Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in art direction category

Nine(2009)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother.



Howards End(1992)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.



The Age of Innocence(1993)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.



Barton Fink(1991)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.



Gattaca(1997)

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Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.



The Phantom of the Opera(2004)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opéra House. He kidnaps the soprano and forces the owners of the play to keep her as the lead role of the play.



The Color of Money(1986)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Fast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.



The Remains of the Day(1993)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.



Cabaret(1972)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.



The Birdcage(1996)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing moralistic parents.



Coal Miner's Daughter(1980)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Biographical story of Loretta Lynn, a legendary country singer that came from poverty to worldwide fame. She rose from humble beginnings in Kentucky to superstardom and changing the sound and style of country music forever.



Empire of the Sun(1987)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.



The Color Purple(1985)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.



The Abyss(1989)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 55

A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.



Hook(1991)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 55

When Captain Hook kidnaps his children, an adult Peter Pan must return to Neverland and reclaim his youthful spirit in order to challenge his old enemy.



The Fisher King(1991)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.



Kundun(1997)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 65

From childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.



Addams Family Values(1993)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 57

A comical Gothic horror-movie-type family tries to rescue their beloved uncle from his gold-digging new love.



The Spy Who Loved Me(1977)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 54

James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads, with the help of a K.G.B. Agent, whose lover he killed.



Dangerous Liaisons(1988)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 55

A scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman.




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