Best Adventure movies that are oscar winners or nominees

The Martian(2015)

Combined Rating:
91
Combined Critics Rating: 88

An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.



Ad Astra(2019)

Combined Rating:
91
Combined Critics Rating: 88

Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe.



Lawrence of Arabia(1962)

Combined Rating:
91
Combined Critics Rating: 88

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.



Coco(2017)

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Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 88

Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.



Almost Famous(2000)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 86

A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.



Shrek(2001)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

After his swamp is filled with magical creatures, Shrek agrees to rescue Princess Fiona for a villainous lord in order to get his land back.



Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(2004)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 86

It's Harry's third year at Hogwarts; not only does he have a new "Defense Against the Dark Arts" teacher, but there is also trouble brewing. Convicted murderer Sirius Black has escaped the Wizards' Prison and is coming after Harry.



Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire(2005)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A young wizard finds himself competing in a hazardous tournament between rival schools of magic, but he is distracted by recurring nightmares.



King Kong(2005)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 86

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to the mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with leading lady Ann Darrow.



Iron Man(2008)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.



Inception(2010)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A thief, who steals corporate secrets through use of dream-sharing technology, is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a CEO.



True Grit(2010)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 86

A stubborn teenager enlists the help of a tough U.S. Marshal to track down her father's murderer.



Hugo(2011)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 86

In Paris in 1931, an orphan named Hugo Cabret who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.



Nebraska(2013)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 88

An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.



Guardians of the Galaxy(2014)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A group of intergalactic criminals are forced to work together to stop a fanatical warrior from taking control of the universe.



Interstellar(2014)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.



Dawn of the Planet of the Apes(2014)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 86

A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier.



The LEGO Movie(2014)

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Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 86

An ordinary Lego construction worker, thought to be the prophesied 'Special', is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the Lego universe into eternal stasis.



The Revenant(2015)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 86

A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.



Incredibles 2(2018)

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Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 88

Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) is left to care for the kids while Helen (Elastigirl) is out saving the world.




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