THE HOURS (2002)

Directed by Stephen Daldry

In 1923, Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn (Meryl Streep) is planning an award party for her friend, an author (Ed Harris) dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel mentioned before, as one is writing it, one is reading it, and one is living it.

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

Won 1, Best Actress

DVD Special Features:

Feature Length Audio Commentary by Director, Stephen Daldry and Novelist, Michael Cunningham

Feature Length Audio Commentary by Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman

Filmmakers Introduction

Four Featurettes:

Three Women
The Minds And Times Of Virginia Woolf
The Music of the Hours
The Lives of Mrs. Dalloway

IMITATION OF LIFE (1959)

Directed by Douglas Sirk

In 1947 at Coney Island, down-on-her-luck actress Lora Meredith (Lana Turner) and her young daughter Susie (Sandra Dee) meet coloured Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore) and her daughter Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner). Annie is desperate for a place to live and offers to work as Lora's maid for food and lodging. Lora's luck begins to change as a result of their meeting and their two stories unfold across the years.

Nominated for 2 Academy Awards, both for Best Supporting Actress

DVD Special Features:

None

ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955)

Directed by Douglas Sirk

Jane Wyman plays Cary Scott, a prosperous suburban New England widow with two college-aged children. Rock Hudson plays Ron Kirby, a nurseryman and gardener. Cary and Ron meet when he's pruning trees in her yard. She becomes intrigued by his free spirit and his romantic life. He falls for her as well and wants to be married. Cary is afraid of the social consequences of marriage to Ron, and she also fears her children's disapproval. Cary is not only older than Ron (at the time the movie was made Jane Wyman was 38 to Rock Hudson's 30) but is also wealthier. Cary's friends and children are snobbish and socially conscious. Ron's friends are eccentric and fun-loving. Cary must choose between love and convention.

No Academy Award Nominations

DVD Special Features:

Behind the Mirror, A Profile of Douglas Sirk featuring
excerpts from a BBC documentary produced and hosted by Mark Shivas

I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING (1945)

Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Young Englishwoman, Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) is determined to have the finer things in life, and to that end she plans to marry Sir Robert Bellinger, a wealthy, middle-aged industrialist whom she does not love.
En route to the Island of Mull, where her future husband resides, Joan is stranded in a colorful Scottish seacoast town. Inclement weather keeps her grounded for a week, during which time she falls in love with young, insouciant naval officer Torquil McNeil (Roger Livesey). Ignoring the dictates of her heart (not to mention common sense), Joan stubbornly insists upon heading out to sea towards her marriage of convenience, but Mother Nature finally convince her that her future resides on the Mainland.

No Academy Award Nominations

DVD Special Features:

None

ANNA KARENINA (1948)

Directed by Julien Duvivier

Stefan (Hugh Dempster) and Dolly Oblonsky (Mary Kerridge) have had a little spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina (Vivien Leigh), to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky (Helen Haye) who is met at the Moscow station by her son and it's love at first sight when he sets eyes upon Anna. Back in St. Petersburg they keep running into each other at parties. Since she has a husband, Alexei (Ralph Richardson) and small son, they must be very discreet if they are going to see each other alone.

No Academy Award Nominations

DVD Special Features:

None

SAYONARA (1957)

Directed by Joshua Logan

Film based on James A. Michener's novel of defiant desire. American servicemen stationed in Japan during the Korean War fall in love and marry Japanese nationals despite harsh paperwork impediments and orders to the contrary.

Nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Sound and Best Art/Set Decoration

Won 4, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Art/Set Decoration and Best Sound

In her film debut, Miyoshi Umeki was the first Asian to win an Academy Award

The second Asian actor who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor was Haing S. Ngor (THE KILLING FIELDS) 1984

Others who have been nominated are:

Sessue Hayakawa, Best Supporting Actor - THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)
Mako Iwamatsu, Best Supporting Actor - THE SAND PEBBLES (1966)
Ken Watanabe, Best Supporting Actor - THE LAST SAMURAI (2004)

DVD Special Features:

None

FAR FROM HEAVEN (2002)

Directed by Todd Haynes

Cathy (Julianne Moore) is the perfect 1950s housewife, living the perfect 1950s life: healthy kids, successful husband, social prominence. Then one night she surprises her husband Frank (Dennis Quaid) kissing another man, and her tidy world starts spinning out of control. In her confusion and grief, she finds consolation in the friendship of their African-American gardener, Raymond (Dennis Haysbert) - a socially taboo relationship that leads to the further disintegration of life as she knew it. Despite Cathy and Frank's struggle to keep their marriage afloat, the reality of his homosexuality and her feelings for Raymond open a painful, if more honest, chapter in their lives.

