Award-Winning Entertainment: Movies for 2020
How much award-winning entertainment did you catch up on during the awards season?
The red carpets, ceremonies and speeches might have come to an end, but we can help you discover the award-winning content that everyone’s been talking about this year, as well as our critically-acclaimed releases from previous decades!
We’re thrilled to have received numerous nominations in 2020, including Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Academy Awards. Join us as we celebrate our recent releases as well as look back at our previous award-winning films, all of which can be experienced instantly on digital now.
JOKER (2019)
Winner of ten awards, including two Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Original Score, three BAFTAs including Leading Actor and Original Score, two Golden Globes for Best Actor and Best Original Score and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
About the film:
Todd Phillips helms a gritty origin story starring Joaquin Phoenix and Robert De Niro that centers around the iconic arch nemesis in an original, standalone story not seen before on screen. Phillips' exploration of Arthur Fleck, a man disregarded by society, is not only a harsh character study, but also a broader cautionary tale.
A STAR IS BORN (2018)
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Song, a BAFTA for Original Music, and a Golden Globe for Best Original Song.
About the film:
In this new take on the tragic love story, Bradley Cooper plays musician Jackson Maine, who discovers—and falls in love with—struggling artist Ally (Lady Gaga). But even as Ally's career takes off, their relationship is breaking down, as Jack fights an ongoing battle with his own internal demons.
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015)
Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Film Editing and Best Costume Design, and four BAFTAs including Best Production Design.
About the film:
George Miller returns to the post-apocalyptic world of the Road Warrior - a world of fire and blood, without law, without mercy and without hope. Haunted by his past, Mad Max (Tom Hardy) wanders alone, until he's swept up with a band of survivors fleeing a warlord across the Wasteland.
GRAVITY (2013)
Winner of seven Academy Awards, including Best Achievement in Cinematography and Best Achievement in Directing, one Golden Globe for Best Director and four BAFTAs including Best British Film and Best Director.
About the film:
Bullock plays a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with Clooney as a veteran astronaut in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving the two completely alone -- tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness.
THE MATRIX (1999)
Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Film Editing and Best Visual Effects, and two BAFTAs for Best Sound and Best Special Visual Effects.
About the film:
When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence. Neo joins legendary and dangerous rebel warrior Morpheus in the battle to destroy the illusion enslaving humanity. Every move, every second, every thought becomes a fight to stay alive--to escape The Matrix.
BEN-HUR (1959)
Winner of an incredible eleven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor in a Leading Role, four Golden Globes including Best Director and Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA for Best Film.
About the film:
Told on a sweeping canvas encompassing the Roman Empire at the time of Christ, this story of the life of a Jewish man who is unjustly enslaved yet who rises to greatness in Rome climaxes with a chariot race that is one of the most famous of all movie scenes.
GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
Winner of a staggering eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Director.
About the film:
On the eve of the US Civil War, Scarlett O'Hara has everything she could want—except Ashley Wilkes. But as the war devastates the South, Scarlett discovers the strength within herself to protect her family and rebuild her life. Through everything, she longs for Ashley, unaware that she is already married to the man she really loves—and who truly loves her—until she finally drives him away. Only then does Scarlett realize what she has lost … and decide to win him back.
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