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Schindler's List Top

Written by Steven Zaillian.
Produced by Universal Pictures.

Winner of Best Adapted Screenplay -- 1993 Academy Awards.
Winner of the Best Screenplay -- 1994 Golden Globe.
Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay -- 1993 British Academy Awards.
Nominated for Best Screenplay -- 1993 New York Film Critics Circle.

Oskar Schindler starts a company to make cookware and utensils. He uses flattery and bribes to win military contracts, and brings in accountant and financier Itzhak Stern to help run the factory. By staffing his plant with Jews, Schindler has a dependable unpaid labor force. For Stern, a job in a war-related plant could mean survival for himself and the other Jews working for Schindler. However, in 1942, all of Krakow's Jews are assigned to the Plaszow Forced Labor Camp, overseen by Commandant Amon Goeth, an embittered alcoholic who occasionally shoots prisoners from his balcony. Schindler arranges to continue using Polish Jews in his plant, but, as he sees what is happening to his employees, he begins to develop a conscience. He realizes that his factory is the only thing preventing his staff from being shipped to the death camps.

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Shakespeare In Love Top

Written by Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard.

Produced by Bedford Falls

William Shakespeare is on a cold streak. Not only is he writing for Philip Henslowe, owner of "The Rose," a theatre whose doors are about to be closed by sadistic creditors, but he's got a nasty case of writer's block. Shakespeare hasn't written a hit in years. In fact, he hasn't written much of anything recently. Thus, the Bard finds himself in quite a bind when Henslowe, desperate to stave off another round of hot-coals-to-feet application, stakes The Rose's solvency on Shakespeare's new comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter." The problem is, "Romeo" is safely "locked away" in Shakespeare's head, which is to say that not a word of it is written.

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Silence of the Lambs Top

Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published (1991).

Written by Ted Tally.

Produced by Orion.

Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Brilliant. Cunning. Psychotic. In his mind lies the clue to a ruthless killer. Clarice Starling, FBI. Brilliant. Vulnerable. Alone. She must trust him to stop the killer.

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Sixth Sense, The Top

Written by M. Night Shyamalan.

Produced by Hollywood Pictures / Spyglass Entertainment.

In this tense tale of psychological terror, Dr. Malcolm Crowe is a child psychologist whose new patient has a problem far outside his usual area of expertise. Cole Sear is six-years-old and claims to see the spirits of dead people all around him. It seems that Cole has psychic powers and can channel the ghosts of those who were troubled. Cole doesn't understand his powers, and he has little control over them; he's constantly terrified by what he sees, and Dr. Crowe is the only one with whom he feels he can share this secret. However, as the doctor digs deeper into Cole's strange powers, it leads to strange and unexpected consequences for both of them.

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Sneakers Top

Written by Phil Alden Robinson and Lawrence Lasker.

Produced by Universal Pictures.

A group of five renegade computer hackers, led by Martin Bishop, are hired by the government to steal a black box, containing a code-breaking machine, from the mathematician who invented the device. The government is able to persuade Martin to take the job by convincing him that they will drop a decades-old federal warrant for his involvement in computer fraud. Martin agrees and he takes his team on the mission, eventually taking the box. Shortly after the hackers have stolen the device, the mathematician turns up dead and Martin is framed for the murder, which means that he and his team have to discover the truth about the mission and the death.

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