Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Robert Downey Jr., Tobey Maguire, Michael Douglas, Frances McDormand,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.

Actors : Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Will Smith, Mario Van Peebles,
Directors : Michael Mann,

A biography of sports legend Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974.

Actors : Miriam Shor, John Cameron Mitchell, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski,
Directors : John Cameron Mitchell,

A transgender punk-rock girl from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs.

Actors : Filip Sovagovic, Rene Bitorajac, Branko Djuric, Georges Siatidis,
Directors : Danis Tanovic,

Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.

Actors : Tommy Lee Jones, Jonathan Tucker, Jason Patric, Charlize Theron,
Directors : Paul Haggis,

A retired military investigator works with a police detective to uncover the truth behind his son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.

Actors : Quinton Aaron, Tim McGraw, Sandra Bullock, Jae Head,
Directors : John Lee Hancock,

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.

Actors : Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Dragos Bucur, Jim Sturgess,
Directors : Peter Weir,

Siberian gulag escapees travel 4,000 miles by foot to freedom in India.

Actors : Cécile De France, Matt Damon, Thierry Neuvic, Bryce Dallas Howard,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A drama centered on three people -- a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy -- who are touched by death in different ways.

Actors : Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston, Amy Adams, Krysten Ritter,
Directors : Tim Burton,

A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.

Actors : Brendan Gleeson, Fionnula Flanagan, David Rawle, Lisa Hannigan,
Directors : Tomm Moore,

Ben, a young Irish boy, and his little sister Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal, go on an adventure to free the fairies and save the spirit world.

Actors : Willie Watson, Tim Blake Nelson, Clancy Brown, Danny McCarthy,

An anthology film comprised of six stories, each dealing with a different aspect of life in the Old West.

Actors : John Lithgow, Hugh Dancy, Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling,
Directors : Nisha Ganatra,

A late night talk show host suspects that she may soon lose her long-running show.

Actors : Katharine Ross, Anne Bancroft, William Daniels, Dustin Hoffman,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

Actors : Strother Martin, Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

A laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Danny DeVito, Jack Nicholson, Debra Winger,
Directors : James L. Brooks,

Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.

Actors : Barbara Hershey, Harvey Keitel, Paul Greco, Willem Dafoe,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.

Actors : Chazz Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne,
Directors : Bryan Singer,

A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which began when five criminals met at a seemingly random police lineup.

Actors : Tom Hanks, Bonnie Hunt, David Morse, Michael Clarke Duncan,
Directors : Frank Darabont,

The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence,
Directors : Adam McKay,

Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.