Best movies of 1990s that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd,
Directors : Scott Hicks,

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.

Actors : Timothy Spall, Claire Rushbrook, Phyllis Logan, Brenda Blethyn,
Directors : Mike Leigh,

A successful black woman discovers that her birth mother is a underprivileged white woman, but the woman denies it. As emotions run high, everyone's secrets are exposed.

Actors : Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy, Robert Carlyle, William Snape,
Directors : Peter Cattaneo,

Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.

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 : 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 : Tom Sizemore, Juliette Lewis, Woody Harrelson, Rodney Dangerfield,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

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 : 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 : 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 : Matthew McConaughey, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt, Jodie Foster,
Directors : Robert Zemeckis,

Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of extraterrestrial intelligence, sending plans for a mysterious machine.

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.