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Best Screenplays and Writers Sections
Facts & Trivia (1) | Facts & Trivia
(2) | Facts & Trivia (3) | Winners Chart
Year |
Adapted
Screenplay |
Original
Screenplay |
Sarah Polley |
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert |
|
Sian Heder |
Kenneth Branagh |
|
Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller |
Emerald Fennell |
|
Taika Waititi |
Bong Joon Ho, Jin Won Han |
|
Spike Lee, Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz Kevin Willmott |
Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly |
|
James Ivory |
Jordan Peele |
|
Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney (story) |
Kenneth Lonergan |
|
Charles Randolph and Adam McKay |
Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy |
|
Graham Moore |
Alejandro G. Inarritu |
|
John Ridley |
Spike Jonze |
|
Chris Terrio |
Quentin Tarantino |
|
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash |
Woody Allen |
|
Aaron Sorkin |
David Seidler |
|
Geoffrey Fletcher |
Mark Boal |
|
Simon Beaufoy |
Dustin Lance Black |
|
Joel and Ethan Coen |
Diablo Cody |
|
William Monahan |
Michael Arndt |
|
Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana |
Paul Haggis, Robert Moresco |
|
Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor |
Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry and Pierre Bismuth |
|
The
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Frances Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson |
Sofia Coppola |
|
The Pianist Ronald Harwood |
Talk To Her (Hable
con ella) Pedro Almodóvar |
Year |
Screenplay
Based on Material Previously Produced or Published - Adapted |
Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen - Original |
2001 |
A Beautiful
Mind Akiva Goldsman |
Julian Fellows |
2000 |
Traffic Stephen Gaghan |
Almost
Famous Cameron Crowe |
1999 |
John Irving |
Alan Ball |
1998 |
Gods
And Monsters Bill Condon |
Shakespeare
In Love Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard |
1997 |
L.A.
Confidential Brian Helgeland & Curtis Hanson |
Good
Will Hunting Ben Affleck & Matt Damon |
1996 |
Sling Blade Billy Bob Thornton |
Fargo Ethan Coen & Joel Coen |
1995 |
Sense And Sensibility Emma Thompson |
The Usual Suspects Christopher McQuarrie |
1994 |
Forrest Gump Eric Roth |
Pulp
Fiction Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avery |
1993 |
Schindler's
List Steven Zaillian |
The Piano Jane Campion |
1992 |
Howards End Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
The Crying Game Neil Jordan |
1991 |
The
Silence Of The Lambs Ted Tally |
Thelma & Louise Callie Khouri |
Year |
Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium - Adapted |
Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen - Original |
1990 |
Dances With Wolves Michael Blake |
Ghost Bruce Joel Rubin |
1989 |
Driving Miss Daisy Alfred Uhry |
Dead Poets Society Tom Schulman |
1988 |
Dangerous Liaisons Christopher Hampton |
Rain Man Ronald Bass & Barry Morrow |
1987 |
The Last Emperor Mark Peploe & Bernardo Bertolucci |
Moonstruck John Patrick Shanley |
1986 |
A Room With A View Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
Hannah And Her Sisters Woody Allen |
1985 |
Out Of Africa Kurt Luedtke |
Witness Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley & Pamela Wallace |
1984 |
Amadeus Peter Shaffer |
Places In The Heart Robert Benton |
1983 |
Terms
Of Endearment James L. Brooks |
Tender Mercies Horton Foote |
1982 |
Missing Costa-Gavras & Donald Stewart |
Gandhi John Briley |
1981 |
On Golden Pond Ernest Thompson |
Chariots Of Fire Colin Welland |
1980 |
Ordinary People Alvin Sargent |
Melvin And Howard Bo Goldman |
1979 |
Kramer Vs. Kramer Robert Benton |
Breaking Away Steve Tesich |
1978 |
Midnight Express Oliver Stone |
Coming Home Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt & Robert C. Jones |
1977 |
Julia Alvin Sargent |
Annie
Hall Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman |
1976 |
All The President's
Men William Goldman |
Network Paddy Chayefsky |
Year |
Screenplay
Adapted from Other Material |
Original
Screenplay |
1975 |
One
Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Lawrence Hauben & Bo Goldman |
Dog Day Afternoon Frank Pierson |
1974 |
The
Godfather Part II Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo |
Chinatown Robert Towne |
Year |
Screenplay-- Based on Material From Another Medium - Adapted |
Story
and Screenplay--Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously
Published or Produced - Original |
1973 |
The
Exorcist William Peter Blatty |
The Sting David S. Ward |
1972 |
The
Godfather Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola |
The Candidate Jeremy Larner |
1971 |
The
French Connection Ernest Tidyman |
Hospital Paddy Chayefsky |
1970 |
M*A*S*H Ring Lardner, Jr. |
Patton Francis Ford Coppola & Edmund H. North |
1969 |
Midnight
Cowboy Waldo Salt |
Butch
Cassidy And The Sundance Kid William Goldman |
Year |
Screenplay-- Based on Material from Another Medium - Adapted |
Story
and Screenplay-- Written Directly For the Screen - Original |
1968 |
The Lion In Winter James Goldman |
The Producers Mel Brooks |
1967 |
In
The Heat Of The Night Stirling Silliphant |
Guess Who's Coming
To Dinner William Rose |
1966 |
A Man For All Seasons Robert Bolt |
A Man And A Woman Claude Lelouch & Pierre Uytterhoeven |
1965 |
Doctor Zhivago Robert Bolt |
Darling Frederic Raphael |
1964 |
Becket Edward Anhalt |
Father Goose S. H. Barnett, Peter Stone & Frank Tarloff |
1963 |
Tom Jones John Osborne |
How The West Was
Won James R. Webb |
1962 |
To
Kill A Mockingbird Horton Foote |
Divorce - Italian
Style Ennio de Concini, Alfredo Giannetti & Pietro Germi |
1961 |
Judgment At Nuremberg Abby Mann |
Splendor
In The Grass William Inge |
1960 |
Elmer
Gantry Richard Brooks |
The
Apartment Billy Wilder & I. A. L. Diamond |
1959 |
Room At The Top Neil Paterson |
Pillow Talk Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene Stanley Shapiro & Maurice Richlin |
1958 |
Gigi Alan Jay Lerner |
The
Defiant Ones Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith |
1957 |
The
Bridge On The River Kwai Pierre Boulle [front], Michael Wilson & Carl Foreman (both blacklisted at the time, with no screen credit; awarded Oscars posthumously in 1984) |
Designing Woman George Wells |