Films featuring a Best Actor Academy Award-winning performance

The Whale

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2022 IMDB Rating: 7.7

A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1931 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chem...

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Hamlet

Film Age rating: 5 Year: 1948 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most...

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On Golden Pond

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1981 IMDB Rating: 7.6

For Norman and Ethel Thayer, this summer on golden pond is filled with conflict and resolution. When their daughter Chelsea arrives, the family is forced to renew the bonds of love and overcome the ge...

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The Last King of Scotland

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2006 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of Presiden...

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Lilies of the Field

Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1963 IMDB Rating: 7.5

An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed...

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King Richard

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2021 IMDB Rating: 7.5

The story of how Richard Williams served as a coach to his daughters Venus and Serena, who will soon become two of the most legendary tennis players in history.

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Milk

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 7.5

The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an activist for gay rights and inspires others to join hi...

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Leaving Las Vegas

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1995 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-i...

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