30 Before 30- # 15: Academy Award Nominees

30 Before 30

*- Denotes the First Movie Watched from That Year's Nominees
+- Denotes the Last Movie Watched from That Year's Nominees

2010
The Kids Are All Right
Toy Story 3*

2009 (COMPLETE 5/08/11)
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9+
An Education
The Hurt Locker (WINNER)
Inglorious Basterds
Precious- Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air*

2008 (COMPLETE 3/08/11)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader*
Slumdog Millionaire (WINNER)

2007 (COMPLETE 4/12/11)
Atonement*
Juno
Michael Clayton+
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

2006
The Departed (WINNER)
Little Miss Sunshine*
The Queen

2005
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Crash (WINNER)*
Good Night and Good Luck

2004
Finding Neverland
Million Dollar Baby (WINNER)*
Ray

2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (WINNER)*

2002
Chicago (WINNER)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers*

2001
A Beautiful Mind (WINNER)
Gosford Park
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring*
Moulin Rouge

2000
Chocolat
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Gladiator (WINNER)*

1999
American Beauty (WINNER)*
The Cider House Rules

1998
Life is Beautiful
Saving Private Ryan*

1997
As Good As It Gets
The Full Monty+
Good Will Hunting
L.A. Confidential
Titanic (WINNER)*

1996
Fargo*
Jerry Maguire

1995
Braveheart (WINNER)*
Il Postino (The Postman)

1994
Forrest Gump (WINNER)*
Pulp Fiction
Shawshank Redemption

1993
The Fugitive
Remains of the Day*

1992
Unforgiven (WINNER)*

1991
Beauty and the Beast*
JFK
The Silence of the Lambs (WINNER)

1990
Ghost
Goodfellas*

1989
Dead Poets Society*
My Left Foot

1988
Mississippi Burning
Rain Man (WINNER)*
Working Girl

1987
Broadcast News*
The Last Emperor (WINNER)
Moonstruck

1986
Hannah and Her Sisters
Platoon (WINNER)*
A Room With a View

1985
The Color Purple*

1984
Amadeus (WINNER)*
Places of the Heart

1983
The Big Chill
Terms of Endearment (WINNER)*

1982
E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial
Gandhi (WINNER)*
Tootsie
The Verdict

1981 (COMPLETED on May 7, 2011)
Atlantic City+
Chariots of Fire (WINNER)*
On Golden Pond
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Reds

1980
The Elephant Man*
Ordinary People (WINNER)
Raging Bull

1979
All That Jazz
Apocalypse Now*
Kramer vs. Kramer (WINNER)

1978
The Deer Hunter (WINNER)*
Heaven Can Wait

1977
Annie Hall (WINNER)
Star Wars*
The Turning Point

1976 (COMPLETE 3/21/11)
All The President's Men
Bound For Glory+
Network*
Rocky (WINNER)
Taxi Driver

1975 (COMPLETE 6/12/11)
Barry Lyndon
Dog Day Afternoon+
Jaws
Nashville
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest* (WINNER)

1974
Chinatown*
The Godfather, Part II (WINNER)

1973
American Graffiti*
The Sting (WINNER)
A Touch of Class

1972
Cabaret
Deliverance
The Godfather (WINNER)*
Sounder

1971
A Clockwork Orange*
The French Connection (WINNER)
The Last Picture Show

1970
Five Easy Pieces
Love Story
M*A*S*H*
Patton (WINNER)

1969
Anne of the Thousand Days
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Hello, Dolly!+
Midnight Cowboy (WINNER)*
Z

1968 (Semi-Completed on May 12/13, 2011)
Funny Girl+
The Lion in Winter
Oliver!+ (WINNER)
Rachel, Rachel
Romeo & Juliet*

1967
The Graduate*
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
In the Heat of the Night (WINNER)

1966
A Man for All Seasons (WINNER)*
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
The Sand Pebbles

1965
Ship of Fools*
The Sound of Music (WINNER)

1964 (COMPLETE 3/19/11)
Becket
Dr. Strangelove+
Mary Poppins
My Fair Lady (WINNER)*
Zorba the Greek

1963
America, America
How the West Was Won*
Lilies of the Field
Tom Jones (WINNER)

1962
Lawrence of Arabia (WINNER)
The Music Man*

1961
The Hustler
West Side Story (WINNER)*

1960
The Alamo
The Apartment (WINNER)*
The Sundowners

1959
Ben-Hur (WINNER)*
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Nun's Story

1958
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Gigi (WINNER)*

1957
Peyton Place
Sayonara
Twelve Angry Men*
Witness for the Prosecution

1956
Around the World in 80 Days (WINNER)
The King and I
The Ten Commandments*

1955
Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
Marty (WINNER)*

1954
The Caine Mutiny*
Three Coins In The Fountain

1953
From Here To Eternity (WINNER)*
The Robe
Roman Holiday
Shane

1952
The Greatest Show on Earth (WINNER)
High Noon*
Ivanhoe
The Quiet Man

1951
An American In Paris (WINNER)
A Place in the Sun*
Quo Vadis

1950
King Solomon's Mines
Sunset Boulevard*

1949
All the King's Men (WINNER)
The Heiress*

1948
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre*

1947
Gentleman's Agreement (WINNER)*

1946
The Best Years of Our Lives (WINNER)
It's a Wonderful Life*
The Razor's Edge

1945
Anchors Aweigh
The Lost Weekend (WINNER)*

1944
Double Indemnity*
Gaslight
Going My Way (WINNER)

1943
Casablanca (WINNER)*
Heaven Can Wait

1942
Mrs. Miniver (WINNER)*

1941
Citizen Kane
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
How Green Was My Valley (WINNER)
Sergeant York*

1940
The Grapes of Wrath
The Philadelphia Story*

1939
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington*
Ninotchka
Stagecoach
The Wizard of Oz

