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Our Oscar Picks and Why We "Only" Saw 9 Out of 10 Best Pictures this Year
When my wife and I met in college(!), she wrote in a dorm survey that her perfect date was a night of "old movies and dumb jokes."  Anyone who knows me knows that I don't know any clever jokes, so I was in 50% from the get-go. Our relationship developed watching old movies together.
Eventually, we graduated from silents to talkies from talkies to the golden age and the golden age to independents.  But throughout our movie journey, we tried to make sure we saw the Oscar-nominated movies. 
The first year I remember consciously trying to see all of the Best Picture nominees was 1996, when Shine was hard enough to see in the local theater, but Secrets and Lies took some actual work.  That particular year in movies, which included Fargo, The English Patient, and Jerry Maguire, had enough of an impact on me that from then on I wanted to see all of the Oscar nominees every year.
We were able to see all of the Best Picture nominees again in 1997, 2000, and 2004, but most years we were only able to see 3 or 4 of the Best Picture nominees before the ceremony (after the ceremony, I ... more

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