Best Family movies that are oscar winners or nominees

The Breadwinner(2017)

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Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.



Harry and the Hendersons(1987)

Combined Rating:
50
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.



James and the Giant Peach(1996)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 30

An orphan, who lives with his two cruel aunts, befriends anthropomorphic bugs who live inside a giant peach, and they embark on a journey to New York City.







The Jungle Book(1967)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 22

Bagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization.



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.



Fiddler on the Roof(1971)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 22

In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.



Fly Away Home(1996)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 24

A father and daughter decide to attempt to lead a flock of orphaned Canada Geese south by air.



Chitty Chitty Bang Bang(1968)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land.



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.



Fantastic Voyage(1966)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.



The Wiz(1978)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 20

An adaptation of 'The Wizard of Oz' that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience.



Bugsy Malone(1976)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 17

The classic gangster story of Bugsy Malone told with an all-child cast.



Mary Poppins Returns(2018)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 48

Decades after her original visit, the magical nanny returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives.



Beethoven's 2nd(1993)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Beethoven, the St. Bernard dog, becomes a father, but his girlfriend Missy is dognapped, and his puppies are in danger of the same fate.



The Hunchback of Notre Dame(1996)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A deformed bell-ringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancer.



The Karate Kid Part II(1986)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Daniel accompanies his mentor, Mr. Miyagi, to Miyagi's childhood home in Okinawa. Miyagi visits his dying father and confronts his old rival, while Daniel falls in love and inadvertently makes a new rival of his own.



Doctor Dolittle(1967)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 14

After the animal communicating veterinarian goes too far for his clientèle, he and his friends escape their hometown to sea in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail.



1776(1972)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A musical retelling of the American Revolution's political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.




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