Oscar Best Picture Winners (83 titles)

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The Best Years Of Our Lives

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• The Best Years Of Our Lives on DVD (1946)
  Starring: Dana Andrews,  Virginia Mayo,  Fredric March
  Director: William Wyler
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  William Wyler directs this classic wartime drama. Three soldiers return home from World War 2 to find life in America has moved on without them. Fred (Dana Andrews) has to re-acquaint himself with a wife he barely knows, Al (Frederic March) with his suddenly grown-up children, whilst Homer (Harold ..read more »
  
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Gentleman's Agreement

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• Gentleman's Agreement on DVD (1947)
  Starring: June Havoc,  Dean Stockwell,  Celeste Holm
  Director: Elia Kazan
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  Adapted by Moss Hart from the novel by Laura Z. Hobson, this film stars Gregory Peck as recently widowed journalist Phil Green. With a growing son (Dean Stockwell) to support, Green is receptive to the invitation of magazine publisher John Minify (Albert Dekker) to write a series of hard-hitting ..read more »
  
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Hamlet

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• Hamlet on DVD (1948)
  Starring: Norman Wooland,  Basil Sydney,  Peter Cushing
  Director: Laurence Olivier
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  Although criticized by Shakespeare devotees upon its release because of director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier's decision to excise large portions of the text, his cinematic version of Hamlet is widely considered the best out of several dozens (and counting). Hamlet (Olivier) is a medieval ..read more »
  
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All The King's Men

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• All The King's Men on DVD (1949)
  Starring: John Derek,  Broderick Crawford,  Joanne Dru
  Director: Robert Rossen
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  Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men is a roman à clef inspired by the career of Louisiana governor Huey Long. Broderick Crawford won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Willie Stark, a backwoods Southern lawyer who wins the hearts of his ..read more »
  
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All About Eve

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• All About Eve on DVD (1950)
  Starring: Anne Baxter,  George Sanders,  Celeste Holm
  Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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  Joseph L. Mankiewicz writes and directs this classic award-winning drama starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter. Eve Harrington (Baxter) is famous actress Margo Channing (Davis)'s biggest fan. When, by chance, she gets to meet the great lady, she quickly ingratiates herself into her life. Before long,..read more »
  
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An American In Paris

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• An American In Paris on DVD (1951)
  Starring: Gene Kelly,  Leslie Caron,  Oscar Levant
  Director: Vincente Minnelli
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  American G.I. Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) stays in Paris after the war to become a painter. There he falls in love with Lise Bouvier (Leslie Caron), only to discover that she is engaged to his friend Henri Baurel (Georges Guetary). With music and songs by George and Ira Gershwin, including 'I Got ..read more »
  
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The Greatest Show On Earth

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• The Greatest Show On Earth on DVD (1952)
  Starring: Betty Hutton,  Charlton Heston
  Director: Cecil B. DeMille
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  Cecil B. DeMille's star-studded spectacular about life under the Big Top won a Best Picture Oscar and Best Original Story. Circus owner Brad Braden (Charlton Heston) hires stunt daredevil The Great Sebastian as his star attraction, even though this demotes his trapeze artist girlfriend Holly to ..read more »
  
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From Here To Eternity

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• From Here To Eternity on DVD (1953)
  Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Jack Warden,  Deborah Kerr
  Director: Fred Zinnemann
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  The scene is Schofield Army Barracks in Honolulu, in the languid days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, where James Jones' acclaimed war novel From Here to Eternity brought the aspirations and frustrations of several people sharply into focus. Sergeant Milt Warden (Burt Lancaster) enters into an ..read more »
  
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On The Waterfront

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• On The Waterfront on DVD (1954)
  Starring: John Hamilton,  Pat Hingle,  Lee J. Cobb
  Director: Elia Kazan
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  Elia Kazan directs this 1950s crime drama starring Marlon Brando. Ex-boxer Terry Malloy (Brando) becomes involved in corrupt dockside politics through his lawyer brother Charley (Rod Steiger), who works for gangster union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb). When Terry witnesses the murder of a ..read more »
  
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Marty

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• Marty on DVD (1955)
  Starring: Esther Minciotti,  Jerry Paris,  Betsy Blair
  Director: Delbert Mann
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  Paddy Chayefsky's Oscar-winning slice-of-life drama is a heartwarming story about Marty Pilletti (Ernest Borgnine), a lonely Bronx butcher. Marty is a burly but gentle man, easing into middle age without much hope for romance or a career. He lives at home with his mother (Esther Minciotti), a kind ..read more »
  
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