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

Sunset(1988)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.



Dad(1989)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A busy, "always-on-the-run" executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him ...



Hear My Song(1991)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Owner of a failing club seeks infamous Irish singer Josef Locke in order to bring business and success to his club



Lilies of the Field(1963)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A traveling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.



55 Days at Peking(1963)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 5

During the 1900 Boxer Rebellion against foreigners in China, U.S. Marine Major Matt Lewis, aided by British Consul Sir Arthur Robertson, devises a strategy to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force arrives.



Inside Daisy Clover(1965)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A tomboy turned movie star deals with the cruelty of Hollywood.



Finian's Rainbow(1968)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 11

An Irish immigrant and his daughter move into a town in the American South with a magical piece of gold that will change people's lives, including a struggling farmer and African American citizens threatened by a bigoted politician.



Scrooge(1970)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.



Ludwig(1973)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 9

Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin ...



Obsession(1976)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his wife.



MacArthur(1977)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Biopic of General Douglas MacArthur covering his war exploits during WW2 and the Korean War.



Same Time, Next Year(1978)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner. Although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have ...



Gloria(1980)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.



Pirates(1986)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.



The Whales of August(1987)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 8

It's August. Like they have most summers, elderly widowed sisters Libby Strong and Sarah Webber, who live in Philadelphia, are staying together in the family's summer cottage on an island ...



Switch(1991)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Steve Brooks is a sexist and the prototype macho. Unfortunately one day he is killed by one of his girlfriends. In heaven, though, there is no place for men like him and he is sent back to ...



The Absent Minded Professor(1961)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A college professor invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.



America America(1963)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to the United States.



Bye Bye Birdie(1963)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A rock singer travels to a small Ohio town to make his "farewell" television performance and kiss his biggest fan before he is drafted.



Love with the Proper Stranger(1963)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Angie Rossini is an innocent Italian Catholic Macy's salesgirl, who discovers she's pregnant from a fling with Rocky, a musician. Angie finds Rocky (who doesn't remember her at first) to ...




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