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The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created for 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay. In 2002, the name of the award was changed from Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) to Writing (Original Screenplay).^[1][2]

See also the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, a similar award for screenplays that are adaptations.

Notable nominees

Noted novelists and playwrights who have received nominations in this category include: John Steinbeck, Noël Coward, Raymond Chandler, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Edward Bond, Arthur C. Clarke, Lillian Hellman, Neil Simon, Paddy Chayefsky, Kenneth Lonergan, Tom Stoppard and Terence Rattigan.

Special winners

Woody Allen has the most nominations in this category with 16, and the most awards with 3, though Paddy Chayefsky won the Best Adapted Screenplay in 1955 for his adaptation of his teleplay, Marty, and also won for Original Screenplay for The Hospital and Network. Woody Allen also holds the record as the oldest winner (at age 76 for Midnight in Paris, 2011).^[3]

Ben Affleck is the youngest winner, at the age of 25 for Good Will Hunting; he co-wrote the screenplay with Matt Damon (age 27 at the time of their award).

Richard Schweizer was the first to win for a foreign-language film, Marie-Louise. Other winners for a non-English screenplay include Albert Lamorisse, Pietro Germi, Claude Lelouch, and Pedro Almodóvar. Lamorisse is additionally the only person to win or even be nominated for Best Original Screenplay for a short film (The Red Balloon, 1956).

Muriel Box was the first woman to win in this category; she shared the award with her husband, Sydney Box, for the 1945 film The Seventh Veil. The Boxes are also the first married couple to win in this category. Only three other married couples won an Oscar in another category—Earl W. Wallace and Pamela Wallace (for Original Screenplay), Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh (for Adapted Screenplay and Picture), and Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (for Original Song).

In 1996, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen became the only siblings to win in this category (for Fargo). Francis Ford Coppola (Patton, 1970) and Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, 2003) are the only father-daughter pair to win.

Preston Sturges was nominated for two different films in the same year (1944): Hail the Conquering Hero and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. Oliver Stone achieved the same distinction in 1986, for Platoon and Salvador. Maurice Richlin and Stanley Shapiro were nominated in 1959 for both Operation Petticoat and Pillow Talk and won for the latter.

At the 2018 ceremony, Get Out writer-director Jordan Peele became the first African-American to win in this category.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first in colored row, followed by the other nominees.

Herman J. Mankiewicz, co-winner of the second award in this category (for Citizen Kane).

Orson Welles co-won the award for Citizen Kane in 1941.

Screenwriter and director Billy Wilder (right) received two awards in this category in collaboration with others—one for Sunset Boulevard and one for The Apartment.

William Inge earned this award in 1961 for Splendor in the Grass.

William Rose (center right) won once in this category from three nominations.

Mel Brooks won in 1969 for 1968's The Producers.

William Goldman, winner in 1969 for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Francis Ford Coppola, co-winner of the 1970 award for Patton.

Paddy Chayefsky garnered two solo wins in this category—one for 1971's The Hospital and one for 1976's Network.

The screenwriter of Chinatown, Robert Towne, received this award.

Woody Allen earned three Original Screenplay Oscars, for Annie Hall (along with Marshall Brickman), Hannah and Her Sisters, and Midnight in Paris. He has received sixteen nominations total, the most of any writer.

Steve Tesich received the award in 1979 for Breaking Away.

Bo Goldman (left) won in 1981 for 1980's Melvin and Howard.

John Patrick Shanley, winner of this award for the 1987 romantic comedy Moonstruck.

Callie Khouri became the first woman to garner a solo win in this category with her work on Thelma & Louise.

Neil Jordan won in 1993 for 1992's The Crying Game.

Jane Campion won for The Piano in 1993.

Quentin Tarantino has received two awards from three nominations. His wins were eighteen years apart—the first was for Pulp Fiction in 1994, while the second was for 2012's Django Unchained.

Christopher McQuarrie received the award for The Usual Suspects.

Writer-director pair the Coen brothers won in 1997 for 1996's Fargo.

Ben Affleck, co-winner of 1997's award for Good Will Hunting.

Matt Damon also received the award for Good Will Hunting.

Tom Stoppard garnered the award for Shakespeare in Love.

Alan Ball won in 2000 for 1999's American Beauty.

Cameron Crowe won for 2000's Almost Famous.

Sofia Coppola won for 2003's Lost in Translation.

Michael Arndt won for 2006's Little Miss Sunshine.

