Nominees and winners (bold font) of the Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay:

• 2007
  • Juno - Diablo Cody
  • Lars and the Real Girl - Nancy Oliver
  • Michael Clayton - Tony Gilroy
  • Ratatouille - Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird
  • The Savages - Tamara Jenkins
• 2006
  • Babel - Guillermo Arriaga
  • Letters from Iwo Jima - Iris Yamashita, Paul Haggis
  • Little Miss Sunshine - Michael Arndt
  • Pan's Labyrinth - Guillermo del Toro
  • The Queen - Peter Morgan
• 2005
  • Crash - Paul Haggis, Bobby Moresco
  • Good Night, and Good Luck - George Clooney, Grant Heslov
  • Match Point - Woody Allen
  • The Squid and the Whale - Noah Baumbach
  • Syriana - Stephen Gaghan
• 2004
  • The Aviator - John Logan
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, Pierre Bismuth
  • Hotel Rwanda - Keir Pearson, Terry George
  • The Incredibles - Brad Bird
  • Vera Drake - Mike Leigh
• 2003
  • 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
  • Lost in Translation - Sofia Coppola
• 2002
  • Far from Heaven - Todd Haynes
  • Gangs of New York - Jay Cocks, Steve Zaillian, Kenneth Lonergan
  • My Big Fat Greek Wedding - Nia Vardalos
  • Talk to Her - Pedro Almodóvar
  • Y Tu Mamá También - Carlos Cuarón, Alfonso Cuarón
• 2001
  • Amélie - Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  • Gosford Park - Julian Fellowes
  • Memento - Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan
  • Monster's Ball - Milo Addica, Will Rokos
  • The Royal Tenenbaums - Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson
• 2000
  • Almost Famous - Cameron Crowe
  • Billy Elliot - Lee Hall
  • Erin Brockovich - Susannah Grant
  • Gladiator - David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson, David Franzoni
  • You Can Count On Me - Kenneth Lonergan
• 1999
  • American Beauty - Alan Ball
  • Being John Malkovich - Charlie Kaufman
  • Magnolia - Paul Thomas Anderson
  • The Sixth Sense - M. Night Shyamalan
  • Topsy-Turvy - Mike Leigh
• 1998
  • Bulworth - Warren Beatty, Jeremy Pikser
  • Life Is Beautiful - Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Benigni
  • Saving Private Ryan - Robert Rodat
  • Shakespeare in Love - Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard
  • The Truman Show - Andrew Niccol
• 1997
  • As Good As It Gets - Mark Andrus, James L. Brooks
  • Boogie Nights - Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Deconstructing Harry - Woody Allen
  • The Full Monty - Simon Beaufoy
  • Good Will Hunting - Ben Affleck, Matt Damon
• 1996
  • Fargo - Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
  • Jerry Maguire - Cameron Crowe
  • Lone Star - John Sayles
  • Secrets & Lies - Mike Leigh
  • Shine - Jan Sardi, Scott Hicks
• 1995
  • Braveheart - Randall Wallace
  • Mighty Aphrodite - Woody Allen
  • Nixon - Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson
  • Toy Story - Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Alec Sokolow, John Lasseter, Peter Docter, Joe Ranft
  • The Usual Suspects - Christopher McQuarrie
• 1994
  • Bullets over Broadway - Woody Allen, Douglas McGrath
  • Four Weddings and a Funeral - Richard Curtis
  • Heavenly Creatures - Frances Walsh, Peter Jackson
  • Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary
  • Red - Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Krzysztof Kieslowski
• 1993
  • Dave - Gary Ross
  • In the Line of Fire - Jeff Maguire
  • Philadelphia - Ron Nyswaner
  • The Piano - Jane Campion
  • Sleepless in Seattle - Nora Ephron, David S. Ward
• 1992
  • The Crying Game - Neil Jordan
  • Husbands and Wives - Woody Allen
  • Lorenzo's Oil - George Miller, Nick Enright
  • Passion Fish - John Sayles
  • Unforgiven - David Webb Peoples
• 1991
  • Boyz N the Hood - John Singleton
  • Bugsy - James Toback
  • The Fisher King - Richard LaGravenese
  • Grand Canyon (1991) - Lawrence Kasdan, Meg Kasdan
  • Thelma & Louise - Callie Khouri
• 1990
  • Alice - Woody Allen
  • Avalon - Barry Levinson
  • Ghost - Bruce Joel Rubin
  • Green Card - Peter Weir
  • Metropolitan - Whit Stillman
• 1989
