Best movies of before 2000 that are award winners or nominees

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 : Helen Hunt, Mel Gibson, Marisa Tomei, Alan Alda,
Directors : Nancy Meyers,

After an accident, a chauvinistic executive gains the ability to hear what women are really thinking.

Actors : John Wood, Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, 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 : 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 : Joel Grey, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Liza Minnelli,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

Actors : Anne Archer, Willem Dafoe, Harrison Ford, Joaquim de Almeida,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.

Actors : Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd,
Directors : John Landis,

A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

Actors : Liv Tyler, Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck,
Directors : Michael Bay,

After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas is going to impact Earth in less than a month, N.A.S.A. recruits a misfit team of deep core drillers to save the planet.

Actors : Sean Connery, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : John McTiernan,

In November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain in their newest sub violates orders and heads for the USA. Is he trying to defect or to start a war?

Actors : Candice Bergen, Benjamin Bratt, Michael Caine, Sandra Bullock,
Directors : Donald Petrie,

An FBI agent must go undercover in the Miss United States beauty pageant to prevent a group from bombing the event.

Actors : Robert Prosky, Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks, William Hurt,
Directors : James L. Brooks,

Take two rival TV reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well and watch the sparks fly.

Actors : Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler, Tom Hanks, Charlize Theron,
Directors : Tom Hanks,

A local Pennsylvania band scores a one hit wonder in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as they can, with lots of help from its manager.

Actors : Rebecca De Mornay, Tom Cruise, Richard Masur, Joe Pantoliano,
Directors : Paul Brickman,

A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Robin Williams, Dianne Wiest, Nathan Lane,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing moralistic parents.

Actors : Vince Vaughn, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jennifer Lopez, Colton James,
Directors : Tarsem Singh,

An FBI agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim.

Actors : Ed Harris, Susan Sarandon, Julia Roberts, Jena Malone,
Directors : Chris Columbus,

A terminally ill woman has to settle on her former husband's new lover, who will be their children's stepmother.

Actors : Peter Gallagher, Peter Boyle, Bill Pullman, Sandra Bullock,
Directors : Jon Turteltaub,

A hopeless romantic Chicago Transit Authority token collector is mistaken for the fiancée of a coma patient.

Actors : Joe Pesci, Patsy Kensit, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover,
Directors : Richard Donner,

Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.

Actors : Larry Hagman, Kathy Bates, Emma Thompson, John Travolta,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A man joins the political campaign of a smooth-operator candidate for president of the USA.

Actors : Halle Berry, Warren Beatty, Kimberly Deauna Adams, Vinny Argiro,
Directors : Warren Beatty,

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.