Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Sam Shepard, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program.

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Julie Christie, Omar Sharif,
Directors : David Lean,

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution.

Actors : Ben Johnson, Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.

Actors : Bai Ling, Jodie Foster, Tom Felton, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Andy Tennant,

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

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Harris, Franco Nero, David Hemmings,
Directors : Joshua Logan,

The story of the marriage of England's King Arthur to Guinevere. The plot of illegitimate Mordred to gain the throne and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot, threaten to topple Arthur and destroy his "round table" of knights.

Actors : Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Garmash, Apti Magamaev, Sergey Makovetskiy,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather.

Actors : Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, George C. Scott, Piper Laurie,
Directors : Robert Rossen,

An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.

Actors : Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea, Heather-Jay Jones,
Directors : Neil Jordan,

On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. ...

Actors : Ted Levine, Mare Winningham, Max Perlich, Jennifer Jason Leigh,
Directors : Ulu Grosbard,

Sadie is desperately looking up to her older sister Georgia who is a famous C&W artist. Sadie wants to be a famous artist like her sister, but is always doing everything wrong. Her ...

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 : Susan Sarandon, Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Saoirse Ronan,
Directors : Peter Jackson,

Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from purgatory. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.

Actors : Emily Blunt, Anthony Hopkins, Benicio Del Toro, Simon Merrells,
Directors : Joe Johnston,

Upon his return to his ancestral homeland, an American man is bitten, and subsequently cursed by, a werewolf.

Actors : Hilary Swank, Jonathan Pryce, Adrien Brody, Simon Baker,
Directors : Charles Shyer,

In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.

Actors : Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, Bruce Reitherman, Phil Harris,
Directors : Wolfgang Reitherman,

Bagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization.

Actors : Jennifer Tilly, John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Chazz Palminteri,
Directors : Woody Allen,

In New York in 1928, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced.

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 : Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham Carter, Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh,
Directors : Kenneth Branagh,

When the brilliant, but unorthodox scientist, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes, and later swears revenge.

Actors : Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright, Christopher Reeve,
Directors : Jeannot Szwarc,

A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time and meet the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Lara Flynn Boyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Julie Christie,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

A handyman with marital problems meets a housewife with the same.