My Oscar project

I have decided to upgrade my status as a lifelong film buff and become a budding amateur film historian. To that end, I have decided to debut my Oscar project. The goal of this project is to watch and review all of the movies that have won Oscars in the major categories. For the purposes of this project, I define the major categories of Oscars as Best Picture, Best Director, all four acting categories, and both writing categories. (Nothing against the other categories, but I have to make some limitations to keep the project manageable, and I have never watched a movie just because it contained an Oscar-winning best song.) If this goes well, after I get through all of the Oscar winners, I may expand the project to include all of the nominees. Yes, I realize that this project is essentially the plot of Julie and Julia, but with movies instead of food. Yes, I am fine with that.

I will go through the movies in no particular order, other than that I will, for the most part, start with the ones that I have not seen before, and then work my way through the ones that I have seen. By my count, not including the 2010 Oscars, which, of course, have not happened yet, there are 387 movies for me to review. Currently, there are 154 Oscar winners that I have not yet seen. I am rather disappointed with that number. I guess it's time for me to focus my efforts. I will set a tentative deadline for myself of one year.