Highest grossing Action movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush,
Directors : Gore Verbinski,

Captain Barbossa, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann must sail off the edge of the map, navigate treachery and betrayal, find Jack Sparrow, and make their final alliances for one last decisive battle.

Actors : Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Mary McDonnell, Jeff Goldblum,
Directors : Roland Emmerich,

The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Fighting superior technology, mankind's best weapon is the will to survive.

Actors : Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush,
Directors : Gore Verbinski,

Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead.

Actors : Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Judi Dench,
Directors : Sam Mendes,

Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. Whilst MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.

Actors : Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe,
Directors : Christopher Nolan,

A thief, who steals corporate secrets through use of dream-sharing technology, is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a CEO.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Jason Lee,
Directors : Brad Bird,

A family of undercover superheroes, while trying to live the quiet suburban life, are forced into action to save the world.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Redford, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans,

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.

Actors : Leonard Nimoy, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg,
Directors : J.J. Abrams,

The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.

Actors : Will Arnett, Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks,

An ordinary Lego construction worker, thought to be the prophesied 'Special', is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the Lego universe into eternal stasis.

Actors : Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Tim Burton,

The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker.

Actors : Harrison Ford, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-Davies, Karen Allen,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.

Actors : Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Lesley Manville, Sharlto Copley,
Directors : Robert Stromberg,

A vengeful fairy is driven to curse an infant princess, only to discover that the child may be the one person who can restore peace to their troubled land.

Actors : Helen Hunt, Jami Gertz, Cary Elwes, Bill Paxton,
Directors : Jan de Bont,

Bill and Jo Harding, advanced storm chasers on the brink of divorce, must join together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes.

Actors : Lisa Eilbacher, John Ashton, Judge Reinhold, Eddie Murphy,
Directors : Martin Brest,

A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.

Actors : Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, James McAvoy, Patrick Stewart,
Directors : Bryan Singer,

The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.

Actors : Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Cumberbatch,
Directors : Scott Derrickson,

While on a journey of physical and spiritual healing, a brilliant neurosurgeon is drawn into the world of the mystic arts.

Actors : Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Dan Aykroyd,
Directors : Ivan Reitman,

Three former parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service.

Actors : Vince Vaughn, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Jeff Goldblum,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there while another team approaches with another agenda.

Actors : Zoe Saldana, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch,
Directors : J.J. Abrams,

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.

Actors : Julia Stiles, Edgar Ramírez, Matt Damon, Joan Allen,
Directors : Paul Greengrass,

Jason Bourne dodges a ruthless CIA official and his agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer.