Best movies of 1997 that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Kevin Spacey, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, Russell Crowe,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.

Actors : Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Leonardo DiCaprio,
Directors : James Cameron,

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

Actors : Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Luis Guzmán,
Directors : Paul Thomas Anderson,

The story of a young man's adventures in the Californian pornography industry of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Actors : Linda Fiorentino, Will Smith, Vincent D'Onofrio, Tommy Lee Jones,
Directors : Barry Sonnenfeld,

A police officer joins a secret organization that polices and monitors extraterrestrial interactions on Earth.

Actors : Robin Williams, Stellan Skarsgård, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon,
Directors : Gus Van Sant,

Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.

Actors : Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jack Nicholson,
Directors : James L. Brooks,

A single mother/waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.

Actors : Mark Addy, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle, William Snape,
Directors : Peter Cattaneo,

Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.

Actors : Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson, Christine Dunford, Tom Wood,
Directors : Victor Nunez,

A reclusive beekeeper slowly pulls his dysfunctional family back together, but not without having to fight his son's previous dastardly cohorts.