"Annie Wilkes Anne Marie Wilkes Dugan, usually known as Annie Wilkes, is a character in the 1987 novel ""Misery"", by Stephen King. In the 1990 film adaptation of the novel, Annie Wilkes was portrayed by Kathy Bates, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal. The American Film Institute included Annie Wilkes (as played by Bates) in their ""100 Heroes and Villains"" list, ranking her as the 17th most iconic villain (and sixth most iconic villainess) in film history. A nurse by training, she has become one of the stereotypes of the nurse as a torturer and"
"held in 1990, and he had hosted the previous year's gala. Nearly a month earlier in an event held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on February 28, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Ashley Judd. ""Titanic"" won a record-tying eleven awards including Best Director for James Cameron and Best Picture. Other winners included ""As Good as It Gets"", ""Good Will Hunting"" and ""L.A. Confidential"" with two awards, and ""The Full Monty"", ""Geri's Game"", ""Karakter"", ""The Long Way Home"", ""Visas and Virtue"", ""Men in Black"" and ""A Story of Healing"" with one."
"Alice (1990 film) Alice is a 1990 American romantic fantasy film written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Mia Farrow, Joe Mantegna, and William Hurt. The film is a loose reworking of Federico Fellini's 1965 film ""Juliet of the Spirits"". ""Alice"" received mildly positive reviews. Alice Tate is an upper-class New York housewife, who spends her days shopping, getting beauty treatments, and gossiping with her friends. She has been married to wealthy Doug for fifteen years, and they have two children, who are being raised by a nanny. One day, she has a brief encounter with Joe Ruffalo, a"
"The film won the prestigious 1990 Palme d'Or Award at the Cannes Film Festival, and was the second of three consecutive USA movies to be awarded the honour. (The other two were ""Sex, Lies, and Videotape"" in 1989 and ""Barton Fink"" in 1991.) The film was nominated for the Grand Prix of the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics. American Film Institute recognition: Wild at Heart (film) Wild at Heart is a 1990 American neo-noir black comedy-crime film written and directed by David Lynch, and based on Barry Gifford's 1989 novel of the same name, starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane"
"flies, she becomes invisible, she is another person. It is hilarious and romantic, serious and exuberantly satiric. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 77% ""fresh"" score with an average rating of 6.1/10. Woody Allen received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, as well as a Writers Guild of America nomination. Mia Farrow received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical and won the National Board of Review's Award for Best Actress. Alice (1990 film) Alice is a 1990 American romantic fantasy film written and directed by Woody Allen"
"English writer June Roberts from the novel by Patty Dann, is a terribly gentle if wisecracking comedy about the serious business of growing up."" Mermaids (1990 film) Mermaids is a 1990 American comedy-drama film directed by Richard Benjamin and starring Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder (who was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for best supporting actress for her role), and Christina Ricci in her first film role. It is based on the 1986 novel of the same name written by Patty Dann. It was shot in and around the towns of Rockport, Gloucester, Ipswich, Lincoln and Pawtucket. The film"
"in 1990 and had last hosted the 65th ceremony held in 1993. Three weeks earlier, in a ceremony held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on March 1, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Helen Hunt. ""The English Patient"" won the most awards of the evening with nine including Best Picture. Other winners included ""Fargo"" with two awards, and """", ""Dear Diary"", ""Emma"", ""Evita"", ""The Ghost and the Darkness"", ""Independence Day"", ""Jerry Maguire"", ""Kolya"", ""The Nutty Professor"", ""Quest"", ""Shine"", ""Sling Blade"", and ""When We Were Kings"" with one. The nominees for the"
"June"" 1. Ariel<br> 2. ""Life and Nothing But"" (""La vie et rien d'autre"")<br> 3. ""May Fools"" (""Milou en mai"") 1. Berkeley in the Sixties<br> 2. ""For All Mankind""<br> 3. ""The Big Bang"" 1990 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 25th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 6 January 1991, honored the best filmmaking of 1990. 1. Goodfellas<br> 2. ""The Grifters""<br> 3. ""Reversal of Fortune""<br> 4. ""Sweetie"" 1. Martin Scorsese – ""Goodfellas""<br> 2. Stephen Frears – ""The Grifters""<br> 3. Jane Campion – ""Sweetie"" 1. Jeremy Irons – ""Reversal of Fortune""<br> 2. Danny Glover – ""To Sleep with Anger""<br>"