1938
You Can't Take It With You (WINNER)*

1937
Captains Courageous
The Good Earth*
In Old Chicago
The Life of Emile Zola (WINNER)
A Star is Born

1936
A Tale of Two Cities
The Great Ziegfeld (WINNER)*

1935
Mutiny on the Bounty (WINNER)
Top Hat*

1934
The Gay Divorcee
It Happened One Night (WINNER)*

1932-33
42nd Street*

1931-32
Grand Hotel (WINNER)*

1930-31
Cimarron (WINNER)*

1929-30
All Quiet on the Western Front (WINNER)*

1928-29
The Broadway Melody (WINNER)*

1927-28
none

30 Before 30: The Revised List

The last one won't edit properly, so here goes again.

30 Before 30 What is 30 Before 30? It is 30 Things You Want to Get Accomplished Before Your 30th Birthday.

1) Get my driver's license

2) Move out of my dad's house

3) "The personal one" (I refuse to give out any details, and will not spill any beans)

4) Planning an event, using all of the skills and experience (and lessons) that I learned from CPB, Jonda, The CYP Club, WCRS, and WOBN.

5) Do some art and get shown at Gallery Hop (or somewhere), and now I have fewer July 4th 2010 pictures :o(

6) If # 2 happens, I should host an art show in my house (kind of like the original location of 83 Gallery)

7) If # 2 happens, I'm definitely hosting a movie night (and if I move to OTE, I might even consider The Tour)

8] Host my own radio show on a radio station (sorry, WOBN) NOTE: This is 95% a done deal.

9) TBA

10) Go to a Columbus Blue Jackets or Columbus Crew Game (ACCOMPLISHED on April 1, 2011- Not an April Fool's Joke: The Crew beat FC Dallas 2-0)

11) Guest Host a Trivia Night

12) Jog for a mile, non-stop, and then jog nonstop throughout a park trail (i.e. Franklin, Schiller, Goodale, Whetstone, Jeffrey, Northam, or Driving; NOT i.e. English, Alum Creek, Deaf School/Topiary, or Moeller)

13) Lose 100 pounds (at last weigh-in, I tipped the scale at 337, yikes!)

14) Go to a Mardi Gras Party (ACCOMPLISHED on March 8, 2011)

15) Watch Every Single Academy Award Nominee for Best Picture (Update: As of 4/20/11, I have watched three years of nominees- 1964, 1976, 2008, and 2007; and several years- 1952, 1953, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1981, 2001, and 2005, there is one nominee missing [1952- Moulin Rouge, 1968- Funny Girl, 1969- keeping the Streisand theme-> Hello Dolly!, 1970- Airport, 1981- Atlantic City, 2001- In the Bedroom, although I'm sure I watched it, but don't remember, 2005- Munich {which robbed Walk the Line}, 2007- don't remember off the top of my head)

16) Watch Every Single Golden Raspberry Award Winner for Worst Picture (Update: As of 4/05/11- I watched Rambo II [1985], Howard the Duck [co-1986], Cocktail [1988], Hudson Hawk [1991], Indecent Exposure [1993], Showgirls [1995], The Postman [1997], Wild Wild West [1999], Battlefield Earth [2000], Swept Away [2002], Gigli [2003], Catwoman [2004], I Know Who Killed Men [2007], The Love Guru [2008], Transformers 2 [2009], and The Last Airbender [2010]).

17) I'm skipping this one

18) Take part in a 5K race (I don't know if I can do the full 26.2 marathon, although I'll give myself extra credit if I do in '12.)

19) Save up some $$$ and get DJ equipment, so I can DJ weddings, corporate events, bar mitzvahs or confirmations, class reunions, networking events, parties, etc.

20) Write a couple of screenplays and get one produced, such as the one that I wrote for ENGL 264 my final quarter at Otterbein- "Convention".

21) Get my credit card issues resolved

22) Walk all the way up High Street, starting at Broad and High, walking all the way up to the High & Wilson Bridge/270, and then walking down High Street to I-270/Great Southern, and then walking all the way back up High Street to Broad and High. (and I'd have to pick a day in which it will be sunny, and light out for 15-16 hours)

23) Watch Michigan beat Ohio State up in football, with or without Jim Tressel.

24) Go to New York City

25) Go back to Washington DC, and come back with a photo spread of the White House, Capitol, National Mall, Adam's Morgan, Dupont Circle, and Arlington

26) Go to Ann Arbor, Michigan (especially for # 23) to make a pilgrimage to the University of Michigan and The Big House

27) Take part in a charity date auction

28) Watch all 123 movies from both the original 1998 and revised 2007 AFI Top 100 list.

29) TBA

30) Go to a Cincinnati Bengals football game (preferably at Cleveland Browns Stadium vs. the Cleveland Clowns or Heinz Field vs. the Pittsburgh Stealers)

Ones that Did Not Make the List:

- Make a Columbus Bicentennial Documentary (# 1 would have to happen first, and so would # 21)