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

Actors : Jack Hawkins, Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : David Lean,

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

Actors : Audrey Hepburn, Buddy Ebsen, Patricia Neal, George Peppard,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.

Actors : Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Laurence Olivier, Kirk Douglas,
Directors : Stanley Kubrick,

The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.

Actors : Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, George Chakiris,

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

Actors : Richard Burton, Gino Cervi, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole,
Directors : Peter Glenville,

King Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas à Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the king's.

Actors : Audrey Hepburn, Stanley Holloway, Rex Harrison, Wilfrid Hyde-White,
Directors : George Cukor,

A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

Actors : Julie Andrews, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.

Actors : Julie Andrews, David Tomlinson, Dick Van Dyke, Glynis Johns,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Julie Christie, Omar Sharif,
Directors : David Lean,

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Raquel Welch, Stephen Boyd, Edmond O'Brien,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.

Actors : Albert Finney, George Devine, Susannah York, Rachel Kempson,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th century England.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Steve McQueen, Richard Crenna, Richard Attenborough,
Directors : Robert Wise,

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and...

Actors : Michael Anderson Jr., Max von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, Charlton Heston,

The life of Jesus Christ.

Actors : Geneviève Page, Raf Vallone, Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Anthony Mann,

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.

Actors : Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Elizabeth Taylor, Pamela Brown,

Queen Cleopatra of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.

Actors : Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith, Trevor Howard, Marlon Brando,

In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian.

Actors : Audrey Meadows, Doris Day, Gig Young, Cary Grant,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

A rich businessman and a young woman are attracted to each other, but he only wants an affair while she wants to save her virginity for marriage.

Actors : Harry Andrews, Diane Cilento, Rex Harrison, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Carol Reed,

The biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.

Actors : Robert Redford, Ruth Gordon, Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

A tomboy turned movie star deals with the cruelty of Hollywood.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.