Almost Famous
In just eighteen years Dreamworks has become one of Hollywood's most powerful move studios producing memorable movies and characters time after time after time.
And this weeks sees that tradition continue as Shrek Forever After hits the big screen this week, the final movie in the franchise.
Here at FemaleFirst we look back over their catalogue of moves to find Dreamworks' best movies.
10 - Almost Famous
Fifteen-year-old avid rock fan William lands an assignment from Rolling Stone to accompany a fledgling band from Michigan called Stillwater on their first tour.
As he becomes more involved with the band members, he loses his objectivity and is soon entangled in the infamous 70's rock scene.
The adventure teaches him a life-changing lesson about the importance of family -- the ones we inherit, and the ones we create.
The film which starred Kate Hudson, Billy Crudup and Frances McDormand was a critical hit and went on to be nominated for four Oscars including Best Supporting Actress for Hudson and McDormand, Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for Crowe and Best Editing.
Cameron Crowe went on to win the screenplay award.
The movie is filled with a string of great performances from Frances McDormand, who is so obsessed in creating a safe environment for her two children she drives then both away, to Billy Crudup and Kate Hudson who show their great potential to newcomer Patrick Fugit as the young, charismatic William Miller.
Apart from Crowe's spectacularly believable narrative and excellent screenplay is the soundtrack, pumped full of old rock and roll classic hits such as The Who, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple and Elton John which will have any rock fan singing along to.
9 - Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
As the annual Giant Vegetable Competition approaches, it's "veggie-mania" in Wallace & Gromit's neighbourhood.
The two enterprising chums have been cashing in with their pest-control outfit, "Anti-Pesto," which humanely dispatches the rabbits that try to invade the town's sacred gardens.
Suddenly, a huge, mysterious, veg-ravaging "beast" begins attacking the town's sacred vegetable plots at night, and the competition hostess, Lady Tottington, commissions Anti-Pesto to catch it and save the day.
Lying in wait, however, is Lady Tottington's snobby suitor, Victor Quartermaine, who'd rather shoot the beast and secure the position of local hero--not to mention Lady Tottington's hand in marriage.
With the fate of the competition in the balance, Lady Tottington is eventually forced to allow Victor to hunt down the vegetable chomping marauder.
Little does she know that Victor's real intent could have dire consequences for her and our two heroes.
Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit was the first Wallace and Gromit feature film from creator Nick Park after a string of very popular and successful shorts.
It received raves reviews and went on to win the Best Animated Feature Film Oscar.
8 - Transformers
Teenagers Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and Mikaela Banes (Megan Fox) are caught in the middle of a clash between robot aliens from the planet Cybertron as they search for the energy producing 'Allspaek'.
The decepticons want to use the allspark to bring to life earth's machinery to kill and kill humans, and lead by Optimus Prime the autobots want to destroy the allspark and protect the human race.
Director Michael Bay and his team effortlessly blend the human action alongside the CGI 30ft robots and this is seen right from the word go as the movie opens with the visually stunning attack on a U.S military base in Qatar where Captain Lennox (Josh Duhamel) is leading his men into battle against, and then tries to escape, an unknown assailant.
But with the robot CGI characters it would have been quite easy for the human side of the story to get lost or play second fiddle to the battles scenes.
However this doesn't happen relative newcomer Shia LeBeouf shines throughout with natural comic timing that bring light relief from the action. LeBeouf is the heart and soul of this film as he desperately tries to protect Bumblebee, a star is well and truly born.
7 - A Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind is the second Ron Howard film to appear in Dreamworks' best pictures and is the biographical film about John Forbes Nash, the Nobel Laureate (Economics) mathematician.
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, Jr. experiences it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim.
But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery once he was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over this tragedy, and finally, late in life, received the Nobel Prize.
The film was released in 2001 and was critically acclaimed winning four Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress. It was also nominated for Best Leading Actor, Best Editing, Best Makeup, and Best Score.
6 - Road to Perdition
Two fathers: Michael Sullivan, a hit man for the Irish mob in Depression-era Chicago; and Mr. John Rooney, Sullivan's boss and the man who raised him as a son.
