Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in music (scoring: original song score and adaptation -or- scoring: adaptation) category

Actors : Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

In Chicago in September 1936, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Marisa Berenson, Ryan O'Neal, Patrick Magee,
Directors : Stanley Kubrick,

An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Mia Farrow, Robert Redford, Karen Black,
Directors : Jack Clayton,

A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.

Actors : William Finley, Gerrit Graham, Jessica Harper, Paul Williams,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.

Actors : Carl Anderson, Ted Neeley, Yvonne Elliman, Barry Dennen,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

Film version of the musical stage play, presenting the last few weeks of Christ's life, told in an anachronistic manner.

Actors : Elton John, Ann-Margret, Roger Daltrey, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Ken Russell,

A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the object of a religious cult.

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, James Caan,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

Story of singer Fanny Brice's stormy relationship with showman Billy Rose.

Actors : Clive Revill, Richard Kiley, Steven Warner, Joss Ackland,
Directors : Stanley Donen,

A pilot, stranded in the desert, meets a little boy who is a prince on a planet.

Actors : Johnny Whitaker, Celeste Holm, Jeff East, Warren Oates,
Directors : Don Taylor,

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder.