Driving Miss Daisy to Nomadland: the Oscar's Best Pictures since 1990

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Driving Miss Daisy - 1990​

A touching story about how two very different people (an African-American driver and a stern, white lady) can end up forming unexpected bonds. Starring Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy (who got an Oscar for her work).

 

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Dances with Wolves - 1991​

Starring and directed by Kevin Costner. Recovery from the old cinema of the 60's and 70's, vindicating the Native Americans after decades of films that presented them as demonic savages. A truly beautiful film.

 

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The silence of the lambs - 1992​

Clarice and Hannibal Lecter's story of love and horror was an unexpected success, as well as the revival as an actor of a terrifying Anthony Hopkins.

 

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Unforgiven - 1993​

Clint Eastwood paid homage to the genre of twilight Westerns that made him a star. A film of gunmen spitting on their own legends.

 

[jw5]

Schindler's List - 1994​

Steven Spielberg's masterpiece is full of images that are burned into the collective memory. How do you portray the horror of the Holocaust? Spielberg did it in his own way, and he achieved glory.

 

[jw5]

Forrest Gump - 1995​

"Stupid is who stupid does." It's one of the phrases in 'Forrest Gump,' a film not particularly brilliant but with the presence of a Tom Hanks who can handle everything. This year, 'Pulp Fiction' should have won, but the Academy did not dare to select it.

 

[jw5]

Braveheart - 1996​

Mel Gibson is a director with enormous strength and radical ideas. He filmed both a violent interpretation of 'The Passion of the Christ' and this epic celebration of Scottish courage.

 

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The English Patient - 1997​

A romantic and beautiful film directed by the British Anthony Minghella. With an exceptional cast: Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Colin Firth...

 

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Titanic - 1998​

A James Cameron blockbuster that tells a beautiful love story. Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio are especially attractive, young and with enough chemistry between them to thrill any spectator or viewer. One of those movies that you have to see at least once in your life.

 

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Shakespeare in Love - 1999​

One of the best works of Gwyneth Paltrow. The Oscar should have gone to 'The Thin Red Line,' however. Terrence Malick didn't make it that time.

 

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American Beauty - 2000​

The American dream blown up with a typical American family as the focus of all the dysfunctions in the world. Kevin Spacey was fabulous in this role.

 

[MaximiLian]

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Forrest Gump - 1995​

"Stupid is who stupid does." It's one of the phrases in 'Forrest Gump,' a film not particularly brilliant but with the presence of a Tom Hanks who can handle everything. This year, 'Pulp Fiction' should have won, but the Academy did not dare to select it.

Shawshank should have won. And they say 1994 was ze year when God Himself decided to watch some movies. Well it was 100 years in ze making afterall.

 

[kelvin]

Best cartoon goes to

CALVIN AND HOBBS ??

 

[jw5]

Shawshank should have won. And they say 1994 was ze year when God Himself decided to watch some movies. Well it was 100 years in ze making afterall.

Absolutely agree, Shawshank Redemption is one of my all time favourite movies.

 

[jw5]

Gladiator - 2001​

Gladiator was the result of the union of mainstream cinema and the genre of featherweight purists. How do you combine that? Starring Russell Crowe (and directed by Ridley Scott), in a somewhat diffuse way, the film did it.

 

[covertbriar]

Absolutely agree, Shawshank Redemption is one of my all time favourite movies.

green mile was good too

 

[jw5]

green mile was good too

Agreed, but I prefer Shawshank Redemption. More action and progress in the movie.

 

[covertbriar]

Agreed, but I prefer Shawshank Redemption. More action and progress in the movie.

lol actually I found shawshank to be slower than green mile; only progress i saw was tim robbins finally carving out his escape route after years of chipping here and there at the wall

 

[jw5]

A Beautiful Mind - 2002​

Russell Crowe again. Here he was playing John Forbes Nash, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. Never before was a mental illness as complicated as schizophrenia explained so well on the big screen.

 

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Chicago - 2003​

A music film that won the Oscar for Best Picture. And it did so in competition with Martin Scorsese's 'Gangs of New York', Roman Polanski's 'The Pianist', 'The Hours' of Stephen Daldry, and Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.' That's impressive.