30 Years of Academy Award Winners 1972-2002

30 Years of Academy Award Winners 1972-2002

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• Revisit Hollywood's biggest nights of the past 30 years with this 3-disc box set celebrating Oscar winners from 1972-2002. Find out who won nods for Best Picture, Actor, Actress, and Director as well as behind-the-scenes exclusives such as red carpet arrivals and backstage press conferences. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MISCELLANEOUS Rating: NR Age: 025493505092 UPC: 

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Movie Review: Pop your popcorn and settle back for this one
Summary: 5 Stars

This set is a great trip down memory lane. At about six hours for the entire 3 disc set, each year has only 12 or so minutes devoted to the catagories of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Actress in Leading Roles, and Best Actor and Actress in Supporting Roles, listing all of contenders and then the winners. Occasionally, they would even mention who won that year for the best screenplay, or original or adapted.

I started watching the awards for 1972 movies, and didn't stop until 6 hours later at around 3:30 a.m. One interesting facet of this collection is that I could reflect on who I likely saw these movies with, given what realtionships I was in at the time.

In watching this collection, I was able to remember some of the great movies that I've seen, and to be exposed to new movies to watch.

But I want more! First, I thought that I'd like for them to go back to include the 50's and 60's. Then I realized that I'd want to see all of those great movies just before World War II. Then I realized that they might as well go back to the first Academy Awards in the late 20's.

This collection is great fun. Every movie lover should have it in his or her library. I recommend it highly.

Summary of 30 Years of Academy Award Winners 1972-2002

30 Years of Academy Award Winners

Disc 1 Academy Award Winners 1972-1976: From "The Godfather" to "Rocky." From "The Sting" to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." From Liza Minnelli to Faye Dunaway. From Jack Lemmon to Jack Nicholson. They're all here in this fabulous look back at the Oscar nominees and winners from these remarkable years, which include such films as "Deliverance", "Sleuth", "The Exorcist", "Paper Moon", "Chinatown", "Lenny", "Dog Day Afternoon", and "Jaws", and stars such as Laurence Olivier, Ingrid Bergman, Al Pacino, Jodie Foster, Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, and Dustin Hoffman.

Academy Award Winners 1977-1981: From "Annie Hall" to "Chariots of Fire." From "The Deer Hunter" to "Ordinary People". From Richard Dreyfuss to Henry Fonda. From Diane Keaton to Katharine Hepburn. It's a cavalcade of classic films and a galaxy of stars, including "Star Wars," "Coming Home," "Kramer vs. Kramer," "Apocalypse Now." George C. Scott, Ali McGraw, Jon Voight, Jane Fonda, and Meryl Streep.

Disc 2 Academy Award Winners 1982-1986: From "Gandhi" to "Platoon." From "Terms of Endearment" to "Out of Africa." From Peter O'Toole to Paul Newman. From Meryl Streep to Marlee Matlin. From Robert Duvall to William Hurt. From Shirley MacLaine to Kathleen Turner. It's another fabulous collection of clips and interviews from films such as "E.T.", "Missing," "Tootsie," "The Big Chill," and "Prizzi's Honor," and stars such as Michael Caine, Jessica Lange, Albert Finney, Glenn Close, Harrison Ford, and Sally Field.

Academy Award Winners 1987-1991: From "The Last Emperor" to "The Silence of the Lambs." From "Rain Man" to "Dances with Wolves." From Michael Douglas to Anthony Hopkins. From Holly Hunter to Julia Roberts. From Gene Hackman to Tom Hanks. From Sigourney Weaver to Michelle Pfeiffer. This hour takes a look at such terrific films as "Fatal Attraction," "Dangerous Liaisons," "Field of Dreams," and "Goodfellas," and such glittering stars as Cher, Robin Williams, Melanie Griffith, Denzel Washington, and Annette Benning.

Disc 3

Academy Award Winners 1992-1996: From "Unforgiven" to "The English Patient." From "Schindler's List" to "Braveheart." From Al Pacino to Tom Cruise. From Emma Thompson to Frances McDormand. From Nicolas Cage to Kevin Spacey. From Winona Ryder to Mira Sorvino. In this hour, we'll take an in-depth look at another terrific selection of Oscar winners and nominees, including "A Few Good Men," The Crying Game," "Pulp Fiction," Sean Penn, Lauren Bacall, Brad Pitt and Uma Thurman.

Academy Award Winners 1997-2001: From "Titanic" to "A Beautiful Mind." From Shakespeare in Love" to "Gladiator." From Jack Nicholson to Denzel Washington. From Gwyneth Paltrow to Halle Berry. From Tom Hanks to Russell Crowe. From Helen Hunt to Julia Roberts. Here's a glittering look a the fabulous films and superstars who were nominated and won the coveted Oscar, including "Good Will Hunting," "Saving Private Ryan," "The Sixth Sense," "Erin Brockovich," Robin Williams, Kim Basinger, James Coburn, Angelina Jolie, Michael Caine, and Nicole Kidman.

Academy Award Winners 2002: "Chicago" was the film to beat in 2002. Nominated for thirteen Oscars, it walked away with six, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress for Nicole Kidman. We'll also take a look at "The Hours", "Gangs of New York," "About Schmidt," "The Pianist," and stars such as Catherine Zeta-Jones, Adrien Brody, Renee Zellwegger, and Paul Newman.