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115 Years of Film
B. JalandoniJ. Ylanan
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for Visual Literacy class, PSHS Main Campus
Based on
The Execution of Mary Stuart
• The execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
• Directed by Alfred Clark and produced by Thomas Edison
• Stars: Robert Thomae• 18 secs
1895
The Kiss
• Directed by William Heise• Writer: John J.
McNally (play)• Stars: May Irwin and John C.
Rice • The first kiss ever on film• Aka The Rice-Irwin Kiss• 47 secs
1896
Old Man Drinking a Glass of Beer
• Aka Comic Faces• Directed by G.A Smith• Stars: Tom Green• 35 secs
1897
Santa Claus
• Directed by G.A Smith• Stars:Laura
Bayley, Dorothy Smith and Harold Smith
• 1 min 16 secs
1898
Jeanne d'Arc
• Joan of Arc• Written and directed by
George Melies• Stars: Bleuette
Bernon, Georges Méliès and Jeanne d'Alcy
• One of the first colored films• 10 mins
1899
Grandma's Reading Glass
• Directed by G.A Smith• Stars: Harold Smith• A girl looks through
glasses at various objects, seen magnified
• 1 min 20 secs
1900
The Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison
• Directed by Edwin S. Porter
• The panorama that opens this film was shot on the day that Czolgosz was actually executed
• 4 mins
1901
Le voyage dans la Lune
• A Trip to the Moon• Stars: Georges
Méliès, Victor André and Bleuette Bernon
• A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the moon
• 14 mins 1902
The Great Train Robbery
• Written, produced and directed by Edwin S. Porter
• Stars: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, A.C. Abadieand George Barnes
• 12 mins1903
The Impossible Voyage
• Directed by George Melies• Writers: Adolphe
d'Ennery (play) and Georges Méliès
• Stars: Georges Méliès • 24 mins
1904
Le Diable Noir
• Directed by George Melies
• The Black Imp• A traveler at an inn is
harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.
• 4 mins1905
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
• Directed by J. Stuart Blackton
• Stars: J. Stuart Blackton• A cartoonist draws faces
and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.
• Considered the first truly animated movie
• 3 mins 1906
Ben-Hur
• Directed by Sidney Olcott, Frank Oakes Rose, H. Temple and Harrey T Morrey
• Writers: Gene Gauntier and Lew Wallace (novel)
• Stars: Herman Rottger and William S. Hart
• 15 mins
1907
Dreams of Toyland
• Directed by Arthur Melbourne Cooper
• A boy dreams toys come to life.
• 8 mins
1908
A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Directed by Charles Kent and J. Stuart Blackton
• Writers: William Shakespeare (play) and Eugene Mullin (scenario)
• Stars: Walter Ackerman, Charles Chapman and Dolores Costello
• Produced by J. Stuart Blackton• 12 mins 1909
A Christmas Carol
• Directed by Harold Shaw• Writer: Charles
Dickens (short story)• Stars: Marc
McDermott, Charles Ogle and William Bechtel
• English intertitles• 15 mins
1910
The Lonedale Operator
• Directed by D.W. Griffith• Stars:Verner Clarges, Guy
Hedlund and Jeanie Macpherson
• Used close-ups which were uncommon at the time
• 17 mins• English intertitle
1911
Cleopatra
• Directed by Charles L. Gaskill• Produced by Helen Gardner• Writer: Victorien Sardou (play)• Stars: Helen Gardner, Pearl
Sindelar and Miss Fielding• English intertitles• Just over an hour
1912
Fantomas
• Directed by Louis Feuillade• Writers: Marcel Allain (novel)
and Louis Feuillade• Stars: René Navarre, Georges
Melchior and Renée Carl• Produced by Romeo Bosetti• French intertitles• 5 episodes
1913
Squaw Man
• Directed by Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille
• Produced by Cecil B. DeMill and Jesse L. Lasky
• Writers: Edwin Milton Royle (play) and Cecil B. DeMille(picturizer)
• Stars:Dustin Farnum• First feature-length movie filmed in
Hollywood• Remade 3 times• English intertitles• 74 mins 1914
The Birth of a Nation
• Directed by D.W. Griffith• Writers: Thomas F. Dixon
Jr. (novel) and Thomas F. Dixon Jr.(play)
• Stars: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh and Henry B. Walthall
• English intertitles• 190 mins 1915
Intolerance
• Directed by D.W. Griffith• Love's Struggle Throughout the
Ages• Four parallel storylines
– Crime and redemption– Christ’s mission and death– St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre– The Fall of the Babylonian Empire to
Persia• English intertitles• 210 mins 1916
The Poor Little Rich Girl
• Directed by Maurice Tourneur• Writers: Eleanor Gates (play)
