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

Oh, God!(1977)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 17

When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.



The Professionals(1966)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 12

An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.



The Paper Chase(1973)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A first-year law student at Harvard Law School struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of his sternest professor.



The Lion in Winter(1968)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.



A Man for All Seasons(1966)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage.



The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming(1966)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Without hostile intent, a Soviet sub runs aground off New England. Men are sent for a boat, but many villagers go into a tizzy, risking bloodshed.



Equus(1977)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses.



Hud(1963)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.



The Collector(1965)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 9

A man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there.



Bound for Glory(1976)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 15

The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.



The Miracle Worker(1962)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.



Ship of Fools(1965)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for post-war Germany represents a microcosm of 1930s society.



Anne of the Thousand Days(1969)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.



Alfie(1966)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An unrepentant ladies' man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.



Sounder(1972)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 14

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.



A Thousand Clowns(1965)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A middle-aged iconoclast, doggedly avoiding the tedium of employment and conventional life, faces the prospect of losing custody of his young ward.



Lilies of the Field(1963)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A traveling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.



Tunes of Glory(1960)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 9

Major Jock Sinclair has been in this Highland regiment since he joined as a boy piper. During the Second World War, as Second-in-Command, he was made acting Commanding Officer. Now the ...



Voyage of the Damned(1976)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 8

The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.



Rachel, Rachel(1968)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.




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