Nominated 4 Academy Awards including Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Original Score

Julianne Moore was a double nominee in 2002, she was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress (The Hours)


DVD Special Features:

Feature Length Commentary by Director, Todd Haynes

The Making of Far From Heaven

A Filmmaker's Experience with Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes

Anatomy of a Scene Featurette

THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946)

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE

Directed by William Wyler

Three American servicemen return home to Boone City after the war, to find their lives irrevocably changed by their military experience. Homer Parrish (Harold Russell) has lost his hands, and has become distant from his fiancee and family as he struggles to overcome his disability.
Al Stephenson (Fredric March) returns to a family which has grown and changed during his three years away. And Fred Derry (Dana Andrews) finds himself stuck in a lousy job and a loveless marriage, while at the same time falling in love with Al's daughter (Theresa Wright). Together, the three must find a way to come to terms with their experiences and pick up the pieces, lest wartime turn out to be "the best years of their lives"

Nominated for 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Writing (Screenplay) Best Music (Dramatic or Comedy Score), Best Film Editing and Best Sound Recording

Won 7, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Writing (Screenplay), Best Music(Dramatic or Comedy Score) and Best Film Editing

One Honorary Academy Award was given to Harold Russell, for bringing hope to veterans through his appearance in the film

DVD Special Features:

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1961)

Directed by Blake Edwards

Based on Truman Capote's novella, this is the story of a young, jet- setting woman, Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) in New York City who meets a young man, (Paul "Fred" Varjak) when he moves into her apartment building. He is being kept by a wealthy, older woman, 2-E (Patricial Neal) but wants to be a writer. She is working as a high-priced escort and searching for a rich, older man to marry.

The opening scene has her window-shopping at Tiffany's at six in the morning, after being up all night on a date

Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Song, Best Art/Set
Decoration (Colour) and Best Music (Dramatic or Comedy) Score

Won 2, Best Music (Dramatic or Comedy) Score and Best Original Song

DVD Special Features:

None

MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE

Directed by John Schlesinger

A "cowboy," Joe Buck (Jon Voight), moves to New York City from Texas to make his fortune as a hustler servicing rich Park Avenue women. Shortly after arriving, he is hustled by homeless con man Ratzo Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), who had said he would manage him for a $20 fee. Bent on getting his money back, Buck finds the rapidly deteriorating Rizzo, ends up feeling sorry for him, and moving into Rizzo's room in an abandoned building to care for him. The two remain hopeful of striking it rich with Rizzo managing Buck's career, but it soon becomes obvious that they are no match for the urban jungle

Nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor x 2, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film Editing

Won 3, Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay

The only X-rated film ever to win a Best Picture Oscar.

The film was rated X upon its original release in 1969, but the unrestricted use of that rating by pornographic filmmakers caused the rating to quickly become associated with hardcore films. Because of the stigma that developed around the X rating in the ratings system's early years (many cinemas refused to run X films, and many newspapers would not run ads for them), the film was given a new R rating in 1971, without having anything changed or removed.

This was the first film to have been released with an X rating to be shown on prime time network television but film's rating had been changed to R by the time of the film's television premiere.

Andy Warhol was originally scheduled to appear in the Factory sequence. His appearance was cancelled when he was shot by Valerie Solanis.

DVD Special Features:

THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA (1937)

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE

Directed by William Dieterle

A biopic of the life of Emile Zola (Paul Muni). Starting in Paris in 1862 it deals, among other events, with the Dreyfus Affair and anti-semitism in France. Captain Alfred Dreyfus was unjustly court martialed and sent to Devil's Island accused of betraying his country by disclosing military secrets.

Nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Writing (Screenplay), Best Art Direction, Best Assistant Director, Best Music (Score), Best Sound and Best Writing (Original Story)

Won 3, Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Best Writing (Screenplay)

DVD Special Features:

3 Vintage Vault Treasures:
Dramatic Short - The Little Diplomat
Musical Short - Romance Road
Cartoon Short - Ain't We Got Fun

DR STRANGELOVE OR HOW I LEARNT TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (1963)

Directed by Stanley Kubrick

U.S. Air Force Colonel Jack Ripper(Sterling Hayden) goes completely and utterly mad, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He suspects that the communists are conspiring to pollute the "precious bodily fluids" of the American people. The U.S. president meets with his advisors, where the Soviet ambassador tells him that if the U.S.S.R. is hit by nuclear weapons, it will trigger a "Doomsday Device" which will destroy all plant and animal life on Earth. Peter Sellers portraying the three men who might avert this tragedy: British Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, the only person with access to the demented Gen. Ripper; U.S. President Merkin Muffley, whose best attempts to divert disaster depend on placating a drunken Soviet Permier and the former Nazi genious Dr. Strangelove, who concludes that "such a device would not be a practical deterrent for reasons which at this moment must be all too obvious". Will the bombers be stopped in time, or will General Jack Ripper succeed in destroying the world?

Nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director,Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay

DVD Special Features:

The Art of Stanley Kubrick

Inside the Making of Dr. Strangelove

Interview with Peter Sellers and George C. Scott

LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (1962)

Sidney Lumet

Author Eugene O'Neill gives an autobiographical account of his explosive homelife, fused by a drug-addicted mother, a father who wallows in drink after realizing he is no longer a famous actor and an older brother who is emotionally unstable and a misfit. The family is reflected by the youngest son, who is a sensitive and aspiring writer.

Nominated for 1 Academy Award, Best Actress

DVD Special Features:

None

SERPICO (1973)

Directed by Sidney Lumet

Frank Serpico (Al Pacino) is a New York cop in the early 1970s. Unlike all his colleagues, he refuses a share of the money that the cops routinely extort from local criminals. Nobody wants to work with Serpico, and he's in constant danger of being placed in life threatening positions by his "partners". Nothing seems to get done even when he goes to the highest of authorities. Despite the dangers he is in, he refuses to be corrupted, in the hope that one day, the truth will prevail.

Nominated for 2 Academy Awards, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay

DVD Special Features:

First Documentary, Serpico: From Real to Reel

Second Documentary, "Inside Serpico"

Serpico: Favorite Moments

Photo Gallery with Commentary by Director Sidney Lumet

CRIES AND WHISPERS (1972) VISKNINGAR OCH ROP

Directed by Ingmar Bergman

A family drama takes place in a mansion in the late 1800's Sweden
Karin (Ingrid Tullin) and Maria (Liv Ullmann) watch over their sister Agnes (Harriet Andersson)' sickbed together with the servant Anna (Kari Sylwan). Through flashbacks the lives of both sisters are described, which are full of lies, deceit, callousness, self despise, guilt and forbidden love. Agnes' dramatic death cramp arouses only aversion in them.
They both retreat in their own way from her when she grasps for their hands.

Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design

Won 1, Best Cinematography

DVD Special Features:

None

BORN YESTERDAY (1950)

Directed by George Cukor

Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford) descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn (Julie Holliday). Brock hires newspaperman Paul Verrall (William Holden) to see if he can soften her rough edges and make her more presentable in the capital's society. But Harry gets more than he bargained for as Billie absorbs Verall's lessons in U.S. history and not only comes to the realization that Harry is nothing but a two-bit, corrupt crook and in the process also falls in love with her handsome tutor.

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

Won 1, Best Actress

Judie Holliday beat the odds by defeating two other highly favored contenders in the Best Actress race, Bette Davis (All About Eve) and Gloria Swanson (Sunset Boulevard)

DVD Special Features:

None

THE MAGNIFICIENT AMBERSONS (1942)

Directed by Orson Welles

Based on the novel by Booth Tarkington, The Magnificient Ambersons tells the story of young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan, who wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer.
Their only child, George, grows up a spoiled brat. Years later, Eugene comes back, now a mature widower and a successful automobile maker. After Wilbur dies, Eugene again asks Isabel to marry him, and she is receptive.
But George resents the attentions paid to his mother, and he and his aunt Fanny manage to sabotage the romance. A series of disasters befall the Ambersons and George, and he gets his come-uppance in the end.

