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

Actors : Kate Winslet, James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson, Emma Thompson,
Directors : Ang Lee,

Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the titular opposites.

Actors : Cher, Kurt Russell, Meryl Streep, Craig T. Nelson,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

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.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Kate Nelligan, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner,
Directors : Barbra Streisand,

A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Juliette Lewis, Jessica Lange, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.

Actors : Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, George Chakiris,

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

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 : Audrey Hepburn, Stanley Holloway, Rex Harrison, Wilfrid Hyde-White,
Directors : George Cukor,

A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

Actors : Geraldine Page, Mary Beth Hurt, Kristin Griffith, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Woody Allen,

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

Actors : Geena Davis, Amy Wright, William Hurt, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Lawrence Kasdan,

An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles.

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Gregory Peck, Frank Overton, John Megna,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.

Actors : Julie Andrews, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.

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 : Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Hal Holbrook, Gene Hackman,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

A young lawyer joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.

Actors : Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville, Jim Broadbent, Judi Dench,
Directors : Richard Eyre,

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.

Actors : Tony Goldwyn, Whoopi Goldberg, Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : Jerry Zucker,

After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.

Actors : Paul Le Mat, Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Charles Martin Smith,
Directors : George Lucas,

A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

Actors : Ted Levine, Mare Winningham, Max Perlich, Jennifer Jason Leigh,
Directors : Ulu Grosbard,

Sadie is desperately looking up to her older sister Georgia who is a famous C&W artist. Sadie wants to be a famous artist like her sister, but is always doing everything wrong. Her ...

Actors : Ben Johnson, Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.

Actors : John Cusack, Jennifer Tilly, Dianne Wiest, Chazz Palminteri,
Directors : Woody Allen,

In New York in 1928, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced.