Oscar for Best Director: Nominees



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Milk

Milk is a 2008 American biographical film on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black, the film stars Sean Penn...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Sean Penn

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Gus Van Sant

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Dustin Lance Black

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Frost/Nixon

Frost/Nixon is a 2008 historical drama film based on the eponymous play by Peter Morgan which dramatizes the Frost/Nixon interviews of 1977. The film version was directed by Ron Howard and produced by Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment and Tim...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Frank Langella

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Ron Howard

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Eric Fellner,; Brian Grazer,; Ron Howard

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy drama film directed by David Fincher. The screenplay by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1921 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film stars Brad...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Brad Pitt

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: David Fincher

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Cean Chaffin,; Kathleen Kennedy,; Frank Marshall

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Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup. Set and filmed in...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Danny Boyle

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Christian Colson

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Simon Beaufoy

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The Reader

The Reader is a 2008 drama film based on the 1995 German novel of the same name by Bernhard Schlink. The film adaptation was written by David Hare and directed by Stephen Daldry. Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet star along with the young actor David...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Kate Winslet

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Stephen Daldry

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: David Hare

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (French: Le scaphandre et le papillon) is a 2007 French/American biopic/drama film based on the memoir of the same name by Jean-Dominique Bauby. The film depicts Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke at the...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:

x Award Nominee:

x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Academy Award for Best Cinematography

x Award Nominee:: Janusz Kamiński

x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Ronald Harwood

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Juno

Juno is a 2007 Canadian-American comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. Ellen Page stars as the title character, an independent-minded teenager confronting an unplanned pregnancy and the subsequent events that put...

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x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Jason Reitman

x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Mason Novick,; Russell Smith,; Lianne Halfon

x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Ellen Page

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Michael Clayton

Michael Clayton is a 2007 American dramatic film written and directed by Tony Gilroy and produced by Sydney Pollack. It stars George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, and Sydney Pollack. It chronicles the attempts of attorney Michael Clayton to...

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x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: George Clooney

x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Tony Gilroy

x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Tony Gilroy

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There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American drama film directed, written and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film is loosely based on the Upton Sinclair novel Oil! (1927). It tells the story of a silver-miner-turned-oil-man on a ruthless quest...

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x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Paul Thomas Anderson

x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Paul Thomas Anderson,; Joanne Sellar,; Daniel Lupi

x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Daniel Day-Lewis

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No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men is a 2007 crime thriller film adapted for the screen and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin. Adapted from the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, No Country for...

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x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Joel Coen,; Scott Rudin,; Ethan Coen

x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Ethan Coen,; Joel Coen

x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Javier Bardem

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United 93

United 93 is a 2006 film written, co-produced, and directed by Paul Greengrass that chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked during the September 11, 2001 attacks. The film attempts to recount with as much veracity as...

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x Year:: 2006

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Paul Greengrass

x Year:: 2006

x Award:: BAFTA Award for Best Direction

x Award Nominee:: Paul Greengrass

x Year:: 2006

x Award:: BAFTA Award for Best British Film

x Award Nominee:: Tim Bevan

The Queen

The Queen is a British-based drama film directed by Stephen Frears, written by Peter Morgan, and starring Helen Mirren as the title role, HM Queen Elizabeth II. Released almost a decade after the event, the film depicts a fictional account of the...

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x Year:: 2006

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Stephen Frears

x Year:: 2006

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Peter Morgan

x Year:: 2006

x Award:

x Award Nominee:: Robert Lorenz,; Steven Spielberg,; Andy Harries,; more ▼

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Letters from Iwo Jima

Letters from Iwo Jima (硫黄島からの手紙, Iō Jima Kara no Tegami) is a 2006 war film, directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, starring Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya. The film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese...

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x Year:: 2006

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Clint Eastwood

x Year:: 2006

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Iris Yamashita,; Paul Haggis

x Year:: 2006

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Steven Spielberg,; Clint Eastwood,; Robert Lorenz

Babel

Babel is a 2006 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga, starring an ensemble cast. The multi-narrative drama completes González Iñárritu's Death Trilogy, which also consists of Amores perros and 21 Grams. Babel...

