Best movies of before 2000 that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Gregory Peck, Frank Overton, John Megna,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.

Actors : Audrey Hepburn, Stanley Holloway, Rex Harrison, Wilfrid Hyde-White,
Directors : George Cukor,

A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

Actors : Julie Andrews, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Marisa Berenson, Ryan O'Neal, Patrick Magee,
Directors : Stanley Kubrick,

An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.

Actors : Gregory Peck, David Warner, Harvey Stephens, Lee Remick,
Directors : Richard Donner,

Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?

Actors : Robert Redford, Strother Martin, Paul Newman, Katharine Ross,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close.

Actors : Mickey Rooney, Jim Dale, Sean Marshall, Helen Reddy,
Directors : Don Chaffey,

An orphan boy and his magical dragon come to town with his abusive adoptive parents in pursuit.

Actors : Pat Hingle, Sally Field, Ron Leibman, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved.

Actors : William Daniels, Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern,
Directors : Randal Kleiser,

In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.

Actors : Scott Glenn, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Debra Winger, John Travolta,
Directors : James Bridges,

Bud is a young man from the country who learns about life and love in a Houston bar.

Actors : Alejandro Rey, Robin Williams, Cleavant Derricks, Maria Conchita Alonso,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

When a Russian musician defects in Bloomingdale's department store in New York, he finds adjusting to American life more difficult than he imagined.

Actors : River Phoenix, Jadrien Steele, Helen Mirren, Harrison Ford,
Directors : Peter Weir,

An eccentric and dogmatic inventor sells his house and takes his family to Central America to build a utopia in the middle of the jungle. Conflicts with his family, a local preacher and ...

Actors : Josette Simon, Denzel Washington, Wabei Siyolwe, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country, after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the black activist Steve Biko.

Actors : Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Hal Holbrook, Gene Hackman,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

A young lawyer joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.

Actors : Michael Rooker, Janine Turner, Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow,
Directors : Renny Harlin,

A botched mid-air heist results in suitcases full of cash being searched for by various groups throughout the Rocky Mountains.

Actors : Austin Pendleton, Shirley MacLaine, Edward Albert, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Hugh Wilson,

A former U.S. First Lady wants a particular Secret Service agent to head her bodyguard detail, even though he can't stand her.

Actors : Christian Bale, Linda Hunt, Mel Gibson, Joe Baker,

An English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when English colonists invade seventeenth-century Virginia.

Actors : Gary Sinise, Rene Russo, Mel Gibson, Brawley Nolte,
Directors : Ron Howard,

When a multimillionaire man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then turns the tables on the kidnappers when he uses the ransom money as a reward for the capture of the kidnappers.

Actors : John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Christopher Lloyd, Meg Ryan,

The last surviving child of the Russian Royal Family joins two con men to reunite with her grandmother, the Dowager Empress, while the undead Rasputin seeks her death.

Actors : Danny DeVito, Gerry Becker, Greyson Erik Pendry, Jim Carrey,
Directors : Milos Forman,

The life and career of a legendary comedian, Andy Kaufman.