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

Moonstruck(1987)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Loretta Castorini, a book keeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry.



Batman(1989)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker.



Edward Scissorhands(1990)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A gentle man, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation.



Boyz n the Hood(1991)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence and future prospects.



In the Name of the Father(1993)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

A man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them.



Leaving Las Vegas(1995)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.



Get Shorty(1995)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job.



Sling Blade(1996)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.



Jackie Brown(1997)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A middle-aged woman finds herself in the middle of a huge conflict that will either make her a profit or cost her life.



As Good as It Gets(1997)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A single mother/waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.



Donnie Brasco(1997)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life, at the expense of his regular one.



Wag the Dog(1997)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a presidential sex scandal.



American History X(1998)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.



Analyze This(1999)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A comedy about a psychiatrist whose number one-patient is an insecure mob boss.



Love and Monsters(2020)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Seven years after he survived the monster apocalypse, lovably hapless Joel leaves his cozy underground bunker behind on a quest to reunite with his ex.



Vanilla Sky(2001)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A self-indulgent and vain publishing magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular accident with a resentful lover.



The Family Stone(2005)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 68

An uptight, conservative businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.



Tsotsi(2005)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Six days in the violent life of a young Johannesburg gang leader.



Click(2006)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.



The Black Dahlia(2006)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Two policemen see their personal and professional lives fall apart in the wake of the "Black Dahlia" murder investigation.




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