My winners to the Awards for the Best Screenplay
My own version of the Academy Award for Best Original and Adapted Screenplay.
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- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsEmil JanningsEvelyn BrentWilliam PowellA former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.1928:
Original Screenplay by:
Lajos Bíró - DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellBen BardA street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.1928:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Benjamin Glazer
Adapted from the play "Seventh Heaven" by Austin Strong - DirectorIrving CummingsRaoul WalshStarsEdmund LoweWarner BaxterDorothy BurgessA charming, happy-go-lucky bandit in old Arizona plays cat-and-mouse with the sheriff trying to catch him while he romances a local beauty.1929:
Writing by:
Tom Barry
Adapted from the story "The Caballero's Way" by O. Henry - DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsLew AyresLouis WolheimJohn WrayA German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.1930:
Writing by:
-Maxwell Anderson (adaptation/dialogue)
-George Abbott (screenplay)
-Del Andrews (adaptation)
Adapted from the novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque - DirectorWesley RugglesStarsRichard DixIrene DunneEstelle TaylorA newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.1931:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Howard Estabrook
Adapted from the novel "Cimarron" by Edna Ferber - DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsJames CagneyJean HarlowEdward WoodsAn Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.1931:
Original Story by:
-John Bright
-Kubec Glasmon
Adapted from the novel "Beer and Blood" by John Bright and Kubec Glasmon - DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJames DunnSally EilersMinna GombellA man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.1932:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Edwin J. Burke
Adapted from the novel "Bad Girl" by Viña Delmar - DirectorKing VidorStarsWallace BeeryJackie CooperIrene RichAn alcoholic ex-boxer struggles to provide a good living for his son.1932:
Original Story by:
Frances Marion - DirectorFrank CapraStarsWarren WilliamMay RobsonGuy KibbeeA gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.1933:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Robert Riskin
Adapted from the story "Madame la Gimp" by Damon Runyon - DirectorTay GarnettStarsWilliam PowellKay FrancisFrank McHughA terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.1933:
Original Story by:
Robert Lord - DirectorFrank CapraStarsClark GableClaudette ColbertWalter ConnollyA rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.1934:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Robert Riskin
Adapted from the story "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams - DirectorW.S. Van DykeJack ConwayGeorge CukorStarsClark GableWilliam PowellMyrna LoyThe friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.1934:
Original Story by:
Arthur Caesar - DirectorJohn FordStarsVictor McLaglenHeather AngelPreston FosterIn 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.1935:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Dudley Nichols
Adapted from the novel "The Informer" by Liam O'Flaherty - DirectorBen HechtCharles MacArthurStarsNoël CowardJulie HaydonStanley RidgesA ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.1935:
Original Story by:
-Ben Hecht
-Charles MacArthur - DirectorFrank CapraStarsGary CooperJean ArthurGeorge BancroftA unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.1936:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Robert Riskin
Adapted from the story "Opera Hat" by Clarence Budington Kelland - DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsWilliam PowellMyrna LoyLuise RainerThe ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed.1936:
Original Story by:
William McGuire - DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsPaul MuniGale SondergaardJoseph SchildkrautThe biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.1937:
Adapted Screenplay by:
-Heinz Herald
-Geza Herczeg
-Norman Reilly Raine
Adapted from the book "Zola and His Time" by Matthew Josephson - DirectorWilliam A. WellmanJack ConwayVictor FlemingStarsJanet GaynorFredric MarchAdolphe MenjouA young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.1937:
Original Story by:
-Robert Carson
-William A. Wellman - DirectorAnthony AsquithLeslie HowardStarsLeslie HowardWendy HillerWilfrid LawsonA phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.1938:
Adapted Screenplay by:
-Ian Dalrymple
-Cecil Lewis (scenario)
-W. P. Lipscomb (scenario)
-George Bernard Shaw (scenario and dialogue)
Adapted from the play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw - DirectorNorman TaurogStarsSpencer TracyMickey RooneyHenry HullWhen a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys.1938:
