.....Highest rating. Deserves to be considered a classic.

½ ...Very good. The movie greatly entertains or greatly moves me on a personal level.

.......Good. It is a solid, enjoyable film.

½ ......I like the movie, but can't muster strong feelings for it.

..........I dislike it, but can't muster strong emotions against it.

½ .........Terrible, but not hateful. May have cult appeal.

BOMB ....Lowest rating. The movie is offensive, inept or both.

Titles in bold indicate first time viewing.

Academy Award Winners

2/1 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968, Robert Ellis Miller)   ½

(Nominated Best Actor: Alan Arkin)  
(Nominated Best Supporting Actress: Sondra Locke)

2/2 Oliver! (1968, Carol Reed)  

(Best Picture, Best Director, Best Music Score)  
(Best Sound, Best Art Direction)

2/3 The Sting (1973, George Roy Hill)   ½

(Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Writing)  
(Best Costume Design, Best Art Direction, Best Music Score)

2/4 Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen)   ½

(Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writing)  
(Best Actress: Diane Keaton)

2/5 Cromwell (1970, Ken Hughes)  

(Best Costume Design, Best Score)  

2/6 Tchaikovsky (1969, Igor Talankin)  

(Nominated Best Foreign Language Film)  
(Nominated Best Music)

2/7 Ordinary People (1980, Robert Redford)   ½

(Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay)  
(Best Supporting Actor: Timothy Hutton)

2/7 Outland (1981, Peter Hyams)  

(Nominated Best Sound)  

2/8 The Man in the Glass Booth (1975, Arthur Hiller)  

(Nominated Best Actor: Maximilian Schell)  

2/8 Chariots of Fire (1981, Hugh Hudson)   ½

(Best Picture, Best Screenplay)  
(Best Music, Best Costume Design)

2/9 Out of Africa (1985, Sydney Pollack)   ½

(Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography)  
(Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Set Decoration)
(Best Original Score, Best Sound)

2/10 Hester Street (1975, Joan Micklin Silver)  

(Nominated Best Actress: Carol Kane)  

2/11 Driving Miss Daisy (1989, Bruce Beresford)  

(Best Picture, Best Actress: Jessica Tandy)  
(Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Makeup)

2/11 Radio Days (1987, Woody Allen)  

(Nominated Best Original Screenplay)  
(Nominated Best Set Decoration)

2/12 The Mission (1986, Roland Joffé)   ½

(Best Cinematography)  

2/13 Salvador (1986, Oliver Stone)  

(Nominated Best Actor: James Woods)  
(Nominated Best Original Screenplay)

2/14 My Brilliant Career (1979, Gill Armstrong)  

(Nominated Best Costume Design)  

2/15 Dances with Wolves (1990, Kevin Costner)  

(Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography)  
(Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score)
(Best Sound, Best Film Editing)

2/15 Black Rain (1989, Ridley Scott)   ½

(Nominated Best Sound, Nominated Best Sound Effects Editing)  

2/16 Gandhi (1982, Richard Attenborough)  

(Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography)  
(Best Actor: Ben Kingsley, Best Original Screenplay)
(Best Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing)

2/17 You Light Up My Life (1977, Joseph Brooks)  

(Best Original Song)  

2/17 Unforgiven (1992, Clint Eastwood)   ½

(Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing)  
(Best Supporting Actor: Gene Hackman)

2/18 Charly (1968, Ralph Nelson)  

(Best Actor: Cliff Robertson)  

2/19 The Europeans (1979, James Ivory)  

(Nominated Best Costume Design)  

2/20 Under the Volcano (1984, John Huston)   ½

(Nominated Best Actor: Albert Finney)  
(Nominated Best Original Score)

2/21 The Bostonians (1984, James Ivory)   ½

(Nominated Best Actress: Vanessa Redgrave)  
(Nominated Best Costume Design)

2/22 Ice Station Zebra (1968, John Sturges)  

(Nominated Best Cinematography)  
(Nominated Best Special Visual Effects)

2/23 Forrest Gump (1994, Robert Zemeckis)   ½

(Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor: Tom Hanks)  
(Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Visual Effects)

2/23 Matewan (1987, John Sayles)  

(Nominated Best Cinematography)  

2/24 Passion Fish (1992, John Sayles)  

(Nominated Best Actress: Mary McDonnell)  
(Nominated Best Original Screenplay)

2/24 The Crying Game (1992, Neil Jordan)  

(Best Original Screenplay)  

2/25 The Player (1992, Robert Altman)   ½

(Nominated Best Director, Nominated Best Film Editing)  
(Nominated Best Adapted Screenplay)

2/26 The Producers (1968, Mel Brooks)  

(Best Original Screenplay)  

2/27 The Professionals (1966, Richard Brooks)   ½

(Nominated Best Director, Nominated Best Cinematography)  
(Nominated Best Adapted Screenplay)

2/28 Maurice (1987, James Ivory)   ½

(Nominated Best Costume Design)  

2/29 Thelma & Louise (1991, Ridley Scott)   ½

(Best Original Screenplay)