The 10 Best Movies Based on True Stories in 2027

Ava DuVernay's Selma dramatizes the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches, with David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr. alongside Tom Wilkinson, Tim Roth and Carmen Ejogo. It was nominated for Best Picture and won Best Original Song, and holds a 99% Tomatometer from 307 reviews.

Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List follows Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees from the Holocaust. Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes star in the 195-minute film, which won 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Tom McCarthy's Spotlight follows The Boston Globe's Spotlight team and its investigation of child sex abuse by priests of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, reporting that won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. It won Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay from 6 nominations and holds 97% from 380 reviews.

Ben Affleck directs and stars in Argo, which tells of the Canadian Caper: CIA operative Tony Mendez leading the rescue of six U.S. diplomats from Tehran during the 1979-81 Iran hostage crisis. It won 3 Oscars, including Best Picture, from 7 nominations.

David Fincher's The Social Network portrays the founding of Facebook and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake. It won 3 Oscars from 8 nominations: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score and Best Film Editing.

Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free Black man kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery, drawn from his 1853 memoir. Chiwetel Ejiofor leads the cast, and the film won 3 of its 9 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture.

Bennett Miller's Moneyball follows Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane during the 2002 season, with Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, based on Michael Lewis's 2003 book. It earned 6 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor.

Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer follows J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the development of the first nuclear weapons, and is based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus. It runs 180 minutes and won 7 of its 13 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture.

Theodore Melfi's Hidden Figures follows Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, African-American mathematicians at NASA during the Space Race, with Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae. It earned 3 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture.

Ron Howard's Apollo 13 dramatizes the aborted 1970 lunar mission, based on Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger's 1994 book Lost Moon, with Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon and Bill Paxton. It runs 140 minutes and won 2 of its 9 Oscar nominations: Best Film Editing and Best Sound.