  • Crimes and Misdemeanors - Woody Allen
  • Dead Poets Society - Tom Schulman
  • Do the Right Thing - Spike Lee
  • When Harry Met Sally... - Nora Ephron
  • sex, lies, and videotape - Steven Soderbergh
• 1988
  • Big - Gary Ross, Anne Spielberg
  • Bull Durham - Ron Shelton
  • A Fish Called Wanda - John Cleese, Charles Crichton
  • Rain Man - Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow
  • Running on Empty - Naomi Foner
• 1987
  • Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye, Children) - Louis Malle
  • Broadcast News - James L. Brooks
  • Hope and Glory - John Boorman
  • Moonstruck - John Patrick Shanley
  • Radio Days - Woody Allen
• 1986
  • Crocodile Dundee - Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie
  • Hannah and Her Sisters - Woody Allen
  • My Beautiful Laundrette - Hanif Kureishi
  • Platoon - Oliver Stone
  • Salvador - Oliver Stone, Richard Boyle
• 1985
  • Back to the Future - Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
  • Brazil (1985) - Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard
  • The Official Story - Luis Puenzo, Aida Bortnik
  • The Purple Rose of Cairo - Woody Allen
  • Witness - Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley
• 1984
  • Beverly Hills Cop - Daniel Petrie, Jr., Danilo Bach
  • Broadway Danny Rose - Woody Allen
  • El Norte - Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas
  • Places in the Heart - Robert Benton
  • Splash - Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Brian Grazer
• 1983
  • The Big Chill - Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara Benedek
  • Fanny & Alexander - Ingmar Bergman
  • Silkwood - Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen
  • Tender Mercies - Horton Foote
  • WarGames - Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes
• 1982
  • Diner - Barry Levinson
  • E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial - Melissa Mathison
  • Gandhi - John Briley
  • An Officer and a Gentleman - Douglas Day Stewart
  • Tootsie - Larry Gelbart, Murray Schisgal
• 1981
  • Absence of Malice - Kurt Luedtke
  • Arthur - Steve Gordon
  • Atlantic City - John Guare
  • Chariots of Fire - Colin Welland
  • Reds - Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths
• 1980
  • Brubaker - W. D. Richter, Arthur Ross
  • Fame - Christopher Gore
  • Melvin and Howard - Bo Goldman
  • Mon Oncle D'Amerique - Jean Gruault
  • Private Benjamin - Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer
• 1979
  • ...And Justice for All - Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson
  • All That Jazz - Robert Alan Aurthur, Bob Fosse
  • Breaking Away - Steve Tesich
  • The China Syndrome - Mike Gray, T.S. Cook
  • Manhattan - Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
• 1978
  • Autumn Sonata - Ingmar Bergman
  • Coming Home - Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt
  • The Deer Hunter - Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Quinn K. Redeker
  • Interiors - Woody Allen
  • An Unmarried Woman - Paul Mazursky
• 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
• 1976
  • Cousin, Cousine - Jean-Charles Tacchella, Daniele Thompson
  • The Front - Walter Bernstein
  • Network - Paddy Chayefsky
  • Rocky - Sylvester Stallone
  • Seven Beauties - Lina Wertmüller
• 1975
  • Amarcord - Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra
  • And Now My Love - Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
  • Dog Day Afternoon - Frank Pierson
  • Lies My Father Told Me - Ted Allan
  • Shampoo - Robert Towne, Warren Beatty
• 1974
  • Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - Robert Getchell
  • Chinatown - Robert Towne
  • The Conversation - Francis Ford Coppola
  • Day for Night - Francois Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard
  • Harry and Tonto - Paul Mazursky, Josh Greenfeld
• 1973
  • American Graffiti - George Lucas, Gloria Katz
  • Cries and Whispers - Ingmar Bergman
  • Save the Tiger - Steve Shagan
  • The Sting - David S. Ward
  • A Touch of Class - Melvin Frank, Jack Rose
• 1972
  • The Candidate - Jeremy Larner
  • The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière
  • Lady Sings the Blues - Terence McCloy, Chris Clark
  • Murmur of the Heart - Louis Malle
  • Young Winston - Carl Foreman
• 1971
  • The Hospital - Paddy Chayefsky
  • Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion - Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro
  • Klute - Andy Lewis, Dave Lewis
  • Summer of '42 - Herman Raucher
  • Sunday Bloody Sunday - Penelope Gilliatt
• 1970
  • Five Easy Pieces - Bob Rafelson, Adrien Joyce
  • Joe - Norman Wexler
  • Love Story - Erich Segal
  • My Night at Maud's - Eric Rohmer
  • Patton - Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North
• 1969
  • Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice - Paul Mazursky, Larry Tucker
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - William Goldman
  • The Damned - Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli
  • Easy Rider - Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper
  • The Wild Bunch - Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner
• 1968
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke
  • The Battle of Algiers - Franco Solinas, Gillo Pontecorvo
  • Faces - John Cassavetes
  • Hot Millions - Ira Wallach, Peter Ustinov
  • The Producers - Mel Brooks
• 1967
  • Bonnie and Clyde - David Newman, Robert Benton
  • Divorce American Style - Norman Lear, Robert Kaufman
  • La Guerre Est Finie - Jorge Semprun
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - William Rose
  • Two for the Road - Frederic Raphael
• 1966
  • Blow-Up - Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra
  • The Fortune Cookie - Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
  • Khartoum - Robert Ardrey
  • A Man and a Woman - Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
  • The Naked Prey - Clint Johnston, Don Peters
• 1965
  • Casanova '70 - Age, Scarpelli, Tonino Guerra, Giorgio Salvioni, Suso Cecchi D'Amico
  • Darling - Frederic Raphael
  • Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines - Jack Davies, Ken Annakin
  • The Train - Franklin Coen, Frank Davis
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - Jacques Demy
• 1964
  • Father Goose - S. H. Barnett, Peter Stone
  • A Hard Day's Night - Alun Owen
  • One Potato, Two Potato - Orville H. Hampton, Raphael Hayes
  • The Organizer - Age, Scarpelli
  • That Man from Rio - Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Ariane Mnouchkine, Philippe De Broca
• 1963
  • America America - Elia Kazan
  • Federico Fellini's 8-1/2 - Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Brunello Rondi
  • The Four Days of Naples - Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Vasco Pratolini, Carlo Bernari
  • How the West Was Won - James R. Webb
  • Love with the Proper Stranger - Arnold Schulman
• 1962
  • Divorce--Italian Style - Ennio de Concini, Alfredo Giannetti
  • Freud - Charles Kaufman, Wolfgang Reinhardt
  • Last Year at Marienbad - Alain Robbe-Grillet
  • That Touch of Mink - Stanley Shapiro, Nate Monaster
  • Through a Glass Darkly - Ingmar Bergman
• 1961
  • Ballad of a Soldier - Valentin Yoshov, Grigori Chukhrai
  • La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi
  • General Della Rovere - Sergio Amidei, Diego Fabbri
  • Lover Come Back - Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning
  • Splendor in the Grass - William Inge
• 1960
  • The Angry Silence - Richard Gregson, Michael Craig
  • The Apartment - Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
  • The Facts of Life - Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
  • Hiroshima, Mon Amour - Marguerite Duras
  • Never on Sunday - Jules Dassin
• 1959
  • The 400 Blows - Francois Truffaut, Marcel Moussy
  • North by Northwest - Ernest Lehman
  • Operation Petticoat - Paul King, Joseph Stone, Maurice Richlin
  • Pillow Talk - Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin
  • Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman
• 1958
  • The Defiant Ones - Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith
  • The Goddess - Paddy Chayefsky
