all the movies that won an oscar for best film

97 movies  

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
★ 9.1 56 ratings
PJ actor: Elijah Wood / Ian McKellen …
other title: Il Signore degli Anelli - Il ritorno del re / Ringenes herre - Kongen vender tilbage …
As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the outcome--one member of the Fellowship of the Ring is revealed as the noble heir to the throne of the Kings of Men. Yet, the sole hope for triumph over evil lies with a brave hobbit, Frodo, who, accompanied by his loyal friend Sam and the hideous, wretched Gollum, ventures deep into the very dark heart of Mordor on his seemingly impossible quest to destroy the Ring of Power.​

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Gladiator (2000)
Gladiator
★ 7.8 42 ratings
other title: Il gladiatore / Gladiador
In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army's most capable and trusted generals and a key advisor to the emperor. As Marcus' devious son Commodus ascends to the throne, Maximus is set to be executed. He escapes, but is captured by slave traders. Renamed Spaniard and forced to become a gladiator, Maximus must battle to the death with other men for the amusement of paying audiences.

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Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Shakespeare in Love
John Madden actor: Joseph Fiennes / Gwyneth Paltrow …
other title: A Paixão de Shakespeare / Shakespeare In Love …
Young William Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, 'Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter', before it's even written. When lovely noblewoman Viola de Lesseps auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love — and Shakespeare's play finds a new life (and title). As their relationship intensifies, the comedy soon transforms into tragedy.

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Titanic (1997)
Titanic
★ 8.5 56 ratings
other title: 泰坦尼克号 / 铁达尼号 …
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

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The English Patient (1996)
The English Patient
★ 7.2 14 ratings
Anthony Minghella actor: Ralph Fiennes / Juliette Binoche …
other title: Il paziente inglese / Den engelske patient …
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.

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Braveheart (1995)
Braveheart
★ 7.5 15 ratings
Mel Gibson actor: Mel Gibson / Catherine McCormack …
other title: Braveheart - Cuore impavido / Braveheart: O Desafio do Guerreiro
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.

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Unforgiven (1992)
Unforgiven
★ 8.8 10 ratings
other title: Gli spietati / De nådesløse …
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.

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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Silence of the Lambs
★ 8.6 62 ratings
Jonathan Demme actor: Jodie Foster / Anthony Hopkins …
other title: Das Schweigen der Lämmer / O Silência dos Inocentes …
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI’s training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.

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Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Driving Miss Daisy
★ 7.6 5 ratings
Bruce Beresford actor: Morgan Freeman / Jessica Tandy …
other title: A spasso con Daisy / Miss Daisy …
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters, in a time when those types of relationships were shunned.

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Rain Man (1988)
Rain Man
★ 7.5 25 ratings
other title: Rain Man - L'uomo della pioggia / Encontro de Irmãos
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.

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The Last Emperor (1987)
The Last Emperor
★ 8.8 32 ratings
Bernardo Bertolucci actor: John Lone / Joan Chen …
other title: L'ultimo imperatore / Den sidste kejser …
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.

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Out of Africa (1985)
Out of Africa
★ 7.2 5 ratings
Sydney Pollack actor: Robert Redford / Meryl Streep …
other title: La mia Africa / Mit Afrika …
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.
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