A Stocking Stuffer From The Monkey

Updated 3/18/2024

I heard from an unimpeachable source that you've all been good little children this year. So as a last-minute gift from me to you, all the Monkey's alternate Oscar polls are up and running — that's 728 741 polls covering 130 132 years of movie history honoring more than two thousand motion picture features, shorts and fragments.

What value! What insanity! As I told Katie-Bar-The-Door this morning, it's like bragging you finally chopped down that oak tree with a butter knife. But it's my oak tree and my butter knife and you chop that which fate has given you to chop whether the chopping of it makes sense or not.

Or as Albert Camus put it, "One must imagine Sisyphus happy."

The polls are grouped by decade, starting in 1888 and running through 2017 2019. On New Year's Day, I'll begin reposting them one year at a time until you've had a crack at them all.

In the meantime (in case you just can't wait), you can follow these links to the decade of your choice and vote now. Seasons greetings and happy new year!

1888 to 1909

1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s