Best movies that are golden globes winners or nominees in best score motion picture category

The Straight Story(1999)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 78

An old man makes a long journey by lawn-mover tractor to mend his relationship with an ill brother.



Big Fish(2003)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.



The Informant!(2009)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 77

The U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre.



Alice in Wonderland(2010)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Nineteen-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror.



Close Encounters of the Third Kind(1977)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Following an accidental encounter with otherworldly vessels, an ordinary man follows a series of psychic clues to the first scheduled meeting between representatives of Earth and visitors from the cosmos.



The Last Samurai(2003)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle.



The Painted Veil(2006)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A British medical doctor fights a cholera epidemic in a small Chinese village, while being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.



Anna Karenina(2012)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.



The Midnight Sky(2020)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

This post-apocalyptic tale follows Augustine, a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop Sully and her fellow astronauts from returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.



Ali(2001)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

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



Defiance(2008)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

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.



The Untouchables(1987)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team.



The Last Temptation of Christ(1988)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 75

The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.



The Piano(1993)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A mute woman is sent to 1850s New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.



Chocolat(2000)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.



The Fountain(2006)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 68

As a modern-day scientist, Tommy is struggling with mortality, desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzi.



Frida(2002)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

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



Memoirs of a Geisha(2005)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.



The Da Vinci Code(2006)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

A murder inside the Louvre, and clues in Da Vinci paintings, lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years, which could shake the foundations of Christianity.



Dances with Wolves(1990)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.




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