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Year
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Director
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Starring
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Answer
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1927/28
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William A. Wellman
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Clara Bow Charles "Buddy" Rogers"
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Wings
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1928/29
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Harry Beaumont
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Charles King Anita Page
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The Broadway Melody
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1929/30
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Lewis Milestone
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Lew Ayres Louis Wolheim
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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1930/31
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Wesley Ruggles
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Richard Dix Irene Dunne
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Cimarron
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1931/32
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Edmund Goulding
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Greta Garbo John Barrymore
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Grand Hotel
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1932/33
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Frank Lloyd
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Diana Wynyard Clive Brook
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Cavalcade
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1934
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Frank Capra
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Clark Gable Claudette Colbert
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It Happened One Night
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1935
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Frank Lloyd
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Charles Laughton Clark Gable
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Mutiny on the Bounty
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1936
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Robert Z. Leonard
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William Powell Myrna Loy
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The Great Ziegfeld
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1937
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William Dieterle
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Paul Muni Gloria Holden
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The Life of Emile Zola
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1938
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Frank Capra
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Jean Arthur Lionel Barrymore
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You Can't Take It with You
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1939
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Victor Fleming
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Clark Gable Vivien Leigh
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Gone with the Wind
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1940
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Laurence Olivier Joan Fontaine
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Rebecca
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1941
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John Ford
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Walter Pidgeon Maureen O'Hara
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How Green Was My Valley
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1942
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William Wyler
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Greer Garson Walter Pidgeon
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Mrs. Miniver
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1943
|
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Michael Curtiz
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Humphrey Bogart Ingrid Bergman
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Casablanca
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1944
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Leo McCarey
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Bing Crosby Barry Fitzgerald
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Going My Way
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1945
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Billy Wilder
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Ray Milland Jane Wyman
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The Lost Weekend
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1946
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William Wyler
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Myrna Loy Fredric March
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The Best Years of Our Lives
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1947
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Elia Kazan
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Gregory Peck Dorothy McGuire
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Gentleman's Agreement
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1948
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Laurence Olivier
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Laurence Olivier
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Hamlet
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1949
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Robert Rossen
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Broderick Crawford Joanne Dru
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All the King's Men
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1950
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Bette Davis Anne Baxter
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All About Eve
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1951
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Vincente Minnelli
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Gene Kelly Leslie Caron
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An American in Paris
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1952
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Cecil B. DeMille
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Betty Hutton Cornel Wilde
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The Greatest Show on Earth
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1953
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Fred Zinnemann
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Burt Lancaster Montgomery Clift
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From Here to Eternity
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1954
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Elia Kazan
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Marlon Brando Karl Malden
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On the Waterfront
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1955
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Delbert Mann
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Ernest Borgnine Betsy Blair
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Marty
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1956
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Michael Anderson
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David Niven Cantinflas
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Around the World in 80 Days
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1957
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David Lean
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William Holden Alec Guinness
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
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1958
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Vincente Minnelli
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Leslie Caron Maurice Chevalier
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Gigi
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1959
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William Wyler
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Charlton Heston Jack Hawkins
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Ben-Hur
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1960
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Billy Wilder
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Jack Lemmon Shirley MacLaine
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The Apartment
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1961
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Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins
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Natalie Wood Richard Beymer
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West Side Story
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1962
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David Lean
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Alec Guinness Anthony Quinn
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Lawrence of Arabia
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1963
|
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Tony Richardson
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Albert Finney Susannah York
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Tom Jones
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1964
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George Cukor
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Audrey Hepburn Rex Harrison
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My Fair Lady
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1965
|
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Robert Wise
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Julie Andrews Christopher Plummer
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The Sound of Music
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1966
|
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Fred Zinnemann
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Paul Scofield Wendy Hiller
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A Man for All Seasons
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1967
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Norman Jewison
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Sidney Poitier Rod Steiger
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In the Heat of the Night
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1968
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Carol Reed
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Ron Moody Oliver Reed
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Oliver!
