Best Music movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Jennifer Beals, Sunny Johnson, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala,
Directors : Adrian Lyne,

A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school.

Actors : Irene Cara, Eddie Barth, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean,
Directors : Alan Parker,

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

Actors : Diane Venora, Forest Whitaker, Michael Zelniker, Samuel E. Wright,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

The troubled life and career of the jazz musician, Charlie "Bird" Parker.

Actors : Taron Egerton, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden,
Directors : Dexter Fletcher,

A musical fantasy about the fantastical human story of Elton John's breakthrough years.

Actors : Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Bette Midler,
Directors : Mark Rydell,

The tragic life of a self-destructive female rock star who struggles to deal with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager.

Actors : Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, Ronee Blakley, Karen Black,
Directors : Robert Altman,

Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed.

Actors : Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.

Actors : Virginia Capers, Laurence Fishburne, RaéVen Kelly, Angela Bassett,
Directors : Brian Gibson,

The story of singer Tina Turner's rise to stardom and how she gained the courage to break free from her abusive husband, Ike Turner.

Actors : Julie Andrews, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, James Garner,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

Actors : Ellie Raab, Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Steve Kloves,

The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.

Actors : River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Jonas Abry, Christine Lahti,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live a life of his own.

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey, Oliver Clark,
Directors : Frank Pierson,

A has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress.

Actors : Conrad Janis, Gary Busey, Charles Martin Smith, Don Stroud,
Directors : Steve Rash,

The story of the life and career of the early rock and roll singer, from his meteoric rise to stardom, to his marriage and untimely death.

Actors : Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Tess Harper, Robert Duvall,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.

Actors : David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.

Actors : Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker, Sandra Reaves-Phillips,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

In 'Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner, a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism, estranged from ...

Actors : Bette Midler, Patrick O'Neal, George Segal, James Caan,
Directors : Mark Rydell,

With the help of the singer and dancer Dixie Leonhard US-Entertainer Eddie Sparks wants to bring some fun to the soldiers during World War II. Becoming a perfect team they tour from North ...

Actors : Diana Ross, Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, James T. Callahan,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.

Actors : Paul Michael Glaser, Edward Albert, Goldie Hawn, Eileen Heckart,
Directors : Milton Katselas,

A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother, and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.

Actors : Robert Redford, Ruth Gordon, Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

A tomboy turned movie star deals with the cruelty of Hollywood.