80 British and American Actors Who Have Played Nazis, or Nazi-Era Germans

                                                                   Top: Cruise, Chaplin, Duvall
                                                              Bottom: Gibson, Brando, Guinness

Note: Most of these characters are Nazis but there are also German Jews and German anti-Nazis included here.

I say 'British and American Actors' though in fact there are one or two Canadians and Irish as well.

1.         Alec Guinness - Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) (as Hitler)

2.         Anthony Hopkins - The Bunker (1981) (as Hitler)

3.         Anthony Quayle - Ice Cold in Alex (1958) Operation Crossbow (1965) The Eagle Has Landed (1977)

4.         Bill Nighy - Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985) Valkyrie (2008)

5.         Burt Lancaster - Judgment at Nuremburg (1961)

6.         Charles Durning - To Be or Not to Be (1983)

7.         Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator (1940)

8.         Charlotte Rampling - The Damned (1969) The Night Porter (1974)

9.         Christopher Lee - Crimson Rivers 2: Angels of the Apocalypse (2004)

10.       Christopher Lloyd - To Be or Not to Be (1983)

11.       Christopher Plummer - The Night of the Generals (1967) (as Rommel)

12.       Clive Brook - Freedom Radio (1941)

13.       Clive Owen - Bent (1997)

14.       Colin Firth - Conspiracy (2001)

15.       David Morrissey - Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)

16.       David Thewlis - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

17.       David Warner - Cross of Iron (1977) Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985) (as Heydrich)

18.       Dirk Bogarde - The Damned (1969) The Night Porter (1974)

19.       Donald Pleasance - The Night of the Generals (1967) The Eagle Has Landed (1977)

20.       Donald Sutherland - Eye of the Needle (1981)

21.       Ed Harris - Enemy at the Gates (2001)

22.       Eddie Izzard - Valkyrie (2008)

23.       Eric Portman - 49th Parallel (1941)

24.       Faye Dunaway - Voyage of the Damned (1976)

25.       Gabriel Byrne - The Keep (1983)

26.       Gregory Peck - The Boys from Brazil (1978) (as Mengele)

27.       Harvey Keitel - The Grey Zone (2001)

28.       Henry Gibson - The Blues Brothers (1980) (as an American Nazi)

29.       Hugo Weaving - Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

30.       Ian McKellen - Bent (1997) Apt Pupil (1998)

31.       James Coburn - Cross of Iron (1977)

32.       James Donald - Went the Day Well? (1942)

33.       James Mason - The Desert Fox (1951) The Desert Rats (1953) (as Rommel in both films) Cross of Iron (1977) The Boys from Brazil (1978)

34.       Jason Isaacs  - Good (2008)

35.       Jessica Tandy - The Desert Fox (1951)

36.       John Carradine - Hitler’s Madmen (1943) (as Heydrich)

37.       John Cusack - Max (2002)

38.       Judy Garland - Judgment at Nuremburg (1961)

39.       Kate Winslet - The Reader (2008)

40.       Kenneth Branagh - Conspiracy (2001) Valkyrie (2008)

41.       Kenneth Mars - The Producers (1968)

42.       Kevin Bacon - X Men: First Class (2011)

43.       Laurence Olivier - Marathon Man (1976)

44.       Liam Neeson - Shining Through (1992)

45.       Liev Schreiber - Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)

46.       Linda Hamilton - Silent Night (2002)

47.       Malcolm McDowell - The Passage (1979)

48.       Mark Strong  - Good (2008)

49.       Marlon Brando - The Young Lions (1958)

50.       Matthew Modine - Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)

51.       Michael Caine - The Eagle Has Landed (1977)

52.       Michael Elphick - Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985) (as Ernst Rohm)

53.       Mick Jagger - Bent (1997)

54.       Nick Nolte - Mother Night (1996) (as an American Nazi)

55.       Noah Taylor - Max (2002) (as Hitler)

56.       Orson Welles - The Stranger (1946)

57.       Paul Scofield - The Train (1964)

58.       Peter Cushing - Shock Waves (1977)

59.       Peter Finch - The Battle of the River Plate (1956)

60.       Peter O’Toole - The Night of the Generals (1967)

61.       Peter Sellers - Dr Strangelove (1964) Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1974)

62.       Ralph Fiennes - Schindler’s List (1993)

63.       Richard Basehart - Hitler (1962) (as Hitler)

64.       Richard Jordan - The Bunker (1981) (as Albert Speer)

65.       Robert Carlyle - Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003) (as Hitler)

66.       Robert Duvall - The Eagle Has Landed (1977) The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996) (as Eichmann)