Original Story by:
-Eleanore Griffin
-Dore Schary - DirectorVictor FlemingGeorge CukorSam WoodStarsClark GableVivien LeighThomas MitchellA sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.1939:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Sidney Howard
Adapted from the novel "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell - DirectorVictor FlemingKing VidorStarsJudy GarlandFrank MorganRay BolgerYoung Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.1939:
Original Story by:
-Noel Langley
-Florence Ryerson
-Edgar Allan Woolf
Adapted from the novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardJack OakieDictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.1940:
Original Screenplay by:
Charlie Chaplin - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsCary GrantKatharine HepburnJames StewartWhen a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.1940:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Donald Ogden Stewart
Adapted from the play "The Philadelphia Story" by Philip Barry - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGary CooperWalter BrennanDoris DavenportJudge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean's policy against homesteaders.1940:
Original Story by:
Stuart N. Lake - DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy ComingoreFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'1941:
Original Screenplay by:
-Herman J. Mankiewicz
-Orson Welles - DirectorJohn FordStarsWalter PidgeonMaureen O'HaraAnna LeeAt the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.1941:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Philip Dunne
Adapted from the novel "How Green Was My Valley" by Richard Llewellyn - DirectorHoward HawksStarsGary CooperBarbara StanwyckOscar HomolkaA group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.1941:
Original Story by:
-Thomas Monroe
-Billy Wilder
Adapted from the short story "A to Z" by Thomas Monroe and Billy Wilder - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsSpencer TracyKatharine HepburnFay BainterRival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.1942:
Original Screenplay by:
-Michael Kanin
-Ring Lardner Jr. - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGreer GarsonWalter PidgeonTeresa WrightA British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.1942:
Adapted Screenplay by:
-George Froeschel
-James Hilton
-Claudine West
-Arthur Wimperis
Adapted from the character "Mrs. Miniver", from the newspaper columns by Jan Struther - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyJoan LeslieWalter HustonThe life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.1942:
Original Story by:
Robert Buckner - DirectorNorman KrasnaStarsOlivia de HavillandRobert CummingsCharles CoburnA pilot falls in love with a woman he believes is heading cross country to become a maid, little suspecting that she's actually a princess.1943:
Original Story by:
Norman Krasna - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul HenreidA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.1943:
Adapted Screenplay by:
-Philip G. Epstein
-Julius J. Epstein
-Howard Koch
Adapted from the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison - DirectorClarence BrownStarsMickey RooneyFrank MorganJames CraigTeenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.1943:
Original Story by:
William Saroyan - DirectorHenry KingStarsAlexander KnoxCharles CoburnGeraldine FitzgeraldA chronicle of the political career of US President Woodrow Wilson.1944:
Original Screenplay by:
Lamar Trotti - DirectorOtto PremingerRouben MamoulianStarsGene TierneyDana AndrewsClifton WebbA police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.1944:
Adapted Screenplay by:
-Jay Dratler
-Samuel Hoffenstein
-Betty Reinhardt
Adapted from the novel "Laura" by Vera Caspary - DirectorLeo McCareyStarsBing CrosbyBarry FitzgeraldFrank McHughWhen young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of the church's newest member.1944:
Original Story by:
Leo McCarey - DirectorMax NosseckStarsLawrence TierneyEdmund LoweAnne JeffreysJohn Dillinger begins his life of crime as a petty thief, meets his future gang in prison and eventually masterminds a series of daring robberies.1945:
Original Screenplay by:
Philip Yordan - DirectorBilly WilderStarsRay MillandJane WymanPhillip TerryThe desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.1945:
Adapted Screenplay by:
-Charles Brackett
-Billy Wilder
Adapted from the novel "The Lost Weekend" by Charles R. Jackson - DirectorHenry HathawayStarsWilliam EytheLloyd NolanSigne HassoBill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the F.B.I. in a German spy ring.1945:
Original Story by:
Charles G. Booth - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantIngrid BergmanClaude RainsThe daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?1946:
