Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script 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]

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, Tom Stoppard, and Terence Rattigan.

Special winners

Woody Allen has the most nominations in this category with 16, and the most awards with 3. He 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.

Muriel Box was the first woman to win in this category; she shared the award with her husband, Sydney Box. The Boxes are also the first married couple to win in this category. Only three other married couples won an Oscar in another category. They are; 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. Francis Ford Coppola (1970) and Sofia Coppola (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.

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.

Claude Lelouch, co-winner for A Man and a Woman.

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

Mel Brooks won in 1968 for 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 won in 1980 for 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 1992 for 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 1996 for 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.

Mark Boal won in 2010 for The Hurt Locker.

Spike Jonze won for 2013's Her.

Alejandro G. Iñárritu won for the screenplay of 2014's Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), co-written with Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., and Armando Bo.

Year	Screenwriter(s)	Film	Ref.
1940 (13th)	Sturges !Preston Sturges	The Great McGinty	[4]
	Hecht !Ben Hecht	Angels Over Broadway
	Burnside !Norman Burnside Herald !Heinz Herald Huston !John Huston	Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
	Bennett !Charles Bennett Harrison !Joan Harrison	Foreign Correspondent
	Chaplin !Charlie Chaplin	The Great Dictator
1941 (14th)	Mankiewicz !Herman J. Mankiewicz Welles !Orson Welles	Citizen Kane	[5]
	Krasna !Norman Krasna	The Devil and Miss Jones
	Chandlee !Harry Chandlee Finkel !Abem Finkel Huston !John Huston Koch !Howard E. Koch	Sergeant York
	Tunberg !Karl Tunberg Ware !Darrell Ware	Tall, Dark and Handsome
	Jarrico !Paul Jarrico	Tom, Dick and Harry
1942 (15th)	Kanin !Michael Kanin Lardner Jr. !Ring Lardner Jr.	Woman of the Year	[6]
	Powell !Michael Powell Pressburger !Emeric Pressburger	One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
	Butler !Frank Butler Hartman !Don Hartman	Road to Morocco
	Burnett !W. R. Burnett Butler !Frank Butler	Wake Island
	Oppenheimer !George Oppenheimer	The War Against Mrs. Hadley
1943 (16th)	Krasna !Norman Krasna	Princess O'Rourke	[7]
	Nichols !Dudley Nichols	Air Force
	Coward !Noël Coward	In Which We Serve
	Hellman !Lillian Hellman	The North Star
	Scott !Allan Scott	So Proudly We Hail!
1944 (17th)	Trotti !Lamar Trotti	Wilson	[8]
	Sturges !Preston Sturges	Hail the Conquering Hero
		The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
	Connell !Richard Connell Lehman !Gladys Lehman	Two Girls and a Sailor
