ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN (1976)

Direted by Alan J. Pakula

In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward(Robert Redford) covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. He is surprised to find top lawyers already on the defence case, and the discovery of names and addresses of Republican fund organisers on the accused further arouses his suspicions. The editor of the Post is prepared to run with the story and assigns Woodward and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) to it. They find the trail leading higher and higher in the Republican Party, and eventually into the White House itself.

Nominated for 8 Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Art/ Set Decoration and Best Sound

Won 4, Best Supporting Actor, best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art/ Set Decoration and Best Sound

DVD Special Features:

THE WINGS OF THE DOVE (1997)

Directed by Ian Softley

In the early years of this century, an impoverished British woman, Kate Croy (Helena Bonham- Carter), seems trapped by and dependent upon her wealthy aunt (Charlotte Rampling). Befriending a fatally ill, rich American woman(Alison Elliott) provides Kate with not only a trip to Venice, but an opportunity to break free of her aunt and her poverty.

Nominated for 4 Academy Awards, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design and Best Cinematography

DVD Special Features:

None

THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003)

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE

Directed by Peter Jackson

Special Extended Edition Disc 1 and 2

The former Fellowship of the Ring prepare for the final battle for Middle Earth.

They divide to conquer as Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin), with the help and hindrance of Gollum/Smeagol (Andy Serkis), continue their way to Mount Doom. Gandalf (Ian Mckellan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd) ride to Minas Tirith to help defend Gondor while Merry (Dominic Monaghan) remains with Eowyn (Miranda Otto) and the other Rohan fighters. Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), Legolas (Orlandon Bloom), and Gimli (Jonathan Rhys-Davies) seek aid from those that live in the Cursed Mountains. All these battles have one goal in mind: distract the Eye of Sauron and buy Frodo a little more time to destroy the ring

The third and final installment was nominated for another record 11 Academy Awards and swept the board, winning for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound and Best Art/Set Decoration


Academy Awards Trivia:

The Lord of The Rings trilogy became the most nominated film series
in Academy Award history with 30 nominations, surpassing both the
Godfather trilogy (28) and the Star Wars franchise (21).

The movie marks the second time in history that the third movie in a
trilogy was nominated for Best Picture, by the Academy Awards and
Golden Globes, after The Godfather: Part III (1990) and the only time
that a third movie has won the Best Picture Oscar.

The movie tied with Ben-Hur (1959) and Titanic (1997) to win the
most Oscars (11) in a single year.

It broke another record by winning all the Oscars for which it was
nominated (11 out of 11). The previous record was nine out of nine by
The Last Emperor (1987) and nine out of nine by Gigi (1958).

None of the Academy Awards won by the trilogy was for acting


DVD Special Features:

Disc 1 and 2 : Feature Length Audio Commentary with Cast and Director/Writers

Disc 3 : The Appendices Part 1 - From Book to Vision

Disc 4 : The Appendices part 2 - From Vision to Reality

THE TWO TOWERS (2002)

Directed by Peter Jackson

Special Extended Edition - Disc 1 and 2

The Fellowship has been broken. Boromir (Sean Bean) is dead, Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) and Samwise Gamgee (Sean Astin) have gone to Mordor alone to destroy the One Ring, Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd) have been captured by the Uruk-hai, and Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), Legolas (Orlando Bloom), and Gimli (John Rhys-Davies) have made friends of the Rohan, a race of humans that are in the path of the upcoming war, led by its aging king, Théoden (Bernard Hill). The two towers between Mordor and Isengard, Barad-dúr and Orthanc, have united in their lust for destruction. The corrupt wizard Saruman (Christopher Lee), under the power of the Dark Lord Sauron, and his slimy assistant, Gríma Wormtongue (Brad Dourif), have created a grand Uruk-hai army bent on the destruction of Man and Middle-earth. The rebellion against Sauron is building up and will be led by Gandalf the White (Sir Ian McKellen), who was thought to be dead after the Balrog captured him. One of the Ring's original bearers, the creature Gollum (Andy Serkis), has tracked Frodo and Sam down in search of his 'precious', but is captured by the Hobbits and used as a way to lead them to Mt. Doom.

The War of the Ring has now begun...

