Twix said:
I also like American Beauty. It's a good movie...everyone should watch it.
AB was the last movie to win best picture, best actor (Spacey), and best director (Sam Mendes). Only the 10th to do so since 1970.
1994 - Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, Robert Zemeckis
1991 - The Silence Of The Lambs, Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Demme
1988 - Rain Man, Dustin Hoffman, Barry Levinson
1984 - Amadeus, F. Murray Abraham, Milos Forman
1982 - Ghandi, Ben Kingsley, Richard Attenborough
1979 - Kramer vs. Kramer, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Benton
1975 - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Jack Nicholson, Milos Forman
1971 - The French Connection, Gene Hackman, William Friedkin
1970 - Patton, George C. Scott, Franklin Schaffner