Orson Welles next film after the controversy surrounding the release of his other masterpiece, CITIZEN KANE (1941)

After post production by Orson Welles, RKO recut the original ending to make it more upbeat particularly as Pearl Harbour had just been invaded and America was about join the Allies in World War II

Nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, Best Art/Set Decoration(Black and White) and Best Cinematography(Black and White)


DVD Special Features:

Documentary - Hollywood Remembers Orson Welles

THE GREAT ZIEGFELD (1936)

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE

Directed by Robert Z. Leonard

Musical biopic based of the life and career of the Broadway impressario, Florenz Ziegfeld Jnr

Nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Writing (Original Story), Best Art Direction, Best Film Editing and Best Dance Direction

Won 3, Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Dance Direction

Luis Rainer was the first winner of two consecutive Best Actress Academy Awards in 1937 (THE GREAT ZIEGFELD) AND 1938 (THE GOOD EARTH)

Her record stood for 30 years until Katharine Hepburn broke in 1967 (THE LION IN WINTER) and 1968 (GUESS WHO IS COMING TO DINNER)

DVD Special Features:

Documentary "Ziegfeld on Film"

Vintage movie premiere newsreel

DRIVING MISS DAISY (1989)

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE

Directed by Bruce Beresford

An old Jewish lady, (Jessica Tandy) and her African-American chauffeur (Morgan Freeman) in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.The movie is directly taken from a stage play and it covers over twenty years of the pair's life together as they slowly build a relationship that transcends their differences.

Nominated for 9 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup, Best Art Direction/Set Decoration and Best Costume Design

Won 4, Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Makeup

Jessica Tandy at 80, became the oldest winner of a competitive Academy Award

DVD Special Features:

Three peeks behind the scenes:

The All-New Miss Daisy's Journey
From Stage to Screen
Jessica Tandy: The Theater Legend

Feature Length Audio Commentary by Director Bruce Beresford, Writer Alfred Uhry and Producer Lili Fini Zanuck

GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1968)

Directed by Stanley Kramer

A wealthy white couple (Spencer Tracey and Katherine Hepburn) are informed that their daughter's intended is coming to meet them, and he's black (Sidney Poitier)
Scripted in the late 60s, the idea of a bi-racial marriage was still fairly shocking. To smooth this over, the son-in-law to be is a prince and a Doctor, who lives in Switzerland and intends to take their daughter there to live. Set in California, it's not quite a return to Selma, Alabama, but was controversial in its day

Nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Art/Set Decoration and Best Music (Scoring, Adaptation or Treatment of Music)

Won 2, Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay

Spencer Tracy died two weeks after the film was completed and was nominated in the Best Actor category Posthumously

The entire principal cast earned acting nominations

DVD Special Features:

None

BRAVEHEART (1995)

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE

Directed by Mel Gibson

Partly historical, partly mythological, story of William Wallace (Mel Gibson), a Scottish common man who fights for his country's freedom against the cruel English ruler Edward the Longshanks (Patrick Mcgoohan), who wishes to inherit the crown of Scotland for himself around the end of the 13th century

Nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Dramatic Score, Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Makeup, Best Costume Design and Best Sound

Won 5, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Makeup and Best Sound Effects Editing


DVD Special Features:

Feature length Audio Commentary by Director, Mel Gibson

OUT OF AFRICA (1985)

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE

Directed by Sidney Pollack

Film based on the true story life of Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep), who establishes a coffee plantation in Africa. Her life is complicated by a philandering husband of convenience (Klaus Maria Brandauer), true love, Denys(Robert Redford), troubles on the plantation, schooling of the natives and World War 1

Nominated for 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor,Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Art/Set Decoration, Best Film Editing, Best Costume Design and Best Sound

Won 7, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Art/Set Decoration and Best Sound

DVD Special Features:

Feature length commentary with Director, Sidney Pollack

THE FOG (1980)

Directed by John Carpenter

A Northern California fishing town, built 100 years ago over an old leper colony, is the target for revenge by a killer fog containing zombie-like ghosts seeking revenge for their deaths.

No Academy Award Nominations

DVD Special Features:

THE APARTMENT (1960)

Directed by Billy Wilder

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE

Bud Baxter (Jack Lemmon) is a struggling clerk in a huge New York insurance company. He's discovered a quick way to climb the corporate ladder by lending out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses.
He often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits and one night he's left with a major problem to solve.

Nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography (Black/White), Best Film Editing, Best Art/Set Decoration (Black/White) and Best Sound

Won 5, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Art/Set Decoration (Black/White) and Best Film Editing

DVD Special Features:

None

AMERICAN BEAUTY (1999)

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE

Directed by Sam Mendes

Lester (Kevin Spacey) and Carolyn Burnham (Annette Bening) are on the outside, a perfect husband and wife, in a perfect house, in a perfect neighborhood. But inside, Lester is slipping deeper and deeper into a hopeless depression.
He finally snaps when he becomes infatuated with one of his daughters friends.
Meanwhile, his daughter Jane is developing a happy friendship with a shy boy-next-door named Ricky who lives with a homophobic father.