The Second installment was nominated for 6 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Editing, Best Sound, Best Art/Set Decoration, Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Editing

Won 2, Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Editing

DVD Special Features:

Disc 1 and 2 : Feature Length Audio Commentary with Cast and Director/Writers

Disc 3 : The Appendices Part 1 - From Book to Vision

Disc 4 : The Appendices part 2 - From Vision to Reality

THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING(2001)

Directed by Peter Jackson

Special Extended Edition - Disc 1 and 2

An Ancient Ring thought lost for centuries has been found, and through a strange twist in fate has been given to a small Hobbit named Frodo (Elijah Wood). When Gandalf discovers the Ring is in fact the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron. Frodo must make an epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it. However he does not go alone. He is joined by Gandalf (Ian Mckellan), Legolas the elf (Orlando Bloom), Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), Boromir (Sean Bean), his three Hobbit friends Merry (Dominic Monaghan), Pippin (Billy Boyd), Sam Gamgee (Sean Astin) and Gimli the Dwarf (Jonathan Rhys-Davies). Through mountains, snow, darkness, forests, rivers and plains, facing evil and danger at every corner the Fellowship of the Ring must go.

Their quest to destroy the One Ring is the only hope for the end of the Dark Lords reign......

The First installment of the Trilogy was nominated for a record 13 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art/Set Decoration, Best (Visual) Effects, Best Original Score, Best Makeup, Best Costume Design, Best Editing, Best Original Song and Best Sound

Won 4, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best (Visual) Effects and Best Makeup

DVD Special Features:

Disc 1 and 2 : Feature Length Audio Commentary with Cast and Director/Writers

Disc 3 : The Appendices Part 1 - From Book to Vision

Disc 4 : The Appendices part 2 - From Vision to Reality

CIMARRON (1931)

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE

Directed by Wesley Riggles

When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat (Richard Dix) claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra (Irene Dunne) must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.

Nominated for 7 Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Writing (Adaptation), Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction

Won 3, Best Picture, Best Writing (Adaptation) and Best Art Direction

The only internally-produced RKO film to ever win the Best Picture Oscar

DVD Special Features:

Warner Bros Cartoon Shorts

JEZEBEL(1938)

Directed by William Wyler

Film set in antebellum New Orleans during the early 1850's, this film follows Julie Marsden (Bette Davies), beautiful and free spirited, rapacious Southern belle who is sure of herself and controlling of her fiancé Preston Dillard (Henry Fonda), a successful young banker. Julie's sensitive but domineering personality--she does not want so much to hurt as to assert her independence--forces a wedge between Preston and herself. To win him back, she plays North against South amid a deadly epidemic of yellow fever which claims a surprising victim.

Nominated for 5 Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography and Best Music Score

Won 2, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress

DVD Special Features:

Audio commentary by film historian, Jeanine Basinger

Featurette, Jezebel: Legend of the South

EAST OF EDEN (1955)

Directed by Elia Kazan

In the Salinas Valley, in and around World War I, Cal Trask(James Dean) feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother Aron(Richard Davalos) for the love of their father Adam(Raymond Massey). Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, to how to get ahead in business and in life, to how to relate to their estranged mother.

Nominated for 4 Academy Awards, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Writing (Screenplay)

This was the first of two posthumous acting nominations received consecutively by James Dean

Won 1, Best Supporting Actress

DVD Special Features:

Audio length commentary by film historian, Richard Schickel

Two feature length documentaries: Forever Dean and East of Eden, Art in the search of life

PATTON (1970)

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE

Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner

"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton (George C Scott), famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination. Faults which would, eventually, lead to his being relieved as Occupation Commander of Germany

Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects and Best Art/Set Decoration

Won 7, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Art/ Set Decoration and Best Sound

George C. Scott refused to accept the nomination and subsequent award

DVD Special Features:

Audio Commentary on the historical Patton

Documentary - The Making of Patton

MARIA FULL OF GRACE (2004)

Joshua Marston

In a small village in Colombia, the pregnant seventeen years old Maria (Catalina Sandino Moreno) supports her family with her salary working in a floriculture. She is fired and with a total lack of perspective of finding a new job, she decides to accept the offer to work as a drug mule, flying to USA with sixty-two pellets of cocaine in her stomach. Once in New York, things do not happen as planned.

Nominated for 1 Academy Award, Best Actress

DVD Special Features:

Feature Length Audio Commentary by Director, Joshua Marston

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1993)

Directed by Martin Scorsese

Society scion Newland Archer (Daniel Day Lewis) is engaged to May Welland (Winona Ryder), but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets May's unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer). At first, Newland becomes a defender of the Countess, whose separation from her abusive husband makes her a social outcast in the restrictive high society of late-19th Century New York, but he finds in her a companion spirit and they fall in love.

