Random Best Oscar-Winning Movies Based on True Stories (26 items)

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  (#5) Platoon

  • Johnny Depp, Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, Forest Whitaker, Oliver Stone, Keith David, Tony Todd, John C. McGinley, Kevin Dillon, Dale Dye, Richard Edson, Cary Glover, Mark Moses, Francesco Quinn, Henry Strzalkowski, Nick Nicholson, Chris Pedersen, David Neidorf, Paul Sanchez, Reggie Johnson, Mark Ebenhoch, Terry McIlvain, Eric Hahn, Ivan Kane, Robert 'Rock' Galotti, Corkey Ford, H. Gordon Boos, Matthew Westfall, Warren McLean, Peter Hicks, Clarisa Ortacio, Bernardo Manalili, Chris Castillejo, Basile Achara, Li Mai Thao, Steve Barredo, J. Adam Glover, Andrew B. Clark, Li Thi Van, Ron Barracks, Than Rogers, Bob Orwig, Romy Sevilla, Kevin Eshelman

  Won the Oscar for Best Picture: 1986

  Platoon was based on writer and director Oliver Stone's tours in Vietnam. After the film's release he was lauded as finally bringing the psychological stress of the war to the forefront of the American media. 
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  (#16) Out of Africa

  • Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Iman Abdulmajid, Leslie Phillips, Michael Gough, Michael Kitchen, Benny Young, Graham Crowden, Shane Rimmer, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Donal McCann, Rachel Kempson, Suzanna Hamilton, Stephen B. Grimes, Malick Bowens, Niven Boyd, Tristram Jellinek, Annabel Maule, Job Seda, Allaudin Qureshi, Mike Bugara, Joseph Thiaka, Keith Pearson, Stephen Kinyanjui, Kenneth Mason, Abdulla Sunado, Muriel Gross, Peter Strong, Ann Palmer, Mohammed Umar, Amanda Parkin, Sbish Trzebinski

  Won the Oscar for Best Picture: 1985

  Out Of Africa is VERY LOOSELY based on the memoirs of Karen Blixen, which was also titled Out of Africa. One of the biggest changes to Blixen's story was the downplaying of her family's wealth and 4,000 acre farm. 
  
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  (#18) Chariots of Fire

  • Stephen Fry, Kenneth Branagh, Ian Holm, John Gielgud, Richard Griffiths, Ruby Wax, Alice Krige, Lindsay Anderson, Brad Davis, Ian Charleson, Patrick Doyle, Ben Cross, Benny Young, Peter Egan, Michael Lonsdale, Nigel Havers, Nigel Davenport, Patrick Magee, Nicholas Farrell, Dennis Christopher, Cheryl Campbell, John Young, Derek Pringle, Peter Cellier, Daniel Gerroll, Jeremy Sinden, David Yelland, Jack Smethurst, Struan Rodger, Sarah Roache, Stephen Mallatratt, Carole Ashby, Edward Wiley, Lorraine Daniels, Yvonne Gilan, Yves Beneyton, Robin Pappas, Colin Bruce, Kim Clifford, Andrew Hawkins, Tommy Boyle, Alan Polonsky, Philip O'Brien, Mark English, Gordon Hammersley, Stephen Marzella, Roberta Morrell, Wallace Campbell, Paul Howard, Ralph Lawton, Michael Jeyes, David John, Dave Turner, Gerry Slevin, Eddie Hughson, Alan Dudley, Steve Ambrose, Tess Dignan, John Rutland, Rosy Clayton, David Kivlin, Gayle Garyson, Graham Brooke, Peter Jones

  Won the Oscar for Best Picture: 1981

  Chariots Of Fire is loosely based on a pair of athletes who compete during the 1924 Olympics for various personal reasons. Despite most of the scenes taking place during actual historic events, most of the film is a fabrication. 
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  (#8) 12 Years a Slave

  • Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Lupita Nyong'o, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, Alfre Woodard

  Won the Oscar for Best Picture: 2013

  The story of Solomon Northup, a man who was kidnapped from his home in the North in 1841 and sold into slavery, is seen as a somewhat faithful adaptation to Northup's original text, but a scene on a slave ship was added to give the film some extra pizzaz. 
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  (#6) Dances with Wolves

  • Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Charles Rocket, Graham Greene, Maury Chaykin, Robert Pastorelli, Wes Studi, Tantoo Cardinal, Tom Everett, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Rodney A. Grant, Michael Spears, Jimmy Herman

  Won the Oscar for Best Picture: 1990

  Dances with Wolves is the story of a Lieutenant in the Union Army who joins up with the Sioux Indians and learns their ways. While most of the historical information in this film is as close to accurate as a film can hope to get, the representation of the Native Americans has been criticized heavily. Specifically troubling is Costner's approach to making all of the Siouxs good, while all of the Pawnees are bad.  
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  (#13) The Last Emperor

  • Peter O'Toole, Joan Chen, Vivian Wu, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Chen Kaige, John Lone, Victor Wong, Maggie Han, Ying Ruocheng, Constantine Gregory, Ric Young, Henry O, Lisa Lu, Dennis Dun, Hideo Takamatsu, Basil Pao, Lucia Hwong, Jade Go, Tsou Tijger, Li Yu, Richard Vuu, Fumihiko Ikeda, Tianmin Zhang, Hongxiang Cai, Akira Ikuta, Hajime Tachibana, Shu Chen, Wu Jun, Junguo Gu, Biao Wang, Henry Kyi, Fusheng Li, Hongnian Luo, Guang Ma, Matthew Spender, Baozong Yang, Guangli Li, Ruzhen Shao, Jiechen Dong, Liangbin Zhang, Yuan Jin, Xinmin Cui, Tao Wu, Alvin Riley III, Ruigang Zu, Zhenduo Li, Hongchang Yang, Dong Liang, Guang Fan, Shuyan Cheng, Zhendong Dong, Daxing Zhang, Lingmu Zhang, Shigang Luo, Chunqing Xu, Michael Vermaaten, Xu Tongrui, Shihong Yu, Huaikuei Soong, Shi Liang, Wenjie Huang, Jingping Cui

  Won the Oscar for Best Picture: 1987

  This biographical film about the last emperor of China, Puyi was labored over by Bernardo Bertolucci but during distribution in Japan, a 30 second sequence featuring the Rape of Nanjing was cut from the film without his consent. 

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