	Cady !Jerome Cady	Wing and a Prayer
1945 (18th)	Schweizer !Richard Schweizer	Marie-Louise	[9]
	Yordan !Philip Yordan	Dillinger
	Connolly !Myles Connolly	Music for Millions
	Holmes !Milton Holmes	Salty O'Rourke
	Kurnitz !Harry Kurnitz	What Next, Corporal Hargrove?
1946 (19th)	Box !Muriel Box Box !Sydney Box	The Seventh Veil	[10]
	Chandler !Raymond Chandler}	The Blue Dahlia
	Prévert !Jacques Prévert	Children of Paradise
	Hecht !Ben Hecht	Notorious
	Panama !Norman Panama Frank !Melvin Frank	Road to Utopia
1947 (20th)	Sheldon !Sidney Sheldon	The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer	[11]
	Polonsky !Abraham Polonsky	Body and Soul
	Gordon !Ruth Gordon Kanin !Garson Kanin	A Double Life
	Chaplin !Charlie Chaplin	Monsieur Verdoux
	Amidei !Sergio Amidei Franci !Adolfo Franci Viola !C. G. Viola Zavattini !Cesare Zavattini	Shoeshine
1948 (21st)	N/A	—	[12]
1949 (22nd)	Pirosh !Robert Pirosh	Battleground	[13]
	Buchman !Sidney Buchman	Jolson Sings Again
	Hayes !V. Hayes Fellini !Federico Fellini Amidei !Sergio Amidei Pagliero !Marcello Pagliero Rossellini !Roberto Rossellini	Paisan
	Clarke !T. E. B. Clarke	Passport to Pimlico
	Levitt !Helen Levitt Loeb !Janice Loeb Meyers !Sidney Meyers	The Quiet Ones
1950 (23rd)	Brackett !Charles Brackett Marshman, Jr. !D.M. Marshman, Jr. Wilder !Billy Wilder	Sunset Boulevard	[14]
	Gordon !Ruth Gordon Kanin !Garson Kanin	Adam's Rib
	Kellogg !Virginia Kellogg Schoenfeld !Bernard C. Schoenfeld	Caged
	Foreman !Carl Foreman	The Men
	Mankiewicz !Joseph L. Mankiewicz Samuels !Lesser Samuels	No Way Out
1951 (24th)	Lerner !Alan Jay Lerner	An American in Paris	[15]
	Wilder !Billy Wilder Samuels !Lesser Samuels Newman !Walter Newman	The Big Carnival
	Dunne !Philip Dunne	David and Bathsheba
	Pirosh !Robert Pirosh	Go for Broke!
	Greene !Clarence Greene Rouse !Russell Rouse	The Well
1952 (25th)	Clarke !T. E. B. Clarke	The Lavender Hill Mob	[16]
	Boehm !Sydney Boehm	The Atomic City
	Rattigan !Terence Rattigan	The Sound Barrier
	Gordon !Ruth Gordon Kanin !Garson Kanin	Pat and Mike
	Steinbeck !John Steinbeck	Viva Zapata!
1953 (26th)	Brackett !Charles Brackett Breen !Richard L. Breen Reisch !Walter Reisch	Titanic	[17]
	Comden !Betty Comden Green !Adolph Green	The Band Wagon
	Murphy !Richard Murphy	The Desert Rats
	Rolfe !Sam Rolfe Bloom !Harold Jack Bloom	The Naked Spur
	Kaufman !Millard Kaufman	Take the High Ground!
1954 (27th)	Schulberg !Budd Schulberg	On the Waterfront	[18]
	Mankiewicz !Joseph L. Mankiewicz	The Barefoot Contessa
	Rose !William Rose	Genevieve
	Davies !Valentine Davies Brodney !Oscar Brodney	The Glenn Miller Story
	Panama !Norman Panama Frank !Melvin Frank	Knock on Wood
1955 (28th)	Levien !Sonya Levien Ludwig !William Ludwig	Interrupted Melody	[19]
	Sperling !Milton Sperling Lavery !Emmet Lavery	The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
	Comden !Betty Comden Green !Adolph Green	It's Always Fair Weather
	Tati !Jacques Tati Marquet !Henri Marquet	Les Vacances de M. Hulot