Nominated for 5 Academy Awards, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Art/Set Decoration and Best Music (Original Score)

Won 1, Best Costume Design

DVD Special Features:

None

THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)

Directed John Ford

Based on the John Steinbeck novel published in 1939. Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to forecloseure.
They migrate westward to California, suffering severe misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression and end up little more than slave labor.

This film launched the career of Henry Fonda

Nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Writing(Screenplay), Best Film Editing and Best Sound

Won 2, Best Director and Best Supporting Actress

DVD Special Features:

Biography: Darryl F. Zanuck, 20th Century Fox Founder

Feature length audio commentary by Scholars, Joseph Mcbride and Susan Shillinglaw.

Factual error by Joseph Mcbride - that Henry Fonda lost out the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1940 to Clark Gable (Gone With The Wind)
Correction - Henry Fonda was not up for the Academy Award in the same year as Clark Gable (Gone With The Wind).
His fellow nominees that year were:
Philadelphia Story, The (1940) - James Stewart (I) - The winner
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) - Raymond Massey (I)
Great Dictator, The (1940) - Charles Chaplin
Rebecca (1940) - Laurence Olivier

Clark Gable had won his only Academy Award for Best Actor in 1934's sweep, It Happened One Night

REBECCA (1940)

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Based on the Daphne Du Maurier novel published in 1938

A naive young woman (Joan Fontaine) marries a rich widower (Laurence Olivier), they settle in his gigantic mansion, where she finds the memory of the first wife maintaining a grip on her husband and the servants.

A film encompassing methodical direction, startling plot twists, subtle chilling scenes and superb performances

Nominated for 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Other were Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction (Black and White), Best Cinematography (Black and White), Best Special Effects, Best Film Editing and Best Original Score

Won 2, Best Picture and Best Cinematography (Black and White)

Special features:

Audio commentary by film scholar Leonard J. Leff, author of "Hitchcock and Selznick"

Mr Leff's 1986 phone interviews with Judith Anderson and Joan Fontaine

CHARIOTS OF FIRE (1981)

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE

Hugh Hudson

The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric (Ian Charleson), a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold (Ben Cross), the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, who hires a pro trainer to prepare him. Eric, whose qualifying heat is scheduled for a Sunday, refuses to run despite pressure from the Olympic committee. A compromise is reached when a nobleman allows Eric to compete in his 400 meter slot. Eric and Harold win their respective races and go on to achieve fame as missionary and businessman/athletic advocate, respectively.

Nominated for 7 Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Costume Design and Best Film Editing

Won 4, Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Costume Design and Best Original Score

DVD Special Feature:

None

BAREFOORT IN THE PARK (1967)

Directed by Gene Saks

Adapted from the hilarious play by Neil Simon, this movie combines love laughs. Robert Redford portrays Paul Bratter, a newly married lawyer. Jane Fonda portrays Corrie Bratter, a newly married woman who's main goal in life is to have fun and to have it with Paul. Together they learn how to live and love in an apartment that's laughably small in New York and located on the fifth floor of a building with no elevator. This film is full of great lines. Mildred Natwick, who portrays Corrie's mother, has some of the funniest lines.

Nominated for 1 Academy Award, Best Supporting Actress

DVD Special Features:

None

THE BIG SLEEP (1946)

Directed by Howard Hawks

Private-eye Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is hired to keep an eye on General Sternwood's youngest daughter, Carmen (Martha Vickers), who has fallen into bad company and is likely to do some damage to herself and her family before long. He soon finds himself falling in love with her older sister, Vivien (Lauren Bacall), who initially takes a deep dislike to Mr Marlowe. However, the plot thickens when murder follows murder

No Academy Award Nominations

DVD Special Features:

None

GODSFORD PARK

Directed by Robert Altman

Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon) is a wealthy but uncouth industrialist-turned-aristocrat, with a large house in the English countryside, complete with staff. It is a world where everything runs in order - both upstairs, where Sir William and his much younger wife Lady Sylvia (Kristin Scott Thomas) indulge in a very comfortable existence of shooting, dinners and parties, and downstairs, where the servants work endlessly under the command of the butler Mr Jennings (Alan Bates), and the house keeper Mrs Wilson (Helen Mirren). Whether they like it or not, everyone knows their place. But a shooting party will change all of that, with friends of the McCordles and their servants arriving from outside to upset the order. And so begins a complicated tale of secrets, lies, deceit, betrayal, revenge, bitterness, hatred, money and love - and that's all before the murder...

