Oscars 2011: as expected

Movie List


Rumor Has It...

  • December 25, 2005
  • Rob Reiner
  • A young woman returns home to Pasadena, determined to unravel a family secret before she gets married. She learns "The Graduate" might have been based on her kin, and that her grandmother was the inspiration for Mrs. Robinson. Then she finds herself embroiled in an affair with an older man as...

A Good Woman

  • February 3, 2006
  • Mike Barker
  • Mrs. Erlynne (Helen Hunt) is an audacious and well-known woman of a certain age with a reputation for entertaining wealthy, married men. Leaving her problems and unpaid bills in New York, she sets sail for Italy to pursue Meg (Scarlett Johansson) and Robert Windermere (Mark Umbers), one of the most...

Brokeback Mountain

  • September 3, 2005
  • Ang Lee
  • An epic love story set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, Brokeback Mountain tells the story of two young men ? a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy ? who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys and tragedies provide a...

Memoirs of a Geisha

  • December 9, 2005
  • Rob Marshall
  • Based on the international best-seller by Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha is an epic story of love and betrayal set against the broad and rapidly changing social canvas of 20th century Japan. Nine-year old Chiyo, a poor fisherman's daughter, is taken from her family and sold to a geisha house....

All the King's Men

  • September 22, 2006
  • Steven Zaillian
  • Absolute power corrupts absolutely in writer-director Steven Zaillian's ("Schindler's List") adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's classic novel "All the King's Men" featuring an all-star cast led by Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Patricia Clarkson, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Hopkins....

Lucky You

  • May 1, 2007
  • Curtis Hanson
  • A hotshot poker player tries to win a tournament in Vegas, but is fighting a losing battle with his personal problems.

For Your Consideration

  • November 17, 2006
  • Christopher Guest
  • Three actors learn their respective performances in the film Home for Purim, a drama set in the mid-1940s American South, are generating award-season buzz.

Letters to God

  • April 9, 2010
  • David Nixon, Patrick Doughtie
  • A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and community...

Glory Road

  • January 13, 2006
  • James Gartner
  • "Glory Road" tells the true story of the underdog Texas Western basketball team, with history's first all African American starting lineup of players, who took the country by storm, surprisingly winning the 1966 NCAA tournament title. Josh Lucas stars as Hall of Famer Don Haskins, the passionately...

Freedomland

  • February 17, 2006
  • Joe Roth
  • When her daughter disappears and is believed to be dead, a single mother blames an African-American man from the projects for the kidnapping, creating a racial controversy. An African-American detective(Freeman) and a white newspaper reporter team up to investigate the case, which they discover may...