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

Four Weddings and a Funeral(1994)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.



Good Will Hunting(1997)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.



Pleasantville(1998)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Two 1990s teenage siblings find themselves in a 1950s sitcom where their influence begins to profoundly change that complacent world.



Notting Hill(1999)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 68

The life of a simple bookshop owner changes when he meets the most famous film star in the world.



Licorice Pizza(2021)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 88

The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.



Downsizing(2017)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A social satire in which a man realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself to five inches tall, allowing him to live in wealth and splendor.



The Square(2017)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.



The Perfect Storm(2000)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger.



Shadow of the Vampire(2000)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 74

The filming of Nosferatu (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.



Before Night Falls(2000)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City. He joins Castro's rebels. By 1964, ...



Frida(2002)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.



My Big Fat Greek Wedding(2002)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.



Treasure Planet(2002)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A Disney animated version of "Treasure Island". The only difference is that the film is set in outer space with alien worlds and other galactic wonders.



Igby Goes Down(2002)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.



Memoirs of a Geisha(2005)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.



In Her Shoes(2005)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Strait-laced Rose breaks off relations with her party girl sister, Maggie, over an indiscretion involving Rose's boyfriend. The chilly atmosphere is broken with the arrival of Ella, the grandmother neither sister knew existed.



Junebug(2005)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A dealer in "outsider" art travels from Chicago to North Carolina to meet her new in-laws, challenging the equilibrium of this middle class Southern home.



The Da Vinci Code(2006)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

A murder inside the Louvre, and clues in Da Vinci paintings, lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years, which could shake the foundations of Christianity.



The Golden Compass(2007)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

In a parallel universe, young Lyra Belacqua journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organization.



Bee Movie(2007)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Barry B. Benson, a bee just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue them.




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