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List of all the movies nominated and awarded Oscars Best Picture and Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture from 1927 up until 2019
| year | Genre | director | Runtime | Plot | Awards | imdbRating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Song of Bernadette | 1943 | Biography, Drama | Henry King | 156 | A young peasant girl saw a divine miracle. The phenomenon became widely known and changed the lives of many. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 8 nominations. | 7.6 |
| Going My Way | 1944 | Comedy, Drama, Music | Leo McCarey | 126 | Father Charles O'Malley, a young priest at a financially failing Church in a tough neighborhood, gains support and inspires his superior. | Won 7 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 4 nominations. | 7.1 |
| The Lost Weekend | 1945 | Drama, Film-Noir | Billy Wilder | 101 | The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 12 wins & 3 nominations. | 7.9 |
| The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | Drama, Romance, War | William Wyler | 170 | Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed. | Won 7 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 3 nominations. | 8.0 |
| Gentleman's Agreement | 1947 | Drama, Romance | Elia Kazan | 118 | A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 9 wins & 8 nominations. | 7.2 |
| Johnny Belinda | 1948 | Drama | Jean Negulesco | 102 | In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf/mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes scandal to swirl. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 13 nominations. | 7.8 |
| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | Adventure, Drama, Western | John Huston | 126 | Two Americans searching for work in Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 8 nominations. | 8.2 |
| All the King's Men | 1949 | Drama, Film-Noir | Robert Rossen | 110 | The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 8 nominations. | 7.5 |
| Come to the Stable | 1949 | Comedy, Drama | Henry Koster | 94 | Two nuns from a French convent arrive in a small Connecticut town with a plan to build a children's hospital. They enlist the help of several colorful characters in achieving their dream ... | Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 2 nominations. | 7.3 |
| Sunset Boulevard | 1950 | Short | Billy Wilder | 8 | Sunset Boulevard is the attempt to simultaneously picture the two big, contradictory myths of U.S. America: the myth of unlimited individualism ("lonesome rider"), and the myth of the "... | 8.2 | |
| All About Eve | 1950 | Drama | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 138 | An ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends. | Won 6 Oscars. Another 17 wins & 18 nominations. | 8.2 |
| Born Yesterday | 1950 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | George Cukor | 103 | A tycoon hires a tutor to teach his lover proper etiquette, with unexpected results. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 10 nominations. | 7.6 |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | 1950 | Adventure, Drama, Romance | Michael Gordon | 113 | The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves in this straightforward version of the play. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations. | 7.5 |
| Harvey | 1950 | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | Henry Koster | 104 | Due to his insistence that he has an invisible six foot-tall rabbit for a best friend, a whimsical middle-aged man is thought by his family to be insane - but he may be wiser than anyone knows. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 4 nominations. | 7.9 |
| A Place in the Sun | 1951 | Drama, Romance | George Stevens | 122 | A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women. | Won 6 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 10 nominations. | 7.8 |
| Bright Victory | 1951 | Drama, Romance, War | Mark Robson | 97 | After he gets blinded by a German sniper's bullet in 1943, Sergeant Larry Nevins begins the long and painful road to recovery. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations. | 7.4 |
| Detective Story | 1951 | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | William Wyler | 103 | On one day in the 21st Precinct squad room, assorted characters form a backdrop for the troubles of hard-nosed Detective Jim McLeod. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 7 nominations. | 7.6 |
| Quo Vadis | 1951 | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | Mervyn LeRoy | 171 | Fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia and begins questioning the tyrannical leadership of the despot Emperor Nero. | Nominated for 8 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 2 nominations. | 7.2 |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Drama | Elia Kazan | 122 | Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 15 nominations. | 8.0 |
| The Greatest Show on Earth | 1952 | Drama, Family, Romance | Cecil B. DeMille | 152 | The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 5 nominations. | 6.6 |
| Come Back, Little Sheba | 1952 | Drama, Romance | Daniel Mann | 99 | An emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 8 nominations. | 7.5 |
| The Happy Time | 1952 | Comedy | Richard Fleischer | 94 | Spring inspires lessons in love and life for a French family in 1920s Ottawa, especially for teenage Robert, who's blind to the attentions of an American neighbor girl, because he's ... | Nominated for 4 Golden Globes. Another 1 nomination. | 6.9 |
| High Noon | 1952 | Drama, Thriller, Western | Fred Zinnemann | 85 | A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at high noon when the gang leader, an outlaw he sent up years ago, arrives on the noon train. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 10 nominations. | 7.9 |
| The Thief | 1952 | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | Russell Rouse | 86 | A chance accident causes a nuclear physicist selling top secret material to the Russians to fall under FBI scrutiny and go on the run. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 6 nominations. | 6.8 |
| The Robe | 1953 | Drama, History | Henry Koster | 135 | In the Roman province of Judea during the 1st century, Roman tribune Marcellus Gallio is ordered to crucify Jesus of Nazareth but is tormented by his guilty conscience afterwards. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations. | 6.7 |
| On the Waterfront | 1954 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | Elia Kazan | 108 | An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses. | Won 8 Oscars. Another 21 wins & 9 nominations. | 8.1 |
| East of Eden | 1955 | Drama | Elia Kazan | 118 | A wilful young man contends against his brother for the attention of their religious father while reconnecting with his estranged mother and falling for his brother's girlfriend. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 12 wins & 10 nominations. | 7.9 |
| Around the World in 80 Days | 1956 | Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance | Michael Anderson | 175 | A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 5 nominations. | 6.8 |
| Giant | 1956 | Drama, Western | George Stevens | 201 | Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 15 nominations. | 7.6 |
| Lust for Life | 1956 | Biography, Drama | Vincente Minnelli | 122 | The life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 6 nominations. | 7.4 |
| The Rainmaker | 1956 | Romance, Western | Joseph Anthony | 121 | During the Depression, a con-man promises rain to a desperate drought-ridden Kansas town and marriage to a local desperate spinster. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 5 nominations. | 7.0 |
| War and Peace | 1956 | Drama, Romance, War | King Vidor | 208 | Napoleon's (Herbert Lom's) tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 10 nominations. | 6.8 |
| The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | Adventure, Drama, War | David Lean | 161 | British POWs build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, oblivious of the Allies' plans to destroy it. | Won 7 Oscars. Another 23 wins & 7 nominations. | 8.1 |
| 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Drama | Sidney Lumet | 96 | A jury holdout attempts to prevent a miscarriage of justice by forcing his colleagues to reconsider the evidence. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 16 wins & 9 nominations. | 8.9 |
| Sayonara | 1957 | Drama, Romance | Joshua Logan | 147 | A US Air Force major in Kobe confronts his own opposition to marriages between American servicemen and Japanese women when he falls for a beautiful performer. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 18 nominations. | 7.1 |
| Wild Is the Wind | 1957 | Drama | George Cukor | 114 | An immigrant Nevada rancher brings a woman from Italy to be his second wife but when he neglects her, she becomes involved with his trusted assistant. Nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Actor. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 5 nominations. | 6.7 |
| Witness for the Prosecution | 1957 | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | Billy Wilder | 116 | A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise. | Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 9 nominations. | 8.4 |
| The Defiant Ones | 1958 | Crime, Drama | Stanley Kramer | 96 | Two escaped convicts chained together, white and black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 12 wins & 21 nominations. | 7.6 |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 1958 | Drama | Richard Brooks | 108 | Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son. | Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 10 nominations. | 8.0 |
| Home Before Dark | 1958 | Drama | Mervyn LeRoy | 136 | Simmons is magnetic as Charlotte, her lovely, delicate face reflecting the inner turmoil of a woman battling for sanity after she walks out of a mental institution. | Nominated for 3 Golden Globes. Another 1 nomination. | 7.1 |
| I Want to Live! | 1958 | Biography, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | Robert Wise | 120 | A prostitute, sentenced to death for murder, pleads her innocence. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 16 nominations. | 7.5 |
| Separate Tables | 1958 | Drama, Romance | Delbert Mann | 100 | The stories of several people are told as they stay at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth which features dining at "Separate Tables." | Won 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 15 nominations. | 7.4 |
| Ben-Hur | 1959 | Adventure, Drama, History | William Wyler | 212 | When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. | Won 11 Oscars. Another 18 wins & 16 nominations. | 8.1 |
| Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Otto Preminger | 161 | In a murder trial, the defendant says he suffered temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case? | Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 11 nominations. | 8.0 |
| The Diary of Anne Frank | 1959 | Biography, Drama, Family, History, War | George Stevens | 180 | During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 14 nominations. | 7.4 |
| The Nun's Story | 1959 | Drama | Fred Zinnemann | 149 | After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II. | Nominated for 8 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 15 nominations. | 7.6 |
| On the Beach | 1959 | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | Stanley Kramer | 134 | After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 7 nominations. | 7.2 |
| Spartacus | 1960 | Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War | Stanley Kubrick | 197 | The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 11 nominations. | 7.9 |
| Elmer Gantry | 1960 | Drama | Richard Brooks | 146 | A fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 12 nominations. | 7.8 |
| Inherit the Wind | 1960 | Biography, Drama, History | Stanley Kramer | 128 | Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 7 nominations. | 8.1 |
| Sons and Lovers | 1960 | Drama | Jack Cardiff | 103 | In the early twentieth century, an artistically talented young man living in an English coal mining town is inhibited by his domineering and emotionally manipulative mother. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 16 nominations. | 7.1 |
| Sunrise at Campobello | 1960 | Biography, Drama | Vincent J. Donehue | 144 | In 1921, unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt contracts poliomyelitis and, with the help of his wife Eleanor Roosevelt and close friend Louis Howe, battles his newfound disability. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations. | 7.0 |
| The Guns of Navarone | 1961 | Action, Adventure, Drama, War | J. Lee Thompson | 158 | A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 12 nominations. | 7.5 |
| El Cid | 1961 | Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War | Anthony Mann | 182 | The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 10 nominations. | 7.2 |
| Fanny | 1961 | Drama, Romance | Joshua Logan | 134 | A love triangle between a young woman, a rich 60-something man and an aspiring sailor set in early 20th century Marseilles. | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 1 win & 11 nominations. | 7.0 |
| Judgment at Nuremberg | 1961 | Drama, War | Stanley Kramer | 179 | In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazis judged for war crimes. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 25 nominations. | 8.2 |
| Splendor in the Grass | 1961 | Drama, Romance | Elia Kazan | 124 | A fragile Kansas girl's love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 7 nominations. | 7.8 |
| Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War | David Lean | 228 | The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks. | Won 7 Oscars. Another 23 wins & 14 nominations. | 8.3 |
| The Chapman Report | 1962 | Drama, Romance | George Cukor | 125 | Based on the best-selling novel by Irving Wallace that was inspired by the Kinsey Report on the sexual mores of suburban women, the film follows the personal (read sexual) lives of four ... | 5.6 | |
| Days of Wine and Roses | 1962 | Drama | Blake Edwards | 117 | An alcoholic marries a young woman, who he systematically addicts to booze, so they can share his "passion" together. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 13 nominations. | 7.9 |
| Freud: The Secret Passion | 1962 | Biography, Drama | John Huston | 140 | An examination of Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis. | ||
| Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man | 1962 | Adventure, Drama, War | Martin Ritt | 145 | An immature young man from Middle America grows to manhood after a cross-country journey and his military service in World War I. | Nominated for 5 Golden Globes. Another 1 nomination. | 6.4 |
| Lisa | 1962 | Drama, History, Romance | Philip Dunne | 112 | At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine. | 7.0 | |
| The Longest Day | 1962 | Action, Drama, History, War | Ken Annakin | 178 | The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 6 nominations. | 7.8 |
| The Miracle Worker | 1962 | Biography, Drama | Arthur Penn | 106 | The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 9 wins & 11 nominations. | 8.1 |
| Mutiny on the Bounty | 1962 | Adventure, Drama, History, Romance | Lewis Milestone | 178 | In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian. | Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 6 nominations. | 7.3 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Crime, Drama | Robert Mulligan | 129 | Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 16 nominations. | 8.3 |
| The Cardinal | 1963 | Drama, History, War | Otto Preminger | 175 | A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Naziism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal. | Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 7 nominations. | 6.7 |
| America America | 1963 | Drama | Elia Kazan | 174 | A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to the United States. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 11 nominations. | 7.8 |
| Captain Newman, M.D. | 1963 | Comedy, Drama, War | David Miller | 126 | In 1944, an Army doctor is in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona, and he must deal with a variety of tough cases. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 7 nominations. | 6.9 |
| The Caretakers | 1963 | Drama | Hall Bartlett | 97 | This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital. Dr. MacLeod (Robert Stack) is a new, optimistic doctor who attempts to ... | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 nominations. | 5.1 |
| Cleopatra | 1963 | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 192 | Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 13 nominations. | 7.0 |
| The Great Escape | 1963 | Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, War | John Sturges | 172 | Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 10 nominations. | 8.2 |
| Hud | 1963 | Drama, Western | Martin Ritt | 112 | Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 12 wins & 17 nominations. | 7.9 |
| Lilies of the Field | 1963 | Drama | Ralph Nelson | 94 | A travelling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 13 nominations. | 7.6 |
| Becket | 1964 | Biography, Drama, History | Peter Glenville | 148 | King Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the King's. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 13 wins & 23 nominations. | 7.8 |
| The Chalk Garden | 1964 | Drama, Mystery | Ronald Neame | 106 | A grandmother (Edith Evans) seeks a governess for her sixteen-year-old granddaughter, Laurel (Hayley Mills), who manages to drive away every one so far by exposing their past, with a record... | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations. | 7.5 |
