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Oscar Nominees   (724)

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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY VIDEO
1 Citizen Kane 1941 P Welles, Orson USA V
5 The Godfather 1972 P* Coppola, Francis Ford USA V
9 Casablanca 1943 P* Curtiz, Michael USA V
11 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 P Penn, Arthur USA V
12 Bicycle Thieves 1949 F* De Sica, Vittorio Italy V
13 Rashômon 1951 F* Kurosawa, Akira Japan V
15 Chinatown 1974 P Polanski, Roman USA V
16 Raging Bull 1980 P Scorsese, Martin USA V
18 Pulp Fiction 1994 P Tarantino, Quentin USA V
19 8 1/2 1963 F* Fellini, Federico Italy / France V
20 Annie Hall 1977 P* Allen, Woody USA V
21 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 F Zhang, Yimou China / Hong Kong / Taiwan V
22 Star Wars: Episode IV -
A New Hope 		1977 P Lucas, George USA V
24 The Godfather Part II 1974 P* Coppola, Francis Ford USA V
25 Schindler's List 1993 P* Spielberg, Steven USA V
26 All About Eve 1950 P* Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA V
27 On the Waterfront 1954 P* Kazan, Elia USA V
28 Taxi Driver 1976 P Scorsese, Martin USA V
32 Dr. Strangelove
or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 		1964 P Kubrick, Stanley UK V
33 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 1982 P Spielberg, Steven USA V
34 The Wizard of Oz 1939 P Fleming, Victor / Vidor, King / Cukor, George / LeRoy, Mervyn USA V
36 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 P* Lean, David UK V
38 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 F* Buñuel, Luis France / Italy / Spain V
41 Gone with the Wind 1939 P* Fleming, Victor USA V
43 GoodFellas 1990 P Scorsese, Martin USA V
46 Double Indemnity 1944 P Wilder, Billy USA V
48 Sunset Boulevard 1950 P Wilder, Billy USA V
50 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 P Capra, Frank USA V
56 Nashville 1975 P Altman, Robert USA V
59 The Graduate 1967 P Nichols, Mike USA V
60 Fanny & Alexander 1983 F* Bergman, Ingmar Sweden / France / West Germany V
62 The Maltese Falcon 1941 P Huston, John USA V
63 Apocalypse Now 1979 P Coppola, Francis Ford USA V
71 Forbidden Games 1952 F* Clément, René France V
73 High Noon 1952 P Zinnemann, Fred USA V
76 Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 P Spielberg, Steven USA V
78 Unforgiven 1992 P* Eastwood, Clint USA V
81 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 P* Wyler, William USA V
87 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 P* Lean, David UK / USA V
89 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 P* Forman, Milos USA V
91 L.A. Confidential 1997 P Hanson, Curtis USA V
94 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 P* Demme, Jonathan USA V
102 Tristana 1970 F Buñuel, Luis France / Italy / Spain V
103 Top Hat 1935 P Sandrich, Mark USA V
108 West Side Story 1961 P* Robbins, Jerome / Wise, Robert USA V
112 It Happened One Night 1934 P* Capra, Frank USA V
114 Jaws 1975 P Spielberg, Steven USA V
115 Fargo 1996 P Coen, Joel / Coen, Ethan USA / UK V
117 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 P Huston, John USA V
119 Saving Private Ryan 1998 P Spielberg, Steven USA V
128 The Apartment 1960 P* Wilder, Billy USA V
130 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 P Curtiz, Michael / Keighley, William USA V
131 The Conversation 1974 P Coppola, Francis Ford USA V
133 The Last Picture Show 1971 P Bogdanovich, Peter USA V
134 Cabaret 1972 P Fosse, Bob USA V
136 M*A*S*H 1970 P Altman, Robert USA V
139 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 P Kazan, Elia USA V
140 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 P Ford, John USA V
141 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 P Capra, Frank USA V
143 Grand Illusion 1938 P Renoir, Jean France V
148 Stagecoach 1939 P Ford, John USA V
156 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 F Demy, Jacques France / West Germany V
157 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 F* Bergman, Ingmar Sweden V
158 The Deer Hunter 1978 P* Cimino, Michael USA V