and Frances Marion (scenario)• Stars: Mary
Pickford, Madlaine Traverse and Charles Wellesley
• English intertitles• 65 mins
1917
Tarzan of the Apes
• Directed by Scott Sidney• Writers: Edgar Rice
Burroughs (novel)Fred Miller• Stars: Elmo Lincoln, Enid
Markey and True Boardman • First Tarzan movie ever made• English intertitles• 73 mins
1918
Feline Follies-Felix the Cat
• Directed by Otto Messmer• First appearance of Felix
the Cat• He is referred to as "Master
Tom"• English intertitles• 6 mins
1919
The Mark of Zorro
• Directed by Fred Niblo• Writer: Johnston
McCulley (based on the story by: "The Curse of Capistrano" published in "All-Story Weekly")
• Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte andRobert McKim
• English intertitles• 90 mins 1920
Three Musketeers
• Directed by Fred Niblo• Writers: Alexandre Dumas
père (by: "The Three Musketeers") and Edward Knoblock (adapted by)
• Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Mary MacLaren and Nigel De Brulier
• English intertitles• 119 mins 1921
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
• Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror
• Directed by F.W. Murnau• Writer: Henrik Galeen (screen
play)• Stars:Max Schreck, Greta
Schröder and Ruth Landshoff• Geman intertitles• 94 mins 1922
The Ten Commandments
• Directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille
• Written by Jeanie MacPherson• Stars: Theodore
Roberts, Charles de Rochefort and Estelle Taylor
• English intertitles• 136 mins
1923
The Thief of Baghdad
• Directed by Raoul Walsh• Writers: Lotta Woods (scenario
editor) and Douglas Fairbanks (story)
• Stars:Douglas Fairbanks, Julanne Johnston and Snitz Edwards
• Adapted from A Thousand and One Nights
• 140 mins1924
Bronenosets Potyomkin
• Battleship Potemkin• Directed by Sergei Eisenstein• Writer: Nina Agadzhanova (script)• Stars:Aleksandr
Antonov, Vladimir Barsky and Grigori Aleksandrov
• Russian Intertitles• Named greatest film of all time in
1958• 75 mins 1925
The Adventures Of Prince Achmed
• Meeting Aladdin• Directed by Lotte Reiniger• One of the earliest feature-
length animated films• Silhouette animation• 65 mins
1926
Metropolis
• Directed by Fritz Lang• Writers: Thea von
Harbou (screenplay and novel)
• Stars:Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel and Gustav Fröhlich
• 145 mins (restored)
1927
Habeas corpus
• Directed by Leo McCarey and James Parrott
• Writers: Leo McCarey, H.M. Walker
• Stars:Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy and Richard Carle
• Produced by Hal Roach• 20 mins
1928
The Broadway Melody
• Directed by Harry Beaumont• Produced by Irving Thalberg and
Lawrence Weingarten• Writers: Edmund Goulding and Sarah
Y. Mason• Stars: Bessie Love, Anita
Page and Charles King • The first sound film to win an
Academy Award for Best Picture• Uses a technicolor sequence• 110 mins 1929
All Quiet on the Western Front• Director: Lewis Milestone• Writers: Erich Maria
Remarque (by) and Maxwell Anderson(adaptation),
• Stars: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim and John Wray
• Produced by Irving Thalberg and Lawrence Weingarten
• The first sound film to win and Academy Award for Best Picture
• Uses a technicolor sequence• 110 mins 1930
City Lights
• Written, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin
• Stars: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill and Florence Lee
• Silent film though sound film was already popular
• 87 mins1931
Scarface
• Directors: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson
• Writers: Armitage Trail (novel) and Ben Hecht (screen story)
• Stars: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak and Karen Morley
• Produced by Howard Hughes• 93 mins
1932
King Kong
• Directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
• Writers: James Ashmore Creelman (screenplay) and Ruth Rose(screenplay)
• Stars: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong and Bruce Cabot
• 100-104 mins 1933
It Happened One Night• Directed by Frank Capra• Writers: Robert Riskin (screenplay)
and Samuel Hopkins Adams (short story)• Stars: Clark Gable, Claudette
Colbert and Walter Connolly• Won five major Academy Awards
– Best Picture– Director– Actor– Actress– Screenplay
• 105 mins 1934
Bride of Frankenstein
• Director: James Whale• Writers: Mary
Shelley (suggested by the original story written by) and William Hurlbut (adapted by)
• Stars: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester and Colin Clive
