Best movies that are oscar winners in actress category

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.



Cabaret(1972)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.



Guess Who's Coming to Dinner(1967)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African American fiancé.







Klute(1971)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.



Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore(1974)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.



The Lion in Winter(1968)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.



The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie(1969)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.



Hud(1963)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.



BUtterfield 8(1960)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A Manhattan call girl has a tragic affair with a rich married man.



The Miracle Worker(1962)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.





A Touch of Class(1973)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 9

Romantic comedy about a pair of clandestine lovers in a London-Spain tryst.