Best movies of 1990s that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Carrie-Anne Moss, Alfred Molina, Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench,
Directors : Lasse Hallström,

A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.

Actors : Matthew Broderick, Rory Culkin, Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo,
Directors : Kenneth Lonergan,

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely seen younger brother returns to town.

Actors : John C. Reilly, George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger.

Actors : Kate Winslet, Geoffrey Rush, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.

Actors : Willem Dafoe, John Malkovich, Cary Elwes, Udo Kier,
Directors : E. Elias Merhige,

The filming of Nosferatu (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.

Actors : Frances Sternhagen, Richard Farnsworth, Kathy Bates, James Caan,
Directors : Rob Reiner,

After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.

Actors : Rodney A. Grant, Graham Greene, Mary McDonnell, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Kevin Costner,

Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.

Actors : Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Christopher Walken, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Tim Burton,

When a corrupt businessman and the grotesque Penguin plot to take control of Gotham City, only Batman can stop them, while the Catwoman has her own agenda.

Actors : Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield, Rob Morrow, John Turturro,
Directors : Robert Redford,

A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation.

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 : BD Wong, Eddie Murphy, Ming-Na Wen, Miguel Ferrer,

To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.

Actors : Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen,
Directors : Gary Ross,

Two 1990s teenage siblings find themselves in a 1950s sitcom where their influence begins to profoundly change that complacent world.

Actors : Brent Briscoe, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda, Bill Paxton,
Directors : Sam Raimi,

When three blue collar acquaintances come across millions of dollars in lost cash they make a plan to keep their find from the authorities but find complications and mistrust weaving its way into their plan.

Actors : Anthony Michael Hall, Johnny Depp, Dianne Wiest, Winona Ryder,
Directors : Tim Burton,

A gentle man, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation.

Actors : Hudhail Al-Amir, Lloyd Avery II, Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Directors : John Singleton,

Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence and future prospects.

Actors : Fred Ward, Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Whoopi Goldberg,
Directors : Robert Altman,

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Actors : Philip King, Alison Crosbie, Pete Postlethwaite, Daniel Day-Lewis,
Directors : Jim Sheridan,

A man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them.

Actors : Julian Sands, Elisabeth Shue, Richard Lewis, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Mike Figgis,

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

Actors : Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh, Billy Bob Thornton, John Ritter,
Directors : Billy Bob Thornton,

Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.

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.