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2020 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Parasite
Bong Joon Ho
2019 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Green Book
Nick Vallelonga
2018 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Get Out
Jordan Peele
2017 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Manchester by the Sea
Kenneth Lonergan
2016 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Spotlight
Josh Singer
2015 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2014 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Her
Spike Jonze
2013 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino
2012 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Midnight in Paris
Woody Allen
2011 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
The King’s Speech
David Seidler
2010 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Hurt Locker
Mark Boal
2009 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Milk
Dustin Lance Black
2008 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Juno
Diablo Cody
2007 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Little Miss Sunshine
Michael Arndt
2006 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Crash
Paul Haggis
2005 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Charlie Kaufman
2004 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Lost in Translation
Sofia Coppola
2003 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Talk to Her
Pedro Almodóvar
2002 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Gosford Park
Julian Fellowes
2001 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Almost Famous
Cameron Crowe
2000 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
American Beauty
Alan Ball
1999 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Shakespeare in Love
Marc Norman
1998 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Good Will Hunting
Matt Damon
1997 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Fargo
Ethan Coen
1996 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Usual Suspects
Christopher McQuarrie
1995 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino
1994 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Piano
Jane Campion
1993 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Crying Game
Neil Jordan
1992 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Thelma & Louise
Callie Khouri
1991 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Ghost
Bruce Joel Rubin
1990 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Dead Poets Society
Tom Schulman
1989 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Rain Man
Ronald Bass
1988 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Moonstruck
John Patrick Shanley
1987 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Hannah and Her Sisters
Woody Allen
1986 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Witness
Earl W. Wallace
1985 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Places in the Heart
Robert Benton
1984 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Tender Mercies
Horton Foote
1983 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Gandhi
John Briley
1982 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Chariots of Fire
Colin Welland
1981 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Melvin and Howard
Bo Goldman
1980 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Breaking Away
Steve Tesich
1979 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Coming Home
Nancy Dowd
1978 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Annie Hall
Woody Allen
1977 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Network
Paddy Chayefsky
1976 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Dog Day Afternoon
Frank Pierson
1975 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Chinatown
Robert Towne
1974 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Sting
David S. Ward
1973 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Candidate
Jeremy Larner
1972 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Hospital
Paddy Chayefsky
1971 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Patton
Francis Ford Coppola
1970 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
William Goldman
1969 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Producers
Mel Brooks
1968 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
William Rose
1967 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
A Man and a Woman
Claude Lelouch
1966 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Darling
Frederic Raphael
1965 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Father Goose
S.H. Barnett
1964 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
How the West Was Won
James R. Webb
1963 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Divorce Italian Style
Ennio De Concini
1962 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Splendor in the Grass
William Inge
1961 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Apartment
Billy Wilder
1960 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Pillow Talk
Russell Rouse
1959 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Defiant Ones
Nedrick Young
1958 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Designing Woman
George Wells
1957 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Red Balloon
Albert Lamorisse
1956 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Interrupted Melody
William Ludwig
1955 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
On the Waterfront
Budd Schulberg
1954 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Titanic
Charles Brackett
1953 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Lavender Hill Mob
T.E.B. Clarke
1952 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
An American in Paris
Alan Jay Lerner
1951 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Sunset Boulevard
Charles Brackett
1950 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Battleground
Robert Pirosh
1948 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Sidney Sheldon
1947 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Seventh Veil
Muriel Box
1946 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Marie-Louise
Richard Schweizer
1945 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Wilson
Lamar Trotti
1944 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Princess O’Rourke
Norman Krasna
1943 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Woman of the Year
Michael Kanin
1942 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
Citizen Kane
Herman J. Mankiewicz
1941 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay)
