Critics' Choice Movie 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.
List of winners and nominees
1995–1996 (Best Screenplay)
1997–2000 (Best Screenplay, Original & Adaptation)
2001–2008 (Best Writer)
2009 & 2010s (Best Original & Adapted Screenplay)
Year |
Original Screenplay |
Adapted Screenplay |
Writer(s) |
Film |
Writer(s) |
Film |
2009 | Quentin Tarantino | Inglourious Basterds | Sheldon Turner and Jason Reitman | Up in the Air |
Mark Boal | The Hurt Locker | Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach | Fantastic Mr. Fox |
Joel 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 Pete Docter (story by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, and Tom McCarthy) | Up | Tom Ford and David Scearce | 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 |
Andres Heinz, Mark Heyman, and John McLaughlin (story by Andres Heinz) | Black Swan | Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy | 127 Hours |
Mike Leigh | Another Year | Joel and Ethan Coen | True Grit |
Christopher Nolan | Inception | Peter Craig, Ben Affleck, and Aaron Stockard | The Town |
Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, and Scott Silver (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 | Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin (story by Stan Chervin) | Moneyball |
Diablo Cody | Young Adult | John Logan | Hugo |
Michel Hazanavicius | The Artist | Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash | The Descendants |
Thomas McCarthy (story by Thomas McCarthy and Joe Tiboni) | Win Win | Eric Roth | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close |
Will Reiser | 50/50 | Tate Taylor | The Help |
2012 | Quentin Tarantino | Django Unchained | Tony Kushner | Lincoln |
Paul Thomas Anderson | The Master | Stephen Chbosky | The Perks of Being a Wallflower |
Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola | Moonrise Kingdom | David Magee | Life of Pi |
Mark Boal | Zero Dark Thirty | David O. Russell | Silver Linings Playbook |
John Gatins | Flight | Chris Terrio | Argo |
Rian Johnson | Looper | | |
2013 | Spike Jonze | Her | John Ridley | 12 Years a Slave |
Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell | American Hustle | Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope | Philomena |
Woody Allen | Blue Jasmine | Tracy Letts | August: Osage County |
Joel and Ethan Coen | Inside Llewyn Davis | Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy | Before Midnight |
Bob Nelson | Nebraska | Billy Ray | Captain Phillips |
| | Terence Winter | The Wolf of Wall Street |
2014 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., and Armando Bo | Birdman | Gillian Flynn | Gone Girl |
Wes Anderson (story by Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness) | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Paul Thomas Anderson | Inherent Vice |
Damien Chazelle | Whiplash | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Richard LaGravenese, and William Nicholson | Unbroken |
Dan Gilroy | Nightcrawler | Nick Hornby | Wild |
Richard Linklater | Boyhood | Anthony McCarten | The Theory of Everything |
| | Graham Moore | The Imitation Game |
2015 | Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer | Spotlight | Adam McKay and Charles Randolph | The Big Short |
Matt Charman, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen | Bridge of Spies | Emma Donoghue | Room |
Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley (story by Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen) | Inside Out | Drew Goddard | The Martian |
Alex Garland | Ex Machina | Nick Hornby | Brooklyn |
Quentin Tarantino | The Hateful Eight | Aaron Sorkin | Steve Jobs |
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| Screenplay (1995–1996, 2001-2008, retired) | |
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| Screenplay, Original (1997–2000, 2009–present) | |
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| Screenplay, Adapted (1997–2000, 2009–present) | |
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| Ceremonies |
(years are of film release; ceremonies are the next year)
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