Best movies of 1990s that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Tommy Lee Jones, Steven Seagal, Erika Eleniak, Gary Busey,
Directors : Andrew Davis,

A Navy cook is the only person who can stop a group of terrorists when they seize control of a U.S. battleship.

Actors : Max Pomeranc, Ben Kingsley, Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen,
Directors : Steven Zaillian,

A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

Actors : Dana Delany, Anna Paquin, Terry Kinney, Jeff Daniels,
Directors : Carroll Ballard,

A father and daughter decide to attempt to lead a flock of orphaned Canada Geese south by air.

Actors : Saundra McClain, Margaret Welsh, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman,
Directors : James Ivory,

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.

Actors : Virginia Capers, RaéVen Kelly, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett,
Directors : Brian Gibson,

The story of singer Tina Turner's rise to stardom and how she gained the courage to break free from her abusive husband, Ike Turner.

Actors : Nicole Kidman, Barbara Hershey, Martin Donovan, John Malkovich,
Directors : Jane Campion,

An American girl inherits a fortune and falls into a misguided relationship with a gentleman confidence artist whose true nature, including a barbed and covetous disposition, turns her life into a nightmare.

Actors : Robin Wright, Robin Williams, Michael Gambon, Joan Cusack,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

When a military general inherits a toy making company and begins making war toys, his employees band together to stop him before he ruins the name of Zevo Toys forever.

Actors : Tom Hulce, Rosie Perez, Isabella Rossellini, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Peter Weir,

A man's personality is dramatically changed after surviving a major airline crash.

Actors : Natasha Richardson, Richard Libertini, Liam Neeson, Jodie Foster,
Directors : Michael Apted,

In a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell - a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets.

Actors : Glenne Headly, Richard Dreyfuss, Olympia Dukakis, Jay Thomas,
Directors : Stephen Herek,

A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov, Kathleen Wilhoite,
Directors : George Miller,

A boy develops a disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his father decides to learn all about it and tackle the problem himself.

Actors : Rupert Graves, Helen Mirren, Amanda Donohoe, Nigel Hawthorne,
Directors : Nicholas Hytner,

A meditation on power, and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III (now suspected a victim of porphyria, a blood disorder). As he ...

Actors : Stockard Channing, Will Smith, Ian McKellen, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

An affluent New York couple find their lives touched, intruded upon, and compelled by a mysterious young black man who is never quite who he says he is.

Actors : Roddy Maude-Roxby, Debra Winger, Anthony Hopkins, Julian Fellowes,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer, and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets a spirited poet from the U.S.

Actors : Josif Josifovski, Grégoire Colin, Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija,
Directors : Milcho Manchevski,

In the republic of Macedonia, amid war in Bosnia, an Albanian girl being hunted by Christians is offered protection by a monk who has taken a vow of silence.

Actors : Lauren Bacall, Barbra Streisand, George Segal, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Barbra Streisand,

A shy, middle-aged professor enters into a romantic but non-physical relationship with an unlucky-in-love colleague.

Actors : Whitney Houston, Denzel Washington, Gregory Hines, Courtney B. Vance,
Directors : Penny Marshall,

Good natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in. On top of all ...

Actors : Oprah Winfrey, Yada Beener, Danny Glover, Emil Pinnock,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

Based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of her deceased daughter.

Actors : Janet McTeer, Jay O. Sanders, Kimberly J. Brown, Gavin O'Connor,
Directors : Gavin O'Connor,

A woman constantly runs from town to town with her 12 year old daughter to escape failed relationships. The film opens with one escape and the shift into a new start in San Diego. There Mom...

Actors : Ioan Gruffudd, Nia Roberts, William Thomas, Sue Jones-Davies,
Directors : Paul Morrison,

A tragic love story between a Jewish young man and a Welsh woman in the beginning of the century. The movie is mostly in English with parts in Welsh and Yiddish