Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in music (original dramatic score) category

Papillon(1973)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.



Murder on the Orient Express(1974)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 22

In December 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.



The Towering Inferno(1974)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 20

At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.



The Poseidon Adventure(1972)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A group of passengers struggle to survive and escape when their ocean liner completely capsizes at sea.



Shaft(1971)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 24

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.



The Way We Were(1973)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.



Sleuth(1972)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.



Summer of '42(1971)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 16

During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing an innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII.



The Day of the Dolphin(1973)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 18

Dr Jake Terrell, who has been training a pair of dolphins for many years, has had a breakthrough. He has taught his dolphins to speak and understand English, although they do have a limited...



Images(1972)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.



A Touch of Class(1973)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 9

Romantic comedy about a pair of clandestine lovers in a London-Spain tryst.



Nicholas and Alexandra(1971)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.



Mary, Queen of Scots(1971)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

During the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native land.



Cinderella Liberty(1973)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A lonely Navy sailor falls in love with a hooker and becomes a surrogate father figure for her son during an extended liberty due to his service records being lost.



Napoleon and Samantha(1972)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse friend.



Shanks(1974)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A mute puppeteer uses a deceased scientist's invention to control dead bodies like puppets.




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