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- The Graduate (1967) 1 Oscar Won: Best Director (Mike Nichols) The Graduate director Mike Nichols won best director for the Rom-Com Classic. Even 50 years on The Graduate is still one of Dustin Hoffman’s most career-defining roles.
- The King’s Speech (2010) 4 Oscars Won: Best Picture, Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Director (Tom Hooper), Best Original Screenplay. There’s something about monarchs in films that the academy and thus audiences absolutely adore.
- Good Will Hunting (1997) 2 Oscar’s Won: Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor (Robin Williams) Not only was the late Robin Williams a comedic genius but when it a serious role was presented to him he would smash it out of the park.
- Apocalypse Now (1979) 2 Oscars Won: Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing. While one of the most visually compelling films of the 1970s and that of the 20th century, the film was also marred with controversy.
- Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) This groundbreaking and absurd comedy-drama received the lion's share of the love at the Oscars last year by blending a soulful and genuinely moving premise with some of the most wonderfully silly moments you're likely to find in a major motion picture.
- All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) A new adaptation of the 1929 anti-war novel from Erich Maria Remarque, this new version didn't take home Best Picture nor Best Director as the original 1930 version did, but still, All Quiet wound up being the second-most awarded film on Oscar night 2023, behind Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All at Once.
- My Octopus Teacher (2020) Filmmaker Craig Foster spent a year forming a relationship with a wild common octopus in a South African kelp forest, transferring some of the lessons learned to his relationship with his own son.
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) One sweaty, blues-filled afternoon in the Chicago of 1927, the great Ma Rainey (Viola Davis) shows up at the studio to make a new album.
- La La Land. Won: Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Production Design, Best Director (Damien Chazelle), and Best Actress (Emma Stone) at the 89th Academy Awards.
- Brokeback Mountain. Won: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Director (Ang Lee) at the 78th Academy Awards. Not every love story can have a happy ending.
- Les Misérables. Won: Best Sound Mixing, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, and Best Supporting Actress (Anne Hathaway) at the 85th Academy Awards. Les Misérables is a timeless musical that's gripped the hearts of many for decades, and its Academy Award–winning film is no anomaly.
- Forrest Gump. Won: Best Picture, Best Visual Effects, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Director (Robert Zemeckis), and Best Actor (Tom Hanks) at the 67th Academy Awards.
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) How many different sounds can you identify in this scene? A more than deserved win for Gregg Rudloff, Chris Jenkins, and Ben Osmo.
- Dunkirk (2017) Dunkirk - Sound Mixing. Because war movies usually demand multiple sounds firing at the same time, the quality of the mixing is generally more noticed.
- Inception (2010) Inception - Oscar winner for Best Sound Mixing. The layered sounds of Inception are almost as complicated as the layered dream world in the film.
- The Matrix (1999) The Matrix - Bullet Dodge Sound Mixing. Sound team, John T. Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David E. Campbell, and David Lee were the brains behind some of the best “bullet sounds” to ever hit Hollywood.
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer. 73 votes. Best Film Editing. In the gripping thriller, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) is a disgraced journalist seeking redemption.
- Whiplash. Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist. 8 votes. Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing. Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
- Silver Linings Playbook. Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro. 32 votes. Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Silver Linings Playbook is a captivating blend of drama and romance, presented by David O. Russell.
- Training Day. Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn. 57 votes. Best Actor. In the gritty urban drama Training Day, Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke), an idealistic rookie cop, embarks on his first day with the narcotics squad of the LAPD.
Feb 19, 2020 · Academy Awards Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography. Director Alejandro G Iñárritu and actor Leonardo DiCaprio both picked up Oscars for their work on this survival thriller about ...
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Feb 24, 2019 · The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Nominated for 3 Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Original Song. A six-part Western anthology film, this movie tells a series of tales about the American frontier through the unique and incomparable voice of Joel and Ethan Coen. Each chapter tells a distinct story about the American ...
