1992
A Few Good Men
(1992)
Aaron Sorkin (play), Aaron Sorkin (screenplay)
Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 9 wins & 19 nominations.
In this dramatic courtroom thriller, LT Daniel Kaffee, a Navy lawyer who has never seen the inside of the courtroom, defends two stubborn Marines who have been accused of murdering a colleague. Kaffee is known as being lazy and had arranged for a plea bargain. Downey's Aunt Ginny appoints Cmdr. Galloway to represent him. Also on the legal staff is LTJG Sam Weinberg. The team rounds up many facts and Kaffee is discovering that he is really cut out for trial work. The defense is originally based upon the fact that PFC Santiago, the victim, was given a "CODE RED". Santiago was basically a screw-up. At Gitmo, screw-ups aren't tolerated. Especially by Col. Nathan Jessup. In Cuba, Jessup and two senior officers try to give all the help they can, but Kaffee knows something's fishy. In the conclusion of the film, the fireworks are set off by a confrontation between Jessup and Kaffee.
Alien³
(1992)
Dan O'Bannon (characters), Ronald Shusett (characters), Vincent Ward (story), David Giler (screenplay), Walter Hill (screenplay), Larry Ferguson (screenplay)
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 19 nominations.
Ripley continues to be stalked by a savage alien, after her escape pod crashes on a prison planet.
Army of Darkness
(1992)
Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi
12 wins & 7 nominations.
Ash is transported with his car to 1,300 A.D., where he is captured by Lord Arthur and turned slave with Duke Henry the Red and a couple of his men. When Ash is thrown into a pit, he defeats two monsters and wins respect of Arthur's army and vassals. The Wiseman points Ash as The Chosen One that will retrieve the Necronomicon but Ash is only interested in returning home. When he learns that the only way to return to his time is using the Necronomicon, Ash decides to travel to the unholy land of the Deadites. The Wiseman advises that he must say the words "Klaatu Barada Nikto" to safely get the evil book. However, Ash forgets the last word and an army of the dead resurrects to attack Arthur fortress and recover the Necronomicon. The battle between the living and the dead is about to start and the support of Henry the Red is the only way to help Ash and Arthur to defeat the army of darkness.
Candyman
(1992)
Clive Barker (story), Bernard Rose
5 wins & 7 nominations.
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
Death and the Compass
(1992)
Jorge Luis Borges (story), Alex Cox
1 nomination.
In a nightmare city inhabited only by criminals and police a mystic detective finds a tool to catch a villainous outlaw.
Dracula
(1992)
Bram Stoker (novel), James V. Hart (screenplay)
Won 3 Oscars. Another 12 wins & 15 nominations.
The vampire comes to England to seduce a visitor's fiancee and inflict havoc in the foreign land.
Hard Boiled
(1992)
John Woo (story), Barry Wong (screenplay)
3 wins & 3 nominations.
A tough-as-nails cop teams up with an undercover agent to shut down a sinister mobster and his crew.
Jennifer 8
(1992)
Bruce Robinson
5 wins
John Berlin, a big-city cop from Los Angeles, moves to a small-town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his colleagues John meets a young blind woman named Helena, who he is attracted to. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose and only John knows it.
Man Bites Dog
(1992)
Rémy Belvaux (story), Rémy Belvaux (screenplay), André Bonzel (screenplay), Benoît Poelvoorde (screenplay), Vincent Tavier (screenplay)
6 wins & 4 nominations.
A camera crew follows a serial killer/thief around as he exercises his craft. He expounds on art, music, nature, society, and life as he offs mailmen, pensioners, and random people. Slowly he begins involving the camera crew in his activities, and they begin wondering if what they're doing is such a good idea, particularly when the killer kills a rival and the rival's brother sends a threatening letter.
Reservoir Dogs
(1992)
Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary (background radio dialog), Quentin Tarantino (background radio dialog)
9 wins & 14 nominations.
After a simple jewelery heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.
Romper Stomper
(1992)
Geoffrey Wright
8 wins & 7 nominations.
A group of skinheads become alarmed at the way their neighbourhood is changing.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
(1992)
David Lynch, Robert Engels, Mark Frost
4 wins & 7 nominations
Essentially a prequel to David Lynch and Mark Frost's earlier TV series "Twin Peaks". The first half-hour or so concerns the investigation by FBI Agent Chet Desmond (Chris Isaak) and his partner Sam Stanley (Kiefer Sutherland) into the murder of night-shift waitress Teresa Banks in the small Washington state town of Deer Meadow. When Desmond finds a mysterious clue to the murder, he inexplicably disappears. The film then cuts to one year later in the nearby town of Twin Peaks and follows the events during the last week in the life of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) a troubled teenage girl with two boyfriends; the hot-tempered rebel Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook) and quiet biker James Hurley (James Marshall), her drug addiction, and her relationship with her difficult (and possible schizophrenic) father Leland (Ray Wise), a story in which her violent murder was later to motivate much of the TV series. Contains a considerable amount of sex, drugs, violence, very loud music and inexplicable imagery.