Top movies of all time: Greatest movies in the 60 to 51 slots
This week we look at the movies in spots 60 to 51 of the 100 Greatest Movies Ever Made.
A list of the top 100 greatest movies of all times has been drawn up by IMDb and is not based on the personal preferences of the Addie’s staff.
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According to IMDb, the movies on this list are ranked according to their success (awards and nominations), their popularity, and their true greatness from a directing/writing standpoint.
Number 60: Goodfellas (1990)
Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco
Running time: 146 minutes
Oscars: 1, Nominations: 6
BAFTA Awards: 5, Nominations: 7
Golden Globes: 0, Nominations: 5
Number 59: The Pianist (2002)
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox
Running time: 150 minutes.
Oscars: 3, Nominations: 7
BAFTA Awards: 1, Nominations: 5
Golden Globes: 0, Nominations: 2
Number 58: Dances with Wolves (1990)
Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.
Director: Kevin Costner
Stars: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant
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Running time: 181 minutes
Oscars: 7, Nominations: 12
BAFTA Awards: 0, Nominations: 9
Golden Globes: 3, Nominations: 6
Number 57: High Noon (1952)
A marshall, personally compelled to face a returning deadly enemy, finds that his own town refuses to help him.
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges
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Running time: 85 minutes
Oscars: 4, Nominations: 7
BAFTA Awards: 0, Nominations: 0
Golden Globes: 4, Nominations: 7
Number 56: Platoon (1986)
A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Director: Oliver Stone
Stars: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David
Running time: 120 minutes
Oscars: 4, Nominations: 8
BAFTA Awards: 2, Nominations: 3
Golden Globes: 3, Nominations: 4
Number 55: The Apartment (1960)
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston
Running time: 125 minutes.
Oscars: 5, Nominations: 10
BAFTA Awards: 3, Nominations: 3
Golden Globes: 3, Nominations: 4
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Number 54: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Fred Dobbs and Bob Curtin, two Americans searching for work in Mexico, convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
Director: John Huston
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett
Running time: 126 minutes
Oscars: 3, Nominations: 4
BAFTA Awards: 0, Nominations: 1
Golden Globes: 3, Nominations: 3
Number 53: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close.
Director: George Roy Hill
Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin
Running time: 110 minutes.
Oscars: 4, Nominations: 7
BAFTA Awards: 8, Nominations: 9
Golden Globes: 1, Nominations: 4
Number 52: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
Director: Sergio Leone
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè
Running time: 161 minutes.
There were no Oscars, BAFTAs or Golden Globe nominations or awards for this film.
Number 51: Braveheart (1995)
When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, William Wallace begins a revolt and leads Scottish warriors against the cruel English tyrant who rules Scotland with an iron fist.
Director: Mel Gibson
Stars: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen
Running time: 177 minutes.
Oscars: 5, Nominations: 10
BAFTA Awards: 3, Nominations: 5
Golden Globes: 1, Nominations: 4