Often considered a forgotten decade in the world of cinema, the 1990’s produced more classic films than people give it credit for. When you have a decade where movies like Dances With Wolves, Unforgiven, Braveheart, and Forrest Gump DON’T make our Top 5 list, you know the five that did make it must be really incredible!
1) Schindler’s List
Recipient of seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score
American Film Institute ranked the film 8th on its list of the 100 best American films of all-time
The Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2004
Based on the life of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories
Often listed among the greatest films ever made, it was also a box office success, earning $321.2 million worldwide on a $22 million budget
Considered "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant by the U.S. Library of Congress and was selected to be preserved in the National Film Registry in 2011
One of only three films to sweep all five of the major Oscars (the other two films being It Happened One Night and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee, seeks the advice of the imprisoned cannibal psychiatrist Dr. Lecter to apprehend another serial killer, known only as "Buffalo Bill"
#5 Best Thriller all-time according to the American Film Institute
Narrates the rise and fall of Lucchese crime family associate Henry Hill (the first-person narrator in the film) and his mafia friends over a period from 1955 to 1980
Ranked #84 on the American Film Institute’s Top 100 Films of All-Time list
Also won the BAFTA Award and the Award for Best Director for Joel Coen at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival
Earned seven Oscar nominations, winning two for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actress
Stars Frances McDormand as a pregnant Minnesota police chief who investigates a series of local homicides, and William H. Macy as a struggling car salesman who hires two criminals to kidnap his wife
Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert both named Fargo the best film of 1996. It was also Ebert's fourth favorite of the 1990s
Also awarded the Palme d'Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival
Nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture, and it won for Best Original Screenplay
Selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress
Directed in a highly stylized manner, Pulp Fiction connects the intersecting storylines of Los Angeles mobsters, fringe players, small-time criminals, and a mysterious briefcase
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