List of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay winners

Contents

1 Winners
- 1.1 1940s
- 1.2 1950s
- 1.3 1960s
- 1.4 1970s
- 1.5 1980s
- 1.6 1990s
- 1.7 2000s
- 1.8 2010s
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

The following is a list of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture, one of the Edgar Awards awarded to authors and others by the Mystery Writers of America. The "Best Motion Picture" award has been presented since 1946.

Winners

1940s

1946: Murder, My Sweet - John Paxton
1947: The Killers - Anthony Veiller
1948: Crossfire - John Paxton
1949: Call Northside 777 - Jerome Cady (posthumously), Jay Dratler, Leonard Hoffman, Quentin Reynolds

1950s

1950: The Window - Mel Dinelli; Cornell Woolrich
1951: The Asphalt Jungle - Ben Maddow
1952: Detective Story - Michael Wilson
1953: Five Fingers - Michael Wilson; Otto Lang
1954: The Big Heat - Sydney Boehm
1955: Rear Window - John Michael Hayes
1956: The Desperate Hours - Joseph Hayes
1957: No Award Presented
1958: 12 Angry Men - Reginald Rose
1959: The Defiant Ones - Nathan E. Douglas; Harold Jacob Smith

1960s

1960: North By Northwest - Ernest Lehman
1961: Psycho - Joseph Stefano
1962: The Innocents - William Archibald; Truman Capote
1963: No Award Presented
1964: Charade - Peter Stone
1965: Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte - Henry Farrell; Lukas Heller
1966: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold - Paul Dehn; Guy Trosper
1967: Harper – William Goldman
1968: In The Heat of the Night - Stirling Silliphant
1969: Bullitt - Harry Kleiner; Alan Trustman

1970s

1970: Z - Costa Gavras; Jorge Semprún
1971: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion - Elio Petri; Ugo Pirro
1972: The French Connection - Ernest Tidyman
1973: Sleuth - Anthony Shaffer
1974: The Last of Sheila - Anthony Perkins; Stephen Sondheim
1975: Chinatown - Robert Towne
1976: Three Days of the Condor - David Rayfiel; Lorenzo Semple, Jr.
1977: Family Plot - Ernest Lehman
1978: The Late Show - Robert Benton
1979: Magic - William Goldman

1980s

1980: The Great Train Robbery - Michael Crichton
1981: The Black Marble - Joseph Wambaugh
1982: Cutter's Way - Jeffrey Alan Fiskin
1983: The Long Good Friday - Barrie Keefe
1984: Gorky Park - Dennis Potter
1985: A Soldier's Story - Charles Fuller
1986: Witness - William Kelley, Earl W. Wallace
1987: Something Wild - E. Max Frye
1988: Stakeout - Jim Kouf
1989: The Thin Blue Line - Errol Morris

1990s

1990: Heathers - Daniel Waters
1991: The Grifters - Donald E. Westlake
1992: The Silence of the Lambs - Ted Tally
1993: The Player - Michael Tolkin
1994: Falling Down - Ebbe Roe Smith
1995: Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino
1996: The Usual Suspects - Christopher McQuarrie
1997: Sling Blade - Billy Bob Thornton
1998: L.A. Confidential - Curtis Hanson; Brian Helgeland
1999: Out of Sight - Scott Frank (screenplay); Elmore Leonard (novel)

2000s

2000: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - Guy Ritchie (screenplay)
2001: Traffic - Stephen Gaghan (screenplay); Simon Moore (original mini-series)
2002: Memento - Christopher Nolan
2003: Chicago - Bill Condon
2004: Dirty Pretty Things - Steven Knight
2005: A Very Long Engagement - Jean-Pierre Jeunet (screenplay); Sébastien Japrisot (novel)
2006: Syriana - Stephen Gaghan (screenplay); Robert Baer (book)
2007: The Departed - William Monahan
2008: Michael Clayton - Tony Gilroy^[1]
2009: In Bruges - Martin McDonagh^[2]

2010s

2010: No Award Presented

See also

Category:Edgar Award winners
Category:Edgar Award winning works

References

^ "Mystery Writers of America Announces the 2008 Edgar Award Winners". 2008-05-01. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-01-2008/0004805000. Retrieved 2009-05-02.
^ "Mystery Writers of America Announces the 2009 Edgar Award Winners". 2009-04-30. http://www.mysterywriters.org/files/2009_Edgar_Winners.pdf. Retrieved 2009-07-29.

External links

Search the Edgar Award Winners And Nominees from the Edgar Awards website
Edgar Allan Poe Awards from the Internet Movie Database