Best Family movies that are award winners or nominees

Author! Author!(1982)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 5

While facing the stress of his play being produced on Broadway, a playwright deals with having to raise his son, his stepdaughters, and his stepsons.



Benji(1974)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A stray dog saves two kidnapped children.



Jonathan Livingston Seagull(1973)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A skilled flyer but very rebellious young seagull is kicked out of his clan. However, instead of being sad or lonely, he decides to enjoy and explore his newfound freedom.



The Island at the Top of the World(1974)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 8

In 1907, four explorers discover a lost colony of Vikings in the Arctic.



Babes in Toyland(1961)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Tom the Piper's Son is about to marry Mary Quite Contrary. On the eve of their wedding, evil miser Barnaby hires two henchmen to drown Tom and steal Mary's sheep, cared for by Little Bo ...



The Little Prince(1974)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A pilot, stranded in the desert, meets a little boy who is a prince on a planet.



The Happiest Millionaire(1967)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant, John Lawless, lands a job as the butler of an unconventional millionaire, Biddle. His daughter, Cordelia Drexel Biddle, tires of the ...



Summer Magic(1963)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Bostonian widow moves with her kids to the country.



Dear Heart(1964)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Single and alone, Evie arrives in New York for the annual Postmasters' convention. Staying at her hotel is a womanising salesman newly promoted to his marketing department and trying to ...



A Majority of One(1961)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness.



Tom Sawyer(1973)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder.



The Singing Nun(1966)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Young and inexperienced Sister Ann has just arrived at her next posting at Samaritan House, a Dominican order located in a disreputable neighborhood of Ghent, Belgium. Sister Ann is ...



Bon Voyage!(1962)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The Willards from Terre Haute, Indiana, travels abroad for a once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Paris, France. Harry Willard believes that the greatest problem will be avoiding tap water, but ...



Island of the Blue Dolphins(1964)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story of a Native American girl, abandoned on a tiny island, who is protected by a wild dog.



Living Free(1972)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When Elsa's three mischievous cubs begin wreaking havoc on the nearby villages, Joy and her husband are forced to move them hundreds of miles to a game preserve.



Charley and the Angel(1973)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be a better husband and father with the time he has left.



Where the Lilies Bloom(1974)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A family of Appalachian children live together in the backwoods so that they can stay together after the death of their widower father.



The Magic of Lassie(1978)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Lassie is trying to find her way home. She will have to run all the way from Colorado to California. Her loving owner is looking for her too.



Stand Up(2019)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Diya and Keerthi are friends. Keerthi is an aspiring Stand Up comedian and she is trying to find some opportunities for her shows. a becomes a regular presence in the friend's gatherings ...



The Little Ark(1972)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Two children are trapped in the tower of a church during a flood. Local fishermen attempt to rescue them.




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