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x Year:: 2006

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

x Award Nominee:: Rinko Kikuchi

x Year:: 2006

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Alejandro González Iñárritu

x Year:: 2006

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Guillermo Arriaga

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The Departed

The Departed is a 2006 American crime drama film remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. The Departed was directed by Martin Scorsese, written by William Monahan and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Martin Sheen, Alec...

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x Year:: 2006

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Mark Wahlberg

x Year:: 2005

x Award:: People's Choice Awards: Favorite On-Screen Match-Up

x Award Nominee:: Leonardo DiCaprio,; Jack Nicholson,; Matt Damon

x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Cast in a Motion Picture

x Award Nominee:: Anthony Anderson,; Alec Baldwin,; Leonardo DiCaprio,; more ▼

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Capote

Capote is a 2005 biographical film about Truman Capote, following the events during the writing of Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood. Philip Seymour Hoffman won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his critically...

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x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Bennett Miller

x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Michael Ohoven,; William Vince,; Caroline Baron

x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Crash

Crash is a 2004 American drama film, co-written, produced, and directed by Paul Haggis. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2004, and was released internationally in 2005. The film is about racial and social tensions in Los...

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x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Paul Haggis

x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Cathy Schulman,; Paul Haggis

x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Robert Moresco,; Paul Haggis

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Good Night, and Good Luck.

Good Night, and Good Luck is a 2005 film directed by George Clooney. The film was written by Clooney and Grant Heslov and portrays the conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Edward R. Murrow and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of...

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x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: David Strathairn

x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: George Clooney

x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: George Clooney,; Grant Heslov

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Munich

Munich is a 2005 historical fiction film about the Israeli government's secret retaliation after the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes by Black September terrorists. The film stars Eric Bana and was co-produced and directed by Steven...

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x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Kathleen Kennedy,; Barry Mendel,; Steven Spielberg

x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Steven Spielberg

x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Tony Kushner,; Eric Roth

Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 American romantic-drama film that depicts the complex romantic and sexual relationship between two men in the American West from 1963 to 1981. The film was directed by Taiwanese director Ang Lee from a screenplay by...

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x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Heath Ledger

x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Ang Lee

x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: James Schamus,; Diana Ossana

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Vera Drake

Vera Drake is a 2004 British film directed by Mike Leigh. It tells the story of a working class woman in London in 1950, who performs illegal abortions for women in need. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and it was nominated for...

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x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Mike Leigh

x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Mike Leigh

x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Imelda Staunton

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The Aviator

The Aviator is a 2004 American biographical drama film, directed by Martin Scorsese and based on the life of Howard Hughes, played by Leonardo DiCaprio. The film draws largely upon a biography by Charles Higham. The film centers on Hughes' life from...

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x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Leonardo DiCaprio

x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Martin Scorsese

x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture

x Award Nominee:: Cate Blanchett

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Ray

Ray is a 2004 biographical film focusing on thirty years of the life of rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles. The independently produced film was directed by Taylor Hackford and starred Jamie Foxx in the title role; Foxx received an Academy Award...

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x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Taylor Hackford

x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Howard Baldwin,; Stuart Benjamin,; Taylor Hackford

x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Jamie Foxx

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Sideways

Sideways is a 2004 American comedy-drama film written by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne and directed by Payne. Adapted from Rex Pickett's 2004 novel, Sideways follows two forty-something men, portrayed by Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church, who...

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x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Alexander Payne

x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Michael London

x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Thomas Haden Church

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Million Dollar Baby

Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood and starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman. It is the story of an under-appreciated boxing trainer, his elusive past, and his quest for atonement by...

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x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Clint Eastwood

x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Clint Eastwood

x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Tom Rosenberg,; Albert Ruddy,; Clint Eastwood

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City of God

City of God (Portuguese: Cidade de Deus) is a 2002 Brazilian crime drama film directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, released in its home country in 2002 and worldwide in 2003. It was adapted by Bráulio Mantovani from the 1997 novel of the...

