Oscar night will be here before you know it! It's time for your daily Oscar trivia. Today's is Biblical epic style... sort of.
So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
-Genesis 1:21
Oscar's favorite sea-faring and/or sea-creature adventures are after the jump but soon we will have to add The Shape of Water (now opening December 1st -- one week earlier than as originally planned) to this list. Where do you think it will land in the following list:
OSCAR'S DOZEN FAVORITE
SEA-FARING or SEA-CREATURE MOVIES
01 Titanic (1997) - 14 nominations | 11 wins including Best Picture
02 Life of Pi (2012) - 11 nominations including Best Picture | 4 wins
03 Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - 8 nominations | 1 win for Best Picture (and by extension it's remake Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) 7 nominations including Best Picture...
04 Master and Commander (2003) - 10 nominations including Best Picture | 2 wins
05 Ship of Fools (1965) - 8 nominations including Best Picture | 2 wins
06 The Caine Mutiny (1954) - 7 nominations including Best Picture
07 Captain Phillips (2013) - 6 nominations including Best Picture
08 Captain Blood (1935) - 5 nominations including Best Picture
09 Jaws (1975) -4 nominations including Best Picture | 3 wins
the rest of the list was not nominated for Best Picture
10 The Poseidon Adventure (1972) - 8 nominations | 1 win and 1 special Oscar
11 Das Boot (1982) - 6 nominations
12 [TIE] Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) and Hook (1991) 5 nominations (and by extension the former's sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) with 4 nominations and 1 win)
CLOSEST RUNNERS UP: [TIE] Finding Nemo (2003) and The Abyss (1989) - 4 nominations | 1 win
The Little Mermaid and Pinocchio are just outside the list
Other nominees involving the oceans or sea creatures:
Pinocchio (1940), The Black Swan (1942), Reap the Wild Wind (1942), Lifeboat (1944), Plymouth Adventure (1952), Titanic (1953), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), The Buccaneer (1958), Voyage of the Damned (1976), The Blue Lagoon (1980), Pirates (1986), The Little Mermaid (1989), Crimson Tide (1995), Water World (1995), The Perfect Storm (2000), U-571 (2000), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007), Kon-Tiki (2012), The Pirates! A Band of Misfits (2013)
Famous movies that Oscar completely ignored:
Crimson Pirate (1952), Peter Pan (1953), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Peter Pan (2003), Noah (2014)