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

Carrie(1976)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 43

Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.



The Black Stallion(1979)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 61

While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion who is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks ...



Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back(1980)

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Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 41

After the rebels are overpowered by the Empire on their newly established base, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Master Yoda. His friends accept shelter from a questionable ally as Darth Vader hunts them in a plan to capture Luke.



Cat People(1982)

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Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 56

A young woman's sexual awakening brings horror when she discovers her urges transform her into a monstrous black leopard.



Footloose(1984)

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Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 45

A city teenager moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.



Purple Rain(1984)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 54

A young musician, tormented by an abusive situation at home, must contend with a rival singer, a burgeoning romance, and his own dissatisfied band, as his star begins to rise.



Desperately Seeking Susan(1985)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 54

A bored suburban housewife, seeking escape from her life, suffers amnesia after an accident, wakes up, and is mistaken for a free-spirited New York City drifter named Susan.



Scrooged(1988)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A selfish, cynical T.V. executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.



Tequila Sunrise(1988)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 50

A former L.A. drug dealer tries to go straight but his past and his underworld connections bring him into the focus of the DEA, the Mexican feds and the Mexican drug cartels.



Music of the Heart(1999)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.



Argentina, 1985(2022)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time.



Little Big Man(1970)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 48

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.



The Sting(1973)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 40

In Chicago in September 1936, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.



Maurice(1987)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 56

After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.



Sense and Sensibility(1995)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 42

Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the titular opposites.



Babe(1995)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 42

Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett.



Out of Sight(1998)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 43

A career bank robber breaks out of jail, and shares a moment of mutual attraction with a U.S. Marshal he has kidnapped.



Patch Adams(1998)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 43

The true story of a heroic man, Hunter Patch Adams, determined to become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people. He ventured where no doctor had ventured before, using humour and pathos.



One True Thing(1998)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.



Snow Falling on Cedars(1999)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 56

A Japanese-American fisherman is accused of killing his neighbor at sea. In the 1950s, race figures into the trial. So does reporter Ishmael.




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