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

Silkwood(1983)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 51

A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.



Casino(1995)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 37

A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive, compete against each other over a gambling empire and over a fast living and fast loving woman.



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.



The Fabelmans(2022)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 78

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.



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.



The Wings of the Dove(1997)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 55

An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.



Elizabeth(1998)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A film of the early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.



Bridget Jones's Diary(2001)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 33

A British woman is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.



An Officer and a Gentleman(1982)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A young man must complete his work at a Navy Flight school to become an aviator, with the help of a tough gunnery sergeant and his new girlfriend.



Changeling(2008)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 32

A grief-stricken mother takes on the LAPD to her own detriment when it tries to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child.



Interiors(1978)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 45

Three sisters find their lives spinning out of control in the wake of their parents' sudden, unexpected divorce.



Out of Africa(1985)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 33

In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.



Norma Rae(1979)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 49

A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved.



Iris(2001)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 38

True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.



The Rose(1979)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 47

The tragic life of a self-destructive female rock star who struggles to deal with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager.



The End of the Affair(1999)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 33

On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. ...



Tár(2022)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 46

Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and first-ever female music director of a major German orchestra.



The Contender(2000)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 30

Senator Laine Hanson is a contender for US Vice President, but information and disinformation about her past surfaces that threatens to de-rail her confirmation.



Elizabeth: The Golden Age(2007)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments.



Afterglow(1997)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A handyman with marital problems meets a housewife with the same.




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