| Dear Heart | 1964 | Comedy, Family | Delbert Mann | 114 | Single and alone, Evie arrives in New York for the annual Postmasters' convention. Staying at her hotel is a womanising salesman newly promoted to his marketing department and trying to ... | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 nominations. | 7.2 |
| The Night of the Iguana | 1964 | Drama | John Huston | 125 | A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 13 nominations. | 7.6 |
| Zorba the Greek | 1964 | Comedy, Drama | Michael Cacoyannis | 142 | An uptight English writer travelling to Crete, on a matter of business, finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 16 nominations. | 7.7 |
| Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | Drama, Romance, War | David Lean | 197 | The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 16 wins & 13 nominations. | 8.0 |
| The Collector | 1965 | Drama, Thriller | William Wyler | 119 | A man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 7 nominations. | 7.6 |
| The Flight of the Phoenix | 1965 | Adventure, Drama | Robert Aldrich | 142 | After a plane crash in the Sahara, one of the survivors says he's an airplane designer and they can make a flyable plane from the wreckage. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 4 nominations. | 7.5 |
| A Patch of Blue | 1965 | Drama, Romance | Guy Green | 105 | A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 15 nominations. | 8.0 |
| Ship of Fools | 1965 | Drama, Romance, War | Stanley Kramer | 149 | A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for pre-WWII Germany represents a microcosm of early 1930s society. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 13 nominations. | 7.1 |
| A Man for All Seasons | 1966 | Biography, Drama, History | Fred Zinnemann | 120 | The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry. | Won 6 Oscars. Another 27 wins & 8 nominations. | 7.7 |
| Born Free | 1966 | Adventure, Drama, Family | James H. Hill | 95 | The story of George and Joy Adamson and the orphaned lion cub, Elsa, they adopt. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 7 nominations. | 7.2 |
| The Professionals | 1966 | Action, Adventure, Western | Richard Brooks | 117 | An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations. | 7.3 |
| The Sand Pebbles | 1966 | Adventure, Drama, Romance, War | Robert Wise | 182 | In 1926, a U.S. Naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China. | Nominated for 8 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 13 nominations. | 7.6 |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 1966 | Drama | Mike Nichols | 131 | A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 17 wins & 23 nominations. | 8.0 |
| In the Heat of the Night | 1967 | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Norman Jewison | 110 | An African-American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 17 wins & 14 nominations. | 8.0 |
| Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Action, Biography, Crime, Drama | Arthur Penn | 111 | Bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 20 wins & 27 nominations. | 7.8 |
| Far from the Madding Crowd | 1967 | Drama, History, Romance | John Schlesinger | 168 | Bathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 7 nominations. | 7.2 |
| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | 1967 | Comedy, Drama | Stanley Kramer | 108 | A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 9 wins & 23 nominations. | 7.8 |
| In Cold Blood | 1967 | Biography, Crime, Drama, History | Richard Brooks | 134 | After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 6 nominations. | 7.9 |
| The Lion in Winter | 1968 | Biography, Drama, History | Anthony Harvey | 134 | 1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 12 wins & 18 nominations. | 7.9 |
| CHARLY | 1968 | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | Ralph Nelson | 103 | An intellectually disabled man undergoes an experiment that gives him the intelligence of a genius. | ||
| The Fixer | 1968 | Drama | John Frankenheimer | 132 | In Czarist Russia, around 1911, a Russian-Jewish handyman, Yakov Bok (Sir Alan Bates), is wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 nominations. | 6.8 |
| The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | 1968 | Drama | Robert Ellis Miller | 123 | When deaf mute Singer moves to a small city to be near his only friend confined in a hospital, he grows attached to his landlady's sensitive 16-year-old daughter. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 9 nominations. | 7.6 |
| The Shoes of the Fisherman | 1968 | Drama | Michael Anderson | 162 | Ukrainian Archbishop Kiril Lakota is set free after twenty years as a political prisoner in Siberia. He is brought to Rome by Father David Telemond, a troubled young priest who befriends ... | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 3 nominations. | 7.1 |
| Anne of the Thousand Days | 1969 | Biography, Drama, History | Charles Jarrott | 145 | King Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Catharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 16 nominations. | 7.5 |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | Biography, Crime, Drama, Western | George Roy Hill | 110 | Wyoming, early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. Their solution - escape to Bolivia. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 17 wins & 14 nominations. | 8.0 |
| Midnight Cowboy | 1969 | Drama, Western | John Schlesinger | 113 | A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 24 wins & 15 nominations. | 7.8 |
| The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | 1969 | Drama, Romance | Ronald Neame | 116 | A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 10 nominations. | 7.6 |
| They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | 1969 | Drama | Sydney Pollack | 129 | The lives of a disparate group of contestants intertwine in an inhumanely grueling dance marathon. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 24 nominations. | 7.9 |
| Love Story | 1970 | Drama, Romance | Arthur Hiller | 100 | A boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 16 nominations. | 6.9 |
| Airport | 1970 | Action, Drama, Thriller | George Seaton | 137 | A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 19 nominations. | 6.6 |
| Five Easy Pieces | 1970 | Drama | Bob Rafelson | 98 | A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 18 nominations. | 7.5 |
| I Never Sang for My Father | 1970 | Drama | Gilbert Cates | 92 | A man who wants to move on with his life by moving to California and marry his girlfriend, finds it difficult as he still lives in the towering shadow of his aging father. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations. | 7.7 |
| Patton | 1970 | Biography, Drama, War | Franklin J. Schaffner | 172 | The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton. | Won 7 Oscars. Another 16 wins & 8 nominations. | 7.9 |
| The French Connection | 1971 | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | William Friedkin | 104 | A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 17 wins & 11 nominations. | 7.7 |
| A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi | Stanley Kubrick | 136 | In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 9 wins & 19 nominations. | 8.3 |
| The Last Picture Show | 1971 | Drama, Romance | Peter Bogdanovich | 118 | In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 17 wins & 22 nominations. | 8.0 |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | 1971 | Biography, Drama, History | Charles Jarrott | 128 | During the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native land. | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 5 nominations. | 7.2 |
| Summer of '42 | 1971 | Drama, Romance | Robert Mulligan | 104 | During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing an innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII. | ||
| The Godfather | 1972 | Crime, Drama | Francis Ford Coppola | 175 | The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 26 wins & 30 nominations. | 9.2 |
| Deliverance | 1972 | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | John Boorman | 109 | Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 10 nominations. | 7.7 |
| Frenzy | 1972 | Thriller | Alfred Hitchcock | 116 | A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man. | Nominated for 4 Golden Globes. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations. | 7.4 |
| The Poseidon Adventure | 1972 | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller | Ronald Neame | 117 | Nine people explore a cruise ship at sea in a manner that turns their whole lives upside down. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 13 nominations. | 7.1 |
| Sleuth | 1972 | Mystery, Thriller | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 138 | A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 7 nominations. | 8.0 |
| The Exorcist | 1973 | Horror | William Friedkin | 122 | When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 17 nominations. | 8.0 |
| Cinderella Liberty | 1973 | Drama, Romance | Mark Rydell | 117 | A lonely Navy sailor falls in love with a hooker and becomes a surrogate father figure for her son during an extended liberty, due to his service records being lost. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 1 win & 6 nominations. | 6.8 |
| The Day of the Jackal | 1973 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | Fred Zinnemann | 143 | A professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 10 nominations. | 7.8 |
| Last Tango in Paris | 1973 | Drama, Romance | Bernardo Bertolucci | 129 | A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 9 nominations. | 7.0 |
| Save the Tiger | 1973 | Drama | John G. Avildsen | 100 | A disillusioned aging decent man and once proud WWII veteran is dealing with midlife crisis as well as a tough moral dilemma. If he wants his small near-bankrupt clothing company to survive, he has two days to let go of his shaken morals. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 5 nominations. | 6.9 |
| Serpico | 1973 | Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Sidney Lumet | 130 | An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 9 nominations. | 7.7 |
| Chinatown | 1974 | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Roman Polanski | 130 | A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 20 wins & 24 nominations. | 8.2 |
| The Conversation | 1974 | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Francis Ford Coppola | 113 | A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple, on whom he is spying, will be murdered. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 13 nominations. | 7.8 |
| Earthquake | 1974 | Action, Drama, Thriller | Mark Robson | 122 | Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 7 nominations. | 5.9 |
| The Godfather Part II | 1974 | Crime, Drama | Francis Ford Coppola | 202 | The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate. | ||
| A Woman Under the Influence | 1974 | Drama, Romance | John Cassavetes | 155 | Mabel, a wife and mother, is loved by her husband Nick but her mental illness proves to be a problem in the marriage. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 9 wins & 5 nominations. | 8.2 |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | Drama | Miloš Forman | 133 | A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 30 wins & 13 nominations. | 8.7 |
| Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Adventure, Drama, History, War | Stanley Kubrick | 185 | An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 14 nominations. | 8.1 |
| Dog Day Afternoon | 1975 | Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Sidney Lumet | 125 | A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation, which turns into a hostage situation and a media circus. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 13 wins & 19 nominations. | 8.0 |
| Jaws | 1975 | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | Steven Spielberg | 124 | When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 19 nominations. | 8.0 |
| Nashville | 1975 | Comedy, Drama, Music | Robert Altman | 160 | Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 22 wins & 25 nominations. | 7.7 |
| Rocky | 1976 | Drama, Sport | John G. Avildsen | 120 | A small-time boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight a heavy-weight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 17 wins & 21 nominations. | 8.1 |
| All the President's Men | 1976 | Biography, Drama, History, Thriller | Alan J. Pakula | 138 | "The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 21 nominations. | 8.0 |
| Bound for Glory | 1976 | Biography, Drama, Music | Hal Ashby | 147 | The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 11 nominations. | 7.3 |
| Network | 1976 | Drama | Sidney Lumet | 121 | A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 16 wins & 26 nominations. | 8.1 |
| Voyage of the Damned | 1976 | Drama, War | Stuart Rosenberg | 155 | The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 1 win & 6 nominations. | 6.4 |
| The Turning Point | 1977 | Drama, Romance | Herbert Ross | 119 | When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family. | Nominated for 11 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 7 nominations. | 6.9 |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Drama, Sci-Fi | Steven Spielberg | 138 | Roy Neary, an electric lineman, watches how his quiet and ordinary daily life turns upside down after a close encounter with a UFO. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 14 wins & 38 nominations. | 7.6 |
| I Never Promised You a Rose Garden | 1977 | Drama, Fantasy | Anthony Page | 96 | A disturbed,institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 nominations. | 6.6 |
| Julia | 1977 | Drama | Fred Zinnemann | 117 | At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 18 wins & 24 nominations. | 7.2 |
| Star Wars | 1977 | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | George Lucas | 121 | Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader. | ||
| Midnight Express | 1978 | Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Alan Parker | 121 | Billy Hayes (Brad Davis), an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 14 nominations. | 7.6 |
| Coming Home | 1978 | Drama, Romance, War | Hal Ashby | 127 | A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 14 nominations. | 7.3 |
| Days of Heaven | 1978 | Drama, Romance | Terrence Malick | 94 | A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 12 wins & 12 nominations. | 7.9 |
| The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Drama, War | Michael Cimino | 183 | An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 17 wins & 26 nominations. | 8.1 |
| An Unmarried Woman | 1978 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Paul Mazursky | 124 | A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of sixteen years leaves her for a younger woman. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 14 nominations. | 7.1 |
| Kramer vs. Kramer | 1979 | Drama | Robert Benton | 105 | Ted Kramer's wife leaves him, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 33 wins & 23 nominations. | 7.8 |
| Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Drama, Mystery, War | Francis Ford Coppola | 147 | A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 18 wins & 31 nominations. | 8.4 |
| The China Syndrome | 1979 | Drama, Thriller | James Bridges | 122 | A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 11 nominations. | 7.4 |
| Manhattan | 1979 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Woody Allen | 96 | The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 21 nominations. | 7.9 |
| Norma Rae | 1979 | Drama | Martin Ritt | 114 | A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 6 nominations. | 7.3 |
| Ordinary People | 1980 | Drama | Robert Redford | 124 | The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 14 nominations. | 7.7 |
| The Elephant Man | 1980 | Biography, Drama | David Lynch | 124 | A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication. | Nominated for 8 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 13 nominations. | 8.1 |
| The Ninth Configuration | 1980 | Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | William Peter Blatty | 118 | A former marine arrives at a mental asylum housed in a remote castle to run it. There he attempts to rehabilitate the patients by letting them act out their craziest fantasies and desires. | Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations. | 7.1 |
| Raging Bull | 1980 | Biography, Drama, Sport | Martin Scorsese | 129 | The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 22 wins & 27 nominations. | 8.2 |
| The Stunt Man | 1980 | Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller | Richard Rush | 131 | A fugitive stumbles on a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 8 nominations. | 7.1 |
| On Golden Pond | 1981 | Drama | Mark Rydell | 109 | Norman is a curmudgeon with an estranged relationship with his daughter Chelsea. At Golden Pond, he and his wife nevertheless agree to care for Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 23 nominations. | 7.6 |
| The French Lieutenant's Woman | 1981 | Drama, Romance | Karel Reisz | 124 | Wife and husband, both actors, play a couple in love from the Victorian era. Soon they begin to feel that fiction interweaves into reality. | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 9 wins & 15 nominations. | 7.0 |
| Prince of the City | 1981 | Crime, Drama | Sidney Lumet | 167 | A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption, and soon realises he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 14 nominations. | 7.5 |
| Ragtime | 1981 | Drama | Miloš Forman | 155 | A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City. | Nominated for 8 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 13 nominations. | 7.3 |
