Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in music (score of a musical picture--original or adaptation) category

Funny Girl(1968)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 68

The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfield girl, subsequent career and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.







Hello, Dolly!(1969)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way.



Paint Your Wagon(1969)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town.



Finian's Rainbow(1968)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 11

An Irish immigrant and his daughter move into a town in the American South with a magical piece of gold that will change people's lives, including a struggling farmer and African American citizens threatened by a bigoted politician.



Sweet Charity(1969)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Taxi dancer Charity continues to have Faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and Hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her ...



Goodbye, Mr. Chips(1969)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A shy, withdrawn English schoolteacher falls for a flashy showgirl.



Star!(1968)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A musical biography of Gertrude Lawrence, who led a hustling and bustling life on the stage.