Best Orignal Screenplay: Winners and Nominees
My Book:
Preston Sturges was the inaugural winner, for The Great McGinty (1940)
Orson Welles co-won the award for Citizen Kane in 1942.
Herman J. Mankiewicz won for Citizen Kane (1941) alongside Orson Welles.
Billy Wilder won twice for Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Apartment (1960)
Alan Jay Lerner won for An American in Paris (1951)
Budd Schulberg won for On the Waterfront (1954)
William Inge won for Splendor in the Grass (1961).
Claude Lelouch won for A Man and a Woman (1966)
Mel Brooks won for his comedy The Producers (1968).
William Goldman, winner in 1969 for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Francis Ford Coppola won for Patton (1970)[b].
Paddy Chayefsky won twice for The Hospital (1971) and Network (1976)
Robert Towne won for Chinatown (1975).
Woody Allen: Most Nominated
Allen won thrice for Annie Hall (1977), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and Midnight in Paris (2011), and has received 16 nominations, the most of any writer.
Steve Tesich won for Breaking Away (1979).
Bo Goldman won for Melvin and Howard (1980).
John Patrick Shanley won for Moonstruck (1987).
Callie Khouri won for Thelma & Louise (1991)
Neil Jordan won for The Crying Game in 1992.
Jane Campion won for The Piano in 1993.
Tarantino won twice for Pulp Fiction (1994), and Django Unchained (2012)
Christopher McQuarrie won for The Usual Suspects in 1995.
The Coen brothers won for Fargo (1996)
Ben Affleck won for co-writing Good Will Hunting (1997)
Matt Damon won for co-writing Good Will Hunting (1997)
Tom Stoppard won for Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Alan Ball won for American Beauty (1999)
Cameron Crowe won for Almost Famous (2000)
Julian Fellowes won for Gosford Park (2001)
Pedro Almodóvar won for Talk to Her (2002)
Sofia Coppola won for Lost in Translation, 2003; her father won for Patton, 1971.
Charlie Kaufman won for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Paul Haggis won for Crash (2005)
Michael Arndt won for Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Diablo Cody won for 2007’s Juno.
Dustin Lance Black won for 2008’s Milk.
Mark Boal won for 2009’s The Hurt Locker.
Spike Jonze won for Her (2013).
Alejandro G. Iñárritu won for Birdman (2014).
Tom McCarthy won for Spotlight (2015).
Josh Singer won for co-writing Spotlight (2015)
Kenneth Lonergan won for Manchester by the Sea (2016).
Jordan Peele became the first African-American to win with Get Out (2017).
Bong Joon-ho won for Parasite (2019), co-written with Han Jin-won.
Emerald Fennell won for Promising Young Woman (2020).
Kenneth Branagh won for Belfast (2021)
Daniels won for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).
Justine Triet co-won for Anatomy of a Fall (2023).
Arthur Harari co-won for Anatomy of a Fall (2023).
Sean Baker won for Anora (2024).
