Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale and Amy Adams
Director: David O. Russell

David O. Russell's touching drama was a critical hit, winning Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor (for Christian Bale) and Best Supporting Actress (for Melissa Leo) and nominated for four more including Best Picture and Best Director. A look at the early years of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid 1980s, The Fighter follows Micky's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer on the verge of losing himself to drugs and crime.