67.       Robert Shaw - Battle of the Bulge (1965)

68.       Robert Vaughn - The Bridge at Remagen (1969)

69.       Roger Moore - Escape to Athena (1979)

70.       Sig Ruman - To Be or Not To Be (1942)

71.       Stanley Tucci - Conspiracy (2001)

72.       Stockard Channing - Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)

73.       Terence Stamp - Valkyrie (2008)

74.       Tom Courtenay - The Night of the Generals (1967)

75.       Tom Cruise - Valkyrie (2008)

76.       Tom Wilkinson - Valkyrie (2008)

77.       Vera Farmiga - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

78.       Viggo Mortensen  - Good (2008)

79.       Will Ferrell - The Producers (2005)

80.       Willem Dafoe - Adam Resurrected (2008)

Honorable Mention  Those who have worn World War Two German uniforms as a disguise include :

Harrison Ford - Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Jack Benny - To Be or Not To Be (1942)

Michael Fassbender(speaking excellent German) - Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood - Where Eagles Dare (1967)

Note The one example I could find of the opposite situation - a German actor played an Allied officer - was Curt Jurgens in Bitter Victory (1957) (he plays a South African)

100 Underrated Movies

1. Afterlife (1998) This Japanese film is brilliant and totally unique, the kind of movie that changes lives.
2. And Then There Were None (1945) Superb film. It’s acclaimed but not very well-known and it deserves an audience as big as Casablanca’s.
3. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Many critics are quite sniffy about this movie, but it’s Frank Capra’s best film after his three masterpieces It Happened One Night, Mr.Smith Goes to Washington and It’s a Wonderful Life.
4. Bad Company (1972) A truly beautiful film and perhaps the best Western of the 1970’s (sorry Peckinpah, Eastwood et al)
5. Billion Dollar Brain (1967) One of only two really good Ken Russell films, the other being Altered States.
6. Bird (1988) A biopic of Charlie Parker, it’s one of Clint Eastwood’s best films, along with The Changeling and Gran Torino
7. Bus 174 (2002) Incredibly tense Brazilian documentary about a real-life bus hijacking.
8. Cape Fear (1962) It doesn’t usually feature on lists of the greatest movies of the 60’s. It should do. Infinitely better than the Scorsese remake mainly because Robert Mitchum’s performance as Max Cady is so much more subtle and engaging than De Niro’s.
9. Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) As good as Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Sicko i.e. very good indeed.
10. Carlito’s Way (1993) It got quite good reviews, but not good enough. It’s a flat-out masterpiece, with brilliant performances from Al Pacino and Sean Penn, and some of the most interesting camerawork and sound design ever put on film.
11. Catch-22 (1970) Disjointed, but has some incredible scenes.
12. Catfish (2010) Weird, original and totally engaging
13. Celebrity (1998) Unfairly dismissed Woody Allen picture. I prefer it to Midnight in Paris.
14. Chaplin (1992) David Thomson called this movie ‘dreadful’. Well, I think his review is ‘dreadful’ because the film in fact is excellent, brilliantly acted and very moving.  
15. City of Hope (1991) John Sayles’ best film.
16. Come and See (1985) Highly acclaimed by some critics, it should nevertheless be even more praised, because it’s such a shattering masterpiece. In the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan Spielberg tried to match Come and See in terms of depicting the horror of war. He came close, but didn’t quite reach the level of this film.
17. Die Hard 2 (1990) Better than the original and better than just about everything else Bruce Willis has ever done.
18. Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) Still Ang Lee’s best film.
19. Enemy of the State (1998) Incredibly fast-moving, hi-tech thriller that can be  watched over and over. Tony Scott can do some things right.
20. Falling Down (1993) Fascinating film with Michael Douglas’ greatest ever performance, but critics couldn’t get past the fact that it was directed by Joel Schumacher.
21. Four Lions (2010) One of the best British films of the last ten years. Chris Morris on top form.
22. Galaxy Quest (1999) This sharp sci-fi comedy/satire seemed to get lost in the shuffle. It’s well worth watching.