Best Original Screenplay: Year Film Nominee
1940 (13th)
The Great McGinty Preston Sturges
Angels Over Broadway Ben Hecht
Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet Norman Burnside, Heinz Herald & John Huston
Foreign Correspondent Charles Bennett & Joan Harrison
The Great Dictator Charlie Chaplin
1941 (14th)
Citizen Kane Herman J. Mankiewicz & Orson Welles
The Devil and Miss Jones Norman Krasna
Sergeant York Harry Chandlee, Abem Finkel, John Huston & Howard Koch
Tall, Dark and Handsome Karl Tunberg & Darrell Ware
Tom, Dick and Harry Paul Jarrico
1942 (15th)
Woman of the Year Ring Lardner Jr. & Michael Kanin
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
Road to Morocco Frank Butler & Don Hartman
Wake Island W. R. Burnett & Frank Butler
The War Against Mrs. Hadley George Oppenheimer
1943 (16th)
Princess O’Rourke Norman Krasna‡
Air Force Dudley Nichols
In Which We Serve Noël Coward
The North Star Lillian Hellman
So Proudly We Hail! Allan Scott
1944 (17th)
Wilson Lamar Trotti‡
Hail the Conquering Hero Preston Sturges
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Two Girls and a Sailor Richard Connell & Gladys Lehman
Wing and a Prayer Jerome Cady
1945 (18th)
Marie-Louise, Richard Schweizer
Dillinger Philip Yordan
Music for Millions Myles Connolly
Salty O’Rourke Milton Holmes
What Next, Corporal Hargrove? Harry Kurnitz
1946 (19th)
The Seventh Veil, Muriel & Sydney Box
The Blue Dahlia Raymond Chandler
Children of Paradise Jacques Prévert
Notorious Ben Hecht
Road to Utopia Melvin Frank & Norman Panama
1947 (20th)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer Sidney Sheldon
Body and Soul Abraham Polonsky
A Double Life Ruth Gordon & Garson Kanin
Monsieur Verdoux Charlie Chaplin
Shoeshine Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola & Cesare Zavattini
1948 (21st)
N/A
1949 (22nd)
Battleground Robert Pirosh
Jolson Sings Again Sidney Buchman
Paisan, Sergio Amidei, Fellini, Alfred Hayes, Marcello Pagliero & Rossellini
Passport to Pimlico T. E. B. Clarke
The Quiet One Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb & Sidney Meyers
1950s
1950 (23rd)
Sunset Boulevard, Charles Brackett, D.M.Marshman Jr.Billy Wilder
Adam’s Rib Ruth Gordon & Garson Kanin
Caged Virginia Kellogg & Bernard C. Schoenfeld
The Men Carl Foreman
No Way Out Joseph L. Mankiewicz & Lesser Samuels
1951 (24th)
An American in Paris Alan Jay Lerner
Ace in the Hole Walter Newman, Lesser Samuels & Billy Wilder
David and Bathsheba Philip Dunne
Go for Broke! Robert Pirosh
The Well Clarence Greene & Russell Rouse
1952 (25th)
The Lavender Hill Mob T. E. B. Clarke
The Atomic City Sydney Boehm
Breaking the Sound Barrier Terence Rattigan
Pat and Mike Ruth Gordon & Garson Kanin
Viva Zapata! John Steinbeck
1953 (26th)
Titanic Charles Brackett, Richard L. Breen & Walter Reisch
The Band Wagon Betty Comden & Adolph Green
The Desert Rats Richard Murphy
The Naked Spur Harold Jack Bloom & Sam Rolfe
Take the High Ground! Millard Kaufman
1954 (27th)
On the Waterfront Budd Schulberg
The Barefoot Contessa Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Genevieve William Rose
The Glenn Miller Story Oscar Brodney & Valentine Davies
Knock on Wood Melvin Frank & Norman Panama
1955 (28th)
Interrupted Melody Sonya Levien & William Ludwig
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell Emmet Lavery & Milton Sperling
It’s Always Fair Weather Betty Comden & Adolph Green
Mr. Hulot’s Holiday Henri Marquet & Jacques Tati
The Seven Little Foys Melville Shavelson & Jack Rose
1956 (29th)
The Red Balloon Albert Lamorisse
The Bold and the Brave Robert Lewin
Julie Andrew L. Stone
La Strada Federico Fellini & Tullio Pinelli
The Ladykillers William Rose
