The Remains of the Day (1993)
Academy Award for Best Actress (Emma Thompson)
Academy Award for Best Costume Design
Academy Award for Best Director (James Ivory)
Academy Award for Best Original Score (Richard Robbins)
Academy Award for Best Picture (Mike Nichols, John Calley, Ismail Merchant)
Academy Award for Best Production Design (Luciana Arrighi)
Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)Award details: (details at IMDb)
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A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.