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The Oscars Behind Bars: Oscars Nominated Prison Films

These are the prison films that have managed to get nominated for Oscars.

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  • Weary River
  • Dynamite
  • The Big House
  • I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
  • Grand Illusion
  • Shoeshine
  • White Heat
  • Caged
  • Stalag 17
  • Unchained
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • The Defiant Ones
  • I Want to Live!
  • Birdman of Alcatraz
  • The Great Escape
  • King Rat
  • Cool Hand Luke
  • The Dirty Dozen
  • Papillon
  • The Longest Yard
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Midnight Express
  • Scared Straight!
  • Squires of San Quentin
  • Brubaker
  • Breaker Morant
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman
  • Empire of the Sun
  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House
  • Alien³
  • In the Name of the Father
  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • Twelve Monkeys
  • Dust of Life
  • Dead Man Walking
  • Primal Fear
  • Sling Blade
  • Sleepers
  • The Rock
  • Con Air
  • American History X
  • The Farm: Angola, USA
  • Life
  • The Green Mile
  • Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
  • Murder on a Sunday Morning
  • The Dark Knight
  • A Prophet
  • The Way Back
  • Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
  • The Voorman Problem
  • Son of Saul
  • Knife Skills
  • Detainment
  • Time
  • The Letter Room
  • Attica
  • Please Hold
  • Sing Sing
  • I Am Ready, Warden
  • The Alabama Solution