Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in cinematography category

The Exorcist(1973)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 74

When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.



Chinatown(1974)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.



Unbroken(2014)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.



Network(1976)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.



Close Encounters of the Third Kind(1977)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Following an accidental encounter with otherworldly vessels, an ordinary man follows a series of psychic clues to the first scheduled meeting between representatives of Earth and visitors from the cosmos.



The Deer Hunter(1978)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.



Thelma & Louise(1991)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Two best friends set out on an adventure but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the American police as these two girls escape for the crimes they committed!



The Shawshank Redemption(1994)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.



Mudbound(2017)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 85

Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.



The Reader(2008)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.



Anna Karenina(2012)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.



The Graduate(1967)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.



Kramer vs. Kramer(1979)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Ted Kramer's wife leaves her husband, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation.



The Last Emperor(1987)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 75

The story of the final Emperor of China.



Rain Man(1988)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.



Who Framed Roger Rabbit(1988)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A toon-hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder.



Terminator 2: Judgment Day(1991)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son, John Connor, from a more advanced cyborg.



The Piano(1993)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A mute woman is sent to 1850s New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.



Sleepy Hollow(1999)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of 3 people with the culprit being the legendary apparition, the Headless Horseman.



The Passion of the Christ(2004)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Depicts the final twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem.




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