Annie Hall

Award: Best Picture
Award Year: 1977
Recipient(s): Charles H. Joffe
Theatrical Release Date: Apr 20, 1977

Synopsis: This Best Picture Oscar winner stars Woody Allen as a neurotic, New York comedian who falls for a quirky midwestern girl (Diane Keaton) in an on-again, off-again romance.

Coming Home

Award: Best Picture
Award Year: 1978
Theatrical Release Date: Feb 15, 1978

Synopsis: Jane Fonda and Jon Voight were awarded Best Actress and Actor Oscars for their performances in this riveting drama about three people whose lives are forever changed by the Vietnam War.

Dances with Wolves

Award: Best Picture
Award Year: 1990
Recipient(s): Kevin Costner
Theatrical Release Date: Nov 09, 1990

Synopsis:

A "truly spectacular" (The New York Times) film that combines action, romance and breathtaking adventure, Dances With Wolves is "a cinematic masterpiece" (American Movie Classics) that is nothing short of "a triumph" (Roger Ebert)!

Sent to protect a US outpost on the desolate frontier, Lt. John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) finds himself alone in the vast wilderness. Befriending the very people he's sent to protect the outpost from, the Sioux Indians, Dunbar slowly comes to revere those he once feared. But when the encroaching US Army threatens to overrun the Sioux, he is forced to make a choiceone that will forever change his destiny and that of a proud and defiant nation.

Fargo

Award: Best Picture - Drama
Award Year: 1997
Theatrical Release Date: Mar 08, 1996

Synopsis: A man deeply in debt hires two inept crooks to kidnap his wife and split the ransom money. The deal goes bad when the crooks kill a highway patrolman and 2 hapless bystanders, and the murders fall under the jurisdiction of a pregnant but persistent Minnesota police chief.

Fiddler On The Roof

Award: Best Picture - Musical/Comedy
Award Year: 1971
Theatrical Release Date: Nov 03, 1971

Synopsis: Director Norman Jewison offers this uplifting classic about a poor Jewish milkman (Topol) in Czarist Russia who, along with his devoted family, battles financial challenges and growing anti-Semitism within his village.

Guys And Dolls

Award: Best Picture - Musical/Comedy
Award Year: 1955
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 1955

Synopsis: Hollywood legends Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons and Vivian Blain (from the original Broadway cast) are dazzling in this Frank Loesser (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) masterpiece, unleashing a "spectacular, song-and-dance show that's loaded with entertainment" (New York Journal-American). Featuring hits like "Luck Be a Lady" and "A Woman in Love," this smash film version of one of Broadway's most popular musicals is guaranteed, rip-roaring "four-starentertainment" (New York Daily News).

The slickest big-time New York City gamblers, Sky Masterson (Brando) and Nathan Detroit (Sinatra), can't resist making or taking a bet on anything. So when a pretty missionary (Simmons) sets up shop in the neighborhood, Nathan stakes a grand that Sky can't seduce her. But all bets are off when Sky falls madly in love in this romantic musical spectacular that sets the Big Apple afire with excitement!

HAMLET

Award: Best Picture
Award Year: 1948
Recipient(s): Laurence Olivier
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 1948

Synopsis: Laurence Olivier directs himself in this classic rendition of Shakespeare's tale of the brooding Danish prince who decides to exact revenge on his uncle for the murder of his father.

Hannah and Her Sisters

Award: Best Picture
Award Year: 1986
Theatrical Release Date: Feb 07, 1986

Synopsis: Woody Allen wrote, directed and stars in this comedy/drama about the amorous affiliations of three sisters and the men in their lives. Story touches on such universal themes as life, death, love, adultery, religion and family relations.

Hope And Glory

Award: Best Picture
Award Year: 1987
Theatrical Release Date: Oct 16, 1987

Synopsis: The comic, poignant story of a young man stuck at home with his mother, aunts and bratty sisters - while the neatest fights in history were raging within earshot of his room. Sarah Miles ("The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea"), Bill's ever- tolerant mom, does her parental best while Dad's off to war. But when your street's in rubble, the school's ablaze and the Luftwaffe is parachuting into your backyard, one tends to be a lot more lenient.

In the Heat of the Night

Award: Best Picture
Award Year: 1967
Recipient(s): Walter Mirisch
Theatrical Release Date: Aug 02, 1967

Synopsis: While traveling in the Deep South, Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in the murder investigation of a prominent businessman when he is first accused of the crime and then asked to solve it! Finding the killer proves to be difficult, however, especially when his efforts are constantly thwarted by the bigoted town sheriff (Steiger). But neither man can solve this case alone. Putting aside their differences and prejudices, they join forces in a desperate race against time to discover the shocking truth.

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