Best Spy & Agent movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Shirley Eaton, Honor Blackman,
Directors : Guy Hamilton,

Investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.

Actors : Tom Wilkinson, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti,
Directors : Tony Gilroy,

Two ex-government agents turned rival industrial spies have to be at the top of their game when one of their companies prepares to launch a major product. However, they distract each other in more ways than one.

Actors : Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro, Alec Baldwin, Matt Damon,
Directors : Robert De Niro,

The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.

Actors : Ed Harris, Dragos Bucur, Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess,
Directors : Peter Weir,

Siberian gulag escapees travel 4,000 miles by foot to freedom in India.

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Actors : Linda Fiorentino, Will Smith, Vincent D'Onofrio, Tommy Lee Jones,
Directors : Barry Sonnenfeld,

A police officer joins a secret organization that polices and monitors extraterrestrial interactions on Earth.

Actors : Ted Levine, Annette Bening, Adam Driver, Jon Hamm,
Directors : Scott Z. Burns,

Idealistic Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones, tasked by his boss to lead an investigation into the CIA's post 9/11 Detention and Interrogation Program, uncovers shocking secrets.

Actors : James McAvoy, Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti,
Directors : Michael Hoffman,

A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan couldn't save Kennedy, but he's determined not to let a clever assassin take out this president.

Actors : Mike Myers, Heather Graham, Michael York, Robert Wagner,
Directors : Jay Roach,

Dr. Evil is back...and has invented a new time machine that allows him to go back to the 60s and steal Austin Powers's mojo, inadvertently leaving him "shagless".

Actors : Candice Bergen, Benjamin Bratt, Michael Caine, Sandra Bullock,
Directors : Donald Petrie,

An FBI agent must go undercover in the Miss United States beauty pageant to prevent a group from bombing the event.

Actors : Sean Connery, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : John McTiernan,

In November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain in their newest sub violates orders and heads for the USA. Is he trying to defect or to start a war?

Actors : Anne Archer, Willem Dafoe, Harrison Ford, Joaquim de Almeida,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.

Actors : Sean Connery, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Kim Basinger, Max von Sydow,
Directors : Irvin Kershner,

A SPECTRE agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated.

Actors : Tom Arnold, Jamie Lee Curtis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Paxton,
Directors : James Cameron,

A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.

Actors : Sean Connery, Luciana Paluzzi, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi,
Directors : Terence Young,

James Bond heads to The Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme.

Actors : Telly Savalas, George Lazenby, Gabriele Ferzetti, Diana Rigg,
Directors : Peter R. Hunt,

James Bond woos a mob boss's daughter and goes undercover to uncover the true reason for Blofeld's allergy research in the Swiss Alps that involves beautiful women from around the world.

Actors : Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Lana Wood, Charles Gray,
Directors : Guy Hamilton,

A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon.

Actors : Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads, with the help of a K.G.B. Agent, whose lover he killed.

Actors : Vanessa Williams, James Coburn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Caan,
Directors : Chuck Russell,

A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons.