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

L.A. Confidential(1997)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.



Schindler's List(1993)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans.



A Beautiful Mind(2001)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.



The Silence of the Lambs(1991)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.





The English Patient(1996)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 77

At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.



O Brother, Where Art Thou?(2000)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 75

In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.



In the Bedroom(2001)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 82

A New England couple's college-aged son dates an older woman who has two small children and an unwelcome ex-husband.



The Cider House Rules(1999)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world.



The Player(1992)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?



Leaving Las Vegas(1995)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.



JFK(1991)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 65

New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.



Howards End(1992)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.



The Age of Innocence(1993)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.



Gods and Monsters(1998)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 66

The last days of Frankenstein (1931) Director James Whale are explored.



Scent of a Woman(1992)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.



Traffic(2000)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 43

A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.



Sense and Sensibility(1995)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 42

Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the titular opposites.



Babe(1995)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 42

Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett.



The Prince of Tides(1991)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.




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