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x Year:: 2003

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Fernando Meirelles

x Year:: 2003

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Bráulio Mantovani

x Year:: 2002

x Award:: BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film

x Award Nominee:: Andrea Barata Ribeiro,; Mauricio Andrade Ramos,; Fernando Meirelles

Lost in Translation

Lost in Translation is a 2003 American comedy-drama film starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. It was the second feature film written and directed by Sofia Coppola, after The Virgin Suicides. It was nominated for four Academy Awards,...

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x Year:: 2003

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Sofia Coppola,; Ross Katz

x Year:: 2004

x Award:

x Award Nominee:: Bill Murray

x Year:: 2003

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Sofia Coppola

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Mystic River

Mystic River is a 2003 American drama film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood, and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney and Emmy Rossum. The film was written by Brian...

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x Year:: 2003

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Clint Eastwood

x Year:: 2003

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Clint Eastwood,; Judie G. Hoyt,; Robert Lorenz

x Year:: 2003

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Sean Penn

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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir, starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin and released by 20th Century Fox, Miramax Films and Universal Studios. It is adapted...

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x Year:: 2003

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Peter Weir

x Year:: 2003

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Duncan Henderson,; Peter Weir,; Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

x Year:: 2003

x Award:: BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

x Award Nominee:: Paul Bettany

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson that is based on the second and third volumes of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and the concluding film in The Lord of the Rings film...

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x Year:: 2003

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Peter Jackson

x Year:: 2003

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Fran Walsh,; Peter Jackson,; Barrie M. Osborne

x Year:: 2003

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Fran Walsh,; Philippa Boyens,; Peter Jackson

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Chicago

Chicago is a 2002 American film adaptation of the satirical stage musical Chicago, the film explores the themes of celebrity and scandal in Jazz age Chicago. Directed and choreographed by Rob Marshall, and adapted for film by screenwriter Bill...

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x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Rob Marshall

x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Renée Zellweger

x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Martin Richards

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Gangs of New York

Gangs of New York is a 2002 American historical film set in the mid-19th century in the Five Points district of New York City. It was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan. The film is inspired by...

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x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Daniel Day-Lewis

x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Martin Scorsese

x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Jay Cocks,; Kenneth Lonergan,; Steven Zaillian

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The Hours

The Hours is a 2002 American & British drama film directed by Stephen Daldry, and starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Ed Harris. The screenplay by David Hare is based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title...

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x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Stephen Daldry

x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Robert Fox,; Scott Rudin

x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Ed Harris

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Talk to Her

Talk to Her (Spanish: Hable con ella) is a 2002 film written and directed by the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, starring Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Geraldine Chaplin and Rosario Flores. It won the 2002 Academy Award for...

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x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Pedro Almodóvar

x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Pedro Almodóvar

x Year:: 2002

x Award:: BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film

x Award Nominee:: Agustín Almodóvar,; Pedro Almodóvar

The Pianist

The Pianist is a 2002 film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman. The film is a co-production between Polish, French, German, and...

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x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Roman Polański

x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Alain Sarde,; Robert Benmussa,; Roman Polański

x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Adrien Brody

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is a 2001 fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson based on the first volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Set in Middle-earth, the story tells of the Dark Lord Sauron, who is...

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x Year:: 2001

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Peter Jackson

x Year:: 2001

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Barrie M. Osborne,; Fran Walsh,; Peter Jackson

x Year:: 2001

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Ian McKellen

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Black Hawk Down

Black Hawk Down is a 2001 American war film co-produced and directed by Ridley Scott and based on the book of the same title by Mark Bowden that depicts the Battle of Mogadishu, a raid integral to the United States' effort to capture Somali warlord...

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x Year:: 2001

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Ridley Scott

Gosford Park

Gosford Park is a 2001 film directed by Robert Altman. The screenplay is by Julian Fellowes, based on an idea by Altman and producer Bob Balaban. It features an ensemble cast including Michael Gambon, Alan Bates, Derek Jacobi, Maggie Smith, Helen...

