Best movies of before 2000 that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Gore Vidal, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Ethan Hawke,
Directors : Andrew Niccol,

A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.

Actors : Vince Vaughn, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Jeff Goldblum,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there while another team approaches with another agenda.

Actors : Henry Czerny, Sigourney Weaver, Kevin Kline, Joan Allen,
Directors : Ang Lee,

In suburban New Canaan, Connecticut , 1973, middle class families experimenting with casual sex and substance abuse find their lives beyond their control.

Actors : Parker Posey, Greg Kinnear, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan,
Directors : Nora Ephron,

Two business rivals who despise each other in real life unwittingly fall in love over the Internet.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Anthony Hopkins, José María de Tavira,
Directors : Martin Campbell,

A young thief, seeking revenge for the death of his brother, is trained by the once great, but aged Zorro, who also pursues vengeance of his own.

Actors : Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy, Winona Ryder,
Directors : James Mangold,

Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the 1960s.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Steve McQueen, Don Gordon, Robert Vaughn,
Directors : Peter Yates,

An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection.

Actors : Barry Miller, Joseph Cali, Karen Lynn Gorney, John Travolta,
Directors : John Badham,

A Brooklyn teenager feels his only chance to succeed is as the king of the disco floor. His carefree youth and weekend dancing help him to forget the reality of his bleak life.

Actors : John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman,
Directors : John Badham,

A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.

Actors : Jonathan Ke Quan, Kate Capshaw, Harrison Ford, Amrish Puri,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees, and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.

Actors : Tom Cruise, Paul Newman, Helen Shaver, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

Fast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.

Actors : Mitchell Ryan, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey,
Directors : Richard Donner,

A veteran policeman, Murtaugh, is partnered with a younger, suicidal officer, Riggs. They both have one thing in common: hating working in pairs. Now they must learn to work with one another to stop a gang of drug smugglers.

Actors : Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava, Josh Evans,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

Actors : Bill Bernstein, Woody Allen, Martin Landau, Claire Bloom,
Directors : Woody Allen,

An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.

Actors : Daniel Stern, Macaulay Culkin, John Heard, Joe Pesci,
Directors : Chris Columbus,

An eight-year-old troublemaker must protect his house from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation.

Actors : Sharon Stone, Rachel Ticotin, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Ironside,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

When a man goes for virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or does he?

Actors : Tom Cruise, Kevin Bacon, Demi Moore, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Rob Reiner,

Neo military lawyer Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder; they contend they were acting under orders.

Actors : Joe Pesci, Mitchell Whitfield, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio,
Directors : Jonathan Lynn,

Two New Yorkers are accused of murder in rural Alabama while on their way back to college, and one of their cousins--an inexperienced, loudmouth lawyer not accustomed to Southern rules and manners--comes in to defend them.

Actors : Denzel Washington, Tom Hanks, Buzz Kilman, Roberta Maxwell,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

When a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.

Actors : John Haycraft, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Christopher Reeve,
Directors : James Ivory,

A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.