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

Fantastic Voyage(1966)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.





The Shootist(1976)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.



The Wiz(1978)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 20

An adaptation of 'The Wizard of Oz' that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience.



Dragonslayer(1981)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A young wizarding apprentice is sent to kill a dragon which has been devouring girls from a nearby kingdom.



Children of a Lesser God(1986)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.



Salvador(1986)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 17

An American photojournalist gets caught in a political struggle at El Salvador in 1980.



Shadowlands(1993)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 18

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer, and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets a spirited poet from the U.S.



Before the Rain(1994)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 21

In the republic of Macedonia, amid war in Bosnia, an Albanian girl being hunted by Christians is offered protection by a monk who has taken a vow of silence.



The Mirror Has Two Faces(1996)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A shy, middle-aged professor enters into a romantic but non-physical relationship with an unlucky-in-love colleague.



The Preacher's Wife(1996)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 24

Good natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in. On top of all ...



Beloved(1998)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 29

Based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of her deceased daughter.



The Mighty(1998)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 22

Two young boys, both social outcasts in their small town, form an unlikely friendship.



Tumbleweeds(1999)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A woman constantly runs from town to town with her 12 year old daughter to escape failed relationships. The film opens with one escape and the shift into a new start in San Diego. There Mom...



Solomon and Gaenor(1999)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 46

A tragic love story between a Jewish young man and a Welsh woman in the beginning of the century. The movie is mostly in English with parts in Welsh and Yiddish



EO(2022)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 51

Follows a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, exploring a vision of modern Europe through his eyes.





The Return of the Pink Panther(1975)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Inspector Clouseau is put on the case when the Pink Panther diamond is stolen, with the Phantom's trademark glove the only clue.



Bugsy Malone(1976)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 17

The classic gangster story of Bugsy Malone told with an all-child cast.



Silent Movie(1976)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A film director and his strange friends struggle to produce the first major silent feature film in forty years.




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