23. Get Smart (2008) Not a great movie, but a very good one, and a lot of fun
24. Go (1999) Doug Liman’s finest hour.
25. Grand Canyon (1999) The critics all said this film was false and contrived. They were wrong.
26. Grave of the Fireflies (1988) Forget all other Japanese animation (sorry Miyazagi) and just see this.
27. Gun Crazy (1949) It’s well-regarded but not well-regarded enough, because it’s one of the top 5 films of the 1940’s.
28. Hard Eight (1997) Paul Thomas Anderson’s first film is much better than the over-rated There Will Be Blood
29. Hot Shots Part Deux (1993) Funny as hell.
30. Intermission (2003) Excellent Irish film
31. It Happened Tomorrow (1944) Trippy, head-spinning Rene Clair fantasy. 
32. JFK (1991) Some object to the thesis of the film, but to my mind that’s irrelevant because as film-making it’s Oliver Stone’s best work and reaches heights very few other films even come near.
33. Johnny English Reborn (2011) It starts out flabby and unfunny but grows on you and then builds and builds until in the end you realise you’ve been laughing non-stop for an hour.
34. Kafka (1992) Why do critics sometimes get things completely the wrong way round? This was a better film than Sex, Lies & Videotape.
35. Keane (2004) Hard to watch at times but emotionally powerful, with a brilliant performance by Damian Lewis
36. King of the Hill (1993) Still probably Steven Soderbergh’s best movie after Traffic.
37. Kung Fu Hustle (2004) My favourite Hong Kong film ever (and yes I have seen plenty of Wong Kar-Wai).
38. L’Appartement (1996) Possibly the greatest French film ever made. Certainly the greatest 'Hitchcock film' not made by Hitchcock (Sorry, Brian De Palma)
39. Last Train Home (2009) A riveting Chinese documentary.
40. Leave Her to Heaven (1945) A wonderful film noir in colour.
41. Leolo (1992) The best French-Canadian film ever made, imaginative and clever from start to finish.
42. Les Visiteurs Du Soir (1942) Little-known Marcel Carne film is much better than the tedious Les Enfants Du Paradis
43. London (1994) Why oh why aren’t Patrick Keillor’s films easier to find? This is the only one I’ve seen and it’s one of the most brilliant film-essays ever made.
44. Ma Vie Sexuelle (1996) I loved this film.
45. Man with a Movie Camera (1927) One of the few silent films that are academic classics and also a lot of fun to watch.
46. Micmacs (2009) This masterpiece from Jean-Pierre Jeunet deserves to be as well-known as Amelie
47. Midnight (1939) Screwball comedy that should be as well-known as Bringing Up Baby and His Girl Friday.
48. Monrak Transistor (2001) The best Thai film ever made. Also one of the best Asian films ever made.
49. Mortal Thoughts (1991) The only good think that Alan Rudolph ever did is also virtually the only good thing Demi Moore ever did, which is weird.
50. My Myself Irene (2000) An incredibly imaginative, original comedy tour-de-force.
51. Nighthawks (1981) This New York-set thriller is probably Sylvester Stallone’s best film.
52. Nightmare Alley (1947) The most powerful drama of the 1940’s.
53. Nurse Betty (2000) Very intriguing, unusual film.
54. Office Space (1999) This film should have won many, many awards. Under-rated by ‘serious’ critics I guess because it came from Mike Judge, creator of Beavis and Butt-head.
55. Open Your Eyes (1997) The Spanish original of Vanilla Sky is a head-spinning extravaganza of invention and imagination.
56. Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) One of the strangest and most beautiful films of the 50’s.
57. Plein Soleil (1960) The first, French version of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley is streets ahead of the English-language film of the 90’s.
58. Point Break (1991) Action movie that twists your emotions into knots. Kathryn Bigelow’s finest hour (and yes I have seen The Hurt Locker).
59. Re-animator (1985) Grisly, inventive, sharp and hilarious.
60. Rescue Dawn (2006) Great film, with Christian Bale’s best-ever performance.
61. Rocco and His Brothers (1960) Luchino Visconti’s best film by far. Ignore The Leopard, watch this instead.
62. Saint Jack (1979) Peter Bogdanovich’s most distinctive film, set in Singapore, taken from Paul Theroux’s novel. 
63. Salt (2010) Much better than the awful Wanted. Also better than Mr and Mrs Smith
