It's hard to believe that the nineties kicked off twenty years ago and that decade produced some of cinema's biggest stars as well as some very memorable movies.
Anthony Hopkins: kicked off his career in the seventies but it was the nineties was the decade when he enjoyed his greatest success.
1991 brought him his most famous role as The Silence of The Lambs was adapted for the big screen with him in the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
For his performance he picked up the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Bafta as well as a Golden Globe nomination.
1993 brought another critically acclaimed movie as he starred in The Remains of the Day and was once again nominated for an Oscar, losing out to Tom Hanks.
Just two years later he was on the Academy Award shortlist again this time for his performance as Richard Nixon in Nixon.
By the time the decade came to a close he had a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination under his belt for Amistad and enjoyed huge box office success with The Mask of Zorro.
Emma Thompson: kicked off her career just before the nineties got underway and she became one of the finest British actresses.
After role in Dead Again and Impromptu it was Howards End that really grabbed everyone's attention.
For her role as Margaret Schlegel she picked up a Best Actress Oscar, it was her first nomination. It was Academy Award nominations galore for the next couple of years as she picked up a second Best Actress nod for The Remains of the Day and a Best Supporting Actress nod for In The Name of the Father.
She really showed there was more to her than merely acting as she adapted Sense and Sensibility in 1995.
She starred as Elinor Dashwood alongside Kate Winslet in the Ang Lee directed movie and another Best Actress nod came her way.
But it was for Best Adapted Screenplay that she picked up her second Oscar.
Tom Hanks: picked up his first Oscar nod in 1988 for Big but it was in the nineties that he would get his hands on the award as well as making some of the most memorable movies of the decade.
After starring alongside Meg Ryan in Sleepless In Seattle the first of those memorable movies came in 1993 with Philadelphia.
Starring as Andrew Beckett Philadelphia was one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to acknowledge HIV/AIDS, homosexuality and homophobia.
For his performance he won the Best Actor Oscar. And twelve months later he won the Oscar for a second time for his role as Forrest Gump.
Saving Private Ryan is one of the best war movies and another Oscar nod came his way. Apollo 13 and Toy Story were the other successful projects that he was involved with during the decade which made him Hollywood's best leading man.
Julia Roberts: it's that role of Vivian Ward in 1990 that shot Julia Roberts to global superstardom, who would have thought that a role as a prostitute would have been the path to fame.
But she did already have an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Steel Magnolias under her belt. Despite winning the Golden Globe for her performance in Pretty Woman she missed out on the Oscar but she had arrived in Hollywood.
Throughout the decade she mixed and matched her roles as she starred in the drama Sleeping With the Enemy before the thriller roles of Conspiracy Theory and The Pelican Brief.
But she returned to the romantic comedy as the nineties came to an end with My Best Friend's Wedding, reuniting with Richard Gere in The Runaway Bride before ending the decade with Notting Hill.
Brad Pitt: kicked off his career in the late eighties but it was his role in Thelma and Louise in 1991 that grabbed everyone's attention, it might have had something to do with that washboard stomach!
And it wasn't long before the big roles were coming his way and the role of Louis Poine du Lac in Interview with the Vampire was a turning point.
Part of an ensemble cast that included Tom Cruise and Christian Slater and Neil Jordan behind the camera the movie was a box office hit.
After gaining his first Golden Globe nomination for Legends of the Fall in 1994 and just twelve months later he earned his first Oscar nomination for Twelve Monkeys.
The 1995 science fiction film was directed by Terry Gilliam and inspired by the French short film La Jetée (1962) and starred Bruce Willis and Madeline Stowe.
But his most famous movie of the decade came in 1999 in the form of the cult hit Fight Club. He took on the role of Tyler Durden and the character remains one of cinema's greatest anti-heroes of recent years.
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