10 Oscar-winning films to see and see again
Every beginning of the year, since 1929, rhymes with the Oscars Ceremony. This year, it took place on March 4, 2018. To continue the magic, let's return to 10 Oscar-winning films to see and see again!
The land
Named in all categories in 2017, "La la land" won 6 statuettes, including the Oscar for best director for Damien Chazelle, and the best actress for the sparkling Emma Stone.
The story ? In the heart of Los Angeles live Mia, who dreams of becoming an actress but who works as a waitress in a cafe , and Sebastian, passionate jazzman forced to play in shabby clubs to make a living. The meeting of these two characters artists and dreamers offers us a musical film, romantic and haunting . We love !
Annie Hall
Released in 1977, the comedy "Annie Hall" wins, the following year, the Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director (Woody Allen), Best Screenplay (Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman) and Best Actress (Diane Keaton ).
The approaching quarantine, Alvy Singer, an incurable neurotic, falls madly in love with a smart and cheeky young woman, Annie Hall . Together, they live a happy relationship, until their respective professional lives trigger tensions within their relationship.
Until then considered an excellent comic, Woody Allen, thanks to this film, has been revealed as much more. Indeed, he proved that we could talk about serious subjects while continuing to make people laugh.
Casablanca
Directed by Michael Curtiz and released in 1942, "Casablanca" received the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director in 1944.
In World War II, Rick Blaine, an embittered and cynical American, lives an expatriate in the city of Casablanca , Morocco, then controlled by the Vichy government. He has an up-and-coming nightclub, Rick's Café, which has a diverse clientele, but also serves as a haven for anyone wishing to obtain papers to leave the country. One day, Rick Blaine meets a political dissident and his wife, who is none other than the great love of his life ... He will have to make a choice between love and reason.
This film was a huge success right out, which continues today. Indeed, it is considered the third largest American film , behind Citizen Kane and The Godfather.
West Side Story
A musical film released in 1961 and directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, "West Side Story" is an adaptation of the musical of the same name, which had then made triumph on Broadway. The film won two Oscars in 1962, best film, and best director.
In the lower district of New York, in the 1950s, two street gangs clash: the Sharks and the Jets . Tony, the former head of the Jets, and Maria, the sister of the Sharks chief, fall madly in love ... Modern adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story upsets us in music.
Slumdog Millionaire
This British film, directed by Danny Boyle and released in 2008, won eight statuettes at the 81st Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Sound, Song and Music .
On the verge of winning 20 million rupees in the Indian version of Who Wants to Earn Millions, Jamal Malik, 18, an orphan living in a Mumbai slum, is suspected of cheating by the police . To answer these accusations, the young man tells where he comes from all his knowledge, through his life experiences, in the street, his family stories, and his love story.
For his soundtrack, his stunning images and his breathtaking scenario, we watch this film again, and again, and always.
Gone with the wind
We make a leap into the past with this cult film which received in 1940 the Oscar for best film, the Oscar for best director (Victor Fleming), and the Oscar for best actress (Vivien Leigh).
In 1861, in Georgia, Scarlett O'Hara, the daughter of wealthy 16-year-old planters, slapped her childhood friend, Ashley Wilkes, whom she was in love with, while learning her engagement with her cousin Melanie . Shortly after the Civil War broke out, and Ashley, just married, went to defend the South. Scarlett, out of spite, marries the brother of Melanie, a dull and tasteless man who dies gloriously on the forehead, leaving Scarlett young widow.
Today considered as the biggest success in the history of cinema , Gone With the Wind is the epic film that must have been seen at least once in his life.
Dead Poets Society
At the 62nd edition of the Oscars, the circle of missing poets wins the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, thanks to Tom Schulman.
Sent in the footsteps of his brother at the prestigious Welton Academy, considered austere and rigid, Todd Anderson, a shy and reserved boy, will meet a professor of English a little different from the others, Mr Keating . Indeed, it encourages his students to refute the established order. His classes will change the lives of Todd and his classmates.
To write the film, Tom Schulman was inspired by his own teaching experience, and he made it a masterpiece, a utopian film, that makes us think.
Birdman
In 2015, the American film wins 4 Oscars: that of the best film, the best director (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu), that of the best original screenplay, and that of the best photography.
Since his success as a superhero in the trilogy of "Birdman" films, Riggan Thomson is a forgotten actor. But sometimes he thinks he's his character again , persuaded to be able to fly or move objects by thought. Today, he tries to regain his lost glory by putting on a play on Broadway. But, a few days before the first, he will have to face his family, his past, his dreams and his ego if he wants to see the curtain open.
A fantastic black comedy, Birdman shows us behind the scenes of Broadway, to get away from Hollywood for two hours.
The speech of a king
Based on the true story of the unknown father of the present Queen Elizabeth, "The speech of a King" was awarded 4 statuettes in 2011: Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director (Tom Hopper), Best Actor (Colin Firth), and Best Original Screenplay (David Seidler).
George VI, who became King by force following the abdication of his brother Edward VIII, is unable to speak in public . Fragile and stammerer, George VI will try to overcome his handicap and face his fears, surrounded by his wife and a language therapist, to assume his royal title and make his empire a bulwark against Germany Nazi.
"The speech of a king" is a film of a stunning intelligence and showing a quality and finesse of writing rare to see and review without tiring.
Titanic
Awarded by 11 Oscars at the 70th edition in 1998, including the Oscars for best film and best director, Titanic was taken over in 3D in 2012.
Do you really need to remember the story of this giant liner , which, crossing the Atlantic, hits an iceberg and sinks?
For the dramatic and sublime love story of Rose and Jack, for Leo's smile, for crying in the end ... We could not finish better!