It's your last chance to watch the following multiple Oscar nominated titles for free on Netflix or Amazon Prime. There are more films leaving than these but you know The Film Experience isn't good copying and pasting press releases and calling it a day. It would make our lives SO much easier but it's just not how we do. This is for you Oscar completists -- you know who you are. As is our habit, we've freeze framed the titles at random and just shared whichever image came up.
Got any feelings about these pictures? Or will you by midnight on March 31st? Do you think they deserved their wins and/or nominations?
10 OSCAR TITLES LEAVING NETFLIX AT THE END OF THE MONTH
* indicates Oscar win in the category
African violet. I can't tell you how difficult that was to come by.
Amistad (1997)
Oscar Nods: Supporting (Anthony Hopkins), Cinematography, Costumes, Score.
Shameful Confession: I've never seen this. I think it's my most significant gap in 1990s Oscar viewing.
You can so sing and dance. Anybody can!
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Fun that the scene above has echoes 62 years later in Ratatouille, right?
Oscar Nods: Picture, Actor (Gene Kelly), Cinematography, Original Song "I Fall in Love Too Easily", Score*. It remains baffling that this was Gene Kelly's sole Oscar nomination. (He was giving an Honorory Award in the 50s though for his quadruple threat versality: singer/actor/dancer/director).
Please don't send me back to India!
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
That's Shirley Maclaine pretending to be an Indian princess. #MoviesSoWhite.
Oscar Weirdness: Picture*, Adapted Screenplay*, Cinematography*, Editing*, Score*, Director, Art Direction, Costume Design. 1956 is in contention for the strangest Oscar year. Voters had Giant and The King and I and Written on the Wind and La Strada and Forbidden Planet and Friendly Persuasion and The Ten Commandments and Seven Samurai and Somebody Up There Likes Me and Umberto D RIGHT THERE. They all had nominations in various categories and yet THIS movie was the big winner?
🎵 I'm goin' on a manhunt, turn it around
Women have been hunted, now they're huntin' around
Flashdance (1983)
OMG I had totally forgotten about Cynthia Rhodes. She was the Hot Dancer / Bad Girl of 80s musicals. She's also in Dirty Dancing and Staying Alive.
Oscar Nods: Cinematography, Editing, Original Song "Maniac" and Original Song* "Flashdance... What a Feeling"
Hey, that's some rock you got there. Did you buy that yourself George?
High Society (1956)
Grace isn't having this catty business from Bing Crosby. She yanks her hand away.
Oscar Nods: Score, Original Song "True Love"
[SCREAMING]
Hook (1991)
This is one of my most hated movies. Oscar felt differently giving it a lot of Most=Best nominations but at least it can't be called an "Oscar winning picture"
Oscar Weirdness: Art Direction, Costume Design, Visual FX, Makeup, Original Song "When You're Alone"
What is this?
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
I imagine our youngest readers are maybe asking that same question right now about this contraption they're looking at. That's what's called a "VCR" youngsters. It changed the world. Before that you had to actually go to movie theaters if you wanted to see something. *gasp!*. Movies would play for months on end if people liked them because once they were gone you might never see them again.
Trivia: Those are Joaquin Phoenix's fingers putting the tape in. This was his last supporting role before he became exclusively a leading man, however weird of a leading man he may be.
Oscar Noms: Original Screenplay, Best Actor (Don Cheadle), Best Supporting Actress (SOPHIE OKONEDO)
Yeah, he's a cute little fella, isn't he?
Pal Joey (1957)
Oscar Noms: Art Direction, Costume Design, Sound, Editing
I do dote on her.
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
That voice is offscreen so it's like they're reading our minds about Keira Knightley.
Oscar Noms: Best Actress (Keira Knightley), Art Direction, Costume Design, Score
How long are you gonna let your brother disgrace us?
Some Came Running (1958)
Oscar Noms: Actress (Shirley Maclaine), Actor (Arthur Kennedy), Supporting Actress (Martha Hyer), Costume Design, Original Song "To Love and Be Loved"
Quandary: I tend to like Vincente Minnelli pictures and this one has ardent fans. So why don't I like it at all? Maybe it's because Shirley Maclaine is barely in it despite a lead nomination and she's definitely the best part.
Oscar Titles leaving Amazon Prime at end of month: Amelie (2001), American Graffiti (1973), The Aviator (2004), Braveheart (1995), The Cider House Rules (1999), City of God (2003), The Crying Game (1992), Elizabeth (1998), Finding Neverland (2004), Frida (2004), Good Will Hunting (1997), Gosford Park (2001), The Graduate (1967), The Grifters (1991), High Noon (1952), In the Bedroom (2001), In the Name of the Father (1993), Little Women (1994), The Madness of King George (1994), My Left Foot (1989), Out of Africa (1985), Pulp Fiction (1994), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Shane (1953)