And the Oscar goes to... The most famous winning films of all time
21.2.2017
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On 26 February, the coveted little golden boy will be awarded for the 89th time in Los Angeles. A good reason to watch the best of the former Oscar-winning films. We have put together a must-see list for you.
These films are classics and have made film history. Throw yourself on the sofa with popcorn, crisps and co. and start a film marathon with these ten absolutely unforgettable Hollywood flicks.
1. Schindler's List
- Director: Steven Spielberg
- Cinema release CH: March 1994
- Oscar winning year: 1994
Oscars won
- Best Film
- Best Director
- Best Adapted Screenplay
- Best Production Design
- Best Editing
- Best Cinematography
- Best Music
It is the stories based on true events that touch us the most. "Schindler's List" tells the story of the life of industrialist Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), one of the greatest legends of the Second World War. During the war, Schindler set up a business in Krakow and founded an enamel factory in which he employed only Jews. When the war finally reaches Krakow and the cruelty takes its course, Schindler risks everything, including his life, to save his workers and protect them from deportation.
"Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire" - Oskar Schindler was proof that even in terrible times, something good can be done. Everyone should have seen Steven Spielberg's homage at least once!
2 Forrest Gump
- Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
- Cinema release CH: October 1994
- Oscar winning year: 1995
Oscars won
- Best Film
- Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Best Director
- Best Adapted Screenplay
- Best Editing
- Best Special Effects
No one could have imagined that the film "Forrest Gump" would become such a hit. Countless big Hollywood actors turned down the role of Forrest in the run-up to the film, which they must have regretted very much afterwards. The story was written by Winston Groom, who published the book of the same name in 1986. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) is an unusual boy, as he is both physically and mentally impaired. With an IQ of just 75, he nevertheless manages to make his way through life and make a name for himself.
He becomes a professional table tennis player, meets the US President, is celebrated as a war hero, takes off as a football player and achieves much more. The only constant in his life is his childhood friend Jenny, whom he meets again and again and who once told him: "Run, Forrest! Run!"
3. Titanic
- Director: James Cameron
- Cinema release CH: 7 January 1998
- Oscar winning year: 1998
Oscars won
- Best Film
- Best Director
- Best Music
- Best film song
- Best Editing
- Best Special Effects
- Best Sound
- Best Costume Design
- Best Cinematography
- Best Production Design
- Best sound editing
James Cameron created what is probably the greatest and most tragic love story of all time with "Titanic". The story takes place on the Atlantic Ocean during the maiden voyage of the luxury liner Titanic. In 1912, Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), who comes from a poor background, and the rich but unhappy Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) meet on the ship and fall in love at first sight.
When Rose wants to throw herself overboard because she can't cope with her fiancé and snobbish surroundings, and Jack manages to stop her from doing the worst, their love story begins. Defying social differences, they spend every minute together before the Titanic collides with the iceberg and sinks.
4. Slumdog Millionaire
- Directed by: Danny Boyle
- Cinema release CH: 22 January 2009
- Oscar winning year: 2009
Oscars won
- Best Film
- Best Director
- Best Adapted Screenplay
- Best Cinematography
- Best Film Music
- Best Song
- Best Sound
- Best editing
With "Slumdog Millionaire", director Danny Boyle created the feel-good film of the decade. It is the incredible story of an Indian boy from the slums who is on the verge of hitting the jackpot on the Indian version of the quiz show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?". The 18-year-old Jamal K. Malik (Dev Patel) is where much more powerful and smarter people than him have already failed and gives new hope to an entire country. "Slumdog Millionaire" is based on the novel "Q & A" by Vikas Swarup and still captivates young and old today.
5 The Godfather
- Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
- Cinema release CH: August 1972
- Oscar winning year: 1973
Oscars won
- Best Film
- Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Best Adapted Screenplay
Although the word is never used in the film itself, the mafia takes centre stage in "The Godfather". The film begins in 1945 and revolves around the large family of Don Vito Corleone, who is the head of one of the five most influential Italian-American mafia families.
"The Godfather" is a story about power, deceit and corruption, love and retribution. When Don Vito alias The Godfather (Marlon Brando) is supposed to enter the drug business, but his moral convictions do not allow it, everything he has built up threatens to fall apart. His youngest son Michael (Al Pacino) enters the business and proves to be a successful strategist throughout the mafia war. With "The Godfather", Francis Ford Coppola has created a masterpiece about families in which cohesion means everything and betrayal means the worst.
6. 12 Years a Slave
- Directed by: Steve McQueen
- Cinema release CH: 23 January 2014
- Oscar winning year: 2014
Oscars won
- Best Film
- Best Supporting Actress
- Best Adapted Screenplay
The film drama "12 Years a Slave" is based on Solomon Northup's autobiography of the same name, which was published in 1853. The story tells of a dark chapter in American history and shows the bitter and true ordeal of Solomon (Chiwetel Ejiofor), who lives as a free African-American in New York and is taken to the southern states by swindlers. His passion is music and when two men pretend to own a circus and want to hire him, he agrees. However, when he finds himself in the US state of Louisiana, he is stripped of his identity and turned into a slave. From there, his twelve-year-long tragic fate takes its course. The film unfortunately only documents a fraction of slavery, but leaves a lasting impression through a fateful life.
