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- The first – and only – remake to win Best Picture is The Departed (USA, 2006), Martin Scorsese's (USA) remake of Infernal Affairs (Hong Kong, 2002).
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The first – and only – remake to win Best Picture is The Departed (USA, 2006), Martin Scorsese's (USA) remake of Infernal Affairs (Hong Kong, 2002). The Coen brothers' (USA) remake of True Grit (USA, 2010) was nominated for the 2010 Best Picture Oscar but lost out to The King’s Speech (UK, 2010).
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Lewis Milestone’s All Quiet on the Western Front, based on Erich Maria Remarque’s novel of the same day, remains nearly 100 years later one of the most powerful anti-war statements ever dedicated to film.
- West Side Story (1961) Robert Wise’s classic adaptation of the iconic broadway musical West Side Story - which itself is a revisionist take on Romeo & Juliet set on the mean streets of 1950s New York - has long been heralded as one of the great movie musicals of all time.
- Forrest Gump (1994) When Forrest Gump debuted in 1994, the world immediately fell in love with Tom Hanks’s titular character: an aloof but kindhearted Alabama man who manages to find himself in some of America’s most defining moments of the 20th Century.
- Cimarron (1931) Wesley Ruggle’s western epic Cimarron made a massive theatrical splash when it debuted in 1931. Spanning decades, the film follows the Cravat family as they settle in the newly formed town of Osage, Oklahoma after the land rush of 1889.
- 1 'The Departed'
- 2 'True Grit'
- 3 'Mad Max: Fury Road'
- 4 'Ben-Hur'
- 5 'Les Misérables'
- 6 'Chicago'
- 7 'The Sound of Music'
- 8 'West Side Story'
- 9 'My Fair Lady'
- 10 'The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring'
Martin Scorsese’s The Departed is a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film, Infernal Affairs (Original title: Mou Gaan Dou) and partially based on the real-life Boston Winter Hill Gang. The film follows the Irish mob leader Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) who infiltrates the Massachusetts State Police by installing Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) as a spy. ...
True Grit is an adaptation of Charles Portis' 1968 novel of the same name and a remake of the 1969 same-title movie. The film follows Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), a fourteen-year-old farm girl, who employs Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), a drunken and violent lawman, to find Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), the bandit who killed her father. The film earned a t...
Remade from the 1979 classic film, Mad Max, Mad Max: Fury Road is the fourth installment in thefranchise which continues to center on the titular character, played by Tom Hardy. The film follows Max as he aids Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) in her rebellious quest against an oppressive tyrant called Immortan Joe, to return to her homeland. The...
A remake of the 1925 silent film of the same name, Ben-Hur was adapted from the 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ byLew Wallace. The film is set at the beginning of the first century and follows Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston), a prosperous Jewish prince and trader who resides in Jerusalem. But after being betrayed and sold into slavery by a...
2012's Les Misérables is a remake of numerous movie adaptations that comes before it of the 1862 French novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. The movie, which is set in early nineteenth-century France, follows the tale of Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), a parolee who, despite being pursued by the cruel policeman Javert for years, undertakes to look a...
Chicago is based on the 1975 stage musical of the same name and remade from the 1927 same-title movie as well as Roxie Hart in 1942. The film revolves around Roxie Hart (Renée Zellweger) and Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones), two murderers who are imprisoned beside one another in 1920s Chicago while awaiting trial. Chicago garnered a total of 13 A...
Based on Maria von Trapp's 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers and remade from the 1958 German movie, Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika, The Sound of Music is set in 1938 in Salzburg, Austria, and follows a young Austrian postulant (Julie Andrews), who is assigned to the home of a widowed retired naval officer to be his governess for his s...
Adapted from the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name which was inspired by Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, the 1961 West Side Story is also a remake of the 1936 movie, Romeo and Juliet. The film follows two young people from two opposing juvenile gangs who fight for dominance of the Upper West Side in New York City in 1957, and fall in lov...
Remade from Pygmalion (1938) and Kitty (1945), My Fair Lady is based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 stage play Pygmalion. The film follows Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn), a lowly Cockney flower vendor, who overhears Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), a haughty professor of phonetics, casually wagering that he can teach her to speak "correct" English an...
Remade from the 1978 movie of the same name and based on 1954's The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume ofJ. R. R. Tolkien’s novel trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is set in Middle Earth and follows Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) and his companions on their quest to destroy the One Ring before it falls into the hands of ...
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Mar 25, 2022 · March 25, 2022. “Have I seen that before?” At the Oscars, viewers and voters may find themselves asking that question more than usual. No less than four of the 10 best picture nominees this year...
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The Departed, which won Best Picture of 2006, is a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs and is the first remake of a non-English language or international film to win.
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