Titles By Award: 1988

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A World Apart

Award: Best Actress - Tie
Award Year: 1988
Recipient(s): Linda Mvusi
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 1988

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this "haunting, deeply moving film" (Los Angeles Times) brims with "emotion and radiant intelligence" (The New Yorker) and features Barbara Hershey in a "strikingly forceful performance" (New York) by Barbara Hershey, this potent account of personal and political turmoil brims with "emotion and radiant intelligence" (The New Yorker)!
South Africa, 1963. Communist Gus Roth (Jeroen Krabbe) is forced to flee Johannesburg to escape arrest, leaving his activist wife Diana (Hershey) to continue their crusade against apartheid. But when Diana is wrenched from her three daughters and jailed under the notorious 90-day Detention Act, she and her family face the ultimate sacrifice in the fight for freedom.

A Fish Called Wanda

Award: Best Actor
Award Year: 1988
Recipient(s): John Cleese
Theatrical Release Date: Jul 13, 1988

Synopsis:

Tour-de-force performances from an unparalleled comic cast highlight this much-loved hit that RogerEbert calls "the funniest movie I have seen in a long time!" Monty Pythoners John Cleese and Michael Palin (Search For The Holy Grail, The Meaning Of Life) join Oscar winner Kevin Kline (In & Out) and Jamie Lee Curtis (True Lies) in an entertainment so impeccably timed and executed that Time Magazine hailed it as: "Genius [a film that] redefines agreat comic tradition!"

Four conniving jewel thieves... three yorkshire terriers... two heaving bosoms and one proper British barrister. It all adds up to "a non-stop barrage of... outrageous plot twists and over-the top performances" (L.A. Weekly) when a girl called Wanda (Curtis) tries to deceive her Nietzche-quoting boyfriend (Kline), an animal-loving hitman (Palin) and an embarrassment-prone counselor (Cleese) out of a fortune in jewels in this hilariously funny farce!

Babette's Feast

Award: Best Actress
Award Year: 1988
Recipient(s): Stephane Audran
Theatrical Release Date: Mar 04, 1988

Synopsis: In 1871 France, a women flees a commune and seels refuge in an austere village in Denmark. She earns her keep by cooking for the local nuns. The daily fare consists of bland and usual foods. After the French girl wins a Paris lottery, she decides to spice up the lives of the locals by cooking them a culinary feast.

Bagdad Cafe

Award: Best Foreign Film
Award Year: 1988
Theatrical Release Date: Apr 22, 1988

Synopsis: Set in Mojave Desert, this bittersweet delightful comedy brings together a German tourist and a black motel owner. Initially wary of each other, the two become close friends and transform the rundown cafe/motel into the hottest magical nightspot this side of Las Vegas.

Bull Durham

Award: Best Screenplay
Award Year: 1988
Recipient(s): Ron Shelton
Theatrical Release Date: Jun 15, 1988

Synopsis: A romantic love story set in the dirt and grit of minor league baseball. Sarandan is a groupie for the Carolina Durham Bulls who chooses a protege each season to school in the art of love. This season she picks the team's untameable pitcher but eventually abides her true passion, the team's catcher, Costner.

Buster

Award: Best Original Song - Motion Picture
Award Year: 1988
Recipient(s): Phil Collins
Theatrical Release Date: Nov 23, 1988

Synopsis: It's a tough life being a small-time thief with a heart of gold. But Buster Edward's dream of the good life for him and his family fast become a reality when he pulls off the greatest robbery in history: a heist of over $7 million in used bank notes. On the run from the law, Buster and family take flight to Acapulco where it's sunshine and champagne all the way. But even paradise has it's problems- the money is fast disappearing and his wife June misses their old way of life. After she leaves him in Acapulco to return home, Buster soon realizes that all the money in the world can't take the place of the woman he loves. If he goes back, he faces a harsh prison sentence- but for Buster, that sacrifice may be what life, and love is all about.

Camille Claudel

Award: Best Cinematography
Award Year: 1988
Recipient(s): Pierre L'Homme
Theatrical Release Date: Dec 20, 1989

Synopsis: The emotionally passionate biography of sculptress/mistress Camille Claudel. Camille is a burgioning sculptress who becomes the pupil of reknowned sculpter, Auguste Rodin. She becomes Rodin's mistress, and in the following 15 years plumets into a neverending spiral of artistic brilliance/emotional insanity. Spends the last thirty years of her life insane.

High Tide

Award: Best Actress
Award Year: 1988
Recipient(s): Judy Davis
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 1987

Synopsis: Having been kicked out of her band mates, the lead singer of a rock n' roll group finds herself stranded in a small Australian town after her car breaks down. She winds up staying in a trailer park only to encounter, by accident, the teenage daughter she deserted following the death of her husband.

Hotel Terminus

Award: Best Documentary
Award Year: 1988
Theatrical Release Date: Oct 09, 1988

Synopsis: One of the most notorious war criminals of the Third Reich, Klaus Barbie is also one of the most elusive figures in modern world history

House of Games

Award: Best Film
Award Year: 1988
Theatrical Release Date: Oct 14, 1987

Synopsis: A successful psychiatrist and best-selling author is drawn into the world of one of her patients, a compulsive gambler who introduces her to a dangerous and alluring confidence man. While falling prey to an elaborate con game, the psychiatrist tries to taste the underworld without swallowing, but it begins to swallow her.

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Titles By Award: 1988