As of Last Week, I have seen all the Best Picture Nominees for the 14th Consecutive Year.

As of Last Week, I have seen all the Best Picture Nominees for the 14th Consecutive Year.

That’s a precariously weird title for my first blog post, but it’s true.

My secret identity shall remain just that.  Call me….Movie Man (my friends know me by this). I love going to the movies, and as often as possible, then I review them. So much so that I gave myself the nickname of “Movie Man”. I am still trying to work on a website where I can post all my reviews, but this’ll do for the time being.

I live close to three theaters. One of which closed down two years ago: the Century 5 Pleasant Hill theater, a.k.a. the Dome.

The dome, like many other big-named theaters at that time (and still do), showcased Hollywood mainstream movies with rarely a few independent films. That all changed in 2002 when the dome switched from normal Hollywood fare to the independent route, showcasing nothing but indie films that were rarely seen at other theaters.

Before this (and because I wasn’t old enough for R-rated films at the time), I only would end up seeing some of them before the Oscars rolled around.

Because of the Dome, 2002 was the first year that I saw all five Best Picture Movies.

But that’s all for another blog post.

Since then, I’ve been seeing all the Best Pictures around this time (five before the number was expanded to between eight and ten in 2009), and this year marks the 14th consecutive year that I’ve seen all the Best Picture Nominees. (with “Boyhood” being the first and "The Grand Budapest Hotel” being my list)

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