Saving Private Ryan (1998) – This is a list of oscar, which was won by Saving Private Ryan (1998) in 1999:

• BEST DIRECTOR : Steven Spielberg
• BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : Janusz Kaminski
• BEST EFFECTS, SOUND EFFECTS EDITING : Gary Rydstrom, Richard Hymns
• BEST FILM EDITING : Michael Khan

And Here is some facts about Saving private Ryan (1998) as quoted from IMDB :

• The role of Caparzo was written just for Vin Diesel after director Steven Spielberg saw Diesel’s independent film Strays (1997), which was also his directorial, writing, producing and lead acting debut.
• Real amputees were used for the shots of people with limbs missing.
• Body Count: 206.
• For the initial fighting scenes in the sea, spare ammunition carried by the actors was made from wood, as metal was too heavy.
• Edward Norton (Hulk 2) was offered the role of Private Ryan, but turned it down.
• This is the last film edited on a non-digital editing system to win an Academy Award for editing.
• Voted #1 greatest war film in Channel 4 (UK) 2005 poll.
• Full character names: John H. Miller, Michael Horvath, Richard Reiben, Daniel Jackson, Stanley Mellish, Adrien Caparzo, Irwin Wade and Timothy E. Upham.
• 40 barrels of fake blood were utilized in the opening battle scene.
• The Battle of Ramelle never took place in real life. The town and the battle were both fictional.
• The first DreamWorks film to cross the $100 million mark.

You might wanna play “Call of Duty 2(TM)” after watch this movie, because almost the same scene as in Saving private Ryan (1998). If you watch this movie with best quality and sound output, 99% you will feel in real war, the 1%??? you don’t bleed, you don’t tired and you don’t even have to touch the gun.

What happend on 06 June 1944?? is the D-Day invation of America againts Nazi Europe in Normandy (Omaha Beach).

In the very beginning of the movie, you will be shown “real war”, machine guns from the Nazi Europe soldiers who opened fire to American armys on a hill close to the beach, mines and grenades that exploded so that some soldiers had to bear the pain of losing their hands and feet, even down to see their guts out. Capt. John H. Miller (Tom Hanks) and some men from his squad survive from that invation that day. And the next day, He and his squad was ordered to bring home Pvt. James Francis Ryan (Matt Damon).

why?

The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Pvt. James Francis Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother.

One of part of the movie when Cpt. Miller said at night when he and the rest of the squad take a rest in church, “He (James Francis Ryan) better be worth it. He better go home and cure a disease, or invent a longer-lasting light bulb, because the truth is I don’t want to trade 10 Ryan for 1 Vecchio or 1 Caparzo”. Vecchio and Caparzo (Vin Diesel) is one of his squad who died in mission to bring home Pvt. James private Ryan.

The end of movie??? Ryan, now seen as an old man revisiting the military cemetery at Normandy, visits the grave of Capt. Miller and tells his rescuer that he has tried to live a good life in exchange for the sacrifice of Miller and the rest. Overall its is worth seeing. [IMDB]

Title : Saving Private Ryan

Director : Steven Spielberg

Release Date : 24 July 1998

Starring : Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Vin Diesel, Edward Burns, Adam Goldberg, Tom Sizemore, Bary Pepper