Best Music movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.

Actors : Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard, Spalding Gray,
Directors : Garry Marshall,

A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.

Actors : Virginia Capers, Laurence Fishburne, RaéVen Kelly, Angela Bassett,
Directors : Brian Gibson,

The story of singer Tina Turner's rise to stardom and how she gained the courage to break free from her abusive husband, Ike Turner.

Actors : Barry Primus, Lionel Stander, Robert De Niro, Liza Minnelli,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

An egotistical saxophonist and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long, up-hill climb.

Actors : Glenne Headly, Richard Dreyfuss, Olympia Dukakis, Jay Thomas,
Directors : Stephen Herek,

A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher.

Actors : Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin McNally, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Irwin Winkler,

Inspecting a magical biographical stage musical, composer Cole Porter reviews his life and career with his wife, Linda.

Actors : Julie Andrews, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, James Garner,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

Actors : Ellie Raab, Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Steve Kloves,

The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.

Actors : Gregory Hines, Lonette McKee, Diane Lane, Richard Gere,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people that visited the club, those that ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous.

Actors : River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Jonas Abry, Christine Lahti,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live a life of his own.

Actors : Patty Duke, Paul Burke, Sharon Tate, Barbara Parkins,
Directors : Mark Robson,

Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young women in show business.

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey, Oliver Clark,
Directors : Frank Pierson,

A has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress.

Actors : Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Tess Harper, Robert Duvall,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

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.

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 : Angeline Ball, Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Maria Doyle Kennedy,
Directors : Alan Parker,

When Jimmy Rabbitte wants to start a band, he has open auditions at his house.

Actors : Billy Connolly, Timothy Spall, Stephen Rea, Jimmy Nail,
Directors : Brian Gibson,

"Strange Fruit" had everything that makes a legendary rockband: Money, Fame, Success, Groupies, a Singer who died of drugs and even a divine ending, when lightning struck the stage during ...

Actors : Griffin Dunne, Haviland Morris, John McMartin, Madonna,
Directors : James Foley,

The life of an uptight tax lawyer turns chaotic when he is asked to escort a young woman newly released from prison, who persuades him to help prove her innocence.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Scott Cohen, Pablo Calogero, Armand Assante,
Directors : Arne Glimcher,

Musician brothers Cesar and Nestor leave Cuba for America in the 1950s, hoping to hit the top of the Latin music scene. Cesar is the older brother, the business manager, and the ladies' man...

Actors : Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker, Sandra Reaves-Phillips,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

In 'Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner, a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism, estranged from ...

Actors : Ronny Cox, David Carradine, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.