In the spring of 1994, in Kigali, Rwanda, three Westerners a wily Catholic priest and schoolmaster (John Hurt), his sincere young disciple (Hugh Dancy), and a Belgian military man (Dominique Horwitz) who heads a U.N. unit hunker down in a besieged school with about twenty-five hundred Tutsis under their protection.
Power couples were powerfully present this year: Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban were up for three awards between them, plus Claire Danes and HughDancy, Carey Lowell and Richard Gere, Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber, and more.