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

Wall Street(1987)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 55

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.



Scent of a Woman(1992)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.



I Am Sam(2001)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 54

A mentally handicapped man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter, and in the process teaches his cold hearted lawyer the value of love and family.



Nixon(1995)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A biographical story of former U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon, from his days as a young boy, to his eventual Presidency, which ended in shame.



Reds(1981)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.



Starman(1984)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 55

An alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona. The government tries to stop them.



The Tragedy of Macbeth(2021)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland, and his ambitious wife supports him in his plans of seizing power.



Roman J. Israel, Esq.(2017)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Roman J. Israel, Esq., a driven, idealistic defense attorney, finds himself in a tumultuous series of events that lead to a crisis and the necessity for extreme action.



Mississippi Burning(1988)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 49

Two F.B.I. Agents, with wildly different styles, arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.



Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)(2014)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A washed-up actor, who once played a famous superhero, attempts to revive his career by writing and starring in a Broadway play.



Chaplin(1992)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 49

A film about the troubled and controversial life of the master comedy filmmaker Charlie Chaplin.



Capote(2005)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 44

In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.



Green Book(2018)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.



Kiss of the Spider Woman(1985)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.



The Master(2012)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 43

A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.



Ulee's Gold(1997)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A reclusive beekeeper slowly pulls his dysfunctional family back together, but not without having to fight his son's previous dastardly cohorts.



The Prince of Tides(1991)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.



Dead Man Walking(1995)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 40

A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.



At Eternity's Gate(2018)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A look at the life of painter Vincent van Gogh during the time he lived in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France.



Rocky(1976)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 35

Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer, gets a supremely rare chance to fight heavy-weight champion Apollo Creed in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.




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