Best Picture Winners of the 1990s

Dances with Wolves is a 1990 epic film which tells the story of a United States cavalry officer from the Civil War who travels into the Dakota Territory, near a Sioux tribe ***

The Silence of the Lambs ***

Unforgiven is a 1992 Western film which tells the story of a retired gunslinger who takes on one more job for money ***

Schindler's List is a 1993 biographical film directed by Steven Spielberg, telling the story of Oskar Schindler, a Sudeten-German Catholic businessman who saved the lives of over one thousand Polish Jews during the Final Solution ***

Forrest Gump is a 1994 drama film based on a 1986 novel by Winston Groom and the name of the title character of both ***

Braveheart is a historical action-drama movie produced and directed by Mel Gibson, who also starred in the title role ***

The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Sri Lankan Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje ***

Titanic ***

Shakespeare in Love is an award-winning 1998 romantic comedy film ***

American Beauty ***