"1990 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 25th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 6 January 1991, honored the best filmmaking of 1990. 1. Goodfellas<br> 2. ""The Grifters""<br> 3. ""Reversal of Fortune""<br> 4. ""Sweetie"" 1. Martin Scorsese – ""Goodfellas""<br> 2. Stephen Frears – ""The Grifters""<br> 3. Jane Campion – ""Sweetie"" 1. Jeremy Irons – ""Reversal of Fortune""<br> 2. Danny Glover – ""To Sleep with Anger""<br> 3. Robert De Niro – ""Goodfellas"" and ""Awakenings"" 1. Anjelica Huston – ""The Grifters"" and ""The Witches""<br> 2. Joanne Woodward – ""Mr. & Mrs. Bridge""<br> 3. Jessica Lange – ""Men Don't Leave""<br>"
"following years. Rob Reiner's ""Misery"" (1990), based on a book by Stephen King, featured Kathy Bates as an unbalanced fan who terrorizes an incapacitated author (James Caan) who is in her care. Other films include Curtis Hanson's ""The Hand That Rocks the Cradle"" (1992) and ""Unlawful Entry"" (1992), starring Ray Liotta. Detectives/FBI agents hunting down a serial killer was another popular motif in the 1990s. A famous example is Jonathan Demme's Best Picture–winning crime thriller ""The Silence of the Lambs"" (1991)—in which young FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) engages in a psychological conflict with a cannibalistic psychiatrist named Hannibal"
"1990, before being released in North America on July 27, 1990. The film has an approval rating of 86% at Rotten Tomatoes, with critics praising its directing, acting, and writing. It grossed $221 million worldwide, and became the eighth-highest-grossing film of 1990. The film was followed by a television miniseries, ""The Burden of Proof"", in 1992, and a television film sequel, ""Innocent"", in 2011. Rozat ""Rusty"" Sabich is a prosecutor and the right-hand man of district attorney Raymond Horgan. When his colleague Carolyn Polhemus is found raped and murdered in her apartment, Raymond insists that Rusty take charge of the"
"both awards since the latter category was reintroduced in 1992) while both McDormand and Rockwell won the Lead Actress and Supporting Actor awards respectively. It was nominated for four awards at the 24th Screen Actors Guild Awards, winning three, including Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. At the 90th Academy Awards it received seven nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress for Frances McDormand, Best Original Screenplay for Martin McDonagh and two Best Supporting Actor nominations for both Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson. McDormand and Rockwell took home their respective awards. It was named one of the top"
"held in 1990 and had last hosted the 72nd ceremony held in 2000. Two weeks earlier in a ceremony at The Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel & Spa in Pasadena, California held on February 14, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Jennifer Garner. """" won all eleven awards it was nominated for, tying the Academy Awards record for most awards won (alongside ""Ben-Hur"" and ""Titanic""), including Best Director for Peter Jackson and Best Picture. Other winners included """" and ""Mystic River"" with two awards and ""The Barbarian Invasions"", ""Chernobyl Heart"", ""Cold Mountain"", ""Finding Nemo"", ""The Fog of War:"
"as follows: Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 1990 The 3rd Chicago Film Critics Association Awards were announced on March 7, 1991 at an awards ceremony held in The Pump Room. They honor achievements in 1990 filmmaking. The nominations were announced on January 20, 1991. ""Goodfellas"" received the most nominations (7), followed by ""Dances With Wolves"" (4) and The Godfather Part III (2). Actresses Joan Cusack and Kathy Bates earned two nominations apiece. The awards were notable for the introductions of two new categories: Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay. The winners and nominees for the 3rd annual Chicago Film Critics Association"
"implant"" and ""black independent film"". According to the study, the movie that scored the highest and thus was the most blatant Oscar bait among the films surveyed was Alan Parker's 1990 ""Come See the Paradise"", released by 20th Century Fox. It received that score for the previous Oscar nominations of Parker, its setting in Hollywood (star Dennis Quaid plays a projectionist) and its depiction of a tragic historical event (his Japanese American wife and children are interned) against the background of war and racism. It was only released in a few cities during the last week of that year to"
"with one. The telecast garnered more than 40 million viewers in the United States. The nominees for the 62nd Academy Awards were announced on February 14, 1990, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Karl Malden, president of the Academy, and the actress Geena Davis. ""Driving Miss Daisy"" received the most nominations with nine total; ""Born on the Fourth of July"" came in second with eight. Winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 26, 1990. ""Driving Miss Daisy"" became the third film to win Best Picture without a Best"
