Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in art direction (color) category

Lawrence of Arabia(1962)

Combined Rating:
91
Combined Critics Rating: 88

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.



Breakfast at Tiffany's(1961)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.



Spartacus(1960)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 44

The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.



West Side Story(1961)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 36

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



Becket(1964)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 50

King Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas à Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the king's.





The Sound of Music(1965)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 30

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





Doctor Zhivago(1965)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 25

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution.



Fantastic Voyage(1966)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.





The Sand Pebbles(1966)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 12

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and...



The Greatest Story Ever Told(1965)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 16

The life of Jesus Christ.



El Cid(1961)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 9

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.



Cleopatra(1963)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Queen Cleopatra of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.



Mutiny on the Bounty(1962)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian.



That Touch of Mink(1962)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A rich businessman and a young woman are attracted to each other, but he only wants an affair while she wants to save her virginity for marriage.



The Agony and the Ecstasy(1965)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 5

The biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.



Inside Daisy Clover(1965)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A tomboy turned movie star deals with the cruelty of Hollywood.



What a Way to Go!(1964)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.




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