Best Action movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Jenny Agutter, Michael York, Roscoe Lee Browne, Richard Jordan,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: life must end at the age of 30.

Actors : Tommy Lee Jones, Steven Seagal, Gary Busey, Erika Eleniak,
Directors : Andrew Davis,

A Navy cook is the only person who can stop a group of terrorists when they seize control of a U.S. battleship.

Actors : William Holden, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Newman,
Directors : John Guillermin,

At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

Actors : David Niven, Anthony Quayle, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.

Actors : Robert Ryan, Richard Burton, Henry Fonda, John Wayne,

The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.

Actors : James Woods, Alex Karras, Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

A gangster hires an ex-football player to find his girlfriend. When he finds her, they fall in love, and the twists start to appear.

Actors : Rebecca De Mornay, Kyle T. Heffner, Eric Roberts, Jon Voight,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, Moses Gunn, Everett McGill, Marsha Mason,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.

Actors : Jason Robards, Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, Sô Yamamura,

A series of mistakes made by the US Navy in the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor prove disastrous when Japan strikes.

Actors : Christopher St. John, Moses Gunn, Richard Roundtree, Charles Cioffi,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters,

A group of passengers struggle to survive and escape when their ocean liner completely capsizes at sea.

Actors : Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, James Sikking,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

In the distant future, a police marshal stationed at a remote mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io uncovers a drug-smuggling conspiracy, and gets no help from the populace when he later finds himself marked for murder.

Actors : Peter MacNicol, Ralph Richardson, Caitlin Clarke, John Hallam,
Directors : Matthew Robbins,

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

Actors : Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

A grand adventurous race takes place between the heroic Leslie and the despicable Professor Fate across three continents.

Actors : Ava Gardner, Lorne Greene, George Kennedy, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Mark Robson,

Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles.

Actors : Mahershala Ali, Hailee Steinfeld, Liev Schreiber, Nicolas Cage,

Spider-Man crosses parallel dimensions and teams up with the Spider-Men of those dimensions to stop a threat to all reality.

Actors : Barbara Hershey, Steve Railsback, Peter O'Toole, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Richard Rush,

A fugitive stumbles on a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out, and falls for the leading lady.

Actors : Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach,
Directors : John Sturges,

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

Actors : Leonardo Cimino, Kyle MacLachlan, Virginia Madsen, Francesca Annis,
Directors : David Lynch,

A Duke's son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis when they assassinate his father and free their desert world from the emperor's rule.

Actors : Alon Aboutboul, Adi Adouan, Ya'akov Ahimeir, Guy Apriat,
Directors : Joseph Cedar,

The story of a group of Israeli soldiers stationed in an outpost prior to the withdrawal of forces of 2000.