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

Actors : Kevin Hooks, Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson, Carmen Mathews,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Gere, Lisa Eichhorn, William Devane,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, ...

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Mel Brooks, Ronny Graham, Estelle Reiner,
Directors : Alan Johnson,

A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when what should intrude but World War II in the form of an invasion. His wife has the habit of entertaining young Polish officers while ...

Actors : Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Tom Courtenay, Zena Walker,
Directors : Peter Yates,

An effeminate personal assistant of a deteriorating veteran actor struggles to get him through a difficult performance of King Lear.

Actors : Paul Newman, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Eva Marie Saint,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

The state of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.

Actors : Richard Egan, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, Hayley Mills,
Directors : David Swift,

A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.

Actors : Harry Andrews, Diane Cilento, Rex Harrison, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Carol Reed,

The biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Jason Robards, Gene Saks, Barbara Harris,
Directors : Fred Coe,

A middle-aged iconoclast, doggedly avoiding the tedium of employment and conventional life, faces the prospect of losing custody of his young ward.

Actors : Peter O'Toole, Harry Andrews, James Coco, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

The funny story of mad but kind and chivalrous elderly nobleman Don Quixote who, aided by his squire Sancho Panza, fights windmills that are seen as dragons to save prostitute Dulcinea who is seen as a noblewoman.

Actors : Paul Michael Glaser, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart, Goldie Hawn,
Directors : Milton Katselas,

A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother, and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Hugh Millais, Rene Auberjonois, Susannah York,
Directors : Robert Altman,

Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.

Actors : Billy Green Bush, Robert Blake, Mitchell Ryan, Jeannine Riley,
Directors : James William Guercio,

Bored with his highway traffic duties, Arizona motorcycle patrolman John Wintergreen is assigned to Homicide where his polite investigative style irks his macho boss.

Actors : John McIntire, Helen Hayes, Ken Berry, Stefanie Powers,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.

Actors : Alan Arkin, Jack Kruschen, Loretta Swit, James Caan,
Directors : Richard Rush,

San Francisco police detectives Freebie and Bean are determined to bust local crime boss Red Meyers at any cost, even if this means destroying the whole city in the process.

Actors : Sally Field, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jeff Bridges, R.G. Armstrong,
Directors : Bob Rafelson,

A syndicate wants to buy a whole district to rebuild it. They've bought every house except the small gym "Olympic", where Mr. Austria Joe Santo prepares for the Mr. Universum championships ...

Actors : Al Pacino, Walter McGinn, Marthe Keller, Anny Duperey,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

Bobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Lillian Morelli, who is terminally ill.

Actors : James Woods, John Savage, Franklyn Seales, Ted Danson,
Directors : Harold Becker,

Greg Powell is a disturbed ex-con who recruits Jimmy Smith (aka Jimmy Youngblood), a petty thief, as his partner in crime. Powell panics one night when the two of them are pulled over by a ...

Actors : Carlin Glynn, John Belushi, Blair Brown, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Michael Apted,

A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.

Actors : Carol Burnett, Len Cariou, Sandy Dennis, Alan Alda,
Directors : Alan Alda,

Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.

Actors : Fred Ward, Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn, Christine Lahti,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an aircraft plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war.