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1969
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John Schlesinger
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Jon Voight Dustin Hoffman
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Midnight Cowboy
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1970
|
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Franklin J. Schaffner
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George C. Scott Karl Malden
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Patton
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1971
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William Friedkin
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Gene Hackman Fernando Rey
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The French Connection
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1972
|
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Francis Ford Coppola
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Marlon Brando Al Pacino
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The Godfather
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1973
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George Roy Hill
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Paul Newman Robert Redford
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The Sting
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1974
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Francis Ford Coppola
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Al Pacino Robert Duvall
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The Godfather Part II
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1975
|
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Miloš Forman
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Jack Nicholson Louise Fletcher
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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1976
|
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John G. Avildsen
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Sylvester Stallone Talia Shire
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Rocky
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1977
|
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Woody Allen
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Woody Allen Diane Keaton
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Annie Hall
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1978
|
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Michael Cimino
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Robert De Niro John Cazale
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The Deer Hunter
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1979
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Robert Benton
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Dustin Hoffman Meryl Streep
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Kramer vs. Kramer
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1980
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Robert Redford
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Donald Sutherland Mary Tyler Moore
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Ordinary People
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1981
|
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Hugh Hudson
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Ben Cross Ian Charleston
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Chariots of Fire
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1982
|
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Richard Attenborough
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Ben Kingsley Candice Bergen
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Gandhi
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1983
|
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James L. Brooks
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Debra Winger Shirley MacLaine
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Terms of Endearment
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1984
|
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Miloš Forman
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F. Murray Abraham Tom Hulce
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Amadeus
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1985
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Sydney Pollack
|
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Robert Redford Meryl Streep
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Out of Africa
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1986
|
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Oliver Stone
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Willem Dafoe Charlie Sheen
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Platoon
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1987
|
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Bernardo Bertolucci
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John Lone Joan Chen
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The Last Emperor
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1988
|
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Barry Levinson
|
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Dustin Hoffman Tom Cruise
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Rain Man
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1989
|
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Bruce Beresford
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Morgan Freeman Jessica Tandy
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Driving Miss Daisy
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1990
|
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Kevin Costner
|
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Kevin Costner Mary McDonnell
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Dances With Wolves
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1991
|
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Jonathan Demme
|
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Jodie Foster Anthony Hopkins
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The Silence of the Lambs
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1992
|
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Clint Eastwood
|
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Clint Eastwood Gene Hackman
|
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Unforgiven
|
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1993
|
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Steven Spielberg
|
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Liam Neeson Ben Kingsley
|
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Schindler's List
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|
1994
|
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Robert Zemeckis
|
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Tom Hanks Robin Wright
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Forrest Gump
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1995
|
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Mel Gibson
|
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Mel Gibson Sophie Marceau
|
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Braveheart
|
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1996
|
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Anthony Minghella
|
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Ralph Fiennes Juliette Binoche
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The English Patient
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|
1997
|
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James Cameron
|
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Leonardo DiCaprio Kate Winslet
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Titanic
|
|
1998
|
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John Madden
|
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Gwyneth Paltrow Joseph Fiennes
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Shakespeare in Love
|
|
1999
|
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Sam Mendes
|
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Kevin Spacey Annette Bening
|
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American Beauty
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2000
|
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Ridley Scott
|
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Russell Crowe Joaquin Phoenix
|
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Gladiator
|
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2001
|
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Ron Howard
|
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Russell Crowe Ed Harris
|
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A Beautiful Mind
|
|
2002
|
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Rob Marshall
|
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Renee Zellweger Catherine Zeta-Jones
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Chicago
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2003
|
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Peter Jackson
|
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Elijah Wood Ian McKellen
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
|
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2004
|
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Clint Eastwood
|
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Clint Eastwood Hilary Swank
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Million Dollar Baby
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2005
|
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Paul Haggis
|
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Sandra Bullock Don Cheadle
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Crash
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2006
|
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Martin Scorsese
|
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Leonardo DiCaprio Matt Damon
|
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The Departed
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2007
|
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The Coen Brothers
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Tommy Lee Jones Javier Bardem
|
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No Country for Old Men
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2008
|
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Danny Boyle
|
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Dev Patel Freida Pinto
|
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Slumdog Millionaire
|
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2009
|
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Kathryn Bigelow
|
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Jeremy Renner Anthony Mackie
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The Hurt Locker
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2010
|
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Tom Hooper
|
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Colin Firth Geoffrey Rush
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The King's Speech
|
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2011
|
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Michel Hazanavicius
|
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Jean Dujardin Berenice Bejo
|
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The Artist
|
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2012
|
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Ben Affleck
|
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Ben Affleck Bryan Cranston
|
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Argo
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2013
|
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Steve McQueen
|
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Chiwetel Ejiofor Michael Fassbender
|
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12 Years a Slave
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2014
|
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Alejandro G. Iñárritu
|
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Michael Keaton Zach Galifianakis
|
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Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
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2015
|
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Tom McCarthy
|
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Mark Ruffalo Michael Keaton
|
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Spotlight
|
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2016
|
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Barry Jenkins
|
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Trevante Rhodes Mahershala Ali
|
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Moonlight
|
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2017
|
|
Guillermo del Toro
|
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Sally Hawkins Michael Shannon
|
|
The Shape of Water
|
|
2018
|
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Peter Farrelly
|
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Viggo Mortensen Mahershala Ali
|
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Green Book
|
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2019
|
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Bong Joon Ho
|
|
Song Kang-ho Lee Sun-kyun
|
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Parasite
|
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2020
|
|
Chloé Zhao
|
|
Frances McDormand David Strathairn
|
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Nomadland
|
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2021
|
|
Sian Heder
|
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Emilia Jones Troy Kotsur
|
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CODA
|
|
2022
|
|
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
|
|
Michelle Yeoh Ke Huy Quan
|
|
Everything Everywhere All at Once
|
|
2023
|
|
Christopher Nolan
|
|
Cillian Murphy Emily Blunt
|
|
Oppenheimer
|
|
2024
|
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Sean Baker
|
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Mikey Madison Yura Borisov
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Anora
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