Today's Tuesday Topic, hosted by Jenn over at Quirky Pickings, is Ten Oscar Award Winning Flicks. My list consists of my ten favorite movies that won an Oscar for something, not necessarily Best Picture, within the first ten years of my life.
The Great Gatsby
1974
(Best Costume Design and Best Music)
Jaws
1975
(Best Film Editing, Best Original Dramatic Score, Best Sound)
Rocky
1976
(Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing)
Breaking Away
1979
(Best Original Screenplay)
Coal Miner’s Daughter
1980
(Best Actress - Sissy Spacek)
Arthur
1981
(Best Actor in a Supporting Role - John Gielgud, Best Original Song - “Arthur’s Theme”)
Tootsie
1982
(Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Jessica Lange)
An Officer and A Gentleman
1982
(Best Supporting Actor - Louis Gossett, Jr; Best Music/Original Song - “Up Where We Belong”’
E.T. The Extraterrestrial
1982
(Best Original Score, Best Sound, Best Sound Effects Editing, and Best Visual Effects)
Flashdance
1983
(Best Original Song - “Flashdance…What a Feeling”)
Purple Rain
1984
(Best Original Sound Score)
What are some of your favorite Oscar Award winning flicks? As always, thanks for stopping by.
The only one of yours I haven't seen is breaking away. I live near the water and jaws gave me nightmares for a while when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteYou should watch it if you ever find it on TV. It is a quintessential underdog movie. Yeah, Jaws changed my willingness to venture out into murky water, even now! The last time I was at Myrtle Beach, I ventured out a little further than I typically do and some seaweed (or something) brushed my leg and I completely freaked thinking some shark was gonna get me!
DeleteUnlike the comment above, I think Breaking Away is the only one I'm unfamiliar with, but I recognize 3 of the 4 actors pictured in the movie poster.
ReplyDeleteI like how you structured this post.
Thank you!
DeleteI love Breaking Away. I would recommend watching it if you like underdog movies.
wow i had no idea there was another great gatsby movie - or rather, that the more recent one was a remake. i haven't seen either of them - or read the book.
ReplyDeleteOh, yes... the Robert Redford version. I love that version. I appreciate the Leonardo DiCaprio version, but it's not the same as the 74 version. Perhaps I'm a purist. LOL!
Deleteyou put flashdance on there so e man might be inclined to play. didn't you?
ReplyDeleteOh man... if I went to the Best Song category, I probably would have never been able to choose - music makes a movie.
ReplyDeleteNow I feel like getting my MANIAC on from Flashdance ;)
There are bunch on here that I need to see, but you can't beat Rocky!!
ReplyDeleteOh man, good list! Gatsby and Officer are such great movies. And these Oscar winning songs are jams! I have never even heard of Breaking Away. I need to look that one up stat.
ReplyDeleteI read The Great Gatsby and didn't like it. So I'm in no rush to see the movie, or the re-make.
ReplyDeleteHaven't seen Jaws and it kind of seems pointless now. But back then - it shut down a lot of beaches.
I've seen Rocky and Breaking Away. That's Stallone's real-life dog in the former.
Haven't seen Coal Miner's Daughter. Spacek's good though.
I've seen Arthur and Tootsie, but both were a long time ago.
Seen An Officer and a Gentleman.
I saw E.T. in Boston, which makes it the first movie I saw outside my hometown. It's the movie that put Reese's Pieces on the map.
I've seen Flashdance and Purple Rain.