Best movies of before 2000 that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Sheb Wooley,
Directors : David Anspaugh,

A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the championship.

Actors : Daniel Stern, Dennis Christopher, Jackie Earle Haley, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Peter Yates,

A small-town boy obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl.

Actors : Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Margaret Avery,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.

Actors : Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.

Actors : Phyllis Boyens-Liptak, Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm,
Directors : Michael Apted,

Biographical story of Loretta Lynn, a legendary country singer that came from poverty to worldwide fame. She rose from humble beginnings in Kentucky to superstardom and changing the sound and style of country music forever.

Actors : Ed Harris, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,
Directors : James Cameron,

A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.

Actors : Zack Norman, Danny DeVito, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Robert Zemeckis,

A romance writer sets off to Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure.

Actors : Ellen Latzen, Anne Archer, Glenn Close, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Adrian Lyne,

A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.

Actors : Ray Liotta, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Phil Alden Robinson,

An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the 1919 Chicago White Sox come.

Actors : Sean Connery, Luciana Paluzzi, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi,
Directors : Terence Young,

James Bond heads to The Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme.

Actors : Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, David Naughton, Joe Belcher,
Directors : John Landis,

Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.

Actors : John Candy, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, Tom Hanks,
Directors : Ron Howard,

A young man is reunited with a mermaid who saves him from drowning as a boy and falls in love not knowing who/what she is.

Actors : Peter Greene, Cameron Diaz, Peter Riegert, Jim Carrey,
Directors : Chuck Russell,

Bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss is transformed into a manic superhero when he wears a mysterious mask.

Actors : Al Pacino, James Rebhorn, Chris O'Donnell, Gabrielle Anwar,
Directors : Martin Brest,

A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.

Actors : James Doohan, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, DeForest Kelley,
Directors : Leonard Nimoy,

To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.

Actors : Matt Dillon, Tom Selleck, Joan Cusack, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Frank Oz,

A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.

Actors : Magda Szubanski, Elizabeth Daily, Mickey Rooney, James Cromwell,
Directors : George Miller,

Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.

Actors : Tamara Tunie, Franklin Cover, Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.

Actors : Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Joan Cusack, Christopher Lloyd,
Directors : Barry Sonnenfeld,

A comical Gothic horror-movie-type family tries to rescue their beloved uncle from his gold-digging new love.

Actors : Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill, Robin Williams, Oliver Platt,
Directors : Chris Columbus,

An android endeavors to become human as he gradually acquires emotions.