64. Shoot the Moon (1982) Pauline Kael loved this film; everyone else ignored it. She was right, they were wrong.
65. Shutter Island (2010) I heard some reviewers describe this movie as a disaster. What on earth were they talking about? It's certainly a lot better than Scorsese's Hugo, which for its first two-thirds is completely inert. 
66. Singles (1992) Cameron Crowe’s only really great film.
67. Slapshot (1977) One of the best sports films ever made because it’s one of the funniest. 
68. Solaris (2002) Better than the original. This version is slow but also beautiful and hypnotic. The original was just slow and tedious.
69. Suddenly (1954) Frank Sinatra as a political assassin; weird film way ahead of its time.
70. The Cable Guy (1996) A darkly brilliant movie
71. The Crime Of Monsieur Lange (1936) Great Jean Renoir picture, much better than La Grande Illusion
72. The Descent (2005) One of the few really great horror films of the last ten years, it’s way ahead of The Exorcist in terms of delivering genuine chills.
73. The Elephant Keeper (1987) Excellent Thai film that no-one’s ever heard of.
74. The Front (1976) One of Woody Allen’s best films only stars him, and was directed by Martin Ritt
75. The Game (1997) Perhaps David Fincher’s best movie. It’s incredible that so few people appreciated it.
76. The International (2009) Like The Bourne Identity (an excellent film) but more complex.
77. The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) Great action film.
78. The Lovely Bones (2009) Again, weird that the critics hated this film so much. It’s not great, but it’s not terrible either.
79. The Middleman (1976) From director Satyajit Ray, this is the greatest Indian film ever made, and much better than Pather Panchali.
80. The Next Three Days (2010) A great, very intense film; incredibly all the critics hated it, just because it came from Paul Haggis I guess
81. The Other Guys (2010) Excellent film, Will Ferrell at his best.
82. The Petrified Forest (1936) Humphrey Bogart, Leslie Howard and a great script.
83. The Prestige (2006) Christopher Nolan’s best film, certainly better than the striking but muddled Inception
84. The Pumpkin Eater (1964) One of the best British films of the 60’s
85. The Rock (1996) The only good thing Michael Bay has ever done.
86. The Spy in Black (1939) Early Michael Powell film. Great fun. 
87. The Transporter (2002)  Excellent, well-made, action movie. Better than many 'serious' movies.
88. The Vanishing (1988) This was badly remade in the US. The Dutch original is creepily brilliant.
89. The Wedding Singer (1998) Why do critics go on about Adam Sandler being redeemed only by Punch-Drunk Love when this, and Funny People, are much better films? 
90. The Whole Town's Talking (1936) Jean Arthur in a John Ford modern city-set drama: intriguing in all kinds of ways.
91. The Yes Men Fix the World (2009) Fascinating and audacious. Deserves to be better known. I haven’t seen the first Yes Men film but would certainly like to.
92. Thunderbolt And Lightfoot (1974) Brilliant teaming of Jeff Bridges and Clint Eastwood, with director Michael Cimino, in a caper-action movie that's also sad and moving and real.
93. Time of the Wolf (2003) Michael Haneke’s best film (and he’s made many great ones). Just astonishing.
94. W (2008) Oliver Stone's take on Bush Jr. Very Interesting film, not at all bad.
95. Went the Day Well? (1942) The best World War Two movie made during World War Two in any country. The Eagle Has Landed stole some of its plot.
96. Wetherby (1985) Shocking drama from a David Hare play.
97. What’s Up Doc? (1972) Better than The Last Picture Show.
98. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) This film is highly acclaimed but it deserves to be known as one of the greatest films of all time. It certainly has the best script of all time. I prefer it to Citizen Kane or Rules of the Game.
99. Wisconsin Death Trip (1999) Just Google pictures of this film or watch the trailer and you’ll know why I included it.
100. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) The strange thing is this film, and Cassandra’s Dream (though not Scoop), are quite good movies, and Midnight in Paris is just a little better than them, but judging from the reviews you’d think they were worlds apart in terms of quality.

