Matt vs. the Academy

The Films

Here is the rather daunting list of all the films that will be taking part in this insane challenge. All 485 of them! Once a film has been viewed, a link to its related blog post will appear beside it. In the final column, you can compare my favorites of each year with the Academy's pick (i.e. the film that actually won Best Picture). To see the verdict comparison side by side, go to The Verdicts.

P.S. The list is entirely sortable, so knock yourself out.

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Year	Nominated Film	Watched on...	Date	Verdict
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1927-28	7th Heaven	Day 118	December 14, 2009	Matt's Choice
1927-28	The Racket	Day 115	December 11, 2009
1927-28	Wings	Day 121	December 17, 2009	Academy's Choice
1928-29	Alibi
1928-29	Hollywood Revue
1928-29	In Old Arizona
1928-29	The Broadway Melody			Academy's Choice
1928-29	The Patriot
1929-30	All Quiet on the Western Front	Day 824	November 20, 2011	Academy's & Matt's Choice
1929-30	Disraeli	Day 832	November 28, 2011
1929-30	The Big House	Day 839	December 5, 2011
1929-30	The Divorcee	Day 817	November 13, 2011
1929-30	The Love Parade	Day 812	November 8, 2011
1930-31	Cimarron	Day 521	January 21, 2011	Academy's Choice
1930-31	East Lynne	Day 513	January 13, 2011
1930-31	Skippy	Day 513	January 13, 2011	Matt's Choice
1930-31	The Front Page	Day 530	January 30, 2011
1930-31	Trader Horn	Day 535	February 3, 2011
1931-32	Arrowsmith
1931-32	Bad Girl
1931-32	Five Star Final
1931-32	Grand Hotel			Academy's Choice
1931-32	One Hour With You
1931-32	Shanghai Express
1931-32	The Champ
1931-32	The Smiling Lieutenant
1932-33	42nd Street
1932-33	A Farewell to Arms
1932-33	Cavalcade			Academy's Choice
1932-33	I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932-33	Lady for a Day
1932-33	Little Women
1932-33	She Done Him Wrong
1932-33	Smilin' Through
1932-33	State Fair
1932-33	The Private Life of Henry VIII
1934	Cleopatra
1934	Flirtation Walk
1934	Here Comes the Navy
1934	Imitation of Life
1934	It Happened One Night			Academy's Choice
1934	One Night of Love
1934	The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1934	The Gay Divorcee
1934	The House of Rothschild
1934	The Thin Man
1934	The White Parade
1934	Viva Villa!
1935	Alice Adams
1935	A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935	Broadway Melody of 1936
1935	Captain Blood
1935	David Copperfield
1935	Les Miserables
1935	Mutiny on the Bounty			Academy's Choice
1935	Naughty Marietta
1935	Ruggles of Red Gap
1935	The Informer
1935	The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1935	Top Hat
1936	Anthony Adverse
1936	A Tale of Two Cities
1936	Dodsworth
1936	Libeled Lady
1936	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936	Romeo and Juliet
1936	San Francisco
1936	The Great Ziegfeld			Academy's Choice
1936	The Story of Louis Pasteur
1936	Three Smart Girls
1937	A Star Is Born	Day 219	March 25, 2010
1937	Captains Courageous	Day 230	April 5, 2010
1937	Dead End	Day 211	March 17, 2010
1937	In Old Chicago	Day 216	March 22, 2010
1937	Lost Horizon	Day 195	March 1, 2010
1937	One Hundred Men and a Girl	Day 207	March 13, 2010
1937	Stage Door	Day 203	March 9, 2010
1937	The Awful Truth	Day 224	March 30, 2010
1937	The Good Earth	Day 191	February 25, 2010
1937	The Life of Emile Zola	Day 199	March 5, 2010	Academy's & Matt's Choice