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x Year:: 2001

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Robert Altman

x Year:: 2001

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: David H. Levy,; Bob Balaban,; Robert Altman

x Year:: 2001

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Julian Fellowes

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Mulholland Drive

Mulholland Drive is a 2001 neo-noir psychological thriller written and directed by David Lynch, and starring Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring and Justin Theroux. The surrealist film was highly acclaimed by many critics and earned Lynch the Prix de...

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x Year:: 2001

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: David Lynch

A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American film based on the life of John Forbes Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva Goldsman. It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of...

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x Year:: 2001

x Award:: Oscar for Film Editing

x Award Nominee:: Mike Hill

x Year:: 2001

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Ron Howard

x Year:: 2001

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Ron Howard,; Brian Grazer

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Billy Elliot

Billy Elliot is a 2000 British drama film written by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry. Set in the fictional town of 'Everington' in the real County Durham, UK, it stars Jamie Bell as 11-year-old Billy, an aspiring dancer, Gary Lewis as his...

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x Year:: 2000

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Stephen Daldry

x Year:: 2000

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Lee Hall

x Year:: 2000

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

x Award Nominee:: Julie Walters

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (simplified Chinese: 卧虎藏龙; traditional Chinese: 臥虎藏龍; pinyin: Wòhǔ Cánglóng) is a Chinese-language film in the wuxia (chivalric and martial arts) style, released in 2000. A China-Hong Kong-Taiwan-United States co...

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x Year:: 2000

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Ang Lee

x Year:: 2000

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Ang Lee,; Li-Kong Hsu,; William Kong

x Year:: 2000

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Wang Hui-Ling,; James Schamus,; Kuo Jung Tsai

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Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich is a 2000 drama film which dramatizes the story of Erin Brockovich's first fight against the American West Coast energy giant Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E;). The film was directed by Steven Soderbergh and starred Julia...

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x Year:: 2000

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Steven Soderbergh

x Year:: 2000

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Susannah Grant

x Year:: 2000

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Stacey Sher,; Michael Shamberg,; Danny DeVito

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Gladiator

Gladiator is a 2000 British and American epic film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Djimon Hounsou, Derek Jacobi, and Richard Harris. Crowe portrays General Maximus Decimus Meridius,...

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x Year:: 2000

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Ridley Scott

x Year:: 2000

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: David Franzoni,; John Logan,; William Nicholson

x Year:: 2000

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Branko Lustig,; David Franzoni,; Douglas Wick

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Traffic

Traffic is a 2000 crime drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Stephen Gaghan. It explores the intricacies of the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: a user, an enforcer, a politician and a trafficker, whose lives...

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x Year:: 2000

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Steven Soderbergh

x Year:: 2000

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Laura Bickford,; Marshall Herskovitz,; Edward Zwick

x Year:: 2000

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Benicio del Toro

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Being John Malkovich

Being John Malkovich is a 1999 dramedy film written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze. It stars John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, and John Malkovich, who plays a fictionalized version of himself. The plot brings to the...

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x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Spike Jonze

x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Charlie Kaufman

x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

x Award Nominee:: Catherine Keener

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The Cider House Rules

The Cider House Rules is a 1999 drama film, directed by Lasse Hallström, based on The Cider House Rules, a 1985 novel by John Irving. The film won two Academy Awards. John Irving documented his involvement in bringing the novel to the screen in his...

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x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Lasse Hallström

x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Richard N. Gladstein

x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Michael Caine

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The Sixth Sense

The Sixth Sense is a 1999 psychological thriller film, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It tells the story of Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment), a troubled, isolated boy who is able to see and talk to the dead, and an equally troubled child...

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x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: M. Night Shyamalan

x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: M. Night Shyamalan

x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Barry Mendel,; Kathleen Kennedy,; Frank Marshall

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The Insider

The Insider is a 1999 film that tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand. The 60 Minutes story originally aired in November 1995 in an altered form because CBS' then...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Russell Crowe

x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Michael Mann

x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Michael Mann,; Pieter Jan Brugge

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American Beauty

American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film, directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball. Kevin Spacey plays Lester Burnham, a middle-aged office worker who has a midlife crisis after becoming infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend...

