Best Picture Awards | 40 Before 40 List

In case you were curious, the Academy Awards has a list on their website of the Best Picture winners since 1928.  I have just a few years to get them all in my queue (some I've seen, but I might check them out again just for the fun of it).

Listed below for ease of updates. :)

2009 - “The Hurt Locker” - watching tonight (9.5.10)
2008 - “Slumdog Millionaire” - check
2007 - “No Country for Old Men”
2006 - “The Departed” - check
2005 - “Crash”
2004 - “Million Dollar Baby” - check; a definite repeat
2003 - “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”
2002 - “Chicago” - check
2001 - “A Beautiful Mind” - check
2000 - “Gladiator” - check
1999 - “American Beauty” - check
1998 - “Shakespeare in Love” - check; LOVE
1997 - “Titanic” - check
1996 - “The English Patient”
1995 - “Braveheart” - check but I think I fell asleep
1994 - “Forrest Gump” - check
1993 - “Schindler’s List”
1992 - “Unforgiven”
1991 - “The Silence of the Lambs” - check
1990 - “Dances with Wolves” - check
1989 - “Driving Miss Daisy” - check
1988 - “Rain Man” - a million checks ;)
1987 - “The Last Emperor”
1986 - “Platoon” - check
1985 - “Out of Africa”
1984 - “Amadeus” - check; don't remember
1983 - “Terms of Endearment” - check but need to review
1982 - “Gandhi”
1981 - “Chariots of Fire”
1980 - “Ordinary People”
1979 - “Kramer vs. Kramer”
1978 - “The Deer Hunter”
1977 - “Annie Hall”
1976 - “Rocky” - check
1975 - “One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest”
1974 - “The Godfather Part II”
1973 - “The Sting”
1972 - “The Godfather”
1971 - “The French Connection”
1970 - “Patton”
1969 - “Midnight Cowboy”

1968 - “Oliver!”
1967 - “In the Heat of the Night”
1966 - “A Man for All Seasons”
1965 - “The Sound of Music” ... this is the one that gets everyone.  I've still never seen it
1964 - “My Fair Lady”
1963 - “Tom Jones”
1962 - “Lawrence of Arabia”
1961 - “West Side Story”
1960 - “The Apartment”
1959 - “Ben-Hur”
1958 - “Gigi”
1957 - “The Bridge on the River Kwai”
1956 - “Around the World in 80 Days”
1955 - “Marty”
1954 - “On the Waterfront”
1953 - “From Here to Eternity”
1952 - “The Greatest Show on Earth”
1951 - “An American in Paris”
1950 - “All about Eve”
1949 - “All the Kings Men”
1948 - “Hamlet”
1947 - “Gentleman's Agreement”
1946 - “The Best Years of Our Lives”
1945 - “The Lost Weekend”
1944 - “Going My Way”
1943 - “Casablanca” - check but will watch again
1942 - “Mrs. Miniver”
1941 - “How Green Was My Valley”
1940 - “Rebecca”
1939 - “Gone with the Wind” - check
1938 - “You Can't Take It with You”
1937 - “The Life of Emile Zola”
1936 - “The Great Ziegfeld”
1935 - “Mutiny on the Bounty”
1934 - “It Happened One Night”
1932/1933 - “Cavalcade”
1931/1932 - “Grand Hotel”
1930/1931 - “Cimarron”
1929/1930 - “All Quiet on the Western Front”
1928/1929 - “The Broadway Melody”
1927/1928 - “Wings”

So where would you start?  At the earliest movies and explore the evolution of film?  Or just cherry pick from here on out?  I may have a hard time convincing the hubby on some of these ... :)