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

Actors : Jean Marsh, Fairuza Balk, Piper Laurie, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Walter Murch,

Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful.

Actors : Rebecca De Mornay, Kyle T. Heffner, Eric Roberts, Jon Voight,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, Moses Gunn, Everett McGill, Marsha Mason,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.

Actors : Mia Farrow, Paul Herman, Dianne Wiest, Mike Starr,
Directors : Woody Allen,

A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.

Actors : Robin Wright, Robin Williams, Michael Gambon, Joan Cusack,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

When a military general inherits a toy making company and begins making war toys, his employees band together to stop him before he ruins the name of Zevo Toys forever.

Actors : Tom Hulce, Rosie Perez, Isabella Rossellini, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Peter Weir,

A man's personality is dramatically changed after surviving a major airline crash.

Actors : Richard Libertini, Natasha Richardson, Liam Neeson, Jodie Foster,
Directors : Michael Apted,

In a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell - a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets.

Actors : Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas, Olympia Dukakis,
Directors : Stephen Herek,

A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher.

Actors : Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin McNally, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Irwin Winkler,

Inspecting a magical biographical stage musical, composer Cole Porter reviews his life and career with his wife, Linda.

Actors : Jack Weston, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist, only to match wits with a sexy insurance investigator who will do anything to get her man.

Actors : Christopher St. John, Moses Gunn, Richard Roundtree, Charles Cioffi,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane, Karen Black,
Directors : Alfred Hitchcock,

A phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.

Actors : Eileen Brennan, Robert Webber, Goldie Hawn, Armand Assante,
Directors : Howard Zieff,

A sheltered young high society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.

Actors : Lena Olin, Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Derek de Lint,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

In 1968, a Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov, Kathleen Wilhoite,
Directors : George Miller,

A boy develops a disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his father decides to learn all about it and tackle the problem himself.

Actors : Rupert Graves, Helen Mirren, Amanda Donohoe, Nigel Hawthorne,
Directors : Nicholas Hytner,

A meditation on power, and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III (now suspected a victim of porphyria, a blood disorder). As he ...

Actors : Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Giancarlo Giannini, Anthony Quinn, Keanu Reeves,
Directors : Alfonso Arau,

A married soldier returning from World War II poses as a pregnant woman's husband to save her from her father's anger and honor.

Actors : Andrea Riseborough, Allison Janney, Stephen Root, Matt Lauria,
Directors : Michael Morris,

Inspired by true events. A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running out and nowhere to go, she fights to rebuild her life and find redemption.

Actors : Gene Kelly, Fredric March, Dick York, Spencer Tracy,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.