1. watch 10 foreign language films [ Persepolis, The Man Without a Past, Cold War, Mongol, When the Buckwheat Flowers Blossom, To Joy, Marshal Tito's Spirit, The Scent of Green Papaya, Letters from Iwo Jima, Knife in the Water ]
2. watch every film nominated in 2018 for the Academy Award for Best Picture [ Black Panther, Roma, Bohemian Rhapsody, BlacKkKlansman, Vice, Green Book, The Favourite, A Star is Born ]
3. watch 10 films released before 1960 [ Tokyo Twilight, The Man in the White Suit, The Body Snatcher, The Killers (1946), I Viteloni, A Foreign Affair, Mogambo, Them!, The Caine Mutiny, Mrs Miniver ]
4. watch 20 films released in the same decade (1930s) [ Rich and Strange, A Star Is Born (1937), Cavalcade, Cimarron, Stagecoach, The Adventures of Robin Hood, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Judge Priest, The Life of Emile Zola, King Kong (1933), Grand Hotel, The Lady Vanishes, The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), Woman of Tokyo, Number Seventeen, Captains Courageous, Animal Crackers, Young and Innocent, Mary (1931), Intermezzo ]
5. watch 10 films in AFI’s top 100 [ Frankenstein, Some Like It Hot, The Grapes of Wrath, Guess Who's Coming to Diner, West Side Story, Swing Time, A Night at the Opera, From Here to Eternity, The Philadelphia Story, MASH ]
6. watch 10 films released before 2000 that have won an Academy Award at any category [ The Full Monty, Z, Oliver!, Ben-Hur, America America, Gentleman's Agreement, Marty, Legends of the Fall, Black and White in Color, Bugsy ]
7. watch 20 films from the Roger Ebert’s great movies list [ Rashomon, 8½, The Battle of Algiers, The Wild Bunch, Battleship Potemkin, Broken Blossoms, The Circus, The Night of the Hunter, Easy Rider, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Pather Panchali, Aparajito, Apur Sansar, Howards End, The Bride of Frankenstein, Adaptation, The Thief of Bagdad, Waking Life, Last Tango in Paris, The Fall of the House of Usher ]
8. watch 10 films featuring the same actor (Clint Eastwood) [ Where Eagles Dare, Kelly's Heroes, Absolute Power, The Beguiled (1971), Blood Work, Heartbreak Ridge, Space Cowboys, Firefox, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Mule ]
9. watch 10 films from the same director (Akira Kurosawa) [ The Most Beautiful, Ran, Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress, Rhapsody in August, Dreams, No Regrets for our Youth, Kagemusha, Sugata Sanshiro (part I), Sugata Sanshiro (part II) ]
10. watch 10 films released in 2019 [ Captain Marvel, Avengers: Endgame, Glass, Spider-man: Far from Home, Midsommar, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Queen of Hearts, Brightburn, Joker, The Laundromat ]