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

Actors : Zachary Ittimangnaq, Samson Jorah, Brian Dennehy, Charles Martin Smith,
Directors : Carroll Ballard,

A government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.

Actors : Lainie Kazan, Ray Wise, John Cusack, Meredith Salenger,
Directors : Jeremy Kagan,

In the 1930s, a tomboyish girl runs away from her guardian to join her single father who is 2,000 miles away, because there was work there.

Actors : John Hurt, Ian McKellen, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda,
Directors : Michael Caton-Jones,

Based on the Profumo Scandal of 1963, an affair between an exotic dancer and the Minister of War shakes up the British government.

Actors : Vincent Perez, Anne Brochet, Gérard Depardieu, Jacques Weber,
Directors : Jean-Paul Rappeneau,

Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Scott Cohen, Pablo Calogero, Armand Assante,
Directors : Arne Glimcher,

Musician brothers Cesar and Nestor leave Cuba for America in the 1950s, hoping to hit the top of the Latin music scene. Cesar is the older brother, the business manager, and the ladies' man...

Actors : Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Bonnie Bedelia, Christopher Reeve,
Directors : Ron Underwood,

Two political speechwriters fall in love before they find out they are working for candidates on opposite sides.

Actors : Judith Godrèche, Charles Berling, Fanny Ardant, Jean Rochefort,
Directors : Patrice Leconte,

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.

Actors : Horst Buchholz, Arlene Francis, Pamela Tiffin, James Cagney,
Directors : Billy Wilder,

In West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter.

Actors : Jeffrey Hunter, Hurd Hatfield, Siobhan McKenna, Ron Randell,
Directors : Nicholas Ray,

The temporary physical life of everyone's Savior, Jesus Christ.

Actors : Geraldine Page, Ed Begley, Paul Newman, Shirley Knight,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. Arriving with him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. ...

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.

Actors : Alan Badel, Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, William Hartnell,
Directors : Lindsay Anderson,

Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Maurice Dallimore, Terence Stamp, Mona Washbourne,
Directors : William Wyler,

A man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there.

Actors : Hardy Krüger, James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

After a plane crash in the Sahara, one of the survivors says he's an airplane designer and they can make a flyable plane from the wreckage.

Actors : Patricia Neal, Kirk Douglas, Tom Tryon, John Wayne,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.

Actors : Steve McQueen, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Elga Andersen, Siegfried Rauch,
Directors : Lee H. Katzin,

Almost in breadth and depth of a documentary, this movie depicts an auto race during the 70s on the world's hardest endurance course: Le Mans in France. The race goes over 24 hours on 14.5 ...

Actors : Elton John, Ann-Margret, Roger Daltrey, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Ken Russell,

A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the object of a religious cult.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Sean Connery, John Huston, Brian Keith,
Directors : John Milius,

In early 20th century Morocco, a Sharif kidnaps an American woman and her children, forcing President Theodore Roosevelt to send in forces to conduct a rescue mission.

Actors : Richard Benjamin, George Hamilton, Susan Saint James, Dick Shawn,
Directors : Stan Dragoti,

This vampire spoof has Count Dracula moving to New York to find his Bride, after being forced to move out of his Transylvanian castle. There with the aid of assistant Renfield, he stumbles ...

Actors : Charles Durning, Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Colin Higgins,

A town's sheriff and regular patron of a historical whorehouse fights to keep it running when a TV reporter targets it as the Devil's playhouse.