Best movies of 1996 that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Mary McDonnell, Jeff Goldblum,
Directors : Roland Emmerich,

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.

Actors : John Spencer, Ed Harris, Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Michael Bay,

A mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when a rogue group of military men, led by a renegade general, threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco.

Actors : Stephen Mendillo, Elizabeth Peña, Chris Cooper, Stephen J. Lang,
Directors : John Sayles,

When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.

Actors : Joanna Lumley, Pete Postlethwaite, Paul Terry, Simon Callow,
Directors : Henry Selick,

An orphan, who lives with his two cruel aunts, befriends anthropomorphic bugs who live inside a giant peach, and they embark on a journey to New York City.

Actors : Greta Scacchi, James Cosmo, Alan Cumming, Gwyneth Paltrow,
Directors : Douglas McGrath,

In rural 1800s England things go bad for a young matchmaker after she finds a man for another woman.

Actors : Edward Norton, Laura Linney, John Mahoney, Richard Gere,
Directors : Gregory Hoblit,

An altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep.

Actors : John Kani, Tom Wilkinson, Val Kilmer, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Stephen Hopkins,

A bridge engineer and an experienced old hunter begin a hunt for two lions after they start attacking local construction workers.

Actors : Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Derek Jacobi, Kenneth Branagh,
Directors : Kenneth Branagh,

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Actors : Dan Hedaya, Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen,
Directors : Rob Cohen,

Disaster in a New York tunnel as explosions collapse both ends of it. One hero tries to help the people inside find their way to safety.

Actors : Sean Connery, Pete Postlethwaite, Dina Meyer, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Rob Cohen,

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

Actors : Dana Delany, Anna Paquin, Terry Kinney, Jeff Daniels,
Directors : Carroll Ballard,

A father and daughter decide to attempt to lead a flock of orphaned Canada Geese south by air.

Actors : Barbara Hershey, Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Martin Donovan,
Directors : Jane Campion,

An American girl inherits a fortune and falls into a misguided relationship with a gentleman confidence artist whose true nature, including a barbed and covetous disposition, turns her life into a nightmare.

Actors : Lauren Bacall, Barbra Streisand, George Segal, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Barbra Streisand,

A shy, middle-aged professor enters into a romantic but non-physical relationship with an unlucky-in-love colleague.

Actors : Whitney Houston, Gregory Hines, Denzel Washington, Courtney B. Vance,
Directors : Penny Marshall,

Good natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in. On top of all ...

Actors : Mary Kay Bergman, Corey Burton, Demi Moore, Jason Alexander,

A deformed bell-ringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancer.

Actors : James Woods, Virginia Madsen, Whoopi Goldberg, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : Rob Reiner,

A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to finally bring a white racist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.

Actors : Mae Whitman, George Clooney, Alex D. Linz, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Michael Hoffman,

The lives of two strangers and their young children unexpectedly intersect on one hectic, stressful day in New York City.

Actors : Paul Scofield, Winona Ryder, Daniel Day-Lewis, Joan Allen,
Directors : Nicholas Hytner,

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.

Actors : Judith Godrèche, Charles Berling, Fanny Ardant, Jean Rochefort,
Directors : Patrice Leconte,

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.