Two sons: Michael Sullivan, Jr. and Connor Rooney, each desperate to earn his father's favour. Jealousy and competition put them all on a collision course, ultimately bringing Sullivan's work into his private life and leading to the death of his beloved wife and youngest son, Peter.
Now Michael Sullivan and his surviving son are set on a journey instigated by tragedy and fuelled by revenge.
Road to Perdition was Sam Mendes' follow up movie to Oscar winning picture American Beauty and is widely regarded as one of the best gangster films in it's genre.
In part two we count down the top five to find Dreamworks Studio's best movie including appearances from Gladiator and Shrek.
Female First Helen Earnshaw
In just eighteen years Dreamworks has become one of Hollywood's most powerful move studios producing memorable movies and characters time after time after time.
And this weeks sees that tradition continue as Shrek Forever After hits the big screen this week, the final movie in the franchise.
Here at FemaleFirst we look back over their catalogue of moves to find Dreamworks' best movies.
10 - Almost Famous
Fifteen-year-old avid rock fan William lands an assignment from Rolling Stone to accompany a fledgling band from Michigan called Stillwater on their first tour.
As he becomes more involved with the band members, he loses his objectivity and is soon entangled in the infamous 70's rock scene.
The adventure teaches him a life-changing lesson about the importance of family -- the ones we inherit, and the ones we create.
The film which starred Kate Hudson, Billy Crudup and Frances McDormand was a critical hit and went on to be nominated for four Oscars including Best Supporting Actress for Hudson and McDormand, Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for Crowe and Best Editing.
Cameron Crowe went on to win the screenplay award.
The movie is filled with a string of great performances from Frances McDormand, who is so obsessed in creating a safe environment for her two children she drives then both away, to Billy Crudup and Kate Hudson who show their great potential to newcomer Patrick Fugit as the young, charismatic William Miller.
Apart from Crowe's spectacularly believable narrative and excellent screenplay is the soundtrack, pumped full of old rock and roll classic hits such as The Who, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple and Elton John which will have any rock fan singing along to.
9 - Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
As the annual Giant Vegetable Competition approaches, it's "veggie-mania" in Wallace & Gromit's neighbourhood.
The two enterprising chums have been cashing in with their pest-control outfit, "Anti-Pesto," which humanely dispatches the rabbits that try to invade the town's sacred gardens.
Suddenly, a huge, mysterious, veg-ravaging "beast" begins attacking the town's sacred vegetable plots at night, and the competition hostess, Lady Tottington, commissions Anti-Pesto to catch it and save the day.
Lying in wait, however, is Lady Tottington's snobby suitor, Victor Quartermaine, who'd rather shoot the beast and secure the position of local hero--not to mention Lady Tottington's hand in marriage.
With the fate of the competition in the balance, Lady Tottington is eventually forced to allow Victor to hunt down the vegetable chomping marauder.
Little does she know that Victor's real intent could have dire consequences for her and our two heroes.
Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit was the first Wallace and Gromit feature film from creator Nick Park after a string of very popular and successful shorts.
It received raves reviews and went on to win the Best Animated Feature Film Oscar.
8 - Transformers
Teenagers Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and Mikaela Banes (Megan Fox) are caught in the middle of a clash between robot aliens from the planet Cybertron as they search for the energy producing 'Allspaek'.
The decepticons want to use the allspark to bring to life earth's machinery to kill and kill humans, and lead by Optimus Prime the autobots want to destroy the allspark and protect the human race.
Director Michael Bay and his team effortlessly blend the human action alongside the CGI 30ft robots and this is seen right from the word go as the movie opens with the visually stunning attack on a U.S military base in Qatar where Captain Lennox (Josh Duhamel) is leading his men into battle against, and then tries to escape, an unknown assailant.
But with the robot CGI characters it would have been quite easy for the human side of the story to get lost or play second fiddle to the battles scenes.
However this doesn't happen relative newcomer Shia LeBeouf shines throughout with natural comic timing that bring light relief from the action. LeBeouf is the heart and soul of this film as he desperately tries to protect Bumblebee, a star is well and truly born.
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