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

Actors : Julia Foster, Michael Caine, Millicent Martin, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

An unrepentant ladies' man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.

Actors : Toshirô Mifune, Eva Marie Saint, James Garner, Yves Montand,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

American Grand Prix driver Pete Aron is fired by his Jordan-BRM racing team after a crash at Monaco that injures his British teammate, Scott Stoddard. While Stoddard struggles to recover, ...

Actors : Victor Izay, Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Clark Howat,
Directors : Tom Laughlin,

Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaway.

Actors : Burgess Meredith, Rachel Roberts, Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase,
Directors : Colin Higgins,

A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.

Actors : Jason Robards, Paul Le Mat, Mary Steenburgen, Elizabeth Cheshire,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

The story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.

Actors : Carroll Baker, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson, Mariel Hemingway,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

A successful young model finds trouble when her obsessive manager-turned-husband becomes dangerously jealous. Based on the true story of 1980 Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Albert Finney, Ignacio López Tarso, Anthony Andrews,
Directors : John Huston,

The last 24 hours in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a lonely, depressed English consul who retreats to alcohol for solace.

Actors : Reizl Bozyk, Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : Joan Micklin Silver,

A Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker.

Actors : Mia Farrow, William Hurt, Joe Mantegna, June Squibb,
Directors : Woody Allen,

A spoiled Manhattan housewife re-evaluates her life after visiting a Chinatown healer.

Actors : Lukas Haas, Robert Duvall, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd,
Directors : Martha Coolidge,

A young woman who exudes sexuality battles temptation.

Actors : Edie Adams, Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

A series of misunderstandings leaves an advertising executive with a campaign for a product which has not yet been invented, while he romances his rival in the guise of its inventor.

Actors : Richard Widmark, Sal Mineo, Karl Malden, Carroll Baker,
Directors : John Ford,

The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.

Actors : Elizabeth Hartman, Wallace Ford, Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Guy Green,

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.

Actors : Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson,

In the Sudan, in 1884-85, Egyptian forces led by a British general defend Khartoum against an invading Muslim army led by a religious fanatic, the Mahdi.

Actors : James Fox, Carol Channing, Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

Millie comes to town in the roaring twenties to encounter flappers, sexuality and white slavers.

Actors : Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, James Broderick, Patricia Quinn,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

A cinematic adaption of Arlo Guthrie's classic song story.

Actors : Alastair Sim, Peter O'Toole, Hugh Owens, Arthur Lowe,
Directors : Peter Medak,

A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other, somewhat more respectable, members of their family plot to steal the estate from him. Murder and mayhem ensue.

Actors : Paul Sorvino, Trish Van Devere, John Dehner, George C. Scott,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

Dr Jake Terrell, who has been training a pair of dolphins for many years, has had a breakthrough. He has taught his dolphins to speak and understand English, although they do have a limited...

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Billy Wilder,

As a tabloid newspaper editor tries to prevent his top reporter from retiring, an escaped death row convict shows up at the office trying to convey his innocence.

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, James Caan,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

Story of singer Fanny Brice's stormy relationship with showman Billy Rose.