Oscar Winners

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  • Paperman

    Paperman (2012)

    Short, Animation

    An urban office worker finds that paper airplanes are instrumental in meeting a girl in ways he never expected.

    Short - 2012

  • Curfew

    Curfew (2012)

    Short, Drama

    At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his nine-year old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.

    Short - 2012

  • Skyfall

    Skyfall (2012)

    Action, Adventure, Thriller

    MI6 operative James Bond, agent 007, questions his loyalty to his superior, M, when her past actions have consequences in the present. When MI6 itself is attacked, Bond must seek out and eliminate the threat.[6]

    Action - 2012

  • Amour

    Amour (2012)

    Drama

    Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple's bond of love is severely tested.

    Drama - 2012

  • Inocente

    Inocente (2012)

    Biography, Short, Documentary, Drama, News

    A personal and vibrant coming of age story about a young artist's determination never to surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings. At 15, Inocente refuses to let her dream of becoming...

    Biography - 2012

  • Searching for Sugar Man

    Searching for Sugar Man (2012)

    Biography, Documentary, Music

    In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career with only two well received but non-selling albums. Unknown to Rodriguez, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon and inspiration for generations. Long rumored there to be dead by suicide, a few fans in the 1990s decided to seek out the truth of their hero's fate. What follows is a bizarrely heartening story in which they found far more in their quest than they ever hoped, while a Detroit construction laborer discovered that his lost artistic dreams came true after all.

    Biography - 2012

  • Anna Karenina

    Anna Karenina (2012)

    Drama

    The story unfolds in its original late 19th century Russian high-society setting and powerfully explores the capacity for love that surges through the human heart, from the passion between adulterers to the bond between a mother and her children. As Anna Karenina questions her happiness, change comes to her family, friends, and community.

    Drama - 2012

  • Life of Pi

    Life of Pi (2012)

    Adventure, Drama

    Based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel, is a magical adventure story centering on Pi Patel, the precocious son of a zoo keeper. Dwellers in Pondicherry, India, the family decides to move to Canada, hitching a ride on a huge freighter. After a shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a 26-foot lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, all fighting for survival.

    Adventure - 2012

  • Brave

    Brave (2012)

    Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy

    In Scotland, King Fergus of Clan DunBroch presents his young daughter Merida with a bow for her birthday. While practicing, Merida encounters a will-o'-the-wisp. Soon afterwards, Mor'du, a giant demon bear, attacks the family. Merida escapes along with her mother Queen Elinor while Fergus fights off the bear alongside his men at the cost of his left leg. Years later, Elinor has since given birth to identical triplet boys, and Merida has become a free-spirited and adventurous teenager. One night, her mother informs her she is to be betrothed to one of her father's allied clans: Dingwall, Macintosh, or MacGuffin. Oblivious to her mother's attempts to appease her by telling her a legend of a power-hungry prince who broke off from his duty and caused the ruin of a kingdom, Merida is dissatisfied with the arranged marriage. The clans arrive with their first-born sons to compete in the Highland Games for Merida's hand, and Merida chooses archery as the main event. During the competition, Lord Dingwall's son wins by accident. Entering the competition, Merida declares herself eligible to compete for her own hand as the first-born of Clan DunBroch. Merida has a falling out with Elinor before the princess flees into the woods. While there, the will-o'-the-wisps lead her to the hut of an elderly witch who insists she is a wood carver. After some bargaining, the witch accepts an offer to give Merida a spell, in the form of a cake, to change her mother. Merida returns to the castle and gives Elinor the cake, transforming her into a bear. With the help of her brothers, Merida gets Elinor out of the castle. The pair return to the witch's cottage, finding the witch gone. Through a potion-controlled automated message, Merida discovers that the spell will be permanent unless undone by the second sunrise. The witch leaves Merida a riddle, mentioning that she must "mend the bond torn by pride." Merida and her mother begin to reconcile their relationship. However, Merida observes that the spell is slowly becoming permanent, making Elinor become wilder and more like a bear. Later, the pair encounters the wisps again and follows them to ancient ruins. They learn that Mor'du was once the prince of Elinor's legend, and received the same spell from the witch. After fleeing an attack from Mor'du, Merida theorizes that repairing her damaged family tapestry will turn her mother human again and prevent her from becoming like Mor'du. At the castle, the clans are on the verge of war because of Merida's actions, but the princess quells their fighting and declares that the children should be allowed to get married in their own time. Her suitors second her and the lords agree. Merida then sneaks into the tapestry room with Elinor, who once again loses her humanity for a few minutes. Fergus goes to his bedchambers to find Elinor, but mistakes her for dead after seeing the room destroyed. Elinor attacks both Merida and Fergus when he steps into their room. Upon regaining human consciousness, she races out of the castle in desperation. Thinking that Elinor is Mor'du, Fergus detains Merida and follows Elinor. With the help of her brothers, now transformed into cubs from eating the cake, Merida races after her father while fixing the tapestry. The clan members and Fergus capture Elinor, but Merida intervenes just before Mor'du attacks the princess. Elinor kills Mor'du by luring him under a falling menhir, setting the spirit of the prince free. Merida places the tapestry over Elinor, hoping that her mother would change back. However, nothing happens. She professes her love for her mother and reconciles. Elinor is transformed back along with the triplets, and the family is reunited once again. A few days later, the clans depart for their respective lands and Merida and Elinor ride their horses together.

    Animation - 2012

  • Les Misérables

    Les Misérables (2012)

    Drama, Musical

    Prisoner 24601, Jean Valjean, is released from prison and breaks parole to create a new life for himself while evading the grip of the persistent Inspector Javert. Set in early 19th-century France, the story reaches resolution against the background of the July Revolution of 1832.

    Drama - 2012

  • Silver Linings Playbook

    Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

    Drama, Romance

    After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.

    Drama - 2012

  • Lincoln

    Lincoln (2012)

    Biography, History, Drama, War

    In 1865, as the American Civil War winds inexorably toward conclusion, U.S. president Abraham Lincoln endeavors to achieve passage of the landmark constitutional amendment which will forever ban slavery from the United States. However, his task is a race against time, for peace may come at any time, and if it comes before the amendment is passed, the returning southern states will stop it before it can become law. Lincoln must, by almost any means possible, obtain enough votes from a recalcitrant Congress before peace arrives and it is too late. Yet the president is torn, as an early peace would save thousands of lives. As the nation confronts its conscience over the freedom of its entire population, Lincoln faces his own crisis of conscience -- end slavery or end the war.

    Biography - 2012

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