Best Picture Oscar Winners on YouTube

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All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) law and order drama
    Won "Best Production" (Picture), and Best Director Oscars for 1929-30
A group of schoolboys are urged by their teacher to join the fight during World War I and become disillusioned by their experiences.

Watch the entire movie now on video.google.com
Also this movie was remade in 1979
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Cimarron (1931) western (playlist - complete)
    starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1930-31
The previously uploaded version on YouTube has been removed, but here is a ten-minute extract.
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Grand Hotel (1932) drama (playlist - complete)
    The goings-on at a luxury hotel in 1930's Berlin (playlist - complete)
    Starring John Barrymore, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford
        Wallace Berry, Lionel Barrymore.
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1931-32
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Cavalcade (1933) starring Diana Wynyard
An extended family lives through the Boer war and World War I, with various romances and dramas.
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1932-33
    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7
    Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13
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It Happened One Night (1934) romance
    starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert
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Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
    starring Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1935
    Cannot find it entire on YouTube, but here is the trailer
    Or try this Video Google search for Mutiny on the Bounty 1935
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The Great Ziegfeld (1936) musical biography
    starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer
    Also notice Frank Morgan, Fannie Brice, and Ray Bolger
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1936. Eight minute clip
Myrna Loy plays the real "Billie Burke".  Billie as you know was "Glinda the Good Witch of Oz". While "Billings" is played by Frank Morgan who was the "Wizard", and Ray Bolger plays as himself!  Fannie Brice of course was the real-life "Funny Lady" that Barbara Streisand's movie biographed.
Video Google search for The Great Ziegfeld 1936
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The Life of Emile Zola (1937) biography starring Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1937
    Cannot find it entire on YouTube, but here is a three-minute trailer
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You Can't Take It With You (1938), romance comedy
    Starring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold
    Directed by Frank Capra.  Also notice Ann Miller, and Spring Byington
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1938
Kirby needs to buy all the property in an area, but one man won't sell.  Jimmy Stewart plays Kirby's son, who falls in love with Jean Arthur.
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Gone With The Wind (1939)
    starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia DeHavilland
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1939
    Cannot find it entire on YouTube, but here is the trailer
    and an eight-minute extract
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Rebecca (1940), suspense romance
    Produced by David O Selznick.  Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
A poor girl suddenly thrust into a Cinderella romance tries to fit into her new life but is confronted by some dark shadows in her husband's past.
    starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine
    and George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Gladys Cooper
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1940
    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8
    Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13
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How Green Was My Valley (1941) family-life drama
    directed by John Ford
    Starring Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp, Anna Lee
    This film introduced "Master Roddy McDowall" to U.S. audiences
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1941

    The experiences of a family of coal miners in Wales.
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Mrs Miniver (1942) law and order drama
    directed by William Wyler  (playlist - complete)
    Starring Greer Garson, and Walter Pidgeon
    Vin Miniver was played by Richard Ney who was "Mr Zeno"
        in the Outer Limits episode, "The Special One"
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1942

    The experiences of a family during World War II in England.
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Casablanca (1943) law and order romance drama
    Starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
        Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1943
    Cannot find it entire on YouTube, but here is the trailer
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Going My Way (1944) musical
    Starring Bing Crosby, Barry FitzGerald
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1944 and also Best Director for Leo McCarey
    Cannot find it entire on YouTube
        but from the movie, here is
    Bing Crosby Clip 1 and Bing Crosby Clip 2
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 The Lost Weekend (1945) suspense drama (playlist - complete)
    Starring Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1945 and also Best Director for Billy Wilder
    The introductory and trailing credits have been cut off this version -- boo!!

Ray Milland is an alcoholic, this movie follows his experiences over one weekend binge.  Jane Wyman is his long-suffering romantic interest, but the actual romance is slim to none.  Gritty and moralistic. "How to lose your friends."
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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) romance drama (playlist - complete)
Starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo
Harold Russell although billed ninth, actually won the Supporting Actor Oscar for this film.
Won Best Picture Oscar for 1946, Best Actor for Fredric March and Best Director for William Wyler

The lives of three servicemen returning from WWII are followed.
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 Gentleman's Agreement (1947) romance drama (playlist - complete)
    produced by Darryl F Zanuck
    Starring Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield
With Celeste Holm, Anne Revere, June Havoc, Albert Dekker
Jane Wyatt, Dean Stockwell
Won Best Picture Oscar for 1947, Best Director for Elia Kazan
Best Supporting Actress Celeste Holm