1957 (30th)
Designing Woman George Wells
Funny Face Leonard Gershe
Man of a Thousand Faces Screenplay: Robert Campbell, Ivan Goff & Ben Roberts; Story: Ralph Wheelwright
The Tin Star, Dudley Nichols; Story: Joel Kane & Barney Slater
I Vitelloni, Fellini & Ennio Flaiano; Story: Fellini, Flaiano & Tullio Pinelli
1958 (31st)
The Defiant Ones Nedrick Young & Harold Jacob Smith‡ [note 2]
The Goddess Paddy Chayefsky
Houseboat Melville Shavelson & Jack Rose
The Sheepman Script: William Bowers & James Edward Grant; Story: Grant
Teacher’s Pet Fay Kanin & Michael Kanin
1959 (32nd)
Pillow Talk Screenplay: Stanley Shapiro & Maurice Richlin; Story: Clarence Greene & Russell Rouse
The 400 Blows Marcel Moussy & Truffaut
North by Northwest Ernest Lehman
Operation Petticoat Scripte: Shapiro & Richlin; Story: Paul King & Joseph Stone
Wild Strawberries, Ingmar Bergman
1960s
1960 (33rd)
The Apartment I. A. L. Diamond & Billy Wilder
The Angry Silence Scrit: Bryan Forbes; Story: Michael Craig & Richard Gregson
The Facts of Life Melvin Frank & Norman Panama
Hiroshima, Mon Amour Marguerite Duras
Never on Sunday Jules Dassin
1961 (34th)
Splendor in the Grass William Inge
Ballad of a Soldier Grigory Chukhray & Valentin Yezhov
General Della Rovere Sergio Amidei, Diego Fabbi & Indro Montanelli
La Dolce Vita Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli & Brunello Rondi
Lover Come Back, Paul Henning & Stanley Shapiro
1962 (35th)
Divorce Italian Style Ennio De Concini, Germi & Alfredo Giannetti
Freud Screenplay: Charles Kaufman & Wolfgang Reinhardt; Story: Kaufman
Last Year at Marienbad Alain Robbe-Grillet
That Touch of Mink Nate Monaster & Stanley Shapiro
Through a Glass Darkly Ingmar Bergman
1963 (36th)
How the West Was Won James R. Webb
America America Elia Kazan
8½ Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli & Brunello Rondi
The Four Days of Naples Screenplay: Carlo Bernari, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa & Nanni Loy; Story: Campanile, Franciosa, Loy & Vasco Pratolini
Love with the Proper Stranger, Arnold Schulman
1964 (37th)
Father Goose Screenplay: Peter Stone & Frank Tarloff; Story: S. H. Barnett
A Hard Day’s Night Alun Owen
One Potato, Two Potato Screenplay: Orville H. Hampton; Story: Raphael Hayes
The Organizer Age, Mario Monicelli & Furio Scarpelli
That Man from Rio Daniel Boulanger, Philippe de Broca, Ariane Mnouchkine & Jean-Paul Rappeneau
1965 (38th)
Darling Frederic Raphael
Casanova 70 Age, Suso Cecchi d’Amico, Tonino Guerra, Mario Monicelli, Giorgio Salvioni & Furio Scarpelli
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines Ken Annakin & Jack Davies
The Train Franklin Coen & Frank Davis
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Jacques Demy
1966 (39th)
A Man and a Woman Script: Lelouch & Pierre Uytterhoeven; Story: Lelouch
Blowup Script: Antonioni, Edward Bond & Tonino Guerra; Story: Antonioni
The Fortune Cookie I. A. L. Diamond & Billy Wilder
Khartoum Robert Ardrey
The Naked Prey Clint Johnston & Don Peters
1967 (40th)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner William Rose
Bonnie and Clyde Robert Benton & David Newman
Divorce American Style Screenplay: Norman Lear; Story: Robert Kaufman
La Guerre Est Finie Jorge Semprún
Two for the Road Frederic Raphael
1968 (41st)
The Producers Mel Brooks
The Battle of Algiers Gillo Pontecorvo & Franco Solinas
Faces John Cassavetes
Hot Millions Peter Ustinov & Ira Wallach
2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke & Stanley Kubrick
1969 (42nd)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid William Goldman‡
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Paul Mazursky & Larry Tucker
