Highest grossing Sci-Fi movies that are award winners or nominees

Black Panther(2018)

Combined Rating:
95
Combined Critics Rating: 94

After the death of his father, Prince T'Challa ascends to the throne of the small African country of Wakanda. T'Challa is also Black Panther, superhero. Now not only must he govern his country but defeat a dangerous adversary.



E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial(1982)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 46

A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.



Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen(2009)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.



Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2(2017)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 82

The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mystery of Peter Quill's true parentage.



Jurassic Park(1993)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.



Transformers: Dark of the Moon(2011)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 66

The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets.



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.



Transformers(2007)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 31

An ancient struggle between two Cybertronian races, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, comes to Earth, with a clue to the ultimate power held by a teenager.



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.



Iron Man 2(2010)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 75

With the world now aware of his identity as Iron Man, Tony Stark must contend with both his declining health and a vengeful mad man with ties to his father's legacy.



Independence Day(1996)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 30

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.



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.



Gravity(2013)

Combined Rating:
96
Combined Critics Rating: 95

Two astronauts work together to survive after an accident which leaves them alone in space.



Captain America: The Winter Soldier(2014)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 81

As Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world, he teams up with a fellow Avenger and S.H.I.E.L.D agent, Black Widow, to battle a new threat from history: an assassin known as the Winter Soldier.



Star Trek(2009)

Combined Rating:
92
Combined Critics Rating: 88

The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.



War of the Worlds(2005)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 82

As Earth is invaded by alien tripod fighting machines, one family fights for survival.



X-Men: Days of Future Past(2014)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.



The Lost World: Jurassic Park(1997)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there while another team approaches with another agenda.



Star Trek Into Darkness(2013)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 82

After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction.



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.




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