	Shavelson !Melville Shavelson Rose !Jack Rose	The Seven Little Foys
1956 (29th)	Lamorisse !Albert Lamorisse	The Red Balloon	[20]
	Lewin !Robert Lewin	The Bold and the Brave
	Stone !Andrew L. Stone	Julie
	Fellini !Federico Fellini PInelli !Tullio Pinelli	La Strada
	Rose !William Rose	The Ladykillers
1957 (30th)	Wells !George Wells	Designing Woman	[21]
	Gershe !Leonard Gershe	Funny Face
	Wheelwright !Ralph Wheelwright Campbell !R. Wright Campbell Goff !Ivan Goff Roberts !Ben Roberts	Man of a Thousand Faces
	Slater !Barney Slater Kane !Joel Kane Nichols !Dudley Nichols	The Tin Star
	Fellini !Federico Fellini Flaiano !Ennio Flaiano Pinelli !Tullio Pinelli	I Vitelloni
1958 (31st)	Douglas !Nathan E. Douglas Smith !Harold Jacob Smith	The Defiant Ones	[22]
	Chayefsky !Paddy Chayefsky	The Goddess
	Shavelson !Melville Shavelson Rose !Jack Rose	Houseboat
	Grant !James Edward Grant Bowers !William Bowers	The Sheepman
	Kanin !Fay Kanin Kanin !Michael Kanin	Teacher's Pet
1959 (32nd)	Greene !Clarence Greene Richlin !Maurice Richlin Rouse !Russell Rouse Shapiro !Stanley Shapiro	Pillow Talk	[23]
	Truffaut !François Truffaut Moussy !Marcel Moussy	The 400 Blows
	Lehman !Ernest Lehman	North by Northwest
	King !Paul King Stone !Joseph Stone Shapiro !Stanley Shapiro Richlin !Maurice Richlin	Operation Petticoat
	Bergman !Ingmar Bergman	Wild Strawberries
1960 (33rd)	Diamond !I. A. L. Diamond Wilder !Billy Wilder	The Apartment	[24]
	Forbes !Bryan Forbes Gregson !Richard Gregson Craig !Michael Craig	The Angry Silence
	Panama !Norman Panama Frank !Melvin Frank	The Facts of Life
	Duras !Marguerite Duras	Hiroshima mon amour
	Dassin !Jules Dassin	Never on Sunday
1961 (34th)	Inge !William Inge	Splendor in the Grass	[25]
	Yoshov !Valentin Yoshov Chukhrai !Grigori Chukhrai	Ballad of a Soldier
	Fellini !Federico Fellini Pinelli !Tullio Pinelli Flaiano !Ennio Flaiano Rondi !Brunello Rondi	La Dolce Vita
	Amidei !Sergio Amidei Fabbi !Diego Fabbi Montanelli !Indro Montanelli}	General della Rovere
	Shapiro !Stanley Shapiro Henning !Paul Henning	Lover Come Back
1962 (35th)	de Concini !Ennio de Concini Germi !Pietro Germi Giannetti !Alfredo Giannetti	Divorce, Italian Style	[26]
	Kaufman !Charles Kaufman Reinhardt !Wolfgang Reinhardt	Freud: The Secret Passion
	Robbe-Grillet !Alain Robbe-Grillet	Last Year at Marienbad
	Shapiro !Stanley Shapiro Monaster !Nate Monaster	That Touch of Mink
	Bergman !Ingmar Bergman	Through a Glass Darkly
1963 (36th)	Webb !James Webb	How the West Was Won	[27]
	Fellini !Federico Fellini Flaiano !Ennio Flaiano Pinelli !Tullio Pinelli Rondi !Brunello Rondi	8½
	Kazan !Elia Kazan	America, America
	Campanile !Pasquale Festa Campanile Franciosa !Massimo Franciosa Loy !Nanni Loy Pratolini !Vasco Pratolini Bernari !Carlo Bernari	The Four Days of Naples
	Schulman !Arnold Schulman	Love with the Proper Stranger
1964 (37th)	Stone !Peter Stone Tarloff !Frank Tarloff	Father Goose	[28]
	Owen !Alun Owen	A Hard Day's Night
	Hayes !Raphael Hayes Hampton !Orville H. Hampton	One Potato, Two Potato
	Incrocci !Agenore Incrocci Scarpelli !Furio Scarpelli Monicelli !Mario Monicelli	The Organizer
	Rappeneau !Jean-Paul Rappeneau Mnouchkine !Ariane Mnouchkine Boulanger !Daniel Boulanger de Broca !Philippe de Broca	That Man from Rio
1965 (38th)	Raphael !Frederic Raphael	Darling	[29]
	Incrocci !Agenore Incrocci Scarpelli !Furio Scarpelli Monicelli !Mario Monicelli Guerra !Tonino Guerra Salvioni !Giorgio Salvioni d'Amico !Suso Cecchi d'Amico	Casanova 70
	Davies !Jack Davies Annakin !Ken Annakin	Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
	Coen !Franklin Coen Davis !Frank Davis	The Train
	Demy !Jacques Demy	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1966 (39th)	Lelouch !Claude Lelouch Uytterhoeven !Pierre Uytterhoeven	A Man and a Woman	[30]
	Antonioni !Michelangelo Antonioni Guerra !Tonino Guerra Bond !Edward Bond	Blowup
	Wilder !Billy Wilder Diamond !I. A. L. Diamond	The Fortune Cookie
	Ardrey !Robert Ardrey	Khartoum
	Johnston !Clint Johnston Peters !Don Peters	The Naked Prey
1967 (40th)	Rose !William Rose	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	[31]
	Newman !David Newman Benton !Robert Benton	Bonnie and Clyde
	Kaufman !Robert Kaufman Lear !Norman Lear	Divorce American Style
	Semprún !Jorge Semprún	La Guerre Est Finie
	Raphael !Frederic Raphael	Two for the Road
1968 (41st)	Brooks !Mel Brooks	The Producers	[32]
	Kubrick !Stanley Kubrick Clarke !Arthur C. Clarke	2001: A Space Odyssey
	Solinas !Franco Solinas Pontecorvo !Gillo Pontecorvo	The Battle of Algiers
	Cassavetes !John Cassavetes	Faces
	Wallach !Ira Wallach Ustinov !Peter Ustinov	Hot Millions
1969 (42nd)	Goldman !William Goldman	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	[33]
	Mazursky !Paul Mazursky Tucker !Larry Tucker	Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
	Badalucco !Nicola Badalucco Medioli !Enrico Medioli Visconti !Luchino Visconti	The Damned
	Fonda !Peter Fonda Hopper !Dennis Hopper Southern !Terry Southern	Easy Rider
	Green !Walon Green Sickner !Roy N. Sickner Peckinpah !Sam Peckinpah	The Wild Bunch
1970 (43rd)	Coppola !Francis Ford Coppola North !Edmund H. North	Patton	[34]
	Eastman !Adrien Joyce Rafelson !Bob Rafelson	Five Easy Pieces
	Wexler !Norman Wexler	Joe
	Segal !Erich Segal	Love Story
	Rohmer !Éric Rohmer	My Night at Maud's
1971 (44th)	Chayefsky !Paddy Chayefsky	The Hospital	[35]
	Petri !Elio Petri Pirro !Ugo Pirro	Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
	Lewis !Andy Lewis Lewis !David Lewis	Klute
	Raucher !Herman Raucher	Summer of '42
	Gilliat !Penelope Gilliatt	Sunday Bloody Sunday
1972 (45th)	Larner !Jeremy Larner	The Candidate	[36]
	Buñuel !Luis Buñuel Carrière !Jean-Claude Carrière	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
	McCloy !Terrence McCloy Clark !Chris Clark de Passe !Suzanne de Passe	Lady Sings the Blues
	Malle !Louis Malle	Murmur of the Heart
	Foreman !Carl Foreman	Young Winston
1973 (46th)	Ward !David S. Ward	The Sting	[37]