Nominated for 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Original Score

Won 5, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinamatography

Sam Mendes received the Oscar for his debut film direction

Kevin Spacey joined the rank of only 5 other Actors in Academy history, to have won Oscars in the Actor and Supporting Actor categories.

And the director, Sam Mendes received the Oscar for his debut film direction

Another addition to the group was made in 2001, Denzel Washington (Training Day)


Academy Award wining actors in leading and supporting roles:

Jack Lemmon, 1955 (Best Supporting Actor, MISTER ROBERTS) and 1974 ( Best Actor, SAVE THE TIGER)

Robert De Niro, 1974 (Best Supporting Actor, THE GODFATHER PART 2) and 1980 (Best Actor, RAGING BULL)

Jack Nicholson, 1975 (Best Actor, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST) and 1983 (Best Supporting Actor,TERMS OF ENDEARMENT)

Gene Hackman,1971 (Best Actor, THE FRENCH CONNECTION) and 1992 (Best Supporting Actor, UNFORGIVEN)

Kevin Spacey, 1995 (Best Supporting Actor, THE USUAL SUSPECTS) and 1999 (Best Actor, AMERICAN BEAUTY)

Denzel Washington, 1989 (Best Supporting Actor, GLORY) and 2001 (Best Actor, TRAINING DAY)


DVD Special Features:

Behind the Scenes Featurette - American Beauty, Look Closer

Feature Length Audio Commentary by Director, Sam Mendes and Screenwriter, Alan Ball

TITANIC (1997)

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE

Directed by James Cameron

Fictional romantic tale of a rich girl, Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) and poor boy, Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) who meet on the ill-fated voyage of the 'unsinkable' ship"

With 1 billion dollars in worldwide ticket sales, Titanic made the record books as the first film to make a billion and one of the top three of all time - to date

Nominated for 14 Academy Awards( the most by any film in Academy History - equaling the record held by All About Eve in 1950) including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Original Dramatic Score, Best Original Song, Best Art/Set Direction, Best Sound, Best Makeup, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Costume Design

Won 11, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Original Dramatic Score, Best Original Song, Best Art/Set Decoration, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Costume Design

Equalled the record of 11 Academy Awards held by Ben Hur (1959)

Record was joined in 2004 by Lord of the Rings:The Return of the King

DVD Special Features:

None

The ROSE TATOO (1955)

Directed by Daniel Mann

An Italian-American neighborhood in Louisiana is disturbed when truck driver Rosario Delle Rose is killed by police while smuggling. His buxom widow Serafina miscarries, then over a period of 3years draws more and more into herself, tries to force her lovely teenage daughter, Rosa to do likewise

Nominated for 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography (black and white), Best Film Editing, Best Score (Comedy/Drama), Best Costume Design (Black and White) and Best Art/Set Decoration (Black and White)

Won 3, Best Actress, Best Art/Set Decoration (Black and White) and Best Cinematography (Black and White)

DVD Special Features:

None

GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE

Directed by Victor Fleming

(With uncredited directors - Sam Wood and George Cukor)

One of Hollywood's best loved "Golden Age" films which narrates the love between Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) set against the American civil war. It is the history of a selfish woman who does not want to admit her feelings about the man she loves, and finally loses him.

Nominated for 13 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress(2), Best Writing(Screenplay), Best Cinematorgraphy (Color), Best Film Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Effects (Special Effects), Best Original Score and Best Sound Recording

Won 10, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Writing (Screenplay), Best Film Editing, Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography (Color)

Two Special Awards - A technical award for use of coordinated use of equipment and a honorary award for the use of color in the production



DVD Special Features:


Discs 1 and 2 - The Movie + Audio Commentary with the film by Historian Rudy Behlmer


Disc 3 - About the Movie - The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind, narrated by Christopher Plummer

Restoring a Legend - Chronicles the Film/Video restoration Process

1939 and 1961 Atlanta Premiere Newreels

Prologue from International Release Version

Foreign Language Version Sample Scenes

Historical Short Subject - The Old South


Disc 4 - About the Cast - Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia De Havilland - Exclusive 2004 Documentary

2 Insightful Profiles: Gable, The King Remembered and Vivien Leigh, Scarlett and Beyond

The Supporting Players: Cameo Portraits of an Unforgettable Ensemble