Critically acclaimed movies that are oscar winners or nominees in writing (original screenplay) category

Actors : Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward,
Directors : Wes Anderson,

A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out to find them.

Actors : Jennifer Garner, Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, Jared Leto,
Directors : Jean-Marc Vallée,

In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease.

Actors : Mark Rylance, Tom Hanks, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

Actors : Julianne Moore, Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Haysbert, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Todd Haynes,

In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.

Actors : Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe,
Directors : Christopher Nolan,

A thief, who steals corporate secrets through use of dream-sharing technology, is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a CEO.

Actors : Channing Tatum, Vanessa Redgrave, Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo,
Directors : Bennett Miller,

U.S. Olympic wrestling champions and brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz join "Team Foxcatcher", led by eccentric multi-millionaire John du Pont, as they train for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, but John's self-destructive behavior threatens to consume them all.

Actors : Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, Annette Bening,
Directors : Mike Mills,

The story of a teenage boy, his mother, and two other women who help raise him among the love and freedom of Southern California of 1979.

Actors : Carey Mulligan, Alison Brie, Clancy Brown, Bo Burnham, Laverne Cox,
Directors : Emerald Fennell,

A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.

Actors : Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Keaton, Eddie Redmayne, Jeremy Strong, Sacha Baron Cohen, Alex Sharp,
Directors : Aaron Sorkin,

The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

Actors : Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, James Hong,

An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led.

Actors : David Strathairn, Patricia Clarkson, George Clooney, Jeff Daniels,
Directors : George Clooney,

Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Actors : Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear,

A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.

Actors : Jennifer Garner, Ellen Page, Jason Bateman, Michael Cera,
Directors : Jason Reitman,

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.

Actors : Tom Wilkinson, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Michael O'Keefe,
Directors : Tony Gilroy,

A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multibillion-dollar class action suit.

Actors : Philip Seymour Hoffman, Peter Friedman, Laura Linney, Philip Bosco,
Directors : Tamara Jenkins,

A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.

Actors : Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Mark Wahlberg, Melissa Leo,
Directors : David O. Russell,

A look at the early years of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid 1980s.

Actors : Terry Crews, Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig, Rose Byrne,
Directors : Paul Feig,

Competition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.

Actors : Rachel McAdams, Owen Wilson, Kathy Bates, Kurt Fuller,
Directors : Woody Allen,

While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s everyday at midnight.

Actors : Elliot Cowan, Sally Hawkins, Alexis Zegerman, Samuel Roukin,
Directors : Mike Leigh,

A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.

Actors : Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed, Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind,

Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking.