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

Planet of the Apes(1968)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 40

An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.



Dune(1984)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Duke's son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis when they assassinate his father and free their desert world from the emperor's rule.



Predator(1987)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 47

A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.



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.



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.



The Truman Show(1998)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 83

An insurance salesman/adjuster discovers his entire life is actually a television show.



Fantastic Voyage(1966)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.



Logan's Run(1976)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 20

An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: life must end at the age of 30.



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.



Starship Troopers(1997)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Humans in a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fight for survival.



Armageddon(1998)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 59

After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas is going to impact Earth in less than a month, N.A.S.A. recruits a misfit team of deep core drillers to save the planet.



Blade Runner 2049(2017)

Combined Rating:
92
Combined Critics Rating: 89

A young blade runner's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.



Children of Men(2006)

Combined Rating:
91
Combined Critics Rating: 87

In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.



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.



Brazil(1985)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A bureaucrat, in a retro-future world, tries to correct an administrative error, and becomes an enemy of the state.



Twelve Monkeys(1995)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 37

In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.



Her(2013)

Combined Rating:
93
Combined Critics Rating: 91

A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.



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.



Star Trek: The Motion Picture(1979)

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Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 49

When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine and hopefully stop the intruder.



The Fly(1986)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 40

A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.




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