TOYMAKER'S HORROR @ THE OSCARS
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1. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
R | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine
Votes: 1,548,082 | Gross: $130.74M
Best Picture Best Actor: Anthony Hopkins Best Actress: Jodie Foster Best Director: Jonathan Demme Best Adapted Screenplay: Ted Tally Also nominated for Best Editing (Craig McKay) and Best Sound (Tom Fleischman and Christopher Newman).
2. The Exorcist (1973)
R | 122 min | Horror
When a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 454,925 | Gross: $232.91M
Best Sound: Robert Knudson, Chris Newman Best Adapted Screenplay: William Peter Blatty Also nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress (Ellen Burstyn), Best Director (William Friedkin), Best Supporting Actor (Jason Miller), Best Supporting Actress (Linda Blair), Best Cinematography (Owen Roizman), Best Art Direction (Bill Malley and Jerry Wunderlich) and Best Editing (John C. Broderick, Bud S. Smith, Evan A. Lottman and Norman Gay).
3. Misery (1990)
R | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen
Votes: 235,549 | Gross: $61.28M
Best Actress: Kathy Bates.
4. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Approved | 137 min | Drama, Horror
A young couple trying for a baby moves into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, where they find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer
Votes: 235,154
Best Supporting Actress: Ruth Gordon. Also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay (Roman Polanski).
5. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Passed | 134 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Wesley Addy
Votes: 61,874 | Gross: $4.05M
Best Costume Design, Black and White: Norma Koch. Also nominated for best Actress (Bette Davis), Best Supporting Actor (Victor Buono), Best Black-and-White Cinematography (Ernest Haller) and Best Sound (Joseph D. Kelly).
6. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Passed | 98 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert
Votes: 15,809 | Gross: $2.79M
Best Actor in a Leading Role: Fredric March. Also nominated for Best Cinematography (Karl Struss) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Percy Heath and Samuel Hoffenstein).
7. Gaslight (1944)
Passed | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Ten years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the home rises from a secret that may require driving his wife insane.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, May Whitty
Votes: 33,889
Best Actress in a Leading Role: Ingrid Bergman Best Art Direction (Black-and-White): Cedric Gibbons, William Ferrari, Edwin B. Willis and Paul Huldschinsky Also nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor (Charles Boyer), Best Supporting Actress (Angela Landsbury), Best Adapted Screenplay (John L. Balderston, Walter Reisch and John Van Druten) and Best Black-and-White Cinematography (Joseph Ruttenberg).
8. Carrie (1976)
R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery
Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta
Votes: 206,656 | Gross: $33.80M
Nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Sissy Spacek) and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Piper Laurie).
9. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
R | 128 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves
Votes: 238,406 | Gross: $82.52M
Best Costume Design: Eiko Ishioka Best Sound Effects Editing: Tom C. McCarthy and David E. Stone Best Makeup: Greg Cannom, Michèle Burke and Matthew W. Mungle Also nominated for Best Art Direction (Thomas E. Sanders and Garrett Lewis).
10. Black Swan (2010)
R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller
Nina is a talented but unstable ballerina on the verge of stardom. Pushed to the breaking point by her artistic director and a seductive rival, Nina's grip on reality slips, plunging her into a waking nightmare.
Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder
Votes: 824,606 | Gross: $106.95M
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: Natalie Portman. Also nominated for Best Achievement in Cinematography (Matthew Libatique), Best Achievement in Directing (Darren Aronofsky), Best Achievement in Film Editing (Andrew Weisblum) and Best Motion Picture of the Year (Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin).
11. Psycho (1960)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Votes: 718,224 | Gross: $32.00M
Nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Janet Leigh), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Joseph Hurley, Robert Clatworthy, George Milo), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (John L. Russell) and Best Director (Alfred Hitchcock).
12. Aliens (1986)
R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn, Paul Reiser
Votes: 762,991 | Gross: $85.16M
Best Sound Effects Editing: Don Sharpe Best Visual Effects: Robert Skotak, Stan Winston, John Richardson and Suzanne M. Benson Also nominated for Best Actress (Sigourney Weaver), Best Original Score (James Horner), Best Sound (Graham V. Hartstone, Nicolas Le Messurier, Michael A. Carter and Roy Charman), Best Editing (Ray Lovejoy) and Best Art Direction (Peter Lamont and Crispian Sallis).
13. Jaws (1975)
PG | 124 min | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary
Votes: 659,402 | Gross: $260.00M
Best Editing: Verna Fields Best Original Score: John Williams Best Sound: Robert L. Hoyt, Roger Heman Jr., Earl Madery, John R. Carter Also nominated for Best Picture.
14. The Omen (1976)
R | 111 min | Horror, Mystery
Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, Harvey Stephens, David Warner
Votes: 132,487 | Gross: $4.27M
Best Original Score: Jerry Goldsmith. Also nominated for Best Original Song ("Ave Satani" by Jerry Goldsmith).
15. Poltergeist (1982)
PG | 114 min | Horror, Thriller
A family's home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight
Votes: 179,552 | Gross: $76.61M
Nominated for Best Effects, Visual Effects (Richard Edlund, Michael Wood, Bruce Nicholson), Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing (Stephen Hunter Flick, Richard L. Anderson) and Best Music, Original Score (Jerry Goldsmith).
16. Alien (1979)
R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 950,554 | Gross: $78.90M
Best Visual Effects: H.R. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Brian Johnson, Nick Allder, Denys Ayling. Also nominated for Best Art Direction (Michael Seymour, Leslie Dilley, Roger Christian and Ian Whittaker).
17. The Fly (1986)
R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel
Votes: 201,883 | Gross: $40.46M
Best Achievement in Makeup: Chris Walas and Stephan Dupuis.
18. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
R | 105 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of three people; the culprit is legendary apparition The Headless Horseman.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon
Votes: 383,885 | Gross: $101.07M
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration: Rick Heinrichs (art director) Peter Young (set decorator). Also nominated for Best Cinematography (Emmanuel Lubezki) and Best Costume Design (Colleen Atwood).
19. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
R | 116 min | Drama, Horror, Musical
The legendary tale of a barber who returns from wrongful imprisonment to 1840s London, bent on revenge for the rape and death of his wife, and resumes his trade while forming a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall
Votes: 386,896 | Gross: $52.90M
Best Art Direction: Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo. Also nominated for Best Actor (Johnny Depp) and Best Costume Design (Colleen Atwood).
20. The Sixth Sense (1999)
PG-13 | 107 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist, starts treating a young boy, Cole, who encounters dead people and convinces him to help them. In turn, Cole helps Malcolm reconcile with his estranged wife.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams
Votes: 1,051,270 | Gross: $293.51M
Nominated for Best Picture (Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Haley Joel Osment), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Toni Collette), Best Director (M. Night Shyamalan), Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (M. Night Shyamalan) and Best Film Editing (Andrew Mondshein).
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