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

Hope and Glory(1987)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A semi-autobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in history was ...



Tender Mercies(1983)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.



Husbands and Wives(1992)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.



Passion Fish(1992)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 16

May-Alice Culhane was a successful soap opera star, but a car accident has left her bound to a wheelchair. She returns to her now-empty family home in the bayous of Louisiana which she had ...



Melvin and Howard(1980)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 15

The story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.



Alice(1990)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A spoiled Manhattan housewife re-evaluates her life after visiting a Chinatown healer.



Avalon(1990)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Polish-Jewish family comes to the USA at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.



An Unmarried Woman(1978)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.



Mon oncle d'Amérique(1980)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.




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