Diablo Cody won for 2007's Juno.

Dustin Lance Black won for 2008's Milk.

Spike Jonze won for 2013's Her.

Alejandro G. Iñárritu won for the screenplay of 2014's Birdman, co-written with Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo.

Tom McCarthy won for the screenplay of 2015's Spotlight, co-written with Josh Singer.

Kenneth Lonergan won for Manchester by the Sea (2016).

Jordan Peele became the first African-American to win the award for 2017's Get Out.

Year	Film	Nominees
1940 (13th) [4]	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) [5]	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) [6]	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) [7]	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) [8]	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) [9]	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) [10]	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) [11]	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 [note 1][12]	—
1949 (22nd) [13]	Battleground	Robert Pirosh
	Jolson Sings Again	Sidney Buchman
	Paisan	Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini, Alfred Hayes, Marcello Pagliero & Roberto Rossellini
	Passport to Pimlico	T. E. B. Clarke
	The Quiet One	Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb & Sidney Meyers
1950 (23rd) [14]	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) [15]	An American in Paris	Alan Jay Lerner
	The Big Carnival	Walter Newman, Lesser Samuels & Billy Wilder
	David and Bathsheba	Philip Dunne
	Go for Broke!	Robert Pirosh
	The Well	Clarence Greene & Russell Rouse
1952 (25th) [16]	The Lavender Hill Mob	T. E. B. Clarke
	The Atomic City	Sydney Boehm
	The Sound Barrier	Terence Rattigan
	Pat and Mike	Ruth Gordon & Garson Kanin
	Viva Zapata!	John Steinbeck
1953 (26th) [17]	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) [18]	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) [19]	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) [20]	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) [21]	Designing Woman	George Wells
	Funny Face	Leonard Gershe
	Man of a Thousand Faces	Robert Campbell, Ivan Goff & Ben Roberts (screenplay); Ralph Wheelwright (story)
	The Tin Star	Dudley Nichols (screenplay); Joel Kane & Barney Slater (story)
	I Vitelloni	Federico Fellini & Ennio Flaiano (screenplay & story); Tullio Pinelli (story)
1958 (31st) [22]	The Defiant Ones	Nedrick Young & Harold Jacob Smith [note 2]
	The Goddess	Paddy Chayefsky
	Houseboat	Melville Shavelson & Jack Rose
	The Sheepman	James Edward Grant (screenplay & story); William Bowers (screenplay)
	Teacher's Pet	Fay & Michael Kanin
1959 (32nd) [23]	Pillow Talk	Stanley Shapiro & Maurice Richlin (screenplay); Clarence Greene & Russell Rouse(story)
	The 400 Blows	Marcel Moussy & François Truffaut
	North by Northwest	Ernest Lehman
	Operation Petticoat	Stanley Shapiro & Maurice Richlin (screenplay); Paul King & Joseph Stone (story)
	Wild Strawberries	Ingmar Bergman
1960 (33rd) [24]	The Apartment	I. A. L. Diamond & Billy Wilder
	The Angry Silence	Bryan Forbes (screenplay); Michael Craig & Richard Gregson (story)
	The Facts of Life	Melvin Frank & Norman Panama
	Hiroshima, Mon Amour	Marguerite Duras
	Never on Sunday	Jules Dassin
1961 (34th) [25]	Splendor in the Grass	William Inge
	Ballad of a Soldier	Grigori Chukhrai & Valentin Yoshov
	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) [26]	Divorce Italian Style	Ennio de Concini, Pietro Germi & Alfredo Giannetti
	Freud	Charles Kaufman (screenplay & story); Wolfgang Reinhardt (screenplay)
	Last Year at Marienbad	Alain Robbe-Grillet
	That Touch of Mink	Nate Monaster & Stanley Shapiro
	Through a Glass Darkly	Ingmar Bergman
1963 (36th) [27]	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	Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa & Nanni Loy (screenplay & story); Carlo Bernari (screenplay); Vasco Pratolini (story)
	Love with the Proper Stranger	Arnold Schulman
1964 (37th) [28]	Father Goose	Peter Stone & Frank Tarloff (screenplay); S. H. Barnett (story)
