A World Apart

Award: Best Director
Award Year: 1988
Recipient(s): Chris Menges
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 1988

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this "haunting, deeply moving film" (Los Angeles Times) brims with "emotion and radiant intelligence" (The New Yorker) and features Barbara Hershey in a "strikingly forceful performance" (New York) by Barbara Hershey, this potent account of personal and political turmoil brims with "emotion and radiant intelligence" (The New Yorker)!
South Africa, 1963. Communist Gus Roth (Jeroen Krabbe) is forced to flee Johannesburg to escape arrest, leaving his activist wife Diana (Hershey) to continue their crusade against apartheid. But when Diana is wrenched from her three daughters and jailed under the notorious 90-day Detention Act, she and her family face the ultimate sacrifice in the fight for freedom.

12 Angry Men

Award: Outstanding Achievement
Award Year: 1957
Recipient(s): Sidney Lumet
Theatrical Release Date: Apr 20, 1957

Synopsis: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley and Jack Klugman lead in this tense, courtroom drama -- nominated for three Oscars including Best Picture -- about one juror determined to sway the opinions of eleven others.

Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same conclusion? It's a case of seemingly overwhelming evidence against a teenager accused of killing his father in "one of the best pictures ever made" (The Hollywood Reporter).

49th Parallel

Award: Best Writing - Original Story
Award Year: 1942
Recipient(s): Emeric Pressburger
Theatrical Release Date: Feb 18, 1942

Synopsis: A group of Nazi servicemen are stranded off the coast of Canada when their U-boat is sunk in this tense World War II thriller.

A Bridge Too Far

Award: Best Supporting Actor
Award Year: 1977
Recipient(s): Edward Fox
Theatrical Release Date: Jun 15, 1977

Synopsis: Sir Richard Attenborough directs Sean Connery, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins and Robert Redford in this gripping and controversial tale about a daring WWII military operation.

A Fish Called Wanda

Award: Best Supporting Actor
Award Year: 1988
Recipient(s): Kevin Kline
Theatrical Release Date: Jul 13, 1988

Synopsis:

Tour-de-force performances from an unparalleled comic cast highlight this much-loved hit that RogerEbert calls "the funniest movie I have seen in a long time!" Monty Pythoners John Cleese and Michael Palin (Search For The Holy Grail, The Meaning Of Life) join Oscar winner Kevin Kline (In & Out) and Jamie Lee Curtis (True Lies) in an entertainment so impeccably timed and executed that Time Magazine hailed it as: "Genius [a film that] redefines agreat comic tradition!"

Four conniving jewel thieves... three yorkshire terriers... two heaving bosoms and one proper British barrister. It all adds up to "a non-stop barrage of... outrageous plot twists and over-the top performances" (L.A. Weekly) when a girl called Wanda (Curtis) tries to deceive her Nietzche-quoting boyfriend (Kline), an animal-loving hitman (Palin) and an embarrassment-prone counselor (Cleese) out of a fortune in jewels in this hilariously funny farce!

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum

Award: Best Music Score - Adapted
Award Year: 1966
Recipient(s): Ken Thorne
Theatrical Release Date: Oct 15, 1966

Synopsis: Zero Mostel, Buster Keaton, Phil Silvers and an all-star cast scam their way through this boisterous romp amidst gorgeous girls, mistaken identities, stunning surprises, cunning disguises and great Sondheim songs.

A Hole in The Head

Award: Best Song
Award Year: 1959
Recipient(s): Sammy Cahn
Theatrical Release Date: Sep 18, 2001

Synopsis: Tony Manetta, the irresponsible but charming widowed owner of a run-down Miami Beach hotel, tries to raise money to save the hotel from foreclosure. However, through thick and thin, one thing remains constant...the love between Tony and his 12-year-old son, who ultimately teaches Tony that there is more than one way to measure success. Based on the Broadway play by Arnold Schulman.

A Thousand Clowns

Award: Best Supporting Actor
Award Year: 1965
Recipient(s): Martin Balsam
Theatrical Release Date: Dec 23, 1965

Synopsis: In this four-time Oscar nominated film (including Best Picture), Jason Robards stars as a nonconformist who is forced to find a conventional job. Barbara Harris and Martin Balsam co-star.

Alice

Award: Best Actress
Award Year: 1990
Recipient(s): Mia Farrow
Theatrical Release Date: Dec 25, 1990

Synopsis: A mousy, pampered woman who married well tries to find herself and contemplates the unthinkable - an extramarital affair.

Annie Hall

Award: Best Director
Award Year: 1977
Recipient(s): Woody Allen
Theatrical Release Date: Apr 20, 1977

Synopsis: This Best Picture Oscar winner stars Woody Allen as a neurotic, New York comedian who falls for a quirky midwestern girl (Diane Keaton) in an on-again, off-again romance.

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