| Reds | 1981 | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | Warren Beatty | 195 | A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 19 wins & 34 nominations. | 7.3 |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | Family, Sci-Fi | Steven Spielberg | 115 | A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 48 wins & 35 nominations. | 7.8 |
| Missing | 1982 | Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller | Costa-Gavras | 122 | When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 18 nominations. | 7.7 |
| An Officer and a Gentleman | 1982 | Drama, Romance | Taylor Hackford | 124 | A young man must complete his work at a Navy Officer Candidate School to become an aviator, with the help of a tough Gunnery Sergeant and his new girlfriend. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 13 nominations. | 7.0 |
| Sophie's Choice | 1982 | Drama, Romance | Alan J. Pakula | 150 | Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 12 wins & 12 nominations. | 7.6 |
| The Verdict | 1982 | Drama | Sidney Lumet | 129 | A lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling. | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 9 nominations. | 7.7 |
| Terms of Endearment | 1983 | Comedy, Drama | James L. Brooks | 132 | Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love, and her daughter's family problems. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 27 wins & 18 nominations. | 7.4 |
| Reuben, Reuben | 1983 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Robert Ellis Miller | 101 | A drunken Scottish poet, who has not written a word in years, feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations. | 6.7 |
| The Right Stuff | 1983 | Adventure, Biography, Drama, History | Philip Kaufman | 193 | The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 16 nominations. | 7.8 |
| Silkwood | 1983 | Biography, Drama, History, Thriller | Mike Nichols | 131 | A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant. | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 13 nominations. | 7.2 |
| Tender Mercies | 1983 | Drama, Music | Bruce Beresford | 92 | A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 14 nominations. | 7.4 |
| Amadeus | 1984 | Biography, Drama, History, Music | Miloš Forman | 160 | The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him. | Won 8 Oscars. Another 34 wins & 14 nominations. | 8.3 |
| The Cotton Club | 1984 | Crime, Drama, Music | Francis Ford Coppola | 127 | The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people who visited the club, those who ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 6 nominations. | 6.5 |
| The Killing Fields | 1984 | Biography, Drama, History, War | Roland Joffé | 141 | A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 24 wins & 22 nominations. | 7.8 |
| Places in the Heart | 1984 | Drama | Robert Benton | 111 | In central Texas in the 1930s, a widow, with two small children, tries to run her small 40-acre farm with the help of two disparate people. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 14 nominations. | 7.3 |
| A Soldier's Story | 1984 | Crime, Drama, Mystery, War | Norman Jewison | 101 | An African American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 6 nominations. | 7.2 |
| Out of Africa | 1985 | Biography, Drama, Romance | Sydney Pollack | 161 | In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter. | Won 7 Oscars. Another 23 wins & 27 nominations. | 7.2 |
| The Color Purple | 1985 | Drama | Steven Spielberg | 154 | A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades. | Nominated for 11 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 12 nominations. | 7.8 |
| Kiss of the Spider Woman | 1985 | Drama | Hector Babenco | 120 | A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 12 wins & 10 nominations. | 7.4 |
| Runaway Train | 1985 | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller | Andrei Konchalovsky | 111 | Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 5 nominations. | 7.2 |
| Witness | 1985 | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | Peter Weir | 112 | When a young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder, policeman John Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect him until the trial. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 25 nominations. | 7.4 |
| Platoon | 1986 | Drama, War | Oliver Stone | 120 | A young soldier in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 20 wins & 14 nominations. | 8.1 |
| Children of a Lesser God | 1986 | Drama, Romance | Randa Haines | 119 | A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 11 nominations. | 7.2 |
| The Mission | 1986 | Adventure, Drama, History | Roland Joffé | 125 | Eighteenth century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 14 wins & 26 nominations. | 7.4 |
| Mona Lisa | 1986 | Crime, Drama, Romance | Neil Jordan | 104 | A man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 13 wins & 13 nominations. | 7.3 |
| A Room with a View | 1986 | Drama, Romance | James Ivory | 117 | In a Florence pensione circa 1900 with English guests, George Emerson (Julian Sands) and his dad (Denholm Elliott) offer their rooms with views to Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) and her chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett (Dame Maggie Smith). Lucy and George get acquainted, but Lucy returns to England. George and Lucy meet again, but now she's engaged. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 22 wins & 22 nominations. | 7.3 |
| Stand by Me | 1986 | Adventure, Drama | Rob Reiner | 89 | After the death of one of his friends, a writer recounts a boyhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 10 nominations. | 8.1 |
| The Last Emperor | 1987 | Biography, Drama, History | Bernardo Bertolucci | 163 | The story of the final Emperor of China. | Won 9 Oscars. Another 51 wins & 21 nominations. | 7.7 |
| Cry Freedom | 1987 | Biography, Drama, History | Richard Attenborough | 157 | South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country, after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the black activist Steve Biko. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 13 nominations. | 7.4 |
| Empire of the Sun | 1987 | Action, Drama, History, War | Steven Spielberg | 153 | A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II. | Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 10 nominations. | 7.8 |
| Fatal Attraction | 1987 | Drama, Thriller | Adrian Lyne | 119 | A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family. | Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 16 nominations. | 6.9 |
| La Bamba | 1987 | Biography, Drama, Music | Luis Valdez | 108 | Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of early rock and roll singer Ritchie Valens who died at age 17 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper. | Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 2 nominations. | 6.9 |
| Nuts | 1987 | Drama, Thriller | Martin Ritt | 116 | A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent. | Nominated for 3 Golden Globes. Another 1 nomination. | 6.6 |
| Rain Man | 1988 | Drama | Barry Levinson | 133 | Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 22 wins & 22 nominations. | 8.0 |
| The Accidental Tourist | 1988 | Drama, Romance | Lawrence Kasdan | 121 | An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 11 nominations. | 6.8 |
| A Cry in the Dark | 1988 | Biography, Drama | Fred Schepisi | 120 | A mother whose child was killed in a dingo attack in the Australian Outback fights to prove her innocence when she is accused of murder. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 8 wins & 11 nominations. | 6.9 |
| Gorillas in the Mist | 1988 | Biography, Drama | Michael Apted | 129 | The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them. | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 4 nominations. | 7.0 |
| Mississippi Burning | 1988 | Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller | Alan Parker | 128 | Two F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 16 wins & 24 nominations. | 7.8 |
| Running on Empty | 1988 | Crime, Drama, Music, Romance | Sidney Lumet | 116 | The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live a life of his own. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 6 nominations. | 7.7 |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 1988 | Drama, Romance | Philip Kaufman | 171 | In 1968, a Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 12 nominations. | 7.3 |
| Born on the Fourth of July | 1989 | Biography, Drama, War | Oliver Stone | 145 | The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 25 nominations. | 7.2 |
| Crimes and Misdemeanors | 1989 | Comedy, Drama | Woody Allen | 104 | An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 16 wins & 22 nominations. | 7.9 |
| Dead Poets Society | 1989 | Comedy, Drama | Peter Weir | 128 | English teacher John Keating inspires his students to look at poetry with a different perspective of authentic knowledge and feelings. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 19 wins & 18 nominations. | 8.1 |
| Do the Right Thing | 1989 | Comedy, Drama | Spike Lee | 120 | On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 20 wins & 15 nominations. | 7.9 |
| Glory | 1989 | Biography, Drama, History, War | Edward Zwick | 122 | Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 18 nominations. | 7.8 |
| Dances with Wolves | 1990 | Adventure, Drama, Western | Kevin Costner | 181 | Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military. | Won 7 Oscars. Another 44 wins & 37 nominations. | 8.0 |
| Avalon | 1990 | Drama | Barry Levinson | 128 | A Polish-Jewish family comes to the USA at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 19 nominations. | 7.2 |
| The Godfather Part III | 1990 | Crime, Drama | Francis Ford Coppola | 162 | In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in New York City and Italy in 1979, aging Mafia Don Michael Corleone seeks to avow for his sins, while taking his nephew Vincent Mancini under his wing. | ||
| Goodfellas | 1990 | Biography, Crime, Drama | Martin Scorsese | 146 | The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mob, covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito in the Italian-American crime syndicate. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 43 wins & 38 nominations. | 8.7 |
| Reversal of Fortune | 1990 | Biography, Drama, Mystery | Barbet Schroeder | 111 | Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 12 wins & 16 nominations. | 7.2 |
| Bugsy | 1991 | Biography, Crime, Drama | Barry Levinson | 136 | The story of how Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel started Las Vegas. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 41 nominations. | 6.8 |
| JFK | 1991 | Drama, History, Thriller | Oliver Stone | 189 | New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 17 wins & 42 nominations. | 8.0 |
| The Prince of Tides | 1991 | Drama, Romance | Barbra Streisand | 132 | A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process. | Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 11 nominations. | 6.7 |
| The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | Jonathan Demme | 118 | A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 63 wins & 51 nominations. | 8.6 |
| Thelma & Louise | 1991 | Adventure, Crime, Drama | Ridley Scott | 130 | Two best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two girls escape for the crimes they committed. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 22 wins & 49 nominations. | 7.5 |
| Scent of a Woman | 1992 | Drama | Martin Brest | 156 | A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 14 nominations. | 8.0 |
| The Crying Game | 1992 | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | Neil Jordan | 112 | A British soldier kidnapped by IRA terrorists soon befriends one of his captors, who then becomes drawn into the soldier's world. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 21 wins & 46 nominations. | 7.2 |
| A Few Good Men | 1992 | Drama, Thriller | Rob Reiner | 138 | Military lawyer Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder. They contend they were acting under orders. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 26 nominations. | 7.7 |
| Howards End | 1992 | Drama, Romance | James Ivory | 142 | A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 29 wins & 48 nominations. | 7.4 |
| Unforgiven | 1992 | Drama, Western | Clint Eastwood | 130 | Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny (Clint Eastwood) reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) and a young man, The "Schofield Kid" (Jaimz Woolvett). | Won 4 Oscars. Another 46 wins & 46 nominations. | 8.2 |
| Schindler's List | 1993 | Biography, Drama, History | Steven Spielberg | 195 | In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis. | Won 7 Oscars. Another 83 wins & 49 nominations. | 8.9 |
| The Age of Innocence | 1993 | Drama, Romance | Martin Scorsese | 139 | A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 14 wins & 32 nominations. | 7.2 |
| In the Name of the Father | 1993 | Biography, Drama | Jim Sheridan | 133 | A man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them. | Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 34 nominations. | 8.1 |
| The Piano | 1993 | Drama, Music, Romance | Jane Campion | 121 | In the mid-19th century, a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 60 wins & 56 nominations. | 7.6 |
| The Remains of the Day | 1993 | Drama, Romance | James Ivory | 134 | A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer. | Nominated for 8 Oscars. Another 16 wins & 32 nominations. | 7.8 |
| Forrest Gump | 1994 | Drama, Romance | Robert Zemeckis | 142 | The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the events of Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75. | Won 6 Oscars. Another 42 wins & 73 nominations. | 8.8 |
| Legends of the Fall | 1994 | Drama, Romance, War, Western | Edward Zwick | 133 | In the early 1900s, three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of Montana are affected by betrayal, history, love, nature, and war. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 12 nominations. | 7.6 |
| Nell | 1994 | Drama | Michael Apted | 112 | In a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell - a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 6 nominations. | 6.5 |
| Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Crime, Drama | Quentin Tarantino | 154 | The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 68 wins & 74 nominations. | 8.9 |
| Quiz Show | 1994 | Biography, Drama, History | Robert Redford | 133 | A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 31 nominations. | 7.5 |
| Sense and Sensibility | 1995 | Drama, Romance | Ang Lee | 136 | Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the titular opposites. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 32 wins & 49 nominations. | 7.6 |
| Apollo 13 | 1995 | Adventure, Drama, History | Ron Howard | 140 | NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 26 wins & 58 nominations. | 7.6 |
| Braveheart | 1995 | Biography, Drama, History, War | Mel Gibson | 178 | When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 27 wins & 32 nominations. | 8.3 |
| The Bridges of Madison County | 1995 | Drama, Romance | Clint Eastwood | 135 | Photographer Robert Kincaid (Clint Eastwood) wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson (Meryl Streep), for four days in the 1960s. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 16 nominations. | 7.6 |
| Leaving Las Vegas | 1995 | Drama, Romance | Mike Figgis | 111 | Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 31 wins & 28 nominations. | 7.5 |
| The English Patient | 1996 | Drama, Romance, War | Anthony Minghella | 162 | At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair. | Won 9 Oscars. Another 53 wins & 76 nominations. | 7.4 |
| Breaking the Waves | 1996 | Drama | Lars von Trier | 159 | Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 43 wins & 27 nominations. | 7.9 |
| The People vs. Larry Flynt | 1996 | Biography, Drama | Miloš Forman | 129 | The story of a controversial pornography publisher and how he became a defender of free speech. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 22 wins & 33 nominations. | 7.3 |
| Secrets & Lies | 1996 | Drama | Mike Leigh | 136 | A successful black woman discovers that her birth mother is an underprivileged white woman, but the woman denies it. As emotions run high, everyone's secrets are exposed. | ||
| Shine | 1996 | Biography, Drama, Music, Romance | Scott Hicks | 105 | Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 45 wins & 51 nominations. | 7.7 |
| Titanic | 1997 | Drama, Romance | James Cameron | 194 | A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic. | Won 11 Oscars. Another 115 wins & 83 nominations. | 7.8 |
| Amistad | 1997 | Drama, History | Steven Spielberg | 155 | In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 9 wins & 39 nominations. | 7.3 |
| The Boxer | 1997 | Drama, Romance, Sport | Jim Sheridan | 113 | Young Danny Flynn is released from prison 14 years after "taking the rap" for the IRA and tries to rebuild his life in his old Belfast neighborhood. | Nominated for 3 Golden Globes. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations. | 7.1 |
| Good Will Hunting | 1997 | Drama, Romance | Gus Van Sant | 126 | Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 22 wins & 60 nominations. | 8.3 |
| L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Curtis Hanson | 138 | As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen -- one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy -- investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 89 wins & 84 nominations. | 8.2 |
| Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Drama, War | Steven Spielberg | 169 | Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 74 wins & 74 nominations. | 8.6 |
| Elizabeth | 1998 | Biography, Drama, History | Shekhar Kapur | 124 | The early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 33 wins & 55 nominations. | 7.4 |
| Gods and Monsters | 1998 | Biography, Drama | Bill Condon | 105 | The last days of Frankenstein (1931) Director James Whale are explored. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 37 wins & 33 nominations. | 7.4 |
| The Horse Whisperer | 1998 | Drama, Romance, Western | Robert Redford | 169 | The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 18 nominations. | 6.6 |
| The Truman Show | 1998 | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi | Peter Weir | 103 | An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 40 wins & 65 nominations. | 8.1 |
| American Beauty | 1999 | Drama | Sam Mendes | 122 | A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 106 wins & 101 nominations. | 8.3 |
| The End of the Affair | 1999 | Drama, Romance | Neil Jordan | 102 | A desperate man tries to find out why his beloved left him years ago. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 25 nominations. | 7.1 |
| The Hurricane | 1999 | Biography, Drama, Sport | Norman Jewison | 146 | The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 17 nominations. | 7.6 |
| The Insider | 1999 | Biography, Drama, Thriller | Michael Mann | 157 | A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes (1968) exposé on Big Tobacco. | Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 23 wins & 50 nominations. | 7.8 |
| The Talented Mr. Ripley | 1999 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | Anthony Minghella | 139 | In late 1950s New York, Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to Italy to retrieve Dickie Greenleaf, a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures. | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 75 nominations. | 7.4 |
| Gladiator | 2000 | Action, Adventure, Drama | Ridley Scott | 155 | A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 54 wins & 104 nominations. | 8.5 |
| Billy Elliot | 2000 | Drama, Music | Stephen Daldry | 110 | A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 56 wins & 69 nominations. | 7.7 |
| Erin Brockovich | 2000 | Biography, Drama | Steven Soderbergh | 131 | An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 32 wins & 59 nominations. | 7.3 |
| Sunshine | 1999 | Drama, History, Romance | István Szabó | 181 | The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century. | ||
| Traffic | 2000 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | Steven Soderbergh | 147 | A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 70 wins & 86 nominations. | 7.6 |
| Wonder Boys | 2000 | Comedy, Drama | Curtis Hanson | 107 | An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 20 wins & 46 nominations. | 7.3 |
| A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | Biography, Drama | Ron Howard | 135 | After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 33 wins & 68 nominations. | 8.2 |
| In the Bedroom | 2001 | Crime, Drama | Todd Field | 130 | A New England couple's college-aged son dates an older woman who has two small children and an unwelcome ex-husband. | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 39 wins & 70 nominations. | 7.4 |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | Peter Jackson | 178 | A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 114 wins & 124 nominations. | 8.8 |
| The Man Who Wasn't There | 2001 | Crime, Drama | Joel Coen | 116 | A laconic, chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife's boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 24 wins & 41 nominations. | 7.5 |
| Mulholland Drive | 2001 | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | David Lynch | 147 | After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 49 wins & 58 nominations. | 7.9 |
| The Hours | 2002 | Drama, Romance | Stephen Daldry | 110 | The story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 42 wins & 125 nominations. | 7.5 |
| About Schmidt | 2002 | Comedy, Drama | Alexander Payne | 125 | A man upon retirement, embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding, only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 25 wins & 69 nominations. | 7.1 |
| Gangs of New York | 2002 | Crime, Drama | Martin Scorsese | 167 | In 1862, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer. | Nominated for 10 Oscars. Another 50 wins & 124 nominations. | 7.5 |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | Peter Jackson | 179 | While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 123 wins & 137 nominations. | 8.7 |
| The Pianist | 2002 | Biography, Drama, Music, War | Roman Polanski | 150 | A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 54 wins & 73 nominations. | 8.5 |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | Peter Jackson | 201 | Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring. | Won 11 Oscars. Another 198 wins & 122 nominations. | 8.9 |
| Cold Mountain | 2003 | Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War | Anthony Minghella | 154 | In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 19 wins & 101 nominations. | 7.2 |
| Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 2003 | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War | Peter Weir | 138 | During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 21 wins & 90 nominations. | 7.4 |
| Mystic River | 2003 | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Clint Eastwood | 138 | The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 54 wins & 142 nominations. | 7.9 |
| Seabiscuit | 2003 | Drama, History, Sport | Gary Ross | 140 | True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation. | Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 37 nominations. | 7.3 |
| The Aviator | 2004 | Biography, Drama | Martin Scorsese | 170 | A biopic depicting the early years of legendary Director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 81 wins & 130 nominations. | 7.5 |
| Closer | 2004 | Drama, Romance | Mike Nichols | 104 | The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 21 wins & 47 nominations. | 7.2 |
| Finding Neverland | 2004 | Biography, Drama, Family | Marc Forster | 106 | The story of Sir J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 19 wins & 80 nominations. | 7.7 |
| Hotel Rwanda | 2004 | Biography, Drama, History, War | Terry George | 121 | Paul Rusesabagina was a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 16 wins & 45 nominations. | 8.1 |
| Kinsey | 2004 | Biography, Drama, Romance | Bill Condon | 118 | A look at the life of Alfred Kinsey, a pioneer in the area of human sexuality research, whose 1948 publication "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" was one of the first recorded works that saw science address sexual behavior. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 17 wins & 50 nominations. | 7.0 |
| Million Dollar Baby | 2004 | Drama, Sport | Clint Eastwood | 132 | A determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 64 wins & 84 nominations. | 8.1 |
| Brokeback Mountain | 2005 | Drama, Romance | Ang Lee | 134 | The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys, and their lives over the years. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 139 wins & 130 nominations. | 7.7 |
| The Constant Gardener | 2005 | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | Fernando Meirelles | 129 | A widower is determined to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive secret involving his wife's murder, big business, and corporate corruption. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 35 wins & 68 nominations. | 7.4 |
| Good Night, and Good Luck | 2005 | Biography, Drama, History | George Clooney | 93 | Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy. | ||
| A History of Violence | 2005 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | David Cronenberg | 96 | A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core in this action thriller. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 37 wins & 80 nominations. | 7.4 |
| Match Point | 2005 | Drama, Romance, Thriller | Woody Allen | 124 | At a turning point in his life, a former tennis pro falls for an actress who happens to be dating his friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 12 wins & 30 nominations. | 7.6 |
| Babel | 2006 | Drama | Alejandro González Iñárritu | 143 | Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 42 wins & 135 nominations. | 7.4 |
| Bobby | 2006 | Biography, Drama, History | Emilio Estevez | 117 | The story of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was shot in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and twenty-two people in the hotel, whose lives were never the same. | Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 7 wins & 22 nominations. | 7.0 |
| The Departed | 2006 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | Martin Scorsese | 151 | An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 94 wins & 139 nominations. | 8.5 |
| Little Children | 2006 | Drama, Romance | Todd Field | 136 | The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations in suburban Massachusetts. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 20 wins & 57 nominations. | 7.5 |
| The Queen | 2006 | Biography, Drama, History | Stephen Frears | 103 | After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 95 wins & 97 nominations. | 7.3 |
| Atonement | 2007 | Drama, Mystery, Romance, War | Joe Wright | 123 | Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a thirteen-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 50 wins & 148 nominations. | 7.8 |
| American Gangster | 2007 | Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Ridley Scott | 157 | An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 35 nominations. | 7.8 |
| Eastern Promises | 2007 | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | David Cronenberg | 100 | A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues to a midwife in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 28 wins & 71 nominations. | 7.6 |
| The Great Debaters | 2007 | Biography, Drama, Romance | Denzel Washington | 126 | A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. | Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 11 wins & 9 nominations. | 7.6 |
| Michael Clayton | 2007 | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Tony Gilroy | 119 | A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multibillion-dollar class action suit. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 28 wins & 113 nominations. | 7.2 |
| No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | Joel and Ethan Coen | 122 | Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 159 wins & 137 nominations. | 8.1 |
| There Will Be Blood | 2007 | Drama | Paul Thomas Anderson | 158 | A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 107 wins & 136 nominations. | 8.2 |
| Slumdog Millionaire | 2008 | Drama, Romance | Danny Boyle | 120 | A Mumbai teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" | Won 8 Oscars. Another 147 wins & 130 nominations. | 8.0 |
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | 2008 | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | David Fincher | 166 | Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with consequences. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 81 wins & 157 nominations. | 7.8 |
| Frost/Nixon | 2008 | Biography, Drama, History | Ron Howard | 122 | A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon. | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 23 wins & 74 nominations. | 7.7 |
| The Reader | 2008 | Drama, Romance | Stephen Daldry | 124 | Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 25 wins & 47 nominations. | 7.6 |
| Revolutionary Road | 2008 | Drama, Romance | Sam Mendes | 119 | A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 20 wins & 69 nominations. | 7.3 |
| Avatar | 2009 | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | James Cameron | 162 | A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 86 wins & 129 nominations. | 7.8 |
| The Hurt Locker | 2009 | Drama, Thriller, War | Kathryn Bigelow | 131 | During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work. | Won 6 Oscars. Another 118 wins & 128 nominations. | 7.6 |
| Inglourious Basterds | 2009 | Adventure, Drama, War | Quentin Tarantino | 153 | In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 132 wins & 171 nominations. | 8.3 |
| Precious | 2009 | Drama | Lee Daniels | 110 | In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 112 wins & 102 nominations. | 7.3 |
| Up in the Air | 2009 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Jason Reitman | 109 | Ryan Bingham enjoys living out of a suitcase for his job, travelling around the country firing people, but finds that lifestyle threatened by the presence of a potential love interest, and a new hire. | Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 76 wins & 162 nominations. | 7.4 |
| The Social Network | 2010 | Biography, Drama | David Fincher | 120 | As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea, and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 169 wins & 179 nominations. | 7.7 |
| Black Swan | 2010 | Drama, Thriller | Darren Aronofsky | 108 | A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake". | Won 1 Oscar. Another 96 wins & 277 nominations. | 8.0 |
| The Fighter | 2010 | Biography, Drama, Sport | David O. Russell | 116 | Based on the story of Micky Ward, a fledgling boxer who tries to escape the shadow of his more famous but troubled older boxing brother and get his own shot at greatness. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 72 wins & 122 nominations. | 7.8 |
| Inception | 2010 | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Christopher Nolan | 148 | A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 152 wins & 209 nominations. | 8.8 |
| The King's Speech | 2010 | Biography, Drama, History | Tom Hooper | 118 | The story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 106 wins & 204 nominations. | 8.0 |
| The Descendants | 2011 | Comedy, Drama | Alexander Payne | 115 | A land baron tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 65 wins & 146 nominations. | 7.3 |
| The Help | 2011 | Drama | Tate Taylor | 146 | An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 79 wins & 119 nominations. | 8.1 |
| Hugo | 2011 | Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery | Martin Scorsese | 126 | In 1931 Paris, an orphan living in the walls of a train station gets wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 56 wins & 190 nominations. | 7.5 |
| The Ides of March | 2011 | Drama, Thriller | George Clooney | 101 | An idealistic staffer for a new presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 34 nominations. | 7.1 |
| Moneyball | 2011 | Biography, Drama, Sport | Bennett Miller | 133 | Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players. | Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 30 wins & 76 nominations. | 7.6 |
| War Horse | 2011 | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War | Steven Spielberg | 146 | Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert's hopeful journey takes him out of England and to the front lines as the war rages on. | Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 71 nominations. | 7.2 |
| Argo | 2012 | Biography, Drama, Thriller | Ben Affleck | 120 | Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 93 wins & 154 nominations. | 7.7 |
| Django Unchained | 2012 | Drama, Western | Quentin Tarantino | 165 | With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 57 wins & 153 nominations. | 8.4 |
| Life of Pi | 2012 | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | Ang Lee | 127 | A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 78 wins & 131 nominations. | 7.9 |
| Lincoln | 2012 | Biography, Drama, History, War | Steven Spielberg | 150 | As the American Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 108 wins & 247 nominations. | 7.3 |
| Zero Dark Thirty | 2012 | Drama, Thriller | Kathryn Bigelow | 157 | A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 86 wins & 173 nominations. | 7.4 |
| 12 Years a Slave | 2013 | Biography, Drama, History | Steve McQueen | 134 | In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 237 wins & 333 nominations. | 8.1 |
| Captain Phillips | 2013 | Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Paul Greengrass | 134 | The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years. | Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 16 wins & 146 nominations. | 7.8 |
| Gravity | 2013 | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Alfonso Cuarón | 91 | Two astronauts work together to survive after an accident leaves them stranded in space. | Won 7 Oscars. Another 233 wins & 178 nominations. | 7.7 |
| Philomena | 2013 | Biography, Comedy, Drama | Stephen Frears | 98 | A world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 33 wins & 80 nominations. | 7.6 |
| Rush | 2013 | Biography, Drama, Sport | Ron Howard | 123 | The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda. | Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 6 wins & 63 nominations. | 8.1 |
| Boyhood | 2014 | Drama | Richard Linklater | 165 | The life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 172 wins & 212 nominations. | 7.9 |
| Foxcatcher | 2014 | Biography, Drama, Sport | Bennett Miller | 134 | U.S. Olympic wrestling champions and brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz join "Team Foxcatcher", led by eccentric multi-millionaire John du Pont, as they train for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, but John's self-destructive behavior threatens to consume them all. | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 12 wins & 75 nominations. | 7.0 |
| The Imitation Game | 2014 | Biography, Drama, Thriller, War | Morten Tyldum | 114 | During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 48 wins & 159 nominations. | 8.0 |
| Selma | 2014 | Biography, Drama, History | Ava DuVernay | 128 | A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 58 wins & 89 nominations. | 7.5 |
