Most popular movies of before 2000 that are oscar winners or nominees

Beetlejuice(1988)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

When a recently-deceased ghost couple find their now-vacant home invaded by an obnoxious family, they hire a sleazy ghost who gets rid of humans to help them.



Dead Poets Society(1989)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

English teacher John Keating inspires his students to look at poetry with a different perspective of authentic knowledge and feelings.



Flatliners(1990)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 52

Five medical students experiment on "near death" experiences that involve past tragedies until the dark consequences begin to jeopardize their lives.



Terminator 2: Judgment Day(1991)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son, John Connor, from a more advanced cyborg.



The Shawshank Redemption(1994)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.



Fargo(1996)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.



Titanic(1997)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.



Saving Private Ryan(1998)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.



American Beauty(1999)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.



Gladiator(2000)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 76

When a Roman General is betrayed, and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.



The Magnificent Seven(1960)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.



The Parent Trap(1961)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Teenage twin sisters swap places and scheme to reunite their divorced parents.



Lolita(1962)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a fourteen-year-old nymphet.



The Birds(1963)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.



Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb(1964)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 48

An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.



Barefoot in the Park(1967)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 26

Paul, a conservative young lawyer, marries the vivacious Corie. Their highly passionate relationship descends into comical discord in a five-flight New York City walk-up apartment.



The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean(1972)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A no account outlaw establishes his own particular brand of law and order and builds a town on the edges of civilization in this farcical western. With the aid of an old law text and ...



The Exorcist(1973)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 74

When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.



One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.



Rocky(1976)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 35

Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer, gets a supremely rare chance to fight heavy-weight champion Apollo Creed in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.




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