Are there any movies that are/will be considered "classic"...

Oh, I've seen that. I didn't know it had a lot of Oscar's too. But I was just saying LOTR and Titanic because they are recent and I was only using Ben Hur for comparison, which is why only those 3 were mentioned. Other movies I'm sure have received tons of awards that I don't know about.

 

Austin Powers 1 & 2: older than 5 yrs, but classics.

Gladiator: classic

LOTR: classic for some, not for me.

 

"A minimum of unnecessary melodrama"? I can't recall seeing more slavering werewolf Germans since Erich von Stroheim in Blind Husbands & Foolish Wives.

James Ellroy's original novel was much more complex than the movie, which necessarily had to be simplified to fit theater-time. It can also be somewhat better contextualized as the third in Ellroy's "L.A. Quartet", being The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz.

FYI The Black Dahlia is currently in production, and should be a ferocious film if anything like the novel:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387877/

 

I agree that he should have received the Oscar for that. Except perhaps the Academy decided that he wasn't "acting" at all.

 

yeah, definitely type casting!