Top cast:Wallace Reid,Gertrude Robinson,Sue Balfour
Director:Roger Allers&Rob Minkoff
Genre:Adventure
Region:Argentina
Year:2006
Storyline:For 2,500 years, "the ring passed out of all knowledge" until acquired by the creature Gollum (Andy Serkis) in a dark cave ("My precious"), giving him long life for 500 years, yet it consumed him and poisoned his mind.Thorin and Company (with Bilbo who had secretly returned o the Mountain) watched from high above the wall as Bard and Thranduil (on an Elk mount) approached.He described it as "dark imes" with threats, although vowed to the citizenry to defend heir liberty and repel the forces.They were almost detected, but then rescued from capture by elderly bearded Aberforth Dumbledore (Ciaran Hinds), Albus' younger brother, who ushered them into the basement of his Hog's Head Inn.One of the film's posters correctly proclaimed:"Television will never be the same."The film had a total of ten Academy Award nominations with four wins.To the film's credit, five cast members were nominated for Oscars (and three won) - Best Actor (posthumously awarded to Peter Finch - Finch became the first andonlypost-humous winner of an acting Oscar in Academy history), Best Actress (Faye Dunaway), and Best Supporting Actress (Beatrice Straight)).