Best movies of before 2000 that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : John Marley, Seymour Cassel, Lynn Carlin, Gena Rowlands,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

A middle-aged man leaves his wife for a younger woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner. The film follows their struggles to find love amongst each other.

Actors : Harve Presnell, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Joshua Logan,

Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town.

Actors : Charles Grodin, Jeannie Berlin, Audra Lindley, Cybill Shepherd,
Directors : Elaine May,

Three days into his Miami honeymoon, New York Jewish Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly ...

Actors : Max von Sydow, Charlton Heston, Michael Anderson Jr., Dorothy McGuire,

The life of Jesus Christ.

Actors : Zero Mostel, Michael Crawford, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton,
Directors : Richard Lester,

A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.

Actors : Walter Matthau, Richard Benjamin, George Burns, Lee Meredith,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

A vaudeville duo agree to reunite for a TV special, but it turns out that they can't stand each other.

Actors : Woody Allen, Herschel Bernardi, Zero Mostel, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

Actors : Tuesday Weld, Richard Gere, William Atherton, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.

Actors : Faye Dunaway, Ricky Schroder, Jack Warden, Jon Voight,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

Billy Flynn, a former boxing champion, is now horse trainer in Hialeah. He makes just enough money to raise his little boy T.J., over whom he got custody after his wife Annie left him seven...

Actors : Sam Shepard, Bart Burns, Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley,
Directors : Graeme Clifford,

The story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.

Actors : Adolph Caesar, David Alan Grier, Art Evans, Howard E. Rollins Jr.,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

An African American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.

Actors : Fred Ward, Joel Grey, J.A. Preston, Wilford Brimley,
Directors : Guy Hamilton,

An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinarily unique assassin in service of the US president.

Actors : Michael O'Keefe, Carroll Baker, Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Hector Babenco,

An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his home town of Albany, NY after returning there for the first time in decades.

Actors : Anjelica Huston, Helena Carroll, Cathleen Delany, Donal McCann,
Directors : John Huston,

Gabriel Conroy and wife Greta attend an early January dinner with friends at the home of his spinster aunts, an evening which results in an epiphany for both of them.

Actors : Leo Rossi, Kelly McGillis, Jodie Foster, Bernie Coulson,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

After a young woman suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.

Actors : Sonia Braga, Richard Bradford, Julie Carmen, Rubén Blades,
Directors : Robert Redford,

In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom ...

Actors : Angeline Ball, Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Maria Doyle Kennedy,
Directors : Alan Parker,

When Jimmy Rabbitte wants to start a band, he has open auditions at his house.

Actors : Giuseppe Cederna, Claudio Bisio, Claudio Bigagli, Diego Abatantuono,
Directors : Gabriele Salvatores,

In WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Wes Studi, Jason Patric,
Directors : Walter Hill,

The story of the Apache chief and his armed resistance to the US Government's subjugation of his people.

Actors : Paul Scofield, Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Joan Allen,
Directors : Nicholas Hytner,

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.