My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown 1989

Historical/Documentary Movies

Updated with 2024 winners.

IMDb's Top Biography Movies.

Minimum of 25,000 votes, minimum rating of 6.0, maximum of 250 movies.

Last Updated: June 27, 2024

Concepts like the Blockbuster is introduced. 1980s is called 'one of the weaker decades in cinema'. The rise of independent films revive cinema again in the 1990s.
[This is a series of lists listing films deemed important based on their technical, artistic, historical or cultural significance. This shall also serve as a good resource for film studies however it is extensively based on my own personal preferences.
Resources:
[1]r/truefilm, IMDb, AFI's top 100, Sight & Sound Critic's Directors' Top 100, and various others.
[2] Looking at Movies: https://www.amazon.com/Looking-Movies-Fifth-Richard-Barsam/dp/0393600653 and The Movie Book:
https://www.amazon.com/Movie-Book-Ideas-Simply-Explained-ebook/dp/B017AR0MUS
[3] Download Links:Qxr, Sartre, Garshasp for more iconic ones. Yify and others for the rest. (Piracy Is Illegal ffs & I shall not be responsible)
Excerpt From https://www.imdb.com/user/ur73738276/watchlist?sort=release_date%2Casc&view=detail listing films from 1981's *Christiane F to 2000's Traffic
PS: Trakt has incorrect dates for a great many titles. so use IMDb or wikipedia! This list uses IMDb and 'Rank' is the correct order. ]
Films already watched have been exempted. Imported 274/276