The Damned Screenplay: Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli & Luchino Visconti; Story: Badalucco
Easy Rider Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper & Terry Southern
The Wild Bunch Screenplay: Walon Green & Sam Peckinpah; Story: Green & Roy N. Sickner
1970s
1971 (43rd)
Patton Francis Coppola & Edmund H. North
Five Easy Pieces Screenplay: Carole Eastman; Story: Eastman & Bob Rafelson
Joe Norman Wexler
Love Story Erich Segal
My Night at Maud’s Éric Rohmer
1972 (44th)
The Hospital Paddy Chayefsky‡
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion Elio Petri & Ugo Pirro
Klute Andy & David Lewis
Summer of ’42 Herman Raucher
Sunday Bloody Sunday Penelope Gilliatt
1972 (45th)
The Candidate Jeremy Larner
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Screenplay & Story: Luis Buñuel; Collaboration: Jean-Claude Carrière
Lady Sings the Blues Chris Clark, Suzanne de Passe & Terrence McCloy
Murmur of the Heart Louis Malle
Young Winston Carl Foreman
1973 (46th)
The Sting David S. Ward
American Graffiti Willard Huyck, George Lucas & Gloria Katz
Cries and Whispers Ingmar Bergman
Save the Tiger Steve Shagan
A Touch of Class Melvin Frank & Jack Rose
1974 (47th)
Chinatown Robert Towne
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore Robert Getchell
The Conversation Francis Ford Coppola
Day for Night Jean-Louis Richard, Suzanne Schiffman & Truffaut
Harry and Tonto Josh Greenfeld & Paul Mazursky
1975 (48th)
Dog Day Afternoon Frank Pierson
Amarcord Federico Fellini & Tonino Guerra
And Now My Love Claude Lelouch & Pierre Uytterhoeven
Lies My Father Told Me Ted Allan
Shampoo Robert Towne & Warren Beatty
1976 (49th)
Network Paddy Chayefsky
Cousin Cousine Screenplay & Story: Jean-Charles Tacchella; Adaptation: Daniele Thompson
The Front Walter Bernstein
Rocky Sylvester Stallone
Seven Beauties Lina Wertmüller
1977 (50th)
Annie Hall Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman
The Goodbye Girl Neil Simon
The Late Show Robert Benton
Star Wars George Lucas
The Turning Point Arthur Laurents
1978 (51st)
Coming Home Script: Robert C. Jones‡ & Waldo Salt; Story: Nancy Dowd ‡
Autumn Sonata Ingmar Bergman
The Deer Hunter Screenplay: Deric Washburn; Story: Michael Cimino, Louis Garfinkle, Quinn Redeker & Washburn
Interiors Woody Allen
An Unmarried Woman Paul Mazursky
1979 (52nd)
Breaking Away Steve Tesich‡
All That Jazz Robert Alan Aurthur & Bob Fosse
…And Justice for All. Valerie Curtin & Barry Levinson
The China Syndrome James Bridges, T. S. Cook & Mike Gray
Manhattan Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman
1980s
1980 (53rd)
Melvin and Howard Bo Goldman
Brubaker Screenplay: W. D. Richter; Story: Richter & Arthur A. Ross
Fame Christopher Gore
Mon oncle d’Amérique Jean Gruault
Private Benjamin Nancy Meyers, Harvey Miller & Charles Shyer
1981 (54th)
Chariots of Fire Colin Welland‡
Absence of Malice Kurt Luedtke
Arthur Steve Gordon
Atlantic City John Guare
Reds Trevor Griffiths & Warren Beatty
1982 (55th)
Gandhi John Briley
Diner Barry Levinson
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Melissa Mathison
An Officer and a Gentleman Douglas Day Stewart
Tootsie Script: Larry Gelbart & Murray Schisgal; Story: Gelbart & Don McGuire
1983 (56th)
Tender Mercies Horton Foote
The Big Chill Barbara Benedek & Lawrence Kasdan
Fanny and Alexander Ingmar Bergman
Silkwood Alice Arlen & Nora Ephron
WarGames Lawrence Lasker & Walter Parkes
1984 (57th)
Places in the Heart Robert Benton
Beverly Hills Cop Screenplay: Daniel Petrie Jr.; Story: Danilo Bach & Petrie
Broadway Danny Rose Woody Allen
El Norte Gregory Nava & Anna Thomas
Splash Screenplay: Bruce Jay Friedman, Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel; Story: Friedman & Brian Grazer
