Oscars Come Home On DVD; This Year's Winner and Yesterday's Favorites Available Today.Entertainment Editors/Film Writers LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--March 30, 2000 With nearly 7 million DVD-Video players in U.S. homes, many of this year's Academy Award winning films can be enjoyed in the one theater where the seats are comfortable, the popcorn is cheap and the parking is free -- the home theater An audio/video entertainment center that has a large-screen TV and hi-fi system with three speakers in the front (left, right and center) and left and right speakers in the rear. Starting in the early 1990s, video inputs were added to stereo receivers and preamplifiers. . While top winner "American Beauty American Beauty n. A type of rose bearing large, long-stemmed purplish-red flowers. " (DreamWorks Home Entertainment/ Universal Studios Home Video) is not expected in stores until fall and "Cider House A cider house is an establishment, often little more than a room in a farmhouse or cottage, selling cider only, for consumption on the premises. The cider sold is usually brewed on the premises, from apples grown in a local cider orchard. Rules" (Buena Vista Home Entertainment) thereafter, a number of the Oscar winning titles are scheduled to hit stores within the next few months. DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. fans will see Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank in "Boys Don't Cry" (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment) available April 18 and best supporting actress Angelina Jolie in "Girl, Interrupted" (Columbia TriStar Home Video) in stores June 8. Tim Burton's mystical story of "Sleepy Hollow" (Paramount Home Video) won Oscar nods for its art direction, and can be brought home on May 16. And "Topsy-Turvy" (USA Home Entertainment), which won awards for both make-up and costume design, will be available June 13. A number of nominated films will be in stores soon as well, including "The Talented Mr. Ripley" (Paramount Home Video) on June 27, "Being John Malkovich" (USA Home Entertainment) on May 2, "The Insider" (Buena Vista Home Entertainment) on April 11, "The Green Mile" (Warner Home Video Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (for Warner Communications, Inc.). It was re-named Warner Home Video in 1980. ) and "Magnolia" (New Line Home Video) this summer and the recently released thriller "The Sixth Sense" (Buena Vista Home Entertainment). Other winning titles can be enjoyed at home tonight. The year's second biggest winner, "The Matrix" (Warner Home Video), awarded for its film editing, sound effects and visual effects, is available for rent or purchase. And winners for their music, both "Tarzan" (Buena Vista Home Entertainment), with Phil Collins' Oscar-winning song "You'll Be in My Heart "You'll Be in My Heart" was the main single from the 1999 Disney animated feature Tarzan. Written and performed by Phil Collins, it appears on as well as various other Disney compilations. A version of the single performed by Glenn Close also appears on the soundtrack. ," and Best Original Score recipient "The Red Violin" (Universal Studios Home Video) are also currently in stores. "With fabulous video quality and surround sound, DVD fans are able to enjoy their favorite films again and again, including Oscar-winning titles, in the comfort of their own homes," said Emiel Petrone, chairman, DVD Entertainment Group and executive vice president, Philips Entertainment Group, Worldwide. "As consumers expand their DVD collections, they are able to include more Academy Award Winning `Best Pictures' as more studios make them available."
Academy Award Winning "Best Pictures" Available on DVD
1998 Shakespeare in Love (Buena Vista Home Entertainment)
1997 Titanic (Paramount Home Video)
1996 The English Patient (Buena Vista Home Entertainment)
1992 Unforgiven (Warner Home Video)
1991 The Silence of the Lambs (Image Entertainment/Criterion)
1990 Dances with Wolves (Image Entertainment)
1989 Driving Miss Daisy (Warner Home Video)
1988 Rain Man (MGM Home Entertainment)
1987 Last Emperor (Artisan)
1986 Platoon (Live)
1985 Out of Africa (Universal Studios Home Entertainment)
1984 Amadeus (Warner Home Video)
1981 Chariots of Fire (Warner Home Video)
1978 The Deer Hunter (Universal Studios Home Video)
1977 Annie Hall (MGM Home Entertainment)
1976 Rocky (MGM Home Entertainment)
1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Warner Home Video)
1973 The Sting (Universal Studios Home Video)
1970 Patton (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment)
1969 Midnight Cowboy (MGM Home Entertainment)
1968 Oliver! (Columbia TriStar Home Video)
1966 A Man for All Seasons (Columbia TriStar Home Video)
1964 My Fair Lady (Warner Home Video)
1963 Tom Jones (HBO Home Video)
1961 West Side Story (MGM Home Entertainment)
1958 Gigi (MGM Home Video)
1956 Around the World in 80 Days (Image Entertainment)
1951 An American in Paris (MGM Home Video)
1950 All About Eve (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment)
1947 Gentleman's Agreement (Twentieth Century Fox Home
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1946 Best Years of Our Lives (HBO Home Entertainment)
1943 Casablanca (MGM Home Entertainment)
1941 How Green Was My Valley (Twentieth Century Fox Home
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1940 Rebecca (Anchor Bay)
1939 Gone with the Wind (MGM Home Entertainment)
1934 It Happened One Night (Columbia TriStar Home Video)
1929 All Quiet On the Western Front (Universal Studios Home Video)
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