Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in writing (screenplay written directly for the screen) category

Actors : Patrick Fugit, Frances McDormand, Billy Crudup, Kate Hudson,
Directors : Cameron Crowe,

A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.

Actors : Kevin Spacey, Thora Birch, Annette Bening, Wes Bentley,
Directors : Sam Mendes,

A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

Actors : Tom Sizemore, Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, John Travolta,
Directors : Quentin Tarantino,

The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

Actors : Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Jim Carrey,
Directors : Peter Weir,

An insurance salesman/adjuster discovers his entire life is actually a television show.

Actors : Catherine Keener, Cameron Diaz, John Malkovich, John Cusack,
Directors : Spike Jonze,

A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.

Actors : Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Ryan Phillippe,
Directors : Robert Altman,

The lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a party in 1932 in a country house in England as they investigate a murder involving one of them.

Actors : Tim Allen, Jim Varney, Tom Hanks, Don Rickles,
Directors : John Lasseter,

A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room.

Actors : Tom Wilkinson, Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow,
Directors : John Madden,

A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow,
Directors : Wes Anderson,

A clan's estranged patriarch loses his home and learns that his ex-wife plans to remarry.

Actors : Jason Robards, Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Directors : Paul Thomas Anderson,

An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.

Actors : Connie Nielsen, Joaquin Phoenix, Oliver Reed, Russell Crowe,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

When a Roman General is betrayed, and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.

Actors : Michael J. Fox, Lea Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover,
Directors : Robert Zemeckis,

Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.

Actors : Ossie Davis, Richard Edson, Ruby Dee, Danny Aiello,
Directors : Spike Lee,

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Gene Hackman, Clint Eastwood,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner and a young man.

Actors : Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, William H. Macy, Peter Stormare,

Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.

Actors : Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.

Actors : Keith David, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

A young recruit in Viet Nam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

Actors : John Savage, John Cazale, Christopher Walken, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Michael Cimino,

An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.

Actors : Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

Two best friends set out on an adventure but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the American police as these two girls escape for the crimes they committed!