Oscar Best Picture Nominees - To Watch

In yet another bit of procrastination, I have compiled a list of Best Picture nominees from the last twenty years which I have yet to see:

2008 - Frost/Nixon
2007 - None
2006 - None
2005 - None
2004 - Ray
2003 - Mystic River
2002 - None
2001 - In the Bedroom
2000 - Traffic, Erin Brockovich, Chocolat
1999 - None
1998 - The Thin Red Line
1997 - The Full Monty
1996 - Secrets and Lies
1995 - Sense and Sensability
1994 - Quiz Show
1993 - None
1992 - Unforgiven, The Crying Game, Howard's End
1991 - Prince of Tides, Bugsy
1990 - Ghost, Awakenings, The Godfather Part III
1989 - Driving Miss Daisy, Field of Dreams

So I have seen a total of 78 of the 100 Best Picture nominees during that period which is not a bad totally, actually. I have also seen all five nominees (making me able to fully judge whether the Best Picture award was given deservedly) on 6 Occasions: '93, '99, '02, '05, '06, '07. I have also seen 18 out of the 20 Best Picture Winners, the exceptions being Unforgiven (1992) and Driving Miss Daisy (1989).

Among the remaining nominees over the last twenty years, I will soon be watching Frost/Nixon (in late March '09) when it opens in Singapore. Of the remaining few, I am only really keen to watch Mystic River and Unforgiven (both Clint Eastwood), Quiz Show, Sense and Sensibility, Howard's End and the Godfather Part III (if only to see where Coppola went wrong). I would conceivably watch Driving Miss Daisy (since it won Best Picture), In the Bedroom (because it had an excellent cast). The rest of them don't really entice me that much, perhaps proof, if any were needed, that the Academy can often go very wrong.

Update: 05 Feb 2011 - I realize, rather coincidentally that this list can in a sense stand alone, for from 2009 onwards the Academy began shortlisting 10 films for Best Picture. Since this post I have gone on to watch Frost/Nixon as mentioned, Howard's End and Sense and Sensibility. The Eastwoods have thus far still escaped me. To add to the list, I guess I should watch Ghost, given its cult status, and in honour of Patrick Swayze who died in 2010.