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Spielberg's devastating Holocaust drama won seven Academy Awards and is considered one of the greatest films ever made, holding 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Coppola's crime epic won Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It holds 97% on Rotten Tomatoes and is considered the greatest American film.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz's theatre satire received 14 Oscar nominations — a record tied only by Titanic and La La Land — and holds 99% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Michael Curtiz's wartime romance with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman remains the quintessential Hollywood classic and won three Oscars.

Milos Forman's story of Salieri's jealousy of Mozart won eight Academy Awards and reimagined the biopic as grand theatrical spectacle.

Bong Joon-ho's South Korean thriller became the first non-English film to win Best Picture and swept four Oscars in a historic night.

The Coen Brothers' Texas crime thriller featuring Javier Bardem's Anton Chigurh won four Oscars including Best Picture and holds 93% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Jonathan Demme's psychological thriller swept the "Big Five" Oscars — one of only three films ever to do so — and remains the rare genre film to win Best Picture.

David Lean's sweeping epic about T.E. Lawrence won seven Oscars and is celebrated for Peter O'Toole's performance and its astonishing desert cinematography.

Christopher Nolan's portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Cillian Murphy.
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Spielberg's devastating Holocaust drama won seven Academy Awards and is considered one of the greatest films ever made, holding 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Coppola's crime epic won Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It holds 97% on Rotten Tomatoes and is considered the greatest American film.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz's theatre satire received 14 Oscar nominations — a record tied only by Titanic and La La Land — and holds 99% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Michael Curtiz's wartime romance with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman remains the quintessential Hollywood classic and won three Oscars.

Milos Forman's story of Salieri's jealousy of Mozart won eight Academy Awards and reimagined the biopic as grand theatrical spectacle.

Bong Joon-ho's South Korean thriller became the first non-English film to win Best Picture and swept four Oscars in a historic night.

The Coen Brothers' Texas crime thriller featuring Javier Bardem's Anton Chigurh won four Oscars including Best Picture and holds 93% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Jonathan Demme's psychological thriller swept the "Big Five" Oscars — one of only three films ever to do so — and remains the rare genre film to win Best Picture.

David Lean's sweeping epic about T.E. Lawrence won seven Oscars and is celebrated for Peter O'Toole's performance and its astonishing desert cinematography.

Christopher Nolan's portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Cillian Murphy.
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