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

Actors : Jeremy Sisto, Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland, Monica Potter,
Directors : Robert Towne,

The film follows the life of famous 1970s runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to the University of Oregon where he worked with the legendary coach Bill Bowerman, later to...

Actors : Oskar Werner, Richard Burton, Sam Wanamaker, Claire Bloom,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Steve McQueen, Richard Crenna, Richard Attenborough,
Directors : Robert Wise,

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and...

Actors : Robert Ryan, Burt Lancaster, Woody Strode, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.

Actors : Albert Finney, William Daniels, Audrey Hepburn, Eleanor Bron,
Directors : Stanley Donen,

A couple in the south of France non-sequentially spin down the highways of infidelity in their troubled ten-year marriage.

Actors : Gena Rowlands, John Marley, Seymour Cassel, Lynn Carlin,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

A middle-aged man leaves his wife for a younger woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner. The film follows their struggles to find love amongst each other.

Actors : Harve Presnell, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Joshua Logan,

Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town.

Actors : Laurence Olivier, John Matthews, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne,
Directors : Joseph L. Mankiewicz,

A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Shaw, Dick Anthony Williams,
Directors : Peter Yates,

A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters. Featuring extended underwater ...

Actors : John Denver, Donald Pleasence, Teri Garr, George Burns,
Directors : Carl Reiner,

When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.

Actors : Conrad Janis, Gary Busey, Charles Martin Smith, Don Stroud,
Directors : Steve Rash,

The story of the life and career of the early rock and roll singer, from his meteoric rise to stardom, to his marriage and untimely death.

Actors : Rolf Hoppe, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildikó Bánsági, Krystyna Janda,
Directors : István Szabó,

A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and ...

Actors : Mark Linn-Baker, Joseph Bologna, Peter O'Toole, Jessica Harper,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

A dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show.

Actors : Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Tess Harper, Robert Duvall,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.

Actors : Roy Scheider, Bob Balaban, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

A joint U.S.-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn what happened to the Discovery.

Actors : Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Leonard Termo, Ariane,
Directors : Michael Cimino,

A police detective cracks down on organized crime in Chinatown after the murders of Triad and Mafia leaders.

Actors : Chris Cooper, Will Oldham, Mary McDonnell, James Earl Jones,
Directors : John Sayles,

A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.

Actors : Keanu Reeves, Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, Kate Beckinsale,
Directors : Kenneth Branagh,

Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.

Actors : Benny Hill, Raf Vallone, Noël Coward, Michael Caine,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

Comic caper movie about a plan to steal a gold shipment from the streets of Turin by creating a traffic jam.

Actors : Charles Grodin, Audra Lindley, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin,
Directors : Elaine May,

Three days into his Miami honeymoon, New York Jewish Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly ...