Each year around Oscar time, I try to make the effort and catch up some of the "older" Oscar-nominated films that I have missed in the past or judt never got around seeing.This year, I've got ten movies on my list - five former Best Picture nominees and five Best Foreign Language nominees - the latter because I realized how few of those I have seen over the recent years.

Here's the list of films, I am planning to watch:

BP-nominees:

Gosford Park
Places in the Heart
On Golden Pond
Ordinary People
The Mission

Best Foreign Language Film nominees:

In a Better World
In Darkness
Monsieur Lazhar
Bullhead
Departures

I'll give short comments on the fiolms that I have seen.

Anyone here seen any of those?

Gosford Park, I just remember being bored to death, but I was in a bad mood that day and really didn't pay attention.

Last week I watched Dangerous Liasions (1988), which was pretty good. Malkovich was the highlight, Thurman was actually pretty cute and beautiful back then and Close nailed her performance.

Dangerous Liaisons is great. I wasn't a fan of Pfeiffer's performance, but Malkovich and Close are simply brilliant in the film. It's a shame Close still hasn't won an Oscar. The screenplay is also terrific.

Have you seen Austria's Best Foreign language films: 38, Amour, Revanche and The Counterfeiters?

I've seen Revanche and The Counterfeiters. I thought both were ok but nothing earth-shattering there. I'm going to rent Amour tomorrow or sometime this week. I'm scared to watch that movie.

I was prepared on hating Ordinary People (since people claim it robbed Raging Bull) but... I liked/loved it and it winning made sense considering the era. Of course, they had to con Timothy Hutton into doing category fraud.

I didn't find Amour as depressing as many did, but I did find it very tedious in parts. Though well-shot and well-acted.

The Counterfeiters was just decent, absolutely nothing special. Certainly not the best nominee in its year. Meh.

Well, I won't have that much of a problem,. I think Raging Bull is, aside from De Niro's performance, quite overrated.

On Golden Pond is a wonderful movie.

Not that much into Raging Bull as well.

revanche <3

gosford park <3

Well, I've seen the ceremenoy where Counterfeiters won in theaters and it was awesome. Everyone went nuts.

I love Gosford Park and On Golden Pond.

Ordinary People is very good, too. Its reputation is so tarnished because it defeated Raging Bull. I will not say it deserved to win, but it is a moving and very well-acted domestic drama.

The Mission has one of the best original scores ever.

I knew of "Gabriel's Oboe" first before finding out it is part of the score to The Mission! Beautiful stuff.

Watched Man for All Seasons in my Western History class today. Good stuff.

I am going to watch Lincoln and War Horse soon. I should probably watch Schindler's List too as I've only seen parts.

I have Kon-Tiki on my pps queue, it looks really good. Just not had the time to watch it.

I really want to see Kon-Tiki.

Watched Chicago for the first time last night, not expecting much. I actually really dig it!