Top cast:Robert Downey Jr.,Chris Evans,Scarlett Johansson
Director:Imtiaz Ali
Genre:History
Region:Singapore
Year:2000
Storyline:Its sole Academy Award nomination was for Best Song, by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer (lyrics).The film""s mood was captured in the film""s tagline displayed on posters:"You can expect the unexpected when they play.Warren""s ear is bandaged and his arm is extended, as he makes charges against his "crazy" wife: "I been complainin"" ever since the day I got married to her so go ahead and file it...Jack: Uh, formerly a school-teacher...I""m a writer.Umm, teaching""s been more or less a way of making ends meet...I""m lookin"" for a change.General Manager Ullman explains that the regular season runs from "May 15 to October 30th and then we close down completely until the following May" - a period of six months when the deserted, off-season, snow-bound hotel is closed and inaccessible during the brutal, terrifying winter weather.Others hat swept across movie screens in the late 70""s and 80s to illustrate he ""hellish"", futile conditions of bloody Vietnam War combat included:the Oscar-winning documentaryHearts and Minds (1974)Francis Ford Coppola""sApocalypse Now (1979)Oliver Stone""sPlatoon (1986)Stanley Kubrick""sFull Metal Jacket (1987)John Irvin""sHamburger Hill (1987)Oliver Stone""sBorn on the Fourth of July (1989)Brian De Palma""sCasualties of War (1989)This film received nine Academy Award nominations (including Best Actor (Robert De Niro), Best Supporting Actress (Meryl Streep), Best Cinematography (by Vilmos Zsigmond - who had just filmed Spielberg""sClose Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)), and Best Original Screenplay), and won five Oscars: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Christopher Walken), Best Director, Best Sound, and Best Film Editing.