1961 Best Picture Nominees

I have an idea. Aversion therapy thread. We torture treat you with a ton of pictures of spiders and then because you braved the thread you are cured of your arachnophobia.

NO!

When do we know who won JJ?

Right now:

Oh great, I haven't even seen that one. Kerr pronounced 'car' just an FYI

Watch it Citizen, it's good!

OK Christine you talked me into. I just requested it from Netflix. I will try to participate and watch as many films as I can BUT I hope we get some time, as I can only request 1 movie at a time from Netflix.

Dying to see The Innocents especially after seeing these behind the scenes photos Criterion posted yesterday before their new release:

http://www.criterion.com/current/pos...-the-innocents

Late to the party but this is how I rank the four I saw:

1. Breakfast at Tiffany's
2. West Side Story
3. Yojimbo
4. 101 Dalmatians

Are we moving on to 1962? If Jiraffe can't do it I will start it, but I'll ask for his approval.

I like The Innocents a lot (it was in my top five) but I would have bet on Breakfast for the win.

Good thing I never actually bet. I'm rarely right. So far, both winners have been in my top five so I'm happy with the outcome thus far.

I thought you would like Breakfast at Tiffany's, good to see.

I figured he would too. I'm learning someone's taste on here anyway.

Do we get to see how the top 10 ended up?

Of Audrey's works, I do still prefer How To Steal a Million and Sabrina though.

The Innocents is fantastic.

Looking forward to seeing what you think

I'm not sure yet, I was thinking about postponing these until the end of October. I thought I was going to be busy with the TV countdown and horror challenge. I don't really know how busy I will be in the upcoming weeks though.

1. The Innocents
2. Yojimbo (tied with The Hustler on points, but had more voters)
3. The Hustler
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's
5. A Taste of Honey (tied with Last Year at Marienbad on points, had same amount of votes, but had more first place votes)
6. Last Year at Marienbad
7. West Side Story
8. 101 Dalmatians
9. Viridiana
10. Through a Glass Darkly

With awesome results like this. I guess I'll keep me and my marbles in for the next one, whenever it is.

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Damn that heavy weighting towards foreign films

My nominatrions:

1. The Human Condition III - Masaki Kobayashi
2. Judgement at Nuremberg - Stanley Kramer
3. Viridiana - Luis Bunuel
4. The Hustler - Robert Rossen
5. La Notte - Michelangelo Antonioni
6. Lola - Jacques Demy
7. Last Year at Marienbad - Alain Resnais
8. A Raisin in the Sun - Daniel Petrie
9. Yojimbo - Akira Kurosawa
10. The End of Summer - Yasujiro Ozu

My votes:

1. Viridiana
2. The Hustler
3. Last Year at Marienbad
4. Yojimbo
5. Breakfast at Tiffany's

My noms were

1. A Taste of Honey
2. Yojimbo
3. The Innocents
4 Whistle Down The Wind
5. West Side Story
6. 101 Dalmations
7. Victim
8. The Hustler
9. The End of Summer
10 the Day the Earth Caught Fire