Vintage Film Award

Saving Private Ryan Director: Steven Spielberg Screenwriter: Robert Rodat

The human price of victory over the Nazis - millions of soldiers and their families, from Australia, Africa, Russia, Europe and North America - is conveyed through the story of a handful of American s....

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Zeitgeist Film Award

The Big Lebowski Director: Joel Coen Screenwriter: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Is it the very best film by the Coen brothers? Is it even the magnum opus of Tara Reid's acting career? Probably neither, but this mistaken-identity caper is a cult favourite and definitely a must-see....

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Vintage Film Award

Die Hard Director: John McTiernan Screenwriter: Jeb Stuart, Steven E. de Souza

Bruce Willis doesn't save the entire world in this first installment, but he does save a skyscraper full of hostages held by a gang of greedy Eurotrash led by Alan Rickman. Is John McLane America's Ja....

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Zeitgeist Film Award

Beetlejuice Director: Tim Burton Screenwriter: Michael McDowell, Warren Skaaren

Had Tim Burton's bizarre, scary, slapstick tale of home-sharing between the dead Maitlands and the living Deetzes been a flop, perhaps we might never have seen "Batman" and other superhero flicks "reb....

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Vintage Film Award

Grease Director: Randal Kleiser Screenwriter: Bronte Woodard

For 20th- and 40th-anniversary screenings of Grease, teenagers abandoned their screens and flocked to the big one at the cinema and sing along with John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, and that scene-st....

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Zeitgeist Film Award

National Lampoon’s Animal House Director: John Landis Screenwriter: Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller

Produced for not much more than today's tuition at a college in New England - where Otis Day and the Knights are still available to sing "Shout" at your fall formal - Animal House is a good and funny ....

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Vintage Film Award

Planet of the Apes Director: Franklin J. Schaffner Screenwriter: Michael Wilson, Rod Serling

American astronauts crash land on a planet where humans aren't at the top of the food chain. Co-written by Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling, POTA offers the same fare - though-provoking sci-fi, actio....

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Zeitgeist Film Award

2001: A Space Odyssey Director: Stanley Kubrick Screenwriter: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke

Though the actors are not household names, most households listen every day to the helpful and detached (yet often infuriating) responses of Alexa and Siri - direct descendants the voice of the HAL 90....

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VINTAGE PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR 1998

Tom Hanks
as in Saving Private Ryan

The human price of victory over the Nazis - millions of soldiers and their families, from Australia, Africa, Russia, Europe and North America - is conveyed through the story of a handful of American s....

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VINTAGE PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR 1988

Dustin Hoffman
as in Rain Man

Incredible filmmaking is required to attract millions of people watch a story with such somber subjects - death, debt, and institutionalization among them - and that's just what the director, writers ....

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VINTAGE PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR 1978

John Travolta
as in Grease

For 20th- and 40th-anniversary screenings of Grease, teenagers abandoned their screens and flocked to the big one at the cinema and sing along with John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, and that scene-st....

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VINTAGE PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS 1998

Drew Barrymore
as in Ever After

This fresh twist on the Cinderella story cuts the magic out, replacing the fairy godmother and midnight pumpkin with historical figures including the Brothers Grimm and Leonardo da Vinci. Best of all ....

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VINTAGE PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS 1988

Geena Davis
as in Beetlejuice

Had Tim Burton's bizarre, scary, slapstick tale of home-sharing between the dead Maitlands and the living Deetzes been a flop, perhaps we might never have seen "Batman" and other superhero flicks "reb....

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VINTAGE PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS 1978

Olivia Newton-John
as in Grease

For 20th- and 40th-anniversary screenings of Grease, teenagers abandoned their screens and flocked to the big one at the cinema and sing along with John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, and that scene-st....

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COMING SOON: SHORTLISTS FOR THE 5TH VINTAGE FILM AWARDS

 

VINTAGE FILM OF 1998 | SHORTLIST

VINTAGE FILM OF 1988 | SHORTLIST

VINTAGE FILM OF 1978 | SHORTLIST

 

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