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

A Passage to India(1984)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.



Shampoo(1975)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 21

Lovers undo a hairdresser from Beverly Hills around Election Eve in 1968.



The Elephant Man(1980)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.



The French Lieutenant's Woman(1981)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A film is being made of a story, set in 19th century England, about Charles, a biologist who's engaged to be married, but who falls in love with outcast Sarah, whose melancholy makes her ...



Hope and Glory(1987)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A semi-autobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in history was ...



Glory(1989)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.



Restoration(1995)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 20

The exiled royal physician to King Charles II devotes himself to helping Londoners suffering from the plague, and in the process falls in love with an equally poor woman.



2010(1984)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A joint U.S.-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn what happened to the Discovery.



Dick Tracy(1990)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.



Yentl(1983)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.



The Sunshine Boys(1975)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A vaudeville duo agree to reunite for a TV special, but it turns out that they can't stand each other.



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.



The Last Tycoon(1976)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 15

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.



California Suite(1978)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.



Cyrano de Bergerac(1990)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.



Airport '77(1977)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 7

Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under 100 feet of water.



Anne of the Thousand Days(1969)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.



Richard III(1995)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The classic Shakespearean play about a murderously scheming king staged in an alternative fascist England setting.



Thoroughly Modern Millie(1967)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Millie comes to town in the roaring twenties to encounter flappers, sexuality and white slavers.



Lady Sings the Blues(1972)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 12

The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.




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