162 My Fair Lady 1964 P* Cukor, George USA V
169 Atlantic City 1981 P Malle, Louis USA / Canada / France V
170 The Hustler 1961 P Rossen, Robert USA V
171 Network 1976 P Lumet, Sidney USA V
176 The French Connection 1971 P* Friedkin, William USA V
178 The Burmese Harp 1956 F Ichikawa, Kon Japan V
180 Day for Night 1973 F* Truffaut, François France / Italy V
181 American Graffiti 1973 P Lucas, George USA V
184 Patton 1970 P* Schaffner, Franklin J. USA V
188 Five Easy Pieces 1970 P Rafelson, Bob USA V
190 Midnight Cowboy 1969 P* Schlesinger, John USA V
194 La Strada 1956 F* Fellini, Federico Italy V
198 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 P Hill, George Roy USA V
209 Shane 1953 P Stevens, George USA V
213 American Beauty 1999 P* Mendes, Sam USA V
214 The Piano 1993 P Campion, Jane Australia / New Zealand / France V
215 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 P Allen, Woody USA V
217 All the President's Men 1976 P Pakula, Alan J. USA V
221 12 Angry Men 1957 P Lumet, Sidney USA V
222 The Lord of the Rings:
Return of the King 		2003 P* Jackson, Peter USA / New Zealand V
225 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 P Welles, Orson USA V
227 An American in Paris 1951 P* Minnelli, Vincente USA V
230 A Clockwork Orange 1971 P Kubrick, Stanley UK V
231 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 P Mulligan, Robert USA V
232 Titanic 1997 P* Cameron, James USA V
233 All Quiet on the Western Front 1929/30 P* Milestone, Lewis USA V
234 Marty 1955 P* Mann, Delbert USA V
236 Gigi 1958 P* Minnelli, Vincente USA V
238 The Sound of Music 1965 P* Wise, Robert USA V
243 From Here to Eternity 1953 P* Zinnemann, Fred USA V
245 Reds 1981 P Beatty, Warren USA V
246 Amadeus 1984 P* Forman, Milos USA V
247 The Philadelphia Story 1940 P Cukor, George USA V
249 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 P Curtiz, Michael USA V
250 Secrets & Lies 1996 P Leigh, Mike France / UK V
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251 Dodsworth 1936 P Wyler, William USA V
252 The Lost Weekend 1945 P* Wilder, Billy USA V
253 Tootsie 1982 P Pollack, Sydney USA V
256 Doctor Zhivago 1965 P Lean, David USA V
257 Rocky 1976 P* Avildsen, John G. USA V
260 Ben-Hur 1959 P* Wyler, William USA V
264 The Exorcist 1973 P Friedkin, William USA V
267 42nd Street 1932/33 P Bacon, Lloyd USA V
268 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 P* Benton, Robert USA V
269 Deliverance 1972 P Boorman, John USA V
271 Amarcord 1974 F* Fellini, Federico Italy / France V
272 Rebecca 1940 P* Hitchcock, Alfred USA V
273 In the Heat of the Night 1967 P* Jewison, Norman USA V
276 The Pianist 2002 P Polanski, Roman Poland / France / UK / Germany / Netherlands V
282 How Green Was My Valley 1941 P* Ford, John USA V
283 Ninotchka 1939 P Lubitsch, Ernst USA V
284 Tom Jones 1963 P* Richardson, Tony UK V
286 The Lord of the Rings:
Fellowship of the Ring 		2001 P Jackson, Peter New Zealand / USA V
289 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 P Wellman, William A. USA V
290 The Red Shoes 1948 P Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK V
291 Barry Lyndon 1975 P Kubrick, Stanley UK V
294 Beauty and the Beast 1991 P Trousdale, Gary / Wise, Kirk USA V
295 The Thin Man 1934 P Van Dyke, W.S. USA V
296 Farewell My Concubine 1993 F Chen, Kaige China / Hong Kong V
298 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 P Lumet, Sidney USA V
299 Henry V 1946 P Olivier, Laurence UK V
300 The Battle of Algiers 1966 F Pontecorvo, Gillo Algeria / Italy V
303 Great Expectations 1947 P Lean, David UK V
305 The Life of Emile Zola 1937 P* Dieterle, William USA V
306 The Lord of the Rings:
The Two Towers 		2002 P Jackson, Peter USA / New Zealand / Germany V
307 The Crying Game 1992 P Jordan, Neil UK / Japan V
308 Chariots of Fire 1981 P* Hudson, Hugh UK V
309 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 P* Lloyd, Frank USA V
311 Cries and Whispers 1973 P Bergman, Ingmar Sweden V
314 The Awful Truth 1937 P McCarey, Leo USA V
315 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 P Preminger, Otto USA V
317 Nights of Cabiria 1957 F* Fellini, Federico Italy / France V