Cannes Palme d'Or Winners-Full List, 20 Great Ones & 15 Bad Ones

Some of the best Cannes Palme d'Or winners

 

The major prize at the Cannes Film Festival- which we now know as the Palme d’Or- has, over the years, changed names as follows:

Grand Prix du Festival International du Film (1939–1954)

Palme d'Or (1955–1963)

Grand Prix du Festival International du Film (1964–1974)

Palme d'Or (1975–present)

My previous post talked of 20 Best and 20 Worst Oscar Winners, but with the Palme d’Or there is a far greater proportion (29 of the 84 films) which I haven’t seen, so in the equivalent lists here I’ve used the terms ‘great’ and ‘bad’ instead.

20 Great Winners, In Chronological Order

1.         The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)

2.         The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953)

3.         Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1967)

4.         MASH (Robert Altman, 1970)

5.         The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)

6.         Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)

7.         Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) (Joint Winner)

8.         The Tin Drum (Volker Schlondorff, 1979) (Joint Winner)

9.         Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)     

10.       The Mission (Roland Joffe, 1986)

11.       Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)

12.       Barton Fink (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1991)            

13.       Underground (Emir Kusturica, 1995)

14.       Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997)

15.       Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003)  

16.       Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore, 2004)          

17.       L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2005)

18.       The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach, 2006)

19.       The Class (Laurent Cantet, 2008)        

20.       The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009)  

15 Bad Winners, In Chronological Order

1.         Union Pacific (Cecil B. DeMille, 1939)

2.         Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1946)

3.         Miracle in Milan (Vittorio De Sica, 1951)

4.         Othello (Orson Welles, 1952)

5.         Friendly Persuasion (William Wyler, 1957)

6.         La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)

7.         The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963)

8.         The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)

9.         The Knack …and How to Get It Richard Lester, 1965)

10.       A Man and a Woman (Claude Lelouch, 1966)

11.       The Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura, 1983)

12.       Wild at Heart (David Lynch, 1990)

13.       The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993)

14.       The Eel (Shohei Imamura, 1997)

15.       Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier, 2000)

The Full List (Note that the Cannes Festival often awards this prize to two films in the same year and in 1946 awarded it to 11 films)

1939 Union Pacific (Cecil B. DeMille)

1946 Brief Encounter (David Lean)

1946 Iris and the Lieutenant (Alf Sjoberg)

1946 La symphonie pastorale (Jean Delannoy)

1946 Men Without Wings (Frantisek Cap)

1946 Neecha Nagar (Chetan Anand)

1946 Portrait of Maria (Emilio Fernandez)

1946 Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)

1946 The Last Chance (Leopold Lindtberg)

1946 The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder)

1946 The Red Meadows (Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jr.)

1946 The Turning Point (Fridrikh Ermler)

1947 Prize Not Awarded

1948 Festival Not Held

1949 The Third Man (Carol Reed)

1950 Festival Not Held

1951 Miss Julie (Alf Sjöberg)

1951 Miracle in Milan (Vittorio De Sica)

1952 The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (Orson Welles)

1952 Two Cents Worth of Hope (Renato Castellani)

1953 The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)

1954 Gate of Hell (Teinosuke Kinugasa)

1955 Marty (Delbert Mann)

1956 The Silent World (Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle)

1957 Friendly Persuasion (William Wyler)

1958 The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)

1959 Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus)

1960 La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)

1961 The Long Absence (Henri Colpi)

1961 Viridiana (Luis Bunuel)

1962 O Pagador de Promessas (Anselmo Duarte)

1963 The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)

1964 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)

1965 The Knack …and How to Get It (Richard Lester)

1966 A Man and a Woman (Claude Lelouch)

1966 The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Pietro Germi)

1967 Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)

1968 Festival Cancelled

1969 If.... (Lindsay Anderson)

1970 MASH (Robert Altman)

1971 The Go-Between (Joseph Losey)

1972 The Working Class Goes to Heaven (Elio Petri)

1972 The Mattei Affair (Francesco Rosi)

1973 The Hireling (Alan Bridges)

1973 Scarecrow (Jerry Schatzberg)

1974 The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)

1975 Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina)

1976 Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)

1977 Padre Padrone (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)

1978 The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi)

1979 Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)

1979 The Tin Drum (Volker Schlondorff)

1980 All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)

1980 Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)

1981 Man of Iron (Andrzej Wajda)

1982 Missing (Costa-Gavras)

1982 Yol (Yılmaz Güney and Serif Goren)

1983 The Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura)

1984 Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)

1985 When Father Was Away on Business (Emir Kusturica)

1986 The Mission (Roland Joffe)

1987 Under the Sun of Satan (Maurice Pialat)

1988 Pelle the Conqueror (Bille August)

1989 Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Steven Soderbergh)

1990 Wild at Heart (David Lynch)

1991 Barton Fink (Joel and Ethan Coen)

1992 The Best Intentions (Bille August)

1993 Farewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige)

1993 The Piano (Jane Campion)

1994 Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)

1995 Underground (Emir Kusturica)

1996 Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh)

1997 Taste of Cherry  (Abbas Kiarostami)

1997 The Eel (Shohei Imamura)

1998 Eternity and a Day (Theo Angelopoulos)

1999 Rosetta (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)

2000 Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)

2001 The Son's Room (Nanni Moretti)

2002 The Pianist (Roman Polanski)

2003 Elephant (Gus Van Sant)

2004 Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore)

2005 L'enfant (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)

2006 The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach)

2007 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)

2008 The Class (Laurent Cantet)

2009 The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)

2010 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

2011 The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)

Oscar for Best Film: Full List, 20 Best and 20 Worst

Some of the Best 'Oscar Best Picture' Winners

Year given is the year of release of the film. The actual ceremony of course takes place in the February or March of the following year.

