Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in makeup category

The Color Purple(1985)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 59

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



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.



Bicentennial Man(1999)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 56

An android endeavors to become human as he gradually acquires emotions.



Mrs. Doubtfire(1993)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 53

After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend time with his children held in custody by his former wife.



Life(1999)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 58

The story of wrongfully convicted men (Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence) who discover the value of life after serving 65 years in prison.



Coming to America(1988)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 50

An extremely pampered African Prince travels to Queens, New York, and goes undercover to find a wife whom he can respect for her intelligence and will.



Norbit(2007)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 51

A mild-mannered guy, who is married to a monstrous woman, meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.



Scrooged(1988)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A selfish, cynical T.V. executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.



The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe(2005)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 38

Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion.



Hellboy II: The Golden Army(2008)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 39

The mythical world starts a rebellion against humanity in order to rule the Earth, so Hellboy and his team must save the world from the rebellious creatures.



The Fly(1986)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 40

A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.



Gandhi(1982)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 36

Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed.



Braveheart(1995)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 34

When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, Sir William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England.



Elizabeth(1998)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A film of the early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.



Hoffa(1992)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 41

The story of the notorious American labor union figure Jimmy Hoffa, who organizes a bitter strike, makes deals with members of the organized crime syndicate, and mysteriously disappears in 1975.



Harry and the Hendersons(1987)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 36

The Henderson family adopt a friendly Sasquatch but have a hard time trying to keep the legend of 'Bigfoot' a secret.



Topsy-Turvy(1999)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 45

Set in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado.



The Wolfman(2010)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 22

Upon his return to his ancestral homeland, an American man is bitten, and subsequently cursed by, a werewolf.



The Time Machine(2002)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 21

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.



Mary Shelley's Frankenstein(1994)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 24

When the brilliant, but unorthodox scientist, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes, and later swears revenge.




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