Best Music movies that are oscar winners or nominees

The Commitments(1991)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When Jimmy Rabbitte wants to start a band, he has open auditions at his house.



The Mambo Kings(1992)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Musician brothers Cesar and Nestor leave Cuba for America in the 1950s, hoping to hit the top of the Latin music scene. Cesar is the older brother, the business manager, and the ladies' man...



'Round Midnight(1986)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 16

In 'Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner, a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism, estranged from ...



Bound for Glory(1976)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 15

The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.



Sweet Dreams(1985)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Jessica Lange stunningly portrays Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.



For the Boys(1991)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 10

With the help of the singer and dancer Dixie Leonhard US-Entertainer Eddie Sparks wants to bring some fun to the soldiers during World War II. Becoming a perfect team they tour from North ...



Butterflies Are Free(1972)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 9

A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother, and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.



Lady Sings the Blues(1972)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 12

The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.



Inside Daisy Clover(1965)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A tomboy turned movie star deals with the cruelty of Hollywood.



Wild in the Streets(1968)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A young man gains significant political influence as the leader of a counterculture rock band with his rallying cry of voting rights for teenagers.



Sweet Charity(1969)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Taxi dancer Charity continues to have Faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and Hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her ...



Paris Blues(1961)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 9

During the 1960s, two American ex-pat jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in-love with two American tourist girls.



Thank God It's Friday(1978)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 8

It's Friday and everyone is going to the hot new disco. The Commodores are scheduled to play if Floyd shows up with the instruments and Nicole dreams of becoming a disco star. Other ...



The Competition(1980)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 7

The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will ...



Carmen(1983)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A group of flamenco dancers are rehearsing a very spanish version of the Prosper Merimee's drama. Antonio (the coreographer) falls in love with Carmen (the main dancer). Their story then ...



Isadora(1968)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free ...



Honeysuckle Rose(1980)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Willie Nelson is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.



La traviata(1982)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Violetta meets Alfredo and quickly falls for him. After the lovers run away together, they live in bliss for a short time. However, Alfredo's father, Giorgio, starts to interfere, concerned...



Songwriter(1984)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Doc Jenkins is a singer/songwriter who tries to leave his singer/songwriter roots to be a music "mogul", and gets tangled up in a bad publishing deal. He enlists a team of cronies, ...



Otello(1986)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Based on Shakesphere's play, Verdi's opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, "...the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon". Believing Otello has promoted the...




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