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

Marie Antoinette(2006)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 33

The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen, and ultimately the fall of Versailles.



Transformers(2007)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 31

An ancient struggle between two Cybertronian races, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, comes to Earth, with a clue to the ultimate power held by a teenager.



Changeling(2008)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 32

A grief-stricken mother takes on the LAPD to her own detriment when it tries to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child.



The Tempest(2010)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Shakespeare's epic play is translated from page to screen, with the gender of the main character, Prospero, changed from male to female.



Puss in Boots(2011)

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Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 33

An outlaw cat, his childhood egg-friend and a seductive thief kitty set out in search for the eggs of the fabled Golden Goose to clear his name, restore his lost honor and regain the trust of his mother and town.





Interiors(1978)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 45

Three sisters find their lives spinning out of control in the wake of their parents' sudden, unexpected divorce.



Moonraker(1979)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 33

James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.



An American Tail(1986)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 37

While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.



The Accidental Tourist(1988)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 46

An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles.



Father of the Bride Part II(1995)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 40

George Banks must deal not only with the pregnancy of his daughter, but also with the unexpected pregnancy of his wife.



Independence Day(1996)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 30

The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Fighting superior technology, mankind's best weapon is the will to survive.



The Prince of Egypt(1998)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 32

An Egyptian prince learns of his identity as a Hebrew and his destiny to become the chosen deliverer of his people.



To Kill a Mockingbird(1962)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 29

Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.



The Sound of Music(1965)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 30

A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.



Barry Lyndon(1975)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 31

An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.



The Omen(1976)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 31

Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?



Absence of Malice(1981)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 49

When a prosecutor leaks a false story that a liquor warehouse owner is involved in the murder of a union head, the man's life begins to unravel.



Out of Africa(1985)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 33

In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.



The Mosquito Coast(1986)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 39

An eccentric and dogmatic inventor sells his house and takes his family to Central America to build a utopia in the middle of the jungle. Conflicts with his family, a local preacher and ...




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