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

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Mads Mikkelsen, Oscar Isaac, Rupert Friend,
Directors : Julian Schnabel,

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

Actors : Carl Weathers, Burt Young, Talia Shire, Sylvester Stallone,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

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.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed.

Actors : Lukas Haas, Josef Sommer, Kelly McGillis, Harrison Ford,
Directors : Peter Weir,

A young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder; policeman John Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect him until the trial.

Actors : Ruth Nelson, Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Julie Kavner,
Directors : Penny Marshall,

The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.

Actors : Brendan Fraser, Michael Caine, Do Thi Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

An older British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman.

Actors : Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Russell Crowe,
Directors : Tom Hooper,

In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives forever.

Actors : James Larkin, Simon Shepherd, Derek Jacobi, Kenneth Branagh,
Directors : Kenneth Branagh,

In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

Actors : Sally Field, Paul Newman, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

When a prosecutor leaks a false story that a liquor warehouse owner is involved in the murder of a union head, the man's life begins to unravel.

Actors : John Gielgud, Dudley Moore, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Liza Minnelli,
Directors : Steve Gordon,

Arthur he does as he pleases. All of his life, his master's toys. Deep in his heart, he's just, he's just a boy.

Actors : Todd Allen, Lenore Banks, Robert Duvall, Paul Bagget,
Directors : Robert Duvall,

After his happy life spins out of control, a preacher from Texas changes his name, goes to Louisiana and starts preaching on the radio.

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

A simple, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful businessman and an insider in Washington politics.

Actors : Forest Whitaker, Robin Williams, Chintara Sukapatana, Tung Thanh Tran,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

In 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U.S. Armed Services radio station in Vietnam.

Actors : Michael Williams, Maureen Lipman, Michael Caine, Julie Walters,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

In London, the twenty-seven year-old hairdresser Rita decides to complete her basic education before having children as desired by her husband Denny. She joins the literature course in an ...

Actors : Julian Sands, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Sam Waterston,
Directors : Roland Joffé,

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.

Actors : Harvey Keitel, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

The story of how Bugsy Siegel started Las Vegas.

Actors : Adrian Rawlins, Bill Nighy, Alex Sharp, Aimee Lou Wood,
Directors : Oliver Hermanus,

An English-language adaptation of the script of "Ikiru" (1952), set in London in the 1950s.

Actors : Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.

Actors : Doug McKeon, Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Mark Rydell,

Norman is a curmudgeon with an estranged relationship with his daughter Chelsea. At Golden Pond, he and his wife nevertheless agree to care for Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms.

Actors : Paul Mescal, Kayleigh Coleman, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Frankie Corio,
Directors : Charlotte Wells,

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.