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

2001: A Space Odyssey(1968)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.



Bonnie and Clyde(1967)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Bonnie Parker, a bored waitress falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, robbing cars and banks.



Guess Who's Coming to Dinner(1967)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African American fiancé.



A Hard Day's Night(1964)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A "typical" day in the life of The Beatles, including many of their famous songs.





Splendor in the Grass(1961)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A fragile Kansas girl's love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.



The Fortune Cookie(1966)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A crooked lawyer persuades his brother-in-law to feign a serious injury.



Two for the Road(1967)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A couple in the south of France non-sequentially spin down the highways of infidelity in their troubled ten-year marriage.



Faces(1968)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A middle-aged man leaves his wife for a younger woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner. The film follows their struggles to find love amongst each other.



Father Goose(1964)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 11

During World War II, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.



That Touch of Mink(1962)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A rich businessman and a young woman are attracted to each other, but he only wants an affair while she wants to save her virginity for marriage.



Lover Come Back(1961)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A series of misunderstandings leaves an advertising executive with a campaign for a product which has not yet been invented, while he romances his rival in the guise of its inventor.



Khartoum(1966)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 7

In the Sudan, in 1884-85, Egyptian forces led by a British general defend Khartoum against an invading Muslim army led by a religious fanatic, the Mahdi.



America America(1963)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to the United States.



Love with the Proper Stranger(1963)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Angie Rossini is an innocent Italian Catholic Macy's salesgirl, who discovers she's pregnant from a fling with Rocky, a musician. Angie finds Rocky (who doesn't remember her at first) to ...





Freud(1962)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 7

This pseudobiographical movie depicts five years from 1885 on in the life of the Viennese psychologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). At this time, most of his colleagues refuse to cure ...



Divorce American Style(1967)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 6

After 17 years, things have got too predictable and stale. They argue, they visit a marriage counselor, Richard (drunk) visits a prostitute. They split up. After meeting other people, they ...



Hot Millions(1968)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A paroled London fraudster poses as a computer specialist in order to work for an insurance company that entirely relies on its corporate server.



The Angry Silence(1960)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 3

A young factory worker decides to stand up against his work-mates and fellow union members when they want to hold a wildcat strike.




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