Best Biography movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick McGoohan, Glenda Jackson, Timothy Dalton,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

During the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native land.

Actors : Robert Shaw, Ronald Hines, Simon Ward, Peter Cellier,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

This historical drama is an account of the early life of the future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood, his time as a war correspondent in South ...

Actors : Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren, Lennart Malmer, Cleo Jensen,
Directors : Bo Widerberg,

The Danish tightrope dancer Elvira Madigan meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre, a Swedish officer who is married and has two children. They both decide to run away.

Actors : Leo Rossi, Bruce Barlow, Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her ...

Actors : Greer Garson, Ralph Bellamy, Jean Hagen, Hume Cronyn,
Directors : Vincent J. Donehue,

In 1921, unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt contracts poliomyelitis and, with the help of his wife Eleanor Roosevelt and close friend Louis Howe, battles his newfound disability.

Actors : Peter Gallagher, Ray Sharkey, Paul Land, Tovah Feldshuh,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marcucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.

Actors : James Fox, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, John Fraser,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free ...

Actors : Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Daniel Massey, Michael Craig,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A musical biography of Gertrude Lawrence, who led a hustling and bustling life on the stage.

Actors : Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Patricia Owens, Vic Damone,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

When his adoptive Japanese-American family is sent to Manzanar after Pearl Harbor, a young Chicano enlists in the marines to become a hero in the Battle of Saipan.

Actors : Jeannette Clift, Robert Rietty, Arthur O'Connell, Julie Harris,
Directors : James F. Collier,

Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-WWII Holland. Their uneventful lives are disrupted with the coming of the Nazis. ...

Actors : Capucine, Patricia Morison, Dirk Bogarde, Geneviève Page,

The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt (Dirk Bogarde), whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, Douglas Wilmer, Daniel Massey, Glenda Jackson,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

The life of the great actress, Sarah Bernhardt.

Actors : Karlheinz Böhm, Walter Slezak, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom,

The story of Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, and three of their stories...

Actors : Stuart Whitman, Peter Falk, Henry Morgan, May Britt,

The rise and fall of a 1930's Brooklyn crime syndicate, known as Murder Incorporated, led by mobster Lepke Buchalter.

Actors : Greer Garson, Debbie Reynolds, Agnes Moorehead, Ricardo Montalban,
Directors : Henry Koster,

Young and inexperienced Sister Ann has just arrived at her next posting at Samaritan House, a Dominican order located in a disreputable neighborhood of Ghent, Belgium. Sister Ann is ...

Actors : Angela Lansbury, Raf Vallone, Red Buttons, Carroll Baker,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

A screen adaption of the blistering best-seller which examines the story of the platinum blonde bombshell (Baker) who rose to fame in the reckless Hollywood of the 1930's.

Actors : Nan Martin, Marilyn Hassett, Belinda Montgomery, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Young ski champion Jill Kinmont is left paralyzed after a tragic skiing accident. Her best friend suffers the same fate after contracting polio. Jill must slowly put her life back together again with the help of those close to her.

Actors : Trevor Howard, Glenda Jackson, Alec McCowen, Mona Washbourne,
Directors : Robert Enders,

This biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems.

Actors : Carlos Romero, Larry Domasin, Ann Daniel, Celia Milius,
Directors : James B. Clark,

The story of a Native American girl, abandoned on a tiny island, who is protected by a wild dog.

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, Nigel Patrick, Horst Buchholz, Mary Costa,
Directors : Andrew L. Stone,

Composer Johann Strauss becomes the "Waltz-King" and woos a baron's mistress in 19th-century Austria.