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

Actors : Oskar Werner, Faye Dunaway, Sam Wanamaker, Lee Grant,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

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.

Actors : Ali MacGraw, Richard Benjamin, Nan Martin, Jack Klugman,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

A Jewish man and a Jewish woman meet and while attracted to each other, find that their worlds are very different. She is the archtypical Jewish American Princess, very emotionally involved...

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Arkin, Robert Duvall, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

To treat his friend's cocaine induced delusions, Watson lures Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns,
Directors : Fred Zinnemann,

In Australia's Outback during the early 20th century the impoverished Carmody family lives a nomadic life out of their wagon but the mom and son want to settle while the dad is against it.

Actors : Estelle Parsons, Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney,
Directors : Gilbert Cates,

A man who wants to move on with his life by moving to California and marry his girlfriend, finds it difficult as he still lives in the towering shadow of his aging father.

Actors : Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Eddie Albert, Angie Dickinson,
Directors : David Miller,

In 1944, an Army doctor is in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona and he must deal with a variety of tough cases.

Actors : Michael Brandon, Bonnie Bedelia, Bea Arthur, Gig Young,
Directors : Cy Howard,

Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife ...

Actors : Lorraine Gary, Kathleen Quinlan, Bibi Andersson, Ben Piazza,
Directors : Anthony Page,

A disturbed,institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.

Actors : Geraldine Page, Carol Burnett, Walter Matthau, Barry Nelson,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Unassuming and single thirty-three year old Tillie Shlain is at that phase of her life of being known as a soon to be spinster if she doesn't marry soon. She isn't looking forward to ...

Actors : Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller, Trevor Howard, Mary Ure,
Directors : Jack Cardiff,

Jack Cardiff received a 1960 Oscar Nomination as Best Director for this lush, engaging film starring Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell and Donald Pleasence, which was adapted from D.H. ...

Actors : Maurice Roëves, Milo O'Shea, T.P. McKenna, Barbara Jefford,
Directors : Joseph Strick,

Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom, a ...