| The Theory of Everything | 2014 | Biography, Drama, Romance | James Marsh | 123 | A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 25 wins & 122 nominations. | 7.7 |
| The Revenant | 2015 | Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Western | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 156 | A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 88 wins & 185 nominations. | 8.0 |
| Carol | 2015 | Drama, Romance | Todd Haynes | 118 | An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York. | Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 77 wins & 240 nominations. | 7.2 |
| Mad Max: Fury Road | 2015 | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | George Miller | 120 | In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper, and a drifter named Max. | Won 6 Oscars. Another 233 wins & 220 nominations. | 8.1 |
| Room | 2015 | Drama, Thriller | Lenny Abrahamson | 118 | Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 104 wins & 139 nominations. | 8.1 |
| Spotlight | 2015 | Biography, Crime, Drama | Tom McCarthy | 129 | The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 123 wins & 141 nominations. | 8.1 |
| Moonlight | 2016 | Drama | Barry Jenkins | 111 | A young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 225 wins & 284 nominations. | 7.4 |
| Hacksaw Ridge | 2016 | Biography, Drama, History, War | Mel Gibson | 139 | World War II American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people, and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 49 wins & 113 nominations. | 8.1 |
| Hell or High Water | 2016 | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western | David Mackenzie | 102 | A divorced father and his ex-con older brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's ranch in West Texas. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 47 wins & 163 nominations. | 7.6 |
| Lion | 2016 | Biography, Drama | Garth Davis | 118 | A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family. | Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 59 wins & 98 nominations. | 8.0 |
| Manchester by the Sea | 2016 | Drama | Kenneth Lonergan | 137 | A depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 128 wins & 256 nominations. | 7.8 |
| Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 2017 | Comedy, Crime, Drama | Martin McDonagh | 115 | A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 129 wins & 222 nominations. | 8.2 |
| Call Me by Your Name | 2017 | Drama, Romance | Luca Guadagnino | 132 | In 1980s Italy, a romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 96 wins & 248 nominations. | 7.9 |
| Dunkirk | 2017 | Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War | Christopher Nolan | 106 | Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 64 wins & 227 nominations. | 7.9 |
| The Post | 2017 | Biography, Drama, History, Thriller | Steven Spielberg | 116 | A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between the press and the government. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 18 wins & 111 nominations. | 7.2 |
| The Shape of Water | 2017 | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller | Guillermo del Toro | 123 | At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 133 wins & 345 nominations. | 7.3 |
| Bohemian Rhapsody | 2018 | Biography, Drama, Music | Bryan Singer | 134 | The story of the legendary British rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985). | Won 4 Oscars. Another 36 wins & 71 nominations. | 8.0 |
| Black Panther | 2018 | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Ryan Coogler | 134 | T'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 101 wins & 246 nominations. | 7.3 |
| BlacKkKlansman | 2018 | Biography, Crime, Drama | Spike Lee | 135 | Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 42 wins & 201 nominations. | 7.5 |
| If Beale Street Could Talk | 2018 | Drama, Romance | Barry Jenkins | 119 | A young woman embraces her pregnancy while she and her family set out to prove her childhood friend and lover innocent of a crime he didn't commit. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 100 wins & 170 nominations. | 7.2 |
| A Star Is Born | 2018 | Drama, Music, Romance | Bradley Cooper | 136 | A musician helps a young singer find fame as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 87 wins & 266 nominations. | 7.7 |
| 1917 | 2019 | Drama, War | Sam Mendes | 119 | Two young British soldiers during the First World War are given an impossible mission: deliver a message deep in enemy territory that will stop 1,600 men, and one of the soldiers' brothers, from walking straight into a deadly trap. | Won 2 Golden Globes. Another 51 wins & 153 nominations. | 8.6 |
| The Irishman | 2019 | Biography, Crime, Drama | Martin Scorsese | 209 | A mob hitman recalls his possible involvement with the slaying of Jimmy Hoffa. | Nominated for 5 Golden Globes. Another 35 wins & 159 nominations. | 8.2 |
| Joker | 2019 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | Todd Phillips | 122 | In Gotham City, mentally troubled comedian Arthur Fleck is disregarded and mistreated by society. He then embarks on a downward spiral of revolution and bloody crime. This path brings him face-to-face with his alter-ego: the Joker. | Won 2 Golden Globes. Another 27 wins & 129 nominations. | 8.6 |
| Marriage Story | 2019 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Noah Baumbach | 137 | Noah Baumbach's incisive and compassionate look at a marriage breaking up and a family staying together. | Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 86 wins & 212 nominations. | 8.1 |
| The Two Popes | 2019 | Biography, Comedy, Drama | Fernando Meirelles | 125 | Behind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church. | Nominated for 4 Golden Globes. Another 9 wins & 41 nominations. | 7.7 |
| Wings | 1927 | Drama, Romance, War, Action | 144 | Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination. | 7.5 | |
| The Racket | 1927 | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 88 | In New York, two honest cops try to hinder a crime syndicate from moving into the precinct and also to prevent the mob's plan of electing a corrupt prosecutor to a judgeship. | 6.8 | ||
| 7th Heaven | 1927 | Drama, Romance | 110 | A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 2 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| The Broadway Melody | 1928 | Drama, Musical, Romance | 100 | A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 nominations. | 5.7 | |
| Alibi | 1929 | Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama, Mystery & Suspense | 90 | A brutal gangster suspected in a warehouse robbery is ruthlessly dogged by a pair of persistent detectives, one of whom pays the ultimate price in finally bringing him to justice. Director Roland West's first talkie was based on a stage play. | |||
| Hollywood Revue | 1928 | Musical | 130 | An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players. | |||
| In Old Arizona | 1928 | Romance, Western | 95 | A charming, happy-go-lucky bandit in old Arizona plays cat-and-mouse with the sheriff trying to catch him while he romances a local beauty. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 nominations. | 5.7 | |
| The Patriot | 1928 | Drama | 113 | In 18th-Century Russia, the Czar, Paul, is surrounded by murderous plots and trusts only Count Pahlen. Pahlen wishes to protect his friend, the mad king, but because of the horror of the ... | Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 nominations. | ||
| All Quiet on the Western Front | 1929 | Drama, War | 136 | A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 2 nominations. | 8.0 | |
| The Big House | 1929 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 87 | A convict falls in love with his new cellmate's sister, only to become embroiled in a planned break-out which is certain to have lethal consequences. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 2 nominations. | 7.2 | |
| Disraeli | 1929 | Biography, Drama, History | 90 | Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations. | 6.4 | |
| The Divorcee | 1929 | Romance, Drama | 84 | When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond to his infidelities in kind. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 nominations. | 6.8 | |
| The Love Parade | 1929 | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 107 | The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying. | Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 1 win. | 7.2 | |
| Cimarron | 1930 | Drama, Western | 123 | A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations. | 5.9 | |
| East Lynne | 1930 | Drama | 102 | The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships, learns that her son has fallen ill. Despite being nearly blinded as the result of an explosion, she returns home to see her son again. | 6.9 | ||
| The Front Page | 1930 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 105 | As a tabloid newspaper editor tries to prevent his top reporter from retiring, an escaped death row convict shows up at the office trying to convey his innocence. | Nominated for 3 Golden Globes. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination. | 7.3 | |
| Skippy | 1930 | Adventure, Family | 25 | Sonny and his kangaroo Skippy live in Waratah National Park in New South Wales. Matt Hammond, Sonny's father is the park ranger. Skippy saves the day in many adventures. | 1 win. | 6.4 | |
| Trader Horn | 1930 | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance | 122 | Two white traders in the darkest Africa of the 1870s find a missionary's daughter, who was captured as a child by a savage tribe and now worshiped as a goddess. | 6.4 | ||
| Grand Hotel | 1931 | Drama, Romance | 112 | A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 1 nomination. | 7.4 | |
| Arrowsmith | 1931 | Drama | 108 | Based on Sinclair Lewis's novel "Arrowsmith". A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine. | 6.2 | ||
| Bad Girl | 1931 | Drama, Romance | 90 | A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 1 nomination. | 6.5 | |
| The Champ | 1931 | Drama, Sport | 86 | An alcoholic ex-boxer struggles to provide a good living for his son. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 3 nominations. | 7.3 | |
| Five Star Final | 1931 | Crime, Drama | 89 | The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case... with tragic results. | 7.3 | ||
| One Hour with You | 1931 | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 78 | An unhappily married couple try to come between a happy one. | 7.3 | ||
| Shanghai Express | 1931 | Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 82 | A loose woman rediscovers a former lover during a dangerous train ride to Shanghai. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 nominations. | 7.3 | |
| The Smiling Lieutenant | 1931 | Comedy, Romance, Musical | 93 | An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side. | 7.7 | ||
| Cavalcade | 1932 | Drama, Romance, War | 112 | The triumphs and tragedies of two English families, the upper-crust Marryots and the working-class Bridges, from 1899 to 1933 are portrayed. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 1 win & 1 nomination. | 5.9 | |
| 42nd Street | 1932 | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 89 | A director puts on what may be his last Broadway show and, at the last moment, a naive newcomer has to replace the star. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win. | 7.4 | |
| A Farewell to Arms | 1932 | Drama, Romance, War | 80 | An American ambulance driver and an English nurse fall in love in Italy during World War I. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 2 nominations. | 6.5 | |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | 1932 | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 92 | Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 3 wins. | 8.2 | |
| Lady for a Day | 1932 | Comedy, Drama | 96 | A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day. | 7.4 | ||
| Little Women | 1932 | Drama, Family, Romance | 115 | The March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 15 nominations. | 7.3 | |
| The Private Life of Henry VIII | 1933 | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 97 | King Henry VIII marries five more times after his divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon. | |||
| She Done Him Wrong | 1932 | Comedy, Drama, History, Musical, Romance | 66 | In the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins. | 6.5 | |
| Smilin' Through | 1932 | Drama, Romance | 98 | The adoptive father of a young woman is horrified to learn she plans to marry the son of the man who accidentally killed her aunt years before. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win. | 6.9 | |
| State Fair | 1932 | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance | 100 | The Frake family attends the annual Iowa State Fair; each member of the clan has their own reason for doing so. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 nominations. | 7.0 | |
| It Happened One Night | 1934 | Comedy, Romance | 105 | A spoiled heiress running away from her family is helped by a man who is actually a reporter in need of a story. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 2 nominations. | 8.1 | |
| The Barretts of Wimpole Street | 1934 | Biography, Drama, Romance | 109 | Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win. | 7.0 | |
| Flirtation Walk | 1934 | Musical, Romance | 97 | A Musical-romance with Dick Powell as a private stationed in Hawaii who gets involved with Ruby Keeler, the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but ... | 5.8 | ||
| The Gay Divorcee | 1934 | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 107 | An American woman travels to England to seek a divorce from her absentee husband, where she meets - and falls for - a dashing performer. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 5 nominations. | 7.5 | |
| Here Comes the Navy | 1934 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 87 | A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism. | 6.4 | ||
| The House of Rothschild | 1934 | Biography, Drama, History | 88 | The wealthy Rothschild family undergoes prejudice from the anti-Semitic society they live within. | 6.8 | ||
| Imitation of Life | 1934 | Drama, Romance | 111 | A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business, but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 1 win. | 7.5 | |
| One Night of Love | 1934 | Music, Romance | 84 | Mary Barrett is an aspiring Opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their ... | Won 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 4 nominations. | 5.9 | |
| The Thin Man | 1934 | Comedy, Crime, Mystery | 91 | Former detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 3 wins. | 8.0 | |
| Viva Villa! | 1934 | Biography, Western | 115 | In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death. In 1910, he befriends American reporter Johnny Sykes. ... | Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations. | 6.5 | |
| The White Parade | 1934 | Drama | 80 | The title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious physical and mental toil they endure in ... | 7.0 | ||
| Alice Adams | 1935 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 99 | The misadventures of two social-climbing women in small town America. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 1 nomination. | 7.0 | |
| Broadway Melody of 1936 | 1935 | Musical, Romance | 101 | Bob Gordon is staging a new Broadway Show, but he is short of money. He gets an offer of money by the young widow Lillian, if she can dance in his new show. Bert Keeler, a newspaper man, ... | Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 nominations. | 6.8 | |
| Captain Blood | 1935 | Action, Adventure | 119 | After being wrongly convicted as a traitor, Peter Blood, an English physician, is sent to exile in the British colonies of the Caribbean, where he becomes a pirate. | 7.7 | ||
| David Copperfield | 1935 | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 130 | A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 1 win & 1 nomination. | 7.5 | |
| The Informer | 1935 | Crime, Drama | 91 | In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 4 nominations. | 7.5 | |
| The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | 1935 | Adventure, Drama | 109 | Three British soldiers on the Northwest Frontier of India struggle against the enemy - and themselves. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 6 nominations. | 7.2 | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | 1935 | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | 133 | Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Oberon and Titania, of the ... | Won 2 Oscars. Another 2 nominations. | 6.9 | |
| Les Misérables | 1935 | Drama, History, Romance | 108 | In early 19th Century France an ex-convict who failed to report to parole is relentlessly pursued over a 20 year period by an obsessive policeman. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 1 win. | 7.6 | |
| Naughty Marietta | 1935 | Drama, Musical, Romance | 105 | In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination. | 6.7 | |
| Ruggles of Red Gap | 1935 | Comedy, Romance | 90 | An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins. | 7.6 | |
| Top Hat | 1935 | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 101 | An American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations. | 7.8 | |
| The Great Ziegfeld | 1936 | Biography, Drama, Musical, Romance | 176 | The ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 1 win & 5 nominations. | 6.8 | |
| Anthony Adverse | 1936 | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 141 | In 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 3 nominations. | 6.5 | |
| Dodsworth | 1936 | Drama, Romance | 101 | A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 9 nominations. | 7.8 | |
| Libeled Lady | 1936 | Comedy, Romance | 98 | A newspaper man, his ignored fiancée, and his former employee, a down on his luck reporter, hatch an elaborate scheme to turn a false news story into the truth in order to prevent a high-society woman from suing for libel. | 7.9 | ||
| Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | 1936 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 115 | A simple, small town man inherits a massive fortune, making him the target for scammers and publicity-seekers. Overwhelmed by the turn his life has taken, and awoken to another use for his new-found fortune, he makes a momentous decision. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 7 nominations. | 7.9 | |
| Romeo and Juliet | 1936 | Drama, Romance | 125 | Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 1 win & 1 nomination. | 6.7 | |
| San Francisco | 1936 | Drama, Musical, Romance | 115 | A Barbary Coast saloonkeeper and a Nob Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally and professionally in 1906 San Francisco. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations. | 7.2 | |
| The Story of Louis Pasteur | 1936 | Biography, Drama, History | 86 | The biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations. | 7.4 | |
| A Tale of Two Cities | 1936 | Drama, History, Romance | 128 | A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution. | 7.8 | ||
| Three Smart Girls | 1936 | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 84 | Three sisters scheme to reunite their divorced parents before their wealthy father marries a conniving gold digger. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 1 nomination. | 6.8 | |
| The Life of Emile Zola | 1937 | Biography, Drama | 116 | The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 7 nominations. | 7.2 | |
| The Awful Truth | 1937 | Comedy, Romance | 90 | Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 5 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| Captains Courageous | 1937 | Adventure, Drama, Family | 117 | A spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship gets picked up by a fishing boat, where he's made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations. | 8.0 | |
| Dead End | 1937 | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 93 | The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum. | 7.4 | ||
| The Good Earth | 1937 | Drama, Romance | 138 | Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| In Old Chicago | 1937 | Action, Drama, Musical, Romance | 95 | The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 4 nominations. | 6.9 | |
| Lost Horizon | 1937 | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | 132 | A plane crash delivers a group of people to the secluded land of Shangri-La - but is it the miraculous utopia it appears to be? | Won 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 6 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| One Hundred Men and a Girl | 1937 | Comedy, Music | 84 | The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold ... | Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 nominations. | 6.9 | |
| Stage Door | 1937 | Comedy, Drama | 92 | A chronicle of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination. | 7.7 | |
| You Can't Take It with You | 1938 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 126 | A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 7 nominations. | 7.9 | |
| The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1938 | Action, Adventure, Romance | 102 | When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla army. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 2 nominations. | 7.9 | |
| Alexander's Ragtime Band | 1938 | Drama, Music, Musical, Romance | 106 | This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 6 nominations. | 6.9 | |
| Boys Town | 1938 | Biography, Drama | 96 | When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to do something about. An advocate of child... | Won 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 4 nominations. | 7.3 | |
| The Citadel | 1938 | Drama | 110 | Andrew Manson, a young, enthusiastic doctor takes his first job in a Welsh mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its ... | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 5 wins. | 7.2 | |
| Four Daughters | 1938 | Drama, Music, Romance | 90 | Adam Lemp, the Dean of the Briarwood Music Foundation, has passed on his love of music to his four early adult daughters - Thea, Emma, Kay and Ann - who live with him and his sister, the ... | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 1 win & 2 nominations. | 6.9 | |
| Grand Illusion | 1938 | Drama, War | 113 | During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 1 nomination. | 8.1 | |
| Jezebel | 1938 | Drama, Romance | 104 | In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations. | 7.5 | |
| Pygmalion | 1938 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 89 | A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 5 nominations. | 7.8 | |
| Test Pilot | 1938 | Drama, Romance | 119 | Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 1 nomination. | 6.9 | |
| Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Drama, History, Romance, War | 238 | A manipulative woman and a roguish man conduct a turbulent romance during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods. | Won 8 Oscars. Another 12 wins & 12 nominations. | 8.1 | |
| Dark Victory | 1939 | Drama, Romance | 104 | A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether or not she'll meet her final days with dignity. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination. | 7.6 | |
| Goodbye, Mr. Chips | 1939 | Drama, Romance | 114 | An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 8 nominations. | 7.9 | |
| Love Affair | 1939 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 88 | A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, after he has had a chance to earn a decent living. | 7.3 | ||
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | Comedy, Drama | 129 | A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 12 nominations. | 8.1 | |
| Ninotchka | 1939 | Comedy, Romance | 110 | A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 4 nominations. | 7.9 | |
| Of Mice and Men | 1939 | Drama | 106 | Two itinerant migrant workers, one mentally disabled and the other his carer, take jobs as ranch hands during the Great Depression to fulfill their shared dream of owning their own ranch. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 2 wins. | 7.9 | |
| Stagecoach | 1939 | Adventure, Drama, Western | 96 | A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 7 nominations. | 7.9 | |
| The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 102 | Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home to Kansas and help her friends as well. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 9 wins & 17 nominations. | 8.0 | |
| Wuthering Heights | 1939 | Drama, Romance | 104 | A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveller the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 7 nominations. | 7.6 | |
| Rebecca | 1940 | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 130 | A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 10 nominations. | 8.1 | |
| All This, and Heaven Too | 1940 | Drama, Romance | 141 | A duchess' irrational behavior toward the governess of her children triggers tragic events that will change her family's lives forever. | 7.5 | ||
| Foreign Correspondent | 1940 | Action, Romance, Thriller, War | 120 | On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London. | Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 1 win. | 7.5 | |
| The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | Drama, History | 129 | A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 5 nominations. | 8.0 | |
| The Great Dictator | 1940 | Comedy, Drama, War | 125 | Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime. | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 1 nomination. | 8.5 | |
| Kitty Foyle | 1940 | Drama, Romance | 108 | A hard-working, white-collar girl from a middle-class family meets and falls in love with a young socialite, but she soon clashes with his family. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 4 nominations. | 7.0 | |
| The Letter | 1940 | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance | 95 | The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter in her own hand may prove her undoing. | Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 1 win & 2 nominations. | 7.6 | |
| The Long Voyage Home | 1940 | Drama, War | 105 | In 1940, the motley crew of the British tramp steamer SS Glencairn prepares the ship for its perilous voyage from the West Indies to Baltimore and then to England. | Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination. | 7.0 | |
| Our Town | 1940 | Drama, Romance | 90 | Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks... | Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination. | 6.8 | |
| The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | Comedy, Romance | 112 | When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations. | 7.9 | |
| How Green Was My Valley | 1941 | Drama, Family | 118 | At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 6 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| Blossoms in the Dust | 1941 | Biography, Drama, Romance | 99 | After losing her young son, Edna Gladney opposes the unfair laws discriminating against children whose parents are unknown, and opens an orphanage for those children. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 nominations. | 6.9 | |
| Citizen Kane | 1941 | Drama, Mystery | 119 | Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; 'Rosebud'. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 13 nominations. | 8.3 | |
| Here Comes Mr. Jordan | 1941 | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | 94 | Boxer Joe Pendleton dies 50 years too soon due to a heavenly mistake, and is given a new life as a millionaire playboy. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 6 nominations. | 7.6 | |
| Hold Back the Dawn | 1941 | Drama, Romance | 116 | Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen. | Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 1 nomination. | 7.4 | |
| The Little Foxes | 1941 | Drama, Romance | 116 | The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the twentieth century. | Nominated for 9 Oscars. Another 3 wins. | 8.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | Film-Noir, Mystery | 100 | A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 4 wins. | 8.0 | |
| One Foot in Heaven | 1941 | Biography, Drama | 108 | Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another. | 7.0 | ||
| Sergeant York | 1941 | Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War | 134 | A marksman is drafted in World War I and ends up becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 10 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| Suspicion | 1941 | Mystery, Thriller | 99 | A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 2 nominations. | 7.4 | |
| Mrs. Miniver | 1942 | Drama, Romance, War | 134 | A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II. | Won 6 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 7 nominations. | 7.6 | |
| The Invaders | 1942 | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 51 | David Vincent, an architect returning home after a hard, hard, day parks his car in an old ghost town in order to rest for a while before continuing on home. Suddenly, in the middle of the ... | 1 win. | 8.1 | |
| Kings Row | 1942 | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 127 | The dark side and hypocrisy of provincial American life is seen through the eyes of five children as they grow to adulthood at the turn-of-the-century. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins. | 7.6 | |
| The Magnificent Ambersons | 1942 | Drama, Romance | 88 | The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 4 wins. | 7.7 | |
| The Pied Piper | 1942 | Drama, War | 87 | While traveling in France during the Nazi invasion of 1940, an Englishman is entrusted with the care of a group of refugee children. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins. | 7.1 | |
| The Pride of the Yankees | 1942 | Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport | 128 | The story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 10 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| Random Harvest | 1942 | Drama, Romance | 126 | An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life. | Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination. | 8.0 | |
| The Talk of the Town | 1942 | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 118 | An escaped prisoner and a stuffy law professor vie for the hand of a spirited schoolteacher. | 7.5 | ||
| Wake Island | 1942 | Action, Drama, War | 88 | December, 1941. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations. | 6.8 | |
| Yankee Doodle Dandy | 1942 | Biography, Drama, Musical | 126 | The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 6 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| Casablanca | 1943 | Drama, Romance, War | 102 | A cynical American expatriate struggles to decide whether or not he should help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape French Morocco. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 9 nominations. | 8.5 | |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | 1943 | Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War | 170 | During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 9 nominations. | 6.9 | |
| Heaven Can Wait | 1943 | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 112 | An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 1 win. | 7.5 | |
| The Human Comedy | 1943 | Comedy, Drama, Family | 117 | Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 5 nominations. | 7.1 | |
| In Which We Serve | 1943 | Drama, War | 115 | This "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 1 nomination. | 7.2 | |
| Madame Curie | 1943 | Biography, Drama, Romance | 124 | Despite himself, accomplished physicist and avowed bachelor Pierre Curie falls for brilliant student Marie, and together they embark on the discovery of radium. | 7.2 | ||
| The More the Merrier | 1943 | Comedy, Romance, War | 104 | During the World War II housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 5 nominations. | 7.8 | |
| The Ox-Bow Incident | 1943 | Drama, Western | 75 | When a posse captures three men suspected of killing a local farmer, they become strongly divided over whether or not to lynch the men. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 1 nomination. | 8.0 | |
| Watch on the Rhine | 1943 | Drama | 114 | A German-born engineer, his American wife and their children travel from Mexico to the United States to visit her family but their plans are complicated by a Romanian count. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 3 nominations. | 7.3 | |
| Double Indemnity | 1944 | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 107 | An insurance representative lets himself be talked by a seductive housewife into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses the suspicion of an insurance investigator. | Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations. | 8.3 | |
| Gaslight | 1944 | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 114 | Years after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman moves back into the house with her new husband. However, he has a secret that he will do anything to protect, even if it means driving his wife insane. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 7 nominations. | 7.8 | |
| Since You Went Away | 1944 | Drama, Romance, War | 177 | With her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife struggles to care for their two daughters - and a pair of lodgers who have moved in - alone. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 8 nominations. | 7.6 | |
| Wilson | 1944 | Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance | 154 | A chronicle of the political career of US President Woodrow Wilson. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 7 nominations. | 6.8 | |
| Anchors Aweigh | 1945 | Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Musical, Romance, War | 140 | Two sailors, one naive, the other experienced in the ways of the world, on liberty in Los Angeles, is the setting for this movie musical. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 nominations. | 7.1 | |
| The Bells of St. Mary's | 1945 | Drama | 126 | At a big city Catholic school, Father O'Malley and Sister Benedict indulge in friendly rivalry, and succeed in extending the school through the gift of a building. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 7 nominations. | 7.3 | |
| Mildred Pierce | 1945 | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance | 111 | A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations. | 8.0 | |
| Spellbound | 1945 | Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 111 | A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 6 nominations. | 7.6 | |
| Henry V | 1946 | Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War | 137 | In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England (Sir Kenneth Branagh) embarks on the conquest of France in 1415. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 13 nominations. | 7.5 | |
| It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Drama, Family, Fantasy | 130 | An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed. | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 1 nomination. | 8.6 | |
| The Razor's Edge | 1946 | Drama, Romance | 145 | An adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations. | 7.4 | |
| The Yearling | 1946 | Drama, Family, Western | 128 | A boy persuades his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves? | Won 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 5 nominations. | 7.2 | |
| The Bishop's Wife | 1947 | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 109 | An angel in human form enters the life of a bishop in order to help him build a new cathedral and repair his fractured marriage. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 nominations. | 7.6 | |
