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

Days of Heaven(1978)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.



Tootsie(1982)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.



Ghostbusters(1984)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Three former parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service.



After Hours(1985)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 72

An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.



Big(1988)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.



Dead Poets Society(1989)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

English teacher John Keating inspires his students to look at poetry with a different perspective of authentic knowledge and feelings.



Misery(1990)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.



Dances with Wolves(1990)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.



Batman Returns(1992)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

When a corrupt businessman and the grotesque Penguin plot to take control of Gotham City, only Batman can stop them, while the Catwoman has her own agenda.



The Player(1992)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?



Quiz Show(1994)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation.



Chasing Amy(1997)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything's going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.



Mulan(1998)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.



There's Something About Mary(1998)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

A man gets a chance to meet up with his dream girl from high school, even though his date with her back then was a complete disaster.



A Simple Plan(1998)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

When three blue collar acquaintances come across millions of dollars in lost cash they make a plan to keep their find from the authorities but find complications and mistrust weaving its way into their plan.



Coming 2 America(2021)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

The African monarch Akeem learns he has a long-lost son in the United States and must return to America to meet this unexpected heir and build a relationship with his son.



Belfast(2021)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A young boy and his working-class Belfast family experience the tumultuous late 1960s.



Blonde(2022)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe.



Babylon(2022)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.



The Greatest Showman(2017)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Celebrates the birth of show business, and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.




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