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

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.



The Cider House Rules(1999)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world.



The Kite Runner(2007)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.



Defiance(2008)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants.



Chariots of Fire(1981)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.





The Untouchables(1987)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team.



Don't Look Up(2021)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.



Chocolat(2000)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.



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.



Patton(1970)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 71

The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton.



Poltergeist(1982)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A family's home is haunted by a host of ghosts.



Frida(2002)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.



Memoirs of a Geisha(2005)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.



Passengers(2016)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.



Days of Heaven(1978)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.



Dances with Wolves(1990)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.



Babylon(2022)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.



The Village(2004)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A series of events tests the beliefs of a small isolated countryside village.



The Book Thief(2013)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents.




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