023 Oscar nominees (in any category) I've seen, on how much I enjoyed them purely that.

1. Aftersun
2. The Quiet Girl
3. Tar
4. The Banshees
5. Women Talking
6. Top Gun: Maverick
7. Argentina, 1985
8. AQOTWF
9. EEAAO
10. The Fabelmans
11. Glass Onion
12. Elvis
13. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
14. Triangle of Sadness

And then, slightly absurdly, I've found all the films I've seen ever nominated for an Oscar (in Best Pic, Best Dir, Best Actor/Actress/Supporting Actor/Actress, Adapted/Original Screenplay, Animated Feature, International, Cinematography) and judged them either 1. all time favourite of mine 2. great film i remember massively enjoying 3. good, no problem, good film, enjoyed 4, either at the time or retrospectively, not so great. 5. really quite bad, plus 6, remember watching some but didn't finish, which may or may not say something in itself.

Interesting, I think the category where I've thought the Oscar winners were best might be Cinematography. Maybe not though. I think i just thought that because i went through that one last and was surprised that there were lots of distinct films that hadn't won in any of the other big categories, which i'd enjoyed. So it seemed quite a fresh list.

Category 1

• Casablanca
• The Deer Hunter
• Chariots of Fire
• Unforgiven
• The Graduate
• Brokeback Mountain
• Mary Poppins
• Klute
• Cool Hand Luke
• The Usual Suspects
• Marriage Story
• Minari
• Pulp Fiction

Category 2

• Rebecca
• All About Eve
• On the Waterfront
• The Apartment
• The Sound of Music
• In the Heat of the Night
• Oliver!
• Midnight Cowboy
• The Godfather
• The Sting
• The Godfather Pt 2
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Rocky
• Annie Hall
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Schindler's List
• Shakespeare in Love
• American Beauty
• The Departed
• No Country for Old Men
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Birdman
• Parasite
• Nomadland
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Saving Private Ryan
• Traffic
• Life of Pi
• Gravity
• The Power of the Dog
• The Philadelphia Story
• The Goodbye Girl
• Raging Bull
• Leaving Las Vegas
• There Will Be Blood
• Milk
• Lincoln
• The Theory of Everything
• King Richard
• Suspicion
• Hud
• Fargo
• Silver Linings Playbook
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Stagecoach
• The Last Picture Show
• An Officer and a Gentleman
• GoodFellas
• The Fugitive
• Good Will Hunting
• Adaptation
• Whiplash
• Tootsie
• LA Confidential
• The Constant Gardener
• Michael Clayton
• Boyhood
• West Side Story (2021)
• Citizen Kane
• The Lavender Hill Mob
• Chinatown
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Witness
• Dead Poets Society
• Thelma and Louise
• Almost Famous
• Gosford Park
• Talk to Her
• Get Out
• Dangerous Liaisons
• Sideways
• The Lives of Others
• The Secret in their Eyes
• The Third Man
• The Hustler
• Pan's Labyrinth
• 1917
• The Hurt Locker
• La-La Land

Category 3

• Gone With the Wind
• From Here to Eternity
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• West Side Story
• Lawrence of Arabia
• My Fair Lady
• The French Connection
• Amadeus
• Platoon
• Rain Man
• Dances with Wolves
• Forrest Gump
• The English Patient
• Million Dollar Baby
• The King's Speech
• The Artist
• Argo
• 12 Years a Slave
• Spotlight
• Moonlight
• Green Book
• Born on the Fourth of July
• The African Queen
• The King and I
• The Color of Money
• Wall Street
• My Left Foot
• Reversal of Fortune
• Philadelphia
• Traning Day
• As Good as it Gets
• Mystic River
• The Last King of Scotland
• Dallas Buyers Club
• Joker
• Roman Holiday
• Darling
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
• Howards End
• The Piano
• Dead Man Walking
• Monster's Ball
• The Hours
• Walk the Line
• The Queen
• La Vie En Rose
• The Reader
• Blue Jasmine
• Room
• Spartacus
• The Untouchables
• A Fish called Wanda
• City Slickers
• Jerry Maguire
• The Dark Knight
• Little Miss Sunshine
• The Fighter
• Django Unchained
• Bridge of Spies
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
• Judas and the Black Messiah
• Key Largo
• Bonnie and Clyde
• A Passage to India
• Ghost
• My Cousin Vinny
• Cold Mountain
• The Aviator
• Les Miserables
• Pillow Talk
• Butch Cassidy
• Breaking Away
• Lost in Translation
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Juno
• Midnight in Paris
• Her
• Promising Young Woman
• Belfast
• Doctor Zhivago
• A Room with a View
• The Social Network
• The Descendants
• The Imitation Game
• The Big Short
• Jojo Rabbit
• Bicycle Thieves
• Crouching Tiger
• Encanto
• Toy Story 4
• Toy Story 3
• Frozen
• Coco
• Inside Out
• Brave
• Finding Nemo
• Black Narcissus
• She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
• To Catch a Thief
• Spartacus
• The Towering Inferno
• Apocalypse Now
• JFK
• A River Runs Through It
• Road to Perdition
• Avatar
• Inception
• Hugo
• Mank
• Dune

Category 4

• Titanic
• Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King
• Gladiator
• Crash
• Captains Courageous
• Scent of a Woman
• Black Swan
• Judy
• Cocoon
• Inglourious Basterds
• Murder on the Orient Express
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• BlackKklansman
• Great Expectations

Category 5

• CODA
• The Revenant
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• The Iron Lady

Unfinished

• An American in Paris
• Around the World in 80 Days
• Kramer vs Kramer
• Gandhi
• Driving Miss Daisy
• Braveheart
• Cabaret
• Roma
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• On Golden Pond
• Gandhi
• Ray
• Crazy Heart
• Darkest Hour
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• Miracle on 34th Street
• Hannah and her Sisters
• Beginners
• Close Encounters
• Days of Heaven
• Tess