Adventure Movies That Have Won Oscars and Golden Globes



The Most Prestigious Awards for Adventure Films: Oscars & Golden Globes

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2004, Andrew Adamson, Conrad Vernon, Kelly Asbury

92 minutes

Animation, Family, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure

Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona's mother and father, the Queen and King. But not everyone is happily ever after. Shrek and the King find it difficult to get along, and there's tension in the marriage. The Fairy Godmother discovers that Fiona has married Shrek instead of her son Prince Charming and plots to destroy their marriage.

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2003, Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker

85 minutes

Adventure, Animation, Family

When an impulsive boy named Kenai is magically transformed into a bear, he must literally walk in another's footsteps until he learns some valuable life lessons. His courageous and often zany journey introduces him to a forest full of wildlife, including the lovable bear cub Koda, hilarious moose Rutt and Tuke, woolly mammoths and rambunctious rams.

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1998, Brenda Chapman, Simon Wells, Steve Hickner

99 minutes

Adventure, Animation, Drama, Family

The strong bond between two brothers is challenged when their chosen responsibilities set them at odds, with extraordinary consequences.

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1973, Wolfgang Reitherman

83 minutes

Animation, Family, Adventure

With King Richard off to the Crusades, Prince John and his slithering minion, Sir Hiss, set about taxing Nottingham's citizens with support from the corrupt sheriff - and staunch opposition by the wily Robin Hood and his band of merry men.

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1964, Guy Hamilton

110 minutes

Adventure, Action, Thriller

Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.

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2008, John Stevenson, Mark Osborne

90 minutes

Action, Adventure, Animation, Family, Comedy

When the Valley of Peace is threatened, lazy Po the panda discovers his destiny as the "chosen one" and trains to become a kung fu hero, but transforming the unsleek slacker into a brave warrior won't be easy. It's up to Master Shifu and the Furious Five -- Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey -- to give it a try.

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1984, Steven Spielberg

118 minutes

Adventure, Action

After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.

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2004, Sam Raimi

127 minutes

Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still can't act on his feelings for Mary Jane Watson, a girl he's loved since childhood. A certain anger begins to brew in his best friend Harry Osborn as well...

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Award-Winning Adventure Films That Made History at the Oscars and Golden Globes

Biggest Upsets: When Adventure Films Lost Major Awards

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2000, Bryan Singer

104 minutes

Adventure, Action, Science Fiction

Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.

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1998, John Lasseter

95 minutes

Family, Animation, Adventure, Comedy

On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper.

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2001, null

146 minutes

Drama, Science Fiction, Adventure

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.

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2015, null

85 minutes

Family, Animation, Comedy, Adventure

When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it's up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home.

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1963, null

197 minutes

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.

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2010, Peter Weir

133 minutes

Drama, Adventure, History

At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journey to freedom as they cross deserts, mountains and several nations.

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1966, null

130 minutes

Drama, Adventure

Two rival brothers vie for the same woman against the backdrop of peasant revolts in their Greek homeland.

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2011, Joe Johnston

124 minutes

Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.

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