Age
of Innocence,the
US (1993): Romance/Drama
133 min,Color
Newland (Daniel Day Lewis) : You gave me my first glimpse
of a real life. Then you asked me to go on with the false one. No one can
endure that.
Ellen (Michelle Pfeifer) : I'm enduring it.
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Director: Martin Scorsese
Screenwriters: Jay Cocks,Martin
Scorsese
(from the novel by Edith Wharton)
Performers:
Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona
Ryder
Alexis Smith, Geraldine Chaplinm,
Mary Beth Hurt, Alec McCowen
WON 1 Academy Award:
Costume Design 1993: Gabriella Pescucci
Other Nominations:
Supporting Actress 1993: Winona Ryder
Writing - Screenplay (Based on Material Previously
Produced or Published) 1993: Jay Cocks, Martin Scorsese
Art Direction 1993: Dante Ferretti - Art
Direction, Robert J. Franco - Set Decoration
Music - Original Score 1993: Elmer Bernstein
Amadeus
US (1984): Musical/Biography
158 min,Color
Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) : So, did my work
please you?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce) : I never knew such
sounds were possible!
Antonio Salieri: You flatter me.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: No, no! One hears such music,
and what can one say is... "Salieri."
_________________
Emperor Joseph II (Jeffrey Jones) : Your work is ingenious.
It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just
cut a few and it will be perfect.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce) : Which few did you
have in mind, Majesty?
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Director: Miloš Forman
Screenwriters: Peter
Shaffer (based on his play)
Performers:
Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham, Elizabeth Berridge,
Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice, Christine Ebersole, Jeffrey Jones
WON 8 Academy Awards:
Picture 1984: Saul Zaentz - Producer
Director 1984: Miloš Forman
Actor 1984: F. Murray Abraham
Writing - Screenplay (Based on Material from
Another Medium) 1984: Peter Shaffer
Art Direction 1984: Patrizia von Brandenstein
- Art Direction, Karel Cerny - Set Decoration
Costume Design 1984: Theodor Pistek
Makeup 1984: Paul LeBlanc, Dick Smith
Sound 1984: Mark Berger, Tom Scott, Todd
Boekelheide, Chris Newman
Other Nominations:
Actor 1984: Tom Hulce
Cinematography 1984: Miroslav Ondrícek
Film Editing 1984: Nena Danevic, Michael
Chandler
As Good As It Gets
US (1997):Romance/Comedy/Drama
138 min,Color
Melvin (Jack Nicholson) : Sell crazy somewhere
else. We're all stocked up here.
________________
Melvin (Jack Nicholson) : You make me want to be a better
man.
Carol (Helen Hunt) : That's maybe the best compliment
of my life.
Melvin : Well maybe I overshot a little, because I was
aiming at just enough to keep you from walking out.
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Director: James L. Brooks
Screenwriters:
Mark Andrus, James L. Brooks
(Based on a story
by Mark Andrus)
Performers:
Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear,
Cuba Gooding, Jr., Skeet Ulrich,
Shirley Knight,Yeardley Smith
WON 2 Academy Awards
Actor 1998: Jack Nicholson
Actress 1998: Helen Hunt
Other Nominations:
Picture 1998: James
L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson, Kristi Zea
Supporting Actor 1998: Greg Kinnear
Original Screenplay 1998: Mark Andrus,
James L. Brooks
Original Musical or Comedy Score 1998:
Hans Zimmer
Film Editing 1998: Richard Marks
Awakenings
US (1990): Drama
121 min,Color
Mrs. Lowe (Ruth Nelson) : When my son was born healthy,
I never asked why. Why was I so lucky?
What did I do to deserve this perfect child, this perfect life? But
when he got sick, you can bet I asked why! I demanded to know why! Why
was this happening?
_____________________
Dr. Sayer (Robin Williams): You told him I was a kind man.
How kind is it to give life, only to take it away?
Eleanor (Julie Kavner) : It's given to and taken away
from all of us.
Dr. Sayer: Why does that not comfort me?
Eleanor: Because you are a kind man. Because he's your
friend.
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Director: Penny Marshall
Screenwriter: Steven Zaillian
(based on the novel by Oliver Sacks)
Performers:
Robert De Niro
Robin Williams
Julie Kavner
Ruth Nelson
John Heard
Penelope Ann Miller
Alice Drummond
3 Academy Awards Nominations:
Picture 1990: Walter F. Parkes - Producer,
Lawrence Lasker - Producer
Actor 1990: Robert De Niro
Writing - Screenplay (Based on Material from
Another Medium) 1990: Steven Zaillian
Blade Runner
US (1982): Science
Fiction
118 min,Color
Rick Deckard
(Harrison Ford) : All they'd wanted were the same answers the rest
of us wanted, where have I come from? Where am I going? How long have I
got?
