Critically acclaimed movies that are oscar winners or nominees in cinematography (black-and-white) category

Actors : Edmon Ryan, Robert Mitchum, Elisabeth Fraser, Shirley MacLaine,
Directors : Robert Wise,

Jerry Ryan is wandering aimlessly around New York, having given up his law career in Nebraska when his wife asked for a divorce. He meets up with Gittel Mosca, an impoverished dancer from ...

Actors : Elizabeth Hartman, Wallace Ford, Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Guy Green,

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.

Actors : Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin, Trevor Howard, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Bernhard Wicki,

A war pacifist is blackmailed to pose as an SS officer and to disable the scuttling explosives on freighter carrying rubber cargo to be captured by the Allies.

Actors : Peter Brocco, Lee Grant, Shelley Winters, Peter Falk,
Directors : Joseph Strick,

In a fictional country, the Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation.

Actors : James Fox, Tom Courtenay, Patrick O'Neal, George Segal,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

A fast-taking wheeler-dealer corporal in a Malaysian POW camp during WWII uses bribery and larceny to take de facto control of the camp from his senior officers.

Actors : Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller, Trevor Howard, Mary Ure,
Directors : Jack Cardiff,

Jack Cardiff received a 1960 Oscar Nomination as Best Director for this lush, engaging film starring Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell and Donald Pleasence, which was adapted from D.H. ...

Actors : Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Don DeFore, Ruth Hussey,
Directors : Melvin Frank,

Larry and Kitty are two middle-class suburbanites who find themselves growing bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other grating in manner, they ...

Actors : Horst Buchholz, Arlene Francis, Pamela Tiffin, James Cagney,
Directors : Billy Wilder,

In West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter.

Actors : Nancy Olson, Tommy Kirk, Keenan Wynn, Fred MacMurray,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

A college professor invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.

Actors : Isa Crino, Sidney Poitier, Lisa Mann, Lilia Skala,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

A traveling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.

Actors : Diane McBain, Joan Crawford, Polly Bergen, Robert Stack,
Directors : Hall Bartlett,

This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital. Dr. MacLeod (Robert Stack) is a new, optimistic doctor who attempts to ...

Actors : Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Nancy Kwan, Glenn Ford,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

A man refuses to believe that pilot error caused a fatal crash, and persists in looking for another reason.