Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. Before 1940, there was an Academy Award for Best Story for writing. For 1940, it and the award in this article were separated into two awards. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay.

1940s

*1940 "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 "Citizen Kane" - Herman 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 "Woman of the Year" - Michael Kanin, Ring Lardner Jr
**"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 "Princess O'Rourke" - Norman Krasna
**"Air Force" - Dudley Nichols
**"In Which We Serve" - Noel Coward
**"The North Star" - Lillian Hellman
**"So Proudly We Hail!" - Allan Scott
*1944 "Wilson" - Lamar Trotti
**"Hail the Conquering Hero" - Preston Sturges
**"The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" - Preston Sturges
**"Two Girls and a Sailor" - Richard Connell, Glays Lehman
**"Wing and a Prayer" - Jerome Cady
*1945 "Marie-Louise" - Richard Schweizer
**"Dillinger" - Philip Yordan
**"Music for Millions" - Myles Connolly
**"Salty O'Rourke" - Milton Holmes
**"What Next, Corporal Hargrove?" - Harry Kurnitz
*1946 "The Seventh Veil" - Muriel Box, Sydney Box
**"The Blue Dahlia" - Raymond Chandler
**"Children of Paradise" - Jacques Prévert
**"Notorious" - Ben Hecht
**"Road to Utopia" - Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
*1947 "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, C. G. Viola, Cesare Zavattini
*1948 "none given" (Instead of the categories "Original Screenplay and "Screenplay", it was combined into one category, called "Screenplay")
*1949 "Battleground" - Robert Pirosh
**"Jolson Sings Again" - Sidney Buchman
**"Paisà" - Alfred Hayes, Federico Fellini, Sergio Amidei, Marcello Pagliero, Roberto Rossellini
**"Passport to Pimlico" - T. E. B. Clarke
**"The Quiet One" - Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, Sidney Meyers(In 1949, the category was renamed "Story and Screenplay")

1950s

*1950 "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 "An American in Paris" - Alan Jay Lerner
**"The Big Carnival" - Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman
**"David and Bathsheba" - Philip Dunne
**"Go for Broke!" - Robert Pirosh
**"The Well" - Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse
*1952 "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 "Titanic" - Charles Brackett, Richard Breen, Walter Reisch
**"The Band Wagon" - Betty Comden, Adolph Green
**"The Desert Rats" - Richard Murphy
**"The Naked Spur" - Sam Rolfe, Harold Jack Bloom
**"Take the High Ground!" - Millard Kaufman
*1954 "On the Waterfront" - Budd Schulberg
**"The Barefoot Contessa" - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
**"Genevieve" - William Rose
**"The Glenn Miller Story" - Valentine Davies, Oscar Brodney
**"Knock on Wood" - Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
*1955 "Interrupted Melody" - Sonya Levien, William Ludwig
**"The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell" - Milton Sperling, Emmet Lavery
**"It's Always Fair Weather" - Betty Comden, Adolph Green
**"Mr. Hulot's Holiday" - Jacques Tati, Henri Marquet
**"The Seven Little Foys" - Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose
*1956 "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 "Designing Woman" - George Wells
**"Funny Face" - Leonard Gershe
**"Man of a Thousand Faces" - Ralph Wheelwright, R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts
**"The Tin Star" - Barney Slater, Joel Kane, Dudley Nichols
**"I vitelloni" - Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli
*1958 "The Defiant Ones" - Nathan E. Douglas, Harold Jacob Smith (Upon request of his widow and upon recommendation of the Writers Branch Executive Committee, the Board of Governors voted to restore the name of Nedrick Young to the nomination and award presented to Nathan E. Douglas, which was a pseudonym for Mr. Young during the blacklisting period.)
**"The Goddess" - Paddy Chayefsky
**"Houseboat" - Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose
**"The Sheepman" - James Edward Grant, William Bowers
**"Teacher's Pet" - Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin
*1959 "Pillow Talk" - Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, Stanley Shapiro
**"The 400 Blows" - François Truffaut, Marcel Moussy
**"North by Northwest" - Ernest Lehman
**"Operation Petticoat" - Paul King, Joseph Stone, Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin
**"Wild Strawberries" - Ingmar Bergman

