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

The Prize(1963)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 8

As the Nobel Prize winners come to Stockholm to receive their awards, their lives are overturned and perturbed in various ways.



What a Way to Go!(1964)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.



The Taming of the Shrew(1967)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Brutish, fortune-hunting scoundrel Petruchio tames his wealthy, shrewish wife, Katharina.



Yours, Mine and Ours(1968)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A widower with ten children falls for a widow with eight, and they must decide about forming a huge, unconventional family.



Wild in the Streets(1968)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A young man gains significant political influence as the leader of a counterculture rock band with his rallying cry of voting rights for teenagers.



Cromwell(1970)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Oliver Cromwell can no longer tolerate King Charles' policies, and the self-interest of the ruling class, and leads a civil war to install Parliament as the ultimate ruler of England.



Plaza Suite(1971)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Three vignettes, each set in room 719 of New York's Plaza Hotel, make up this comedy.



Hester Street(1975)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 17

It's 1896. Yankel Bogovnik, a Russian Jew, emigrated to the United States three years earlier and has settled where many of his background have, namely on Hester Street on the Lower East ...



Two-Minute Warning(1976)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter Holly (Charlton Heston) and SWAT ...



Author! Author!(1982)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 5

While facing the stress of his play being produced on Broadway, a playwright deals with having to raise his son, his stepdaughters, and his stepsons.



Irreconcilable Differences(1984)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.



The Trip to Bountiful(1985)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 7

In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home for one last time.



Blaze(1989)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made him a controversial figure.



Love Field(1992)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Dallas housewife Lurene Hallett's life revolves around the doings of Jacqueline Kennedy. She is devastated when President Kennedy is shot a few hours after she sees him arrive at Love Field...



The Grass Is Greener(1960)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a millionaire oil tycoon, visits, and takes a ...



Tunes of Glory(1960)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 9

Major Jock Sinclair has been in this Highland regiment since he joined as a boy piper. During the Second World War, as Second-in-Command, he was made acting Commanding Officer. Now the ...



Flower Drum Song(1961)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.



7 Faces of Dr. Lao(1964)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A mysterious circus comes to a western town bearing wonders and characters that entertain the inhabitants and teach valuable lessons.



The World of Henry Orient(1964)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 9

A mischievous, adventuresome fourteen-year-old girl and her best friend begin following an eccentric concert pianist around New York City after she develops a crush on him.



The Knack ...and How to Get It(1965)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 10

In England, the times are a changing: it's mods and rockers. On the day Nancy gets off the London train, cases in hand, looking for the YWCA, Colin has had enough of missing out on the ...




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