Critically acclaimed movies that are oscar winners or nominees in best actor - motion picture drama category

Actors : Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Tom Pelphrey, Lily Collins,
Directors : David Fincher,

1930's Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane (1941).

Actors : Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn, Saoirse Ronan,
Directors : Joe Wright,

Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a thirteen-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

Actors : Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy,
Directors : Alejandro González Iñárritu,

A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.

Actors : F. Murray Abraham, Roy Dotrice, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge,
Directors : Milos Forman,

The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum.

Actors : Dermot Mulroney, Hope Davis, Kathy Bates, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Alexander Payne,

A man upon retirement embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected.

Actors : Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins, Emmy Rossum, Sean Penn,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

With a childhood tragedy that overshadowed their lives, three men are reunited by circumstance when one has a family tragedy.

Actors : Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Mark Margolis, Evan Rachel Wood,
Directors : Darren Aronofsky,

A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.

Actors : Colin Farrell, James Keane, Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Directors : Scott Cooper,

A faded country music musician is forced to reassess his dysfunctional life during a doomed romance that also inspires him.

Actors : Stephen Henderson, Denzel Washington, Jovan Adepo, Viola Davis,
Directors : Denzel Washington,

A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.

Actors : Kevin Spacey, Thora Birch, Annette Bening, Wes Bentley,
Directors : Sam Mendes,

A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

Actors : Kristin Scott Thomas, Gary Oldman, Lily James, Ben Mendelsohn,
Directors : Joe Wright,

During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly-appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds.

Actors : Thomas Kretschmann, Emilia Fox, Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

Actors : Billy Boyd, James D'Arcy, Paul Bettany, Russell Crowe,
Directors : Peter Weir,

During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America.

Actors : Tom Wilkinson, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Michael O'Keefe,
Directors : Tony Gilroy,

A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multibillion-dollar class action suit.

Actors : Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Mark Wahlberg, Melissa Leo,
Directors : David O. Russell,

A look at the early years of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid 1980s.

Actors : Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans.

Actors : Tom Sizemore, Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, John Travolta,
Directors : Quentin Tarantino,

The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

Actors : Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Jim Carrey,
Directors : Peter Weir,

An insurance salesman/adjuster discovers his entire life is actually a television show.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, John C. Reilly, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Beckinsale,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

A biopic depicting the early years of legendary Director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s.