1960s

*1960 "The Apartment" - I.A.L. Diamond, Billy Wilder
**"The Angry Silence" - Screenplay by Bryan Forbes; Story by Richard Gregson, Michael Craig
**"The Facts of Life" - Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
**"Hiroshima Mon Amour" - Marguerite Duras
**"Never on Sunday" - Jules Dassin
*1961 "Splendor in the Grass" - William Inge
**"Ballad of a Soldier" - Valentin Yoshov, Grigori Chukhrai
**"La dolce vita" - Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, Brunello Rondi
**"General Della Rovere" - Sergio Amidei, Diego Fabbi, Indro Montanelli
**"Lover Come Back" - Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning
*1962 "Divorce, Italian Style" - Ennio de Concini, Pietro Germi, Alfredo Giannetti
**"Freud" - Story by Charles Kaufman, Screenplay by Charles Kaufman and Wolfgang Reinhardt
**"Last Year at Marienbad" - Alain Robbe-Grillet
**"That Touch of Mink" - Stanley Shapiro, Nate Monaster
**"Through a Glass Darkly" - Ingmar Bergman
*1963 "How the West Was Won" - James Webb
**"8½" - Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi
**"America, America" - Elia Kazan
**"The Four Days of Naples" - Story by Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy, Vasco Pratolini; Screenplay by Carlo Bernari, Massimo Franciosa, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Nanni Loy
**"Love with the Proper Stranger" - Arnold Schulman
*1964 "Father Goose" - Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff
**"A Hard Day's Night" - Alun Owen
**"One Potato, Two Potato" - Screenplay by Raphael Hayes; Story by Orville H. Hampton
**"The Organizer" - Age Monicelli, Scarpelli Monicelli, Mario Monicelli
**"That Man from Rio" - Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Ariane Mnouchkine, Daniel Boulanger, Philippe de Broca
*1965 "Darling" - Frederic Raphael
**"Casanova 70" - Age Monicelli, Scarpelli Monicelli, Mario Monicelli, Tonino Guerra, Giorgio Salvioni, Suso Cecchi d'Amico
**"Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" - Jack Davies, Ken Annakin
**"The Train" - Franklin Coen, Frank Davis
**"The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" - Jacques Demy
*1966 "A Man and a Woman" - Story by Claude Lelouch; Screenplay by Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
**"Blowup" - Story by Michelangelo Antonioni; Screenplay by Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Edward Bond
**"The Fortune Cookie" - Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond
**"Khartoum" - Robert Ardrey
**"The Naked Prey" - Clinkt Johnston, Don Peters
*1967 "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" - William Rose
**"Bonnie and Clyde" - David Newman, Robert Benton
**"Divorce American Style" - Story by Robert Kaufman; Screenplay by Norman Lear
**"La Guerre Est Finie" - Jorge Semprún
**"Two for the Road" - Frederic Raphael
*1968 "The Producers" - Mel Brooks
**"" - Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke
**"The Battle of Algiers" - Franco Solinas, Gillo Pontecorvo
**"Faces" - John Cassavetes
**"Hot Millions" - Iro Wallach, Peter Ustinov
*1969 "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" - William Goldman
**"Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" - Paul Mazursky, Larry Tucker
**"The Damned" - Story by Nicola Badalucco; Screenplay by Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti
**"Easy Rider" - Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern
**"The Wild Bunch" - Story by Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner; Screenplay by Walon Green, Sam Peckinpah(In 1969, the category was renamed: "Story and Screenplay - based on material not previously published or produced)

1970s

*1970 "Patton" - Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North
**"Five Easy Pieces" - Screenplay by "Adrien Joyce" (aka Carole Eastman); Story by "Adrien Joyce", Bob Rafelson
**"Joe" - Norman Wexler
**"Love Story" - Erich Segal
**"My Night at Maud's" - Éric Rohmer
*1971 "The Hospital" - Paddy Chayefsky
**"Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion" - Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro
**"Klute" - Andy and Dave Lewis
**"Summer of '42" - Herman Raucher
**"Sunday Bloody Sunday" - Penelope Gilliatt
*1972 "The Candidate" - Jeremy Larner
**"The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" - Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière
**"Lady Sings the Blues" - Terrence McCloy, Chris Clark, Suzanne de Passe
**"Murmur of the Heart" - Louis Malle
**"Young Winston" - Carl Foreman
*1973 "The Sting" - David S. Ward
**"American Graffiti" - George Lucas, Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck
**"Cries and Whispers" - Ingmar Bergman
**"Save the Tiger" - Steve Shagan
**"A Touch of Class" - Melvin Frank, Jack Rose
*1974 "Chinatown" - Robert Towne
**"Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" - Robert Getchell
**"The Conversation" - Francis Ford Coppola
**"Day for Night" - François Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard, Suzanne Schiffman
**"Harry and Tonto" - Paul Mazursky, Josh Greenfeld
*1975 "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 "Network" - Paddy Chayefsky
**"Cousin, cousine" - Story and Screenplay by Jean-Charles Tacchella; Adaptation by Daniele Thompson
**"The Front" - Walter Bernstein
**"Rocky" - Sylvester Stallone
**"Seven Beauties" - Lina Wertmüller(In 1976, the category was renamed: "Screenplay written directly for the Screen - Based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced")
*1977 "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 "Coming Home" - Screenplay by Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt; Story by Nancy Dowd
**"Autumn Sonata" - Ingmar Bergman
**"The Deer Hunter" - Screenplay by Deric Washburn; Story by Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle, Quinn K. Redeker
**"Interiors" - Woody Allen
**"An Unmarried Woman" - Paul Mazursky(In 1978, the category was renamed: "Screenplay written directly for the screen")
*1979 "Breaking Away" - Steve Tesich
**"All That Jazz" - Robert Alan Aurthur (posthumous nomination), Bob Fosse
**"...And Justice for All" - Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson
**"The China Syndrome" - Mike Gray, T.S. Cook, James Bridges
**"Manhattan" - Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman

