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The Best Musical Movies Nominated for Best Picture

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List RulesVote up the greatest musicals that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Sometimes, movies can inspire you to break out into song. No wonder so many movie musicals have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The top musical movies nominated for best picture feature unforgettable songs, top-tier acting, and classic storylines. This is a list of the best musicals nominated for Oscars, including everything from Beauty and the Beast to Mary Poppins to Chicago.

What films will you find on this list of the best musicals nominated for best picture? West Side Story took home 10 trophies at the 1961 Oscars, including the prize for Best Picture. The sparkling film transported the tale of Romeo and Juliet to contemporary New York City. The Sound of Music is another great musical that was nominated for best picture at the Oscars. Baz Luhrmann's dazzling visuals helped earn Moulin Rouge! a best picture nomination in 2001. Other good films featured on this list include My Fair Lady, An American in Paris, and Fiddler on the Roof.

Do you have a favorite from among these Oscar winning musicals? Give the best films a thumbs up and share some of your favorite silver screen songs in the comments section.

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The Sound Of Music
1965 - WON
Actors: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Nicholas Hammond, Heather Menzies
Directed by: Robert Wise
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West Side Story
1961 - WON
Actors: Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno, John Astin, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer
Directed by: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
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Mary Poppins
1964
Actors: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, Elsa Lanchester, Paul Frees, Ed Wynn
Directed by: Robert Stevenson
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Beauty And The Beast
1991
Actors: Angela Lansbury, Frank Welker, Jerry Orbach, Robby Benson, David Ogden Stiers
Directed by: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
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Fiddler On The Roof
1971
Actors: Paul Michael Glaser, Chaim Topol, Molly Picon, Ray Lovelock, Leonard Frey
Directed by: Norman Jewison
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Chicago
2002 - WON
Actors: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lucy Liu, Renée Zellweger, Queen Latifah, Richard Gere
Directed by: Rob Marshall
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La La Land
2017
Actors: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt
Directed by: Damien Chazelle
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The King And I
1956
Actors: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno, Alan Mowbray, Martin Benson
Directed by: Walter Lang
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Cabaret
1972
Actors: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey, Marisa Berenson, Fritz Wepper
Directed by: Bob Fosse
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Moulin Rouge!
2001
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Ozzy Osbourne, Kylie Minogue, Ewan McGregor, Jim Broadbent
Directed by: Baz Luhrmann
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My Fair Lady
1964 - WON
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Jeremy Brett, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Theodore Bikel
Directed by: George Cukor
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Les Miserables
2012
Actors: Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Helena Bonham Carter
Directed by: Tom Hooper
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An American In Paris
1951 - WON
Actors: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Nina Foch, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
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Funny Girl
1968
Actors: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Anne Francis, Roy Clarke, Walter Pidgeon
Directed by: William Wyler
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Hello, Dolly!
1969
Actors: Barbra Streisand, Louis Armstrong, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Tommy Tune
Directed by: Gene Kelly
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Oliver!
1968 - WON
Actors: Oliver Reed, Leonard Rossiter, Hugh Griffith, Elaine Paige, Ron Moody
Directed by: Carol Reed
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All That Jazz
1979
Actors: Jessica Lange, John Lithgow, Roy Scheider, Wallace Shawn, Ben Vereen
Directed by: Bob Fosse
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The Music Man
1962
Actors: Ron Howard, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Mary Wickes, Robert Preston
Directed by: Morton DaCosta
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42nd Street
1933
Actors: Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Toby Wing, Bebe Daniels
Directed by: Lloyd Bacon
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Nashville
1975
Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Lily Tomlin, Julie Christie, Elliott Gould, Karen Black
Directed by: Robert Altman
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Going My Way
1944 - WON
Actors: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, William Smith, Carl Switzer, William Frawley
Directed by: Leo McCarey
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Gigi
1958 - WON
Actors: Eva Gabor, Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Cecil Beaton, Pat Sheehan
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
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The Great Ziegfeld
1936 - WON
Actors: Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, William Powell, Frank Morgan, William Demarest
Directed by: Robert Z. Leonard
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