Best movies of before 2000 that are oscar winners or nominees

Space Cowboys(2000)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 73

When a retired engineer is called upon to rescue a failing satellite, he insists that his equally old teammates accompany him into space.



Chocolat(2000)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

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



You Can Count on Me(2000)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 78

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



Patton(1970)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 71

The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton.



Young Frankenstein(1974)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that he is not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.



Blue Velvet(1986)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.



Die Hard(1988)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 67

John McClane, officer of the NYPD, tries to save his wife Holly Gennaro and several others that were taken hostage by German terrorist Hans Gruber during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.



A Fish Called Wanda(1988)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

In London, four very different people team up to commit armed robbery, then try to doublecross each other for the loot.



When Harry Met Sally...(1989)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.



The Crying Game(1992)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A British soldier is kidnapped by IRA terrorists. He befriends one of his captors, who is drawn into the soldier's world.



Four Weddings and a Funeral(1994)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.



Speed(1994)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A young police officer must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph.



Men in Black(1997)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A police officer joins a secret organization that polices and monitors extraterrestrial interactions on Earth.



Dances with Wolves(1990)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

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



Batman Returns(1992)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 66

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.



Quiz Show(1994)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 70

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



Good Will Hunting(1997)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

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.



Mulan(1998)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

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.



Pleasantville(1998)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 69

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



A Simple Plan(1998)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

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.




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