7th Million Dollar Baby
- Directed by: Clint Eastwood
- Cinema release CH: 24 February 2005
- Oscar-winning year: 2005
Oscars won
- Best Film
- Best Director
- Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Best Supporting Actor
"Million Dollar Baby" is a film by and starring Clint Eastwood. The American actor plays the leading role of the grumpy boxing instructor Frankie Dunn. The film is a tear-jerker thanks to its many clichés. And like almost all Clint Eastwood films, it is about guilt, penance and redemption.
Frankie runs his own boxing school, but none of his students have ever made it big. Suddenly, Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank), who comes from a poor background, turns up and asks Frankie to be her trainer. She is firmly convinced of herself and although Frankie initially refuses because she is too old for a boxing career and he does not train women as a matter of principle, Maggie manages to convince him with her persistence. Both of them have lost touch with their familial love, but their time together allows them to rediscover what was just hidden in their depths.
8. Rocky
- Directed by: John G. Avildsen
- Cinema release CH: April 1977
- Oscar-winning year: 1977
Oscars won
- Best Film
- Best Director
- Best Editing
Another boxing film to enter the ring is "Rocky". The classic film starring Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa shaped an entire generation and became a piece of film history. Amateur boxer Rocky Balboa struggles along as an unsuccessful fighter and money collector for a loan shark. When heavyweight boxing world champion Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) is unable to find an opponent for his next fight, he launches an appeal to all amateur boxers. He gives them the chance of a lifetime, because one of them is to step into the ring against him.
For Rocky, a personal development begins that he could never have foreseen. His training becomes harder, his will stronger and in the end the bell rings for the first round. Rocky has the unique opportunity to become world champion. Sylvester Stallone fought his way into the hearts of the audience with the role of Rocky and set a milestone in the film industry.
9th The King's Speech
- Directed by: Tom Hooper
- Cinema release CH: 17 February 2011
- Oscar winning year: 2011
Oscars won
- Best Film
- Best Director
- Best Original Screenplay
- Best Leading Actor
"The King's Speech" is set in the past of the Second World War and revolves around the English King George VI (Colin Firth). Bertie, as Albert, Duke of York and son of King George V, is affectionately called by those closest to him, is a stutterer. It is a habit that is annoying to everyone, but particularly useless for a king. After the death of his father, and after Bertie has accepted the office of King of England, he wants to tell his people that England and Germany are at war. But in order for him to deliver such a regal speech, he has to get his stutter and nervousness under control.
So his wife (Helena Bonham Carter) hires the Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), who works with very unconventional methods. "The King's Speech" shows the British royal family from a slightly different perspective and casts an unusual light on the aristocratic class, making them appear very human and vulnerable for a change.
10 The Silence of the Lambs
- Director: Jonathan Demme
- Cinema release CH: 12 April 1991
- Oscar-winning year: 1992
Oscars won
- Best Film
- Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Best Director
- Best Adapted Screenplay
The main cast alone makes the film "The Silence of the Lambs" a masterstroke. With Anthony Hopkins as the cannibal Hannibal Lecter and Jodie Foster as his FBI adversary, the film was already under a good star even before it was called "Uuuund...Cut!". The plot was based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Harris, which in turn was inspired by similar true events.
Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) is still in training as an FBI agent and is given the task of catching the serial killer Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine). In order for her to succeed, she meets with the psychiatrist and cannibal Hannibal Lecter, who is able to put himself in the killer's shoes. He promises to help her in return for her sharing private details of her life with him and the psycho cat-and-mouse game takes its course.
The film that didn't make it: The Green Mile
And finally, although this film was nominated for an Oscar, it narrowly missed out on the title of best film. I still think it deserves just as much recognition as the other films and should definitely not go unseen.
Children's film + Family film
The Green Mile
Blu-ray, 1999, Turkish, Spanish, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, French
- Director: Francs Darabont
- Cinema release CH: 17 February 2000
- Year of the nomination: 2000
Nominated for
- Best Film
- Best Supporting Actor
- Best Adapted Screenplay
- Best Sound
At the 2000 Academy Awards, the drama "The Green Mile" was beaten by "American Beauty". Based on a novel by Stephen King, the film tells the story of prison guard Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), who is head of death row in a prison in South Carolina and sometimes has to guard the muscular dark-skinned John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) on his last journey. But the condemned inmate has a special gift and can free people from pain and suffering with his pure touch. As Paul gets to know him better and better and benefits from his gift, he is convinced that John is innocent - but the masses are of a different opinion...
The prison drama moves even the most hardened to tears. That's why an evening at the cinema with "The Green Mile" should not be complete without tissues and popcorn. For us, one thing is clear: winner of hearts!
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