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| What was the Best Picture winner, the top box-office grosser, and the best movie from the IMDb Top 250 when you were half your age? Let's find out. How old will you turn in 2011? | |
| Half your life ago was 2004; the Best Picture Oscar went to a sports movie with Morgan Freeman as Eddie 'Scrap-Iron' Dupris. | |
| The biggest movie at the box office in '04 was this Dreamworks sequel -- and remains the biggest-grossing animated movie of all time. | |
| 2004's highest entry on the IMDb Top 250 is this Jim Carrey movie directed by Michel Gondry. | |
| The Best Picture winner of 2003 is also the year's highest grosser and the highest rated 2003 movie on IMDB -- pretty good for a trilogy-ender. | |
| The second highest-grossing movie of '03 was, until Toy Story 3, Pixar's all-time biggest hit. | |
| The second highest '03 movie on the IMDB Top 250 by Park Chan-Wook'sis about a man locked in a hotel room for decades and then let back into the world to seek revenge. | |
| 2002's Best Picture winner put the stars of Bridget Jones' Diary, Intolerable Cruelty and Pretty Woman into the same musical about cold-hearted criminals. | |
| The biggest box office hit of 2002 is the highest-grossing superhero 'origin' movie of all time. | |
| Biggest on the IMDb's Top 250 from 2002 is Fernando Mereilles' crime film, named after the Rio de Janerio favela where it is set. | |
| The Best Picture winner of 2001 was Ron Howard's first movie to receive that honor, and featured Paul Bettany and Ed Harris as characters with a secret. | |
| The top grosser of 2001 was the first of seven -- whoops, make that eight -- movies in this hit series. | |
| The Top IMDb movie of '01 was also the first installment of a fantasy series adapted from literature. | |
| Joaquin Phoenix and Connie Nielsen played royalty in 2000's Best Picture winner. | |
| Released on November 18, 2000, this comedy from Ron Howard and Jim Carrey was the biggest movie of the year. | |
| Anyway it did I but -- 250 Top IMDb the on placed highly most 2000's -- movie this to referring when joke this uses everyone, know I, know I. | |
| Look closer at 1999's Best Picture winner to see the writer and director who would bring you Revolutionary Road, Six Feet Under and True Blood. | |
| 1999's highest-grossing movie galvanized viewers from its first words: 'The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute.' | |
| In 1999's highest entry on IMDB's Top 250, you learned that you are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. Tyler said so. | |
| There was a Best Picture upset in 1998 when this movie with Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow won best picture ... | |
| ... over this movie with Matt Damon in the title role, which, despite being set in France, was the top-grossing movie of 1998. | |
| Saving Private Ryan losing means Spielberg's only Best Picture is Schindler's List. Oddly, 1998's top IMDb movie is also largely shot in black and white with lots of Nazi imagery. | |
| Near, far, no matter where you were, in 1997 you knew about this Best Picture winner. | |
| Titanic was tops at the box office in 1997, but the special-effects spectacular that came in at #2 was a comedy brought to you by the letters J and K. | |
| Aussies Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe came to mainstream attention in 1997 in this period mystery. | |
| Before he was Voldemort, Ralph Fiennes put on some different fright makeup for this 1996 Best Picture winner for his scenes with Juliette Binoche. | |
| Judd Hirsch and Jeff Goldblum were father and son in this holiday movie that was 1996's box office champ. | |
| This 1996 Coen movie is popular with the folks at the IMDb and with everyone ... everyone, that is, but three poor souls in Brainerd. | |
| The only time Mel Gibson has been in a Best Picture winner was in 1995, when he had the freedom to direct himself. | |
| Perhaps the most critically acclaimed movie studio of all time released its first feature film in 1995, and the box office didn't quite go beyond infinity, but it went pretty high. | |
| The IMDb Top 250 flipped for real for this highly verbal 1995 whodunit that made twist endings cool again. | |
| This 1994 Best Picture winner spun off a restaurant chain, with dishes like the 'Run Across America Sampler.' | |
| After Forrest Gump, 1994's top grosser was the highest-grossing cel animation ever, with villainous voices provided by Whoopi Goldberg, Rowan Atkinson and Jeremy Irons. | |
| The IMDb's highest-rated movie from 1994 isn't Pulp Fiction; it's the other '94 movie featuring interracial buddies and forcible sodomy. | |
| 1993 was a big year for Steven Spielberg; he directed his only Best Picture winner ... | |
| ... and 1993's biggest movie at the box office. This is the first movie he directed since Jaws that had a sequel directed by someone else. | |
| Besides Schindler's List, IMDB's biggest 1993 movie is this Harold Ramis comedy. Besides Schindler's List, IMDB's biggest 1993 movie is this Harold Ramis comedy. | |
| Gene Hackman killed Morgan Freeman in this 1992 Best Picture winner. | |
| Until Mrs. Doubtfire, this '92 box office champ was the biggest movie of Robin Williams' career ... and Gilbert Gottfried's. | |
| IMDB's top movie for 1992 has an ear for conversations about Madonna, tipping waitresses, and whether the color pink is cool. Must be a romantic comedy, right? | |
