TCM's 31 Days of Oscar-Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Style

If you're a movie fan like I am you probably know about Turner Classic Movies' annual Oscar movie marathon, 31 Days of Oscar.  What you might not know is this year they're programming the movies in a new way.

Have you heard of the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game?  Well TCM is programming each Oscar winning movie like the game, so that every film is linked to the film after it by a shared actor or actress.

So for example, last weekend TCM played one of my favorite Alfred Hitchcock films "Rebecca" starring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier.  The film that came right after was "Wuthering Heights" starring Laurence Olivier.  "Wuthering Heights" co-starred David Niven, so the film after that was "The Pink Panther" starring David Niven.

You get the idea.

This weekend has some more really great movies and some favorites of mine like, "Roman Holiday," "The Guns of Navarone," "Jezebel," "Notorious" and "Murder on the Orient Express."

31 Days of Oscar will end on March 3rd and of course the Academy Awards themselves will air on March 7th on ABC.

You can check out my reviews of some Oscar nominated films at the following links:

"Avatar"

"Bright Star"

"Julie and Julia"

"Precious"

"Star Trek"

"The Lovely Bones"

"The Princess and the Frog"

"Up in the Air"

Pass the popcorn!