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

Transformers(2007)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 31

An ancient struggle between two Cybertronian races, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, comes to Earth, with a clue to the ultimate power held by a teenager.



Back to the Future Part II(1989)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 29

After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.



Cliffhanger(1993)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 30

A botched mid-air heist results in suitcases full of cash being searched for by various groups throughout the Rocky Mountains.



1941(1979)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 33

Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor.



Death Becomes Her(1992)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 26

When a woman learns of an immortality treatment, she sees it as a way to outdo her long-time rival.



Pearl Harbor(2001)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.



DragonHeart(1996)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 18

The last dragon and a disillusioned dragonslaying knight must cooperate to stop an evil king who was given partial immortality.



Mighty Joe Young(1998)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 26

A legendary fifteen-foot tall mountain gorilla named Joe is taken to an animal sanctuary in California by a zoologist and a young woman whom he grew up with. A poacher from the past returns to seek vengeance on him.



Poltergeist II: The Other Side(1986)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 26

The Freeling family have a new house, but their troubles with supernatural forces don't seem to be over.



Return to Oz(1985)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 21

Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful.



Dragonslayer(1981)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A young wizarding apprentice is sent to kill a dragon which has been devouring girls from a nearby kingdom.



Young Sherlock Holmes(1985)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 14

When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.



2010(1984)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A joint U.S.-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn what happened to the Discovery.



The Black Hole(1979)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A research vessel finds a missing ship, commanded by a mysterious scientist, on the edge of a black hole.




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