Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in writing (screenplay based on material previously produced or published) category

Sense and Sensibility(1995)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 42

Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the titular opposites.



Babe(1995)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 42

Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett.



Out of Sight(1998)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 43

A career bank robber breaks out of jail, and shares a moment of mutual attraction with a U.S. Marshal he has kidnapped.



The Thin Red Line(1998)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 39

Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.



The Prince of Tides(1991)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.



The Wings of the Dove(1997)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 56

An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.



Hamlet(1996)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 27

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.



The Madness of King George(1994)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 24

A meditation on power, and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III (now suspected a victim of porphyria, a blood disorder). As he ...



Shadowlands(1993)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 18

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer, and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets a spirited poet from the U.S.



The Crucible(1996)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.



Nobody's Fool(1994)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A stubborn man past his prime reflects his life of strict independence and seeks more out of himself.




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