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

From the Terrace(1960)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 10

An ambitious young executive chooses a loveless marriage and an unfulfilling personal life in exchange for a successful Wall Street career.



Gypsy(1962)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.



Experiment in Terror(1962)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A man with an asthmatic voice telephones bank clerk Kelly Sherwood at home and coerces her into helping him steal a large sum from her bank.



The Cardinal(1963)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Naziism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.



The Unsinkable Molly Brown(1964)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A poor, uneducated mountain girl leaves her cabin in search of respect, a wealthy husband, and a better life.





Return of the Seven(1966)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 7

Two survivors of the initial Magnificent Seven outfit, Chris and Vin, recruit four new members in order to re-form the outfit and defend a few Mexican villages from attacks by vicious bandits.



The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter(1968)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 6

When deaf mute Singer moves to a small city to be near his only friend confined in a hospital, he grows attached to his landlady's sensitive 16-year-old daughter.



The Scalphunters(1968)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 7

Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.



The Killing of Sister George(1968)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 11

George lives with her lover, Childie and plays a cheerful district nurse in a BBC soap opera. However, her character is to be killed off, and George realises that the only other job she can...



The Molly Maguires(1970)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 7

Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish immigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage ...



The Boy Friend(1971)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 9

When the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place, becoming a star and finding love in the process.



Bang the Drum Slowly(1973)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story of the friendship between a star pitcher, wise to the world, and a half-wit catcher, as they cope with the catcher's terminal illness through a baseball season.



A Touch of Class(1973)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 9

Romantic comedy about a pair of clandestine lovers in a London-Spain tryst.



Farewell, My Lovely(1975)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.



Next Stop, Greenwich Village(1976)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 12

The portrayal of pretentiously bohemian youth.



Shoot the Moon(1982)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 9

A fifteen year marriage dissolves, leaving both the husband and wife, and their four children, devastated. He's preoccupied with a career and a mistress, she with a career and caring for ...



Best Friends(1982)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 10

When a professional couple who have lived & worked together for many years finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpectedly funny and awkward difficulties. They soon...



The Field(1990)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing endlessly for the sake of the land, and when the widow, who owns the field, decides to sell the field in a public ...



Avalon(1990)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Polish-Jewish family comes to the USA at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.




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