Howards End

Winner of three Academy Awards and nominated for Best Picture, director James Ivory's 1992 adaptation of EM Forster's novel depicts a battle of the classes in Edwardian England. Stars Emma Thompson in an Oscar- and BAFTA-winning role alongside screen legends Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave and Helena Bonham Carter.

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel (Thompson), who, along with her sister Helen (Carter), becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox (Hopkins) and his wife Ruth (Redgrave), and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast (Samuel West) and his mistress Jackie (Nicola Duffett).

Thompson was nominated for 13 awards for her performance that year - and won all of them. In a rather poetic turn of events, Hopkins (who won Best Actor the previous year for The Silence of the Lambs) presented his co-star Thompson with her Oscar at the 1993 Academy Awards. 

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