"1989 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 24th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 8 January 1990, honored the best filmmaking of 1989. 1. Drugstore Cowboy<br> 2. ""Enemies, a Love Story""<br> 3. ""Casualties of War"" 1. Gus Van Sant – ""Drugstore Cowboy""<br> 2. Paul Mazursky – ""Enemies, a Love Story""<br> 3. Spike Lee – ""Do the Right Thing"" 1. Daniel Day-Lewis – ""My Left Foot""<br> 2. Morgan Freeman – ""Driving Miss Daisy""<br> 3. Tom Cruise – ""Born on the Fourth of July"" 1. Michelle Pfeiffer – ""The Fabulous Baker Boys""<br> 2. Jessica Tandy – ""Driving Miss Daisy""<br>"
"Kaleidoscope (1990 film) Kaleidoscope, also known as Danielle Steel's Kaleidoscope, is a 1990 made-for-television romantic drama film directed by Jud Taylor. The film is based upon the 1987 novel of the same name by Danielle Steel. When wealthy Arthur Patterson (Donald Moffat) finds out that he is dying, he tries to make peace with his past. He looks back to his World War II years, when he was a soldier in France. There, he met a poor French girl, Solange Bertrand (Kim Thomson), whom he fell in love with. Solange married his good friend Sam (Bruce Abbott), though, and they"
"movie that demonstrates how the vision of a director, once fully realized on screen, can transform a good motion picture into a great one."" ""The Abyss"" won the 1990 Oscar for Best Visual Effects (John Bruno, Dennis Muren, Hoyt Yeatman, and Dennis Skotak). It was also nominated for: The studio unsuccessfully lobbied hard to get Michael Biehn nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Many other film organizations, such as the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, and the American Society of Cinematographers, also nominated ""The Abyss"". The film ended up winning a total of three"
"at the top spot. Nurse Betty Nurse Betty is a 2000 American black comedy film directed by Neil LaBute and starring Renée Zellweger as a Kansas waitress who suffers a nervous breakdown after witnessing her husband's murder, and starts obsessively pursuing her favorite soap actor (Greg Kinnear), while in a fugue state. Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock play the hitmen who killed her husband and subsequently pursue her to Los Angeles. For her performance, Zellweger won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. In a small Kansas town, Betty, a diner waitress, is a"
"critical acclaim for her performance. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: As of December 2018, the film holds a rating of 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 20 reviews. Sweet Dreams (1985 film) Sweet Dreams is a 1985 American biographical film which tells the story of country music singer Patsy Cline. The film was written by Robert Getchell and directed by Karel Reisz. It stars Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth, David Clennon, James Staley, Gary Basaraba, John Goodman, and P. J. Soles. The film was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress (Jessica Lange)."
"of the Academy, and Academy Award-winning actress Kathy Bates. ""Gladiator"" received the most nominations with twelve. ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" came in second with ten. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 25, 2001. ""Gladiator"" became the first film to win Best Picture without a directing or screenwriting win since 1949's ""All the King's Men"". Best Director winner Steven Soderbergh, who received nominations for both ""Erin Brockovich"" and ""Traffic"" (for which he won the award), was the third person to receive double directing nominations in the same year. ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" became the third film nominated"
"Best Picture: ""The Exorcist"" (1973), ""Jaws"" (1975), ""The Sixth Sense"" (1999), ""Black Swan"" (2010), and ""Get Out"" (2017). No documentary has yet been nominated for Best Picture, although ""Chang"" was nominated in the ""Unique and Artistic Production"" category at the 1927/28 awards. In 2017, at the 89th Academy Awards, presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty read ""La La Land"" as the winner of the award. However, they had mistakenly been given the envelope for the ""Best Actress in a Leading Role"" award, which Emma Stone had won for her role in ""La La Land"" moments prior. When the mistake was"
"Mermaids (1990 film) Mermaids is a 1990 American comedy-drama film directed by Richard Benjamin and starring Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder (who was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for best supporting actress for her role), and Christina Ricci in her first film role. It is based on the 1986 novel of the same name written by Patty Dann. It was shot in and around the towns of Rockport, Gloucester, Ipswich, Lincoln and Pawtucket. The film is narrated by Charlotte Flax, a quirky and awkward 15-year-old girl living in Oklahoma with her single, eccentric mother, Rachel (whom she calls ""Mrs."
