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Horror films were snubbed at the Oscars for decades until a child possessed by a demon and a chianti-loving serial killer changed EVERYTHING!
On Halloween, let’s take a look at the 10 best Oscar-nominated and Academy Award winning horror films…
Horror films were snubbed at the Oscars for decades until a child possessed by a demon and a chianti-loving serial killer changed EVERYTHING! On Halloween, let’s take a look at the 10 best Oscar-nominated and Academy Award winning horror films…
‘The Silence of the Lambs’ first premiered in cinemas on Valentine’s Day in 1991 and is considered one of the best horror movies ever made. The psychological thriller won Best Picture, Best Director for Jonathan Demme, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress for Jodie Foster as FBI agent Clarice Starling, and Best Actor for Anthony Hopkins as cannibalistic forensic psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter at the Academy Awards. The film also warned two more Oscar nominations for Best Sound and Best Film Editing.
Few directorial debuts have made as big a splash as Jordan Peele’s. Psychological thriller ‘Get Out’ provided a sobering commentary on America’s racial divide, whilst also providing horror scares. The film follows Chris Washington, played by Daniel Kaluuya, a young African American man who accompanies his white girlfriend Rose Armitage (Allison Williams) home to meet her family. There, he starts to experience strange occurrences and as Chris digs deeper, he uncovers the disturbing secret that the Armitage family is harbouring. Jordan won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, while the film also earned three other nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Daniel’s performance. In 2021, the Writers Guild of America ranked the screenplay the greatest of the 21st century.
M. Night Shyamalan’s 1999 supernatural thriller remains his crown jewel of twists. ‘The Sixth Sense’ stars Bruce Willis as Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist who is trying to rectify his failure and reconcile with his wife. A year after a break-in by a former patient, Malcolm begins working with a nine-year-old Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment), however, Cole has a dark secret… he sees dead people! The film earned six Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Supporting Actor for Haley and Best Supporting Actress for Toni Collette.
Alfred Hitchcock earned his fifth Oscar nomination for Best Director for this 1960 horror masterpiece. ‘Psycho’ has long been praised as a major work of cinematic art due to its slick direction, tense atmosphere, and iconic performances. Anthony Perkins plays Norman Bates, the shy motel owner, who has an encounter with on-the-run embezzler Marion Crane (Janet Leigh). Decades later the film’s major reveal still holds the power to shock new audiences. ‘Psycho’ also received nominations for Best Supporting Actress, Best Black-and-White Art Direction, and Best Black-and-White Cinematography.
John Krasinski directed and starred in this 2018 horror, which follows Lee – played by John – and his wife Evelyn as they try and protect their family from blind monsters who have invaded Earth and hunt with their acute sense of hearing. Evelyn – who is played by John’s real-life spouse Emily Blunt – and John find themselves in a battle for survival in a post-apocalyptic nightmare Earth. At the 2019 Oscars, ‘A Quiet Place’ earned one nomination for Best Sound Editing.
This 1990 adaptation of Stephen King’s novel of the same name stars Kathy Bates as psychotic nurse Annie Wilkes, who holds her favourite novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan) captive after rescuing him from a car accident. When Annie discovers Paul’s plans for her favourite character things take a sinister twist. Kathy received overwhelming praise for her performance and won the Oscar for Best Actress.
Bong Joon Ho’s genre-bending 2019 South Korean thriller centers around a poor family who scheme to become employed by a wealthy family and infiltrate their household by posing as unrelated, highly qualified individuals. ‘Parasite’ earned an astounding six Oscar nominations, and took home four for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film, making it the first South Korean film to receive Academy Award recognition. Its win for Best Picture also made it the first non-English language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
The 1973 adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel ‘The Exorcist’ won two Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Sound, whilst scoring another eight nominations. These included Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Supporting Actress for Linda Blair as Regan, the young girl possessed by a demon, Best Supporting Actor for Jason Miller and Best Actress for Ellen Burstyn as Regan’s mother. It is still considered to be the greatest horror film of all time by many critics, due to its genuine shocks, overwhelming sense of dread and religious themes.
This 2010 psychological horror stars Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis, who play ballerinas training for their company’s production of ‘Swan Lake’. Nina (Natalie) is cast as the innocent and fragile White Swan, while her new rival Lily (Mila) is cast as the Black Swan. This causes Nina to be overwhelmed by the immense pressure of competing with Lily, which eventually drives her to lose her grip on reality. The film was nominated for Best Picture, Best Film Editing, Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Actress, which Natalie won.
Glenn Close stars as Alexandra Forrest, a woman who becomes obsessed with Michael Douglas’ Dan Gallagher after they have an affair, in this 1987 psychological thriller. ‘Fatal Attraction’ earned six nominations at the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, Best Actress for Close, Best Supporting Actress for Anne Archer, and Best Film Editing.
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