Most popular Sci-Fi movies that are oscar 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.



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.



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.



Back to the Future Part II(1989)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 29

After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.



Total Recall(1990)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 59

When a man goes for virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or does he?




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