"an average grade of ""A-"" on an A+ to F scale. Annie Wilkes was ranked #17 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains list. The film's score was composed by Marc Shaiman. Misery (film) Misery is a 1990 American thriller film directed by Rob Reiner based on Stephen King's 1987 novel of the same name, starring James Caan, Kathy Bates, Lauren Bacall, Richard Farnsworth, and Frances Sternhagen about a psychotic fan who holds an author captive and forces him to write her stories. It was released on November 30, 1990 in the United States. The film received critical acclaim and"
"as the only major supporting actors. Kathy Bates won the 1990 Best Actress Oscar for her performance. The novel was also adapted into a play by Simon Moore. The play premiered in London at the Criterion Theater in December 1992, starring Sharon Gless and Bill Paterson and directed by Moore. The play, directed by Alan Cohen, was revived in 2005 at the Kings Head Theatre in London, starring Michael Praed and Susan Penhaligon. In 2014 Dutch composer and theater producer Florus van Rooijen adapted the novel into a ""feel bad"" musical. A play written by William Goldman (who also wrote"
"whom he also shares with fellow director-actor Christopher Guest as their go-to editor. Reiner has gone on to direct other critically and commercially successful films with his own company, Castle Rock Entertainment. These include the romantic comedy ""When Harry Met Sally..."" (1989), which has been critically ranked among the all-time best of its genre, the tense thriller ""Misery"" (1990), for which Kathy Bates won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and his most commercially successful work, the military courtroom drama ""A Few Good Men"" (1992), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Subsequent films directed by Reiner"
"There was a limited VHS, but to date no DVD, release. Struck by Lightning (1990 film) Struck by Lightning is a 1990 Australian film directed by Jerzy Domaradzki. The film was nominated in 4 AFI Award categories, including Best Director and Best Film. It won the film award at the Human Rights Medal and Awards in 1990. Garry McDonald plays Ollie, a grumpy alcoholic workshop supervisor at a shelter called Saltmarsh. He hires Pat (Brian Vriends), a school teacher, to develop an experimental fitness program for the intellectually disabled young adults in the shelter. Pat teaches P.E and decides to"
"February 15, 1989, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC), at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Richard Kahn, president of the Academy, and the actress Anne Archer. ""Rain Man"" led all nominees, with eight nominations; ""Dangerous Liaisons"" and ""Mississippi Burning"" tied for second with seven each. The winners were announced at the award ceremony on March 29, 1989. Best Actress winner Jodie Foster became the third person in history to win the aforementioned category for a film with a single nomination. The last person to achieve this feat was Sophia Loren when she won for ""Two Women"""
"Ghost (1990 film) Ghost is a 1990 American romantic fantasy thriller film starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn, and Rick Aviles. It was written by Bruce Joel Rubin and directed by Jerry Zucker. The plot centers on a young woman in jeopardy (Moore), the ghost of her murdered lover (Swayze), and a reluctant psychic (Goldberg) who assists him in saving her. The film was an outstanding commercial success, grossing over $505.7 million at the box office on a budget of $22 million. It was the highest-grossing film of 1990. Adjusted for inflation, ""Ghost"" was the 93rd-highest-grossing film"
"Nurse Betty Nurse Betty is a 2000 American black comedy film directed by Neil LaBute and starring Renée Zellweger as a Kansas waitress who suffers a nervous breakdown after witnessing her husband's murder, and starts obsessively pursuing her favorite soap actor (Greg Kinnear), while in a fugue state. Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock play the hitmen who killed her husband and subsequently pursue her to Los Angeles. For her performance, Zellweger won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. In a small Kansas town, Betty, a diner waitress, is a fan of the soap"
"Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 1990 The 3rd Chicago Film Critics Association Awards were announced on March 7, 1991 at an awards ceremony held in The Pump Room. They honor achievements in 1990 filmmaking. The nominations were announced on January 20, 1991. ""Goodfellas"" received the most nominations (7), followed by ""Dances With Wolves"" (4) and The Godfather Part III (2). Actresses Joan Cusack and Kathy Bates earned two nominations apiece. The awards were notable for the introductions of two new categories: Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay. The winners and nominees for the 3rd annual Chicago Film Critics Association Awards are"
"Struck by Lightning (1990 film) Struck by Lightning is a 1990 Australian film directed by Jerzy Domaradzki. The film was nominated in 4 AFI Award categories, including Best Director and Best Film. It won the film award at the Human Rights Medal and Awards in 1990. Garry McDonald plays Ollie, a grumpy alcoholic workshop supervisor at a shelter called Saltmarsh. He hires Pat (Brian Vriends), a school teacher, to develop an experimental fitness program for the intellectually disabled young adults in the shelter. Pat teaches P.E and decides to try to get them involved in soccer, with some interesting results."