1985 (58th)
Witness Screenplay: William Kelley & Earl W. Wallace; Story: Kelley, E. Wallace & Pamela Wallace
Back to the Future Bob Gale & Robert Zemeckis
Brazil Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown & Tom Stoppard
The Official Story Aída Bortnik & Luis Puenzo
The Purple Rose of Cairo Woody Allen
1986 (59th)
Hannah and Her Sisters Woody Allen
Crocodile Dundee Script: John Cornell, Paul Hogan & Ken Shadie; Story: Hogan
My Beautiful Laundrette Hanif Kureishi
Platoon Oliver Stone
Salvador Richard Boyle & Stone
1987 (60th)
Moonstruck John Patrick Shanley
Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye, Children) Louis Malle
Broadcast News James L. Brooks
Hope and Glory John Boorman
Radio Days Woody Allen
1988 (61st)
Rain Man Screenplay: Ronald Bass & Barry Morrow; Story: Morrow
Big Gary Ross & Anne Spielberg
Bull Durham Ron Shelton
A Fish Called Wanda Screenplay: John Cleese; Story: Cleese & Charles Crichton
Running on Empty Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
1989 (62nd)
Dead Poets Society Tom Schulman‡
Crimes and Misdemeanors Woody Allen
Do the Right Thing Spike Lee
Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Soderbergh
When Harry Met Sally… Nora Ephron
1990s
1990 (63rd)
Ghost Bruce Joel Rubin‡
Alice Woody Allen
Avalon Barry Levinson
Green Card Peter Weir
Metropolitan Whit Stillman
1991 (64th)
Thelma & Louise Callie Khouri‡
Boyz n the Hood John Singleton
Bugsy James Toback
The Fisher King Richard LaGravenese
Grand Canyon Lawrence Kasdan & Meg Kasdan
1992 (65th)
The Crying Game Neil Jordan‡
Husbands and Wives Woody Allen
Lorenzo’s Oil Nick Enright & George Miller
Passion Fish John Sayles
Unforgiven David Peoples
1993 (66th)
The Piano Jane Campion‡
Dave Gary Ross
In the Line of Fire Jeff Maguire
Philadelphia Ron Nyswaner
Sleepless in Seattle Script: Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron & David S. Ward; Story: Arch
1994 (67th)
Pulp Fiction Screenplay: Tarantino; Story: Roger Avary & Tarantino
Bullets Over Broadway Woody Allen & Douglas McGrath
Four Weddings and a Funeral Richard Curtis
Heavenly Creatures Peter Jackson & Frances Walsh
Three Colours: Red Krzysztof Kieślowski & Krzysztof Piesiewicz
1995 (68th)
The Usual Suspects Christopher McQuarrie‡
Braveheart Randall Wallace
Mighty Aphrodite Woody Allen
Nixon Stephen J. Rivele, Oliver Stone & Christopher Wilkinson
Toy Story Screenplay: Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow, Andrew Stanton & Joss Whedon; Story: Pete Docter, John Lasseter, Joe Ranft & Stanton
1996 (69th)
Fargo Coen Brothers
Jerry Maguire Cameron Crowe
Lone Star John Sayles
Secrets & Lies Mike Leigh
Shine Screenplay: Jan Sardi; Story: Scott Hicks
1997 (70th)
Good Will Hunting Ben Affleck & Matt Damon‡
As Good as It Gets Screenplay: Mark Andrus & James L. Brooks; Story: Andrus
Boogie Nights Paul Thomas Anderson
Deconstructing Harry Woody Allen
The Full Monty Simon Beaufoy
1998 (71st)
Shakespeare in Love Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard‡
Bulworth Screenplay: Warren Beatty & Jeremy Pikser; Story: Beatty
Life Is Beautiful Roberto Benigni & Vincenzo Cerami
Saving Private Ryan Robert Rodat
The Truman Show Andrew Niccol
1999 (72nd)
[72] American Beauty Alan Ball‡
Being John Malkovich Charlie Kaufman
Magnolia Paul Thomas Anderson
The Sixth Sense M. Night Shyamalan
Topsy-Turvy Mike Leigh
2000s
2000 (73rd)
Almost Famous Cameron Crowe‡
Billy Elliot Lee Hall
Erin Brockovich Susannah Grant
Gladiator Script: David Franzoni, John Logan & William Nicholson; Story: Franzoni
You Can Count on Me Kenneth Lonergan
2001 (74th)
Gosford Park Julian Fellowes
