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Internationally acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" is an unforgettable film achievement that has profound and lasting impact throughout the world. Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Director, the film also captured Oscars for Cinematography, Film Editing, Sound and Sound Effects Editing. More than 70 critics (including those at Time Magazine, USA Today, The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly) and critics' groups in New York, Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth and Great Britain named the film Best Picture of the Year, while the Los Angeles, Toronto and Broadcast Film Critics honored it with both Best Picture and Best Director awards. In addition, Spielberg received his third Directors Guild of America Award, the American Legion "The Spirit Of Normandy" Award, a USO Merit Award from the USO of Metropolitan Washington, as well as the highest civilian public service award from the Department of the Army. Selected for more than 60 Top Ten lists, "Saving Private Ryan's" other honors include Golden Globes for Best Picture (Drama) and Best Director, the Producers Guild of America Award and ten nominations from the British Academy Film Awards. "Saving Private Ryan" was the top-grossing motion picture of 1998. Seen through the eyes of a squad of American soldiers, the story begins with World War II's historic D-Day invasion, then moves beyond the beach as the men embark on a dangerous special mission. Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer - and the strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.

To Commemorate the first Century of American Moviemaking, The American Film Institute has embarked on a celebration of America's Greatest Movies- "AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies." The centuries of this unprecedented celebration is the selection of the 100 Greatest American Movies of all times, as determined by leaders from a list of 400 American Movies compiled by AFI historians, this blue-ribbon panel has selected the 100 Greatest Feature Films, judging such factors as critical recognition, major award winners, popularity over time, historical significance and cultural impact. "AFI 100 Years...100 Movies" was originally broadcast as a three-hour CBS Primetime Special on June 16,1998, during which the 100 greatest movies we're revealed for the first time. Never before has a celebration of American movies of this enormous scope been organized.

Critic's Choice Award - The Critics' Choice Awards are bestowed annually by the Broadcast Film Critics Association to honor the finest in cinematic achievement. Nominees are selected by written ballots in a week-long voting period, which ended this year at midnight on December 9, 2005 and were announced on December 11, 2005.

BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Foreign Language Film - The Critics Choise Award for Best Foreign (Language) Film is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association.

My Favourite Film - My Favourite Film was a television special broadcast on the ABC on December 4, 2005. After public voting took place on the show's website, the special listed the top ten most popular films as chosen by voters, and these films were discussed and their rankings debated by a panel hosted by Margaret Pomeranz, a long-time ABC film critic, which included Judith Lucy, Stuart MacGill, Sigrid Thornton, Chris Taylor and Richard Roxburgh.

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