Academy Award Winners: Best Picture (79 titles)

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The Departed

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• The Departed on DVD (2006)
  Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Matt Damon,  Leonardo DiCaprio
  Director: Martin Scorsese
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  Director Martin Scorsese returns to his trademark style with the violent, bruised, and bloody feature THE DEPARTED. Scorsese filched the basic storyline from Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak's masterful 2002 Hong Kong action film, INFERNAL AFFAIRS, which saw a policeman going undercover as a mob ..read more »
  
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Crash

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• Crash on DVD (2005)
  Starring: Sandra Bullock,  Don Cheadle,  Matt Dillon
  Director: Paul Haggis
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  Crash is a powerful, moving and provocative drama following the intersecting lives of a diverse group of people in Los Angeles. Using a sophisticated, layered structure to tell the stories of a multi-racial group of characters as their lives inter-connect through a sequence of events around a car ..read more »
  
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Million Dollar Baby

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• Million Dollar Baby on DVD (2004)
  Starring: Hilary Swank,  Clint Eastwood,  Morgan Freeman
  Director: Clint Eastwood
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  Released a little over a year after the grand success of his Oscar-winning feature 'Mystic River', Clint Eastwood returns to the director's chair for 'Million Dollar Baby'. Eastwood also stars in the role of Frankie Dunn, a down-on-his-luck former boxing manager who spends the twilight years of his ..read more »
  
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The Lord Of The Rings - The Return Of The King

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• The Lord Of The Rings - The Return Of Th... on DVD (2003)
  Starring: Elijah Wood,  Miranda Otto,  Ian McKellen
  Director: Peter Jackson
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  As Sauron gathers his forces, the kingdom of Gondor is in need of its king, Aragorn. Gandalf sets off to Minas Tirith to try and rally the troops of Gondor, while King Theoden of Rohan brings his forces to help keep Sauron distracted from the movements of the ring bearer. Meanwhile Frodo, ..read more »
  
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Chicago

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• Chicago on DVD (2002)
  Starring: Catherine Zeta Jones,  Dominic West,  Renee Zellweger
  Director: Rob Marshall
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  This Hollywood adaptation of the classic Broadway musical sparkles with glamour and reverberates with the energy of good, old-fashioned song and dance. As the film leaps into its first riveting act, Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones), one half of the famous number she performs with her sister, ..read more »
  
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A Beautiful Mind

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• A Beautiful Mind on DVD (2001)
  Starring: Russell Crowe,  Jennifer Connelly,  Paul Bettany
  Director: Ron Howard
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  Director Ron Howard delivers his finest effort with his extraordinary film, A BEAUTIFUL MIND, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2001. Based loosely on Sylvia Nasar's acclaimed biography of mathematician John Forbes Nash, the film is a compelling look at one man's genius, his ..read more »
  
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Gladiator

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• Gladiator on DVD (2000)
  Starring: Russell Crowe,  Joaquin Phoenix,  Oliver Reed
  Director: Ridley Scott
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  Ridley Scott (BLADE RUNNER, ALIEN) transports Hollywood to second-century Rome in this rousing historical epic that proudly harkens back to such films as BEN-HUR and SPARTACUS. Russell Crowe plays Maximus, a Roman general who leads the troops in conquering Germania for the empire. When an aging ..read more »
  
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American Beauty

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• American Beauty on DVD (1999)
  Starring: Kevin Spacey,  Sam Roberts,  Annette Bening
  Director: Sam Mendes
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  AMERICAN BEAUTY tells the story of Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), a suburban father who snaps when he becomes disgusted with his stale, repetitive existence. Burnham lets us know in voice-over from the film's opening that this is the day he dies (using the SUNSET BOULEVARD flashback approach), a ..read more »
  
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Shakespeare In Love

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• Shakespeare In Love on DVD (1998)
  Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow,  Joseph Fiennes,  Geoffrey Rush
  Director: John Madden
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  The reign of Elizabeth I finds Will Shakespeare, a writer, broke and envious of a rival. Then, he meets with a woman who wants to be an actor and who disguises herself as a man...
  
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The English Patient

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• The English Patient on DVD (1996)
  Starring: Ralph Fiennes,  Juliette Binoche,  Willem Dafoe
  Director: Anthony Minghella
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  Set during the Second World War, this epic romance tells the story of a mysterious Englishman found badly burned in the Sahara. His nurse transports him across war-torn Europe taking him to a deserted Tuscan monastery where he can die in peace. There they become friends and she begins to read to ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 68% from 17,231 members

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