Saving Private Ryan

Internationally acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan is an unforgettable film achievment that has had profound and lsting impact throughout the world.

Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Director, the film also captured Oscar, for Cinematography, Film Editing Sound and Sound Effects Editing.

More that 70 critics (including those at Time Magazine, USA Today, The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly) and critics group in New York, Chicago, Dallas Ft. Worth and Great Britain named the film Best Picture of The Year, while the Los Angeles, Toronto and Broadcast Film Critics honoured it with both Best Picture and Best Director wards.

In addition, Spielberg received his third Directors Guild of America Award, the American Legion, “The Spirit Of Normandy” Award, a USO Merit Award from the USO of Metropolitan Washington, as well as the highest civilian public service award from the Department of the Army.

Selected for more than 160 Top Ten lists, Saving Private Ryan's other honours include Golden Globes for Best Picture (Drama) and Best Director, the Producers Guild of America Award and ten nominations from the British Academy Film Awards. Saving Private Ryan was the top grossing motion picture of 1998.

Special Features:

• Exclusive Message from Steven Spielberg
• Saving Private Ryan ..Into The Beach
• 2 Theatrical Trailers
• Production Notes
• Cast and Filmmakers Bios

Critic Reviews:

• " Saving Private Ryan is a masterpiece. It cements Steven Spielberg's re­putation as one of the seminal filmmakers of the era. " – Rex Reed

• " An old-fashioned war picture to rule them all – gripping, utterly uncynical, with viscerally convincing and audacious battle sequences. " – Peter Bradshaw

• " [Saving Private Ryan] accomplishes something I had been taught was most difficult – making an action-filled anti-war film or, at least, one that doesn't in some way glorify or lie about combat. " – Gene Siskel