Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in writing (adapted screenplay) category

Notes on a Scandal(2006)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.



CODA(2021)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 82

As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music by wanting to go to Berklee College of Music and her fear of abandoning her parents.



Molly's Game(2017)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 82

The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.



Mudbound(2017)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 85

Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.



The Reader(2008)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.



The Ballad of Buster Scruggs(2018)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 83

An anthology film comprised of six stories, each dealing with a different aspect of life in the Old West.



The Lost Daughter(2021)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A woman's beach vacation takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of her past.



Can You Ever Forgive Me?(2018)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 90

When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception. An adaptation of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer Lee Israel.



Drive My Car(2021)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 81

Yusuke Kafuku is a stage actor and director happily married to his playwright wife. Then one day she disappears.



If Beale Street Could Talk(2018)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 91

A woman in Harlem desperately scrambles to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime while carrying their first child.



Winter's Bone(2010)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 45

An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.



Capote(2005)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 44

In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.



Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery(2022)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Famed Southern detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece for his latest case.



Women Talking(2022)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.



Living(2022)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 65

An English-language adaptation of the script of "Ikiru" (1952), set in London in the 1950s.




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