1938	Alexander's Ragtime Band
1938	Boys Town
1938	Four Daughters
1938	Grand Illusion
1938	Jezebel
1938	Pygmalion
1938	Test Pilot
1938	The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938	The Citadel
1938	You Can't Take it With You			Academy's Choice
1939	Dark Victory	Day 16	September 3, 2009
1939	Gone With the Wind	Day 20	September 7, 2009	Academy's & Matt's Choice
1939	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Day 16	September 3, 2009
1939	Love Affair	Day 30	September 17, 2009
1939	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Day 28	September 15, 2009
1939	Ninotchka	Day 22	September 9, 2009
1939	Of Mice and Men	Day 18	September 5, 2009
1939	Stagecoach	Day 17	September 4, 2009
1939	The Wizard of Oz	Day 21	September 8, 2009
1939	Wuthering Heights	Day 14	September 1, 2009
1940	All This, and Heaven Too	Day 322	July 6, 2010
1940	Foreign Correspondent	Day 317	July 1, 2010
1940	Kitty Foyle	Day 333	July 17, 2010
1940	Our Town	Day 370	August 23, 2010
1940	Rebecca	Day 336	July 20, 2010	Academy's Choice
1940	The Grapes of Wrath	Day 379	September 1, 2010
1940	The Great Dictator	Day 386	September 8, 2010	Matt's Choice
1940	The Letter	Day 356	August 9, 2010
1940	The Long Voyage Home	Day 315	June 29, 2010
1940	The Philadelphia Story	Day 326	July 10, 2010
1941	Blossoms in the Dust
1941	Citizen Kane
1941	Here Comes Mr. Jordan
1941	Hold Back the Dawn
1941	How Green Was My Valley			Academy's Choice
1941	One Foot in Heaven
1941	Sergeant York
1941	Suspicion
1941	The Little Foxes
1941	The Maltese Falcon
1942	Kings Row
1942	Mrs. Miniver			Academy's Choice
1942	Random Harvest
1942	The Invaders
1942	The Magnificent Ambersons
1942	The Pied Piper
1942	The Pride of the Yankees
1942	The Talk of the Town
1942	Wake Island
1942	Yankee Doodle Dandy
1943	Casablanca			Academy's Choice
1943	For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943	Heaven Can Wait
1943	In Which We Serve
1943	Madame Curie
1943	The Human Comedy
1943	The More the Merrier
1943	The Ox-Bow Incident
1943	The Song of Bernadette
1943	Watch on the Rhine
1944	Double Indemnity	Day 107	December 3, 2009	Matt's Choice
1944	Gaslight	Day 95	November 20, 2009
1944	Going My Way	Day 108	December 4, 2009	Academy's Choice
1944	Since You Went Away	Day 105	December 1, 2009
1944	Wilson	Day 100	November 25, 2009
1945	Anchors Aweigh
1945	Mildred Pierce
1945	Spellbound
1945	The Bells of St. Mary's
1945	The Lost Weekend			Academy's Choice
1946	Henry V
1946	It's a Wonderful Life
1946	The Best Years of Our Lives			Academy's Choice
1946	The Razor's Edge
1946	The Yearling
1947	Crossfire
1947	Gentleman's Agreement			Academy's Choice
1947	Great Expectations
1947	Miracle on 34th Street
1947	The Bishop's Wife
1948	Hamlet	Day 632	May 12, 2011	Academy's & Matt's Choice
1948	Johnny Belinda	Day 652	June 1, 2011
1948	The Red Shoes	Day 645	May 25, 2011
1948	The Snake Pit	Day 626	May 6, 2011
1948	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	Day 620	April 30, 2011
1949	A Letter to Three Wives
1949	All the King's Men			Academy's Choice
1949	Battleground
1949	The Heiress
1949	Twelve O'Clock High
1950	All About Eve	Day 275	May 20, 2010	Academy's Choice
1950	Born Yesterday	Day 289	June 3, 2010
1950	Father of the Bride	Day 283	May 28, 2010
1950	King Solomon's Mines	Day 280	May 25, 2010
1950	Sunset Boulevard	Day 273	May 18, 2010	Matt's Choice
