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As much as we enjoy the Academy Awards, there's no denying they've made an awful lot of mistakes over the years, frequent errors in judgement which resulted in films now regarded as all-time classics failing to win any of the major Oscars. Stuff like Vera Drake and The Color Purple. Directors and stars are also frequently overlooked, from Hitchcock and Scorsese to Richard Burton and Glenn Close. That doesn't mean we can't still enjoy their movies, though.
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 | Sideways
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Jack and Miles briefly escape from their lives as they bid farewell to Jack's bachelor days and immerse themselves in wine and women. As the effects o...
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 | Tess
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A drama based in 19th Century England. A peasant sends his daughter, Tess, to live with a rich cousin, Alec D'Urberville. There, she is seduced and be...
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 | Aviator, The
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Dramatisation of the life of Hollywood film mogul and aviation enthusiast Howard Hughes. Focussing on the years between the late 1920s and 1940s, both...
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 | Big Chill, The
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A compassionate look at a confused generation who have survived the passions of youth and grown through painful self-awareness into adulthood. Satiric...
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 | Cider House Rules, The(2001)
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The story of Homer Wells, a young man who strives to find where he belongs. He has lived nearly all his life in St. Cloud's Orphanage under the watchf...
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 | Color Purple, The(1985)
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Award-winning drama, spanning a period of forty years, in which Celie, a black girl, is mistreated by two men until suddenly a blues singer enters her...
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 | Crying Game, The
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An off-duty soldier, lured to the beach by a local girl, is beaten and abducted by the IRA...
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 | Diary Of Anne Frank, The
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George Stevens' life-altering experience of witnessing the death camps after WWII was doubtless responsible for his desire to adapt the famed diary of...
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 | Dresser, The
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Based on Ronald Harwood's award winning play about a spoilt and moody all powerful actor-manager who is cracking up under the strain of keeping his tr...
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 | Elephant Man, The(2001)
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The true and deeply moving story of John Merrick who was the victim of a hideous disease that distorted his face and body.
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