New York Film Critics Award: Best Screenplay
In 1956, the New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) began honoring Best Screenplay
James Poe, John Farrow and S. J. Perelman (1956)
No Award (1957)
Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith (1958)
Wendell Mayes (1959)
I. A. L. Diamond and Billy Wilder (1960)
Judgment at Nuremberg, Abby Mann (1961)
No Award (1962)
Hud, Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. (1963)
Harold Pinter (1964)
No Award (1965)
Robert Bolt (1966)
David Newman and Robert Benton (1967)
Lorenzo Semple Jr. (1968)
Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker (1969)
Éric Rohmer (1970)
Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich / Penelope Gilliatt (1971)
Cries and Whuspers, Ingmar Bergman (1972)
George Lucas, Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck (1973)
Ingmar Bergman (1974)
Story of Adele H., François Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman, Jean Gruault (1975)
Paddy Chayefsky (1976)
Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman (1977)
Paul Mazursky (1978)
Steve Tesich (1979)
Bo Goldman (1980)
Atlantic City, John Guare (1981)
Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal (1982)
Bill Forsyth (1983)
Robert Benton (1984)
Woody Allen (1985)
My Beautiful Launderette, Hanif Kureishi (1986)
James L. Brooks (1987)
Ron Shelton (1988)
Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost (1989)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1990)
David Cronenberg (1991)
The Crying Game, Neil Jordan (1992)
The Piano, Jane Campion (1993)
Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary (1994)
Emma Thompson (1995)
Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson (1996)
L.A. Confidential, Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997)
Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard (1998)
Election, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (1999)
You Can Count in Me, Kenneth Lonergan (2000)
Gosford Park, Julian Fellowes (2001)
Adaptation, Charlie and Donald Kaufman (2002)
Craig Lucas (2003)
Sideways, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
Noah Baumbach (2005)
Peter Morgan (2006)
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
Rachel Got Married, Jenny Lumet (2008)
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche (2009)
Stuart Blumberg and Lisa Cholodenko (2010), The Kids Are All Right
Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin (2011)
Lincoln, Tony Kushner (2012),
Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell (2013)
Wes Anderson (2014)
Carol, Phyllis Nagy (2015)
Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
Paul Thomas Anderson (2017)
Paul Schrader (2018)
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino (2019),
Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Eliza Hittman (2020)
Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson (2021)
Branshees of Inisherin The, Martin McDonah
May December, Samy Burch (2023)
