Everything's Coming Up Scorsese!
Martin Scorsese, who is probably my favourite director, has finally won a Best Director Oscar!
He's been nominated for Best Director five times:
2005 - The Aviator lost to Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
2003 - Gangs of New York lost to The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
1991 - Goodfellas lost to Dances with Wolves (Kevin Costner)
1989 - Last Temptation of Christ lost to Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
1981 - Raging Bull lost to Ordinary People (Robert Redford)
And, because lists are an easy way to populate your blog, here's a list of my top ten favourite movies, culled from my vote history at the IMDb:
1. Star Wars (1977)
2. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. The Matrix (1999)
4. Shakespeare in Love (1998)
5. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
6. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
7. Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
8. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
9. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
10. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Average age: 17.7 years.
This list is a result of a hard-fought battle stretching over two days that left bloodied movie carcasses scattered about like victims in a gangland shooting. Hilariously, nothing came up Scorsese, but as with all things, this is subject to change. After all, I haven't yet had the chance to see Raging Bull, Citizen Kane, Children of Men, or Arthur and the Invisibles.
It was surprisingly difficult to narrow the list of my favourite films down to ten. The comments are open for anyone wanting to list their top ten.
3 comments:
"Raging Bull" and "Children of Men" are fabulous must-sees.
You don't know how hard I tried to see Children of Men. But in the end I was unable to find anyone to go with.
It's funny how I never had any problems going to movies by myself when they were playing at RPL; but going to mainstream movies alone always seems to make you some kind of pariah. I guess it's more acceptable for people to believe you couldn't find anyone to see an Egyptian film from Sabola Nkrumah that's entirely in Coptic than the new Mel Gibson film (that's entirely in the Yukatek Maya language).
That is totally untrue, and unfair. *I* wanted to see Children of Men. I guess I'm not anyone. :(
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