Best Teen Romance movies that are oscar winners or nominees

About a Boy(2002)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A cynical, immature young man is taught how to act like a grown-up by a little boy.



Notes on a Scandal(2006)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.



Election(1999)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections, particularly with an obsessive overachiever determined to become student body president.



Something's Gotta Give(2003)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age.



Billy Elliot(2000)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.



Anna Karenina(2012)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.



Manhattan(1979)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.



Grease(1978)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?



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.



Breaking Away(1979)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A small-town boy obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl.



Splash(1984)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A young man is reunited with a mermaid who saves him from drowning as a boy and falls in love not knowing who/what she is.



In & Out(1997)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.



Footloose(1984)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 45

A city teenager moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.



An Officer and a Gentleman(1982)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A young man must complete his work at a Navy Flight school to become an aviator, with the help of a tough gunnery sergeant and his new girlfriend.



Anna and the King(1999)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 28

The story of the romance between the King of Siam and widowed British schoolteacher, Anna Leonowens, during the 1860s.



Steel Magnolias(1989)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.



Splendor in the Grass(1961)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A fragile Kansas girl's love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.



Hope and Glory(1987)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A semi-autobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in history was ...



The Goodbye Girl(1977)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 16

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.



The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie(1969)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.




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