Oscar Awards winners
Storyline: This is a silent movie where the star meets a young dancer who then rises in the industry, but the arrival of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.
2010-The King's Speech
Director: Tom Hooper
Storyline: The story of King George VI,George(Bertie) assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stammer and considered unfit to be king, he engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist. Through a set of unusual techniques,Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country through war.
2009-The Hurt Locker
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Storyline: Portrayal of elite soldiers who have the most dangerous jobs in the world: which is disarming bombs in the heat of combat. When a new sergeant, James, takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team during violent conflict, he leaves his two subordinates in suprise, Sanborn and Eldridge, by recklessly throwing them into a deadly game of urban combat. James behaves as if he's indifferent to death. As the men struggle to control their wild new leader, the city explodes into chaos.
2008-Slumdog Millionaire
Directors: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan
Storyline: The story of an 18 year-old orphan Jamal Malik, from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a 20 million rupees on India's Kaun Banega Crorepati? (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?)when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating as they think how could a street kid know so much? To prove his innocence Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes.
2007-No Country for Old Men
Directors: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen
Storyline:In Texas Llewelyn Moss who is a welder and hunter discovers bodies of several drug runners who have killed each other in an exchange gone violently wrong. Rather than report what he has discovered to the police, Moss decides to take the two million dollars present for himself. This puts Anton Chigurh the psychopathic killer,on his trail as he murders nearly every rival, bystander and even employer in his pursuit of his quarry and the money. As Moss desperately attempts to keep one step ahead, the blood from this hunt begins to flow behind him with relentlessly growing intensity as Chigurh closes in.
2006-The Departed
Director: Martin ScorseseStoryline:In Boston, the state police force is waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan has been assigned the job to infiltrate the mob run by gangland chief Frank costello.Billy gains Costello's confidence.Colin Sullivan a young criminal who has got into the state police undercover as an informer for the syndicate he is rising to a position of power in the special investigation unit. Each man gathers information about plans of operations.but then it soon becomes clear to the mob and the police that there is a mole in their midst.Billy and Colin are in danger of being exposed to the enemy so they have to race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save themselves.
2005-Crash
Director:Paul haggis
Storyline:Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
2004-Million Dollar Baby
Director:Clint Eastwood
Storyline:A hardened trainer/manager works with a determined woman in her attempt to establish herself as a boxer.
2003-The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Director:Peter Jackson
Storyline:Aragorn leads the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw the dark lord's gaze from Frodo and Sam who are on the doorstep of Mount Doom with the One Ring.
2002-Chicago
Director:Rob Marshall
Storyline:Murderesses Velma Kelly (a chanteuse and tease who killed her husband and sister after finding them in bed together) and Roxie Hart (who killed her boyfriend when she discovered he wasn't going to make her a star) find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
2001-A Beautiful Mind
Director:Ron Howard
Storyline:After a brilliant but asocial mathematician accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn to the nightmarish.
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