Best Road Trip movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Charlene Swankie, Linda May, David Strathairn, Frances McDormand, Gay DeForest,
Directors : Chloé Zhao,

A woman in her sixties, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

Actors : Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh, Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church,
Directors : Alexander Payne,

Two men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment embark on a week-long road trip through California's wine country, just as one is about to take a trip down the aisle.

Actors : Patrick Fugit, Frances McDormand, Billy Crudup, Kate Hudson,
Directors : Cameron Crowe,

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.

Actors : Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear,

A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.

Actors : Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz, Joseph A. Carpenter, Richard Farnsworth,
Directors : David Lynch,

An old man makes a long journey by lawn-mover tractor to mend his relationship with an ill brother.

Actors : Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

Two best friends set out on an adventure but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the American police as these two girls escape for the crimes they committed!

Actors : Tom Cruise, Gerald R. Molen, Dustin Hoffman, Valeria Golino,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.

Actors : Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Antonio Mendoza,
Directors : Dennis Hopper,

Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America.

Actors : John Ashton, Charles Grodin, Robert De Niro, Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Martin Brest,

An accountant is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia after jumping bail.

Actors : John Cusack, Emily Churchill, Rebecca Spence, Jennifer Tyler,
Directors : Jim Strouse,

Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip.

Actors : Sebastian Maniscalco, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Viggo Mortensen,
Directors : Peter Farrelly,

A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.

Actors : Jerry Reed, Sally Field, Burt Reynolds, Mike Henry,
Directors : Hal Needham,

The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor trailer full of beer over county lines in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff.

Actors : Kirsty Mitchell, Helen Mirren, Janel Moloney, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Paolo Virzì,

A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey in the faithful old RV they call The Leisure Seeker.

Actors : Billy Green Bush, Jack Nicholson, Fannie Flagg, Karen Black,
Directors : Bob Rafelson,

A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.

Actors : Albert Finney, William Daniels, Audrey Hepburn, Eleanor Bron,
Directors : Stanley Donen,

A couple in the south of France non-sequentially spin down the highways of infidelity in their troubled ten-year marriage.

Actors : Sally Field, Val Avery, Harrison Ford, Henry Winkler,
Directors : Jeremy Kagan,

A Vietnam veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder breaks out of a VA hospital and goes on a road trip with a sympathetic traveler to find out what became of the other men in his unit.

Actors : Ruth White, Sharon Farrell, Steve McQueen, Michael Constantine,
Directors : Mark Rydell,

In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.

Actors : Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman, Deborah Winters, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Jack Lemmon,

Avoiding to settle in a nursing home, Joseph Kotcher, a retired salesman, is obliged to leave his son's family. He embarks on a road trip during which he strikes up a friendship with a ...

Actors : Barbara Sigel, Ed Nelson, Joan Winmill Brown, Randall Carver,
Directors : James F. Collier,

Jeff is in conflict with everything; his girlfriend, mom, dad but especially himself. In frustration, he strikes out against his dad by vandalizing equipment at a nuclear plant where he's supervisor. Jeff eludes capture and hits the road.