• 75 mins 1935
Modern Times
• Directed, written and produced by Charlie Chaplin
• Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard and Henry Bergman
• 87 mins1936
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Directed by David Hand, William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson ,Larry Morey ,Perce Pearce, Ben Sharpsteen
• Writers: Ted Sears (story) and Richard Creedon (story)
• Stars: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell and Lucille La Verne
• 83 mins 1937
The Adventures of Robin Hood• Directors: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley• Writers: Norman Reilly Raine (original screen
play: based upon ancient Robin Hood legends), Seton I. Miller (original screen play: based upon ancient Robin Hood legends), and Rowland Leigh (contributor to treatment) uncredited
• Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland and Basil Rathbone
• Filmed in technicolor• Won 3 Academy Awards
– Best Art Direction– Film Editing– Original Score
• 102 mins 1938
The Wizard of Oz
• Directed by Victor Fleming• Writers: Noel
Langley (screenplay) and Florence Ryerson(screenplay)
• Stars: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan and Ray Bolger
• Produced by Mervyn LeRoy• 101 mins 1939
Fantasia• 8 animated segments
– Live action– Directed by Samuel Armstrong
• Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and Nutcracker Suite
– Directed by James Algar• The Sorcerer's Apprentice
– Directed by Bill Roberts and Paul Satterfield• The Rite of Spring
– Directed by Ben Sharpsteen and David D. Hand• Intermission/Meet the Soundtrack
– Directed by Hamilton Luske, Jim Handley and Ford Beebe• The Pastoral Symphony
– Directed by T. Hee and Norm Ferguson• Dance of the Hours
– Directed by Wilfred Jackson• Night on Bald Mountain and Ave Maria
• 125 mins
1940
Citizen Kane
• Director: Orson Welles• Writers: Herman J.
Mankiewicz (original screenplay) and Orson Welles (original screenplay)
• Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten and Dorothy Comingore
• Tops the list twice (1997, 2007) of AFI’s Greatest Movies of All Time
• 119 mins1941
Casablanca
• Director: Michael Curtiz• Writers: Julius J.
Epstein (screenplay) and Philip G. Epstein(screenplay)
• Stars:Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid
• 102 mins 1942
Shadow of a Doubt
• Directed by Alfred Hitchcock• Writers: Thornton
Wilder (screenplay) and Sally Benson(screenplay),
• Stars: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten and Macdonald Carey
• Produced by Jack H. Skirball• 108 mins
1943
Laura
• Director: Otto Preminger, • Writers: Vera
Caspary (novel) and Jay Dratler (screenplay)
• Stars: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb
• 119 mins
1944
The Lost Weekend• Director: Billy Wilder• Writers: Charles R. Jackson (from the novel by)
and Charles Brackett(screenplay)• Stars: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman and Phillip Terry• Produced by Charles Brackett• Won 4 Academy Awards
– Best Picture– Director– Actor– Screenplay
• Won the 1945 Grand Prix du Festival International du Film at the first Cannes Film Festival– Best director of the best feature film
• 101 min 1945
It's a Wonderful Life
• Director: Frank Capra• Writers: Frances
Goodrich (screenplay) and Albert Hackett(screenplay)
• Stars:James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore
• 130 mins1946
Miracle on 34th Street
• Director: George Seaton• Writers: George
Seaton (written for the screen by) and Valentine Davies (story)
• Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara and John Payne
• 96 mins 1947
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• Director: John Huston• Writers: John Huston (screen
play)and B. Traven (based on the novel by)
• Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston and Tim Holt
• Produced by Henry Blake• 126 mins 1948
The Third Man
• Director: Carol Reed• Writers: Graham Greene • Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph
Cotten and Alida Valli• Film noir - a cinematic
term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas
• 104 mins 1949
Sunset Boulevard• Director: Billy Wilder• Writers: Charles Brackett and Billy
Wilder• Stars: William Holden, Gloria
Swanson and Erich von Stroheim• Produced by Charles Brackett• Film noir• Won 3 Academy Awards
– Best writing, story and screenplay– Art Direction-Set Decoration– Music
• 110 mins 1950
The Day The Earth Stood Still
• Director: Robert Wise• Writers: Edmund H.
