Best Space & Astronaut movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

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.

Actors : Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, James Sikking,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

In the distant future, a police marshal stationed at a remote mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io uncovers a drug-smuggling conspiracy, and gets no help from the populace when he later finds himself marked for murder.

Actors : Roy Scheider, Bob Balaban, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

A joint U.S.-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn what happened to the Discovery.

Actors : Gregory Peck, David Janssen, Richard Crenna, James Franciscus,
Directors : John Sturges,

Three American astronauts are stranded in space when their retros won't fire. Can they be rescued before their oxygen runs out?

Actors : Bernard Cribbins, David Kossoff, Ron Moody, Margaret Rutherford,
Directors : Richard Lester,

A tiny country persuades the Americans and Soviets that they're starting a space program, when they really just want some money for new plumbing.

Actors : Jerry Lewis, Joan Blackman, Fred Clark, Earl Holliman,
Directors : Norman Taurog,

The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth...