Best Movies That Won Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Screenplay

It Was Just an Accident

Dir. Jafar Panahi

You can probably predict from the title that an accident starts this thriller but what happens after is totally unexpected.…

A Real Pain

Dir. Jesse Eisenberg

A Real Pain is a deceptively simple film. There’s not a lot going on on the surface, but Eisenberg’s smart…

American Splendor

Dir. Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman

Having an ordinary life isn’t a bad thing, but it can feel like a huge disappointment, hearing of other people…

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Dir. Marielle Heller

A non-comedic Melissa McCarthy stars in this movie based on a true story. She plays author Lee Israel who after…

Atlantic City

Dir. Louis Malle

At first glance, Atlantic City is indistinguishable from most other crime films. It’s led by a charming gangster (Burt Lancaster)…

Reversal of Fortune

Dir. Barbet Schroeder

This gripping legal drama is based on a case we still don’t know the truth of — which might make…

Happy-Go-Lucky

Dir. Mike Leigh

Happy-Go-Lucky is a Mike Leigh feel-good movie tells the story of Poppy, a North London teacher, whose story we follow…

Bull Durham

Dir. Ron Shelton

Without focusing on just one team, career, or fateful game, Bull Durham avoids every sports movie cliche—using Minor League baseball…

The Piano

Dir. Jane Campion

Plenty of films celebrate this popular instrument, but rarely have we seen it in a story like The Piano. For…

1883

Follow the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of…

Hope and Glory

Dir. John Boorman

A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.

Nashville

Rayna Jaymes and Juliette Barnes face personal and professional challenges as they navigate their paths as artists and individuals. Surrounding…

Promising Young Woman

Dir. Emerald Fennell & Female director

A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.

Capote

Dir. Bennett Miller

A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book “In Cold…

Amadeus

Dir. Miloš Forman

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburger composer…

Terms of Endearment

Dir. James L. Brooks

Aurora, a finicky woman, is in search of true love while her daughter faces marital issues. Together, they help each…

Tootsie

Dir. Sydney Pollack

When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy Michaels – in order…

The Social Network

Dir. David Fincher

In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the…

About Schmidt

Dir. Alexander Payne

A true character study on an aging man who feels like he has nothing to offer the world, About Schmidt…

Get Out

Dir. Jordan Peele

Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family’s…

Sideways

Dir. Alexander Payne

Best friends Miles and Jack are off to wine country to celebrate Jack’s last week of freedom before he gets…