Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in music (original song) category

Country Strong(2010)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A rising country-music songwriter works with a fallen star to work their way to fame, causing romantic complications along the way.



Once(2007)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.



Music of the Heart(1999)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.



The Bodyguard(1992)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A former Secret Service agent takes on the job of bodyguard to a pop singer, whose lifestyle is most unlike a President's.



Footloose(1984)

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Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A city teenager moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.



Flashdance(1983)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school.



Postcards from the Edge(1990)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 54

A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.



Dead Man Walking(1995)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 40

A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.



Fame(1980)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.



Evita(1996)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 44

The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-picture Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.



Rocky(1976)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 35

Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer, gets a supremely rare chance to fight heavy-weight champion Apollo Creed in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.



The Princess and the Frog(2009)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 37

A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.



Les Misérables(2012)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 32

In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives forever.



An Officer and a Gentleman(1982)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A young man must complete his work at a Navy Flight school to become an aviator, with the help of a tough gunnery sergeant and his new girlfriend.



The Prince of Egypt(1998)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 32

An Egyptian prince learns of his identity as a Hebrew and his destiny to become the chosen deliverer of his people.



An American Tail(1986)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 37

While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.



The Little Mermaid(1989)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 30

A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain with an unscrupulous sea-witch in order to meet a human prince on land.



The Omen(1976)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 31

Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?



Pocahontas(1995)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 29

An English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when English colonists invade seventeenth-century Virginia.



Anastasia(1997)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 30

The last surviving child of the Russian Royal Family joins two con men to reunite with her grandmother, the Dowager Empress, while the undead Rasputin seeks her death.




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