battlebeast
Senior HTF Member
SORRY EVERYONE, BUT I HAVE TO GLOAT.
I DID IT!!!!
On March 10th, 2010, I started a challenge to watch all 475 Best Picture Academy Award nominees in 365 Days. NOT ONLY THAT, but I watched ALL 10 OF THIS YEARS Best Picture nominees, too, making it 485 FILMS!
Well, as of 7:47 PM, March 6th, 2011, I DID IT!!!! AND, I DID IT FOUR DAYS UNDER!!! ALL 485!
I started on March 10th, 2010 with Up in the Air (2009) watching AT LEAST a film per day, and I finished today, March 6th 2011, with The Great Zeigfeld (1936). Actually, the final film was The Patriot (1928), but since it is a lost film, I could only watch the trailer.
I am sooooo proud of myself! I had to gloat! What an accomplishment!!!
I sacrificed A LOT to be able to watch all the films. First of all, I had almost all the films on DVD, and I thought to myself, unless I watch them all in a challenge, I'll never watch them at all. So I started with Up in the Air and also tried to review each one as I watched it. That became an impossibility, so I stuck to just watching the films.
I realized I had to find some of the films I didn't have copies of. So, I went on eBay and bought copies of the rare films. I also bought copies from the UK, downloaded the ones the studios won't release, and also recorded them off TCM (I owe them a GREAT BIG THANKS!)
In one way or another, one form or another, I now have a copy of 472 of the Best Pictures (Two are at UCLA, One is lost [Although I have the trailer].) I had to spend over $700 to go to UCLA in Los Angeles and view two films located ONLY in their Archives. I watched films while bathing, at a christmas dinner party, on vacations in florida and California, and I EVEN took a week off of work to watch films.
Crazy? Yup.
There were MANY nights I lacked sleep because I had to watch a movie or two; some days I watched up to FOUR films, all while still managing to have a life!
But I DID IT!!!! I have now seen ALL 485 films!!! AND IN ONE YEAR! GO ME!!!
BUT THANK GOD IT'S OVER!!! *collapses*
I DID IT!!!!
On March 10th, 2010, I started a challenge to watch all 475 Best Picture Academy Award nominees in 365 Days. NOT ONLY THAT, but I watched ALL 10 OF THIS YEARS Best Picture nominees, too, making it 485 FILMS!
Well, as of 7:47 PM, March 6th, 2011, I DID IT!!!! AND, I DID IT FOUR DAYS UNDER!!! ALL 485!
I started on March 10th, 2010 with Up in the Air (2009) watching AT LEAST a film per day, and I finished today, March 6th 2011, with The Great Zeigfeld (1936). Actually, the final film was The Patriot (1928), but since it is a lost film, I could only watch the trailer.
I am sooooo proud of myself! I had to gloat! What an accomplishment!!!
I sacrificed A LOT to be able to watch all the films. First of all, I had almost all the films on DVD, and I thought to myself, unless I watch them all in a challenge, I'll never watch them at all. So I started with Up in the Air and also tried to review each one as I watched it. That became an impossibility, so I stuck to just watching the films.
I realized I had to find some of the films I didn't have copies of. So, I went on eBay and bought copies of the rare films. I also bought copies from the UK, downloaded the ones the studios won't release, and also recorded them off TCM (I owe them a GREAT BIG THANKS!)
In one way or another, one form or another, I now have a copy of 472 of the Best Pictures (Two are at UCLA, One is lost [Although I have the trailer].) I had to spend over $700 to go to UCLA in Los Angeles and view two films located ONLY in their Archives. I watched films while bathing, at a christmas dinner party, on vacations in florida and California, and I EVEN took a week off of work to watch films.
Crazy? Yup.
There were MANY nights I lacked sleep because I had to watch a movie or two; some days I watched up to FOUR films, all while still managing to have a life!
But I DID IT!!!! I have now seen ALL 485 films!!! AND IN ONE YEAR! GO ME!!!
BUT THANK GOD IT'S OVER!!! *collapses*