Best Family movies that are award winners or nominees

The Wiz(1978)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 20

An adaptation of 'The Wizard of Oz' that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience.



Bugsy Malone(1976)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 17

The classic gangster story of Bugsy Malone told with an all-child cast.



Mary Poppins Returns(2018)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 48

Decades after her original visit, the magical nanny returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives.



Beethoven's 2nd(1993)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Beethoven, the St. Bernard dog, becomes a father, but his girlfriend Missy is dognapped, and his puppies are in danger of the same fate.



The Hunchback of Notre Dame(1996)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A deformed bell-ringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancer.



The Karate Kid Part II(1986)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Daniel accompanies his mentor, Mr. Miyagi, to Miyagi's childhood home in Okinawa. Miyagi visits his dying father and confronts his old rival, while Daniel falls in love and inadvertently makes a new rival of his own.



Doctor Dolittle(1967)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 14

After the animal communicating veterinarian goes too far for his clientèle, he and his friends escape their hometown to sea in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail.



1776(1972)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A musical retelling of the American Revolution's political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.



The Journey of Natty Gann(1985)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 19

In the 1930s, a tomboyish girl runs away from her guardian to join her single father who is 2,000 miles away, because there was work there.



The Parent Trap(1961)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Teenage twin sisters swap places and scheme to reunite their divorced parents.



Born Free(1966)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Married couple George Adamson and Joy Adamson have long lived in northern Kenya for George's work as the senior game warden of the region. One of George's primary responsibilities is to ...



Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation(1962)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Mr. Hobbs wants to spend a quiet holiday at the beach, but his wife has invited all their family to stay with them.



Sounder(1972)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 14

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.



Pollyanna(1960)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.



Herbie Rides Again(1974)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 4

The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.



Finian's Rainbow(1968)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 11

An Irish immigrant and his daughter move into a town in the American South with a magical piece of gold that will change people's lives, including a struggling farmer and African American citizens threatened by a bigoted politician.



Scrooge(1970)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.



Pirates(1986)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.



The Absent Minded Professor(1961)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A college professor invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.



Yours, Mine and Ours(1968)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A widower with ten children falls for a widow with eight, and they must decide about forming a huge, unconventional family.




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