  • Houseboat - Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose
  • The Sheepman - James Edward Grant, William Bowers
  • Teacher's Pet - Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin
• 1957
  • Designing Woman - George Wells
  • Funny Face - Leonard Gershe
  • Man of a Thousand Faces - Ralph Wheelwright, R. Wright Campbell, Ben Roberts
  • The Tin Star - Barney Slater, Joel Kane
  • Vitelloni - Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano
• 1956
  • The Bold and the Brave - Robert Lewin
  • Julie - Andrew L. Stone
  • The Ladykillers - William Rose
  • The Red Balloon - Albert Lamorisse
  • La Strada - Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli
• 1955
  • The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell - Milton Sperling, Emmet Lavery
  • Interrupted Melody - William Ludwig, Sonya Levien
  • 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
• 1954
  • The Barefoot Contessa - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • Genevieve - William Rose
  • The Glenn Miller Story - Valentine Davies, Oscar Brodney
  • Knock on Wood - Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
  • On the Waterfront - Budd Schulberg
• 1953
  • 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
  • Titanic (1953) - Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch
• 1952
  • The Atomic City - Sydney Boehm
  • Breaking the Sound Barrier - Terence Rattigan
  • The Lavender Hill Mob - T. E. B. Clarke
  • Pat and Mike - Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
  • Viva Zapata! - John Steinbeck
• 1951
  • An American in Paris - Alan Jay Lerner
  • The Big Carnival - Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels
  • David and Bathsheba - Philip Dunne
  • Go For Broke! - Robert Pirosh
  • The Well - Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse
• 1950
  • 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
  • Sunset Blvd. - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
• 1949
  • Battleground - Robert Pirosh
  • Jolson Sings Again - Sidney Buchman
  • Paisan - Alfred Hayes, Federico Fellini, Marcello Pagliero, Roberto Rossellini
  • Passport to Pimlico - T. E. B. Clarke
  • The Quiet One - Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb
• 1947
  • The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer - Sidney Sheldon
  • Body and Soul - Abraham Polonsky
  • A Double Life - Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
  • Monsieur Verdoux - Charles Chaplin
  • Shoe-Shine - Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Zavattini
• 1946
  • The Blue Dahlia - Raymond Chandler
  • Children of Paradise - Jacques Prevert
  • Notorious - Ben Hecht
  • Road to Utopia - Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
  • The Seventh Veil - Muriel Box, Sydney Box
• 1945
  • Dillinger - Philip Yordan
  • Marie-Louise - Richard Schweizer
  • Music for Millions - Myles Connolly
  • Salty O'Rourke - Milton Holmes
  • What Next, Corporal Hargrove? - Harry Kurnitz
• 1944
  • Hail the Conquering Hero - Preston Sturges
  • The Miracle of Morgan's Creek - Preston Sturges
  • Two Girls and a Sailor - Richard Connell, Gladys Lehman
  • Wilson - Lamar Trotti
  • Wing and a Prayer - Jerome Cady
• 1943
  • Air Force - Dudley Nichols
  • In Which We Serve - Noel Coward
  • The North Star - Lillian Hellman
  • Princess O'Rourke - Norman Krasna
  • So Proudly We Hail! - Allan Scott
• 1942
  • 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
  • Woman of the Year - Ring Lardner, Jr., Michael Kanin
• 1941
  • Citizen Kane - Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles
  • The Devil and Miss Jones - Norman Krasna
  • Sergeant York - Abem Finkel, Harry Chandlee, John Huston
  • Tall, Dark and Handsome - Karl Tunberg, Darrell Ware
  • Tom, Dick and Harry - Paul Jarrico
• 1940
  • Angels over Broadway - Ben Hecht
  • Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet - John Huston, Heinz Herald
  • Foreign Correspondent - Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison
  • The Great Dictator - Charles Chaplin
  • The Great McGinty - Preston Sturges