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

Actors : Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder.

Actors : Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, David Naughton, Joe Belcher,
Directors : John Landis,

Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.

Actors : John Candy, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, Tom Hanks,
Directors : Ron Howard,

A young man is reunited with a mermaid who saves him from drowning as a boy and falls in love not knowing who/what she is.

Actors : Zack Norman, Danny DeVito, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Robert Zemeckis,

A romance writer sets off to Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure.

Actors : Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Margaret Avery,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Sheb Wooley,
Directors : David Anspaugh,

A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the championship.

Actors : Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.

Actors : Ed Harris, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,
Directors : James Cameron,

A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.

Actors : Ray Liotta, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Phil Alden Robinson,

An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the 1919 Chicago White Sox come.

Actors : Ron Silver, Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Annabella Sciorra,
Directors : Barbet Schroeder,

Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.

Actors : Julia Roberts, Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Bob Hoskins,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

When Captain Hook kidnaps his children, an adult Peter Pan must return to Neverland and reclaim his youthful spirit in order to challenge his old enemy.

Actors : Robin Williams, Adam Bryant, Paul Lombardi, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Terry Gilliam,

A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.

Actors : Peter Greene, Cameron Diaz, Peter Riegert, Jim Carrey,
Directors : Chuck Russell,

Bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss is transformed into a manic superhero when he wears a mysterious mask.

Actors : Nicole Kidman, Tommy Lee Jones, Val Kilmer, Jim Carrey,
Directors : Joel Schumacher,

Batman must battle former district attorney Harvey Dent, who is now Two-Face and Edward Nygma, The Riddler with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat who becomes his sidekick, Robin.

Actors : Michael J. Fox, Annette Bening, Michael Douglas, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Rob Reiner,

Comedy-drama about a widowed U.S. president and a lobbyist who fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception" and sparks fly anyway.

Actors : Jake Busey, Denise Richards, Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

Humans in a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fight for survival.

Actors : John Malkovich, John Cusack, Nicolas Cage, Colm Meaney,
Directors : Simon West,

Newly paroled ex-con and former U.S. Ranger Cameron Poe finds himself trapped in a prisoner transport plane when the passengers seize control.

Actors : Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme Tethong, Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin, Tenzin Yeshi Paichang,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

From childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.

Actors : Tony Shalhoub, Kathleen Quinlan, Robert Duvall, John Travolta,
Directors : Steven Zaillian,

The families of children who died sue two companies for dumping toxic waste: a tort so expensive to prove, the case could bankrupt their lawyers.

Actors : Magda Szubanski, Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Daily, James Cromwell,
Directors : George Miller,

Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.