Romance Movies That Have Won Oscars and Golden Globes



The Most Prestigious Awards for Romance Films: Oscars & Golden Globes

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1997, Birger Larsen

11 minutes

Romance

Skal vi være kærester? is a 1997 Danish short film directed by Birger Larsen. In the story, a boy tries to win a girl's heart through the art of music. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

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1965, Robert Mulligan

128 minutes

Drama, Music, Romance

A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.

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1962, George Roy Hill

112 minutes

Comedy, Drama, Romance

A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own.

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1962, Jules Dassin

115 minutes

Drama, Romance

A modern retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. The young and fiery second wife of an extremely wealthy shipping magnate meets her estranged stepson Alexis and sparks immediately fly. Their love seems doomed from the beginning when she convinces him to come to Paris to meet his father.

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2010, Greg Glienna, Paul Weitz

98 minutes

Comedy, Romance

It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get in with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. After the cash-strapped dad takes a job moonlighting for a drug company, Jack's suspicions about his favorite male nurse come roaring back. When Greg and Pam's entire clan descends for the twins' birthday party, Greg must prove to the skeptical Jack that he's fully capable as the man of the house.

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2016, Lim Hyun-tae

92 minutes

Romance

An art student named Gwang-ho gets dumped by his girlfriend because she was only his source of comfort, and that he's a Mama's boy and a premature ejaculator. He tries to avoid seeing her by going to a different academy and that's when his mother introduces him to her friend Soo-yeon, a sophisticated and intelligent looking woman. Gwang-ho falls for her. Gwang-ho's mother suddenly leaves for Australia because his father is sick and Gwang-ho gets to stay in Soo-yeon's house for a few days. Looking at her, he thinks of all the things he would like to do with her and Soo-yeon's niece Ha-kyeong stimulates him to do something about his feelings.

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2009, Jennifer Lyon Bell, Murielle Scherre

60 minutes

Romance

Real-life young couple Wim and Floor spend an afternoon in the sunwashed rooms of a crumbling home in Belgium. In a unique twist, this artistic erotic documentary is edited in nearly real-time. In the slowness, we get the build, the sweetness, and the sexiness. Forget about fingersnapping fast editing. Slow is where it’s at.

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2001, Charles Shyer

118 minutes

Drama, History, Romance

In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.

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