	A Hard Day's Night	Alun Owen
	One Potato, Two Potato	Orville H. Hampton (screenplay); Raphael Hayes (story)
	The Organizer	Age, Mario Monicelli & Furio Scarpelli
	That Man from Rio	Daniel Boulanger, Philippe de Broca, Ariane Mnouchkine & Jean-Paul Rappeneau
1965 (38th) [29]	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) [30]	A Man and a Woman	Claude Lelouch (screenplay & story); Pierre Uytterhoeven (story)
	Blowup	Michelangelo Antonioni (screenplay & story); Edward Bond & Tonino Guerra (screenplay)
	The Fortune Cookie	I. A. L. Diamond & Billy Wilder
	Khartoum	Robert Ardrey
	The Naked Prey	Clint Johnston & Don Peters
1967 (40th) [31]	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	William Rose
	Bonnie and Clyde	Robert Benton & David Newman
	Divorce American Style	Norman Lear (screenplay); Robert Kaufman (story)
	La Guerre Est Finie	Jorge Semprún
	Two for the Road	Frederic Raphael
1968 (41st) [32]	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) [33]	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	William Goldman
	Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice	Paul Mazursky & Larry Tucker
	The Damned	Nicola Badalucco (screenplay & story); Enrico Medioli & Luchino Visconti (screenplay)
	Easy Rider	Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper & Terry Southern
	The Wild Bunch	Walon Green (screenplay & story); Sam Peckinpah (screenplay); Roy N. Sickner (story)
1970 (43rd) [34]	Patton	Francis Ford Coppola & Edmund H. North
	Five Easy Pieces	Carole Eastman (screenplay & story); Bob Rafelson (story)
	Joe	Norman Wexler
	Love Story	Erich Segal
	My Night at Maud's	Éric Rohmer
1971 (44th) [35]	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) [36]	The Candidate	Jeremy Larner
	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie	Luis Buñuel (screenplay & story); Jean-Claude Carrière (collaboration)
	Lady Sings the Blues	Chris Clark, Suzanne de Passe & Terrence McCloy
	Murmur of the Heart	Louis Malle
	Young Winston	Carl Foreman
1973 (46th) [37]	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) [38]	Chinatown	Robert Towne
	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore	Robert Getchell
	The Conversation	Francis Ford Coppola
	Day for Night	Jean-Louis Richard, Suzanne Schiffman & François Truffaut
	Harry and Tonto	Josh Greenfield & Paul Mazursky
1975 (48th) [39]	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) [40]	Network	Paddy Chayefsky
	Cousin, Cousine	Jean-Charles Tacchella (screenplay & story); Daniele Thompson (adaptation)
	The Front	Walter Bernstein
	Rocky	Sylvester Stallone
	Seven Beauties	Lina Wertmüller
1977 (50th) [41]	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) [42]	Coming Home	Robert C. Jones & Waldo Salt (screenplay); Nancy Dowd (story)
	Autumn Sonata	Ingmar Bergman
	The Deer Hunter	Deric Washburn (screenplay & story); Michael Cimino, Louis Garfinkle & Quinn Redeker (story)
	Interiors	Woody Allen
	An Unmarried Woman	Paul Mazursky
1979 (52nd) [43]	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
1980 (53rd) [44]	Melvin and Howard	Bo Goldman
	Brubaker	W. D. Richter (screenplay & story); Arthur A. Ross (story)
	Fame	Christopher Gore
	Mon oncle d'Amérique	Jean Gruault
	Private Benjamin	Nancy Meyers, Harvey Miller & Charles Shyer
1981 (54th) [45]	Chariots of Fire	Colin Welland
	Absence of Malice	Kurt Luedtke
	Arthur	Steve Gordon
	Atlantic City	John Guare
	Reds	Trevor Griffiths & Warren Beatty
1982 (55th) [46]	Gandhi	John Briley
	Diner	Barry Levinson
	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Melissa Mathison
	An Officer and a Gentleman	Douglas Day Stewart
	Tootsie	Larry Gelbart (screenplay & story); Murray Schisgal (screenplay); Don McGuire (story)
1983 (56th) [47]	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 F. Parkes
1984 (57th) [48]	Places in the Heart	Robert Benton
	Beverly Hills Cop	Daniel Petrie Jr. (screenplay & story); Danilo Bach (story)
	Broadway Danny Rose	Woody Allen
	El Norte	Gregory Nava & Anna Thomas
