First, let me explain...

Ok, so Adam and I decided after watching the Best Picture reel that was played at the Oscars a few years ago that we wanted to go back and watch every single movie that has won the Oscar for Best Picture since it started, in 1928. So we did. How we did it was we typed out each movie title and the year it won the Best Picture award and we drew them randomly. Then we either rented it via netflix, borrowed it or watched our own copy, or in the case of some of the older ones, we actually had to buy VHS copies. As part of the challenge we also had to re-watch movies we had both already seen, to maintain consistency. Our first movie of the challenge was "Dances with Wolves" from 1990 and the final movie we watched was "Silence of the Lambs" from 1991 (which was mere coincidence in terms of their release dates.) We also rated the movies on a scale of 1-5 each then combined the scores to give them a total score out of 10. We would also go through all of the academy awards of that particular year and talk about who won each award as well as who was beaten in each category.

Ok, so that challenge is done. Now we move on to our next challenge...

We found that as we were going through each year, there were many times when we would come across other movies from the same year that we would rather watch than the one which won the Best Picture oscar. So we have decided that our next challenge is to go through years 1930-2007 (we skipped on 1928 & 1929 even though those were both pretty good movies, and we stopped at 2007 because thats where our original challenge stopped. It took us a long time to complete...) and this time we get to choose a movie. Any movie we want to watch from that year, as long as it did not win the Best Picture oscar and we feel it is somehow culturally significant.

OK!! So now we are ready to get started on our new challenge and we would like for you to join us on our journey! What we will do here is tell you what year we will be watching our next movies from, which movies we have chosen as well as what won the oscar that year and how we rated it. Sound good? Alright!