I don’t watch the Oscars, lame, I know. I get too caught up when my pick doesn’t win and so it’s just better if I read the results in the news the next morning. What I do watch during this season however is TCM (Turner Classic Movies), which showcases Oscar films for 31 days leading up to the event. Here are a few I’ve noted down to watch or DVR (the two with an * are chapters in my novel Reel Life).
Mon, Feb 6
Lust for Life (1956) at 3:30 am
Tues, Feb 7
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) at 10:15 pm
Grand Hotel (1932) at 3:30 am
Fri, Feb 10
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) at 8:00 pm
Sat, Feb 11
On the Waterfront (1954) at 1:15 pm
Wait Until Dark (1967) at 8:00 pm
Three Days of the Condor (1975) at 12:15 pm
Sun, Feb 12
Funny Girl (1968) at 8:00 pm
Mon, Feb 13
North By Northwest (1959) at 5:30 pm
Wed, Feb 15
Casablanca (1942) at 11:00 pm
Breaker Morant (1980) at 1:00 am
Thurs, Feb 16
Fiddler on the Roof (1972) at 8:00 pm
Doctor Zhivago (1965) at 11:15 pm
Friday, Feb 17
Gone With The Wind (Part 1) (1939) at 10:30 pm
Sat, Feb 18
The Three Musketeers, (1948) at 2:00 pm
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) at 4:15 pm
Mon, Feb 20
The Third Man, (1949) at 10:00 pm
Amadeus (1984) at 12:00 am
Tues, Feb 21
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1954) at 8:00 pm
Wed, Feb 22
Strangers on a Train (1951) at 8:00 pm
All The President’s Men (1976) at 12:15 am
Thurs, Feb 23
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) at 12:45 pm
Fri, Feb 24
The Harvey Girls (1946) at 8:00 pm
Sat, Feb 25
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) at 8:30 am
The Maltese Falcon (1941) at 12:30 pm
Sun, Feb 26
*A Star is Born (1954) at 5:00 pm
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) at 9:45 pm
The Graduate (1967) at 2:15 am
L.A. Confidential (1997) at 4:15 am
Mon, Feb 27
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) at 11:30 pm
Good Will Hunting (1997) at 2:00 am
Tues, Feb 28
*The Red Shoes (1948) at 11:00 am (a chapter in Reel Life!)
To Catch a Thief (1955) at 6:00 pm
Wed, Feb 29
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (1955) at 10:00 pm
Thurs, March 1
From Here To Eternity (1953) at 10:30 pm
Fri, March 2
The Great Race (1965) at 8:00 am
The Right Stuff (1983) at 8:00 pm