Gregory Peck is a writer who decides the best way to do a new piece on anti-Semitism is to tell everyone that he is Jewish himself.
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 Hamlet (1948) classic literature drama (playlist - complete), produced and directed by Laurence Olivier
    Starring Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
    And notice Peter Cushing as "Osric"
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1948, Best Actor for Laurence Olivier

Of course the classic William Shakespeare play.  Hamlet is Prince of Denmark.  His father has just died and his mother has married her former brother-in-law, Hamlet's uncle, who is now King.  Hamlet's father's ghost requires Hamlet to avenge what he claims was his murder by this brother.
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 All the King's Men (1949), directed by Robert Rosson
    Starring Broderick Crawford, John Ireland
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1949
    Best Actor for Broderick Crawford, Best Supporting Actress for Mercedes McCambridge
    Cannot find it entire on Youtube but here is the trailer
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 All About Eve (1950) drama (playlist - complete)
    Starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders and Gary Merrill.
    (Trivia: Just after this movie, Gary and Bette married.)
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1950

Anne Baxter is a very "sweet and endearing" young lady, but secretly a manipulative career-climber, using Bette and her connections to claw her way to the top of the acting world, over their bodies.  George Sanders is deliciously jaded as the theatre critic who helps Anne along.  Not to be missed, one of the greatest films of all time.
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An American in Paris (1951) musical
    starring Gene Kelly, Oscar Levant, Georges Guetary
    Leslie Caron, Nina Foch
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1951
    Cannot find it entire on Youtube but here is the trailer

    Music.  Dancing.  Romancing.  You get the picture.
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The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
    Starring Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour
        Gloria Grahame, James Stewart
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1952
    Cannot find it entire on Youtube but here is the trailer
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 From Here to Eternity (1953) romance drama
    Starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr
        Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1953
    Cannot find it entire on Youtube but here is the trailer
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On the Waterfront (1954), drama, directed by Elia Kazan
    Starring Marlon Brando, Lee J Cobb, Karl Malden, Rod Steiger
        Eva Maria Saint
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1954
    Cannot find it entire on Youtube but here is a five-minute extract
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Marty (1955) romance comedy, directed by Delbert Mann
    Starring Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Joe Mantell
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1955, Best Actor, Best Director
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Around the World in 80 Days (1956), fantasy adventure
    produced by Michael Todd (who was once married to Elizabeth Taylor)
    starring David Niven, Cantinflas, Finlay Currie
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1956

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) law and order drama (playlist - complete)
    starring William Holden, Jack Hawkins, and Alec Guinness
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1957, Best Actor for Alec Guinness, Best Director, plus four more oscars

Gigi (1958) musical romance
    starring Maurice Chevalier, Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor
    Jacques Bergerac, Isabel Jeans
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1958, and Best director for Vincente Minnelli
    Cannot find it entire on YouTube but here is the trailer

Ben-Hur (1959) adventure, direct by William Wyler
    starring Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1959, Best Actor for Charlton Heston, Best Supporting Actor for Hugh Griffith
    and Best Director for Wyler
    Cannot find it entire on YouTube but here is a four-minute prologue

The Apartment (1960) comedy, produced and directed by Billy Wilder
    starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
    Cannot find it entire on YouTube but here is the trailer
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1960, and Best Director for Wilder

West Side Story (1961) musical romance
    starring Natalie Wood
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1961, Best Supporting Actor for George Chakiris
    Best Supporting Actress for Rita Moreno, Best Director for Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins
    Here Natalie sings "I Feel Pretty"
    And here is a playlist of the songs, but not in order.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) law and order adventure biography
    starring Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1962, Best Director for David Lean
    Trailer, Part 1 (the first four and one-half minutes is music with no picture)
    Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14
    Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20, Part 21, Part 22, Part 23, Part 24, Part 25, Part 26
Peter O'Toole is Lawrence who leads the Arabs in attacking the shattered remnants of the Ottoman Empire during World War I, thus clearing the path for the Saudi King Faisal (Alec Guinness) to arise.  Omar Sharif plays Lawrence's best-friend.
    
Tom Jones (1963) classic literature comedy adventure
    starring Albert Finney
    Cannot find it entire on YouTube but here is a 4 minute extract
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1963, and Best Director for Tony Richardson
Albert Finney is "Tom Jones", whose series of comic and ribald adventures makes you amazed this book was written two hundred and sixty years ago.

My Fair Lady (1964) musical romantic comedy, directed by George Cukor
    starring Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn, Stanley Holloway, Gladys Cooper
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1964, Best Director for George Cukor
    Cannot find it entire on YouTube but here is the Trailer
Rex Harrison is the pompous language instructor who thinks he can cure Audrey Hepburn's strong cockney accent and pass her off as a high-society "princess".  This is the musical version.

