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

Capote(2005)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 44

In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.



Once(2007)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.



Grace Is Gone(2007)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip.



Green Book(2018)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.



The Andromeda Strain(1971)

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Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A group of scientists investigate a deadly new alien virus before it can spread.



Superman(1978)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 43

An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.



Conan the Barbarian(1982)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A barbarian warrior sets off to avenge his parents and his tribe whom were slain by an evil sorcerer and his henchmen when he was a boy.



Rumble Fish(1983)

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Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 52

Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.



Brazil(1985)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A bureaucrat, in a retro-future world, tries to correct an administrative error, and becomes an enemy of the state.



Kiss of the Spider Woman(1985)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.



Down and Out in Beverly Hills(1986)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A rich but troubled family find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.



Backdraft(1991)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 46

Two Chicago firefighter brothers who don't get along have to work together while a dangerous arsonist is on the loose.



The Bodyguard(1992)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A former Secret Service agent takes on the job of bodyguard to a pop singer, whose lifestyle is most unlike a President's.



Mighty Aphrodite(1995)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 50

When he discovers his adopted son is a genius, a New York sportswriter seeks out the boy's birth mother: a ditzy porn star and prostitute.



Pride & Prejudice(2005)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 41

Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice?



Fantastic Mr. Fox(2009)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 42

An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.



The Master(2012)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 43

A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.



Soul(2020)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 42

After landing the gig of a lifetime, a New York jazz pianist suddenly finds himself trapped in a strange land between Earth and the afterlife.



Spartacus(1960)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 44

The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.



A Hard Day's Night(1964)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A "typical" day in the life of The Beatles, including many of their famous songs.




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