Original Screenplay by:
Ben Hecht - DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartDonna ReedLionel BarrymoreAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.1946:
Adapted Screenplay by:
-Frances Goodrich
-Albert Hackett
-Frank Capra
Adapted from the story "The Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren Stern - DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesEdward G. RobinsonLoretta YoungAn investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi.1946:
Original Story by:
Victor Trivas - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsRonald ColmanEdmond O'BrienSigne HassoA celebrated actor struggles to distinguish his own life from that of his most recent stage role, Othello.1947:
Original Screenplay by:
-Ruth Gordon
-Garson Kanin - DirectorElia KazanStarsGregory PeckDorothy McGuireJohn GarfieldA reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.1947:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Moss Hart
Adapted from the novel "Gentleman's Agreement" by Laura Z. Hobson - DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsEdmund GwennMaureen O'HaraJohn PayneAfter a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistaken.1947:
Original Story by:
Valentine Davies - DirectorJohn HustonStarsHumphrey BogartWalter HustonTim HoltTwo down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.1948:
Adapted Screenplay by:
John Huston
Adapted from the novel "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" by B. Traven - DirectorJules DassinStarsBarry FitzgeraldHoward DuffDorothy HartA step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.1948:
Original Story by:
Malvin Wald - DirectorAllan DwanStarsJohn WayneJohn AgarAdele MaraHaunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.1949:
Original Screenplay by:
Harry Brown - DirectorRobert RossenStarsBroderick CrawfordJohn IrelandJoanne DruThe rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.1949:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Robert Rossen
Adapted from the novel All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren - DirectorSam WoodStarsJames StewartJune AllysonFrank MorganStar major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.1949:
Original Story by:
Douglas Morrow - DirectorBilly WilderStarsWilliam HoldenGloria SwansonErich von StroheimA screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.1950:
Original Screenplay by:
-Charles Brackett
-D. M. Marshman Jr.
-Billy Wilder - DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsSpencer TracyJoan BennettElizabeth TaylorThe father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, along with the financial and organizational trouble of arranging the wedding.1950:
Adapted Screenplay by:
-Frances Goodrich
-Albert Hackett
Adapted from the novel "Father of the Bride" by Edward Streeter - DirectorGiuseppe De SantisStarsVittorio GassmanDoris DowlingSilvana ManganoTwo criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.1950:
Original Story by:
-Giuseppe De Santis
-Carlo Lizzani - DirectorRobert PiroshStarsVan JohnsonLane NakanoGeorge MikiThe story of Japanese-American soldiers who fought in Europe during World War II.1951:
Original Screenplay by:
Robert Pirosh - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsMontgomery CliftElizabeth TaylorShelley WintersA poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.1951:
Adapted Screenplay by:
-Harry Brown
-Michael Wilson
Adapted from the novel "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser
Adapted from the play "An American Tragedy" by Patrick Kearney - DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsPier AngeliJohn EricsonPatricia CollingeA reluctant soldier, Peter, serves in Italy during WWII. He marries a local girl named Teresa and brings her to the US.1951:
Original Story by:
-Alfred Hayes
-Stewart Stern - DirectorStanley DonenGene KellyStarsGene KellyDonald O'ConnorDebbie ReynoldsA silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.1952:
Original Screenplay by:
-Betty Comden
-Adolph Green - DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneMaureen O'HaraBarry FitzgeraldA retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union.1952:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Frank S. Nugent
Adapted from the story "Green Rushes" by Maurice Walsh - DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsJames StewartCharlton HestonBetty HuttonThe dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.1952:
Original Story by:
-Frank Cavett
-Fredric M. Frank
-Theodore St. John - DirectorJean NegulescoStarsClifton WebbBarbara StanwyckRobert WagnerAn unhappily married couple struggle to deal with their problems while on board the luxurious, ill-fated RMS Titanic.1953:
Original Screenplay by:
-Charles Brackett
-Richard L. Breen
