Have you seen a movie because it was nominated for an Oscar?

Let's see. I watched Scent of a Woman, Boys Don't Cry, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, because they were nominated and I loved them. I've also watched some movies before they got nominated because they really seemed interesting. Most did not disappoint :)

yes, it must be a good movie to be nominated in Oscar even it did not win.

YUp,this year OScar,i have seen two films, The Pursuit of Happyness, is very tounching and an inspiring story and The Queen,in which i saw Elizabeth II as human being and not only a monarch.I highly recommned this two films.

Yes, offcourse it gives somehow that it is a quality movie or a movie especially made for winning oscars like the aviator. But mostly I already knew the movies from some reviews so I would see them in the end, but yes it gives the movie maybe that something more that is needed to be a classic sometimes.

No, I've never watched a movie because it was nominated, or even because it won. There are plenty of Oscar winners that I will never watch because they don't interest me. I go by director and subject mostly. When I've watched a movie that did get an Oscar, sometimes I think it's pretty bad. Dr. Zhivago won several Oscars. I watched it a few years ago when it was on TV and it was one of the worst movies I've seen. Just because the judges and the general public love a movie that doesn't say a thing about its quality.

not particularly, although it can be an influence when i have several choices to watch

I have not gone to a movie just because it was nominated or won, but there have been times that the clips from the Oscars got me interested in a movie I had not been interested in before. I'm still interested in seeing Crash from last year's Oscars but I haven't gotten around to it.

No. Never. It's possible that i don't see a movie, because it has been nominated. In the first years of their creation the truly were given to the good films, but now they aren't.

This past weekend I did exactly that. I had a couple of free movie tickets given to me by my work that expire in March, and by the time I took out the 'no free list movies' and the things I had already seen, it didn't exactly leave much that even remotely interested me. Needless to say I found myself watching Dream Girls. OVerall I found it to be ok, but nothing I'd rave about or really even recommend like it had been to me a couple a hundred times. I found overall, the character development needed a bit more work. At some times it also seemed to drag a fair bit so probably could have done with a bit more editing.