Netflix Streaming Top 5 Picks | The Oscars!

Oh Yes Ladies & Gentlemen, get your ballots ready, roll out the red carpet, and mix up one of our Quinntessential Cocktails, because it’s awards season! This weekend marks the 84th Annual Academy Awards and for your viewing pleasure, I have done extensive research, (combination Wikipedia and IMDB), to present five films that have won the coveted gold statue they call Oscar! And the winner is…

1. Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night. And Betty Davis delivers just that as aging actress Margo Channing in All About Eve.  A story of Backstabbing on Broadway, a young ingenue schemes to replace Channing as the star of the show.

2. Everybody’s talkin’ about it, and they were back in 1969 when Midnight Cowboy debuted with an “X” rating. The story centers around male gigolo Joe Buck and street wise addict Ratso, finding friendship and heartache, in this modernized version “Of Mice and Men,” set in New York City.

3. It doesn’t get crazier than Jack Nicholson in Milos Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. This story of lawlessness in the nut house and the destruction of the human spirit garnered Forman with his first Best Director’s Oscar as well as awards for Nicholson and the very memorable Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched. 

4. It wouldn’t be a true Oscar list if one of the film’s did not have Meryl Streep. Kramer vs. Kramer is a story of a couple’s divorce and it’s impact on everyone around them, especially their young son. Dustin Hoffman, who is also in Midnight Cowboy, must learn how to raise his son alone, until Meryl Streep returns to wage a bitter custody battle. This one may sound like a downer, but what develops is a poignant look at the destruction of the nuclear family and the liberation of women in the household.

5. Sex and Romance in the Sahara! Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott burn up the screen in  The English Patient. Told by the present day melty and disfigured Fiennes to his wartime nurse, Julliete Binoche, he recounts this love affair, while Binoche deals with her own history of lovers and demons. Pretty much your standard Epic, Romance, Classic, this fatal love story or Titanic of the Desert, will really get your heart pumpin’ and your loins yearnin’ for some fire from below!

Lights, Camera, Action… and Happy Streaming!