	Lucas !George Lucas Katz !Gloria Katz Huyck !Willard Huyck	American Graffiti
	Bergman !Ingmar Bergman	Cries and Whispers
	Shagan !Steve Shagan	Save the Tiger
	Frank !Melvin Frank Rose !Jack Rose	A Touch of Class
1974 (47th)	Towne !Robert Towne	Chinatown	[38]
	Getchell !Robert Getchell	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
	Coppola !Francis Ford Coppola	The Conversation
	Truffaut !François Truffaut Richard !Jean-Louis Richard Schiffman !Suzanne Schiffman	Day for Night
	Mazursky !Paul Mazursky Greenfield !Josh Greenfield	Harry and Tonto
1975 (48th)	Pierson !Frank Pierson	Dog Day Afternoon	[39]
	Fellini !Federico Fellini Guerra !Tonino Guerra	Amarcord
	Lelouch !Claude Lelouch Uytterhoeven !Pierre Uytterhoeven	And Now My Love
	Allan !Ted Allan	Lies My Father Told Me
	Towne !Robert Towne Beatty !Warren Beatty	Shampoo
1976 (49th)	Chayefsky !Paddy Chayefsky	Network	[40]
	Tacchella !Jean-Charles Tacchella Thompson !Daniele Thompson	Cousin Cousine
	Bernstein !Walter Bernstein	The Front
	Stallone !Sylvester Stallone	Rocky
	Wertmüller !Lina Wertmüller	Seven Beauties
1977 (50th)	Allen !Woody Allen Brickman !Marshall Brickman	Annie Hall	[41]
	Simon !Neil Simon	The Goodbye Girl
	Benton !Robert Benton	The Late Show
	Lucas !George Lucas	Star Wars
	Laurents !Arthur Laurents	The Turning Point
1978 (51st)	Jones !Robert C. Jones Salt !Waldo Salt Dowd !Nancy Dowd	Coming Home	[42]
	Bergman !Ingmar Bergman	Autumn Sonata
	Washburn !Deric Washburn Cimino !Michael Cimino Garfinkle !Louis Garfinkle Redeker !Quinn K. Redeker	The Deer Hunter
	Allen !Woody Allen	Interiors
	Mazursky !Paul Mazursky	An Unmarried Woman
1979 (52nd)	Tesich !Steve Tesich	Breaking Away	[43]
	Aurthur !Robert Alan Aurthur Fosse !Bob Fosse	All That Jazz
	Curtin !Valerie Curtin Levinson !Barry Levinson	…And Justice for All
	Gray !Mike Gray Cook !T. S. Cook Bridges !James Bridges	The China Syndrome
	Allen !Woody Allen Brickman !Marshall Brickman	Manhattan
1980 (53rd)	Goldman !Bo Goldman	Melvin and Howard	[44]
	Richter !W. D. Richter Ross !Arthur A. Ross	Brubaker
	Gore !Christopher Gore	Fame
	Gruault !Jean Gruault Laborit !Henri Laborit	Mon oncle d'Amérique
	Meyers !Nancy Meyers Shyer !Charles Shyer Miller !Harvey Miller	Private Benjamin
1981 (54th)	Welland !Colin Welland	Chariots of Fire	[45]
	Luedtke !Kurt Luedtke	Absence of Malice
	Gordon !Steve Gordon	Arthur
	Guare !John Guare	Atlantic City
	Beatty !Warren Beatty Griffiths !Trevor Griffiths	Reds
1982 (55th)	Briley !John Briley	Gandhi	[46]
	Levinson !Barry Levinson	Diner
	Mathison !Melissa Mathison	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
	Stewart !Douglas Day Stewart	An Officer and a Gentleman
	Gelbart !Larry Gelbart Schisgal !Murray Schisgal McGuire !Don McGuire	Tootsie
1983 (56th)	Foote !Horton Foote	Tender Mercies	[47]
	Kasdan !Lawrence Kasdan Benedek !Barbara Benedek	The Big Chill
	Bergman !Ingmar Bergman	Fanny and Alexander
	Ephron !Nora Ephron Arlen !Alice Arlen	Silkwood
