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

The Pianist(2002)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.



The Lives of Others(2006)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 85

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.



Little Miss Sunshine(2006)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.



Juno(2007)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.



The Wrestler(2008)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.



Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince(2009)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 85

As Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as "the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.



Coraline(2009)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 85

An adventurous girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.



The Fighter(2010)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A look at the early years of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid 1980s.



127 Hours(2010)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 85

An adventurous mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.



The Kids Are All Right(2010)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 87

Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their biological father into their non-traditional family life.



Drive(2011)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A mysterious Hollywood stuntman and mechanic moonlights as a getaway driver and finds himself in trouble when he helps out his neighbor.



Midnight in Paris(2011)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s everyday at midnight.



Life of Pi(2012)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

Adil Hussain, Tabu, Irrfan Khan, Suraj Sharma,
Ang Lee,

A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.



The Wolf of Wall Street(2013)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 83

Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.



X-Men: Days of Future Past(2014)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.



Anomalisa(2015)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 90

A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary.



Moana(2016)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 86

In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by the Demigod Maui reaches Moana's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the Demigod to set things right.



Zootopia(2016)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 85

In a city of anthropomorphic animals, a rookie bunny cop and a cynical con artist fox must work together to uncover a conspiracy.



The Jungle Book(2016)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 85

After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan forces him to flee the jungle, a man-cub named Mowgli embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of panther, Bagheera, and free spirited bear, Baloo.



Palm Springs(2020)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 86

Stuck in a time loop, two wedding guests develop a budding romance while living the same day over and over again.




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