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

Tár(2022)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 46

Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and first-ever female music director of a major German orchestra.



The Contender(2000)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 30

Senator Laine Hanson is a contender for US Vice President, but information and disinformation about her past surfaces that threatens to de-rail her confirmation.



The Time Machine(2002)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 21

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.



Elizabeth: The Golden Age(2007)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments.



What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?(1962)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 25

A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.





Straw Dogs(1971)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.



Three Days of the Condor(1975)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 25

A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.



Nashville(1975)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 31

Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed.



Nine to Five(1980)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 29

Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.



Somewhere in Time(1980)

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Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 29

A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time and meet the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.



Educating Rita(1983)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 37

In London, the twenty-seven year-old hairdresser Rita decides to complete her basic education before having children as desired by her husband Denny. She joins the literature course in an ...



Mary Shelley's Frankenstein(1994)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 24

When the brilliant, but unorthodox scientist, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes, and later swears revenge.



Hamlet(1996)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 27

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.



Daylight(1996)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 23

Disaster in a New York tunnel as explosions collapse both ends of it. One hero tries to help the people inside find their way to safety.



An Ideal Husband(1999)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 34

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed....



Vatel(2000)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 42

In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a general, so the ...



Breakfast on Pluto(2005)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 30

In the 1970s, a young trans woman, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving her Irish town for London, in part to look for her mother and in part because her gender identity is beyond the town's understanding.



The Leisure Seeker(2017)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey in the faithful old RV they call The Leisure Seeker.



Five Easy Pieces(1970)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 26

A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.




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