With awards season now in full swing, mid-December is a great time for studios to put out the best content they've been sitting on all year. December 11 has seen three Oscar winning films get released—including a Best Picture winner—along with some lesser known films that have flown under the radar for far too long. Let's take a look back at the best movies released on December 11 in Movie Nudity History!
2015: The Big Short
This eventual Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar winner was released on this day four years ago, putting a sardonically funny slant on the 2008 financial collapse and the men who saw it coming.One of the film's running conceits is having people explain difficult financial concepts in terms that are easy for the average joe to swallow, and Margot Robbie kicks this off at the 13-minute mark appearing in a bubble bath to talk about mortgage bonds...
The film's only nudity comes at the 53-minute mark when Steve Carell's Mark Baum visits a strip club to chat up some of the dancers about their house-buying habits, and we're treated to Heighlen Boyd's nude debut...
2009: Tenderness
Russell Crowe headlines this intense drama as a detective determined to nab a man set free from prison that he is convinced will kill again. Meanwhile, a local teen played by Sophie Traub, who stows away in the killer's car after developing an obsession with him. While that might seem a touch curious, she hasn't got much of a life to speak of, having to go to her boss' office at work and lift up her shirt while he jerks off...
The film's only nudity comes courtesy of Tanya Clarke, who plays Crowe's comatose wife, and we get a nice look at her boobs and buns when he comes home and tends to her...
2009: The Vicious Kind
Adam Scott plays a special brand of scumbag in this biting black comedy as a guy obsessed with his brother's new girlfriend (Brittany Snow). Scott's character is the sort of dude who has no qualms with his bad behavior, demonstrating as much when he bangs Alysia Reiner and takes pictures of the event. Though the theatrical cut didn't feature any nudity, a deleted scene on the DVD release revealed Reiner's rack as Scott smokes a cig and takes her from behind...
Those hoping for Brittany Snow's nude debut will be disappointed in this flick, though she doesgo bottomless while banging Scott late in the film...
1998: Shakespeare in Love
Still one of the most controversial Best Picture winners of the last 25 years, this cheeky look at the love life of the most famous playwright in history still packs a lot of charm. While Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) suffers from severe writer's block, he falls for the leading "lady" of his new production "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter" played by Gwyneth Paltrow, disguised as a man. Paltrow won an Oscar for her work on the film and had the Anatomy Awards existed in 1998, she might have won one of those as well!
Paltrow goes topless for two terrific sex scenes with Fiennes, one backstage at the theater and another that mimics the morning after Romeo Juliet's first night together...
The film's other nude scene comes courtesy of the sensationally stacked Sandra Reinton, who gets banged by Amadeus' Simon Callow when her husband, played by the always great Martin Clunes, walks in on them...
1998: Red Meat
This late 90's dialogue heavy dramedy came in the wake of films by writer/directorslikeQuentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith that highly valued extended monologuing. Three guys shoot the breeze in a bar, bragging about past sexual conquests which we are treated to in flashbacks. First up is Anna Karin, who bares her breasts in bed with one of our alpha male heroes...
Next up is Heidi Lenhart, who shows some terrific TA while getting it on with another one of our protagonists...
Finally, we have Jennifer Grey, who didn't go nude in the film, but did show off her new nose for the first time while showing some rock hard pokies and spending substantial screen time in her underwear...
1987: Wall Street
The final Oscar winning film released on December 11 in history is Oliver Stone's intense look at how "greed, for lack of a better word, is good." Cunnilingus-related cancer survivor Michael Douglas picked up a Best Actor trophy for his incredible performance as Gordon Gekko, the ultimate in capitalist scum. Gekko may get the money—and the rap at the end—but it's his protege Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) who gets the girls in the flick, namely the gorgeous Suzen Murakoshi, who bares all three of her beautiful Bs after a night with Sheen...
1987: Cold Steel
Five years before Basic Instinct, Sharon Stone pulled double duty by appearing in both Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol—as Steve Guttenberg's love interest—and this flick, with a decidedly more intense look at the criminal underworld. Stone co-stars with Breaking Bad's Jonathan Banks, new wave rocker Adam Ant, and the late Brad Davis (Midnight Express) in this Christmas-set revenge thriller, and made her second nude appearance on film here—following 1984's Irreconcilable Differences.
33 minutes into the flick, Stone goes topless to get it on with Davis, briefly baring her breasts in a rather dimly lit scene...
1981: Pennies from Heaven
Finally, on this day 38 years ago, we got one of the most underrated films of the 80s. While not quite as good as the 1978 BBC miniseries from which it was adapted, this Herbert Rossmusicaltook audiences totally by surprise, and not in a good way. Perhaps the film's biggest misstep was casting Steve Martin in the lead, and not because he's not an excellent actor more than up to the task of starring in this flick, but because audiences couldn't yet accept him as anything other than a wild and crazy guy. Martin co-stars alongside then-girlfriend Bernadette Peters in this depression-set story of asheet music salesman who escapes his miserable existence by imagining himself as the star of extravagant, Busby Berkeley-esque musical numbers.
He woos school teacher Peters despite the fact that he's married to Jessica Harper, and sets all three of them on a collision course with tragedy. The film is perhaps best remembered now for featuring an astonishing tap dance number with a young Christopher Walken absolutely destroying it while lip synching to Cole Porter's "Let's Misbehave"...