The Sound of Music (1965) musical adventure
    starring Julie Andrews, Peggy Wood
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1965, best director for Robert Wise
    Cannot find it entire on YouTube
    The Von Trapp family flees Nazi-occupied territory.  Julie Andrews is the family's nanny.

A Man for All Seasons (1966) biography drama
    starring Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1966, Best Actor for Paul Scofield, Best Director for Fred Zinnemann
    Cannot find it entire on YouTube but here is a six minute extract

In the Heat of the Night (1967) law and order drama
    starring Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1967, and Best Actor for Rod Steiger
    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11 (complete)
Sidney Poitier on a trip back to his hometown in the segregated South, is drawn into a murder investigation.  Rod Steiger is the predujiced small-town sheriff who has to swallow his bile and preconceptions.

Oliver! (1968) musical
    starring Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe, Mark Lester, Jack Wild
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1968, and Best Director for Carol Reed
    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9
    Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15
    Musical version of Oliver Twist.  The music is ultimately forgettable, but the story is fairly decent.
    Apparently that all of it that's been uploaded, which is about apparently half of it.
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Midnight Cowboy (1969) drama buddy-film
    starring Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Sylvia Miles
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1969, and Best Director for John Schlesinger
    Cannot find it entire on YouTube but here is the trailer
    And here is the first eight minutes
Jon Voight is the country-hick who has the odd notion that he can be a big-time gigolo in Manhattan to lonely women.  Dustin Hoffman is the street hustler who hustles but then ultimately befriends him.

Patton (1970) law and order drama
    starring George C Scott, Karl Malden
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1970, Best Actor for George C Scott, Best Director for Franklin Schaffner
    Cannot find it entire on YouTube but here is the trailer

The French Connection (1971) law and order drama
    starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1971, Best Actor for Gene Hackman, Best Director for William Friedkin
    Cannot find it entire on YouTube but here is the trailer
    And a six-minute extract

The Godfather (1972) law and order drama
    starring Marlon Brando, James Caan
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1972, Best Actor for Marlon Brando
    Cannot find it entire on YouTube but here is the trailer

The Sting (1973) buddy-film drama
    starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1973, Best Director for George Roy Hill
    Cannot find it entire on YouTube but here is the trailer
    Paul Newman and Robert Redford scheme to pull off one big fraud.

The Godfather, Part II (1974) drama

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) drama comedy ("black comedy")

Rocky (1976) romantic drama
    starring Sylvester Stallone
    Scenes from the movie
    An underdog boxer trains to take on the world champion.  His girl stands by him, etc.

Annie Hall (1977) romantic comedy
    starring Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1977, Best Actress for Diane Keaton, Best Director for Woody Allen
    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10
    A romance between Woody Allen and Diane Keaton appears, develops and changes over years.

The Deer Hunter (1978) buddy-film drama
    starring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1978, Best Supporting Actor for Christopher Walken, and
    Best Director for Michael Cimino
    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10
    Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18
    A group of buddies is affected by the Vietnam war in various sometimes horrifying ways.  Graphic violence.

Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) drama
    starring Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1979, Best Director for Robert Benton
    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10
Part 11 of this sequence appears to be missing, so here is another Part 11 which overlaps but does provide the ending and credits.
Meryl Streep leaves her marriage and son in order to find herself.  After she has, she returns wanting to take custody of her son.  Dustin Hoffman is the husband, fighting for custody himself.

Ordinary People (1980) family-life drama
    starring Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1980, Best Director for Robert Redford
    Trailer, Clip One, Clip Two, Clip Three
    Mary Tyler Moore blames her son for the death of his brother, and lets him know it constantly.
    Stunning, shocking, relentless.  You will not finish it, unmoved.

Chariots of Fire (1981) biography ? possibly tear-jerker (playlist - complete)
    starring Nicholas Farrell as Aubrey, Ian Charleson as Eric, Ben Cross as Harold, Ian Holm as Sam
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1981
    None of the actors are mentioned in the opening credits, only the ending credits.
    The story of the British athletes who trained for the 1924 Olympic Games.
    Evidently this is supposed to be inspirational, "you can do anything you set your mind to", or something.
    Frankly the movie left me flat.

Gandhi (1982) biography
    starring Ben Kingsley
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1982, Best Actor for Ben Kingsley, Best Director for Richard Attenborough

Terms of Endearment (1983) family-life romantic comedy
    starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, John Lithgow
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1983, Best Director for James L Brooks
    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13
Debra Winger is the daughter of Shirley MacLaine.  Jack Nicholson is the astronaut next-door, running after girls half his age and eventually becoming Shirley's romantic interest.  Jeff Daniels is the man Debra marries, whom Shirley decides is a loser, in the grand tradition of mothers-in-law.  The story follows the characters for about 12 years more-or-less.

