The Mission

Hey all you blog readers,
I'm Jill, and I have a pretty simple mission at hand. All I want to do is watch all of the Best Picture winners for the Oscars. Oh, and Best Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress. Okay, so this is kind of a hefty goal, but I believe in my movie watching abilities. I have actually been working on this goal for the past couple of years - I even have this dorky, green binder in which I keep a handwritten list of all the winners I've seen, and have yet to see.
Why am I doing this? Well, I'm not quite sure. I suppose I want to watch movies that have garnered critical acclaim for themselves throughout cinematic history. However, just picking Oscar winners doesn't mean that I'm picking the best movies ever, so there must be something else, some other appeal. Growing up in the middle of nowhere, I remember watching the Oscars as a little kid and being struck by the gowns and glamour, but mostly, I remember thinking to myself that I had never even heard of these movies. Surprisingly enough, rural Iowa is not a place to which many studios send their Oscar bait. For me, this big televised event was my first introduction to good cinema. To put it simply, I fell in love with The Oscars. And here I am on this quest.
Currently, I only have nine Best Picture winners left to see. They are: "How Green Was My Valley," "The Great Ziegfeld," "Mutiny on the Bounty,""It Happened One Night," "Cavalcade," "Cimarron," "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "Wings." Some of these are going to be tricky to find, but I'm going to do it.
My plan for this blog is to talk about the movies I will be watching along my way to conquering this monstrous Oscar list. I'm not watching them in any particular order - I just use Netflix when the mood strikes and try to watch the movies by the cheapest means possible. Hopefully you'll read along with me, and maybe watch a couple of the movies, too. Thanks for reading.