BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay

Rupert is an aspiring stand-up comedian, who is willing to go the extra mile in his attempt to appear in the late night show hosted by his idol.

A hapless talent agent attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress.

In 1935 New Jersey, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.

Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.

In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. She eventually becomes pregnant by an acquaintance of her father.

1963. Thirteen year old Molly Roth, the eldest of three offspring of Gus and Diana Roth, lives a carefree life as part of the affluent white minority in South Africa. Race is a non-issue for her as although, under apartheid, the Roths largely exist among other white people like them, she feels equally comfortable around the black people in her life, such as their servants and her parents' black friends. Beyond knowing that they are busy in their work, Molly is unaware of the full extent of what her parents do, Gus a leading member of the South African Communist Party and Ruth an anti-apartheid journalist who also secretly works for the underground in support of the outlawed African National Congress. Shortly after Gus quietly escapes the country to evade probable arrest by the government - Molly believing it just a short work related trip - Molly's carefree life starts to unravel when Diana is detained for ninety days under a new law that allows such detention without ever even being charged with a criminal offense. The goal of Diana's interrogators, led by Inspector Muller, is to get her to divulge details especially of the underground, most specifically proverbial "names". Beyond missing her mother, Molly begins to resent the anti-apartheid work which has directly and indirectly impacted her life in a negative way, she wanting a mother, not an activist-mother. As the situation with Diana evolves, which includes someone needing to act as caregivers to Molly and her younger sisters while Diana is in detention, Molly gets a broader perspective of her situation under apartheid as she is able to see more of life just outside her protected white enclave, and as she is made aware of what Diana is trying to achieve for society in her work.

Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.

Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater's film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.

A woman dealing with inconsolable grief over the death of her partner gets another chance when he returns to earth as a ghost.

When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.

A narcissistic, self-centered weatherman finds himself in a time loop on Groundhog Day.

The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

The sole survivor of a pier shoot-out tells the story of how a notorious criminal influenced the events that began with five criminals meeting in a seemingly random police lineup.

Following the death of her adoptive parents, a successful young black optometrist establishes contact with her biological mother -- a lonely white factory worker living in poverty in East London.

A rough, short-tempered patriarch of a working-class family sees his life and the relationships around him slowly unravel.

An insurance salesman begins to suspect that his whole life is actually some sort of reality TV show.

A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.

A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.

Despite being caught in her imaginative world, young waitress Amelie decides to help people find happiness. Her quest to spread joy leads her on a journey during which she finds true love.

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.

When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories forever.

Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.

A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes a selfless decision regarding the unborn child.