Amélie Screenplay: Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Guillaume Laurant; Dialogue: Laurant
Memento Screenplay: Christopher Nolan; Story: Jonathan Nolan
Monster’s Ball Milo Addica & Will Rokos
The Royal Tenenbaums Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson
2002 (75th)
Talk to Her Pedro Almodóvar‡
Far from Heaven Todd Haynes
Gangs of New York Screenplay: Jay Cocks, Lonergan & Steven Zaillian; Story: Cocks
My Big Fat Greek Wedding Nia Vardalos
Y Tu Mamá También Alfonso & Carlos Cuarón
2003 (76th)
Lost in Translation Sofia Coppola‡
The Barbarian Invasions Denys Arcand
Dirty Pretty Things Steven Knight
Finding Nemo Screenplay: Bob Peterson, David Reynolds & Andrew Stanton; Story: Stanton
In America Jim, Kirsten & Naomi Sheridan
2004 (77th)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman; Story: Pierre Bismuth, Michel Gondry & Kaufman ‡
The Aviator John Logan
Hotel Rwanda Terry George & Keir Pearson
The Incredibles Brad Bird
Vera Drake Mike Leigh
2005 (78th)
[78] Crash Screenplay: Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco; Story: Haggis ‡
Good Night, and Good Luck George Clooney & Grant Heslov
Match Point Woody Allen
The Squid and the Whale Noah Baumbach
Syriana Stephen Gaghan
2006
(79th)
[79] Little Miss Sunshine Michael Arndt‡
Babel Guillermo Arriaga
Letters from Iwo Jima Screenplay: Iris Yamashita; Story: Yamashita & Paul Haggis
Pan’s Labyrinth Guillermo del Toro
The Queen Peter Morgan
2007 (80th)
Juno Diablo Cody
Lars and the Real Girl Nancy Oliver
Michael Clayton Tony Gilroy
Ratatouille Screenplay: Brad Bird; Story: Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco & Bird
The Savages Tamara Jenkins
2008
(81st)
[81] Milk Dustin Lance Black‡
Frozen River Courtney Hunt
Happy-Go-Lucky Mike Leigh
In Bruges Martin McDonagh
WALL-E Screenplay: Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon; Original story: Stanton & Pete Docter
2009 (82nd)
The Hurt Locker Mark Boal
Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino
The Messenger Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman
A Serious Man Coen Brothers
Up Script: Bob Peterson & Pete Docter; Story: Docter, Peterson & Tom McCarthy
2010s
2010 (83rd)
[83] The King’s Speech David Seidler‡
Another Year Mike Leigh
The Fighter Screenplay: Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson; Story: Keith Dorrington, Tamasy & Johnson
Inception Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
2011 (84th)
Midnight in Paris Woody Allen
The Artist Michel Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
Margin Call J. C. Chandor
A Separation Asghar Farhadi
2012 (85th)
Django Unchained Quentin Tarantino
Amour Michael Haneke
Flight John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty Mark Boal
2013 (86th)
[86] Her Spike Jonze‡
American Hustle Eric Warren Singer & David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine Woody Allen
Dallas Buyers Club Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack
Nebraska Bob Nelson
2014 (87th)
Birdman Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr. & Armando Bo‡
Boyhood Richard Linklater
Foxcatcher E. Max Frye & Dan Futterman
The Grand Budapest Hotel Screenplay: Wes Anderson; Story: Anderson & Hugo Guinness
Nightcrawler Dan Gilroy
2015 (88th)
Spotlight Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy
Bridge of Spies Matt Charman & Coen Brothers
Ex Machina Alex Garland
Inside Out Screenplay: Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve & Josh Cooley; Original story: Docter & Ronnie del Carmen
Straight Outta Compton Screenplay: Jonathan Herman & Andrea Berloff; Story: S. Leigh Savidge & Alan Wenkus and Berloff
2016 (89th)
Manchester by the Sea Kenneth Lonergan
