Best movies that are award winners or nominees in writing (screenplay based on material previously produced or published) category

Beauty and the Beast(2017)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

An adaptation of the fairy tale about a monstrous-looking prince and a young woman who fall in love.



A Beautiful Mind(2001)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.



The Royal Tenenbaums(2001)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A clan's estranged patriarch loses his home and learns that his ex-wife plans to remarry.



The Hours(2002)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 83

The story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives.



Collateral(2004)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in Los Angeles.



Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(2005)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.



Munich(2005)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day.



Flags of Our Fathers(2006)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 82

The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II.



Volver(2006)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 83

After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.



Half Nelson(2006)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 83

An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.



Into the Wild(2007)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.



Tropic Thunder(2008)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.



The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.



Gran Torino(2008)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.



Invictus(2009)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 82

Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.



How to Train Your Dragon(2010)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed.



The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo(2011)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 81

Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker.



Rise of the Planet of the Apes(2011)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A substance designed to help the brain repair itself gives rise to a super-intelligent chimpanzee who leads an ape uprising.



Rango(2011)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 81

Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff.



Big Hero 6(2014)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 81

The special bond that develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.




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