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

Parenthood(1989)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 68

The Buckmans are a midwestern family all dealing with their lives: estranged relatives, raising children, pressures of the job, and learning to be a good parent and spouse.



Sex, Lies, and Videotape(1989)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.



Sleepless in Seattle(1993)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A recently widowed man's son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner.



Ed Wood(1994)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 64

Ambitious but troubled movie director, Edward D. Wood Jr, tries his best to fulfill his dream, despite his lack of support.



Star Trek: First Contact(1996)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 64

The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.



Hercules(1997)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 64

The son of the Greek Gods Zeus and Hera is stripped of his immortality as an infant and must become a true hero in order to reclaim it.



Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me(1999)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Dr. Evil is back...and has invented a new time machine that allows him to go back to the 60s and steal Austin Powers's mojo, inadvertently leaving him "shagless".



Stuart Little(1999)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 65

The Little family adopt a charming young mouse named Stuart, but the family cat wants rid of him.



What Women Want(2000)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 61

After an accident, a chauvinistic executive gains the ability to hear what women are really thinking.



Under the Tuscan Sun(2003)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A writer impulsively buys a villa in Tuscany in order to change her life.



Anonymous(2011)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 67

The theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays. Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Essex rebellion against her.



Harriet(2019)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 77

The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.



I Lost My Body(2019)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A story of Naoufel, a young man who is in love with Gabrielle. In another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a dissection lab, determined to find its body again.



The Prom(2020)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A troupe of hilariously self-obsessed theater stars swarm into a small conservative Indiana town in support of a high school girl who wants to take her girlfriend to the prom.



Ferris Bueller's Day Off(1986)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite what the Principal thinks of that.



Little Shop of Horrors(1986)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A nerdy florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.



Midnight Run(1988)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 65

An accountant is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia after jumping bail.



Bull Durham(1988)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 67

A fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him.



Barton Fink(1991)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.



Malcolm X(1992)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 64

Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam.




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