	Splash	Bruce Jay Friedman (screenplay & story); Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel (screenplay); Brian Grazer (story)
1985 (58th) [49]	Witness	Earl W. Wallace & William Kelley (screenplay & story); Pamela Wallace (story)
	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) [50]	Hannah and Her Sisters	Woody Allen
	Crocodile Dundee	Paul Hogan (screenplay & story); & John Cornell & Ken Shadie (screenplay)
	My Beautiful Laundrette	Hanif Kureishi
	Platoon	Oliver Stone
	Salvador	Richard Boyle & Stone
1987 (60th) [51]	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) [52]	Rain Man	Barry Morrow (screenplay & story); Ronald Bass (screenplay)
	Big	Gary Ross & Anne Spielberg
	Bull Durham	Ron Shelton
	A Fish Called Wanda	John Cleese (screenplay & story); Charles Crichton (story)
	Running on Empty	Naomi Foner
1989 (62nd) [53]	Dead Poets Society	Tom Schulman
	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Woody Allen
	Do the Right Thing	Spike Lee
	Sex, Lies, and Videotape	Steven Soderbergh
	When Harry Met Sally...	Nora Ephron
1990 (63rd) [54]	Ghost	Bruce Joel Rubin
	Alice	Woody Allen
	Avalon	Barry Levinson
	Green Card	Peter Weir
	Metropolitan	Whit Stillman
1991 (64th) [55]	Thelma & Louise	Callie Khouri
	Boyz n the Hood	John Singleton
	Bugsy	James Toback
	The Fisher King	Richard LaGravenese
	Grand Canyon	Lawrence & Meg Kasdan
1992 (65th) [56]	The Crying Game	Neil Jordan
	Husbands and Wives	Woody Allen
	Lorenzo's Oil	Nick Enright & George Miller
	Passion Fish	John Sayles
	Unforgiven	David Webb Peoples
1993 (66th) [57]	The Piano	Jane Campion
	Dave	Gary Ross
	In the Line of Fire	Jeff Maguire
	Philadelphia	Ron Nyswaner
	Sleepless in Seattle	Jeff Arch (screenplay & story); Nora Ephron & David S. Ward (screenplay)
1994 (67th) [58]	Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino (screenplay & stories); Roger Avary (stories)
	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) [59]	The Usual Suspects	Christopher McQuarrie
	Braveheart	Randall Wallace
	Mighty Aphrodite	Woody Allen
	Nixon	Stephen J. Rivele, Oliver Stone & Christopher Wilkinson
	Toy Story	Andrew Stanton (screenplay & story); Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow & Joss Whedon (screenplay); Pete Docter John Lasseter & Joe Ranft (story)
1996 (69th) [60]	Fargo	Coen Brothers
	Jerry Maguire	Cameron Crowe
	Lone Star	John Sayles
	Secrets & Lies	Mike Leigh
	Shine	Jan Sardi (screenplay); Scott Hicks (story)
1997 (70th) [61]	Good Will Hunting	Ben Affleck & Matt Damon
	As Good as It Gets	Mark Andrus (screenplay & story); James L. Brooks (screenplay)
	Boogie Nights	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Deconstructing Harry	Woody Allen
	The Full Monty	Simon Beaufoy
1998 (71st) [62]	Shakespeare in Love	Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard
	Bulworth	Warren Beatty (screenplay & story); Jeremy Pikser (screenplay)
	Life Is Beautiful	Roberto Benigni & Vincenzo Cerami
	Saving Private Ryan	Robert Rodat
	The Truman Show	Andrew Niccol
1999 (72nd) [63]	American Beauty	Alan Ball
	Being John Malkovich	Charlie Kaufman
	Magnolia	Paul Thomas Anderson
	The Sixth Sense	M. Night Shyamalan
	Topsy-Turvy	Mike Leigh
2000 (73rd) [64]	Almost Famous	Cameron Crowe
	Billy Elliot	Lee Hall
	Erin Brockovich	Susannah Grant
	Gladiator	David Franzoni (screenplay & story); John Logan & William Nicholson (screenplay)
	You Can Count on Me	Kenneth Lonergan
2001 (74th) [65]	Gosford Park	Julian Fellowes
	Amélie	Guillaume Laurant (screenplay & dialogue); Jean-Pierre Jeunet (screenplay)
	Memento	Christopher Nolan (screenplay); Jonathan Nolan (story)
	Monster's Ball	Milo Addica & Will Rokos
	The Royal Tenenbaums	Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson
2002 (75th) [66]	Talk to Her	Pedro Almodóvar
	Far from Heaven	Todd Haynes
	Gangs of New York	Jay Cocks (screenplay & story); Kenneth Lonergan & Steven Zaillian (screenplay)
	My Big Fat Greek Wedding	Nia Vardalos
	Y Tu Mamá También	Alfonso & Carlos Cuarón
2003 (76th) [67]	Lost in Translation	Sofia Coppola
