The Academy Awards are less than a month away and to celebrate Turner Classic Movies {TCM} premiered their annual 31 DAYS OF OSCAR movie extravaganza on February 1st. The month-long event will feature 360 Academy Award-nominated and winning movies, all presented uncut and commercial-free. The month’s schedule is designed so that each movie is linked to the next movie in the lineup through a shared actor or actress.

For example, the movie event was kicked off February 1st at 6:30 am with Kevin Bacon and James Coco in Only When I Laugh (1981). Coco and Harry Andrews were then featured in The Man of La Mancha (1972) at 8:15 a.m., followed by Andrews in 55 Days at Peking (1963) at 10:30 a.m. The festivities will continue linking from movie to movie, one star at a time, throughout the month of February. The final movie in the festival, Diner (1982), starring Bacon, will bring the entire month full circle.




There are a ton of great movies on the schedule! These are the movies that I am looking forward to and have set up to record on my DVR.

The Graduate(1967) – with Anne Bancroft and William Daniels
The Parent Trap (1961) – with Brian Keith and Maureen O’Hara
Little Women (1949) – with Rossano Brazzi and Connie Gilchrist
Casablanca (1942) – with S.Z. Sakall and Humphrey Bogart
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) – with Bob Balaban and Richard Dreyfuss
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) – with Richard Beymer and Shelley Winters
A Room with a View (1985) – with Denholm Elliott and Judi Dench
Mrs. Brown (1997) – with Judi Dench and Richard Pasco
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) – with Jane Powell and Russ Tamblyn




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