Regarding the 20 Best and 20 Worst Lists, I can make a pretty good overall comparison: I’ve seen all the best picture winners apart from four of the very early ones:1928- Wings, 1929- The Broadway Melody, 1931- Cimarron, 1933- Cavalcade.

Still, it’s just my opinion: feel free to disagree! And while I do think most of the ’20 Worst’ are really bad films, a few of them (e.g. All the King's Men, Million Dollar Baby) I just think are over-rated.

The 20 Best

1934     It Happened One Night

1940     Rebecca      

1943     Casablanca      

1946     The Best Years of Our Lives

1953     From Here to Eternity

1957     The Bridge on the River Kwai      

1960     The Apartment

1962     Lawrence of Arabia

1970     Patton    

1971     The French Connection

1972     The Godfather      

1974     The Godfather Part II      

1975     One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest      

1977     Annie Hall

1978     The Deer Hunter      

1984     Amadeus      

1996     The English Patient      

1999     American Beauty      

2003     The Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King      

2007     No Country for Old Men      

The 20 Worst

1932     Grand Hotel

1937     The Life of Emile Zola

1939     Gone with the Wind      

1942     Mrs. Miniver

1944     Going My Way

1947     Gentleman's Agreement

1949     All the King's Men

1952     The Greatest Show on Earth

1956     Around the World in 80 Days      

1958     Gigi     

1959     Ben-Hur

1965     The Sound of Music      

1969     Midnight Cowboy

1980     Ordinary People      

1981     Chariots of Fire      

1983     Terms of Endearment

1985     Out of Africa      

1989     Driving Miss Daisy

1994     Forrest Gump      

2004     Million Dollar Baby      

The Full List

1928     Wings 

1929     The Broadway Melody

1930     All Quiet on the Western Front

1931     Cimarron

1932     Grand Hotel

1933     Cavalcade

1934     It Happened One Night

1935     Mutiny on the Bounty

1936     The Great Ziegfeld

1937     The Life of Emile Zola

1938     You Can't Take It With You

1939     Gone with the Wind       

1940     Rebecca       

1941     How Green Was My Valley

1942     Mrs. Miniver

1943     Casablanca       

1944     Going My Way

1945     The Lost Weekend

1946     The Best Years of Our Lives

1947     Gentleman's Agreement

1948     Hamlet

1949     All the King's Men

1950     All about Eve

1951     An American in Paris

1952     The Greatest Show on Earth

1953     From Here to Eternity

1954     On the Waterfront

1955     Marty

1956     Around the World in 80 Days       

1957     The Bridge on the River Kwai       

1958     Gigi       

1959     Ben-Hur

1960     The Apartment

1961     West Side Story

1962     Lawrence of Arabia

1963     Tom Jones

1964     My Fair Lady

1965     The Sound of Music       

1966     A Man for All Seasons

1967     In the Heat of the Night

1968     Oliver!

1969     Midnight Cowboy

1970     Patton       

1971     The French Connection

1972     The Godfather       

1973     The Sting

1974     The Godfather Part II       

1975     One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest       

1976     Rocky

1977     Annie Hall

1978     The Deer Hunter       

1979     Kramer vs. Kramer       

1980     Ordinary People       

1981     Chariots of Fire       

1982     Gandhi       

1983     Terms of Endearment

1984     Amadeus       

1985     Out of Africa       

1986     Platoon       

1987     The Last Emperor

1988     Rain Man       

1989     Driving Miss Daisy

1990     Dances With Wolves       

1991     The Silence of the Lambs       

1992     Unforgiven       

1993     Schindler's List       

1994     Forrest Gump       

1995     Braveheart       

1996     The English Patient       

1997     Titanic        

1998     Shakespeare in Love       

1999     American Beauty       

2000     Gladiator       

2001     A Beautiful Mind       

2002     Chicago       

2003     The Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King       

2004     Million Dollar Baby       

2005     Crash       

2006     The Departed       

2007     No Country for Old Men       

2008     Slumdog Millionaire      

2009     The Hurt Locker 

2010     The King's Speech





Film Festival and Awards Calendar

There are of course 100’s of film festivals around the world every year and the ones listed here are just the most famous festivals of a non-specialist nature. Some, like Sundance, focus on independent films, but I have not included anything more specific than that, for example festivals devoted to a single genre of film or to short films. Nearly all are international, whether they say that in their title or not.

