Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in visual effects category

Independence Day(1996)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 30

The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Fighting superior technology, mankind's best weapon is the will to survive.



Back to the Future Part II(1989)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 29

After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.



Cliffhanger(1993)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 30

A botched mid-air heist results in suitcases full of cash being searched for by various groups throughout the Rocky Mountains.



1941(1979)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 34

Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor.



Death Becomes Her(1992)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 27

When a woman learns of an immortality treatment, she sees it as a way to outdo her long-time rival.



Pearl Harbor(2001)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.



Poltergeist II: The Other Side(1986)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 27

The Freeling family have a new house, but their troubles with supernatural forces don't seem to be over.



DragonHeart(1996)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 19

The last dragon and a disillusioned dragonslaying knight must cooperate to stop an evil king who was given partial immortality.



Mighty Joe Young(1998)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 26

A legendary fifteen-foot tall mountain gorilla named Joe is taken to an animal sanctuary in California by a zoologist and a young woman whom he grew up with. A poacher from the past returns to seek vengeance on him.



Return to Oz(1985)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 21

Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful.



Dragonslayer(1981)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A young wizarding apprentice is sent to kill a dragon which has been devouring girls from a nearby kingdom.



Young Sherlock Holmes(1985)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 15

When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.



2010(1984)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A joint U.S.-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn what happened to the Discovery.



The Black Hole(1979)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A research vessel finds a missing ship, commanded by a mysterious scientist, on the edge of a black hole.




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