Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay

The Critics' Choice Award for Best Original and Adapted Screenplay (previously known as Awards for Best Writer) is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association.

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List of winners and nominees

1995-1996 (Best Screenplay)

Year Writer(s) Film
1995 Emma Thompson Sense and Sensibility
1996 Anthony Minghella The English Patient

1997-2000 (Best Screenplay, Original & Adaptation)

Year Screenplay, Original Screenplay, Adaptation
Writer(s) Film Writer(s) Film
1997
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck Good Will Hunting Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland L.A. Confidential
1998
Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman Shakespeare in Love Scott Smith A Simple Plan
1999
Alan Ball American Beauty Frank Darabont The Green Mile
2000
Cameron Crowe Almost Famous Stephen Gaghan Traffic

2001-2008 (Best Writer)

Year Writer(s) Film
2001
Christopher Nolan Memento
Akiva Goldsman A Beautiful Mind
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen The Man Who Wasn't There
2002
Charlie Kaufman Adaptation and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor About Schmidt
Nia Vardalos My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2003
Jim Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan and Naomi Sheridan In America
John August Big Fish
Sofia Coppola Lost in Translation
Brian Helgeland Mystic River
Gary Ross Seabiscuit
2004
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor Sideways
Bill Condon Kinsey
Charlie Kaufman Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
John Logan The Aviator
David Magee Finding Neverland
2005
Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco Crash
Noah Baumbach The Squid and the Whale
George Clooney and Grant Heslov Good Night, and Good Luck
Dan Futterman Capote
Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana Brokeback Mountain
2006
Michael Arndt Little Miss Sunshine
Guillermo Arriaga Babel
Todd Field and Tom Perrotta Little Children
Zach Helm Stranger Than Fiction
William Monahan The Departed
Peter Morgan The Queen
2007
Diablo Cody Juno
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen No Country for Old Men
Tony Gilroy Michael Clayton
Nancy Oliver Lars and the Real Girl
Sean Penn Into the Wild
Aaron Sorkin Charlie Wilson's War
2008
Simon Beaufoy Slumdog Millionaire
Dustin Lance Black Milk
Peter Morgan Frost/Nixon
Eric Roth The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley Doubt

2009 & 2010s (Best Original & Adapted Screenplay)

Year Original Screenplay Adapted Screenplay
Writer(s) Film Writer(s) Film
2009
Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner Up in the Air
Mark Boal The Hurt Locker Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen A Serious Man Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell District 9
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (500) Days of Summer Geoffrey Fletcher Precious
Bob Peterson and Peter Docter Up Tom Ford and David Searce A Single Man
Nick Hornby An Education
2010
David Seidler The King's Speech Aaron Sorkin The Social Network
Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg The Kids Are All Right Michael Arndt (story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich) Toy Story 3
Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin Black Swan Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle 127 Hours
Mike Leigh Another Year Joel Coen and Ethan Coen True Grit
Christopher Nolan Inception Peter Craig, Ben Affleck and Aaron Stockard The Town
Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (story by Keith Dorrington, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson) The Fighter Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini Winter's Bone
2011
Woody Allen Midnight in Paris John Logan Hugo
Diablo Cody Young Adult Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash The Descendants
Michel Hazanavicius The Artist Eric Roth Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Tom McCarthy (story by Tom McCarthy and Joe Tiboni) Win Win Tate Taylor The Help
Will Reiser 50/50 Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin (story by Stan Chervin) Moneyball