Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in actor in a leading role category

The Banshees of Inisherin(2022)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 88

Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.



Bohemian Rhapsody(2018)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A chronicle of the years leading up to Queen's legendary appearance at the Live Aid (1985) concert.



Kramer vs. Kramer(1979)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Ted Kramer's wife leaves her husband, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation.



Rain Man(1988)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.



Jerry Maguire(1996)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former secretary.



Ali(2001)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 73

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



In the Valley of Elah(2007)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 73

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.



Trumbo(2015)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 73

In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs.



Quills(2000)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 73

In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.



Hustle & Flow(2005)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 75

With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.



The Crying Game(1992)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A British soldier is kidnapped by IRA terrorists. He befriends one of his captors, who is drawn into the soldier's world.



Good Will Hunting(1997)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.



Before Night Falls(2000)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City. He joins Castro's rebels. By 1964, ...



Biutiful(2010)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 69

This is the story of Uxbal, a man living in this world, but able to see his death, which guides his every move.



Tootsie(1982)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.



Big(1988)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.



Dead Poets Society(1989)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

English teacher John Keating inspires his students to look at poetry with a different perspective of authentic knowledge and feelings.



Dances with Wolves(1990)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.



Pollock(2000)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A film about the life and career of the American painter, Jackson Pollock.



In the Name of the Father(1993)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

A man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them.




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