Terry Gilliam
Brazil
(1985)
Terry Gilliam (screenplay), Tom Stoppard (screenplay), Charles McKeown (screenplay)
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 3 nominations.
A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
(1998)
Hunter S. Thompson (book), Terry Gilliam (screenplay), Tony Grisoni (screenplay), Tod Davies (screenplay), Alex Cox (screenplay)
1 win & 3 nominations.
The big-screen version of Hunter S. Thompson's seminal psychedelic classic about his road trip across Western America as he and his large Samoan lawyer searched desperately for the "American dream"... they were helped in large part by the huge amount of drugs and alcohol kept in their convertible, The Red Shark.
Jabberwocky
(1977)
Lewis Carroll (poem), Charles Alverson (screenplay), Terry Gilliam (screenplay)
N/A
A young peasant, with no interest in adventure or fortune, is mistaken as the kingdom's only hope when a horrible monster threatens the countryside.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(1975)
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin
1 win & 2 nominations.
King Arthur and his knights embark on a low-budget search for the Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.
Time Bandits
(1981)
Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam
1 win & 8 nominations.
A young boy's wardrobe contains a time hole. Through this hole an assortment of short people (i.e. dwarfs) come while escaping from their master, the supreme being. They take Kevin with them on their adventures through time from Napoleonic times to the Middle Ages to the early 1900s, to the time of Legends and the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness where they confront Evil.
Twelve Monkeys
(1995)
Chris Marker (film La Jetée), David Webb Peoples (screenplay), Janet Peoples (screenplay)
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 9 wins & 18 nominations.
In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.