	The Barbarian Invasions	Denys Arcand
	Dirty Pretty Things	Steven Knight
	Finding Nemo	Andrew Stanton (screenplay & original story); Bob Peterson & David Reynolds (screenplay)
	In America	Jim, Kirsten & Naomi Sheridan
2004 (77th) [68]	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Charlie Kaufman (screenplay & story); Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth (story)
	The Aviator	John Logan
	Hotel Rwanda	Terry George & Keir Pearson
	The Incredibles	Brad Bird
	Vera Drake	Mike Leigh
2005 (78th) [69]	Crash	Paul Haggis (screenplay & story); Bobby Moresco (screenplay)
	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) [70]	Little Miss Sunshine	Michael Arndt
	Babel	Guillermo Arriaga
	Letters from Iwo Jima	Iris Yamashita (screenplay & story); Paul Haggis (story)
	Pan's Labyrinth	Guillermo del Toro
	The Queen	Peter Morgan
2007 (80th) [71]	Juno	Diablo Cody
	Lars and the Real Girl	Nancy Oliver
	Michael Clayton	Tony Gilroy
	Ratatouille	Brad Bird (screenplay & story); Jim Capobianco & Jan Pinkava (story)
	The Savages	Tamara Jenkins
2008 (81st) [72]	Milk	Dustin Lance Black
	Frozen River	Courtney Hunt
	Happy-Go-Lucky	Mike Leigh
	In Bruges	Martin McDonagh
	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton (screenplay & original story); Jim Reardon (screenplay); Pete Docter (original story)
2009 (82nd) [73]	The Hurt Locker	Mark Boal
	Inglourious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino
	The Messenger	Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman
	A Serious Man	Coen Brothers
	Up	Pete Docter & Bob Peterson (screenplay & story); Tom McCarthy (story)
2010 (83rd) [74]	The King's Speech	David Seidler
	Another Year	Mike Leigh
	The Fighter	Eric Johnson & Paul Tamasy (screenplay & story); Scott Silver (screenplay); Keith Dorrington (story)
	Inception	Christopher Nolan
	The Kids Are All Right	Stuart Blumberg & Lisa Cholodenko
2011 (84th) [75]	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) [76]	Django Unchained	Quentin Tarantino
	Amour	Michael Haneke
	Flight	John Gatins
	Moonrise Kingdom	Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
	Zero Dark Thirty	Mark Boal
2013 (86th) [77]	Her	Spike Jonze
	American Hustle	David O. Russell & Eric Warren Singer
	Blue Jasmine	Woody Allen
	Dallas Buyers Club	Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack
	Nebraska	Bob Nelson
2014 (87th) [78]	Birdman	Armando Bo, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., Nicolás Giacobone & Alejandro G. Iñárritu
	Boyhood	Richard Linklater
	Foxcatcher	E. Max Frye & Dan Futterman
	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson (screenplay & story); Hugo Guinness (story)
	Nightcrawler	Dan Gilroy
2015 (88th) [79]	Spotlight	Tom McCarthy & Josh Singer
	Bridge of Spies	Matt Charman & Coen Brothers
	Ex Machina	Alex Garland
	Inside Out	Pete Docter (screenplay & story); Josh Cooley & Meg LeFauve (screenplay); Ronnie del Carmen (story)
	Straight Outta Compton	Andrea Berloff (screenplay & story); Jonathan Herman (screenplay); S. Leigh Savidge & Alan Wenkus (story)
2016 (89th) [80]	Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan
	Hell or High Water	Taylor Sheridan
	La La Land	Damien Chazelle
	The Lobster	Efthymis Filippou & Yorgos Lanthimos
	20th Century Women	Mike Mills
2017 (90th) [81]	Get Out	Jordan Peele
	The Big Sick	Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
	Lady Bird	Greta Gerwig
	The Shape of Water	Guillermo del Toro (screenplay & story) & Vanessa Taylor
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Martin McDonagh

Notes

Multiple wins and nominations

Age superlatives

See also

• Academy Award for Best Story


• Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay


• BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay


• Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay


• Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Screenplay


• List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees


• Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay

References