Academy Awards
The only foreign film to ever win Best Picture at the Oscars
Parasite
The highest grossing film of all time
Avatar
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The Substance
Famous for doing most of his own stunts, including hanging off the side of a plane
Tom Cruise
This film was Spike Lee's first entry into the Criterion Collection with spine #97
Do the Right Thing
This British-American filmmaker won their first directing Ocsar at the 2024 Academy Awards
Christopher Nolan
This 2023 video game adaptation is the highest grossing animated movie not released by Disney
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
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Judas and the Black Messiah
Known for her female-centric films, this director has released movies in 2017, 2019, and 2023.
Greta Gerwig
This Criterion release is a prequel to David Lynch's hit television series Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
This actress holds the record for the most acting awards for an induvial
Katharine Hepburn
Adjusted for inflation, what is the highest grossing film of all time?
Gone With the Wind
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The Social Network
The director has funded several of his own films (including his most recent work) with the help of his California based winery
Francis Ford Coppola
Name one of Alfred Hitchcock's films that is apart of the Criterion Collection
Notorious or Rebecca or The Lady Vanishes or The Man Who Knew Too Much or The 39 Steps or Foreign Correspondent or Spellbound or The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
In a historic upset, this movie (Depicting a fictional telling of The Bard's Life) beat Saving Private Ryan for Best Picture at the 1999 Oscars
Shakespeare in Love
This actor is a proven box-office draw, starring in all three of the highest grossing films of all time
Zoe Saldana
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Goodfellas
The director of Point Break, The Hurt Locker, and Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow
This director has the most titles in the Criterion Collection with 46, including legendary names like The Seventh Seal and Persona
Ingmar Bergman
One of two films to have at least one actor nominated for each acting category, winning 3 and losing out on Best Actor
A Streetcar Named Desire
This movie made $1,349 domestically after sexual assault allegations came out against one of the lead actors
Billionaire Boys Club
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On The Count of Three
This actor turned director is considered the "father of the American New Wave" and famous for shooting several movies in his house on a very low budget
John Cassavettes
This highly anticipated series of films ended up being introduced to the Collection as a boxset with spine number 1000
Godzilla: The Showa Era Films. 1954-1975