2014 movies: mathew5000

The Oscar nominations will be announced in a couple of hours. To be eligible in the Best Picture category, and in most of the other categories for feature-length films, a film needs to have played a “qualifying run” in Los Angeles in 2014. There are a few other conditions, and the producers need to formally submit an eligibility form. The Academy <a target="_blank" href="http://www.oscars.org/news/323-feature-films-contention-2014-best-picture-oscar">has announced</a> that 323 features are in contention. Of course, most of them stand no chance of being nominated because there is no “For Your Consideration” campaign behind them. I went through <a target="_blank" href="http://www.oscars.org/sites/default/files/2014_reminder_list.pdf">the reminder list [PDF]</a> of eligible films and noted which films on the list I had seen (the total came to 45) and which I still want to see (57). First, here's the 2014 Oscar-contending films I have seen, along with my rating of how much I liked the film.

movies seen (as of 2015-01-14)	rating from 0 to 10
Abuse of Weakness	4
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas	5
Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance	7
The Blue Room	6
Citizenfour	8
Dear White People	6
Devil’s Knot	8
Edge of Tomorrow	9
Finding Vivian Maier	9
A Five Star Life	7
Force Majeure	10
Foxcatcherr	7
Fury	6
The Gambler	8
The German Doctor	7
God’s Pocket	8
Gone Girl	7
The Grand Budapest Hotel	5
How to Train Your Dragon 2	5
Human Capital	9
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1	9
Ida	8
The Imitation Game	9
Inherent Vice	3
Interstellar	9
Jodorowsky’s Dune	7
Leviathan	5
Lucy	8
The Lunchbox	10
A Most Wanted Man	5
Night Moves	6
Nightcrawler	10
Obvious Child	7
Only Lovers Left Alive	5
Rocks in My Pockets	5
Rosewater	9
St. Vincent	9
The Salt of the Earth	6
Stranger by the Lake	5
The Theory of Everything	6
Tracks	8
Two Days, One Night	3
Under the Skin	8
Wild	8
Wild Tales	10

Here are the movies from the Oscar Reminder List that I have not seen but still want to:

Anita [documentary] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2481202/combined
Antarctica: A Year on Ice [documentary]
Bad Words
Belle
The Best of Me
The Better Angels [Diane Kruger, Brit Marling]
Better Living Through Chemistry
Big Hero 6
Black or White
Boyhood
Cake
Cesar Chavez
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
The Double
The Drop
The Equalizer
Fort Bliss
Frank
Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
The Good Lie
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Homesman [?]
I Origins
The Immigrant
In Secret
Kill the Messenger
The Lego Movie
Life of Crime
Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed
Locke
Low Down
Million Dollar Arm
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Minuscule – Valley of the Lost Ants
Miss Julie
A Most Violent Year
My Old Lady
Non-Stop
The November Man
Pompeii
Pride
The Quiet Ones
The Railway Man
The Rover
Selma
The Skeleton Twins
Still Alice
3 Days to Kill
Top Five
Tusk
The Two Faces of January
Veronica Mars
Walking With the Enemy
Wetlands
Whiplash
X-Men: Days of Future Past

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