1951	An American in Paris	Day 486	December 17, 2010	Academy's Choice
1951	A Place in the Sun	Day 483	December 14, 2010	Matt's Choice
1951	A Streetcar Named Desire	Day 498	December 29, 2010
1951	Decision Before Dawn	Day 489	December 20, 2010
1951	Quo Vadis	Day 504	January 4, 2011
1952	High Noon
1952	Ivanhoe
1952	Moulin Rouge
1952	The Greatest Show on Earth			Academy's Choice
1952	The Quiet Man
1953	From Here to Eternity			Academy's Choice
1953	Julius Caesar
1953	Roman Holiday
1953	Shane
1953	The Robe
1954	On the Waterfront			Academy's Choice
1954	Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1954	The Caine Mutiny
1954	The Country Girl
1954	Three Coins in the Fountain
1955	Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
1955	Marty			Academy's Choice
1955	Mister Roberts
1955	Picnic
1955	The Rose Tattoo
1956	Around the World in 80 Days	Day 76	November 1, 2009	Academy's Choice
1956	Friendly Persuasion	Day 67	October 23, 2009
1956	Giant	Day 73	October 29, 2009	Matt's Choice
1956	The King and I	Day 64	October 20, 2009
1956	The Ten Commandments	Day 69	October 25, 2009
1957	12 Angry Men
1957	Peyton Place
1957	Sayonara
1957	The Bridge on the River Kwai			Academy's Choice
1957	Witness for the Prosecution
1958	Auntie Mame
1958	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958	Gigi			Academy's Choice
1958	Separate Tables
1958	The Defiant Ones
1959	Anatomy of a Murder
1959	Ben-Hur	Day 969	April 13, 2012	Academy's Choice
1959	Room at the Top	Day 984	April 28, 2012
1959	The Diary of Anne Frank	Day 992	May 6, 2012
1959	The Nun's Story	Day 1004	May 18, 2012
1960	Elmer Gantry
1960	Sons and Lovers
1960	The Alamo
1960	The Apartment			Academy's Choice
1960	The Sundowners
1961	Fanny
1961	Judgment at Nuremberg
1961	The Guns of Navarone
1961	The Hustler
1961	West Side Story			Academy's Choice
1962	Lawrence of Arabia	Day 428	October 20, 2010	Academy's & Matt's Choice
1962	Mutiny on the Bounty	Day 444	November 5, 2010
1962	The Longest Day	Day 423	October 15, 2010
1962	The Music Man	Day 439	October 31, 2010
1962	To Kill a Mockingbird	Day 435	October 27, 2010
1963	America America
1963	Cleopatra
1963	How the West Was Won
1963	Lilies of the Field
1963	Tom Jones			Academy's Choice
1964	Becket	Day 154	January 19, 2010
1964	Dr. Strangelove	Day 157	January 22, 2010	Matt's Choice
1964	Mary Poppins	Day 162	January 27, 2010
1964	My Fair Lady	Day 164	January 29, 2010	Academy's Choice
1964	Zorba the Greek	Day 151	January 16, 2010
1965	A Thousand Clowns
1965	Darling
1965	Doctor Zhivago
1965	Ship of Fools
1965	The Sound of Music			Academy's Choice
1966	Alfie	Day 4	August 22, 2009
1966	A Man for All Seasons	Day 1	August 19, 2009	Academy's & Matt's Choice
1966	The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming	Day 3	August 21, 2009
1966	The Sand Pebbles	Day 6	August 24, 2009
1966	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Day 2	August 20, 2009
1967	Bonnie and Clyde	Day 724	August 12, 2011
1967	Doctor Dolittle	Day 742	August 30, 2011
1967	Guess Who's Coming To Dinner	Day 718	August 6, 2011
1967	In the Heat of the Night	Day 737	August 25, 2011	Academy's Choice
1967	The Graduate	Day 731	August 19, 2011	Matt's Choice
1968	Funny Girl
1968	Oliver!			Academy's Choice
1968	Rachel, Rachel
1968	Romeo and Juliet
1968	The Lion in Winter
1969	Anne of the Thousand Days
1969	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969	Hello, Dolly!
