10 Oscar movies

 

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The Hurt Locker, American war movie, released in 2008, that is set in the second year of the Iraq War and won six Academy Awards, including for best picture, and six BAFTA Awards, also including for best film.

It follows a blue-skinned humanoid Na'vi named Jake Sully (Worthington) as he and his family, under renewed human threat, seek refuge with the aquatic Metkayina clan of Pandora, a habitable exomoon on which they live.

It received four nominations at the 95th Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The film won Best Visual Effects. At the 76th British Academy Film Awards, it was nominated for Best Sound, and won Best Special Visual Effects.

Plot summary. All Quiet on the Western Front tells the story of a group of young Germans who enlist in World War I after being captivated by slogans of patriotism and honour. It is narrated by the protagonist, Paul Baumer, who is 20 years old.

All Quiet on the Western Front Wins Four Academy Awards - Netflix Tudum.Only three traditional Westerns — 1931's “Cimarron,” 1990's “Dances with Wolves” and 1992's “Unforgiven” — and one contemporary Western (2007's “No Country for Old Men”) have won the Best Picture Oscar.

Michelle Yeoh stars as Evelyn Quan Wang, a Chinese-American immigrant who, while being audited by the IRS, discovers that she must connect with parallel universe versions of herself to prevent a powerful being from destroying the multiverse.

At the 95th Academy Awards, Everything Everywhere All at Once received 11 nominations and won seven awards, topping all other movies that year.

It is the first of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel of the same name by Frank Herbert. Set in the distant future, the film follows Paul Atreides as his family, the noble House Atreides, is thrust into a war for the deadly and inhospitable desert planet Arrakis.

It garnered ten nominations at the 94th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and went on to win a leading six awards for Best Original Score, Best Sound, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Film Editing, and Best Visual Effects.

Gravity is a 2013 science fiction thriller film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, who also co-wrote, co-edited, and produced the film. It stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as American astronauts who attempt to return to Earth after the destruction of their Space Shuttle in orbit.

The film earned awards and nominations from numerous critics and guilds. At the 86th Academy Awards, Gravity received 10 nominations, including Best Actress for Bullock and Best Picture, and won seven awards, including Best Director, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, and Best Visual Effects.

The Power of the Dog is the tragic story of a character deluded into perpetuating the very toxic environment which would have persecuted him for his desires. It's also an alpha dog story, with Peter slowly proving his dominance over Phil despite being viewed as inadequately masculine.

Get Out is about a black man who stumbles into a very white, very weird world. After dating for about five months, Chris (Kaluuya) and Rose (Williams) are headed upstate to hang out with her aggressively white parents, neurosurgeon Dean (Bradley Whitford) and therapist/hypnotist mother Missy (Catherine Keener).

The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2017.[2] Universal Pictures released it theatrically on February 24.[3] The film was a commercial success, grossing $255 million worldwide on a $4.5 million budget.[4] Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, surveyed 304 and judged 99% to be positive.[5]

Charlie, a morbidly obese recluse, teaches online English writing courses to college students, but keeps his webcam off, ashamed of his physical appearance. His nurse and only friend Liz urges him to visit a hospital for severe risk of congestive heart failure, but Charlie insists he cannot afford medical care.

Oscar awards 2023 were announced on Sunday and Brendan Fraser was adjudged the best actor at the 95th Academy Awards in Los Angeles for his role in "The Whale". "The Whale" also won an Oscar for the best makeup and hairstyling.

Nomadland is a 2020 American drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Chloé Zhao. Based on the 2017 nonfiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder, it stars Frances McDormand as a widow who leaves to travel around the United States in her van as a nomad.

On Sunday, Chloé Zhao's elegiac neo-Western Nomadland made Oscar history, winning best picture, best director and best actress at the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony. It is the first directing victory for a non-white female filmmaker.