Oscar Race

Not missing a single movie doesn't make you an official movie geek if you don't know which movies are great or not. And when I say great movies I mean its an Oscar standard. A lot of people are still confused with Oscar Award from Golden Globe and other Hollywood award giving bodies. Just an FYI for everybody, Oscar Award is the prestigious and the highest award for Hollywood films. Once you're an Oscar winner that means you are really good and that you have attained the highest value of being an actor or a filmmaker.

Perhaps most of the movies that we love are either nominated or an Oscar winner. A perfect example of this are Titanic and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King which both won the Best Picture. E.T, Jaws, Sixth Sense and the latest films like, Up, The Blind Side and Avatar were also nominated for Best Picture category. While most of our all-time fave actors and actresses that are making a lot of money for each movie they make are Oscar winners too (though some of them are not much making box office movies anymore). Of course I'm talking about Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Angelina Jolie, Denzel Washington, Russel Crowe, Meryl Streep, Resse Witherspoon and Sandra Bullock who are Oscar winners while Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Bruce Willis and Tom Cruise were nominated at least once in acting category. The trophy and the nods that they get make these stars glitter than what they used to be. And besides the money, they give their best effort to have an award, not just an award but an Oscar Award.

Most of my favorite movies and actors are also Oscar winners. Let's start with my fave actor Russel Crowe who has been nominated twice as Best Actor and won once for portraying as Maximus in the film Gladiator which also won Best Picture. He was also nominated a year after for portraying the lead role of John Nash Jr biography in A Beautiful Mind which also won the Best Picture. A Beautiful Mind is my all time favorite movie, the very first movie that I really adore. I fell in love with its cinematography, the screenplay, actor's performances, the plot and everything. Watched the movie for several times.

Before A Beautiful Mind, one movie that started it all was Titanic. This is the film that turned me into a movie freak basically. I was still in my first year high school when I started to get hooked up to it, but due to some reasons I have only watched limited number of movies then, I didn't have enough money to go to cinemas, we didn't even have a VHS player then, I just relied on my cousins who also love watching movies, so I only watched what they had then. But now, due to the abundance of dvds and vcds plus the free download and streaming online I can already watch whatever movies that I want to watch. Plus I got enough money now to buy myself a ticket to watch cinemas, even in HD and 3D. So since 1997, I have watched maybe thousands of movies and collected almost 500 dvds, vcds, and downloads of my favorite movies.

Going back to Oscar Award which takes place by February where movies that are released from this year will be racing for Best Pictures trophy. Oscar buzzes are already available online and I'm glad that I have watched most of the movies that would possibly end up in top 10 nominees for the award. These are Inception, The Social Network, Toy Story , How to Train your Dragon and The Kids are Alright. Other movies in the list like Ghost Writer and The Winter's Bone are also next in line since I got the copy of the these two films, just need time to watch 'em. So far The Social Network and Inception are my personal choice to win this February. Though 127 Hours is also strong as well as The Town, I couldn't just give comments for now since I haven't watched them yet. But whatever will win, for sure they really deserve it, otherwise it won't get even nominated. Oscar Awards winners will be announced this Feb 27, 2011.