-Walter Reisch - DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsBurt LancasterMontgomery CliftDeborah KerrAt a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his commanding officer's wife and top aide begin a tentative affair.1953:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Daniel Taradash
Adapted from the novel "From Here to Eternity" by James Jones - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGregory PeckAudrey HepburnEddie AlbertA bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.1953:
Original Story by:
-Dalton Trumbo
-Ian McLellan Hunter - DirectorElia KazanStarsMarlon BrandoKarl MaldenLee J. CobbAn ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.1954:
Original Screenplay by:
Budd Schulberg - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartGrace KellyWendell CoreyA wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.1954:
Adapted Screenplay by:
John Michael Hayes
Adapted from the story "It Had to Be Murder" by Cornell Woolrich - DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsSpencer TracyRobert WagnerJean PetersThe saga of the Devereaux rancher family, set in 1880's Arizona.1954:
Original Story by:
Philip Yordan
Adapted from the novel "I'll Never Go There Any More" by Jerome Weidman - DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsGlenn FordEleanor ParkerRoger MooreThis movie chronicles Australian-born opera star Marjorie Lawrence's success, her battle with polio, and her eventual career comeback.1955:
Original Screenplay by:
-Sonya Levien
-William Ludwig - DirectorDelbert MannStarsErnest BorgnineBetsy BlairEsther MinciottiA middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.1955:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Paddy Chayefsky
Adapted from the teleplay "Marty" written by Paddy Chayefsky - DirectorNicholas RayStarsJames DeanNatalie WoodSal MineoA rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.1955:
Original Story by:
Nicholas Ray - DirectorAlbert LamorisseStarsPascal LamorisseSabine LamorisseGeorges SellierA red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris.1956:
Original Screenplay by:
Albert Lamorisse - DirectorMichael AndersonJohn FarrowStarsDavid NivenCantinflasFinlay CurrieA Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.1956:
Adapted Screenplay by:
-John Farrow
-S. J. Perelman
-James Poe
Adapted from the novel "Around the World in Eighty Days" by Jules Verne - DirectorIrving RapperStarsMichel RayRodolfo Hoyos Jr.Elsa CárdenasA young boy named Leonardo adopts a bull after saving it during a storm, but their friendship is soon threatened by the legal owners of the animal who claim ownership of it and ship it off to the bullring to face a legendary bullfighter.1956:
Original Story by:
-Dalton Trumbo
-Merrill G. White
Adapted from Screenplay "Corrida de Toros" by Juan Duval - DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsGregory PeckLauren BacallDolores GrayA sportswriter and a fashion-designer marry after a whirlwind romance, and discover they have little in common.1957:
Original Screenplay by:
George Wells - DirectorSidney LumetStarsHenry FondaLee J. CobbMartin BalsamThe jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.1957:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Reginald Rose
Adapted from the teleplay "Twelve Angry Men", written by Reginald Rose - DirectorStanley KramerStarsTony CurtisSidney PoitierCara WilliamsTwo chained-together escaped convicts, White and Black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.1958:
Original Screenplay by:
-Nathan E. Douglas
-Harold Jacob Smith - DirectorVincente MinnelliCharles WaltersStarsLeslie CaronMaurice ChevalierLouis JourdanWeary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long.1958:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Alan Jay Lerner
Adapted from the novella "Gigi" by Colette - DirectorMichael GordonStarsRock HudsonDoris DayTony RandallAn interior decorator and a playboy songwriter share a telephone party line and size each other up.1959:
Original Screenplay by:
-Clarence Greene
-Maurice Richlin
-Russell Rouse
-Stanley Shapiro - DirectorBilly WilderStarsMarilyn MonroeTony CurtisJack LemmonAfter two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.1959:
Adapted Screenplay by:
-Billy Wilder
-I. A. L. Diamond
Adapted from a story suggested by Robert Thoeren and M. Logan - DirectorBilly WilderStarsJack LemmonShirley MacLaineFred MacMurrayA Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.1960:
Original Screenplay by:
-I. A. L. Diamond
-Billy Wilder - DirectorJack CardiffStarsTrevor HowardDean StockwellWendy HillerA young man with artistic talent lives in a close-knit coal-mining town and finds himself inhibited by his emotionally manipulative mother.1960:
Adapted Screenplay by:
-Gavin Lambert
-T. E. B. Clarke
Adapted from the novel "Sons and Lovers" by D. H. Lawrence - DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnita EkbergAnouk AiméeA series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.1961:
Original Screenplay by:
-Federico Fellini
-Tullio Pinelli