320 Au Revoir, Les Enfants 1987 F Malle, Louis France / West Germany V
322 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 P Capra, Frank USA V
323 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 P Nichols, Mike USA V
326 A Place in the Sun 1951 P Stevens, George USA V
326 Wuthering Heights 1939 P Wyler, William USA V
330 The Quiet Man 1952 P Ford, John USA V
333 The English Patient 1996 P* Minghella, Anthony USA V
334 All About My Mother 1999 F* Almodóvar, Pedro Spain / France V
340 A Man for All Seasons 1966 P* Zinnemann, Fred UK V
342 Gandhi 1982 P* Attenborough, Richard UK / India V
343 The Full Monty 1997 P Cattaneo, Peter UK V
344 Platoon 1986 P* Stone, Oliver USA V
345 Dangerous Liaisons 1988 P Frears, Stephen USA / UK V
353 All the King's Men 1949 P* Rossen, Robert USA V
354 The Defiant Ones 1958 P Kramer, Stanley USA V
360 Sense and Sensibility 1995 P Lee, Ang USA / UK V
361 The Elephant Man 1980 P Lynch, David UK / USA V
363 A Room with a View 1986 P Ivory, James UK V
368 Shakespeare in Love 1998 P* Madden, John USA / UK V
369 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 P,F* Lee, Ang Taiwan / Hong Kong / USA / China V
370 The Killing Fields 1984 P Joffé, Roland UK V
373 Mon oncle 1958 F* Tati, Jacques Italy / France V
380 Ordinary People 1980 P* Redford, Robert USA V
382 The Insider 1999 P Mann, Michael USA V
383 Roman Holiday 1953 P Wyler, William USA V
384 Closely Watched Trains 1967 F* Menzel, Jirí Czechoslovakia V
385 Dances with Wolves 1990 P* Costner, Kevin USA V
387 Gladiator 2000 P* Scott, Ridley UK / USA V
389 Z 1969 P,F* Costa-Gavras Algeria / France V
390 Woman in the Dunes 1964 F Teshigahara, Hiroshi Japan V
391 Mildred Pierce 1945 P Curtiz, Michael USA V
393 The Last Emperor 1987 P* Bertolucci, Bernardo France / Italy / UK V
395 Sideways 2004 P Payne, Alexander USA V
396 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 P Darabont, Frank USA V
402 Jezebel 1938 P Wyler, William USA V
408 Shine 1996 P Hicks, Scott Australia V
409 The Barbarian Invasions 2003 F* Arcand, Denys Canada / France V
411 Stolen Kisses 1968 F Truffaut, François France V
412 The Great Dictator 1940 P Chaplin, Charles USA V
420 Breaking Away 1979 P Yates, Peter USA V
422 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932/33 P LeRoy, Mervyn USA V
424 Lost in Translation 2003 P Coppola, Sofia USA / Japan V
425 Moonstruck 1987 P Jewison, Norman USA V
427 The Thin Red Line 1998 P Malick, Terrence Canada / USA V
430 The Heiress 1949 P Wyler, William USA V
433 She Done Him Wrong 1932/33 P Sherman, Lowell USA V
434 The Informer 1935 P Ford, John USA V
438 Knife in the Water 1963 F Polanski, Roman Poland V
439 David Copperfield 1935 P Cukor, George USA V
442 Terms of Endearment 1983 P* Brooks, James L. USA V
443 Million Dollar Baby 2004 P* Eastwood, Clint USA V
451 Giant 1956 P Stevens, George USA V
455 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1971 F* De Sica, Vittorio Italy / West Germany V
459 The Big Chill 1983 P Kasdan, Lawrence USA V
463 Cinema Paradiso 1989 F* Tornatore, Giuseppe Italy / France V
464 Brokeback Mountain 2005 P Lee, Ang USA V
466 The Right Stuff 1983 P Kaufman, Philip USA V
473 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 P Donen, Stanley USA V
475 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 F Almodóvar, Pedro Spain V
480 Amélie 2001 F Jeunet, Jean-Pierre France / Germany V
483 The Color Purple 1985 P Spielberg, Steven USA V
487 Prizzi's Honor 1985 P Huston, John USA V
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488 Kagemusha 1980 F Kurosawa, Akira Japan V
491 Gangs of New York 2002 P Scorsese, Martin USA / Germany / Italy / UK / Netherlands V
492 A Star Is Born 1937 P Wellman, William A. / Conway, Jack USA V
496 Mary Poppins 1964 P Stevenson, Robert USA V
497 The Aviator 2004 P Scorsese, Martin USA / Japan / Germany V
500 Oliver! 1968 P* Reed, Carol UK V
504 Babe 1995 P Noonan, Chris Australia / USA V
505 Elmer Gantry 1960 P Brooks, Richard USA V
509 The Sting 1973 P* Hill, George Roy USA V
511 Howards End 1992 P Ivory, James UK / Japan V
512 Lacombe Lucien