1980s

*1980 "Melvin and Howard" - Bo Goldman
**"Brubaker" - Screenplay by W. D. Richter; Story by Arthur Ross and W.D. Richter
**"Fame" - Christopher Gore
**"Mon oncle d'Amérique" - Jean Gruault, Henri Laborit
**"Private Benjamin" - Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer, Harvey Miller
*1981 "Chariots of Fire" - Colin Welland
**"Absence of Malice" - Kurt Luedtke
**"Arthur" - Steve Gordon
**"Atlantic City" - John Guare
**"Reds" - Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths
*1982 "Gandhi" - John Briley
**"Diner" - Barry Levinson
**"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" - Melissa Mathison
**"An Officer and a Gentleman" - Douglas Day Stewart
**"Tootsie" - Screenplay by Larry Gelbart, Murray Schisgal; Story by Don McGuire and Larry Gelbart
*1983 "Tender Mercies" - Horton Foote
**"The Big Chill" - Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara Benedek
**"Fanny and Alexander" - Ingmar Bergman
**"Silkwood" - Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen
**"WarGames" - Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes
*1984 "Places in the Heart" - Robert Benton
**"Beverly Hills Cop" - Screenplay by Daniel Petrie, Jr.; Story by Danilo Bach and Daniel Petrie, Jr.
**"Broadway Danny Rose" - Woody Allen
**"El Norte" - Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas
**"Splash" - Screenplay by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman; Screen Story by Bruce Jay Friedman, Story by Brian Grazer
*1985 "Witness" - Screenplay by William Kelley, Earl Wallace; Story by William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, Earl Wallace
**"Back to the Future" - Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
**"Brazil" - Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown
**"Chasing Demons" - Josh McFarland
**"The Purple Rose of Cairo" - Woody Allen
*1986 "Hannah and Her Sisters" - Woody Allen
**"Crocodile Dundee" - Screenplay by Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie, John Cornell; Story by Paul Hogan
**"My Beautiful Laundrette" - Hanif Kureishi
**"Platoon" - Oliver Stone
**"Salvador" - Oliver Stone, Richard Boyle
*1987 "Moonstruck" - John Patrick Shanley
**"Au revoir, les enfants" - Louis Malle
**"Broadcast News" - James L. Brooks
**"Hope and Glory" - John Boorman
**"Radio Days" - Woody Allen
*1988 "Rain Man" - Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow
**"Big" - Gary Ross, Anne Spielberg
**"Bull Durham" - Ron Shelton
**"A Fish Called Wanda" - Screenplay by John Cleese; Story by John Cleese and Charles Crichton
**"Running on Empty" - Naomi Foner
*1989 "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

1990s

*"'1990 "Ghost" - Bruce Joel Rubin
**"Alice" - Woody Allen
**"Avalon" - Barry Levinson
**"Green Card" - Peter Weir
**"Metropolitan" - Whit Stillman

*"'1991 "Thelma and Louise" - Callie Khouri
**"Boyz N the Hood" - John Singleton
**"Bugsy" - James Toback
**"The Fisher King" - Richard LaGravenese
**"Grand Canyon" - Lawrence and Meg Kasdan

*"'1992 "The Crying Game" - Neil Jordan
**"Husbands and Wives" - Woody Allen
**"Lorenzo's Oil" - Nick Enright and George Miller
**"Passion Fish" - John Sayles
**"Unforgiven" - David Peoples

