Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in writing (screenplay based on material from another medium) category

Actors : Art Evans, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, David Alan Grier,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

An African American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.

Actors : Donal McCann, Anjelica Huston, Helena Carroll, Cathleen Delany,
Directors : John Huston,

Gabriel Conroy and wife Greta attend an early January dinner with friends at the home of his spinster aunts, an evening which results in an epiphany for both of them.

Actors : Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Alan Alda,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Actors : Richard Foronjy, Don Billett, Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption. However, he soon discovers that he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.

Actors : Arthur Hill, Laurence Olivier, Thelonious Bernard, Diane Lane,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

A French boy (Daniel) and an American girl (Lauren), who goes to school in Paris, meet and begin a little romance. They befriend Julius who enchants them with his storytelling. In an ...

Actors : Sissy Spacek, John Shea, Melanie Mayron, Jack Lemmon,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.

Actors : Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and ...

Actors : Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Tom Courtenay, Zena Walker,
Directors : Peter Yates,

An effeminate personal assistant of a deteriorating veteran actor struggles to get him through a difficult performance of King Lear.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Bernie Kuby, Ivan Bonar, Alan Alda,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner. Although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have ...

Actors : Geraldine Page, Richard Bradford, Carlin Glynn, John Heard,
Directors : Peter Masterson,

In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home for one last time.

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 : Roberts Blossom, Kelly McGillis, Tom Conti, Joel Fabiani,
Directors : Robert Ellis Miller,

A drunken Scottish poet, who has not written a word in years, feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman.

Actors : Patricia Hodge, Avril Elgar, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : David Hugh Jones,

The reviewer above states that 'the entire story is told from the husband's point of view'. This is incorrect - the movie takes an objective point-of-view - the husband is not present in several of the segments.

Actors : Lelia Goldoni, Paul Sorvino, Richard Gere, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

A young man is torn between following in his brothers' footsteps or striking out on his own.