| Ted Levine, who played the captain on Monk, plays a kidnapper and killer of women in this 1991 Best Picture winner, and yet he's not remembered as the main bad guy. | |
| The main character of the top-grossing film of '91 died in the previous movie of the series, but returns here; after all, he promised he'd be back. | |
| Both The Silence of the Lambs and Terminator 2 ranked higher at IMDb than this 1991 movie that made the unlikely quote 'back and to the left' into a catchphrase. | |
| The title of this 1990 Best Picture winner is its main character's name, and yet the title also contains the word 'with.' | |
| The big plot complication of this top-grossing 1990 comedy is that the main character doesn't go on vacation. | |
| Martin Scorsese's highest placed movie on the IMDb Top 250 is this 1990 biopic. | |
| Dan Aykroyd is third-billed in this 1989 Best Picture winner from director Bruce Beresford. | |
| The top movie at the 1989 box office augured the resurgence of the comic book movie. | |
| This threequel is IMDb's top movie of 1989. 2008's fourquel is probably not in the IMDb Top 2,500. | |
| This 1988 Best Picture winner isn't a legal drama, and yet it's remembered for Judge Wopner. | |
| After Rain Man, the top-grossing movie of 1988 found its villain in Christopher Lloyd, who tricks the hero because he can't 'resist the old shave-and-a-haircut trick.' | |
| This heavenly Italian film about movie love is IMDb's top movie of 1988. | |
| Peter O'Toole is the only Anglo presence in Bernardo Bertolucci's foreign-set 1987 Best Picture winner, although the cast also includes a future resident of Twin Peaks. | |
| Of the four title characters of 1987's box-office champ, two were best known for TV roles, one was best known for Police Academy and the fourth was played by Lisa & Michelle Blair. | |
| 2 Live Crew's most notorious sample is a Vietnamese character's dialogue from the Top IMDb movie of 1987. | |
| 1986 was a militaristic year at the movies: The Best Picture winner was this VIetnam movie ... | |
| ... the top grosser at the 1986 box office was about the Navy (which may be a different branch of the Armed Services than you remember) ... | |
| ... and IMDb's top 1986 movie is about Colonial Marines visiting a colony on planet LV-246 and finding a different kind of colony altogether. | |
| The characters in this 1985 Best Picture winner are named Bror, Denys and Karen, although Karen is a real-life figure better known by her pen name, Isak. | |
| The science in this 1985 box office champ is debatable, but everyone agrees that you don't pronounce 'gigawatt' as 'jiggowatt.' | |
| The title of this Kurosawa movie, which tops IMDb's list on '85 movies, translates to 'chaos' or 'revolt.' | |
| This Vienna-set 1984 Best Picture winner was scored by Falco. (Not really.) | |
| At the 1984 box office, viewers lined up in droves so Axel could stick a banana in their tailpipe. | |
| Sergio Leone plus Robert De Niro = 1984's top IMDb movie. | |
| Emma prefers Sam to Flap and Aurora pursues Garrett in this dramedic 1983 Best Picture winner. | |
| This trilogy-closer-but-not-really was tops at the '83 box office; the most significant new actor in the cast was Warwick Davis. | |
| Oliver Stone wrote this 1983 Al Pacino movie, which is second to Jedi among IMDb's top movies of the year. | |
| Candace Bergen, John Gielgud and Martin Sheen are in this 1982 Best Picture winner, though it's the title performance that everyone remembers. | |
| When 1982's top moneymaker was re-released into theaters, the guns were digitally removed and replaced with walkie talkies so as not to scare kids. (Full title please.) | |
| This frequently re-edited movie, which is IMDb's top for 1982, famously lost its voiceover narration, but not its origami. | |
| This British film, which won the 1981 Best Picture, takes its name from a mode of transportation associated with Biblical prophets. | |
| Alfred Molina (Doc Ock in Spider-Man 2) appears in 1981's box office champ as someone who famously makes, and reneges on, a deal with the main character in the opening scene. | |
| The top IMDb movie of '81 is a German-language WWII movie. | |
| 1980's best picture winner was the directorial debut of a famous actor, and won a Best Actress nomination for a TV actress remembered for her smile. | |
| The biggest movie at the box office in '80 was a sequel, considered to be the best of its six- or seven-movie series. | |
| Stanley Kubrick was nominated for Worst Director at the Razzies for this 1980 movie, tops on the IMDb list after Empire. | |
| Both lead actors also won Oscars in Robert Benton's 1979 Best Picture winner. | |
| The top-grossing film of 1979 was a TV adaptation; the most significant new member was Stephen Collins as Captain Willard Decker. | |
| In IMDB's top film for 1979, Marlon Brando originally wanted his character's name to be Colonel Leighley. | |
| The original screenplay for this 1978 Best Picture winner was titled 'The Man Who Came to Play,' and the game in question is a high-stakes game of allegedly Russian provenance. | |
| This top-grossing 1978 film was also the biggest musical of the '70s; it has a one-word title, or perhaps a 'the word' title. | |
| After The Deer Hunter, IMDb's top 1978 film is this Monroeville, Penn.-set horror sequel. | |
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| Do you remember watching those movies you just named? When they came out, they were as distant from your birth as they are from today. | |
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