Nominated for 7 Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress x2, Best Original Screenplay, Best Art/Set Decoration and Best Costume Design

Won 1, Best Original Screenplay

DVD Special Features:

The Making of Gosford Park

The authencity of Godsford Park

Feature Length Commentary by Director, Robert Altman and Producer, David Levy

DARLING (1965)

Directed by John Schlesinger

A film that perfectly personifies London in the swinging 60s
A beautiful amoral model, Diana Scott (Julie Christie) wants it all. Fame, Money and Love
Everything comes at a price and she has to settle for less than she expects.

Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay and Best Costume Design (Black and White)

Won 3, Best Actress, Original Screenplay and Costume Design(Black and White)

Newcomer, Julie Christie famously beat Julie Andrews (THE SOUND OF MUSIC) to the award. Miss Andrews had won the previous year for MARY POPPINS

DVD Special Features:

None

THE SORROW AND THE PITY (1969)

(LE CHAGRIN ET LA PITIÉ)

Directed by Marcel Ophüls

From 1940 to 1944, France's Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Marcel Ophüls mixes archival footage with 1969 interviews of a German officer and of collaborators and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand. They comment on the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and fear of Bolsheviks, to simple caution. Part one, "The Collapse," includes an extended interview with Pierre Mendès-France, jailed for anti-Vichy action and later France's Prime Minister. At the heart of part two, "The Choice," is an interview with René de Chambrun, one of 7,000 French youth to fight on the eastern front wearing German uniforms.

Nominated for 1 Academy Award, Best Documentary: Features

DVD Special Features:

None

ANNIE HALL (1977)

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE

Directed by Woody Allen

Romantic adventures of neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) and his equally neurotic girlfriend Annie Hall (Diane Keaton). The film traces the course of their relationship from their first meeting, and serves as an interesting historical document about love in the 1970s.

One of the best loved Woody Allen film from the 1970s

Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay

Won 4, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay

DVD Special Features:

None

CALIFORNIA SUITE (1978)

Directed by Herbert Ross

Four sets of people arrive in California and stay at the same hotel.
One of these persons is Hannah Warren (Jane Fonda) from New York, who has come to take her daughter who ran away from her and would like to stay with her father Bill (Alan Alda). So Bill and Hannah spend the day bickering while trying to decide what's best for their daughter.
Another one is British actress Diana Barrie (Maggie Smith), who's nominated for an Academy Award and is attending the ceremony with her husband, Sidnet Cochran (Michael Caine) who is not in the (entertainment) business.
And two doctors, Willis Panama (Bill Cosby) and Chauncy Gump (Richard Pryor), with their wives. Chauncy has been complaining all the way, and when they arrive they learn that only the Panamas have a room with the Gumps forced to stay in a small single.
Finally, there is Marvin (Walter Matthau), who came to town for his nephew's bar mitzvah, knowing that his wife is not with him his brother takes him out for a little carousing and when he returns he finds a hooker waiting for him. The next day his wife arrives.

Nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Art/Set Decoration

Won 1, Best Supporting Actress

Maggie Smith's win in this category made her one of only 5 Actresses to win Academy Awards for acting in both categories

The full list includes:

Helen Hayes, Best Actress, THE SIN OF MADELON CLAUDET (1931) and Best Supporting Actress, AIRPORT (1970)

Ingrid Bergman, 2 Best Actress Awards, GASLIGHT (1944), ANASTASIA (1956) and Best Supporting Actress, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974)

Maggie Smith, Best Actress, THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE (1969) and Best Supporting Actress, CALIFORNIA SUITE (1978)

Meryl Streep, Best Supporting Actress, KRAMER VS KRAMER (1979) and Best Actress, SOPHIE'S CHOICE (1982)

Jessica Lange, Best Supporting Actress, TOOTSIE (1982) and Best Actress, BLUE SKY (1994)


DVD Special Features:

None

BARRY LYNDON (1975)

Directed by Stanley Kubrick

Redmond Barry (Ryan O'Neal) is a young, roguish Irishman who's determined, in any way, to make a life for himself as a wealthy nobleman. Enlisting in the British Army, fighting in the Seven Years War in Europe, Barry deserts from the British army, joins the Prussian army, gets promoted to the rank of a spy, then becomes pupil to a Chevalier and con artist/gambler. Barry then lies, dupes, duels and seduces his way up the social ladder and enters into a lustful but loveless marriage to a wealthy countess named Lady Lyndon (Marisa Berenson), takes the name of Barry Lyndon, settles in England with wealth and power beyond his wildest dreams, then slowly falls dramatically into ruin.