Month given is for the start of the festival and if that varies from year to year then the earliest of the months has been chosen.

The awards listed are the most famous film awards in the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia and Japan.

January
Sundance Film Festival
BAFTA Film Awards (Main British Film Awards)
Golden Globe Awards
Slamdance Film Festival
National Society Of Film Critics Awards
February
The Academy Awards
Cesars (Main French Film Awards)
Berlin International Film Festival
Pan African Film And Television Festival Of Ouagadougou (Burkino Faso) (every 2 years)
The Japan Academy Prize (Japanese Academy Awards)
March
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Directors Guild Of America Awards
Writers Guild Of America Awards
Producers Guild Of America Awards
Hong Kong International Film Festival
Genie Awards (Main Canadian Film Awards)
April
San Francisco International Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival
Deutscher Filmpreis (Main German Film Awards)
May
Seattle International Film Festival
Cannes International Film Festival
June
Midnight Sun Film Festival (Sodankyla, Finland)
Shanghai International Film Festival
Sydney Film Festival
The Nastro D’argento (Italian Film Critics Award)
July
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Czech
Melbourne International Film Festival
Moscow International Film Festival
August
Montreal World Film Festival
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Locarno International Film Festival (Switzerland)
September
Vancouver International Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
New York Film Festival
Toronto Film Festival
San Sebastian Festival (Spain)
Telluride Film Festival (USA)
October
Tokyo Film Festival
Chicago Film Festival
Pusan International Film Festival (Korea)
The Viennale (Vienna)
Warsaw International Film Festival
November
AFI Fest (Los Angeles)
Cairo International Film Festival
London Film Festival
Mar del Plata Film Festival (Mar del Plata, Argentina)
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award
December
European Film Awards
National Board Of Review Awards

120 Actors Who Have Directed (Occasionally)

These are people principally known as actors who have directed a feature-length movie with a theatrical release on a single occasion, or just a few occasions. One of their most famous titles is listed.

