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

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Tom Georgeson, Andrew Simpson, Judi Dench,
Directors : Richard Eyre,

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.

Actors : Tobey Maguire, Chris Cooper, Jeff Bridges, Elizabeth Banks,
Directors : Gary Ross,

True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.

Actors : Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Michael Cera, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Aaron Sorkin,

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.

Actors : Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain,
Directors : Stephen Daldry,

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.

Actors : Jason Clarke, Carey Mulligan, Jonathan Banks, Garrett Hedlund,
Directors : Dee Rees,

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.

Actors : Ed Harris, Peter Sarsgaard, Dakota Johnson, Jessie Buckley, Olivia Colman,
Directors : Maggie Gyllenhaal,

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

Actors : Willie Watson, Clancy Brown, Danny McCarthy, Tim Blake Nelson,

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

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Ben Falcone, Dolly Wells, Melissa McCarthy,
Directors : Marielle Heller,

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.

Actors : Reika Kirishima, Tôko Miura, Yoo-rim Park, Hidetoshi Nishijima,
Directors : Ryûsuke Hamaguchi,

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

Actors : Colman Domingo, Regina King, Stephan James, KiKi Layne,
Directors : Barry Jenkins,

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

Actors : Isaiah Stone, Jennifer Lawrence, Garret Dillahunt, John Hawkes,
Directors : Debra Granik,

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.

Actors : Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., Philip Seymour Hoffman, Allie Mickelson,
Directors : Bennett Miller,

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.

Actors : Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Dave Bautista, Kate Hudson,
Directors : Rian Johnson,

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

Actors : Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Frances McDormand,
Directors : Sarah Polley,

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.

Actors : Adrian Rawlins, Bill Nighy, Alex Sharp, Aimee Lou Wood,
Directors : Oliver Hermanus,

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