Academy Awards

1984 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) WinnerTerms of EndearmentJames L. BrooksFollows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love, and her daughter's family problems.Amazon1984 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) NomineesBetrayalHarold PinterAmazonEducating RitaWilly RussellAmazonReuben, ReubenJulius J. EpsteinAmazonThe DresserRonald HarwoodAmazon

1985 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) WinnerAmadeusPeter ShafferThe life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.Amazon1985 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) NomineesA Passage to IndiaDavid LeanAmazonA Soldier's StoryCharles FullerAmazonGreystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the ApesRobert TowneAmazonThe Killing FieldsBruce RobinsonAmazon

1986 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) WinnerOut of AfricaKurt LuedtkeIn 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.Amazon1986 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) NomineesKiss of the Spider WomanLeonard SchraderAmazonPrizzi's HonorRichard CondonAmazonThe Color PurpleMenno MeyjesAmazonThe Trip to BountifulHorton FooteAmazon

1987 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) WinnerA Room with a ViewRuth Prawer JhabvalaIn a Florence pensione circa 1900 with English guests, George Emerson (Julian Sands) and his dad (Denholm Elliott) offer their rooms with views to Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) and her chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett (Dame Maggie Smith). Lucy and GAmazon1987 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) NomineesChildren of a Lesser GodHesper AndersonAmazonCrimes of the HeartBeth HenleyAmazonStand by MeRaynold GideonAmazonThe Color of MoneyRichard PriceAmazon

1988 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) WinnerThe Last EmperorMark PeploeThe story of the final Emperor of China.Amazon1988 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) NomineesFatal AttractionJames DeardenAmazonFull Metal JacketStanley KubrickAmazonMy Life as a DogLasse HallströmAmazonThe DeadTony HustonAmazon

1989 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) WinnerDangerous LiaisonsChristopher HamptonA scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman.Amazon1989 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) NomineesGorillas in the MistAnna Hamilton PhelanAmazonLittle DorritChristine EdzardAmazonThe Accidental TouristFrank GalatiAmazonThe Unbearable Lightness of BeingJean-Claude CarrièreAmazon

1990 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) WinnerDriving Miss DaisyAlfred UhryAn old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.Amazon1990 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) NomineesBorn on the Fourth of JulyOliver StoneAmazonEnemies: A Love StoryRoger L. SimonAmazonField of DreamsPhil Alden RobinsonAmazonMy Left FootJim SheridanAmazon

1991 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) WinnerDances with WolvesMichael BlakeLieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.Amazon1991 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) NomineesAwakeningsSteven ZaillianAmazonGoodfellasNicholas PileggiAmazonReversal of FortuneNicholas KazanAmazonThe GriftersDonald E. WestlakeAmazon

1992 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) WinnerThe Silence of the LambsTed TallyA young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.Amazon1992 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) NomineesEuropa EuropaAgnieszka HollandAmazonFried Green TomatoesFannie FlaggAmazonJFKOliver StoneAmazonThe Prince of TidesPat ConroyAmazon

1993 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) WinnerHowards EndRuth Prawer JhabvalaA businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.Amazon1993 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) NomineesA River Runs Through ItRichard FriedenbergAmazonEnchanted AprilPeter BarnesAmazonScent of a WomanBo GoldmanAmazonThe PlayerMichael TolkinAmazon