Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven, Jamie Bell,
Directors : Stephen Daldry,

A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.

Actors : Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney,
Directors : Richard Curtis,

Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.

Actors : Richard Graham, Heather Craney, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton,
Directors : Mike Leigh,

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

Actors : Carey Mulligan, Josh Brolin, Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

Now out of prison but still disgraced by his peers, Gordon Gekko works his future son-in-law, an idealistic stock broker, when he sees an opportunity to take down a Wall Street enemy and rebuild his empire.

Actors : Kenneth Branagh, Julia Ormond, Eddie Redmayne, Michelle Williams,
Directors : Simon Curtis,

Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).

Actors : Bradley Cooper, Edgar Ramírez, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro,
Directors : David O. Russell,

Joy is the story of the title character, who rose to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty.

Actors : Rachel Weisz, Harvey Keitel, Jane Fonda, Michael Caine,
Directors : Paolo Sorrentino,

A retired orchestra conductor is on holiday with his daughter and his film director best friend in the Alps when he receives an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to perform for Prince Philip's birthday.

Actors : R. Lee Ermey, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, Matthew Modine,
Directors : Stanley Kubrick,

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Actors : Brendan Sexton III, Hilary Swank, Peter Sarsgaard, Chloë Sevigny,
Directors : Kimberly Peirce,

Female-born Teena Brandon adopts his male identity of Brandon Teena and attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska.

Actors : Charlize Theron, Delroy Lindo, Tobey Maguire, Michael Caine,
Directors : Lasse Hallström,

A compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Shia LaBeouf, Vanessa Kirby, Iliza Shlesinger,
Directors : Kornél Mundruczó,

When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.

Actors : Al Pacino, Lady Gaga, Jeremy Irons, Adam Driver,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel their legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately...murder.

Actors : Miriam Shor, John Cameron Mitchell, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski,
Directors : John Cameron Mitchell,

A transgender punk-rock girl from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs.

Actors : Filip Sovagovic, Rene Bitorajac, Branko Djuric, Georges Siatidis,
Directors : Danis Tanovic,

Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.

Actors : Tommy Lee Jones, Jonathan Tucker, Jason Patric, Charlize Theron,
Directors : Paul Haggis,

A retired military investigator works with a police detective to uncover the truth behind his son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.

Actors : Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston, Amy Adams, Krysten Ritter,
Directors : Tim Burton,

A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.

Actors : Katharine Ross, Anne Bancroft, William Daniels, Dustin Hoffman,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Danny DeVito, Jack Nicholson, Debra Winger,
Directors : James L. Brooks,

Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.

Actors : Barbara Hershey, Harvey Keitel, Paul Greco, Willem Dafoe,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.

Actors : Tom Hanks, Bonnie Hunt, David Morse, Michael Clarke Duncan,
Directors : Frank Darabont,

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.