The Academy got it right.
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The Academy and the numbers agree.
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Dir. Ridley Scott · Russell Crowe · Joaquin Phoenix · Connie Nielsen · Oliver Reed
After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus preferred. Eventually, Maximus is forced to become a gladiator and battle to the death against other men for the amusement of paying audiences.
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Dir. Christopher Nolan · Guy Pearce · Carrie-Anne Moss · Joe Pantoliano · Mark Boone Junior
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.
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Dir. Darren Aronofsky · Ellen Burstyn · Jared Leto · Jennifer Connelly · Marlon Wayans
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
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Dir. Guy Ritchie · Jason Statham · Alan Ford · Stephen Graham · Brad Pitt
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookies, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewellers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
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Dir. Wong Kar-Wai · Maggie Cheung · Tony Leung Chiu-wai · Siu Ping-Lam · Rebecca Pan
In 1960s Hong Kong, two neighbors form an intimate bond after making a discovery about their spouses in this visually stunning tale of unrequited love.
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Dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu · Emilio Echevarría · Gael García Bernal · Vanessa Bauche · Goya Toledo
A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.
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Dir. Robert Zemeckis · Tom Hanks · Helen Hunt · Chris Noth · Paul Sanchez
Chuck Noland, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia crashes at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and finds himself marooned on a desolate island. With no way to escape, Chuck must find ways to survive in his new home.
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Dir. Cameron Crowe · Billy Crudup · Frances McDormand · Kate Hudson · Jason Lee
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band, Stillwater.
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Dir. Lars von Trier · Björk · Catherine Deneuve · David Morse · Peter Stormare
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.
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Dir. Ang Lee · Chow Yun-Fat · Michelle Yeoh · Zhang Ziyi · Chang Chen
Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.
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Dir. Boaz Yakin · Denzel Washington · Will Patton · Wood Harris · Ryan Hurst
After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.
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Dir. Priyadarshan · Akshay Kumar · Suniel Shetty · Paresh Rawal · Tabu
Two tenants and a landlord, in desperate need of money, chance upon a ransom call via a cross connection. They hatch a plan to claim the ransom for themselves.
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Dir. Stephen Daldry · Jamie Bell · Gary Lewis · Julie Walters · Jean Heywood
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.
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Dir. Mary Harron · Christian Bale · Justin Theroux · Josh Lucas · Bill Sage
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
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Dir. Joel Coen · George Clooney · John Turturro · Tim Blake Nelson · John Goodman
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.
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Dir. Steven Soderbergh · Julia Roberts · Albert Finney · Aaron Eckhart · Marg Helgenberger
A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.
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Dir. Steven Soderbergh · Michael Douglas · Benicio del Toro · Catherine Zeta-Jones · Erika Christensen
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.
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Dir. Bryan Singer · Hugh Jackman · Patrick Stewart · Ian McKellen · Famke Janssen
Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.
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Dir. Lasse Hallström · Juliette Binoche · Judi Dench · Alfred Molina · Lena Olin
In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where they open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of the strictly Catholic townsfolk and mayor.
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Dir. Jay Roach · Ben Stiller · Robert De Niro · Teri Polo · Blythe Danner
Greg Focker is ready to marry his girlfriend, Pam, but before he pops the question, he must win over her formidable father, humorless former CIA agent Jack Byrnes, at the wedding of Pam's sister. As Greg bends over backward to make a good impression, his visit to the Byrnes home turns into a hilarious series of disasters, and everything that can go wrong does, all under Jack's critical, hawklike gaze.
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Dir. Robert Zemeckis · Michelle Pfeiffer · Harrison Ford · Diana Scarwid · James Remar
Norman and Claire Spencer are a seemingly happily married couple who uncover a terrible secret… a secret so disturbing it threatens to destroy them.
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Dir. Ron Howard · Jim Carrey · Taylor Momsen · Jeffrey Tambor · Christine Baranski
The Grinch decides to rob Whoville of Christmas - but a dash of kindness from little Cindy Lou Who and her family may be enough to melt his heart...
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Dir. Wolfgang Petersen · George Clooney · Mark Wahlberg · Diane Lane · John C. Reilly
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail.
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Dir. Nancy Meyers · Mel Gibson · Helen Hunt · Marisa Tomei · Alan Alda
Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's thoughts, he puts his newfound talent to work against Darcy, his new boss, who seems to be infatuated with him.
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Dir. Ralph Zondag · D. B. Sweeney · Alfre Woodard · Ossie Davis · Max Casella
An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
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Dir. John Woo · Tom Cruise · Dougray Scott · Thandiwe Newton · Ving Rhames
With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.
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