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90's at glance
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The Oscar mix: best picture breakdown
Year
Film
Genre
Period
Source
Release date
Length
US gross $m
1989
Driving Miss Daisy
comedydrama
1948-73
play
December
99 min
106.6
1990
Dances With Wolves
Western
1860s
book
November
181 min
184.2
1991
Silence of The Lambs
Thriller
present
book
February
118 min
130.7
1992 Unforgiven
Western
1880s
original
August
130 min
101.2
1993 Schindler's List
WWII drama
1930s-40s
book
December
195 min
96.1
1994 Forrest Gump
comedydrama
1950-1981
book
June
142 min
329.7
1995 Braveheart
epic
late 1200s
original
May
177 min
75.6
1996 The English Patient
epic-romance
1940
book
November
162 min
78.7
1997 Titanic
epic-romance
1912
original
December
194 min
600.8
1998 Shakespeare in Love
comedy
late 1500s
original
December
122 min
100.2

As compared to:

Sundance Grand Jury Prize winners

1990 Chameleon Street, Wendell B. Harris Jr
1991 Poison, Todd Haynes
1992 In The Soup, Alexandre Rockwell
1993 Ruby In Paradise, Victor Nuņez - Public Access, Bryan Singer
1994 What Happened Was, Tom Noonan
1995 The Brothers McMullen, Edward Burns
1996 Welcome To The Dollhouse, Todd Solondz
1997 Sunday, Jonathan Nossiter
1998 Slam, Marc Levin

Independent Spirit Awards

1990 Sex, Lies and Videotape, Steven Soderbergh
1991 The Grifters, Stephen Frears
1992 Rambling Rose, Martha Coolidge
1993 The Player, Robert Altman
1994 Short Cuts, Robert Altman
1995 Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino
1996 Leaving Las Vegas, Mike Figgis
1997 Fargo, Ethan and Joel Coen
1998 The Apostle, Robert Duvall