The 2025 Oscar screenplay nominees could join the list of actors who won Oscars for their screenwriting work.
Hollywood legend Orson Welles has been involved with a wide assortment of incredible movies.
Here are his 10 best according to IMDb.
Orson Welles starred inCitizen Kaneas Charles Foster Kane, and also served as the movie’s director and producer.
Thompson stated that Doran was able to “help me, nourish me and mentor me through that process …
I learned about screenwriting at her feet” (viaPhiladelphia Inquirer).
Alongside Payne and Nat Faxon, Jim Rash adapted the screenplay from the 2007 novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings.
What follows is a horrifying ordeal for the anxious photographer.
So much of it is pacing, so much of it reveals" (viaForbes).
Waititi also stars in the film as a fictionalized version of Hitler who is Jojo’s imaginary friend.
Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Jennifer Coolidge, Laverne Cox, and Connie Britton also star.
Emerald Fennell was seven months pregnant with her second child, while serving as the director ofPromising Young Woman.
Directed by and starring Orson Welles in his feature film debut, Citizen Kane tells the life story of Charles Foster Kane, a self-made business tycoon partially based on William Randolph Hearst. The film tells the story of Kane’s rise and fall from power, narratively framed by the sensation caused by death at the beginning and end of the film. Besides Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead, and Ruth Warrick also star.
The Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, face sudden destitution after their father’s death, which snatches their comfortable lifestyle away. Thrust into a world where marriage is often more about economics than emotion, they must wade through suitors and social expectations to find what others define as happiness.
Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, who also stars in the film. The story follows Karl Childers, a mentally challenged man who is released from a psychiatric hospital after being institutionalized for murder. Karl returns to his hometown and befriends a young boy and his mother, but his simple and naive nature is soon disrupted by a menacing figure from his past.
Good Will Hunting centers around a gifted janitor, Will Hunting, whose mathematical genius is recognized by professors. As he navigates his complex personal life and inner struggles, he is guided by a therapist who helps him confront his past and realize his potential.
Based off of the 2007 novel, The Descendants is a comedy-drama that follows Hawaii attorney Matthew King and his family as they are forced to reckon with the family land inheritance from Matt’s father. Pressured to sell the land and split it up amongst his financially irresponsible extended family, Matt struggles to deal with the burden after his wife falls into a coma, leaving him to care for his two children in her absence.
Jordan Peele made his directorial Horror debut with Get Out, a terrifying Psychological Horror film starring Daniel Kaluuya. In the 2017 release, Chris Washington heads to Upstate New York to meet the family of his girlfriend, Rose. What follows is a horrifying ordeal for the anxious photographer.
Directed by Taika Waititi and featuring his characteristic absurdist humor, Jojo Rabbit stars Roman Griffin Davis as Johannes “Jojo” Betzler, a young German boy during WWII who is a member of the Hitler Youth. When Jojo discovers that his mother Rosie (Scarlett Johansson) is helping a Jewish girl hide from the Nazis in the attic of their home, he must begin to confront his prejudices and what he thought he knew was right head-on. Waititi also stars in the film as a fictionalized version of Hitler who is Jojo’s imaginary friend.
Starring Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman follows Cassie, a college dropout intent on getting revenge for the unprosecuted rape of her deceased best friend, Nina. As she becomes deeper involved in tormenting those she sees as complicit in Nina’s rape and subsequent suicide, Cassie begins to travel down a more dangerous path than she realizes. Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Jennifer Coolidge, Laverne Cox, and Connie Britton also star.
Belfast is a coming-of-age drama by Kenneth Branagh that centers on a family, specifically one boy in the family, living in 1969 Belfast, Ireland. The film chronicles the young man’s childhood as he experiences love, drama, and more in a socially tumultuous time in Ireland’s history as Protestant loyalists and Catholics find themselves at war with one another.
