Best movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Phyllis Boyens-Liptak, Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm,
Directors : Michael Apted,

Biographical story of Loretta Lynn, a legendary country singer that came from poverty to worldwide fame. She rose from humble beginnings in Kentucky to superstardom and changing the sound and style of country music forever.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Sheb Wooley,
Directors : David Anspaugh,

A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the championship.

Actors : Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley, Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Peter Yates,

A small-town boy obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl.

Actors : Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Margaret Avery,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.

Actors : Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.

Actors : Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, David Naughton, Joe Belcher,
Directors : John Landis,

Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.

Actors : Ellen Latzen, Anne Archer, Glenn Close, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Adrian Lyne,

A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.

Actors : Zack Norman, Danny DeVito, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Robert Zemeckis,

A romance writer sets off to Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure.

Actors : Jennifer Aniston, Anna Kendrick, Sam Worthington, Adriana Barraza,
Directors : Daniel Barnz,

Claire becomes fascinated by the suicide of a woman in her chronic pain support group while grappling with her own, very raw personal tragedy.

Actors : John Candy, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, Tom Hanks,
Directors : Ron Howard,

A young man is reunited with a mermaid who saves him from drowning as a boy and falls in love not knowing who/what she is.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Frank McRae, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole,
Directors : Walter Hill,

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.

Actors : Sean Connery, Luciana Paluzzi, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi,
Directors : Terence Young,

James Bond heads to The Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme.

Actors : Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder.

Actors : Charlie Hunnam, Jim Broadbent, Christopher Plummer, Jamie Bell,
Directors : Douglas McGrath,

A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-heartedly grasping uncle.

Actors : Freddie Highmore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Keri Russell, Terrence Howard,
Directors : Kirsten Sheridan,

A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.

Actors : Frank Coughlan, Sean Kearns, Daniel Day-Lewis, Daragh Donnelly,
Directors : Jim Sheridan,

Young Danny Flynn is released from prison after 14 years after "taking the rap" for the IRA and tries to rebuild his life in his old Belfast neighborhood.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Bradley Cooper,
Directors : Guillermo del Toro,

An ambitious carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is.

Actors : Joan Cusack, Matt Dillon, Tom Selleck, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Frank Oz,

A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.

Actors : Magda Szubanski, Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Daily, James Cromwell,
Directors : George Miller,

Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.

Actors : Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill, Robin Williams, Oliver Platt,
Directors : Chris Columbus,

An android endeavors to become human as he gradually acquires emotions.