Best Action movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Robert Ryan, William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Edmond O'Brien,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

Actors : Nancy Allen, Treat Williams, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Kevin Costner, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,
Directors : Kevin Reynolds,

When Robin and his Moorish companion come to England and the tyranny of the Sheriff of Nottingham, he decides to fight back as an outlaw.

Actors : Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo,
Directors : Stephen Sommers,

An American serving in the French Foreign Legion on an archaeological dig at the ancient city of Hamunaptra accidentally awakens a mummy that wreaks havoc on him, and his crew.

Actors : Graham Greene, Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner,
Directors : Richard Donner,

Bret Maverick, needing money for a poker tournament, faces various comic mishaps and challenges, including a charming woman thief.

Actors : Josh Hartnett, William Lee Scott, Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale,
Directors : Michael Bay,

A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.

Actors : Steven Berkoff, Richard Crenna, Sylvester Stallone, Charles Napier,
Directors : George P. Cosmatos,

John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.

Actors : Judge Reinhold, Ronny Cox, Eddie Murphy, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Tony Scott,

Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate Chief Bogomil's near-fatal shooting and the series of "alphabet crimes" associated with it.

Actors : Yancey Arias, Phyllida Law, Mark Addy, Guy Pearce,
Directors : Simon Wells,

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.

Actors : Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Dan Hedaya, Viggo Mortensen,
Directors : Rob Cohen,

Disaster in a New York tunnel as explosions collapse both ends of it. One hero tries to help the people inside find their way to safety.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, George Kennedy, Jean Seberg,

A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.

Actors : Sean Connery, Pete Postlethwaite, Dina Meyer, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Rob Cohen,

The last dragon and a disillusioned dragonslaying knight must cooperate to stop an evil king who was given partial immortality.

Actors : Peter Firth, Rade Serbedzija, Charlize Theron, Bill Paxton,
Directors : Ron Underwood,

A legendary fifteen-foot tall mountain gorilla named Joe is taken to an animal sanctuary in California by a zoologist and a young woman whom he grew up with. A poacher from the past returns to seek vengeance on him.

Actors : Jenny Agutter, Michael York, Roscoe Lee Browne, Richard Jordan,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: life must end at the age of 30.

Actors : Tommy Lee Jones, Steven Seagal, Gary Busey, Erika Eleniak,
Directors : Andrew Davis,

A Navy cook is the only person who can stop a group of terrorists when they seize control of a U.S. battleship.

Actors : David Strathairn, Joseph Mazzello, Kevin Bacon, Meryl Streep,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

Rafting expert Gail takes on a pair of armed killers while navigating a spectacularly violent river.

Actors : William Holden, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Newman,
Directors : John Guillermin,

At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

Actors : David Niven, Anthony Quayle, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.

Actors : Robert Ryan, Richard Burton, Henry Fonda, John Wayne,

The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.