Best Biography movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Dustin Hoffman, Stanley Beck, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

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.

Actors : Mikhail Bychkov, Vladimir Khrulev, Maksim Munzuk, Yuriy Solomin,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.

Actors : John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Anthony Hopkins,
Directors : David Lynch,

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.

Actors : Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes,
Directors : Edward Zwick,

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.

Actors : Polly Walker, Sam Neill, David Thewlis, Robert Downey Jr.,
Directors : Michael Hoffman,

The exiled royal physician to King Charles II devotes himself to helping Londoners suffering from the plague, and in the process falls in love with an equally poor woman.

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Uma Thurman, Fred Ward, Maria de Medeiros,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June. Intrigued by them both, she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband Hugo as well as with Henry and others. June ...

Actors : Haing S. Ngor, Hiep Thi Le, Bussaro Sanruck, Tommy Lee Jones,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

The final movie in Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy follows the true story of a Vietnamese village girl who survives a life of suffering and hardship during and after the Vietnam war. As a ...

Actors : Jeremy Sisto, Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland, Monica Potter,
Directors : Robert Towne,

The film follows the life of famous 1970s runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to the University of Oregon where he worked with the legendary coach Bill Bowerman, later to...

Actors : Conrad Janis, Gary Busey, Charles Martin Smith, Don Stroud,
Directors : Steve Rash,

The story of the life and career of the early rock and roll singer, from his meteoric rise to stardom, to his marriage and untimely death.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Wallace Shawn,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

This film is the story of the spectacular life and violent death of British playwright Joe Orton. In his teens, Orton is befriended by the older, more reserved Kenneth Halliwell, and while ...

Actors : Michael Anderson Jr., Dorothy McGuire, Max von Sydow, Charlton Heston,

The life of Jesus Christ.

Actors : Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Bart Burns, Kim Stanley,
Directors : Graeme Clifford,

The story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.

Actors : Geneviève Page, Raf Vallone, Sophia Loren, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Anthony Mann,

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.

Actors : Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Elizabeth Taylor, Pamela Brown,

Queen Cleopatra of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.

Actors : Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern,
Directors : Fred Zinnemann,

The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage.

Actors : Peter O'Toole, Anthony Hopkins, Katharine Hepburn, John Castle,
Directors : Anthony Harvey,

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.

Actors : Vincent Perez, Anne Brochet, Jacques Weber, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Jean-Paul Rappeneau,

Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.

Actors : Jeffrey Hunter, Hurd Hatfield, Siobhan McKenna, Ron Randell,
Directors : Nicholas Ray,

The temporary physical life of everyone's Savior, Jesus Christ.

Actors : Sissy Spacek, John Shea, Melanie Mayron, Jack Lemmon,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Victor Jory, Patty Duke, Inga Swenson,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.