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List of winners:
1937 — Gale Sondergaard as Faith Paleologus in "Anthony Adverse"
1938 — Alice Brady as Molly O'Leary in "In Old Chicago"
1939 — Fay Bainter as Aunt Belle Massey in "Jezebel"
1940 — Hattie McDaniel as Mammy in "...Gone with the Wind"
1941 — Jane Darwell as Ma Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath"
1942 — Mary Astor as Sandra Kovak in "The Great Lie"
1943 — Teresa Wright as Carol Beldon in "Mrs. Miniver"
1944 — Katina Paxinou as Pilar in "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
1945 — Ethel Barrymore as Ma Mott in "None but the Lonely Heart"
1946 — Anne Revere as Mrs Araminty in "National Velvet"
1947 — Anne Baxter as Sophie MacDonald in "The Razor's Edge"
1948 — Celeste Holm as Anne Dettrey in "Gentleman's Agreement"
1949 — Claire Trevor as Gaye Dawn in "Key Largo"
1950 — Mercedes McCambridge as Sadie Burke in "All the King's Men"
1951 — Josephine Hull as Veta Louise Dowd Simmons in "Harvey"
1952 — Kim Hunter as Stella Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
1953 — Gloria Grahame as Rosemary Bartlow in "The Bad and the Beautiful"
1954 — Donna Reed as Alma Burke in "From Here to Eternity"
1955 — Eva Marie Saint as Edie Doyle in "On the Waterfront"
1956 — Jo Van Fleet as Cathy Ames / Kate Trask in "East of Eden"
1957 — Dorothy Malone as Marylee Hadley in "Written on the Wind"
1958 — Miyoshi Ukemi as Katsumi Kelly in "Sayonara"
1959 — Wendy Hiller as Pat Cooper in "Separate Tables"
1960 — Shelley Winters as Petronella Van Daan in "The Diary of Anne Frank"
1961 — Shirley Jones as Lulu Bains in "Elmer Gantry"
1962 — Rita Moreno as Anita in "West Side Story"
1963 — Patty Duke as Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker"
1964 — Margaret Rutherford as The Duchess of Brighton in "The V.I.P.s"
1965 — Lila Kedrova as Madame Hortense in "Zorba the Greek"
1966 — Shelley Winters as Rose-Ann D'Arcey in "A Patch of Blue"
1967 — Sandy Dennis as Honey in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
1968 — Estelle Parsons as Blanche Barrow in "Bonnie and Clyde"
1969 — Ruth Gordon as Minnie Castevet in "Rosemary's Baby"
1970 — Goldie Hawn as Toni Simmons in "Cactus Flower"
1971 — Helen Hayes as Ada Quonsett in "Airport"
1972 — Cloris Leachman as Ruth Popper in "The Last Picture Show"
1973 — Eileen Heckart as Mrs. Baker in "Butterflies Are Free"
1974 — Tatum O'Neal as Addie Loggins in "Paper Moon"
1975 — Ingrid Bergman as Greta Ohlsson in "Murder on the Orient Express"
1976 — Lee Grant as Felicia Karpf in "Shampoo"
1977 — Beatrice Straight as Louise Schumacher in "Network"
1978 — Vanessa Redgrave as Julia in "Julia"
1979 — Maggie Smith as Diana Barrie in "California Suite"
1980 — Meryl Streep as Joanna Kramer in "Kramer vs. Kramer"
1981 — Mary Steenburgen as Lynda West-Dummar in "Melvin and Howard"
1982 — Maureen Stapleton as Emma Goldman in "Reds"
1983 — Jessica Lange as Julie Nichols in "Tootsie"
1984 — Linda Hunt as Billy Kwan in "The Year of Living Dangerously"
1985 — Peggy Ashcroft as Mrs. Moore in "A Passage to India"
1986 — Anjelica Houston as Maerose Prizzi in "Prizzi's Honor"
1987 — Dianne Wiest as Holly in "Hannah and Her Sisters"
1988 — Olympia Dukakis as Rose Castorini in "Moonstruck"
1989 — Geena Davis as Muriel Pritchett in "The Accidental Tourist"
1990 — Brenda Fricker as Bridget Fagan-Brown in "My Left Foot"
1991 — Whoopi Goldberg as Oda Mae Brown in "Ghost"
1992 — Mercedes Ruehl as Anne Napolitano in "The Fisher King"
1993 — Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito in "My Cousin Vinny"
1994 — Anna Paquin as Flora McGrath in "The Piano"
1995 — Dianne Wiest as Helen Sinclair in "Bullets over Broadway"
1996 — Mira Sorvinino as Leslie Ash / Linda Ash / Judy Cum in "Mighty Aphrodite"
1997 — Juliette Binoche as Hana in "The English Patient"
1998 — Kim Basinger as Lynn Bracken in "L.A. Confidential"
1999 — Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth I in "Shakespeare in Love"
2000 — Angelina Jolie as Lisa Rowe in "Girl, Interrupted"
2001 — Marcia Gay Harden as Lee Krasner in "Pollock"
2002 — Jennifer Connely as Alicia (Lardé) Nash in "A Beautiful Mind"
2003 — Catherine Zeta-Jones as Velma Kelly in "Chicago"
2004 — Renée Zellweger as Ruby Thewes in "Cold Mountain"
2005 — Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn in "The Aviator"
2006 — Rachel Weisz as Tessa Quayle in "The Constant Gardener"
2007 — Jennifer Hudson as Effie White in "Dreamgirls"
2008 — Tilda Swinton as Karen Crowder in "Michael Clayton"
2009 — Penélope Cruz as María Elena in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
2010 — Mo'Nique as Mary Lee Johnston in "Precious"
2011 — Melissa Leo as Alice Eklund-Ward in "The Fighter"
2012 — Octavia Spencer as Minerva 'Minny' Jackson in "The Help"
2013 — Anne Hathaway as Fantine in "Les Misérables"
2014 — Lupita Nyong'o as Patsey in "12 Years a Slave"
2015 — Patricia Arquette as Olivia Evans in "Boyhood"
2016 — Alicia Vikander as Gerda Wegener in "The Danish Girl"
2017 — Viola Davis as Rose Lee Maxson in "Fences"
2018 — Allison Janney as LaVona Fay Golden in "I, Tonya"
2019 — Regina King as Sharon Rivers in "If Beale Street Could Talk"
2020 — Laura Dern as Nora Fanshaw in "Marriage Story"
2021 — Youn Yuh-jung as Soon-ja in "Minari"
2022 — Ariana DeBose as Anita in "West Side Story"
2023 — Jamie Lee Curtis as Deirdre Beaubeirdre im "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
2024 — Da'Vine Joy Randolph as Mary Lamb in "The Holdovers"

From latest edition. 2017th edition will be published in October 2017.

The movies I have seen when a child. :)

Movies Based Factually or Loosely on True Stories & Biographies. Note: Although some may be loosely based on a true story or on the situations in life. They portray the times & life of the times.

List of movies that won the Academy Award for Best Actor or Best Actress in a leading role (1929 to present) from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

This is a list of all winners of the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role since 1927.

All credits go to IMDb user: jakilcz

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This list is drawn from the second edition of "The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made" (St. Martin's Griffin, $24.95), edited by Peter M. Nichols and published in 2004. For additional information about the list, read Peter M. Nichols's preface, or A. O. Scott's introduction.