1969	Midnight Cowboy			Academy's Choice
1969	Z
1970	Airport
1970	Five Easy Pieces
1970	Love Story
1970	MAS*H
1970	Patton			Academy's Choice
1971	A Clockwork Orange
1971	Fiddler on the Roof
1971	Nicholas and Alexandra
1971	The French Connection			Academy's Choice
1971	The Last Picture Show
1972	Cabaret
1972	Deliverance
1972	Sounder
1972	The Emigrants
1972	The Godfather			Academy's Choice
1973	American Graffiti	Day 583	March 24, 2011
1973	A Touch of Class	Day 611	April 21, 2011
1973	Cries and Whispers	Day 598	April 8, 2011
1973	The Exorcist	Day 605	April 15, 2011
1973	The Sting	Day 590	March 31, 2011	Academy's & Matt's Choice
1974	Chinatown
1974	Lenny
1974	The Conversation
1974	The Godfather, Part II			Academy's Choice
1974	The Towering Inferno
1975	Barry Lyndon	Day 260	May 5, 2010
1975	Dog Day Afternoon	Day 256	May 1, 2010
1975	Jaws	Day 246	April 21, 2010
1975	Nashville	Day 241	April 16, 2010
1975	One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest	Day 265	May 10, 2010	Academy's & Matt's Choice
1976	All the President's Men	Day 43	September 30, 2009
1976	Bound for Glory	Day 35	September 22, 2009
1976	Network	Day 45	October 2, 2009
1976	Rocky	Day 36	September 23, 2009	Academy's Choice
1976	Taxi Driver	Day 41	September 28, 2009	Matt's Choice
1977	Annie Hall
1977	Julia
1977	Star Wars
1977	The Goodbye Girl
1977	The Turning Point
1978	An Unmarried Woman
1978	Coming Home
1978	Heaven Can Wait
1978	Midnight Express
1978	The Deer Hunter			Academy's Choice
1979	All That Jazz
1979	Apocalypse Now
1979	Breaking Away
1979	Kramer vs. Kramer			Academy's Choice
1979	Norma Rae
1980	Coal Miner's Daughter
1980	Ordinary People			Academy's Choice
1980	Raging Bull
1980	Tess
1980	The Elephant Man
1981	Atlantic City	Day 169	February 3, 2010
1981	Chariots of Fire	Day 172	February 6, 2010	Academy's Choice
1981	On Golden Pond	Day 185	February 19, 2010
1981	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Day 180	February 14, 2010
1981	Reds	Day 176	February 10, 2010	Matt's Choice
1982	E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial	Day 695	July 14, 2011	Matt's Choice
1982	Gandhi	Day 704	July 23, 2011	Academy's Choice
1982	Missing	Day 664	June 13, 2011
1982	The Verdict	Day 672	June 21, 2011
1982	Tootsie	Day 683	July 2, 2011
1983	Tender Mercies
1983	Terms of Endearment			Academy's Choice
1983	The Big Chill
1983	The Dresser
1983	The Right Stuff
1984	Amadeus	Day 85	November 10, 2009	Academy's & Matt's Choice
1984	A Passage to India	Day 82	November 7, 2009
1984	A Soldier's Story	Day 92	November 17, 2009
1984	Places in the Heart	Day 80	November 5, 2009
1984	The Killing Fields	Day 88	November 13, 2009
1985	Kiss of the Spider Woman
1985	Out of Africa			Academy's Choice
1985	Prizzi's Honor
1985	The Color Purple
1985	Witness
1986	A Room with a View	Day 473	December 4, 2010
1986	Children of a Lesser God	Day 462	November 23, 2010
1986	Hannah and Her Sisters	Day 455	November 16, 2010
1986	Platoon	Day 469	November 30, 2010	Academy's & Matt's Choice
1986	The Mission	Day 460	November 21, 2010
1987	Broadcast News
1987	Fatal Attraction
1987	Hope and Glory
1987	Moonstruck
1987	The Last Emperor			Academy's Choice
1988	Dangerous Liaisons
1988	Mississippi Burning
1988	Rain Man			Academy's Choice
1988	The Accidental Tourist
1988	Working Girl
1989	Born on the Fourth of July
1989	Dead Poets Society
1989	Driving Miss Daisy			Academy's Choice
1989	Field of Dreams
1989	My Left Foot
1990	Awakenings
1990	Dances With Wolves			Academy's Choice
1990	Ghost
1990	GoodFellas
1990	The Godfather, Part III
1991	Beauty and the Beast
1991	Bugsy
1991	JFK
1991	The Prince of Tides
1991	The Silence of the Lambs			Academy's Choice
1992	A Few Good Men	Day 10	August 28, 2009	Matt's Choice
