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

Full Metal Jacket(1987)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.



The Last Emperor(1987)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 75

The story of the final Emperor of China.



Rain Man(1988)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.



Who Framed Roger Rabbit(1988)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A toon-hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder.



Terminator 2: Judgment Day(1991)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son, John Connor, from a more advanced cyborg.



The Usual Suspects(1995)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which began when five criminals met at a seemingly random police lineup.



Apollo 13(1995)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.



Jerry Maguire(1996)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former secretary.



The Cider House Rules(1999)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world.



Pieces of a Woman(2020)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 77

When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.



House of Gucci(2021)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 76

When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel their legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately...murder.



Wonder(2017)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Based on the New York Times bestseller, WONDER tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.



Space Cowboys(2000)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 73

When a retired engineer is called upon to rescue a failing satellite, he insists that his equally old teammates accompany him into space.



Wonder Boys(2000)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.



Ali(2001)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A biography of sports legend Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974.



No Man's Land(2001)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.



Shattered Glass(2003)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 77

The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine.



The Good Shepherd(2006)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.



Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End(2007)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Captain Barbossa, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann must sail off the edge of the map, navigate treachery and betrayal, find Jack Sparrow, and make their final alliances for one last decisive battle.



The Kite Runner(2007)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.




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