Best Oscar films on Amazon Prime
A bizarre rescue mission, a teenager's first love, an unsinkable liner — here are the 10 best Oscar-winning films on Amazon Prime
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2012
Thriller
Documentary
15
Thriller based on a true story, starring Ben Affleck. CIA agent Tony Mendez goes under cover as a Hollywood producer to smuggle six Americans out of Iran. With time running out, Mendez must assemble a convincing cover by creating a fake film production, with the help of Hollywood bigwig John Chambers, before their targets are found and executed.
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1946
Romance
War
U
Oscar-winning drama starring Myrna Loy and Fredric March. Three servicemen return home to America after the Second World War and find it hard to adjust to civilian life.
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2015
Documentary
Drama
15
Drama based on a true story, starring Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt. United States, 2006: eccentric Wall Street whizzkid Michael Burry realises that the US mortgage market is heading towards a crash and begins to bet against it. This activity attracts the attention of trader Jared Vennett and idealistic hedge-fund expert Mark Baum who begin to suspect that the system could be about to collapse.
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2017
Romance
Drama
15
Romantic drama starring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer. Precocious 17-year-old Elio spends a summer at his parents' mansion in northern Italy, where he begins to fall for the older Oliver, a handsome American doctoral student staying with the family.
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1960
Drama
PG
Oscar-winning drama starring Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons. A conman swaps his job as a travelling salesman for hellfire preaching - a position that gives him power and has the added advantage of bringing him closer to the beautiful Sister Sharon.
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1995
Comedy
Crime/detective
18
Black comedy thriller from the Coen brothers, starring Frances McDormand, William H Macy, Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare. Car salesman Jerry Lundegaard arranges to have his wife kidnapped in order to extort some money from his wealthy father-in-law. But when the kidnapping fails to go as planned, heavily pregnant local police chief Marge Gunderson is soon on the trail.
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2001
Drama
Mystery
15
Ensemble murder mystery from the writer of Downton Abbey and featuring Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon and Helen Mirren. In 1930s rural England, a battery of well-to-do guests and their servants attend a weekend's shooting and socialising. But their reverie is shattered by a murder, after which everyone is a suspect.
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1976
Comedy
Drama
15
Drama starring Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and William Holden. When the ratings for veteran TV news anchor Howard Beale begin to drop, the network decides to fire him and gives him two weeks notice. But during his next broadcast, Beale then announces that he will blow his brains out live on air in a week's time.
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1997
Romance
Drama
12
James Cameron's Oscar-winning blockbuster, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. During the Titanic's maiden voyage in 1912, penniless artist Jack Dawson falls in love with socialite Rose DeWitt Bukater, who is travelling with her fiancé. Years later, Rose relives the affair and the tragic events that followed, while a salvage crew searches for a priceless diamond said to have been lost in the shipwreck.
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2001
Crime/detective
Drama
18
Police drama starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. Idealistic rookie cop Jake Hoyt is given the opportunity of trying out with an elite Los Angeles undercover narcotics squad. Hoyt joins Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris for a day working the streets, but quickly realises that his superior's approach to law enforcement is not strictly by the book.
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