Oscar Movies Bucket List

A bomb-disposal team in Iraq, and the man who needs the job more than he admits.

A girl in Falangist Spain, 1944, finds a faun in the maze behind her stepfather's barracks.

A concierge, a lobby boy and a stolen painting in a made-up Mitteleuropa.

Solomon Northup, a free man in New York, is kidnapped and sold into Louisiana.

Wire-work swordplay across the bamboo forests of Qing dynasty China.

A Tehran couple divorce, and every decision afterwards is morally impossible.

A widower flies his house to South America; the first ten minutes are the film.

The Boston Globe team that broke the Catholic Church abuse story, told as process.

The sequel that runs Michael's fall against his father's rise.

A mole in the police and a mole in the mob, hunting each other in Boston.

Miyazaki's late, strange masterpiece about grief and a tower between worlds.

Two hours of one car chase, almost entirely practical, across a nuclear desert.

Three chapters in the life of a boy growing up black and gay in Miami.

Facebook's founding as a deposition, scored by Trent Reznor.

A freed slave and a bounty hunter ride into the antebellum South.

A fading TV cowboy and his stunt double drift through 1969 Los Angeles.

A hunter takes a case of drug money and a man with a cattle gun follows.

Eleven Oscars, Pelennor Fields and a very long goodbye.

Nine walkers set out from Rivendell; New Zealand becomes Middle-earth.

Benigni's bittersweet fable of a father shielding his son from the horror of a concentration camp

Hanks drifts through decades of US history (1994).

Maximus's quest for revenge in ancient Rome (2000).

Bong's razor-sharp class thriller and Best Picture winner (2019).

The backing singers behind Bowie, the Stones and Ray Charles, and why the front of the stage never happened.

A volunteer coach and a high-school football team in North Memphis that had never won a play-off game.

The 2008 financial crisis explained by the people who caused it, narrated by Matt Damon.

A Russian primary-school teacher films his own classroom as the war turns it into a recruiting office.

A Palestinian activist and an Israeli journalist film the demolition of Masafer Yatta over five years.