Best movies that are award winners or nominees

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

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

Actors : Willie Watson, Clancy Brown, Danny McCarthy, Tim Blake Nelson,

An anthology film comprised of six stories, each dealing with a different aspect of life in the Old West.

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

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

Actors : Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush,
Directors : Gore Verbinski,

Captain Barbossa, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann must sail off the edge of the map, navigate treachery and betrayal, find Jack Sparrow, and make their final alliances for one last decisive battle.

Actors : Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey Jr., Michael Douglas,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

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.

Actors : Hugh Laurie, James McAvoy, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent,

Santa's clumsy son Arthur gets put on a mission with St. Nick's father to give out a present they misplaced to a young girl in less than 2 hours.

Actors : Amy Adams, Krysten Ritter, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston,
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 : John Cameron Mitchell, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski, Miriam Shor,
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 : Dragos Bucur, Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess,
Directors : Peter Weir,

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

Actors : Mario Van Peebles, Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight,
Directors : Michael Mann,

A biography of sports legend Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974.

Actors : Daniel Craig, Jamie Bell, Liev Schreiber, Alexa Davalos,
Directors : Edward Zwick,

Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants.

Actors : Bryce Dallas Howard, Thierry Neuvic, Cécile De France, Matt Damon,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A drama centered on three people -- a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy -- who are touched by death in different ways.

Actors : Halle Berry, Taylor Simpson, Gabrielle Witcher, Billy Bob Thornton,
Directors : Marc Forster,

After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard reexamines his attitudes while falling in love with the African American wife of the last prisoner he executed.

Actors : John Lithgow, Hugh Dancy, Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling,
Directors : Nisha Ganatra,

A late night talk show host suspects that she may soon lose her long-running show.

Actors : David Rawle, Brendan Gleeson, Lisa Hannigan, Fionnula Flanagan,
Directors : Tomm Moore,

Ben, a young Irish boy, and his little sister Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal, go on an adventure to free the fairies and save the spirit world.

Actors : Georges Siatidis, Filip Sovagovic, Rene Bitorajac, Branko Djuric,
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 : Quinton Aaron, Tim McGraw, Sandra Bullock, Jae Head,
Directors : John Lee Hancock,

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.

Actors : Jonathan Tucker, Tommy Lee Jones, 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 : Chloë Sevigny, Steve Zahn, Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard,
Directors : Billy Ray,

The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine.

Actors : Anne Hathaway, Karen Disher, George Lopez, Jesse Eisenberg,
Directors : Carlos Saldanha,

When Blu, a domesticated macaw from small-town Minnesota, meets the fiercely independent Jewel, he takes off on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro with the bird of his dreams.