Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in cinematography category

Barry Lyndon(1975)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 31

An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.



Out of Africa(1985)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 33

In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.



Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 29

Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close.



The Blue Lagoon(1980)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 32

In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.



1941(1979)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 33

Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor.





Camelot(1967)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 47

The story of the marriage of England's King Arthur to Guinevere. The plot of illegitimate Mordred to gain the throne and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot, threaten to topple Arthur and destroy his "round table" of knights.



The Last Picture Show(1971)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 28

In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.



The Right Stuff(1983)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 25

The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program.



The End of the Affair(1999)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 33

On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. ...



Tár(2022)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 46

Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and first-ever female music director of a major German orchestra.



Airport(1970)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 32

A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.



Ragtime(1981)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 41

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.



The Killing Fields(1984)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.





Murder on the Orient Express(1974)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 22

In December 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.



Fiddler on the Roof(1971)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 22

In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.



Logan's Run(1976)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 20

An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: life must end at the age of 30.



Searching for Bobby Fischer(1993)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.



Fly Away Home(1996)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 24

A father and daughter decide to attempt to lead a flock of orphaned Canada Geese south by air.




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