Top 10 Oscar Winning Films

I thought I would take a look back over previous Academy Award winning best films of all time for inspiration on this rainy Saturday afternoon.

Here are my top 10:

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 1975
• The Silence of the Lambs - 1991
• The Hurt Locker - 2009
• Million Dollar Baby - 2004
• The English Patient - 1996
• Argo - 2012
• American Beauty - 1999
• Braveheart - 1995
• A Beautiful Mind - 2001
• No Country for Old Men - 2007

Top 10 Ridiculously Awful Creatures that Bite Movies

I have a slight tendency towards the truly awful films that are out there if they happen to in some way include any of the following creatures:

• sharks
• octopus
• piranha
• spiders
• crocodiles   
• snakes

If it bites, I will watch it. I can't help it - I blame growing up in the Jaws era!

So here are my Top 10 truly awful Creatures that bite films:

• Malibu Shark Attack
• Piranha
• Shark Night
• Anaconda
• Sharknado
• Arachnoquake
• Snakes on a Plane
• Sand Sharks
• Mega Piranha
• Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus

My Top Picks - Atmospheric Must Watch Films

• Wind River
• Old Boy
• No Country for Old Men
• Heat
• The Revenant
• Fargo
• One Hour Photo
• The Dressmaker
• The Remains of the Day
• The Bourne Identity
• The Big Lebowski
• O Brother Where Art Thou
• The Shawshank Redemption
• Insomnia
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
• Collateral
• Seven
• Gangs of New York
• The Grey
• The Edge
• The English Patient
• The Shining
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Sunshine
• Unfaithful
• The End of the Affair
• The Hurt Locker

Top 10 Oscar Winning Films

I thought I would take a look back over previous Academy Award winning best films of all time.

Here are my top 10:

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 1975
• The Silence of the Lambs - 1991
• The Hurt Locker - 2009
• Million Dollar Baby - 2004
• The English Patient - 1996
• Argo - 2012
• American Beauty - 1999
• Braveheart - 1995
• A Beautiful Mind - 2001
• No Country for Old Men - 2007

You can see my movie reviews here. 

Three Degrees of Separation - how films are linked #1

Casino stars:

• Robert De Niro
• Joe Pesci

Home Alone

• Joe Pesci (De Niro was first choice apparently)
• Macaulay Culkin

My Girl

• Macaulay Culkin
• Anna Chlumsky

The Good Guy

• Anna Chlumsky
• Alexis Biedel

The Brass Teapot

• Alexis Biedel
• Juno Temple

The Other Boleyn Girl

• Juno Temple
• Natalie Portman

Heat

• Natalie Portman
• Robert De Niro

And I'm back to the start :) 

My Top 10 Halloween Movies

Halloween Movies:

Jeepers Creepers
Salems Lot
The Conjuring
Insidious
Drag Me to Hell
The Blair Witch Project
Psycho
Carrie
Fright Night
Paranormal Activity

My Top 10 Scary Films

Number 1: The Shining
Number 2: Salems Lot
Number 3: 28 Days Later
Number 4: Drag Me to Hell
Number 5: Insidious
Number 6: The Descent
Number 7: Carrie 
Number 8: The Conjuring
Number 9: Paranormal Activity
Number 10: The Blair Witch

My Best Romantic Films for Valentines

• Sleepless in Seattle
• Love Actually
• Titanic
• Pretty Woman
• Notting Hill
• Dirty Dancing
• Ghost
• While You Were Sleeping
• Four Weddings and a Funeral
• The English Patient

All time Top 10 films

Number 1: Shawshank Redemption
Number 2: Goodfellas
Number 3: The Shining
Number 4: Basic Instinct
Number 5: The Green Mile
Number 6: Jaws
Number 7: Heat
Number 8: The English Patient
Number 9: Casino
Number 10: The Hurt Locker

Best Afternoon Movies to Watch

• Four Weddings and a Funeral
• The Full Monty
• Jurassic Park (any or all of them!)
• Harry Potter (first 4, the later ones better for evening)
• Notting Hill
• Ghostbusters (either)
• Superman 1,2 or 3 originals
• Bridget Jones - the first one
• Pretty Woman
• The Truman Show

My Favourite Love Films

• Nights in Rodanthe
• The Bridges of Madison County
• Unfaithful
• An Affair to Remember
• Brief Encounter
• Titanic
• Love Actually
• The English Patient
• Serendipity
• Ghost