North (screenplay) and Harry Bates (story)
• Stars: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal and Hugh Marlowe
• 92 mins
1951
Singing in the Rain
• Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
• Writers: Adolph Green (story) and Betty Comden (story)
• Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds
• 103 mins 1952
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• Director: Howard Hawks• Writers: Charles
Lederer (screenplay) and Joseph Fields (based on the musical comedy by)
• Stars: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe and Charles Coburn
• 91 mins1953
On the Waterfront• Director: Elia Kazan• Writers: Budd Schulberg (screenplay and based
upon an original story by)• Stars: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden and Lee J.
Cobb• Received 8 Academy Awards
– Best Motion Picture– Director– Actor– Story and Screenplay– Supporting Actress– Art Direction-Set Decoration Black-and-White– Cinematography– Film Editing
• 108 mins 1954
Rebel Without A Cause
• Director: Nicholas Ray• Writers: Stewart
Stern (screenplay)and Irving Shulman(adaptation)
• Stars: James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo
• 111 mins
1955
The Searchers
• Director: John Ford• Writers: Frank S.
Nugent (screenplay) and Alan Le May (from the novel by)
• Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter and Vera Miles
• Named Greatest American Western of All Time in 2008
• Ranked 7th Best Film of All Time in Sight & Sound’s 2012 survey
• 119 mins 1956
12 Angry Men
• Director: Sidney Lumet• Writer: Reginald
Rose (story)• Stars: Henry Fonda, Lee J.
Cobb and Martin Balsam• 96 mins
1957
Vertigo
• Director: Alfred Hitchcock• Writers: Alec
Coppel (screenplay) and Samuel A. Taylor(screenplay)
• Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes
• 128 mins1958
Ben Hur
• Director: William Wyler• Writers: Lew Wallace (novel)
and Karl Tunberg (screenplay),
• Stars: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins and Stephen Boyd
• Won 11 Academy Awards and 3 Golden Globe Awards
• 212 mins 1959
Psycho
• Director: Alfred Hitchcock• Writers: Joseph
Stefano (screenplay), Robert Bloch (novel)
• Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh and Vera Miles
• Tops the list of AFI’s Greatest Thriller Films
• 109 mins 1960
The Hustler
• Director: Robert Rossen• Writers: Sidney
Carroll (screenplay) and Robert Rossen(screenplay)
• Stars: Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason and Piper Laurie
• 134 mins 1961
Lawrence of Arabia
• Director: David Lean• Writers: T.E.