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x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Annette Bening

x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Sam Mendes

x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Dan Jinks,; Bruce Cohen

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Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful (Italian: La vita è bella) is a 1997 Italian language film which tells the story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice (played by Roberto Benigni, who also directed and co-wrote the film), who must employ his fertile imagination to...

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x Year:: 1998

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Roberto Benigni

x Year:: 1998

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Roberto Benigni,; Vincenzo Cerami

x Year:: 1998

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Gianluigi Braschi,; Elda Ferri

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Shakespeare in Love

Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 romantic comedy film. The film was directed by John Madden and written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard. Stoppard's first major success was with the Shakespeare-influenced play Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are...

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x Year:: 1998

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: John Madden

x Year:: 1998

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Marc Norman,; Edward Zwick,; Harvey Weinstein,; more ▼

x Year:: 1998

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Tom Stoppard,; Marc Norman

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The Thin Red Line

The Thin Red Line is a 1998 war film which tells a fictional story of United States forces during the Battle of Guadalcanal in World War II with the focus on the men in C Company, most notably Private Witt (Jim Caviezel) and his conflicted feelings...

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x Year:: 1998

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Terrence Malick

x Year:: 1998

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Grant Hill,; John Roberdeau,; Robert Michael Geisler

x Year:: 1998

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Terrence Malick

The Truman Show

The Truman Show is a 1998 comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew Niccol. The cast includes Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, as well as Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Ed Harris and Natascha McElhone. The film chronicles the life of...

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x Year:: 1998

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Peter Weir

x Year:: 1998

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Andrew Niccol

x Year:: 1998

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Ed Harris

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Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American war film set during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. It was directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat. The film is notable for the intensity of its opening 25 minutes, which depict the...

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x Year:: 1999

x Award:: London Film Critics Circle Award for Actor of the Year

x Award Nominee:: Matt Damon

x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Cast in a Motion Picture

x Award Nominee:: Edward Burns,; Jeremy Davies,; Vin Diesel,; more ▼

x Year:: 1999

x Award:

x Award Nominee:: Mark Gordon,; Gary Levinsohn,; Steven Spielberg

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The Full Monty

The Full Monty is a 1997 British comedy film. It tells the story of six unemployed men, four of them steel workers, who decide to form a male striptease act (à la Chippendale dancers) in order to gather enough money to get somewhere else and for...

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x Year:: 1997

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Peter Cattaneo

x Year:: 1997

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Simon Beaufoy

x Year:: 1997

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Umberto Pasolini

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Good Will Hunting

Good Will Hunting is a 1997 drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written (with help from Van Sant) by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who both star in the film. The movie tells the story of Will Hunting, a prodigy hoodlum from South Boston who works...

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x Year:: 1997

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Robin Williams

x Year:: 1997

x Award:: Oscar for Best Song

x Award Nominee:

x Year:: 1997

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

x Award Nominee:: Minnie Driver

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L.A. Confidential

L.A. Confidential is a 1997 feature film based on the 1990 crime fiction novel of the same title by James Ellroy, the third in his L.A. Quartet novel cycle. Both the book and the film tell the story about a group of Los Angeles police in the 1950s,...

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x Year:: 1997

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Curtis Hanson

x Year:: 1997

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Michael G. Nathanson,; Arnon Milchan,; Curtis Hanson

x Year:: 1997

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

x Award Nominee:: Kim Basinger

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Titanic

Titanic is a 1997 American romantic drama film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, two members of...

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x Year:: 1998

x Award:

x Award Nominee:: Frances Fisher

x Year:: 1997

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Kate Winslet

x Year:: 1997

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: James Cameron

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Shine

Shine is a 1996 Australian film based on the life of pianist David Helfgott, who suffered a mental breakdown and spent years in institutions. It stars Geoffrey Rush, Lynn Redgrave, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Noah Taylor, John Gielgud, Googie Withers,...

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