Best Fantasy movies of 1990s that are oscar winners or nominees

Beauty and the Beast(1991)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A young woman whose father has been imprisoned by a terrifying beast offers herself in his place, unaware that her captor is actually a prince, physically altered by a magic spell.



Being John Malkovich(1999)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.



The Green Mile(1999)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.



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.



South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut(1999)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

When Cartman and his friends go see an R rated movie, they start swearing and their parent's think that Canada is to blame.



Pleasantville(1998)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Two 1990s teenage siblings find themselves in a 1950s sitcom where their influence begins to profoundly change that complacent world.



Edward Scissorhands(1990)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A gentle man, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation.



The Fisher King(1991)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.



The Mask(1994)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 54

Bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss is transformed into a manic superhero when he wears a mysterious mask.



Batman Forever(1995)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Batman must battle former district attorney Harvey Dent, who is now Two-Face and Edward Nygma, The Riddler with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat who becomes his sidekick, Robin.



Addams Family Values(1993)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 57

A comical Gothic horror-movie-type family tries to rescue their beloved uncle from his gold-digging new love.



A Little Princess(1995)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A young girl is relegated to servitude at a boarding school when her father goes missing and is presumed dead.



The Addams Family(1991)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 54

Con artists plan to fleece an eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long-lost uncle.



What Dreams May Come(1998)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 52

After he dies in a car crash, a man searches heaven and hell for his beloved wife.



Mighty Aphrodite(1995)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 50

When he discovers his adopted son is a genius, a New York sportswriter seeks out the boy's birth mother: a ditzy porn star and prostitute.



The Nightmare Before Christmas(1993)

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Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 35

Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home cause confusion.



Ghost(1990)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 26

After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.



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.



The Mummy(1999)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 24

An American serving in the French Foreign Legion on an archaeological dig at the ancient city of Hamunaptra accidentally awakens a mummy that wreaks havoc on him, and his crew.



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.




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