	Lasker !Lawrence Lasker Parkes !Walter F. Parkes	WarGames
1984 (57th)	Benton !Robert Benton	Places in the Heart	[48]
	Petrie, Jr. !Daniel Petrie, Jr. Bach !Danilo Bach	Beverly Hills Cop
	Allen !Woody Allen	Broadway Danny Rose
	Nava !Gregory Nava Thomas !Anna Thomas	El Norte
	Ganz !Lowell Ganz Mandel !Babaloo Mandel Friedman !Bruce Jay Friedman Grazer !Brian Grazer	Splash
1985 (58th)	Kelley !William Kelley Wallace !Earl Wallace Wallace !Pamela Wallace	Witness	[49]
	Zemeckis !Robert Zemeckis Gale !Bob Gale	Back to the Future
	Gilliam !Terry Gilliam Stoppard !Tom Stoppard McKeown !Charles McKeown	Brazil
	Puenzo !Luis Puenzo Bortnik !Aída Bortnik	The Official Story
	Allen !Woody Allen	The Purple Rose of Cairo
1986 (59th)	Allen !Woody Allen	Hannah and Her Sisters	[50]
	Hogan !Paul Hogan Shadie !Ken Shadie Cornell !John Cornell	"Crocodile" Dundee
	Kureishi !Hanif Kureishi	My Beautiful Laundrette
	Stone !Oliver Stone	Platoon
	Stone !Oliver Stone Boyle !Richard Boyle	Salvador
1987 (60th)	Shanley !John Patrick Shanley	Moonstruck	[51]
	Malle !Louis Malle	Au revoir les enfants
	Brooks !James L. Brooks	Broadcast News
	Boorman !John Boorman	Hope and Glory
	Allen !Woody Allen	Radio Days
1988 (61st)	Bass !Ronald Bass Morrow !Barry Morrow	Rain Man	[52]
	Ross !Gary Ross Spielberg !Anne Spielberg	Big
	Shelton !Ron Shelton	Bull Durham
	Cleese !John Cleese Crichton !Charles Crichton	A Fish Called Wanda
	Foner !Naomi Foner	Running on Empty
1989 (62nd)	Schulman !Tom Schulman	Dead Poets Society	[53]
	Allen !Woody Allen	Crimes and Misdemeanors
	Lee !Spike Lee	Do the Right Thing
	Soderbergh !Steven Soderbergh	Sex, Lies, and Videotape
	Ephron !Nora Ephron	When Harry Met Sally…
1990 (63rd)	Rubin !Bruce Joel Rubin	Ghost	[54]
	Allen !Woody Allen	Alice
	Levinson !Barry Levinson	Avalon
	Weir !Peter Weir	Green Card
	Stillman !Whit Stillman	Metropolitan
1991 (64th)	Khouri !Callie Khouri	Thelma & Louise	[55]
	Singleton !John Singleton	Boyz n the Hood
	Toback !James Toback	Bugsy
	LaGravenese !Richard LaGravenese	The Fisher King
	Kasdan !Lawrence Kasdan Kasdan !Meg Kasdan	Grand Canyon
1992 (65th)	Jordan !Neil Jordan	The Crying Game	[56]
	Allen !Woody Allen	Husbands and Wives
	Enright !Nick Enright Miller !George Miller	Lorenzo's Oil
	Sayles !John Sayles	Passion Fish
	Peoples !David Webb Peoples	Unforgiven
1993 (66th)	Campion !Jane Campion	The Piano	[57]
	Ross !Gary Ross	Dave
	Maguire !Jeff Maguire	In the Line of Fire
	Nyswaner !Ron Nyswaner	Philadelphia
	Arch !Jeff Arch Ephron !Nora Ephron Ward !David S. Ward	Sleepless in Seattle
1994 (67th)	Tarantino !Quentin Tarantino Avary !Roger Avary	Pulp Fiction	[58]
	Allen !Woody Allen McGrath !Douglas McGrath	Bullets Over Broadway
	Curtis !Richard Curtis	Four Weddings and a Funeral
	Jackson !Peter Jackson Walsh !Fran Walsh	Heavenly Creatures
	Kieślowski !Krzysztof Kieślowski Piesiewicz !Krzysztof Piesiewicz	Three Colors: Red
1995 (68th)	McQuarrie !Christopher McQuarrie	The Usual Suspects	[59]
	Wallace !Randall Wallace	Braveheart
