How to remember the Oscar Best Film Winners
So with the Oscars coming up a friend of mine asked how she could show off at her annual Oscar party by recalling best film winners. This is what I shared with her for best film winners 2001 – 2010.
First of all we need an image to represent each year, so I gave her rhyming partners. For 1, (or for our purposes 2001) I told her to visualize a Bun, 2 (2002) A Shoe, 3 Tree, 4 Door, 5 Hive, 6 Sticks, 7 Heaven, 8 Plate, 9 Wine and 10 Pen.
To each of these images I had her attach, in a crazy way, an image which would represent the film.
2001 winner was A Beautiful Mind. She visualized a Brain (Beautiful Mind) in a hamburger Bun (1 or 2001)
2002 (Shoe) winner was Chicago, she thought of the Windy City, for Chicago, and imagined Dorothy’s Ruby Red Slippers being swept up in a Tornado.
2003 (Tree) Lord of the Rings. The rings of a Tree replaced by the Golden Ring from the movie.
2004 (Door) Million-Dollar Baby. A huge 6’ baby nailing $1M bank notes to an ornate Door.
2005 (Hive) Crash. A car crashing into a huge bee Hive.
2006 (Sticks) Departed. Running through her favourite DEPARTMENT store smashing everything in site with a huge hockey Stick.
2007 (Heaven) No Country For Old Men. Old Men, each holding a flag from a different country, jumping from cloud to cloud in Heaven.
2008 (Plate) Slum Dog Millionaire. A basketball player, worth a Million $’s, Slam Dunking a Plate.
2009 (Wine) Hurt Locker. She saw herself smashing a bottle of Wine against a metal Locker, hurting herself with the broken glass.
2010 (Pen) The King’s Speech. A Kings Crown with large fountain Pens in place of jewels, and the King uses each pen, one at a time, to write a Speech.
If you visualized each of those images as you read them, go back in your head and test yourself to see if you have them memorized.
This is a basic Peg System, which coupled with another system known as The Phonetic Index, would allow you recall, not only the Best Film winners of every year, but also the best actors, supporting actors, cinematography….. and so on and so on.
These same systems help in business, recalling model numbers, prices, speeches, presentations, clients names…… and so on and so on.
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