New Weekly Section -- Movies of the Week

One of my long-term projects has been to watch movies that have either won or been nominated for an Oscar, from the inception of the awards through the present-day. Since my blog is supposed to be in part about movies, it occurred to me that a good recurring post would be short descriptions and reviews for the movies that I've seen.

The movies that I have on my master list were nominated for Oscars in the following categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Actress, and Best Foreign Language Film. As of the 2007 Oscars, that totals just under 1,400 movies. I've been working on this for some time now and have completed about 40% of the list. Many good movies so far, and some not so good -- you have to wonder what they were thinking at the time for a few of them. But so far, the project has been very enjoyable and I've seen a lot of movies that I probably would never have watched otherwise, either because I would never have heard of them or I wouldn't have given them a chance. I hope anyone that reads these posts will discover something up their alley.