Honor roll:Speculative Fiction films
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Each of these Speculative Fiction films has received at least one award nomination. They are ranked by honors received.
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The Lord of the Rings: Part 3. The Return of the King
- 2004 BAFTA-Film winner
- 2004 Golden Globe-Drama winner
- 2004 Hugo-Video winner
- 2004 MTV-Movie winner
- 2004 Oscar-Picture winner
- 2004 Saturn-Fantasy winner
- 2004 BAFTA-Children nominee
- Score: 66.54
Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, triumphantly completed by the 11-Oscar-winning The Return of the King, sets out to show that Tolkien’s epic work, once derided as mere adolescent escapism, is not just fodder for the best mass entertainment spectacle ever seen on the big screen, but is also replete with emotionally satisfying meditations on the human condition. What is the nature of true friendship? What constitutes real courage? Why is it important for us to care about people living beyond our borders? What does it mean to live in harmony…
The Lord of the Rings: Part 1. The Fellowship of the Ring
- 2002 BAFTA-Film winner
- 2002 Hugo-Video winner
- 2002 MTV-Movie winner
- 2002 Saturn-Fantasy winner
- 2002 BAFTA-Children nominee
- 2002 Golden Globe-Drama nominee
- 2002 Oscar-Picture nominee
- Score: 58.52
Based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is an epic adventure of good against evil, the power of friendship and individual courage. The saga centers around an unassuming Hobbit named Frodo Baggins who inherits a Ring that would give a dark and powerful lord the power to enslave the world. With a loyal fellowship of elves, dwarves, men and a wizard, Frodo embarks on a heroic quest to destroy the One Ring and pave the way for the emergence of mankind.
The Lord of the Rings: Part 2. The Two Towers
- 2003 Hugo-Video winner
- 2003 MTV-Movie winner
- 2003 Saturn-Fantasy winner
- 2003 BAFTA-Children nominee
- 2003 BAFTA-Film nominee
- 2003 Golden Globe-Drama nominee
- 2003 Oscar-Picture nominee
- Score: 54.53
Frodo Baggins and the Fellowship continue their quest to destroy the One Ring and stand against the evil of the dark lord Sauron. The Fellowship has divided and now find themselves taking different paths to defeating Sauron and his allies. Their destinies now lie at two towers—Orthanc Tower in Isengard, where the corrupted wizard Saruman waits and Sauron’s fortress at Baraddur, deep within the dark lands of Mordor.
- 2002 Oscar-Animation winner
- 2001 BAFTA-Children winner
- 2002 BAFTA-Film nominee
- 2002 Golden Globe-Musical/Comedy nominee
- 2002 Hugo-Video nominee
- 2002 MTV-Movie nominee
- 2002 Saturn-Fantasy nominee
- Score: 50.52
You’ve never met a hero quite like Shrek, the endearing ogre who sparked a motion picture phenomenon and captured the world’s imagination with the Greatest Fairy Tale Ever Told! Relive every moment of Shrek’s (Mike Myers) daring quest to rescue feisty Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) with the help of his lovable loudmouthed Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and win back the deed to his beloved swamp from scheming Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow). Enchantingly irreverent and “monstrously clever” (Leah Rozen, People Magazine), Shrek is ogre-sized adventure you’ll want to see again and again.
- 2004 Oscar-Animation winner
- 2004 Saturn-Animated winner
- 2004 BAFTA-Children nominee
- 2004 Golden Globe-Musical/Comedy nominee
- 2004 Hugo-Video nominee
- 2004 MTV-Movie nominee
- Score: 44.54
A delightful undersea world unfolds in Pixar’s animated adventure Finding Nemo. When his son Nemo is captured by a scuba-diver, a nervous-nellie clownfish named Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) sets off into the vast—and astonishingly detailed—ocean to find him. Along the way he hooks up with a scatterbrained blue tang fish named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), who’s both helpful and a hindrance, sometimes at the same time. Faced with sharks, deep-sea anglers, fields of poisonous jellyfish, sea turtles, pelicans, and much more, Marlin rises above his neuroses in…
- 1995 Golden Globe-Drama winner
- 1995 Oscar-Picture winner
- 1995 Saturn-Fantasy winner
- 1995 BAFTA-Film nominee
- 1995 MTV-Movie nominee
- Score: 42.45
The Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Best Director Robert Zemeckis, and Best Actor Tom Hanks, this unlikely story of a slow-witted but good-hearted man somehow at the center of the pivotal events of the 20th century is a funny and heartwarming epic. Hanks plays the title character, a shy Southern boy in love with his childhood best friend (Robin Wright) who finds that his ability to run fast takes him places. As an All-Star football player he meets John F. Kennedy; as a soldier in Vietnam he’s a war hero; and as a world champion Ping-Pong player he’s hailed…
- 1992 Edgar–Video winner
- 1992 Oscar-Picture winner
- 1992 Saturn-Horror winner
- 1992 BAFTA-Film nominee
- 1992 Golden Globe-Drama nominee
- Score: 42.42
Based on Thomas Harris’s novel, this terrifying film by Jonathan Demme really only contains a couple of genuinely shocking moments (one involving an autopsy, the other a prison break). The rest of the film is a splatter-free visual and psychological descent into the hell of madness, redeemed astonishingly by an unlikely connection between a monster and a haunted young woman. Anthony Hopkins is extraordinary as the cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, virtually entombed in a subterranean prison for the criminally insane. At the behest of the FBI,…
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- 2001 Hugo-Video winner
- 2001 Saturn-Action winner
- 2001 BAFTA-Film nominee
- 2001 MTV-Movie nominee
- 2001 Oscar-Picture nominee
- Score: 38.51
Hong Kong wuxia films, or martial arts fantasies, traditionally squeeze poor acting, slapstick humor, and silly story lines between elaborate fight scenes in which characters can literally fly. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has no shortage of breathtaking battles, but it also has the dramatic soul of a Greek tragedy and the sweep of an epic romance. This is the work of director Ang Lee, who fell in love with movies while watching wuxia films as a youngster and made Crouching Tiger as a tribute to the form. To elevate the genre above…
- 1999 Hugo-Video winner
- 1999 Saturn-Fantasy winner
- 1999 BAFTA-Film nominee
- 1999 Golden Globe-Drama nominee
- 1999 MTV-Movie nominee
- Score: 38.49
The whole world is watching—literally—every time Truman Burbank makes the slightest move. Unbeknownst to him, in this hauntingly funny film by Peter Weir, his entire life has been an unending soap opera for consumption by the rest of the world. And everyone he knows—including his mother, his wife, and his best friend—is really an actor, paid to be part of his life. In this intriguing and surprisingly touching 1998 film, writer Andrew Niccol imagines an ultimate kind of celebrity, then sees it brought to life with comic intensity and emotional honesty by Jim…
- 2000 Saturn-Horror winner
- 2000 BAFTA-Film nominee
- 2000 Hugo-Video nominee
- 2000 MTV-Movie nominee
- 2000 Oscar-Picture nominee
- Score: 34.5
“I see dead people,” whispers little Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment), scared to affirm what is to him now a daily occurrence. This peaked 9-year old, already hypersensitive to begin with, is now being haunted by seemingly malevolent spirits. Child psychologist Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) is trying to find out what’s triggering Cole’s visions, but what appears to be a psychological manifestation turns out to be frighteningly real. It might be enough to scare off a lesser man, but for Malcolm it’s personal—several months before, he was accosted and shot by an…
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