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

Actors : Geraldine Page, Richard Bradford, John Heard, Carlin Glynn,
Directors : Peter Masterson,

In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home for one last time.

Actors : Sissy Spacek, Shane Bailey, Becky Jo Lynch, Mel Gibson,
Directors : Mark Rydell,

A farming family battles severe storms, a bank is threatening to repossess their farm, and there are other hard times in a battle to save and hold on to their farm.

Actors : Alan Bates, Jill Clayburgh, Cliff Gorman, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.

Actors : Tim Dutton, Rosemary Harris, Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson,
Directors : Brian Gilbert,

In 1915, T.S. (Tom) Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood elope, but her longstanding gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their planned honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry ...

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Tom Skerritt, Mikhail Baryshnikov,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Jill Clayburgh, Charles Durning, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This affects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel.

Actors : Joseph Bologna, Valerie Harper, Marsha Mason, James Caan,
Directors : Robert Moore,

George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory...

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Roberts Blossom, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

Edna Mae Macaulay experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing, she discovers that she has the ...

Actors : Wilford Brimley, Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Matt Clark,
Directors : Richard Pearce,

Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife ...

Actors : Joan Hackett, Marsha Mason, James Coco, Kristy McNichol,
Directors : Glenn Jordan,

A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the ...

Actors : Robert Fields, Paulina Porizkova, Gibby Brand, Sally Kirkland,
Directors : Yurek Bogayevicz,

Anna is a middle-aged actress looking for work in New York City, with the help of her sometime lover, Daniel. She used to be a Czech film star married to the director Tonda, who is now ...