Best Biography movies that are award winners or nominees

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 : 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 : 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 : Michael Strong, Karl Malden, Stephen Young, George C. Scott,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton.

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Susan Brown, Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent,
Directors : Phyllida Lloyd,

An elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene.

Actors : Bryan Cranston, Helen Mirren, Diane Lane, Louis C.K.,
Directors : Jay Roach,

In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs.

Actors : Salma Hayek, Geoffrey Rush, Alfred Molina, Mía Maestro,
Directors : Julie Taymor,

A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Warren Beatty,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

Bonnie Parker, a bored waitress falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, robbing cars and banks.

Actors : Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield, Rob Morrow, John Turturro,
Directors : Robert Redford,

A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation.

Actors : David Morse, Will Smith, Albert Brooks, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : Peter Landesman,

In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play.

Actors : Emily Blunt, Miranda Richardson, Paul Bettany, Rupert Friend,
Directors : Jean-Marc Vallée,

A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.

Actors : Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Geoffrey Rush, Michael Caine,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.

Actors : Ted Levine, Annette Bening, Adam Driver, Jon Hamm,
Directors : Scott Z. Burns,

Idealistic Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones, tasked by his boss to lead an investigation into the CIA's post 9/11 Detention and Interrogation Program, uncovers shocking secrets.

Actors : Scarlett Johansson, Helen Mirren, Danny Huston, Anthony Hopkins,
Directors : Sacha Gervasi,

The relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho (1960) in 1959 is explored.

Actors : Michelle Williams, Mark Wahlberg, Romain Duris, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.

Actors : Philip King, Alison Crosbie, Pete Postlethwaite, Daniel Day-Lewis,
Directors : Jim Sheridan,

A man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them.

Actors : Johnny Depp, Olatz López Garmendia, Giovanni Florido, Javier Bardem,
Directors : Julian Schnabel,

Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City. He joins Castro's rebels. By 1964, ...

Actors : Tygh Runyan, Lily Fisher, Ana de Armas, Julianne Nicholson,
Directors : Andrew Dominik,

A fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe.

Actors : Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zendaya, Zac Efron,
Directors : Michael Gracey,

Celebrates the birth of show business, and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.

Actors : Bob Hoskins, Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck,
Directors : Allen Coulter,

A detective examines the mysterious death of George Reeves, the star of the television series Adventures of Superman (1952).