*"'1993 "The Piano" - Jane Campion
**"Dave - Gary Ross
**"In the Line of Fire" - Jeff Maguire
**"Philadelphia" - Ron Nyswaner
**"Sleepless in Seattle" - Jeff Arch (story and screenplay), Nora Ephron and David S. Ward

*"'1994 "Pulp Fiction" - Quentin Tarantino (story and screenplay) and Roger Avary (story)
**"Bullets Over Broadway" - Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath
**"Four Weddings and a Funeral" - Richard Curtis
**"Heavenly Creatures" - Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh
**"" - Krzysztof Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz

*"'1995 "The Usual Suspects" - Christopher McQuarrie
**"Braveheart" - Randall Wallace
**"Mighty Aphrodite" - Woody Allen
**"Nixon" - Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson and Oliver Stone
**"Toy Story" - Screenplay by Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow; Story by John Lasseter, Peter Docter, Andrew Stanton, Joe Ranft

*"'1996 "Fargo" - Ethan and Joel Coen
**"Jerry Maguire" - Cameron Crowe
**"Lone Star" - John Sayles
**"Secrets & Lies" - Mike Leigh
**"Shine" - Jan Sardi and Scott Hicks (story)

*"'1997 "Good Will Hunting" - Ben Affleck, Matt Damon
**"As Good as It Gets" - Mark Andrus (story and screenplay) and James L. Brooks
**"Boogie Nights" - Paul Thomas Anderson
**"Deconstructing Harry" - Woody Allen
**"The Full Monty" - Simon Beaufoy

*"'1998 "Shakespeare in Love" - Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
**"Bulworth" - Warren Beatty and Jeremy Pikser
**"Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella)" - Roberto Benigni and Vincenzo Cerami
**"Saving Private Ryan" - Robert Rodat
**"The Truman Show" - Andrew Niccol

*"'1999 "American Beauty" - Alan Ball
**"Being John Malkovich" - Charlie Kaufman
**"Magnolia" - Paul Thomas Anderson
**"The Sixth Sense" - M. Night Shyamalan
**"Topsy-Turvy" - Mike Leigh

2000s

*2000 (73rd) "Almost Famous" - Cameron Crowe
**"Billy Elliot" - Lee Hall
**"Erin Brockovich" - Susannah Grant
**"Gladiator" - David Franzoni, John Logan and William Nicholson
**"You Can Count on Me" - Kenneth Lonergan

*2001 (74th) "Gosford Park" - Julian Fellowes
**"Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)" - Guillaume Laurant and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
**"Memento" - Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan
**"Monster's Ball" - Milo Addica and Will Rokos
**"The Royal Tenenbaums" - Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson

*2002 (75th) "Talk to Her (Hable con ella)" - Pedro Almodóvar
**"Far from Heaven" - Todd Haynes
**"Gangs of New York" - Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, Kenneth Lonergan
**"My Big Fat Greek Wedding" - Nia Vardalos
**"And Your Mother Too (Y tu mamá también)" - Carlos Cuarón, Alfonso Cuarón

*2003 (76th) "Lost in Translation" - Sofia Coppola
**"The Barbarian Invasions (Les invasions barbares)" - Denys Arcand
**"Dirty Pretty Things" - Steven Knight
**"Finding Nemo" - Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson and David Reynolds
**"In America" - Jim, Naomi and Kirsten Sheridan

*"'2004 (77th) "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" - Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, and Pierre Bismuth
**"The Aviator" - John Logan
**"Hotel Rwanda" - Terry George and Keir Pearson
**"The Incredibles" - Brad Bird
**"Vera Drake" - Mike Leigh

*2005 (78th) "Crash" - Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco
**"Good Night, and Good Luck." - George Clooney and Grant Heslov
**"Match Point" - Woody Allen
**"The Squid and the Whale" - Noah Baumbach
**"Syriana" - Stephen Gaghan

*2006 (79th) "Little Miss Sunshine" - Michael Arndt
**"Babel" - Guillermo Arriaga
**"Letters from Iwo Jima" - Iris Yamashita (screenplay and story) and Paul Haggis
**"Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)" - Guillermo del Toro
**"The Queen" - Peter Morgan

*2007 (80th) "Juno" - Diablo Cody
**"Lars and the Real Girl" - Nancy Oliver
**"Michael Clayton" - Tony Gilroy
**"Ratatouille" - Brad Bird
**"The Savages" - Tamara Jenkins

ee also

*Academy Awards
*List of Academy Awards ceremonies
*Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay
*Academy Award for Best Story

External links

* [http://www.simplyscripts.com/oscar_winners.html Academy Award Winning Screenplays] 1928 - 2005