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

What's Eating Gilbert Grape(1993)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 62

After his father's death, Gilbert has to care for his mentally disabled brother, Arnie, and his morbidly obese mother, which is suddenly challenged when love walks into his life.



The Remains of the Day(1993)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.



Short Cuts(1993)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 67

The day-to-day lives of several suburban Los Angeles residents.



Breaking the Waves(1996)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.



Shine(1996)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.



Secrets & Lies(1996)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A successful black woman discovers that her birth mother is a underprivileged white woman, but the woman denies it. As emotions run high, everyone's secrets are exposed.



The Full Monty(1997)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.



Gattaca(1997)

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Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.



The Lost World: Jurassic Park(1997)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there while another team approaches with another agenda.



The Ice Storm(1997)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 66

In suburban New Canaan, Connecticut , 1973, middle class families experimenting with casual sex and substance abuse find their lives beyond their control.



You've Got Mail(1998)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Two business rivals who despise each other in real life unwittingly fall in love over the Internet.



The Mask of Zorro(1998)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A young thief, seeking revenge for the death of his brother, is trained by the once great, but aged Zorro, who also pursues vengeance of his own.



Girl, Interrupted(1999)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the 1960s.



Being the Ricardos(2021)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Follows Lucy and Desi as they face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.



Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron(2002)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A wild stallion is captured by humans and slowly loses the will to resist training. Yet throughout his struggles for freedom, the stallion refuses to let go of the hope of one day returning home to his herd.



Brother Bear(2003)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 62

When a young Inuit hunter needlessly kills a bear, he is magically changed into a bear himself as punishment with a talkative cub being his only guide to changing back.



The Phantom of the Opera(2004)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opéra House. He kidnaps the soprano and forces the owners of the play to keep her as the lead role of the play.



Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason(2004)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 62

After finding love, Bridget Jones questions if she really has everything she's dreamed of having.



Paradise Now(2005)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.



The Tourist(2010)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Revolves around Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path.




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