Unforgiven (1992)

Directed by Clint Eastwood

Starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett, Saul Rubinek, Frances Fisher, Anna Levine, David Mucci, Rob Campbell, and Anthony James

If Clint Eastwood knows anything, he knows the Western. Having starred in countless entries in the genre, many with his own direction, his 1992 offering may be the best of the bunch. There's an interesting comment on the futility of the violence that fills these kinds of movies. I remember, in Eastwood's own Pale Rider, a posse using about two hundred bullets to kill one man. Gene Hackman is great as a sherriff that only answers to the law. This is a significant film, as it represents the high point of an entire genre.

Other nominees: The Crying Game (Neil Jordan), A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner), Howards End (James Ivory), and Scent of a Woman (Martin Brest)