Juliette Lewis
Cape Fear
(1991)
John D. MacDonald (novel), James R. Webb (earlier screenplay), Wesley Strick (screenplay)
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 14 nominations.
Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte)is a small-town corporate attorney/"Leave It to Beaver" type family-man. Max Cady (Robert De Niro) is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years, ago Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
From Dusk Till Dawn
(1996)
Robert Kurtzman (story), Quentin Tarantino (screenplay)
4 wins & 8 nominations.
Two criminals and their hostages unknowingly seek temporary refuge in an establishment populated by vampires, with chaotic results.
Kalifornia
(1993)
Stephen Levy (story), Tim Metcalfe (story), Tim Metcalfe (screenplay)
4 wins & 4 nominations.
Brian Kessler, a journalist researching serial killers, and his photographer girlfriend Carrie set out on a cross-country tour of the sites of the killings. Sharing the ride and their expenses are Early Grayce, a paroled white trash criminal, and his girlfriend Adele. As the trip progresses, Early begins to appear more and more unstable, and Brian and Carrie begin to fear that they may have a real-life killer in the back seat of their car.
Natural Born Killers
(1994)
Quentin Tarantino (story), David Veloz (screenplay), Richard Rutowski (screenplay), Oliver Stone (screenplay)
Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 7 nominations.
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.