1992	Howards End	Day 13	August 31, 2009
1992	Scent of a Woman	Day 11	August 29, 2009
1992	The Crying Game	Day 8	August 26, 2009
1992	Unforgiven	Day 12	August 30, 2009	Academy's Choice
1993	In the Name of the Father
1993	Schindler's List			Academy's Choice
1993	The Fugitive
1993	The Piano
1993	The Remains of the Day
1994	Forrest Gump	Day 411	October 3, 2010	Academy's Choice
1994	Four Weddings and a Funeral	Day 409	October 1, 2010
1994	Pulp Fiction	Day 401	September 23, 2010
1994	Quiz Show	Day 398	September 20, 2010
1994	The Shawshank Redemption	Day 416	October 8, 2010	Matt's Choice
1995	Apollo 13
1995	Babe
1995	Braveheart			Academy's Choice
1995	Sense and Sensibility
1995	The Postman (Il Postino)
1996	Fargo
1996	Jerry Maguire
1996	Secrets and Lies
1996	Shine
1996	The English Patient			Academy's Choice
1997	As Good As It Gets
1997	Good Will Hunting
1997	L.A. Confidential
1997	The Full Monty
1997	Titanic			Academy's Choice
1998	Elizabeth	Day 768	September 25, 2011
1998	Life Is Beautiful	Day 775	October 2, 2011
1998	Saving Private Ryan	Day 796	October 23, 2011	Matt's Choice
1998	Shakespeare in Love	Day 786	October 13, 2011	Academy's Choice
1998	The Thin Red Line	Day 754	September 11, 2011
1999	American Beauty	Day 133	December 29, 2009	Academy's & Matt's Choice
1999	The Cider House Rules	Day 138	January 3, 2010
1999	The Green Mile	Day 146	January 11, 2010
1999	The Insider	Day 127	December 23, 2009
1999	The Sixth Sense	Day 130	December 26, 2009
2000	Chocolat
2000	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2000	Erin Brockovich
2000	Gladiator			Academy's Choice
2000	Traffic
2001	A Beautiful Mind	Day 58	October 14, 2009	Academy's & Matt's Choice
2001	Gosford Park	Day 56	October 12, 2009
2001	In the Bedroom	Day 60	October 16, 2009
2001	Moulin Rouge	Day 52	October 8, 2009
2001	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Day 54	October 10, 2009
2002	Chicago	Day 294	June 8, 2010	Academy's Choice
2002	Gangs of New York	Day 296	June 10, 2010
2002	The Hours	Day 304	June 18, 2010
2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Day 301	June 15, 2010
2002	The Pianist	Day 309	June 23, 2010	Matt's Choice
2003	Lost in Translation
2003	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003	Mystic River
2003	Seabiscuit
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King			Academy's Choice
2004	Finding Neverland
2004	Million Dollar Baby			Academy's Choice
2004	Ray
2004	Sideways
2004	The Aviator
2005	Brokeback Mountain	Day 556	February 25, 2011
2005	Capote	Day 549	February 18, 2011
2005	Crash	Day 570	March 11, 2011	Academy's & Matt's Choice
2005	Good Night, and Good Luck.	Day 542	February 11, 2011
2005	Munich	Day 565	March 6, 2011
2006	Babel	Day 887	January 22, 2012
2006	Letters from Iwo Jima	Day 930	March 5, 2012
2006	Little Miss Sunshine	Day 942	March 17, 2012
2006	The Departed	Day 915	February 19, 2012	Academy's & Matt's Choice
2006	The Queen	Day 903	February 7, 2012
2007	Atonement
2007	Juno
2007	Michael Clayton
2007	No Country for Old Men			Academy's Choice
2007	There Will Be Blood
2008	Frost/Nixon
2008	Milk
2008	Slumdog Millionaire			Academy's Choice
2008	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008	The Reader
2009	An Education
2009	A Serious Man
2009	Avatar
2009	District 9
2009	Inglourious Basterds
2009	Precious
2009	The Blind Side
2009	The Hurt Locker			Academy's Choice
2009	Up
2009	Up In The Air
2010	127 Hours
2010	Black Swan
2010	Inception
2010	The Fighter
2010	The Kids Are All Right
2010	The King's Speech			Academy's Choice
2010	The Social Network
2010	Toy Story 3
2010	True Grit
2010	Winter's Bone

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