Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay

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The Academy Award for Writing 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 honour only the screenplay.

1 1940s
2 1950s
3 1960s
4 1970s
5 1980s
6 1990s
7 2000s
8 See also

[edit] 1940s

1940 The Great McGinty - Preston Sturges
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
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 - Alan Scott
1944 Wilson - Lamar Trotti
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
- The 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
- Paisàn - 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")

[edit] 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
- Breaking 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
1956 The Red Balloon - Albert Lamorisse
- The Bold and the Brave - Robert Lewin
- Julie - Andrew L. Stone
- La Strada - Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli
- The Lady Killers - William Rose
1957 Designing Women - 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
- 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
- The 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

[edit] 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
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
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
- 2001: A Space Odyssey - 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)

[edit] 1970s

1970 Patton - Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund North
- Five Easy Pieces - Screenplay by Adrien Joyce (aka Carol 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
1972 The Candidate - Jeremy Larner
1973 The Sting - David 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
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 Episode IV: A New Hope - 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, 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

[edit] 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
- The Official Story - Luis Puenzo, Aida Bortnik
- 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

[edit] 1990s

1990 Ghost - Bruce 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 Kasdan, Meg Kasdan
1992 The Crying Game - Neil Jordan
- Husbands and Wives - Woody Allen
- Lorenzo's Oil - George Miller, Nick Enright
- 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 - Screenplay by Nora Ephron, David S. Ward, Jeff Arch; Story by Jeff Arch
1994 Pulp Fiction - Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino; Stories by Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino
1995 The Usual Suspects - Christopher McQuarrie
- Braveheart - Randall Wallace
- Mighty Aphrodite - Woody Allen
- Nixon - Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson, 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 Coen, Joel Coen
- Jerry Maguire - Cameron Crowe
- Lone Star - John Sayles
- Secrets & Lies - Mike Leigh
- Shine - Screenplay by Jan Sardi; Story by Scott Hicks
1997 Good Will Hunting - Ben Affleck, Matt Damon
- As Good as It Gets - Screenplay by Mark Andrus, James L. Brooks; Story by Mark Andrus
- Boogie Nights - Paul Thomas Anderson
- Deconstructing Harry - Woody Allen
- The Full Monty - Simon Beaufoy
1998 Shakespeare in Love - Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard
- Bulworth - Warren Beatty, Jeremy Pikser
- Life Is Beautiful - Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Benigni
- 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

[edit] 2000s

2000 - Almost Famous - Cameron Crowe
- Billy Elliot - Lee Hall
- Erin Brockovich - Susannah Grant
- Gladiator - David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson
- You Can Count on Me - Kenneth Lonergan
2001 - Gosford Park - Julian Fellowes
- Amélie - Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Memento - Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan
- Monster's Ball - Milo Addica, Will Rokos
- The Royal Tenenbaums - Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson
2002 - Hable con ella (Talk to Her) - Pedro Almodóvar
2003 - Lost in Translation - Sofia Coppola
- The Barbarian Invasions - Denys Arcand
- Dirty Pretty Things - Steven Knight
- Finding Nemo - Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, David Reynolds
- In America - Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan
2004 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, Pierre Bismuth
- The Aviator - John Logan
- Hotel Rwanda - Keir Pearson, Terry George
- The Incredibles - Brad Bird
- Vera Drake - Mike Leigh
2005 - Crash - Paul Haggis, Bobby Moresco
- Syriana - Stephen Gaghan
- Good Night, and Good Luck. - George Clooney, Grant Heslov
- Match Point - Woody Allen
- The Squid and the Whale - Noah Baumbach

[edit] See also

Academy Award
Academy Award of Merit : Current Awards
Best Picture \| Best Leading Actor \| Best Leading Actress \| Best Supporting Actor \| Best Supporting Actress
Best Animated Feature \| Best Art Direction \| Best Cinematography \| Best Costume Design \| Best Director
Best Documentary Feature \| Best Documentary Short Subject \| Best Film Editing \| Best Foreign Language Film \| Best Makeup
Best Original Score \| Best Original Song \| Best Animated Short Film \| Best Live Action Short Film \| Best Sound Mixing
Best Sound Editing \| Best Visual Effects \| Best Adapted Screenplay \| Best Original Screenplay
Academy Award of Merit : Retired awards
Best Assistant Director \| Best Dance Direction \| Best Director of a Comedy Picture
Best Director of a Dramatic Picture \| Best Engineering Effects \| Best Short Film - Color
Best Short Film - Live Action - 2 Reels \| Best Short Film - Novelty \| Best Original Story
Best Title Writing \| Best Unique and Artistic Quality of Production
Special Awards : Current Awards
Academy Honorary Award \| Academy Special Achievement Award \| Academy Award, Scientific or Technical
The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award \| The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award \| Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Special Awards : Retired Awards
Academy Juvenile Award