From "The Godfather" to "Gladiator," Jack Nicholson to Julia Roberts, join us on the red carpet for thirty years of Academy Awards history. Find out which stars almost didn?t get the roles they?re best known for, where the... more » winners keep their Oscars, and how far some will go to convince Academy members to vote for them. In six one hour programs,we?ll bring you the top winners, the juiciest gossip, and the most outrageous controversies -- culminating with Halle Berry and Denzel Washington?s historic breakthrough at the most recent Academy Awards ceremony. 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.« less
Genres:Television, Documentary Sub-Genres:Television, Documentary Studio:PASSPORT VIDEO Format:DVD - Color DVD Release Date: 01/20/2004 Release Year: 2004 Run Time: 6hr 0min Screens: Color Number of Discs: 3 SwapaDVD Credits: 3 Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 1 Edition: Box set MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated) Languages:English
Terms of Endearment - Dated but what a well-crafted plotline featuring tons of stars that you know. A must watch!
Movie Reviews
I am disappointed
Liang Wei Chang | CA, USA | 03/30/2005
(1 out of 5 stars)
"I feel nothing but disappointed...I was expecting to watch some essences of Academy Award show for last 30 years, but I got nothing but the shortfilm of nominated movies... Totally different to what I expect.. If you have same expectation as me, which is just to watch the "orginal" award show and their acceptance speeches, DON'T BUY IT"
Disappointing
Liang Wei Chang | 02/04/2004
(1 out of 5 stars)
"This is a rip-off. The quality of the movie footage is terrible. Most of the stills they show aren't even from the movies they are talking about. Most of the red carpet footage seems to be from the 1999 awards. They even get facts wrong, such as stating that Meryl Streep won an Oscar for "Silkwood." This is just a cheap, shoddy product. Read Damien Bona's Oscar books instead. They offer great insight."
Dissapointing purchase
JJ | Charlottetown, PE | 10/31/2005
(2 out of 5 stars)
"I too was very dissapointed, i went into blockbuster video to see if i could find extra dvds for the dvd video game scene it, and ended up buying an academy award collection, to relive some of the reactions to stars winning their oscars and some acceptance speeces, and all i got was a recap of who won each year, i already have the oscar books, it almost seemed like they were not allowed to show the acceptance speeces, they talked about michael moore's controversial acceptance speech, but never showed a clip, the only clip they showed was very little about the man who ran across the oscar stage naked one year, adn showed very little of that was well, not that i really wanted to see it, very dissapointing, i wanted to see speeches, and stars sitting in their seats, and i got very little. They really need to come out with something better for academy award fans, they have a video cassette with stuff from the ceremony up till 1991, but nothing after that."
Waste of Money
JJ | 02/12/2004
(1 out of 5 stars)
"I was initially very excited about buying this DVD. Unfortunately, I bought the DVD before the viewer from Sacramento, CA. had posted his review. The only reviews that were posted at the time were glowing. Needless to say, I was very disappointed when I viewed the DVD. Not only is the quality of the movie footage terrible, but the quality of the audio is also very poor. There is even a statement on the back of the video that this product has not been endorsed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. I don't blame them.
This is truly a waste of money."