Lawrence (writings) and Robert Bolt (screenplay) Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness and Anthony Quinn
• 216 mins 1962
8 1/2
• Director: Federico Fellini• Writers: Federico
Fellini (story)and Ennio Flaiano (story) Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée and Claudia Cardinale
• 138 mins 1963
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Director: Stanley Kubrick• Writers: Stanley
Kubrick (screenplay) and Terry Southern(screenplay)
• Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden
• Won 4 BAFTA Awards• 95 mins
1964
The Sound of Music• Director: Robert Wise• Writers: Howard Lindsay (book) and Russel
Crouse (book)• Stars: Julie Andrews, Christopher
Plummer and Eleanor Parker • Won 2 Golden Globes
– Best Motion Picture– Actress
• Won 5 Academy Awards– Best Picture– Director– Sound– Scoring of Music– Film Editing
• 174 mins 1965
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Director: Sergio Leone• Writers: Luciano
Vincenzoni (story) and Sergio Leone (story) Stars: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef
• 161 mins
1966
Cool Hand Luke
• Director: Stuart Rosenberg• Writers: Donn
Pearce (screenplay) and Frank Pierson (screenplay)
• Stars: Paul Newman, George Kennedy and Strother Martin
• 126 mins1967
2001: A Space Odyssey
• Director: Stanley Kubrick• Writers: Stanley
Kubrick (screenplay) and Arthur C. Clarke(screenplay)
• Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood and William Sylvester
• 141 mins 1968
Easy Rider
• Director: Dennis Hopper• Writers: Peter Fonda
and Dennis Hopper• Stars: Peter Fonda, Dennis
Hopper and Jack Nicholson• Produced by Peter Fonda• Received the First Film Award
in the 1969 Cannes Film Festival
• 95 mins 1969
Patton
• Director: Franklin J. Schaffner• Writers: Francis Ford
Coppola (screen story and screenplay) and Edmund H. North (screen story and screenplay)
• Stars: George C. Scott, Karl Malden and Stephen Young
• Won 7 Academy Awards• 172 mins 1970
Clockwork Orange
• Director: Stanley Kubrick• Writers: Stanley
Kubrick (screenplay) and Anthony Burgess(novel)
• Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee and Michael Bates
• 136 mins1971
The Godfather
• Director: Francis Ford Coppola
• Writers: Mario Puzo (screenplay) and Francis Ford Coppola(screenplay)
• Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and James Caan
• 175 mins 1972
The Exorcist
• Director: William Friedkin• Writers: William Peter
Blatty (written for the screen by, novel)
• Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow and Linda Blair
• First horror film to be nominated for Best Picture
• Won 2 Academy Awards • 122 mins 1973
Chinatown
• Director: Roman Polanski• Writer: Robert Towne• Stars: Jack
Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Huston
• 130 mins
1974
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Director: Milos Forman• Writers: Lawrence
Hauben (screenplay) and Bo Goldman(screenplay)
• Stars: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher and Michael Berryman
• Second film to win the big five major awards
• 133 mins1975
Network
• Director: Sidney Lumet• Writer: Paddy
Chayefsky (by)• Stars: Faye
Dunaway, William Holden and Peter Finch
• 121 mins
1976
Star Wars
• Director: George Lucas• Writer: George Lucas• Stars: Mark
Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher
• 121 mins
1977
Superman
• Director: Richard Donner• Writers: Jerry
Siegel (creator: Superman) and Joe Shuster (creator: Superman) Stars: Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder and Gene Hackman
• 143 mins 1978
Alien
• Director: Ridley Scott• Writers: Dan
O'Bannon (story) and Ronald Shusett (story) Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt and John Hurt
• 117 mins 1979
Raging Bull
• Director: Martin Scorsese• Writers: Jake
LaMotta (based on the book by) and Joseph Carter (with)
• Stars: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty and Joe Pesci
• 129 mins 1980
Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Director: Steven Spielberg• Writers: Lawrence
Kasdan (screenplay) and George Lucas(story)
• Stars: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen and Paul Freeman
• 115 mins1981
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
• Director: Nicholas Meyer• Writers: Gene
Roddenberry (television series Star Trek) and Harve Bennett (story) Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley
• 113 mins 1982
Scarface
• Director: Brian De Palma• Writer: Oliver
Stone (screenplay) Stars: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer and Steven Bauer
• 170 mins
1983
The Terminator
• Director: James Cameron
• Writers: James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd
• Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn
• 107 mins 1984
Brazil
• Director: Terry Gilliam• Writers: Terry
Gilliam (screenplay) and Tom Stoppard(screenplay)
• Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist and Robert De Niro
• 132 mins
1985
Platoon
• Director: Oliver Stone• Writer: Oliver Stone• Stars: Charlie
Sheen, Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe
• 120 mins
1986
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
• Director: John Hughes• Writer: John Hughes• Stars: Steve
Martin, John Candy and Laila Robins
• 93 mins
1987
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Director: Robert Zemeckis• Writers: Gary K.
