Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in actress category

Actors : Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.,
Directors : Terence Young,

A recently blinded woman is terrorized by a trio of thugs while they search for a heroin-stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment.

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Fred Draper, Lady Rowlands, Peter Falk,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

Mabel, a wife and mother, is loved by her husband Nick but her mental illness proves to be a problem in the marriage.

Actors : Jane Fonda, Gig Young, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

The lives of a disparate group of contestants intertwine in an inhumanely grueling dance marathon.

Actors : Pat Hingle, Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Audrey Christie,
Directors : Elia Kazan,

A fragile Kansas girl's love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

Actors : Lou Jacobi, Shirley MacLaine, Bruce Yarnell, Jack Lemmon,
Directors : Billy Wilder,

In Paris, a former policeman falls in love with a prostitute, and tries to get her out of that life by paying for all of her time.

Actors : Dustin Hoffman, Stanley Beck, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establishment as too obscene for the public.

Actors : Charles Bickford, Jack Lemmon, Jack Klugman, Lee Remick,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

An alcoholic marries a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

Actors : Peter O'Toole, Anthony Hopkins, Katharine Hepburn, John Castle,
Directors : Anthony Harvey,

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.

Actors : Gordon Jackson, Pamela Franklin, Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

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.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Christopher Jones, John Mills, Trevor Howard,
Directors : David Lean,

Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.

Actors : Peggy Ashcroft, Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Murray Head,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

Divorced working woman Alex and well-to-do Jewish family doctor Daniel Hirsh share not only the same answering service but also the favours of young Bob Elkin who bed-hops between them as ...

Actors : Geraldine Page, Ed Begley, Paul Newman, Shirley Knight,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. Arriving with him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. ...

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

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.

Actors : Alan Badel, Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, William Hartnell,
Directors : Lindsay Anderson,

Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Maurice Dallimore, Terence Stamp, Mona Washbourne,
Directors : William Wyler,

A man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there.

Actors : Elton John, Ann-Margret, Roger Daltrey, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Ken Russell,

A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the object of a religious cult.

Actors : Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Elizabeth Taylor, Dina Merrill,
Directors : Daniel Mann,

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

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Victor Jory, Patty Duke, Inga Swenson,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

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

Actors : Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Lacey, Marie Burke,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

A medium and her husband stage a kidnapping in order for her to pretend to solve the crime and achieve fame.

Actors : Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Vivien Leigh,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for post-war Germany represents a microcosm of 1930s society.