Amadeus (1984) musical biography (playlist - complete)
    starring F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge
    also notice Jeffrey Jones as Emperor Joseph, better known from Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Beetlejuice
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1984, Best Actor for F Murray Abraham, Best Director for Milos Forman
    Excellent. Phenomenal.  A true masterpiece of movie-making.  The life of Mozart.

Out of Africa (1985) biography romance
    starring Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1985, Best Actress for Meryl Streep, Best Director for Sydney Pollock
    Streep and Redford are beautiful, but the romance is a little flat, and unconvincing.
    The scenery however is amazing.
    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8
    Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16 (complete)

Platoon (1986) law and order drama
    starring Willen Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Kevin Dillon, Johnny Depp
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1986, Best Director for Oliver Stone
    The experiences of one platoon during the Vietnam War.  Graphic violence.
    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12

The Last Emperor (1987) biography
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1987, Best Director for Bernardo Bertolucci
    Trailer

Rainman (1988) buddy-film
    starring Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1988, Best Actor for Dustin Hoffman, Best Director for Barry Levinson
    Trailer, Eight Minute Clip
Tom Cruise is a self-centered careerist who discovers that he has had an unknown brother, Dustin Hoffman, institutionalized most of his life, for whom Tom now has to care. Dustin however has a very unusual gift.

Driving Miss Daisy (1989) buddy-film comedy
    starring Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti Lupone, Esther Rolle
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1989, Best Actress for Jessica Tandy
    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9
Jessica Tandy is an old Jewish woman, Dan Aykroyd is her son who realizing that his mother can no longer drive, hires Morgan Freeman to drive her on her errands.

Dances with Wolves (1990) adventure western
    starring Kevin Costner, Graham Greene, Mary McDonnell
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1990, Best Director for Kevin Costner
    Trailer

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) law and order drama
    starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1991, Best Actor for Anthony Hopkins, Best Actress for Jodie Foster
    Best Director for Jonathan Demme
    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7
    Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12
Jodie Foster is a new FBI agent on the trail of a serial killer.  Anthony Hopkins is an imprisoned serial killer who may be able to help her profile the other.  Graphic scenes of violence and death.

Unforgiven (1992), western (playlist - complete) directed by Clint Eastwood
    starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1992
Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman are retired gunslingers who come out of retirement for one last assignment, tracking down two men who disfigured a woman.  Graphic scenes of violence.  And Clint's oddly overly-wooden acting.

Schindler's List (1993) drama directed by Stephen Spielberg
    starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1993
During the Nazi extermination of the Jews, Schindler saved many of them by claiming he needed them to work in his factory.

Forrest Gump (1994) romantic comedy adventure directed by Robert Zemeckis
    starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1994
    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 (missing ?), Part 6, Part 7
    Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14
Tom Hanks is a low-IQ boy, Sally Field is his mother.  Robin Wright is his romantic interest.  This film covers about 40 years of his adventure-filled life.  Humorous at times, but could also be a tear-jerker.

Braveheart (1995), directed by Mel Gibson
    starring Mel Gibson
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1995
    Trailer
The story of Scottish hero William Wallace and his fight for Scottish independence from England.

The English Patient (1996)
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1996
    Trailer
        A man is discovered in the desert near a plane but with no memory of who he is.

Titanic (1997)
    starring Leonardo DiCaprio
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1997
    Excerpt
        Two star-crossed lovers aboard the fated Titanic ocean liner.

Shakespeare in Love (1998) romance
    starring Geoffrey Rush, Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck, Judi Dench
        Shakespeare working on a new play has writer's block until he finds his perfect lover.
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1998
    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 (missing), Part 6, Part 7
    Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13

American Beauty (1999)
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 1999
    Trailer

Gladiator (2000) adventure, directed by Ridley Scott
    starring Russell Crowe
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 2000
    Trailer

A Beautiful Mind (2001) biography, directed by Ron Howard
    starring Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 2001
    Biography of John Nash
    Trailer

Chicago (2002)
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 2002
    Trailer

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) fantasy adventure (playlist - complete)
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 2003

Million Dollar Baby (2004)
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 2004
    Trailer

Crash (2005)
    starring Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Brendan Fraser, Ryan Phillippe
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 2005
    Trailer

The Departed (2006) law and order drama
    starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 2006
    Trailer

No Country For Old Men (2007)
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 2007
    Trailer

Slumdog Millionaire (2008) (playlist - complete)
    Won Best Picture Oscar for 2008

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