Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

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

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

Actors : Halle Berry, Taylor Simpson, Gabrielle Witcher, Billy Bob Thornton,
Directors : Marc Forster,

After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard reexamines his attitudes while falling in love with the African American wife of the last prisoner he executed.

Actors : John Cameron Mitchell, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski, Miriam Shor,
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 : Georges Siatidis, Filip Sovagovic, Rene Bitorajac, Branko Djuric,
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 : Chloë Sevigny, Steve Zahn, Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard,
Directors : Billy Ray,

The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine.

Actors : Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro, Alec Baldwin, Matt Damon,
Directors : Robert De Niro,

The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.

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 : Daniel Craig, Jamie Bell, Liev Schreiber, Alexa Davalos,
Directors : Edward Zwick,

Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants.

Actors : Amy Adams, Krysten Ritter, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston,
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 : David Rawle, Brendan Gleeson, Lisa Hannigan, Fionnula Flanagan,
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 : Anne Bancroft, William Daniels, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

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

Actors : Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Woody Allen,

The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

Actors : Nicholas Farrell, Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers,
Directors : Hugh Hudson,

Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.

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

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

Actors : Sean Connery, Charles Martin Smith, Robert De Niro, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team.

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Barbara Hershey, Harvey Keitel, Paul Greco,
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 : Anna Paquin, Sam Neill, Harvey Keitel, Holly Hunter,
Directors : Jane Campion,

A mute woman is sent to 1850s New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.

Actors : David Morse, Michael Clarke Duncan, Bonnie Hunt, Tom Hanks,
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 : Ed Harris, Peter Sarsgaard, Dakota Johnson, Jessie Buckley, Olivia Colman,
Directors : Maggie Gyllenhaal,

A woman's beach vacation takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of her past.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio,
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.