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

The World According to Garp(1982)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.



The Cotton Club(1984)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 18

The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people that visited the club, those that ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous.



A Passage to India(1984)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.



Barfly(1987)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Based on the life of successful poet Charles Bukowski and his exploits in Hollywood during the 60s, 70s, and 80s.



The Paper(1994)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 20

NYC tabloid editor Henry is faced with tough decisions while he faces several serious life challenges and a tempting job offer.



Quest for Camelot(1998)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 18

An adventurous girl, a young blind hermit and a goofy two headed dragon race to find the lost sword Excalibur to save King Arthur and Camelot from disaster.



Splendor in the Grass(1961)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A fragile Kansas girl's love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.



Cat Ballou(1965)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.



The Great Race(1965)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A grand adventurous race takes place between the heroic Leslie and the despicable Professor Fate across three continents.



Hello, Dolly!(1969)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way.



Phantom of the Paradise(1974)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.



Earthquake(1974)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles.



Death on the Nile(1978)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 12

As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?



10(1979)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A Hollywood composer goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy, newly married woman.



Night Shift(1982)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A morgue attendant is talked into running a brothel at his workplace after a deceased pimp is sent there. However, the pimp's killers don't look too kindly on this new 'business', nor does the morgue's owner.



Places in the Heart(1984)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 21

In central Texas in the 1930s, a widow, with two small children, tries to run her small 40-acre farm with the help of two disparate people.



Young Sherlock Holmes(1985)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 15

When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.



Jagged Edge(1985)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 19

San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires ...



Mona Lisa(1986)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.



Running on Empty(1988)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 19

The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live a life of his own.




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