	Allen !Woody Allen	Mighty Aphrodite
	Rivele !Stephen J. Rivele Wilkinson !Christopher Wilkinson Stone !Oliver Stone	Nixon
	Whedon !Joss Whedon Stanton !Andrew Stanton Cohen !Joel Cohen Sokolow !Alec Sokolow Lasseter !John Lasseter Docter !Pete Docter Ranft !Joe Ranft	Toy Story
1996 (69th)	Coen !Joel and Ethan Coen	Fargo	[60]
	Crowe !Cameron Crowe	Jerry Maguire
	Sayles !John Sayles	Lone Star
	Leigh !Mike Leigh	Secrets & Lies
	Sardi !Jan Sardi Hicks !Scott Hicks	Shine
1997 (70th)	Affleck !Ben Affleck Damon !Matt Damon	Good Will Hunting	[61]
	Andrus !Mark Andrus Brooks !James L. Brooks	As Good as It Gets
	Anderson !Paul Thomas Anderson	Boogie Nights
	Allen !Woody Allen	Deconstructing Harry
	Beaufoy !Simon Beaufoy	The Full Monty
1998 (71st)	Norman !Marc Norman Stoppard !Tom Stoppard	Shakespeare in Love	[62]
	Beatty !Warren Beatty Pikser !Jeremy Pikser	Bulworth
	Benigni !Roberto Benigni Cerami !Vincenzo Cerami	Life Is Beautiful
	Rodat !Robert Rodat	Saving Private Ryan
	Niccol !Andrew Niccol	The Truman Show
1999 (72nd)	Ball !Alan Ball	American Beauty	[63]
	Kaufman !Charlie Kaufman	Being John Malkovich
	Anderson !Paul Thomas Anderson	Magnolia
	Shyamalan !M. Night Shyamalan	The Sixth Sense
	Leigh !Mike Leigh	Topsy-Turvy
2000 (73rd)	Crowe !Cameron Crowe	Almost Famous	[64]
	Hall !Lee Hall	Billy Elliot
	Grant !Susannah Grant	Erin Brockovich
	Franzoni !David Franzoni Logan !John Logan Nicholson !William Nicholson	Gladiator
	Lonergan !Kenneth Lonergan	You Can Count on Me
2001 (74th)	Fellowes !Julian Fellowes	Gosford Park	[65]
	Jeunet !Jean-Pierre Jeunet Laurant !Guillaume Laurant	Amélie
	Nolan !Christopher Nolan Nolan !Jonathan Nolan	Memento
	Addica !Milo Addica Rokos !Will Rokos	Monster's Ball
	Anderson !Wes Anderson Wilson !Owen Wilson	The Royal Tenenbaums
2002 (75th)	Almodóvar !Pedro Almodóvar	Talk to Her	[66]
	Haynes !Todd Haynes	Far from Heaven
	Cocks !Jay Cocks Zaillian !Steven Zaillian Lonergan !Kenneth Lonergan	Gangs of New York
	Vardalos !Nia Vardalos	My Big Fat Greek Wedding
	Cuarón !Alfonso Cuarón Cuarón !Carlos Cuarón	Y Tu Mamá También
2003 (76th)	Coppola !Sofia Coppola	Lost in Translation	[67]
	Arcand !Denys Arcand	The Barbarian Invasions
	Knight !Steven Knight	Dirty Pretty Things
	Stanton !Andrew Stanton Peterson !Bob Peterson Reynolds !David Reynolds	Finding Nemo
	Sheridan !Jim Sheridan Sheridan !Kirsten Sheridan Sheridan !Naomi Sheridan	In America
2004 (77th)	Kaufman !Charlie Kaufman Gondry !Michel Gondry Bismuth !Pierre Bismuth	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	[68]
	Logan !John Logan	The Aviator
	George !Terry George Pearson !Keir Pearson	Hotel Rwanda
	Bird !Brad Bird	The Incredibles
	Leigh !Mike Leigh	Vera Drake
2005 (78th)	Haggis !Paul Haggis Moresco !Bobby Moresco	Crash	[69]
	Clooney !George Clooney Heslov !Grant Heslov	Good Night, and Good Luck
	Allen !Woody Allen	Match Point
	Baumbach !Noah Baumbach	The Squid and the Whale
	Gaghan !Stephen Gaghan	Syriana
2006 (79th)	Arndt !Michael Arndt	Little Miss Sunshine	[70]