Nominated for 7 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Costume Design and Best Art/Set Decoration

Won 4, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Costume Design and Best Art/Set direction

DVD Special Features:

None

THE ICE STORM (1997)

Directed by Ang Lee

It is Thanksgiving, 1973, and the climate is changing, politically and physically. As the Watergate scandal unfolds in the background, the inhabitants of New Canaan, Conneticut begin to slip into an existentialist void, wherein social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility is practically nonexistant. Focusing on two families in particular, the Hoods and the Carvers, "The Ice Storm" chronicles a brief period of rapid moral deterioration, as the characters shatter their social "roles" in pursuit of meaning and satisfaction, within an environment turned inwards on itself. As the narrative device of an "Ice Storm" builds up around them, the actions of the characters - including adultery, sexual experimentation, drug use and petty crimes - become increasingly unpredictable and impulsive. Once the "storm" hits, though, reality sinks in, and the severity of their situation becomes all to apparent in its bitter, and resonating aftermath

No Academy Award Nominations

DVD Special Features:

None

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (2005)

Directed by Ang Lee

In the Summer of 1963 Wyoming, two young men, Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) a ranch hand and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) an aspiring rodeo bull rider, are sent to work together herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain, and what had otherwise been anticipated to be a rather uneventful venture, will soon turn into an affair of love, of lust, and complications that will spand through 19 years of their lives. Through marriage, through children, and through the mighty grip of societal confines and the expectations of what it is to be a man.

The most talked about film of 2005

Nominated for 8 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Original Score

Won 3, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Score

In what would always be a stain on the credibility of the Academy, Brokeback Mountain was denied the highest prize of the night despite winning 23 other major best picture awards.

DVD Special Features:

On being a Cowboy: Actors discuss their preparation for their roles

Directing from the Heart: Ang Lee

From Script to Screen: Interviews with Larry McMurty and Diana Ossana

Sharing The Story: The Making of Brokeback Mountain

ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

The ambitious Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) gets close to the great and temperamental stage artist Margo Channing (Bette Davis) and her friends Karen Richards (Celeste Holm) and her husband, the play-writer Lloyd Richards (Hugh Marlowe); her boyfriend and director Bill Sampson (Gary Marrow); and the producer Max Fabian (Gregory Ratoff). Everybody, except the cynical critic Addison DeWitt (George Sanders), believe that Eve is only a naive, humble and simple obsessed fan of Margo and they try to help her. However, Eve is indeed a cynical and manipulative snake that uses the lives of Margo and her friends to reach her objectives in the theater business.

Nominated for 14 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress x 2, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress x 2, Best Writing (Screenplay), Best Cinematography (Black and White), Best Art/Set Decoration (Black and White), Best Film Editing, Best Score, Best Costume Design (Black and White) and Best Sound Recording

Won 6, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Writing (Screenplay), Best Sound Recording and Best Costume Design (Black and White)

Ranks as the Most Academy Award Nominated Film with 14 nominations, set a record which has been tied only by Titanic (1997)

Anne Baxter successfully pressured the powers that be to get her nominated for an Oscar in the Best Actress category rather than Best Supporting Actress. This is thought to have split the vote between herself and Davis. The winner for the 1950 Best Actress was Judy Holliday for BORN YESTERDAY(1950)

DVD Special Features:

Audio commentary by Celeste Holm, Christopher Mankiewicz and Kenneth Geist

Audio commentary by Sam Staggs

AMC Backstory episode: All about Eve

Original interviews

THE FALLEN IDOL (1948)

Directed by Carol Reed

Philippe, a diplomat's son (Bobby Henry) and good friend of Baines the butler (Ralph Richardson), is confused by the complexities and evasions of adult life. He tries to keep secrets but ends up telling them. He lies to protect his friends, even though he knows he should tell the truth. He resolves not to listen to adults' stories any more when Baines is suspected of murdering his wife and no-one will listen to Philippe's vital information.

Nominated for 2 Academy Awards, Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay

DVD Special Features:

None