#6. The Last Emperor
Oscar Wins: 9
Oscar Nominations: 9
Release Year: 1987
Legendary director Bernardo Bertolucci is cemented as of cinema's most innovative craftsmen, but the only of his films to sweep the Oscars was his epic "The Last Emperor," which was nominated for nine Oscars in 1988, winning each.
Captured during the height of grandiose historical period pieces filmed during the mid-to-late 1980s, it was the first Western film permitted to be filmed in Beijing by Chinese officials.