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Director: Ridley Scott
Screenwriters: Hampton
Fancher,David Peoples
(based on the story "Do Androids Dream
of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick)
Performers:
Harrison Ford
Rutger Hauer
Sean Young
Edward James Olmos
M. Emmet Walsh
Daryl Hannah
William Sanderson
2 Academy Awards Nominations
Art Direction 1982: Lawrence G. Paull -
Art Direction, David L. Snyder - Art Direction, Linda DeScenna - Set Decoration
Visual Effects 1982: Douglas Trumbull,
Richard Yuricich, David Dryer
Braveheart
US (1995): Romance/Historical/Action
177 min,Color
William Wallace (Mel Gibson) : Every man dies, not every
man really lives.
______________
William Wallace: There's a difference between us. You
think the people of this land exist to provide you with position. I think
your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to
make sure that they have it.
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Director: Mel Gibson
Screenwriter: Randall Wallace
Performers:
Mel Gibson
Sophie Marceau
Patrick McGoohaI
Catherine McCormac
Brendan Gleeson
James Cosmo
David O'Hara
WON 5 Academy Awards
Picture 1995: Bruce Davey - Producer,
Alan Ladd, Jr - Producer, Mel Gibson - Producer
Director 1995: Mel Gibson
Cinematography 1995: John Toll
Makeup 1995: Peter Frampton, Paul Pattison,
Lois Burwell
Sound Effects 1995: Lon Bender, Per Hallberg
Other Nominations
Writing - Screenplay (Written Directly For The
Screen) 1995: Randall Wallace
Costume Design 1995: Charles Knode
Film Editing 1995: Steven Rosenblum
Music - Original Dramatic Score 1995: James
Horner
Sound 1995: Andy Nelson, Scott Millan,
Anna Behlmer, Brian Simmons
Breaking the Waves
Denmark / Netherlands
/ Sweden / France (1996): Drama
158 min,Color
The Minister: We do not need bells
in our church to worship God.
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Director:
Lars von Trier
Screenwriter:
Lers von Trier
Performers:
Emily Watson,
Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge,
Jean-Marc Barr,
Adrian Rawlins, Jonathan Hackett, Sandra Voe
1 Academy Award Nomination:
Best Actress 1997:
Emily Watson
Bridges of Madison County,the
US (1995): Romance/Drama
135 min,Color
Francesca (Meryl Streep): And in that moment, everything
I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like
another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.
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Director: Clint Eastwood
Screenwriter: Richard LaGravenese
Performers:
Clint Eastwood Robert Kincaid
Meryl Streep Francesca Johnson
Annie Corley
Victor Slezak
Jim Haynie
1 Academy Award Nomination
Actress 1995:
Meryl Streep
Cape Fear
US (1991): Thriller
128 min,Color
Max Cady (Robert De Niro) : Every man... every man has
to go through hell to reach paradise.
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Max Cady: I'm going to chop you into 42 pieces.
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Director: Martin Scorsese
Screenwriter: Wesley Strick
(based on the 1962 screenplay by James R. Webb,
from the novel "The Executioners" by John D. MacDonald)
Performers:
Robert De Niro
Nick Nolte
Jessica Lange
Juliette Lewis
Joe Don Baker
Robert Mitchum
Gregory Peck
2 Academy Awards Nominations:
Actor 1991: Robert De Niro
Supporting Actress 1991: Juliette Lewis
Casino
US (1995): Drama/Crime
182 min,Color
Sam "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro) : When you love someone,
you've gotta trust them. There's no other way. You've got to give them
the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point? And, for
a while, I believed that's the kind of love I had.
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Director: Martin Scorsese
Screenwriters: Martin Scorsese,Nicholas Pileggi
Performers:
Robert De Niro
Sharon Stone
Joe Pesci
James Woods
Don Rickles
Alan King
Kevin Pollak
1 Academy Awards Nomination:
Actress 1995: Sharon Stone
Chariots of Fire
UK (1981): Sports/Drama/Biography
123 min, Color
Eric Liddell(Ian Charleson) : I believe God made me for a purpose,
but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure.
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Director: Hugh Hudson
Screenwriter: Colin
Welland
Performers:
Ben Cross Harold Abrahams
Ian Charleson Eric Liddell
Nigel Havers Lord Andrew Lindsay
Nick Farrell Aubrey Montague
Ian Holm Sam Mussabini
John Gielgud Master of Trinity
Lindsay Anderson Master of Caius
WON 4 Academy Awards
Picture 1981:
David Puttnam - Producer
Writing - Screenplay
(Written Directly For The Screen) 1981: Colin Welland
Costume Design 1981:
Milena Canonero
Music - Original
Score 1981: Vangelis
Other Nominations
Nominated for Supporting
Actor 1981: Ian Holm
Nominated for Director
1981: Hugh Hudson
Nominated for Film
Editing 1981: Terry Rawlings