-Ennio Flaiano
-Brunello Rondi - DirectorStanley KramerStarsSpencer TracyBurt LancasterRichard WidmarkIn 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazis judged for war crimes.1961:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Abby Mann
Adapted from the teleplay "Judgment at Nuremberg", written by Abby Mann - DirectorPietro GermiStarsMarcello MastroianniDaniela RoccaStefania SandrelliA married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.1962:
Original Screenplay by:
-Ennio de Concini
-Pietro Germi
-Alfredo Giannetti - DirectorRobert MulliganStarsGregory PeckJohn MegnaFrank OvertonAtticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a Black man against an undeserved rape charge, and tries to educate his young children against prejudice.1962:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Horton Foote
Adapted from the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee - DirectorJohn FordHenry HathawayGeorge MarshallStarsJames StewartJohn WayneGregory PeckA family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.1963:
Original Screenplay by:
James Webb - DirectorTony RichardsonStarsAlbert FinneySusannah YorkGeorge DevineThe romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England.1963:
Adapted Screenplay by:
John Osborne
Adapted from the novel "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" by Henry Fielding - DirectorRalph NelsonStarsCary GrantLeslie CaronTrevor HowardDuring 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.1964:
Original Screenplay by:
-Peter Stone
-Frank Tarloff - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsAudrey HepburnRex HarrisonStanley HollowayIn 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.1964:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Alan Jay Lerner
Adapted from the play "My Fair Lady", book by Alan Jay Lerner
Adapted from the play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw - DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsJulie ChristieDirk BogardeLaurence HarveyBeautiful but amoral model Diana Scott sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties.1965:
Original Screenplay by:
Frederic Raphael - DirectorDavid LeanStarsOmar SharifJulie ChristieGeraldine ChaplinThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.1965:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Robert Bolt
Adapted from the novel "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak - DirectorClaude LelouchStarsAnouk AiméeJean-Louis TrintignantPierre BarouhA widow and a widower find their relationship developing into love, but their past tragedies prove hard to overcome, causing them to proceed with utmost delicacy.1966:
Original Screenplay by:
-Claude Lelouch
-Pierre Uytterhoeven - DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsPaul ScofieldWendy HillerRobert ShawThe story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.1966:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Robert Bolt
Adapted from the play "A Man for All Seasons" by Robert Bolt - DirectorArthur PennStarsWarren BeattyFaye DunawayMichael J. PollardBored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.1967:
Original Screenplay by:
-David Newman
-Robert Benton - DirectorNorman JewisonStarsSidney PoitierRod SteigerWarren OatesA black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.1967:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Stirling Silliphant
Adapted from the novel "In the Heat of the Night" by John Ball - DirectorMel BrooksStarsZero MostelGene WilderDick ShawnA stage-play producer devises a plan to make money by producing a sure-fire flop.1968:
Original Screenplay by:
Mel Brooks - DirectorAnthony HarveyStarsPeter O'TooleKatharine HepburnAnthony Hopkins1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. When he allows his imprisoned wife Eleanor of Aquitaine out for a Christmas visit, they all variously plot to force him into a decision.1968:
Adapted Screenplay by:
James Goldman
Adapted from the play "The Lion in Winter" by James Goldman - DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPaul NewmanRobert RedfordKatharine RossIn 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. After considering their options, they escape to South America.1969:
Original Screenplay by:
William Goldman - DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsDustin HoffmanJon VoightSylvia MilesA naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.1969:
Adapted Screenplay by:
Waldo Salt
Adapted from the novel "Midnight Cowboy" by James Leo Herlihy - DirectorArthur HillerStarsAli MacGrawRyan O'NealJohn MarleyA boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes.1970:
Original Screenplay by:
Erich Segal - DirectorGeorge SeatonHenry HathawayStarsBurt LancasterDean MartinGeorge KennedyA bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.1970:
Adapted Screenplay by:
George Seaton
Adapted from the novel "Airport" by Arthur Hailey