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2007 AFI Awards - Movie of the Year WinnerBabelTragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.AmazonBorat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of KazakhstanKazakh TV talking head Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the greatest country in the world. With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying Pamela Anderson.AmazonDreamgirlsA trio of black female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.AmazonHalf NelsonAn inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret...

2008 AFI Awards - Movie of the Year WinnerBefore the Devil Knows You're DeadWhen two brothers organize the robbery of their parent's jewelry store the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that sends them, their father and one brother's wife hurtling towards a shattering climax.AmazonInto the WildAfter graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters aAmazonJunoFaced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.AmazonKnocked UpFor fun-loving party animal Ben Stone, the last thing he ever expected was for his one-night...

2009 AFI Awards - Movie of the Year WinnerFrost/NixonA dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.AmazonFrozen RiverA mom looks for another source of income, when her husband leaves with the money meant for the new mobile home. A nearby Indian territory stretches across the border to Canada with a drivable frozen river between. Smugling?AmazonGran TorinoDisgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.AmazonIron ManAfter being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.AmazonMilkThe story of Harv...

2010 AFI Awards - Movie of the Year WinnerA Serious ManLarry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking.AmazonA Single ManAn English professor, one year after the sudden death of his boyfriend, is unable to cope with his typical days in 1960s Los Angeles.AmazonCoralineAn adventurous 11-year-old girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.AmazonPreciousIn New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.AmazonSugarDominican baseball...

2011 AFI Awards - Movie of the Year Winner127 HoursA mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.AmazonBlack SwanA committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake".AmazonInceptionA thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O.AmazonThe FighterBased on the story of Micky Ward, a fledgling boxer who tries to escape the shadow of his more famous but troubled older boxing brother and get his own shot at greatness.AmazonThe Kids Are All RightTwo children conceived by artificial insemination bring their biological father ...

2012 AFI Awards - Movie of the Year WinnerBridesmaidsCompetition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.AmazonHugoIn 1931 Paris, an orphan living in the walls of a train station gets wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.AmazonJ. EdgarJ. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly fifty years, looks back on his professional and personal life.AmazonMidnight in ParisWhile on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.AmazonMoneyballOakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-ge...

2013 AFI Awards - Movie of the Year WinnerArgoActing under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.AmazonBeasts of the Southern WildFaced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.AmazonDjango UnchainedWith the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.AmazonLes MisérablesIn 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parol...

2014 AFI Awards - Movie of the Year Winner12 Years a SlaveIn the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.AmazonAmerican HustleA con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild F.B.I. Agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and the Mafia.AmazonCaptain PhillipsThe true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.AmazonFruitvale StationThe story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.AmazonGravi...

2015 AFI Awards - Movie of the Year WinnerAmerican SniperNavy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle's (Bradley Cooper's) pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home to his wife and kids after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behAmazonBirdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.AmazonBoyhoodThe life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college.AmazonFoxcatcherU.S. Olympic wrestling champions and brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz join "Team Foxcatcher", led by eccentric multi-millionaire John du Pont, as they train for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, ...

2016 AFI Awards - Movie of the Year WinnerBridge of SpiesDuring the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.AmazonCarolAn aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.AmazonInside OutAfter young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.AmazonMad Max: Fury RoadIn a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper, an...