Best movies of before 2000 that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley, Maximilian Schell, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Jules Dassin,

A conman gets mixed up with a group of thieves who plan to rob an Istanbul museum to retrieve a jeweled dagger.

Actors : Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Paul Scofield, Leo McKern,
Directors : Fred Zinnemann,

The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage.

Actors : Brian Keith, Alan Arkin, Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

Without hostile intent, a Soviet sub runs aground off New England. Men are sent for a boat, but many villagers go into a tizzy, risking bloodshed.

Actors : David Niven, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Peter Sellers,

In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Rex Harrison, Anthony Newley, Richard Attenborough,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

After the animal communicating veterinarian goes too far for his clientèle, he and his friends escape their hometown to sea in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail.

Actors : Katharine Hepburn, John Castle, Anthony Hopkins, Peter O'Toole,
Directors : Anthony Harvey,

1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.

Actors : Gordon Jackson, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Maggie Smith,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.

Actors : Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Jack Weston, Goldie Hawn,
Directors : Gene Saks,

A dentist pretends to be married to avoid commitment, but when he falls for his girlfriend and proposes, he must recruit his lovelorn nurse to pose as his wife.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Candy Clark, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : John Huston,

Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum.

Actors : John Randolph, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : John Guillermin,

A petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a colossal giant gorilla.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Tony Curtis, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Elia Kazan,

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.

Actors : Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Michael Caine, Katharine Ross,
Directors : Irwin Allen,

A huge swarm of deadly African bees spreads terror over American cities by killing thousands of people.

Actors : Jane Fonda, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Alan Alda,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Actors : Jerry Orbach, Richard Foronjy, Don Billett, Treat Williams,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption. However, he soon discovers that he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.

Actors : Andrew McCarthy, James Spader, Kim Cattrall, Estelle Getty,
Directors : Michael Gottlieb,

A young artist, searching for his vocation, makes a mannequin so perfect he falls in love with it. Finding the mannequin in a store window, he gets a job there and his creation comes to life.

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Emilio Estevez, Christian Slater,
Directors : Geoff Murphy,

In 1881, cattle baron John Chisum pays a bounty to Patrick Floyd Garrett to kill outlaw Billy the Kid.

Actors : Alan Arkin, Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Tomas Milian,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

Cuba, December 1958: The professional gambler Jack visits Havana to organize a big Poker game. On the ship he meets Roberta and falls in love with her. Shortly after they arrive in Cuba, ...

Actors : Judy Davis, Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, Sydney Pollack,
Directors : Woody Allen,

When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.

Actors : Vincent Perez, Jean Yanne, Catherine Deneuve, Linh Dan Pham,
Directors : Régis Wargnier,

This story is set in 1930, at the time when French colonial rule in Indochina is ending. A widowed French woman who works in the rubber fields, raises a Vietnamese princess as if she was ...

Actors : Carrie Snodgress, Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Powers Boothe,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

Jessica Lange stars in a period drama about a family moving to a military base, and she quickly becomes part of a cover-up involving nuclear bomb tests.