WALL-E (2008) was nominated for six Oscars for Best Writing-Original Screenplay, Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion...

Snatch, released in 2000, received four awards from 2000-2001, two being the UK Empire Awards for Best British Director (Guy Ritchie) and...

Intouchables (2011) was directed by the French directing/writing duo Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano. They've collaborated on short...

For some reason, Inglourious Basterds (2009) won one Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Christoph Waltz). It...

Interstellar (2014) marks the fourth Christopher Nolan essay in this collection. The movie won the Oscar award for Best Achievement in...

One of my favorite movies, The Grand Budapest Hotel, was released in 2014 and received international critical acclaim. The movie took...

The Lion King, released in 1994, held the title of the highest-grossing animated film until Finding Nemo overtook it. It is still the...

Nominated for 14 Oscars, Titanic (1997) tied All About Eve (1950) for the most Oscar nominations and won 11, tying Ben-Hur (1959) for the...

Oh boy. I knew this was coming. A Roman Polanski film. If you don't understand my exasperation, read on a little further, and I will...

Sorry for a late post!! Wix took AGES to post this one for some reason >:| Toy Story (1995) made history. It was the first entirely...

The movie Up, released in 2009, was directed by Pete Docter and Bob Peterson. Docter is an American animator, director, screenwriter,...

Goodfellas (1990) is another famous Scorsese movie, amounting to 44 wins from 1990-2011. In 2011 it won the Felix Awards at the 20/20...

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) is the movie that wasn't expected to do well, and yet, was nominated for 5...

The Bourne Identity (2002) is an action/mystery/thriller movie based on the 1980 novel written by Robert Ludlum of the same name. The...

The 1976 crime noir movie, Taxi Driver, marks the first film I'm writing an essay on from Martin Scorsese's films. Arguably the most...

Mel Gibson's Braveheart (1995) was inspired by Blind Harry's 15th-century epic poem The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant...

The Terminator (1984) was the winner of three Saturn Awards for Best Science Fiction Film, Best Writing (James Cameron. Gale Anne Hurd),...

While 3 Idiots (2009) did not win any Oscars, it collected 63 awards from 2010-2019, seven of which were gathered from the 2010 Annual...

The 2000 film, Gladiator, won five Oscars for Best Picture (Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, Branko Lustig), Best Actor in a Leading Role...

La Vita è Bella (translation: Life is Beautiful) is a 1997 war/romance/comedy film set in World War II-era Italy. It won three Oscars for...