	Arriaga !Guillermo Arriaga	Babel
	Yamashita !Iris Yamashita Haggis !Paul Haggis	Letters from Iwo Jima
	del Toro !Guillermo del Toro	Pan's Labyrinth
	Morgan !Peter Morgan	The Queen
2007 (80th)	Cody !Diablo Cody	Juno	[71]
	Oliver !Nancy Oliver	Lars and the Real Girl
	Gilroy !Tony Gilroy	Michael Clayton
	Bird !Brad Bird Pinkava !Jan Pinkava Capobianco !Jim Capobianco	Ratatouille
	Jenkins !Tamara Jenkins	The Savages
2008 (81st)	Black !Dustin Lance Black	Milk	[72]
	Hunt !Courtney Hunt	Frozen River
	Leigh !Mike Leigh	Happy-Go-Lucky
	McDonagh !Martin McDonagh	In Bruges
	Stanton !Andrew Stanton Reardon !Jim Reardon Docter !Pete Docter	WALL-E
2009 (82nd)	Boal !Mark Boal	The Hurt Locker	[73]
	Tarantino !Quentin Tarantino	Inglourious Basterds
	Camon !Alessandro Camon Moverman !Oren Moverman	The Messenger
	Joel Coen Ethan Coen	A Serious Man
	Peterson !Bob Peterson Docter !Pete Docter McCarthy !Thomas McCarthy	Up
2010 (83rd)	Seidler !David Seidler	The King's Speech	[74]
	Leigh !Mike Leigh	Another Year
	Silver !Scott Silver Tamasy !Paul Tamasy Johnson !Eric Johnson Dorrington !Keith Dorrington	The Fighter
	Nolan !Christopher Nolan	Inception
	Cholodenko !Lisa Cholodenko Blumberg !Stuart Blumberg	The Kids Are All Right
2011 (84th)	Allen !Woody Allen	Midnight in Paris	[75]
	Hazanavicius !Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist
	Wiig !Kristen Wiig Mumolo !Annie Mumolo	Bridesmaids
	Chandor !J. C. Chandor	Margin Call
	Farhadi !Asghar Farhadi	A Separation
2012 (85th)	Tarantino !Quentin Tarantino	Django Unchained	[76]
	Haneke !Michael Haneke	Amour
	Gatins !John Gatins	Flight
	Anderson !Wes Anderson Coppola !Roman Coppola	Moonrise Kingdom
	Boal !Mark Boal	Zero Dark Thirty
2013 (86th)	Jonze !Spike Jonze	Her	[77]
	Singer !Eric Warren Singer Russell !David O. Russell	American Hustle
	Allen !Woody Allen	Blue Jasmine
	Borten !Craig Borten Wallack !Melisa Wallack	Dallas Buyers Club
	Nelson !Bob Nelson	Nebraska
2014 (87th)	Iñárritu !Alejandro G. Iñárritu Giacobone !Nicolás Giacobone Dinelaris Jr. !Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. Bó !Armando Bo	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	[78]
	Linklater !Richard Linklater	Boyhood
	Frye !E. Max Frye Futterman !Dan Futterman	Foxcatcher
	Anderson !Wes Anderson Guinness !Hugo Guinness	The Grand Budapest Hotel
	Gilroy !Dan Gilroy	Nightcrawler
2015 (88th)	Charman !Matt Charman Joel Coen Ethan Coen	Bridge of Spies	[79]
	Garland !Alex Garland	Ex Machina
	Cooley !Josh Cooley Del Carmen !Ronnie del Carmen Docter !Pete Docter LeFauve !Meg LeFauve	Inside Out
	McCarthy !Tom McCarthy Singer !Josh Singer	Spotlight
	Berloff !Andrea Berloff Herman !Jonathan Herman Savidge !S. Leigh Savidge Wenkus !Alan Wenkus	Straight Outta Compton

Multiple wins and nominations

See also

• Academy Award for Best Story
• Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
• BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
• List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees

References