Hell or High Water Taylor Sheridan
La La Land Damien Chazelle
The Lobster Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthymis Filippou
20th Century Women Mike Mills
2017 (90th)
[90] Get Out Jordan Peele‡
The Big Sick Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
Lady Bird Greta Gerwig
The Shape of Water Script: Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor; Story: del Toro
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Martin McDonagh
2018 (91st)
Green Book Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie & Peter Farrelly‡
The Favourite Deborah Davis & Tony McNamara
First Reformed, Paul Schrader
Roma Alfonso Cuarón
Vice Adam McKay
2019 (92nd)
Parasite Screenplay: Bong Joon-ho & Han Jin-won; Story: Bong‡
Knives Out Rian Johnson
Marriage Story Noah Baumbach
1917 Sam Mendes & Krysty Wilson-Cairns
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Quentin Tarantino
2020s
2020/21 (93rd)
Promising Young Woman Emerald Fennell‡
Judas and the Black Messiah Screenplay: Will Berson & Shaka King; Story: Berson & King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas
Minari Lee Isaac Chung
Sound of Metal Screenplay: Darius Marder & Abraham Marder; Story: D. Marder & Derek Cianfrance
The Trial of the Chicago 7 Aaron Sorkin
2021 (94th)
Belfast Kenneth Branagh
Don’t Look Up Screenplay: Adam McKay; Story: McKay & David Sirota
King Richard Zach Baylin
Licorice Pizza Paul Thomas Anderson
The Worst Person in the World Eskil Vogt & Joachim Trier
2022 (95th)
Everything Everywhere All at Once Daniel Kwan& Daniel Scheinert
The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
The Fabelmans Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner
Tár Todd Field
Triangle of Sadness Ruben Östlund
2023 (96th)
Anatomy of a Fall Justine Triet & Arthur Harari
The Holdovers David Hemingson
Maestro Bradley Cooper & Josh Singer
May December Screenplay: Samy Burch; Story: Burch & Alex Mechanik
Past Lives Celine Song
2024 (97th)
Anora Sean Baker
The Brutalist Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold
A Real Pain Jesse Eisenberg
September 5 Moritz Binder & Tim Fehlbaum; Co-written by Alex David
The Substance Coralie Fargeat
Multiple Wins and Nominations
Multiple wins
Wins Screenwriter
3
Woody Allen
2
Charles Brackett
Paddy Chayefsky
Quentin Tarantino
Billy Wilder
Multiple nominations
Nominations Screenwriter
16 Woody Allen
6
Federico Fellini
5
Ingmar Bergman
Mike Leigh
4
Pete Docter
Melvin Frank
Tullio Pinelli
Stanley Shapiro
Quentin Tarantino
Billy Wilder
3
Sergio Amidei
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
Warren Beatty
Robert Benton
Paddy Chayefsky
Ethan Coen
Joel Coen
Nora Ephron
Ennio Flaiano
Ruth Gordon
Tonino Guerra
Garson Kanin
Barry Levinson
Kenneth Lonergan
Paul Mazursky
Martin McDonagh
Norman Panama
Jack Rose
William Rose
Andrew Stanton
Oliver Stone
Preston Sturges
2
Nominations:
Noah Baumbach
Brad Bird
Mark Boal
Charles Brackett
Marshall Brickman
James L. Brooks
Frank Butler
Charlie Chaplin
T. E. B. Clarke
Betty Comden
Francis Ford Coppola
Cameron Crowe
Alfonso Cuarón
Guillermo del Toro
I. A. L. Diamond
Carl Foreman
Adolph Green
Clarence Greene
Paul Haggis
Ben Hecht
John Huston
Agenore Incrocci
Michael Kanin
Lawrence Kasdan
Charlie Kaufman
Norman Krasna
Claude Lelouch
John Logan
George Lucas
Louis Malle
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Tom McCarthy
Adam McKay
Mario Monicelli
Dudley Nichols
Christopher Nolan
Bob Peterson
Robert Pirosh
Frederic Raphael
Brunello Rondi
Gary Ross
Russell Rouse
John Sayles
Lesser Samuels
Furio Scarpelli
Melville Shavelson
Josh Singer
Tom Stoppard
Robert Towne
François Truffaut
Pierre Uytterhoeven
David S. Ward