| Crossfire | 1947 | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 86 | A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why? | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations. | 7.3 | |
| Great Expectations | 1947 | Drama, Romance | 111 | Modernization of Charles Dickens classic story finds the hapless Finn as a painter in New York City pursuing his unrequited and haughty childhood love. | 1 win & 3 nominations. | 6.9 | |
| Miracle on 34th Street | 1947 | Comedy, Drama, Family | 96 | When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 1 nomination. | 7.9 | |
| Hamlet | 1948 | Drama | 154 | Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former King. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 8 nominations. | 7.6 | |
| The Red Shoes | 1948 | Drama, Music, Romance | 135 | A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 7 nominations. | 8.2 | |
| The Snake Pit | 1948 | Drama, Mystery | 108 | A detailed chronicle of a woman during her stay in a mental institution. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 9 nominations. | 7.6 | |
| Battleground | 1949 | Action, Drama, History, War | 118 | True tale about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division coping with being trapped by the Germans in the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations. | 7.4 | |
| The Heiress | 1949 | Drama, Romance | 115 | A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 8 nominations. | 8.2 | |
| A Letter to Three Wives | 1949 | Drama, Romance | 103 | A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands...but she does not say which one. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination. | 7.8 | |
| Twelve O'Clock High | 1949 | Drama, War | 132 | A hard-as-nails general takes over a bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| Father of the Bride | 1950 | Comedy, Romance | 92 | The father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, along with the financial and organizational trouble of arranging the wedding. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 1 nomination. | 7.2 | |
| King Solomon's Mines | 1950 | Action, Adventure, Romance | 103 | Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 2 nominations. | 6.8 | |
| An American in Paris | 1951 | Drama, Musical, Romance | 114 | Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman. | Won 6 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 7 nominations. | 7.2 | |
| Decision Before Dawn | 1951 | Drama, War | 119 | As the US Army approaches Nazi Germany, they recruit German prisoners to spy behind German lines. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 2 nominations. | 7.3 | |
| Ivanhoe | 1952 | Adventure, Drama, History, Romance | 106 | A knight seeks to free the captive King Richard and put him back on the throne. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 4 nominations. | 6.8 | |
| Moulin Rouge | 1952 | Biography, Drama, Music, Romance | 119 | Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 10 nominations. | 7.1 | |
| The Quiet Man | 1952 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 129 | A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 8 nominations. | 7.8 | |
| From Here to Eternity | 1953 | Drama, Romance, War | 118 | In Hawaii in 1941, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second-in-command are falling in love. | Won 8 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 7 nominations. | 7.6 | |
| Julius Caesar | 1953 | Biography, Drama, History | 120 | The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar, but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 7 nominations. | 7.3 | |
| Roman Holiday | 1953 | Comedy, Romance | 118 | A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 15 nominations. | 8.0 | |
| Shane | 1953 | Drama, Western | 118 | A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smoldering settler/rancher conflict forces him to act. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 10 nominations. | 7.6 | |
| The Caine Mutiny | 1954 | Drama, War | 124 | When a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny. | Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 6 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| The Country Girl | 1954 | Drama, Music | 104 | A director hires an alcoholic has-been and strikes up a stormy relationship with the actor's wife, who he believes is the cause of all the man's problems. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 11 nominations. | 7.3 | |
| Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | 1954 | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Western | 102 | In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 7 nominations. | 7.4 | |
| Three Coins in the Fountain | 1954 | Drama, Romance | 102 | Three American women working in Rome, Italy, share a spacious apartment and the desire to find love and marriage, each experiencing a few bumps in their journeys to romance. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 3 nominations. | 6.3 | |
| Marty | 1955 | Drama, Romance | 90 | A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 6 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | 1955 | Biography, Drama, Romance, War | 102 | A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations. | 6.5 | |
| Mister Roberts | 1955 | Comedy, Drama, War | 123 | In the waning days of World War II, the United States Navy cargo ship Reluctant and her crew are stationed in the "backwater" areas of the Pacific Ocean. Trouble ensues when the crew members are granted liberty. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 5 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| Picnic | 1955 | Drama, Romance | 115 | Emotions are ignited amongst the complacent townsfolk when a handsome drifter arrives in a small Kansas community on the morning of the Labour Day picnic. | |||
| The Rose Tattoo | 1955 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 117 | An Italian-American neighborhood in Louisiana is disturbed when truck driver Rosario Delle Rose is killed by police while smuggling. His buxom widow Serafina miscarries, then over a period ... | Won 3 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 7 nominations. | 7.2 | |
| Friendly Persuasion | 1956 | Drama, Romance, War, Western | 137 | The pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War. | Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 4 nominations. | 7.4 | |
| The King and I | 1956 | Biography, Drama, Musical, Romance | 133 | A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's children. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 12 nominations. | 7.4 | |
| The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Adventure, Drama | 220 | Moses, an Egyptian prince, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 8 wins & 10 nominations. | 7.8 | |
| Peyton Place | 1957 | Drama, Romance | 157 | A peaceful New England town hides secrets and scandals. | Nominated for 9 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 8 nominations. | 7.2 | |
| Gigi | 1958 | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 115 | Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long. | Won 9 Oscars. Another 12 wins & 9 nominations. | 6.7 | |
| Auntie Mame | 1958 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 143 | An orphan goes to live with his free-spirited aunt. Conflict ensues when the executor of his father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle. | Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 6 nominations. | 7.9 | |
| Room at the Top | 1959 | Drama, Romance | 115 | An ambitious young accountant plots to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 15 nominations. | 7.5 | |
| The Apartment | 1960 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 125 | A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 19 wins & 8 nominations. | 8.3 | |
| The Alamo | 1960 | Adventure, Drama, History, War, Western | 162 | In 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 8 nominations. | 6.9 | |
| The Sundowners | 1960 | Drama, Adventure | 133 | In Australia's Outback during the early twentieth century, the impoverished Carmody family lives a nomadic life out of their wagon, but the mom and son want to settle, while the dad is against it. | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 8 nominations. | 7.1 | |
| West Side Story | 1961 | Crime, Drama, Musical, Romance | 153 | Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. | Won 10 Oscars. Another 18 wins & 10 nominations. | 7.5 | |
| The Hustler | 1961 | Drama, Sport | 134 | An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 20 nominations. | 8.0 | |
| The Music Man | 1962 | Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance | 151 | Harold Hill poses as a boys' band leader to con naive Iowa townsfolk. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 12 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| Tom Jones | 1963 | Adventure, Comedy, History | 129 | The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th century England. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 16 wins & 20 nominations. | 6.5 | |
| How the West Was Won | 1963 | Western | 164 | A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the nineteenth century - including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 5 nominations. | 7.1 | |
| My Fair Lady | 1964 | Drama, Family, Musical, Romance | 170 | Snobbish phonetics Professor Henry Higgins (Sir Rex Harrison) agrees to a wager that he can make flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) presentable in high society. | Won 8 Oscars. Another 17 wins & 13 nominations. | 7.8 | |
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Comedy | 95 | An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a War Room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 7 nominations. | 8.4 | |
| Mary Poppins | 1964 | Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 139 | In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 17 nominations. | 7.8 | |
| The Sound of Music | 1965 | Biography, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance | 172 | A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 12 wins & 13 nominations. | 8.0 | |
| Darling | 1965 | Drama, Romance | 128 | Beautiful, but amoral, model Diana Scott (Julie Christie) sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 8 nominations. | 7.2 | |
| A Thousand Clowns | 1965 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 118 | A middle-aged iconoclast, doggedly avoiding the tedium of employment and conventional life, faces the prospect of losing custody of his young ward. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 7 nominations. | 7.5 | |
| Alfie | 1966 | Comedy, Drama | 114 | An unrepentant ladies' man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle. | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 17 nominations. | 7.1 | |
| The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming | 1966 | Comedy, War | 126 | Without hostile intent, a Soviet submarine runs aground off New England. Men are sent for a boat, but many villagers go into a tizzy, risking bloodshed. | |||
| Doctor Dolittle | 1967 | Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance | 152 | After the animal communicating veterinarian goes too far for his clientele, he and his friends escape their hometown to the sea in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 14 nominations. | 6.2 | |
| The Graduate | 1967 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 106 | A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 20 wins & 20 nominations. | 8.0 | |
| Oliver! | 1968 | Drama, Family, Musical | 153 | After being sold to a mortician, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 25 nominations. | 7.4 | |
| Funny Girl | 1968 | Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance | 151 | The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld girl, subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 16 nominations. | 7.4 | |
| Rachel, Rachel | 1968 | Drama, Romance | 101 | Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 5 nominations. | 7.5 | |
| Hello, Dolly! | 1969 | Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance | 146 | Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 1 win & 13 nominations. | 7.1 | |
| Z | 1969 | Crime, Drama, History, Thriller | 127 | Following the murder of a prominent leftist, an investigator tries to uncover the truth while government officials attempt to cover up their roles. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 12 nominations. | 8.3 | |
| MASH | 1970 | Comedy, Drama, War | 116 | The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 13 wins & 23 nominations. | 7.5 | |
| Fiddler on the Roof | 1971 | Drama, Family, Musical, Romance | 181 | In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 13 nominations. | 8.0 | |
| Nicholas and Alexandra | 1971 | Biography, Drama, History, War | 183 | Czar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 11 nominations. | 7.2 | |
| Cabaret | 1972 | Drama, Musical | 124 | A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them. | Won 8 Oscars. Another 31 wins & 17 nominations. | 7.8 | |
| The Emigrants | 1972 | Drama, History | 151 | In the middle of the 19th century, Kristina and Karl-Oskar live in a small rural village in Smaaland (southern Sweden). They get married and try to make a living on a small spot of land. ... | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 5 nominations. | 8.0 | |
| Sounder | 1972 | Drama, Family | 105 | The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 8 nominations. | 7.6 | |
| The Sting | 1973 | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 129 | Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con. | Won 7 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 6 nominations. | 8.3 | |
| American Graffiti | 1973 | Comedy, Drama | 110 | A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college. | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 9 wins & 8 nominations. | 7.4 | |
| Cries and Whispers | 1973 | Drama | 91 | When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface. | |||
| A Touch of Class | 1973 | Comedy, Romance | 106 | Romantic comedy about a pair of clandestine lovers in a London-Spain tryst. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 10 nominations. | 6.5 | |
| Lenny | 1974 | Biography, Drama | 111 | The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establishment as too obscene for the public. | Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 10 nominations. | 7.6 | |
| The Towering Inferno | 1974 | Action, Drama, Thriller | 165 | At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 9 wins & 13 nominations. | 6.9 | |
| Taxi Driver | 1976 | Crime, Drama | 114 | A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action by attempting to liberate a presidential campaign worker and an underage prostitute. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 21 wins & 15 nominations. | 8.3 | |
| Annie Hall | 1977 | Comedy, Romance | 93 | Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 26 wins & 8 nominations. | 8.0 | |
| The Goodbye Girl | 1977 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 111 | After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 9 nominations. | 7.4 | |
| All That Jazz | 1979 | Drama, Music, Musical | 123 | Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 14 nominations. | 7.9 | |
| Breaking Away | 1979 | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport | 101 | A small-town boy obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 14 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| Coal Miner's Daughter | 1980 | Biography, Drama, Music | 124 | Biographical story of the legendary country singer's rise from humble, poverty-stricken beginnings in Kentucky to worldwide superstardom and how she changed the sound and style of country music forever. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 13 nominations. | 7.5 | |
| Tess | 1980 | Drama, Romance | 170 | A strong-willed young peasant girl attracts the affection of two men. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 14 nominations. | 7.3 | |
| Chariots of Fire | 1981 | Biography, Drama, Sport | 125 | Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 19 nominations. | 7.2 | |
| Atlantic City | 1981 | Crime, Drama, Romance | 104 | In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger. | |||
| Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 | Action, Adventure | 115 | In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 31 wins & 24 nominations. | 8.4 | |
| Gandhi | 1982 | Biography, Drama, History | 191 | Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed. | Won 8 Oscars. Another 27 wins & 20 nominations. | 8.0 | |
| Tootsie | 1982 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 116 | Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 24 wins & 30 nominations. | 7.4 | |
| The Big Chill | 1983 | Comedy, Drama | 105 | A group of seven former college friends gather for a week-end reunion at a South Carolina vacation home after the funeral of another of their college friends. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations. | 7.2 | |
| The Dresser | 1983 | Drama | 118 | An effeminate personal assistant of a deteriorating veteran actor struggles to get him through a difficult performance of King Lear. | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 12 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| A Passage to India | 1984 | Adventure, Drama, History | 164 | Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 20 wins & 26 nominations. | 7.3 | |
| Prizzi's Honor | 1985 | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | 130 | A professional hitman and hitwoman fall in love. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 26 wins & 24 nominations. | 6.7 | |
