Best movies of before 2000 that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey,
Directors : Stanley Kubrick,

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Actors : Peter O'Toole, John Lone, Joan Chen, Ruocheng Ying,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

The story of the final Emperor of China.

Actors : Tom Cruise, Gerald R. Molen, Dustin Hoffman, Valeria Golino,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.

Actors : Gary Sinise, Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton,
Directors : Ron Howard,

NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.

Actors : Tom Cruise, Renée Zellweger, Cuba Gooding Jr., Kelly Preston,
Directors : Cameron Crowe,

When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former secretary.

Actors : Chloë Sevigny, Hilary Swank, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton III,
Directors : Kimberly Peirce,

Female-born Teena Brandon adopts his male identity of Brandon Teena and attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska.

Actors : Tobey Maguire, Delroy Lindo, Michael Caine, Charlize Theron,
Directors : Lasse Hallström,

A compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world.

Actors : Jennifer Coolidge, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard,
Directors : Christopher Guest,

A colorful array of characters compete at a national dog show.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

When a retired engineer is called upon to rescue a failing satellite, he insists that his equally old teammates accompany him into space.

Actors : Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey Jr., Michael Douglas,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, William Daniels, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

Actors : J.D. Cannon, Strother Martin, Paul Newman, George Kennedy,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

A laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Actors : Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Woody Allen,

The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

Actors : Nicholas Farrell, Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers,
Directors : Hugh Hudson,

Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Danny DeVito, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : James L. Brooks,

Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.

Actors : Chris Sarandon, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Cary Elwes,
Directors : Rob Reiner,

While home sick in bed, a young boy's grandfather reads him a story called The Princess Bride.

Actors : Sean Connery, Charles Martin Smith, Robert De Niro, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team.

Actors : Joanna Cassidy, Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer,
Directors : Robert Zemeckis,

A toon-hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder.

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Barbara Hershey, Harvey Keitel, Paul Greco,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.