Wolf (novel) and Jeffrey Price (screenplay)
• Stars: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd and Joanna Cassidy
• 104 mins
1988
Do the Right Thing
• Director: Spike Lee• Writer: Spike Lee• Stars: Danny
Aiello, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
• 120 mins
1989
Goodfellas
• Director: Martin Scorsese• Writers: Nicholas
Pileggi (book and screenplay) Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci
• 146 mins
1990
Silence of the Lambs
• Director: Jonathan Demme• Writers: Thomas Harris (novel)
and Ted Tally (screenplay)• Stars: Jodie Foster, Anthony
Hopkins and Lawrence A. Bonney• Latest film to win the big five
major academy awards• Latest horror film to win Best
Picture• 118 mins
1991
The Player
• Director: Robert Altman• Writers: Michael
Tolkin (screenplay and novel)
• Stars: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi and Fred Ward
• 124 mins
1992
Schindler's List
• Director: Steven Spielberg• Writers: Thomas
Keneally (book) and Steven Zaillian(screenplay)
• Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes and Ben Kingsley
• 195 mins1993
Pulp Fiction
• Director: Quentin Tarantino• Writers: Quentin
Tarantino (story) and Roger Avary (story) Stars: John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson
• Won the Palme d ‘Or (Best Film) in Cannes Film Festival
• Won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
• 154 mins 1994
Toy Story
• Director: John Lasseter• Writers: John
Lasseter (original story) and Pete Docter (original story) Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Don Rickles
• First computer- animated film produced by Pixar
• 81 mins 1995
Fargo
• Director: Joel Coen• Writers: Ethan Coen
and Joel Coen• Stars: William H.
Macy, Frances McDormand and Steve Buscemi
• 98 mins1996
L.A. Confidential
• Director: Curtis Hanson• Writers: James
Ellroy (novel) and Brian Helgeland (screenplay) Stars: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce
• 138 mins1997
The Truman Show
• Director: Peter Weir• Writer: Andrew Niccol• Stars: Jim Carrey, Ed
Harris and Laura Linney• 103 mins
1998
The Matrix
• Directors: Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski
• Writers: Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski
• Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne and Carrie-Anne Moss
• 136 mins 1999
Memento
• Director: Christopher Nolan• Writers: Christopher
Nolan (screenplay) and Jonathan Nolan(short story "Memento Mori")
• Stars: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss and Joe Pantoliano
• 113 mins2000
Mulholland Drive
• Director: David Lynch• Writer: David Lynch• Stars: Naomi Watts, Laura
Harring and Justin Theroux• 147 mins
2001
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Director: Peter Jackson• Writers: J.R.R.
Tolkien (novel) and Fran Walsh (screenplay)
• Stars: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen and Orlando Bloom
• 178 mins2002
Lost in Translation
• Director: Sofia Coppola• Writer: Sofia Coppola• Stars: Bill Murray, Scarlett
Johansson and Giovanni Ribisi
• 101 mins
2003
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Director: Michel Gondry• Writers: Charlie
Kaufman (story), Michel Gondry (story)
• Stars: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet and Tom Wilkinson
• Best Original Screenplay• 108 mins 2004
Brokeback Mountain
• Director: Ang Lee• Writers: Annie
Proulx (short story) and Larry McMurtry(screenplay)
• Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams
• 134 mins 2005
Little Miss Sunshine
• Directors: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
• Writer: Michael Arndt• Stars: Steve Carell, Toni
Collette and Greg Kinnear• 101 mins
2006
There Will be Blood
• Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
• Writers: Paul Thomas Anderson (screenplay) and Upton Sinclair (novel)
• Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano and Ciarán Hinds
• 158 mins 2007
The Dark Knight• Director: Christopher Nolan• Writers: Jonathan
Nolan (screenplay) and Christopher Nolan (screenplay)
• Stars: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger and Aaron Eckhart
• Won Best Supporting Actor for Heath Ledger as “Joker”
• This was the last film Heath Ledger completed before his death
• 152 mins 2008
District 9
• Director: Neill Blomkamp
• Writers: Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
• Stars: Sharlto Copley, David James and Jason Cope
• 112 mins2009
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