Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in visual effects category

War of the Worlds(2005)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 82

As Earth is invaded by alien tripod fighting machines, one family fights for survival.



Superman Returns(2006)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 81

Superman reappears after a long absence, but is challenged by an old foe who uses Kryptonian technology for world domination.



Star Trek Into Darkness(2013)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 82

After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction.



Captain America: The Winter Soldier(2014)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 81

As Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world, he teams up with a fellow Avenger and S.H.I.E.L.D agent, Black Widow, to battle a new threat from history: an assassin known as the Winter Soldier.



Blade Runner(1982)

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Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 82

A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.



No Time to Die(2021)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 82

James Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.



Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings(2021)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 82

Shang-Chi, the master of weaponry-based Kung Fu, is forced to confront his past after being drawn into the Ten Rings organization.



Avatar: The Way of Water(2022)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 82

Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the extrasolar moon Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their home.



The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.



Rise of the Planet of the Apes(2011)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A substance designed to help the brain repair itself gives rise to a super-intelligent chimpanzee who leads an ape uprising.



Solo: A Star Wars Story(2018)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

During an adventure into the criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his future co-pilot Chewbacca and encounters Lando Calrissian years before joining the Rebellion.



Ready Player One(2018)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 81

When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune.



Alien(1979)

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Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious life-form, and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.



Titanic(1997)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.



Kong: Skull Island(2017)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A team of scientists explore an uncharted island in the Pacific, venturing into the domain of the mighty Kong, and must fight to escape a primal Eden.



Prometheus(2012)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 79

Following clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone.



The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug(2013)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 78

The dwarves, along with Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey, continue their quest to reclaim Erebor, their homeland, from Smaug. Bilbo Baggins is in possession of a mysterious and magical ring.



Mulan(2020)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Jet Li, Li Gong, Gong Li, Donnie Yen, Yifei Liu,
Niki Caro,

A young Chinese maiden disguises herself as a male warrior in order to save her father.



Gladiator(2000)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 76

When a Roman General is betrayed, and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.



Deepwater Horizon(2016)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A dramatization of the disaster back in April 2010, when the offshore drilling rig called the Deepwater Horizon created a giant explosion, which created the worst oil spill in American history.




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