♥Best Screenplays and Writers
Year
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Adapted Screenplay
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Original Screenplay
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James Ivory |
Jordan Peele |
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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 |
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Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash |
Woody Allen |
|
Aaron Sorkin |
David Seidler |
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Geoffrey Fletcher |
Mark Boal |
|
Simon Beaufoy |
Dustin Lance Black |
|
Joel and Ethan Coen |
Diablo Cody |
|
William Monahan |
Michael Arndt |
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Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana |
Paul Haggis, Robert Moresco |
|
Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor |
Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry and Pierre Bismuth |
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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 |