Actors who have directed at least 4 movies are listed in a previous post

1. Al Pacino - Looking For Richard (1996)
2. Alain Delon  - Le Battant (1983)
3. Alan Rickman  - The Winter Guest (1997)
4. Albert Finney - Charlie Bubbles (1967)
5. Angelina Jolie - In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)
6. Anjelica Huston - Agnes Browne (1999)
7. Anna Karina  - Vivre ensemble (1973) 
8. Anne Bancroft  - Fatso (1980)
9. Anthony Hopkins - Slipstream (2007)
10. Anthony Quinn - The Buccaneer (1958)
11. Antonio Banderas - Crazy in Alabama (1999)
12. Ben Affleck  - The Town (2010)
13. Bill Murray  - Quick Change (1990)
14. Bill Paxton  - Frailty (2002)
15. Billy Crystal  - Mr. Saturday Night (1992)
16. Bruce Lee - The Way Of The Dragon (1972)
17. Burgess Meredith  - The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949) 
18. Burr Steers - Igby Goes Down (2002)
19. Burt Lancaster - The Kentuckian (1955)
20. Burt Reynolds  - Gator (1976)
21. Campbell Scott  - Big Night (1996)
22. Casey Affleck - I'm Still Here (2010)
23. Charles Laughton - The Night of the Hunter (1955)
24. Charlton Heston - Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
25. Chris Rock  - Head of State (2003)
26. Cliff Robertson  - The Pilot (1980)
27. Crispin Glover  - What is It? (2005)
28. Dan Aykroyd  - Nothing But Trouble (1991)
29. Daniel Auteuil - The Well-Digger’s Daughter (2011)
30. Danny Huston - Mr. North (1988)
31. David Duchovny  - House of D (2004)
32. David Schwimmer - Trust (2010)
33. Dennis Hopper  - Easy Rider (1969)
34. Denzel Washington  - Antwone Fisher (2002)
35. Diane Keaton - Hanging Up (2000)
36. Dick Powell - The Enemy Below (1957)
37. Drew Barrymore - Whip It! (2009)
38. Dyan Cannon  - The End of Innocence (1990)
39. Ed Harris - Pollock (2000)
40. Eddie Murphy  - Harlem Nights (1989)
41. Edward Norton - Keeping The Faith (2000)
42. Ethan Hawke  - Chelsea Walls (2001)
43. Forest Whitaker  - Waiting to Exhale (1995)
44. Frank Sinatra - None But the Brave (1965)
45. Gary Oldman - Nil by Mouth (1997) 
46. Gary Sinise - Of Mice and Men (1992)
47. Gene Wilder  - The Woman in Red (1984)
48. George C. Scott  - Rage (1972)
49. George Peppard  - Five Days from Home (1979)
50. Gérard Depardieu  - The Bridge (1999)
51. Jack Lemmon - Kotch (1971)
52. Jack Nicholson - The Two Jakes (1990)
53. James Caan  - Hide in Plain Sight (1980)
54. James Cagney - Short Cut to Hell (1957)
55. James Mason  - Rome in Madrid (1964)
56. Jeanne Moreau - Lumière (1976)
57. Jet Li - Born to Defense (1986)
58. Joan Chen  - Autumn in New York (2000)
59. Jodie Foster - Home For The Holidays (1995)
60. Joe Mantegna  - Lakeboat (2000)
61. John Malkovich  - The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
62. John Mills - Sky West and Crooked (1966)
63. John Wayne - The Green Berets (1968)
64. Johnny Depp  - The Brave (1997)
65. Justin Theroux  - Dedication (2007)
66. Karl Malden  - Time Limit (1957)
67. Kevin Bacon  - Loverboy (2005)
68. Kevin Spacey - Beyond the Sea (2004)
69. Kirk Douglas  - Posse (1975)
70. Klaus Kinski - Paganini (1989)
71. Laurence Fishburne  - Once in the Life (2000)
72. Laurence Harvey - The Ceremony (1963)
73. Leslie Howard - The Gentle Sex (1943)
74. Liev Schreiber  - Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
75. Lionel Barrymore  - Madame X (1929)
76. Liv Ullman - Faithless (2000)
77. Mark Ruffalo - Sympathy for Delicious (2010)
78. Marlon Brando - One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
79. Martin Lawrence  - A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996)
80. Martin Sheen  - Cadence (1991)
81. Matthew Broderick  - Infinity (1996)
82. Max Von Sydow  - Vid Vagen (1988)
83. Maximilian Schell  - Marlene (1983)
84. Michael Keaton  - The Merry Gentleman (2008)
85. Monica Vitti  - Scandalo segreto (1990)
86. Morgan Freeman  - Bopha! (1993)
87. Nicolas Cage  - Sonny (2002)
88. Noel Coward - In Which We Serve (1942)
89. Paddy Considine - Tyrannosaur (2011)
90. Peter Fonda - The Hired Hand (1971)
91. Peter Sellers - Mr. Topaze (1961)
92. Peter Ustinov - Billy Budd (1962)
93. Philip Seymour Hoffman  - Jack Goes Boating (2010)
94. Ralph Fiennes  - Coriolanus (2011)
95. Ralph Richardson  - Home at Seven (1952)
96. Richard Burton - Doctor Faustus (1967)
97. Richard E. Grant  - Wah-Wah (2005)
98. Richard Harris - Broomfield (1971)
99. Richard Pryor  - Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986)
100. Ricky Gervais  - The Invention of Lying (2009)
101. Robert De Niro - The Good Shepherd (2006)
102. Roddy McDowall - The Devil's Widow (1970)
103. Rosanna Arquette  - Searching for Debra Winger (2002)
104. Sally Field  - Beautiful (2000)
105. Sam Shepard  - Silent Tongue (1993)
106. Shirley MacLaine  - Bruno (2000)
107. Sophie Marceau  - La disparue de Deauville (2007)
108. Steve Buscemi - Trees Lounge (1996)
109. Tilda Swinton  - The New Ten Commandments (2008)
110. Tim Robbins - Dead Man Walking (1995)
111. Tim Roth - The War Zone (1999)
112. Tom Hanks - That Thing You Do! (1996)
113. Tommy Lee Jones - The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
114. Toshiro Mifune  - Legacy of the 500,000 (1963)
115. Vera Farmiga  - Higher Ground (2011)
116. Vincent Gallo - Buffalo '66 (1998)
117. Walter Matthau  - Gangster Story (1959)
118. Will Hay  - My Learned Friend (1943)
119. William Shatner  - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
120. Zach Braff - Garden State (2004)