It was a supremely tight race for the top spot with only 7 points separating the winner and the film in sixth place. Starting at the bottom: The Divorcée and Chocolat got equal amounts of no love bottoming out with 8 points each. Punch-Drunk Love didn’t fare much better with a 9-point finish. From there, everything was well above the 20-point threshhold. In sixth was Z with 22 points, followed by David Copperfield with 24, then Ran with 25 and Wild Strawberries with 27. The top two films were separated by 1 point with silent classic Battleship Potemkin with 28 points falling to spaghetti western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly at 29 points. I will receive it next week to be watched that subsequent weekend and reviewed in The Morning After to be posted on March 14.

Here’s the deal: every week, I will be calling for suggestions of films to be added to my Netflix queue. Each person makes one suggestion and one alternate (in case I have seen one of your suggestions). The next week, when I call for new suggestions, we begin a one-week voting period to select the film to be placed immediately into my Netflix queue to be reviewed the weekend after (because I’ll already have my Netflix queue selections for the coming weekend). Then, you’ll find out what I thought in my weekly Morning After feature on Monday morning.

I’m also going to throw in a couple of selections I haven’t seen from Oscar history. To select the years from which I’ll contribute, I will randomly select two years and then look at the Best Picture race and choose a film there I have not yet seen.

To help decide what to pick, here is a list of what I’ve seen (or at least that I have personally logged).

Full List of Films I’ve Seen (some titles missing, especially those already viewed during this series)
Here’s what you need to post today (and through next Wednesday):

1. Below, please provide your suggestions to add to my Netflix queue.
2. Next, please rate each of the following entries in order of preference. Item 1 will be most preferred, 2 next most preferred and so forth.

• Band of Outsiders (1964)
• The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
• Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
• The Hill (1965)
• Home from the Hill (1960)
• Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
• The Omen (1976)
• Seven Samurai (1954)
• Ship of Fools (1965)
• Wilson (1944)