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Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay
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 recombined to honour only the screenplay.
1940
The Great McGinty[?]
?
Preston Sturges[?]
1941
Citizen Kane
?
Herman Mankiewicz[?]
,
Orson Welles
1942
none given
1943
Princess O'Rourke[?]
? Norman Krasna
1944
Wilson
? Lamar Trotti
1945
Marie-Louise[?]
? Richard Schweizer
1946
The Seventh Veil[?]
? Muriel Box, Sydney Box
1947
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer[?]
?
Sidney Sheldon[?]
1948
none given
1949
Battleground[?]
? Robert Pirosh
1950
Sunset Boulevard
? Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman,
Billy Wilder
1951
An American in Paris
? Alan Lerner
1952
The Lavender Hill Mob
? T.E.B. Clarke
1953
Titanic[?]
- Charles Brackett, Richard Breen, Walter Reisch
1954
On the Waterfront
?
Budd Schulberg[?]
1955
Interrupted Melody
? Sonya Levien, William Ludwig
1956
The Red Balloon[?]
? Albert Lamorisse
1957
Designing Women
? George Wells
1958
The Defiant Ones
? Nathan Douglas, Harold Smith
1959
Pillow Talk
? Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, Stanley Shapiro
1960
The Apartment
? I.A.L. Diamond,
Billy Wilder
1961
Splendor in the Grass
?
William Inge
1962
Divorce Italian Style[?]
- Ennio de Concini, Pietro Germi, Alfredo Giannetti
1963
How the West Was Won
? James Webb
1964
Father Goose[?]
? Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff
1965
Darling
? Frederic Raphael
1966
A Man and a Woman
- Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
1967
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
? William Rose
1968
The Producers
?
Mel Brooks
1969
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
? William Goldman
1970
Patton
?
Francis Ford Coppola
, Edmund North
1971
The Hospital
?
Paddy Chayefsky[?]
1972
The Candidate[?]
? Jeremy Larner
1973
The Sting
? David Ward
1974
Chinatown
? Robert Towne
1975
Dog Day Afternoon
? Frank Pierson
1976
Network
?
Paddy Chayefsky[?]
1977
Annie Hall
?
Woody Allen
, Marshall Brickman
1978
Coming Home
? Robert Jones, Waldo Salt
1979
Breaking Away
? Steve Tesich
1980
Melvin and Howard[?]
? Bo Goldman
1981
Chariots of Fire
? Colin Welland
1982
Gandhi
? John Briley
1983
Tender Mercies
? Horton Foote
1984
Places in the Heart
? Robert Benton
1985
Witness
? William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, Earl Wallace
1986
Hannah and Her Sisters
? Woody Allen
1987
Moonstruck
? John Shanley
1988
Rain Man
? Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow
1989
Dead Poets Society
? Tom Schulman
1990
Ghost
? Bruce Rubin
1991
Thelma and Louise
? Callie Khouri
1992
The Crying Game
? Neil Jordan
1993
The Piano
? Jane Campion
1994
Pulp Fiction
? Roger Avary,
Quentin Tarantino
1995
The Usual Suspects
?
Christopher McQuarrie
1996
Fargo
?
Joel Coen
,
Ethan Coen
1997
Good Will Hunting
?
Ben Affleck
,
Matt Damon
1998
Shakespeare in Love
? Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard
1999
American Beauty (1999 movie)
- Alan Ball
2000
Almost Famous[?]
- Cameron Crowe
2001
Gosford Park
- Julian Fellowes
2002
Hable con ella[?]
-
Pedro Almodóvar
Far from Heaven[?]
-
Todd Haynes[?]
Gangs of New York
-
Jay Cocks[?]
(screenplay/story),
Steven Zaillian[?]
(screenplay),
Kenneth Lonergan[?]
(screenplay)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding[?]
-
Nia Vardalos[?]
Y tu mamá también
-
Carlos Cuarón[?]
,
Alfonso Cuarón[?]
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