ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975)

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE

Directed by Milos Foreman

Film based on the novel by Ken Kesey about a man, Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) sent to a mental hospital finds the head nurse , Nurse Mildred Ratched (Louise Fletcher) a lot more dangerous than the other patients.

Nominated for 9 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Original Score

Won 5, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay

Made Academy history by being only the second time, the year's Best Picture won all 5 major categories.
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1936) was the first and these were later joined by THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)

One of 7 films with wins in the Best Actor and Actress categories

IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1936)
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975)
NETWORK (1976)
COMING HOME (1978)
ON GOLDEN POND (1980)
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) and
AS GOOD AS IT GETS (1997)

DVD Special features

Feature Length Commentary by Milos Foreman, with contribution from Michael Douglas (one of the film's Producers)

The Making of One Flew Over the Cuckooo's Nest Documentary

DAY FOR NIGHT (1973)

Directed by Francois Truffaut

A film company at work - the shooting of "Je Vous Presente Pamela" The story of en english married wife falling in love and running away with the father of her French husband.

Nominated for 4 Academy Awards in 1974 and 1975 including Best Foreign Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Screenplay

Won in 1974 - Best Foreign Film (France)

Won the nominations (above) the following year when it was released in the United States, thereby qualifying for consideration in all categories except the Foreign Language Film category (AMPAS rules)

DVD Special features:

Four Documentaries:

An Appreciation of Truffaut by his biographer, Annette Insdorf

Day for Night, A Conversation with Jacqueline Bisset

La Nuit Americaine - The French Connection featuring interviews with co - stars Nathalie Baye, Dani and Bernard Menez and Editor Yann Dedet

Truffaut in the USA, with Insdorf, Actor/Producer Bob Balaban and Journalist Todd McCarthy

Also includes vintage 1973/74 Materials: The Making of Piece: Truffaut, A View from Inside and

An Interview from the 1973 Cannes Film Festival

THE THIRD MAN (1949)

Directed by Carol Reed

Based on a screenplay by Graham Greene

Film-Noir masterpiece thriller about betrayal and corruption in post-war, occupied Vienna.

An American popular fiction writer, Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) arrives in Vienna on the invitation of his friend, Harry Lime (an uncredited Orson Welles) who his finds dead under mysterious circumstances. The ensuing mystery entangles him in Harry's involvement in the black market, the multinational police, and his Czech girlfriend.

Nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Cinematography (Black and White)

Won 1, Best Cinematography (Black and White)

DVD Special features:

Joseph Cotton's alternative voiceover for the US version
Archival footage of Composer, Anton Karas
Archival footage of the film's famous sewer chase location
Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the Third Man
Harry Lime Radio play "A Ticket to Tangiers"

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (1956)

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE

Directed by Michael Anderson

Based on the novel "Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours" by Jules Verne

A Victorian Englishman, Phileas Fogg (David Niven) who bets that with the new steamships and railways he can do what the title says.

This is the second Todd-AO production (the first was Oklahoma! (1955)) shot twice, first at 24 fps (to produce the general-release version in 35 mm) and finally at 30 fps (to produce the roadshow version in 70 mm). The 35 mm version is presented in conventional 2:1 squeeze anamorphic process.
The 70 mm version is presented in Todd-AO.

The first film to use famous stars in small roles know as "cameos"

Nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay,
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - Color, Best Costume Design - Color, Best Cinematography - Color, Best Film Editing and
Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

Won 5, Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography - Color, Best Film Editing and
Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

Tied with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) for the longest title of an Oscar winner for Best Motion Picture until the 2004 win by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

DVD Special Features:

Brief introduction by TCM host, Robert Osborne

An in depth feature-length audio commentary by BBC Radio's Brian Sibley

1968 Profile - Around the World of Mike Todd, narrated by Orson Wells with contributions from Elizabeth Taylor, Gypsy Lee. Ethel Merman and others

THE GRADUATE (1967)

Directed by Mike Nichols

A young man's post college uncertainty, set against middle-aged insecurity.

Tired of being the golden boy for his parents' friends, college track star, Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) embarks upon an affair with the wife of his father's partner, Mrs Robinson (Anne Bancroft).
Benjamin is also seeing her daughter, Elaine, played by Katherine Ross.

Nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

Won 1, Best Director

Perhaps as a compensation for the previous year when Mike Nichols was one of the 13 nominations earned by Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf which he lost to Fred Zinnemann (A Man Of All Seasons). His victory was at the expense of Norman Jewison (IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT), this year's Best Picture

DVD Special Features

Documentary on the making of The Graduate with interviews with:
Buck Henry
Dustin Hoffman
Katherine Ross and Lawrence Turman

Exclusive interview with Dustin Hoffman

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF (1966)

Directed by Mike Nichols

Film based on the Broadway play by Edward Albee, written for the screen by Ernest Lehman

A night of fun and mind games with two college professors and their wives

Starring Elizabeth Taylor (Martha) and Richard Burton (George), with George Seagal (Nick) and Sandy Dennis (Honey)

It was an unlikely casting of the 33 year old beauty as the frumpy, middle-aged, spiteful Martha but Elizabeth gave a performance which astounded her doubters and won her the best reviews of her career

Nominated for 13 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director,
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
Best Film Editing
Best Music, Original Music Score
Best Sound
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

Won 5 - Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design

DVD Special Features :

Audio Commentary by Cinematographer, Haskell Wexler

MONSTER (2003)

Directed by Patty Jenkins

Based on the true story of Aileen Carol Wuornos, a highway prostitute executed by the state of Florida in 2002 for the murders she committed in the 1980s

Starring Charlize Theron, in a tour de force performance that earned her a multitude of awards including the year's Best Actress Oscar

Nominated/Won Academy Award, Best Actress