Oscars 2011: as expected

Movie List


The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

  • December 9, 2005
  • Andrew Adamson
  • Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion.

War of the Worlds

  • June 23, 2005
  • Steven Spielberg
  • In a modern-day adaptation of Jules Verne's sci-fi classic, a Newark dock worker is caught in the middle of an alien invasion and must get his kids out of harm's way. Why aliens would cross the galaxy to take over New Jersey is still a mystery.

The Longest Yard

  • May 19, 2005
  • Peter Segal
  • Prison inmates form a football team to challenge the prison guards.

Lord of War

  • September 16, 2005
  • Andrew Niccol
  • An arms dealer confronts the morality of his work as he is being chased by an Interpol agent.

Jarhead

  • November 4, 2005
  • Sam Mendes
  • Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows "Swoff" (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from...

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...

Guy X

  • November 27, 2007
  • Saul Metzstein
  • A black comedy set in 1979, about a soldier mistakenly posted to an Arctic military base. |

The Benchwarmers

  • April 7, 2006
  • Dennis Dugan
  • The Benchwarmers tells the story of three guys who try to make up for their lack of athleticism when they were younger by forming a three-man baseball team to challenge a full squad of elementary school baseballers. They develop a large following of left-out kids as they head for a high-stakes,...

Merry Christmas (Joyeux Noël)

  • March 3, 2006
  • Christian Carion
  • On Christmas Eve during world War I, the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace, so they bury their dead and play football.

Rescue Dawn

  • October 22, 2006
  • Werner Herzog
  • This film tells the real-life story of U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler, a German-American shot down and captured in Laos during the Vietnam War. Dengler, to be played by Bale, organized a death-defying escape for a small band of POWs, including Duane Martin (Zahn).