Annie Hall

Award: Best Screenplay
Award Year: 1977
Recipient(s): Woody Allen
Theatrical Release Date: Apr 20, 1977

Synopsis: This Best Picture Oscar winner stars Woody Allen as a neurotic, New York comedian who falls for a quirky midwestern girl (Diane Keaton) in an on-again, off-again romance.

Bull Durham

Award: Best Screenplay
Award Year: 1988
Recipient(s): Ron Shelton
Theatrical Release Date: Jun 15, 1988

Synopsis: A romantic love story set in the dirt and grit of minor league baseball. Sarandan is a groupie for the Carolina Durham Bulls who chooses a protege each season to school in the art of love. This season she picks the team's untameable pitcher but eventually abides her true passion, the team's catcher, Costner.

Carrington

Award: Best Screenplay
Award Year: 1995
Recipient(s): Christopher Hampton
Theatrical Release Date: Nov 10, 1995

Synopsis: Carrington is the true story of the tragic relationship between the English painter Dora Carrington and writer, Lytton Strachey. Between the First World War and the early 1930's, they experimented with a way of life beyond the conventional standards of their time, a life which broke all the taboos of society of their desire to live as freely and honestly as they could. They acknowledged openly what most of us are aware of but still reluctant to discuss: that a great many differences can exist between spiritual love and physical desire.

Dances with Wolves

Award: Best Screenplay - Adapted
Award Year: 1990
Recipient(s): Michael Blake
Theatrical Release Date: Nov 09, 1990

Synopsis:

A "truly spectacular" (The New York Times) film that combines action, romance and breathtaking adventure, Dances With Wolves is "a cinematic masterpiece" (American Movie Classics) that is nothing short of "a triumph" (Roger Ebert)!

Sent to protect a US outpost on the desolate frontier, Lt. John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) finds himself alone in the vast wilderness. Befriending the very people he's sent to protect the outpost from, the Sioux Indians, Dunbar slowly comes to revere those he once feared. But when the encroaching US Army threatens to overrun the Sioux, he is forced to make a choiceone that will forever change his destiny and that of a proud and defiant nation.

Fargo

Award: Best Screenplay
Award Year: 1997
Recipient(s): Ethan Coen
Theatrical Release Date: Mar 08, 1996

Synopsis: A man deeply in debt hires two inept crooks to kidnap his wife and split the ransom money. The deal goes bad when the crooks kill a highway patrolman and 2 hapless bystanders, and the murders fall under the jurisdiction of a pregnant but persistent Minnesota police chief.

Gregory's Girl

Award: Best Screenplay
Award Year: 1981
Recipient(s): Bill Forsyth
Theatrical Release Date: Apr 23, 1981

Synopsis: A comedy about a wimpy 16-year-old who is going through his first high-school crush...on the girl who replaced him on the school's winless soccer team.

Hannah and Her Sisters

Award: Best Screenplay
Award Year: 1986
Recipient(s): Woody Allen
Theatrical Release Date: Feb 07, 1986

Synopsis: Woody Allen wrote, directed and stars in this comedy/drama about the amorous affiliations of three sisters and the men in their lives. Story touches on such universal themes as life, death, love, adultery, religion and family relations.

Hope And Glory

Award: Best Screenplay
Award Year: 1987
Recipient(s): John Boorman
Theatrical Release Date: Oct 16, 1987

Synopsis: The comic, poignant story of a young man stuck at home with his mother, aunts and bratty sisters - while the neatest fights in history were raging within earshot of his room. Sarah Miles ("The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea"), Bill's ever- tolerant mom, does her parental best while Dad's off to war. But when your street's in rubble, the school's ablaze and the Luftwaffe is parachuting into your backyard, one tends to be a lot more lenient.

House of Games

Award: Best Screenplay
Award Year: 1987
Recipient(s): David Mamet
Theatrical Release Date: Oct 14, 1987

Synopsis: A successful psychiatrist and best-selling author is drawn into the world of one of her patients, a compulsive gambler who introduces her to a dangerous and alluring confidence man. While falling prey to an elaborate con game, the psychiatrist tries to taste the underworld without swallowing, but it begins to swallow her.

In the Heat of the Night

Award: Best Screenplay - Adapted
Award Year: 1967
Recipient(s): Stirling Silliphant
Theatrical Release Date: Aug 02, 1967

Synopsis: While traveling in the Deep South, Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in the murder investigation of a prominent businessman when he is first accused of the crime and then asked to solve it! Finding the killer proves to be difficult, however, especially when his efforts are constantly thwarted by the bigoted town sheriff (Steiger). But neither man can solve this case alone. Putting aside their differences and prejudices, they join forces in a desperate race against time to discover the shocking truth.

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