| Hannah and Her Sisters | 1986 | Comedy, Drama | 107 | Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 24 wins & 26 nominations. | 7.9 | |
| Broadcast News | 1987 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 133 | Take two rival television reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one Producer, female. Mix well, and watch the sparks fly. | Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 16 nominations. | 7.2 | |
| Hope and Glory | 1987 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 113 | A semi-autobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War II. For a young boy, this time in history was ... | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 16 wins & 24 nominations. | 7.3 | |
| Moonstruck | 1987 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 102 | Loretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 19 nominations. | 7.1 | |
| Dangerous Liaisons | 1988 | Drama, Romance | 119 | A scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 18 wins & 20 nominations. | 7.6 | |
| Working Girl | 1988 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 113 | When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 8 wins & 17 nominations. | 6.8 | |
| Driving Miss Daisy | 1989 | Drama | 99 | An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 17 wins & 24 nominations. | 7.4 | |
| Field of Dreams | 1989 | Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport | 107 | An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the 1919 Chicago White Sox come. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 10 nominations. | 7.5 | |
| My Left Foot | 1989 | Biography, Drama | 103 | Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 21 wins & 20 nominations. | 7.9 | |
| Awakenings | 1990 | Biography, Drama | 121 | The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 8 nominations. | 7.8 | |
| Ghost | 1990 | Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller | 127 | After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 16 wins & 23 nominations. | 7.0 | |
| Beauty and the Beast | 1991 | Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance | 84 | A prince cursed to spend his days as a hideous monster sets out to regain his humanity by earning a young woman's love. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 27 wins & 34 nominations. | 8.0 | |
| The Fugitive | 1993 | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 130 | Dr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt led by a seasoned U.S. Marshal. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 12 wins & 37 nominations. | 7.8 | |
| Four Weddings and a Funeral | 1994 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 117 | Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 24 wins & 25 nominations. | 7.0 | |
| The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Drama | 142 | Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency. | Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 21 wins & 35 nominations. | 9.3 | |
| Babe | 1995 | Comedy, Drama, Family | 91 | Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 19 wins & 26 nominations. | 6.7 | |
| The Postman (Il Postino) | 1995 | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 108 | Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice. | |||
| Fargo | 1996 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 98 | Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 81 wins & 57 nominations. | 8.1 | |
| Jerry Maguire | 1996 | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport | 139 | When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former secretary. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 25 wins & 41 nominations. | 7.3 | |
| As Good as It Gets | 1997 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 139 | A single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 36 wins & 53 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| The Full Monty | 1997 | Comedy, Drama | 91 | Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 36 wins & 34 nominations. | 7.2 | |
| Shakespeare in Love | 1998 | Comedy, Drama, History, Romance | 123 | The world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays. | Won 7 Oscars. Another 57 wins & 87 nominations. | 7.1 | |
| Life Is Beautiful | 1998 | Comedy, Drama, Romance, War | 116 | When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor, and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 67 wins & 51 nominations. | 8.6 | |
| The Thin Red Line | 1998 | Drama, War | 170 | Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War. | Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 20 wins & 40 nominations. | 7.6 | |
| The Cider House Rules | 1999 | Drama, Romance | 126 | A compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 30 nominations. | 7.4 | |
| The Green Mile | 1999 | Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | 189 | The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 33 nominations. | 8.6 | |
| The Sixth Sense | 1999 | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 107 | A boy who communicates with spirits seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist. | Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 32 wins & 48 nominations. | 8.1 | |
| Chocolat | 2000 | Drama, Romance | 121 | A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community. | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 31 nominations. | 7.2 | |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance | 120 | A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 97 wins & 133 nominations. | 7.8 | |
| Gosford Park | 2001 | Comedy, Drama, Mystery | 131 | The lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a party in 1932 in a country house in England as they investigate a murder involving one of them. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 35 wins & 73 nominations. | 7.2 | |
| Moulin Rouge! | 2001 | Drama, Musical, Romance | 127 | A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 85 wins & 130 nominations. | 7.6 | |
| Chicago | 2002 | Comedy, Crime, Musical | 113 | Two death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention. | Won 6 Oscars. Another 51 wins & 128 nominations. | 7.1 | |
| Lost in Translation | 2003 | Drama | 102 | A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 97 wins & 129 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| Ray | 2004 | Biography, Drama, Music | 152 | The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 52 wins & 54 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| Sideways | 2004 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 127 | Two men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment embark on a week-long road trip through California's wine country, just as one is about to take a trip down the aisle. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 122 wins & 88 nominations. | 7.5 | |
| Crash | 2005 | Short, Action | 10 | Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption. | 6.3 | ||
| Capote | 2005 | Biography, Crime, Drama, History | 114 | In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 59 wins & 87 nominations. | 7.3 | |
| Munich | 2005 | Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller | 164 | Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day. | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 69 nominations. | 7.5 | |
| Letters from Iwo Jima | 2006 | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War | 141 | The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 23 wins & 37 nominations. | 7.9 | |
| Little Miss Sunshine | 2006 | Comedy, Drama | 101 | A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 70 wins & 111 nominations. | 7.8 | |
| Juno | 2007 | Comedy, Drama | 96 | Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 89 wins & 96 nominations. | 7.4 | |
| Milk | 2008 | Biography, Drama | 128 | The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 63 wins & 141 nominations. | 7.5 | |
| The Blind Side | 2009 | Biography, Drama, Sport | 129 | The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All-American football player and first-round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 30 nominations. | 7.6 | |
| District 9 | 2009 | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 112 | Violence ensues after an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth finds a kindred spirit in a government agent exposed to their biotechnology. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 31 wins & 111 nominations. | 7.9 | |
| An Education | 2009 | Drama | 100 | A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 36 wins & 93 nominations. | 7.3 | |
| Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire | 2009 | Drama | 110 | In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction. | |||
| A Serious Man | 2009 | Comedy, Drama | 106 | Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 17 wins & 76 nominations. | 7.0 | |
| Up | 2009 | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family | 96 | 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 77 wins & 82 nominations. | 8.2 | |
| 127 Hours | 2010 | Biography, Drama | 94 | A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive. | Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 23 wins & 144 nominations. | 7.6 | |
| The Kids Are All Right | 2010 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 106 | Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their biological father into their non-traditional family life. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 29 wins & 127 nominations. | 7.0 | |
| Toy Story 3 | 2010 | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 103 | The toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead of the attic right before Andy leaves for college, and it's up to Woody to convince the other toys that they weren't abandoned and to return home. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 59 wins & 93 nominations. | 8.3 | |
| True Grit | 2010 | Drama, Western | 110 | A stubborn teenager enlists the help of a tough U.S. Marshal to track down her father's murderer. | Nominated for 10 Oscars. Another 37 wins & 154 nominations. | 7.6 | |
| Winter's Bone | 2010 | Drama, Mystery | 100 | An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 63 wins & 126 nominations. | 7.2 | |
| The Artist | 2011 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 100 | An egomaniacal film star develops a relationship with a young dancer against the backdrop of Hollywood's silent era. | Won 5 Oscars. Another 156 wins & 203 nominations. | 7.9 | |
| Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | 2011 | Adventure, Drama, Mystery | 129 | A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 23 nominations. | 6.9 | |
| Midnight in Paris | 2011 | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | 94 | While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 25 wins & 101 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| The Tree of Life | 2011 | Drama, Fantasy | 139 | The story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 116 wins & 123 nominations. | 6.8 | |
| Amour | 2012 | Drama, Romance | 127 | Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 79 wins & 104 nominations. | 7.9 | |
| Beasts of the Southern Wild | 2012 | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 93 | Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 92 wins & 125 nominations. | 7.3 | |
| Silver Linings Playbook | 2012 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 122 | After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 88 wins & 147 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| American Hustle | 2013 | Crime, Drama | 138 | A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild F.B.I. Agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and the Mafia. | Nominated for 10 Oscars. Another 70 wins & 215 nominations. | 7.2 | |
| Dallas Buyers Club | 2013 | Biography, Drama | 117 | In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 82 wins & 81 nominations. | 8.0 | |
| Her | 2013 | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 126 | In a near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 81 wins & 183 nominations. | 8.0 | |
| Nebraska | 2013 | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 115 | An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize. | Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 28 wins & 161 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| The Wolf of Wall Street | 2013 | Biography, Crime, Drama | 180 | Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government. | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 38 wins & 170 nominations. | 8.2 | |
| Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | 2014 | Comedy, Drama | 119 | A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 191 wins & 280 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| American Sniper | 2014 | Action, Biography, Drama, War | 133 | Navy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle's (Bradley Cooper's) pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home to his wife and kids after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 23 wins & 43 nominations. | 7.3 | |
| The Grand Budapest Hotel | 2014 | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 99 | The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous hotel from the fictional Republic of Zubrowka between the first and second World Wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. | Won 4 Oscars. Another 128 wins & 222 nominations. | 8.1 | |
| Whiplash | 2014 | Drama, Music | 106 | A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 90 wins & 140 nominations. | 8.5 | |
| The Big Short | 2015 | Biography, Comedy, Drama, History | 130 | In 2006-2007 a group of investors bet against the US mortgage market. In their research they discover how flawed and corrupt the market is. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 37 wins & 80 nominations. | 7.8 | |
| Bridge of Spies | 2015 | Drama, History, Thriller | 142 | During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 30 wins & 101 nominations. | 7.6 | |
| Brooklyn | 2015 | Drama, Romance | 117 | An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 39 wins & 152 nominations. | 7.5 | |
| The Martian | 2015 | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | 144 | An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. | Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 40 wins & 188 nominations. | 8.0 | |
| Arrival | 2016 | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 116 | A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 67 wins & 258 nominations. | 7.9 | |
| Fences | 2016 | Drama | 139 | A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 56 wins & 114 nominations. | 7.2 | |
| Hidden Figures | 2016 | Biography, Drama, History | 127 | The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program. | Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 37 wins & 85 nominations. | 7.8 | |
| La La Land | 2016 | Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance | 128 | While navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future. | Won 6 Oscars. Another 235 wins & 276 nominations. | 8.0 | |
| Darkest Hour | 2017 | Biography, Drama, History, War | 125 | In May 1940, the fate of Western Europe hangs on British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean a humiliating defeat for Britain and its empire. | Won 2 Oscars. Another 50 wins & 76 nominations. | 7.4 | |
| Get Out | 2017 | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 104 | A young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 150 wins & 199 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| Lady Bird | 2017 | Comedy, Drama | 94 | In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California. | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 119 wins & 218 nominations. | 7.4 | |
| Phantom Thread | 2017 | Drama, Romance | 130 | Set in 1950s London, Reynolds Woodcock is a renowned dressmaker whose fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who becomes his muse and lover. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 57 wins & 116 nominations. | 7.5 | |
| Green Book | 2018 | Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music | 130 | A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 53 wins & 107 nominations. | 8.2 | |
| The Favourite | 2018 | Biography, Comedy, Drama, History | 119 | In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne occupies the throne and her close friend, Lady Sarah, governs the country in her stead. When a new servant, Abigail, arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 175 wins & 308 nominations. | 7.6 | |
| Roma | 2018 | Drama | 135 | A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s. | Won 3 Oscars. Another 238 wins & 198 nominations. | 7.7 | |
| Vice | 2018 | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 132 | The story of Dick Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today. | Won 1 Oscar. Another 32 wins & 129 nominations. | 7.2 | |
| Ford v Ferrari | 2019 | Action, Biography, Drama, Sport | 152 | American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference, the laws of physics and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford and challenge Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966. | Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 17 wins & 34 nominations. | 8.3 | |
| Jojo Rabbit | 2019 | Comedy, Drama, War | 108 | A young boy in Hitler's army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. | Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 23 wins & 119 nominations. | 8.0 | |
| Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | 2019 | Comedy, Drama | 161 | A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles. | |||
| Parasite | 2019 | Comedy, Drama, Thriller | 132 | All unemployed, Ki-taek and his family take peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks, as they ingratiate themselves into their lives and get entangled in an unexpected incident. | Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 119 wins & 179 nominations. | 8.6 |