Most popular Sci-Fi movies that are award winners or nominees

The Prestige(2006)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 76

After a tragic accident two stage magicians engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion whilst sacrificing everything they have to outwit the other.



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.



Prometheus(2012)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 79

Following clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone.



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.



2001: A Space Odyssey(1968)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.



A Clockwork Orange(1971)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.



Close Encounters of the Third Kind(1977)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Following an accidental encounter with otherworldly vessels, an ordinary man follows a series of psychic clues to the first scheduled meeting between representatives of Earth and visitors from the cosmos.



Alien(1979)

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Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious life-form, and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.



Blade Runner(1982)

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Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 82

A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.



Flatliners(1990)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 52

Five medical students experiment on "near death" experiences that involve past tragedies until the dark consequences begin to jeopardize their lives.



Terminator 2: Judgment Day(1991)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son, John Connor, from a more advanced cyborg.



Don't Look Up(2021)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.



Mad Max: Fury Road(2015)

Combined Rating:
95
Combined Critics Rating: 94

A woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in postapocalyptic Australia in search for her home-land with the help of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshipper, and a drifter named Max.



Aliens(1986)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 43

The moon from Alien (1979) has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, the rescue team has impressive firepower, but will it be enough?



The Matrix(1999)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.



Tenet(2020)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 82

Armed with only one word, Tenet, and fighting for the survival of the entire world, a Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.



Interstellar(2014)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.



Back to the Future(1985)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.



Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind(2004)

Combined Rating:
92
Combined Critics Rating: 89

When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a procedure to have each other erased from their memories. But it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with.



The Time Machine(1960)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 21

A man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society.




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