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

Actors : Clive Revill, Juliet Mills, Edward Andrews, Jack Lemmon,
Directors : Billy Wilder,

A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon-father's body only to discover dad died with his mistress of long standing.

Actors : Graham Beckel, John Houseman, Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner,
Directors : James Bridges,

A first-year law student at Harvard Law School struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of his sternest professor.

Actors : Zero Mostel, Woody Allen, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

Actors : William Atherton, Richard Gere, Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Joan Blondell, Ben Gazzara, John Cassavetes,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

An actress suffers an emotional uproar in her personal life after a fan dies trying to see her.

Actors : Faye Dunaway, Jack Warden, Jon Voight, Ricky Schroder,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

Billy Flynn, a former boxing champion, is now horse trainer in Hialeah. He makes just enough money to raise his little boy T.J., over whom he got custody after his wife Annie left him seven...

Actors : Amy Irving, Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Nehemiah Persoff,
Directors : Barbra Streisand,

A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.

Actors : Geraldine Page, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah, Eric Roberts,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

Two cousins unknowingly rob the mob and face the dangerous consequences.

Actors : Anne Pitoniak, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

When a naive novice nun is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist investigates her case.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Wallace Shawn,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

This film is the story of the spectacular life and violent death of British playwright Joe Orton. In his teens, Orton is befriended by the older, more reserved Kenneth Halliwell, and while ...

Actors : Haviland Morris, Griffin Dunne, John McMartin, Madonna,
Directors : James Foley,

The life of an uptight tax lawyer turns chaotic when he is asked to escort a young woman newly released from prison, who persuades him to help prove her innocence.

Actors : Giuseppe Cederna, Claudio Bisio, Claudio Bigagli, Diego Abatantuono,
Directors : Gabriele Salvatores,

In WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.

Actors : Julia Ormond, Greg Kinnear, Harrison Ford, Nancy Marchand,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it.

Actors : Mae Whitman, George Clooney, Alex D. Linz, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Michael Hoffman,

The lives of two strangers and their young children unexpectedly intersect on one hectic, stressful day in New York City.

Actors : Billy Connolly, Timothy Spall, Stephen Rea, Jimmy Nail,
Directors : Brian Gibson,

"Strange Fruit" had everything that makes a legendary rockband: Money, Fame, Success, Groupies, a Singer who died of drugs and even a divine ending, when lightning struck the stage during ...

Actors : James Best, Peter Breck, Gene Evans, Constance Towers,
Directors : Samuel Fuller,

Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.

Actors : Michael Anderson Jr., Max von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, Charlton Heston,

The life of Jesus Christ.

Actors : Zero Mostel, Michael Crawford, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton,
Directors : Richard Lester,

A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.

Actors : Richard Benjamin, George Burns, Lee Meredith, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

A vaudeville duo agree to reunite for a TV special, but it turns out that they can't stand each other.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Tony Curtis, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Elia Kazan,

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.