Best Picture Award Winners from 1990-1999

Dramatic comedy about the gradual effect of a patient black chauffer on the crotchedy old Jewish woman he drives around. Winner of several Academy Awards, including Best Picture!

A post-Civil War Union officer is sent to the Western frontier, where he meets and eventually joins a Sioux Indian tribe. Multi-Oscar winner, including Best Picture!

Box office smash about an FBI agent who interviews a jailed psychotic killer to gain insight into the mind of another maniac at large. Winner of every major Academy Award!

The whimsical story of a ‘not-so-bright’ guy who always seems to be in the right place at the right time. He gives new meaning to eating a box of chocolates. Exceptional special effects and performances.

Medieval epic about the violent struggles of the Scottish people against their English oppressors as seen through the eyes of the great liberator, William Wallace. Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director!

The sweeping expanses of the Sahara are the setting for a passionate love affair in this adaptation of Michael Ondaatje’s novel. A badly burned man, Laszlo de Almasy (Ralph Fiennes), is tended to by a nurse, Hana (Juliette Binoche), in an Italian monastery near the end of World War II. His past is revealed through flashbacks involving a married Englishwoman (Kristin Scott Thomas) and his work mapping the African landscape. Hana learns to heal her own scars as she helps the dying man.

Out of ideas and cash, a young Will Shakespeare (Fiennes), is in search of a muse to break his creative drought. After meeting the lovely Lady Viola (Paltrow), the two find themselves entangled in a secret romance that rejuvenates Will’s creativity. His pen flows like never before until he uncovers two unexpected truths about his new lover – she’s promised to marry someone else and she’s successfully impersonating a man to play the lead in Will’s latest play.