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

Actors : Annie Potts, Eugene Roche, Mark Hamill, William Bryant,
Directors : Matthew Robbins,

A high school grad and a hooker-in-training try to track down his stolen Corvette.

Actors : Jason Robards, George Grizzard, Jane Fonda, James Caan,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and ...

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Paul Sand, Ryan O'Neal, Whitman Mayo,
Directors : Howard Zieff,

A bankrupt entrepreneur attempts to recoup some of her losses by getting a washed-out boxer she picked up as a tax loss back into the ring - an idea her protégé isn't fond of.

Actors : Marthe Keller, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, George C. Scott,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

The synthetic fuel production formula, invented by the Nazis at the end of WW2, is sought after by some who aim to sell it and by others who wish to destroy it.

Actors : Vernel Bagneris, Bernadette Peters, Steve Martin, Jessica Harper,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.

Actors : Dana Hill, Peter Coyote, Rip Torn, Mary Steenburgen,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

In 1930's Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.

Actors : Twiggy, Shirley MacLaine, Peggy Ashcroft, Navin Chowdhry,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

Renowned Russian piano teacher Irina Sousatzka gets a new student - Bengali piano prodigy Manek. They are both immigrants in the UK and bond quickly. When Manek's single mother's business fails, he must make a career decision.

Actors : Tom Berenger, John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn,
Directors : Hector Babenco,

Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Shirley MacLaine, Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates,
Directors : Beeban Kidron,

At her husband's funeral, Pearl (Shirley MacLaine), Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend (Marcello Mastroianni) of her husband, whose advice...

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Julianne Moore, D.B. Sweeney, Peter Falk,
Directors : Peter Yates,

An elderly yet young-at-heart man moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn upside-down.

Actors : Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell, Ralph Richardson, Katharine Hepburn,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

Over the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the illness of their youngest son Edmund and the ...

Actors : Susan Kohner, Larry Parks, Susannah York, Montgomery Clift,
Directors : John Huston,

This pseudobiographical movie depicts five years from 1885 on in the life of the Viennese psychologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). At this time, most of his colleagues refuse to cure ...

Actors : Polly Bergen, Thelma Ritter, Doris Day, James Garner,
Directors : Michael Gordon,

After five years lost at sea, a missing wife thought long dead returns just after her husband remarries.

Actors : Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

In Chicago, during the Prohibition, two rival gangs compete for control of the city's rackets.

Actors : Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Alec Guinness, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Peter Glenville,

A cynical Welsh hotel owner secretly romances a diplomat's wife in Haiti under the violent reign of the despot "Papa Doc" Duvalier.

Actors : Ali MacGraw, Richard Benjamin, Nan Martin, Jack Klugman,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

A Jewish man and a Jewish woman meet and while attracted to each other, find that their worlds are very different. She is the archtypical Jewish American Princess, very emotionally involved...

Actors : Richard Benjamin, Carrie Snodgress, Frank Langella, Lorraine Cullen,
Directors : Frank Perry,

A housewife with an abusive husband has an affair with a writer.

Actors : Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble, Michael Jayston, Ania Marson,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

Actors : Alan Bates, Julie Christie, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

A tale of torrid and forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside.

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O'Connell, Lee Montgomery,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

A lonely boy befriends Ben, the leader of a violent pack of killer rats.