Every year there are a few films based on real events that are nominated for Oscars and even manage to win some awards in various categories. But generally the films that are based on reality tend to win the awards main films such as acting and best feature film, either because they present characters, moments and stories that really existed or because they marked the world in one way or another.
It is true that there are great films that are pure fiction and fantasy, but there are others that allow us to travel to the past to explore real lives that are extraordinary and that inspired someone to write a script to share them with the world. Time machines don’t exist (or do they?), but cinema and television allow us to move through time and witness things that happened years ago and that have marked the history of humanity.
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To show 10 Oscar-winning films for best film based on real events.
“12 Years a Slave” (Best Film in 2013)
This film directed by Steve McQueen and that had among its producers Brad Pitt tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free northern black man, African American musician who is tricked, kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1840, serving 12 years filled with pain, abuse and violence before being rescued and reunited with his family. It has a great cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Lupita Nyong’o and Brad Pitt.
“Amadeus” (Best Film in 1984)
This Milos Forman movie tells the story of the legendary Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his difficult life on the Vienna music scene. This version follows a fictional rivalry between Mozart and the Italian composer Antonio Salieri at the court of Emperor Joseph II and has some things that didn’t really happen (Salieri doesn’t kill Mozart), but it does give us a little more insight into one of the most famous musicians. important in history.
“Argo” (Best film in 2012)
Ben Affleck’s movie shows one of the most eccentric rescue operations that have ever existed. Affleck plays Tony Mendez, a CIA agent who believes a plan to help a group of American citizens escape from Iran after the hostage crisis of the 70’s. What was your plan? Create a fake movie so they can enter the country and save the hostages before they are discovered.
“The Last Emperor” (Best Film in 1987)
This beautiful film by Bernardo Bertolucci tells the story of the last emperor of China, from when he was a child, until he is arrested by the Red Army and accused of being a war criminal in the 1950s. Pu-Yi, the emperorwho remembers his childhood from prison and recounts the most difficult moments of his reign in the mysterious Forbidden City.
“Spotlight” (Best film in 2015)
A journalistic drama directed with aplomb by Tom McCarthy. The film tells the story of how the investigative unit of The Boston Globe newspaper, called “Spotlight”, the oldest in the United States, unmasked a scandal in which the Massachusetts Catholic Church concealed a significant number of sexual abuses perpetrated by various Boston priests, and for which the Globe won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for public service. The terrific cast includes Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Brian d’Arcy James, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery and Stanley Tucci.
“Gandhi” (Best film in 1982)
Biographical film directed by Richard Attenborough on the life of Mahatma Gandhi (Ben Kingsley), a central figure in the Indian independence movement and an advocate of non-violence. The film begins on the day of Gandhi’s assassination on January 30, 1948, after an afternoon prayer, the elderly man is helped along for his evening walk to meet a large number of hosts and admirers. One of these visitors, Nathuram Godse, shoots him at close range in the chest. Gandhi exclaims: “Oh, God!” and then drops dead.
“Schindler’s List” (Best Picture in 1993)
Based on the novel Schindler’s Ark by Australian writer Thomas Keneally, directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay by Steven Zaillian, the film tells a period in the life of Oskar Schindler, an ethnic German businessman who saved more than a thousand Polish Jews from dying in the Holocausts during World War II employing them as workers in his factories. With Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes and Ben Kingsley in the lead roles.
“Lawrence of Arabia” (Best Picture in 1962)
Lawrence of Arabia is one of the best movies of all time, directed by David Lean and based on the life of Thomas Edward Lawrence, a British military officer, archaeologist, and writer, an officer in the British Army during World War I, who played a notable role as a liaison during the Arab rebellion against Ottoman rule. With a cast of notable actors: Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Quayle, José Ferrer, among others.
“The King’s Speech” (Best Film in 2010)
Directed by Tom Hooper and with the remarkable performance of Colin Firth. The plot revolves around Duke George of York who, to overcome his stutter, goes to Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue. (Geoffrey Rush) The two become friends while working together, and when Edward VIII abdicates the throne, the new King George turns to Logue for help in making the radio broadcast about the declaration of war on Germany in 1939.
“A Beautiful Mind” (Best Picture 2001)
Based on the homonymous novel by Sylvia Nasar, it tells the life of John Forbes Nash, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994. The direction of the film and the script were in charge of Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman, respectively. The film begins in the early years of the life of a young mathematical prodigy named John Nash, who begins to develop paranoid schizophrenia and delusions, while painfully seeing how this affects his physical condition and his family and friendly relationships. With the great performance of Russell Crowe, accompanied by Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Paul Bettany and Christopher Plummer.
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