Every year I have this Oscar Nominated Movie Quest where I try to see every single movie that is nominated for an Oscar. My quest starts as soon as the nominations are announced and ends on the day of the Oscars. My rules are simple, if the movie is nominated for ANY category and it’s available for me to watch, then I watch it. The rules is why that one year I had to watch Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, and I complained about it the ENTIRE TIME!

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance): The longer it’s been since I watched this movie, the more I kind of like it. My daughter noticed last night that a lot of it is single-shot camera work, which is impressive.
The Grand Budapest Hotel: Quirky and I really liked it.
The Imitation Game: I saw this at the Milwaukee Film Festival, loved it!
Selma: A very good biopic, emotional movie, but I don’t think it’ll win.
The Theory of Everything: Excellent movie!
Whiplash: MY FAVORITE!!!!!!
Foxcatcher: Good, but I saw this early on and so many other movies make this movie look like an outsider.
Still Alice: So so so good!
Gone Girl: Phenomenal twisty mystery movie.
Wild: Loved the book, the movie was really good.
The Judge: Probably my second favorite movie on this list.
Into the Woods: Cute.
Nightcrawler: Underrated for sure, this movie was really good. A totally new story.
Big Hero 6: What’s not to love about Disney?
The Boxtrolls: Super cute.
How to Train Your Dragon: I might have fallen asleep in the middle, don’t tell anyone.
Ida: Strange tale, but breathtaking cinematography.
Finding Vivian Maier: Another favorite!!! This was really, really, REALLY good.
Last Days in Vietnam: I saw this movie at the Super Secret Member Screening at the Milwaukee Film Festival, I’ve loved it since. It’s soooooo good and really was emotional to see how the evacuation from Vietnam went down.
Virunga: Be warned, it’s in French, good, but not the best documentary when compare to the others.
Unbroken: honestly, this movie was just meh for me.
Interstellar: LOVED IT!
Maleficent: I actually thought this was an interesting twist and liked it.
The Lego Movie: EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!!!
Captain America: The Winter Soldier: I’m not a huge fan of the Marvel movies, but it was entertaining.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Maybe a 2.5 out of 5.
Guardians of the Galaxy: LOVED IT!
X-Men: Days of Future Past: I’m really not that into the X-Men.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies: I dont even understandone about the why this was a movie.
Inherent Vice: Truth be told, I’ve tried to watch this movie three times, halfway through and I’m still confused.
All of the animated shorts: some of them I liked more than others.

Left to see:

American Sniper (today!)
Boyhood (today!)
Two Days, One Night (desperately trying to locate!)
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (on demand)
Mr. Turner (not in theaters)
Citizenfour

I’m in my iPad as I write this, so excuse the lack of bold or italic.

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Ocsar Nominated Movie Quest 2015