Best Action movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : James Woods, Alex Karras, Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

A gangster hires an ex-football player to find his girlfriend. When he finds her, they fall in love, and the twists start to appear.

Actors : Rebecca De Mornay, Kyle T. Heffner, Eric Roberts, Jon Voight,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, Moses Gunn, Everett McGill, Marsha Mason,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Jason Robards, Joseph Cotten, Sô Yamamura,

A series of mistakes made by the US Navy in the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor prove disastrous when Japan strikes.

Actors : Christopher St. John, Moses Gunn, Richard Roundtree, Charles Cioffi,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters,

A group of passengers struggle to survive and escape when their ocean liner completely capsizes at sea.

Actors : Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, James Sikking,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

In the distant future, a police marshal stationed at a remote mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io uncovers a drug-smuggling conspiracy, and gets no help from the populace when he later finds himself marked for murder.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Bernard Fresson, Philippe Léotard, Fernando Rey,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseille to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler who eluded him in New York.

Actors : Peter MacNicol, Ralph Richardson, Caitlin Clarke, John Hallam,
Directors : Matthew Robbins,

A young wizarding apprentice is sent to kill a dragon which has been devouring girls from a nearby kingdom.

Actors : Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

A grand adventurous race takes place between the heroic Leslie and the despicable Professor Fate across three continents.

Actors : Ava Gardner, Lorne Greene, George Kennedy, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Mark Robson,

Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles.

Actors : Mahershala Ali, Hailee Steinfeld, Liev Schreiber, Nicolas Cage,

Spider-Man crosses parallel dimensions and teams up with the Spider-Men of those dimensions to stop a threat to all reality.

Actors : Barbara Hershey, Steve Railsback, Peter O'Toole, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Richard Rush,

A fugitive stumbles on a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out, and falls for the leading lady.

Actors : Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach,
Directors : John Sturges,

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

Actors : Leonardo Cimino, Kyle MacLachlan, Virginia Madsen, Francesca Annis,
Directors : David Lynch,

A Duke's son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis when they assassinate his father and free their desert world from the emperor's rule.

Actors : Alon Aboutboul, Adi Adouan, Ya'akov Ahimeir, Guy Apriat,
Directors : Joseph Cedar,

The story of a group of Israeli soldiers stationed in an outpost prior to the withdrawal of forces of 2000.

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Red Buttons, Elsa Martinelli, John Wayne,
Directors : Howard Hawks,

A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos before the arrival of a female wildlife photographer threatens to change their ways.

Actors : Raffaella Carrà, Trevor Howard, Frank Sinatra, Brad Dexter,
Directors : Mark Robson,

An American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII.

Actors : Pat Morita, Eddie Smith, Ralph Macchio, Bruce Malmuth,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Daniel accompanies his mentor, Mr. Miyagi, to Miyagi's childhood home in Okinawa. Miyagi visits his dying father and confronts his old rival, while Daniel falls in love and inadvertently makes a new rival of his own.

Actors : Haing S. Ngor, Hiep Thi Le, Bussaro Sanruck, Tommy Lee Jones,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

The final movie in Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy follows the true story of a Vietnamese village girl who survives a life of suffering and hardship during and after the Vietnam war. As a ...