Top 8 War Action Movies

Top 8 War Action Movies

(Based off Battle Scenes)

#1

5 Oscars 

-Best Picture

 -Best Actor in a Leading Role

-Best Costume Design

-Best  Visual Effects

- Best Sound 

"Cool battle scenes, hand-to-hand combat, togas - we've waited a long time for a sword and sandals epic." -Ben Falk (BBCi Films)

#2

THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"It’s vainly pompous, vehemently preposterous, violently
propelled by power guitar riffs, and vaguely homoerotic in its bare-chested macho posturing. It’s also frequently peaks with bombastic bursts of absurd genius." - Mark Pollard (Kung Fu Cinema)

#3             11 Oscars

          -Best Picture             -Best Film Editing 

         -Best Director           - Best Sound           

        - Best Music Song     -Best Visual Effects

        - Best Music Score    -Best Makeup                  

         -Best Art Direction 

         -Best Costume Design      

        -Best Writing Adapted Screenplay

"The thrilling conclusion to what has become the film event of our time -- the definitive screen fantasy -- features more spellbinding moments, bigger battles, more emotion and more poetry than the terrific first two films in the trilogy." - Roger Moore (Orlando Sentinel)

#4

2 Oscars 

-Best Film Editing
-Best Sound

 -Best Cinematography nominee
-Best Director nominee

"I can think of no other instance when a country at war has presented on its movie theater screens such an excruciating account of battle, or such a sobering one." -Bob Graham (San Francisco Chronicle)

#5

"The face-off between Achilles and Hector is beautifully realized, all the more wounding because we can precisely read each man's emotions going into the fight." - Rob Gonsalves (eFilmCritic.com)


"There are breathtaking vistas, taut political intrigues, dangerous romantic liaisons and one of the greatest wardrobes ever assembled for a costume drama." - Jack Matthews (New York Daily News)



#6

2 Oscars

-Best Sound Effects Editing

-Best Visual Effects

-Best Picture nominee

-Best Film Editing nominee

-Best Sound nominee

-Best Art Direction nominee

"It is, simply, what movie-making should be, the kind of film that proves that 'quality cinema' and 'blockbuster entertainment' are not, and should not be, mutually exclusive." - Josh Bell (Las Vegas Weekly)

 #7

5 Oscars 

-Best Picture

 -Best Cinematography
-Best Director
-Best  Make Up
- Best Sound Effects Editing

"A huge, bloody and sprawling epic, Braveheart is the sort of massive vanity piece that would be easy to disparage if it didn't essentially deliver." -Brian Lowry (Variety)

#8

5 Oscars 

-Best Sound
 -Best Cinematography

-Best Director
-Best Film Editing
- Best Sound Effects Editing

"No further commentary is needed when the raw brutality of combat is presented as indelibly as it is here." -Todd McCarthy (Variety)