Adademy Awards - Best Screenplay

Submitted by dashforcover on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:30
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  1. 1928 Seventh Heaven Benjamin Glazer Q
  2. 1928 Underworld Ben Hecht NYAG 11/09
  3. 1928 Underworld Joseph Farnham NYAG 11/09
  4. 1929 The Patriot Hans Kraly NYAG 11/09
  5. 1930 The Big House Frances Marion NYAG 11/09
  6. 1931 Cimarron Howard Estabrook
  7. 1931 The Dawn Patrol John Monk Saunders Q
  8. 1932 Bad Girl Edwin Burke Q
  9. 1932 The Champ Frances Marion Q
  10. 1933 Little Women Vistor Heerman & Sarah Y. Mason Q
  11. 1933 One Way Passage Robert Lord NYAG 11/09
  12. 1934 It Happened One Night Robert Riskin
  13. 1934 Manhattan Melodrama Arthur Caesar Q
  14. 1935 The Informer Dudley Nichols Q
  15. 1935 The Scoundrel Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur NYL 11/09
  16. 1936 The Story Of Louis Pasteur Pierre Collings & Sheridan Gibney NYAG 11/09
  17. 1936 The Story Of Louis Pasteur Pierre Collings & Sheridan Gibney NYAG 11/09
  18. 1937 The Life Of Emile Zola Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald & Geza Herczeg
  19. 1937 A Star Is Born William A. Wellman & Robert Carson
  20. 1938 Boys Town Dore Schary & Eleanore Griffin
  21. 1938 Pygmalion Cecil Lewis, W. P. Lipscomb, & Ian Dalrymple; George Bernard Shaw (Screenplay)
  22. 1939 Gone With The Wind Sidney Howard
  23. 1939 Mr. Smith Goes To Washington Lewis R. Foster
  24. 1940 Arise, My Love Benjamin Glazer & John S. Toldy NYL 11/09
  25. 1940 The Great McGinty Preston Sturges Q>
  26. 1940 The Philadelphia Story Donald Ogden Stewart
  27. 1941 Citizen Kane Herman J. Mankiewicz & Orson Welles
  28. 1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan Sidney Buchman & Seton I. Miller
  29. 1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan Harry Segall
  30. 1942 49th Parallel (aka The Invaders) Emeric Pressburger Q
  31. 1942 Mrs. Miniver Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, James Hilton & Claudine West
  32. 1942 Woman Of The Year Ring Lardner, Jr. & Michael Kanin Q
  33. 1943 Casablanca Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch
  34. 1943 The Human Comedy William Saroyan NYL 11/09
  35. 1943 Princess O'Rourke Norman Krasna NYAG 11/09
  36. 1944 Going My Way Frank Butler, Frank Cavett
  37. 1944 Going My Way Leo McCarey
  38. 1944 Wilson Lamar Trotti NYL 11/09
  39. 1945 The House On 92nd Street Charles G. Booth Q
  40. 1945 The Lost Weekend Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
  41. 1945 Marie-Louise Richard Schweizer NYL 11/09
  42. 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives Robert E. Sherwood
  43. 1946 The Seventh Veil Muriel Box & Sydney Box NYL 11/09
  44. 1946 Perfect Strangers Clemence Dane NYL 11/09
  45. 1947 The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer Sidney Sheldon Q
  46. 1947 Miracle on 34th Street George Seaton
  47. 1947 Miracle On 34th Street Valentine Davies
  48. 1948 The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre John Huston
  49. 1949 A Letter To Three Wives Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  50. 1948 The Search Richard Schweizer & David Wechsler NYL 11/09
  51. 1949 Battleground Robert Pirosh Q
  52. 1949 The Stratton Story Douglas Morrow Q
  53. 1950 All About Eve Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  54. 1950 Panic In The Streets Edna Anhalt & Edward Anhalt Q
  55. 1950 Sunset Boulevard Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder & D. M. Marshman, Jr.
  56. 1951 An American In Paris Alan Jay Lerner
  57. 1951 A Place In The Sun Michael Wilson & Harry Brown Q
  58. 1951 Seven Days To Noon Paul Dehn & James Bernard NYAG 11/09
  59. 1952 The Bad and the Beautiful Charles Schnee
  60. 1952 The Greatest Show On Earth Frederic M. Frank, Theodore St. John, Frank Cavett
  61. 1952 The Lavender Hill Mob T. E. B. Clarke Q
  62. 1953 From Here To Eternity Daniel Taradash
  63. 1953 Roman Holiday Dalton Trumbo (Ian McLellan Hunter [alias])
  64. 1953 Titanic Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch & Richard Breen
  65. 1954 Broken Lance Philip Yordan Q
  66. 1954 The Country Girl George Seaton
  67. 1954 On The Waterfront Budd Schulberg
  68. 1955 Interrupted Melody William Ludwig, Sonya Levien NYL 11/09
  69. 1955 Love Me or Leave Me Daniel Fuchs Q
  70. 1955 Marty Paddy Chayefsky
  71. 1956 Around The World In 80 Days James Poe, John Farrow & S. J. Perelman
  72. 1956 The Brave One Dalton Trumbo (Robert Rich [alias]) NYL 11/09
  73. 1956 The Red Balloon Albert Lamorisse UNAV 11/09
  74. 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)
  75. 1957 Designing Woman George Wells Q
  76. 1958 The Defiant Ones Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith
  77. 1958 Gigi Alan Jay Lerner
  78. 1959 Pillow Talk Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene, Stanley Shapiro & Maurice Richlin
  79. 1959 Room At The Top Neil Paterson
  80. 1960 The Apartment Billy Wilder & I. A. L. Diamond
  81. 1960 Elmer Gantry Richard Brooks
  82. 1961 Judgment At Nuremberg Abby Mann
  83. 1961 Splendor In The Grass William Inge
  84. 1962 Divorce - Italian Style Ennio de Concini, Alfredo Giannetti & Pietro Germi Q
  85. 1962 To Kill A Mockingbird Horton Foote
  86. 1963 How The West Was Won James R. Webb
  87. 1963 Tom Jones John Osborne
  88. 1964 Becket Edward Anhalt
  89. 1964 Father Goose S. H. Barnett, Peter Stone & Frank Tarloff
  90. 1965 Darling Frederic Raphael Q
  91. 1965 Doctor Zhivago Robert Bolt
  92. 1966 A Man And A Woman Claude Lelouch & Pierre Uytterhoeven Q
  93. 1966 A Man For All Seasons Robert Bolt
  94. 1967 Guess Who's Coming To Dinner William Rose
  95. 1967 In The Heat Of The Night Stirling Silliphant
  96. 1968 The Lion In Winter James Goldman
  97. 1968 The Producers Mel Brooks
  98. 1969 Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid William Goldman
  99. 1969 Midnight Cowboy Waldo Salt
  100. 1970 M*A*S*H Ring Lardner, Jr.
  101. 1970 Patton Francis Ford Coppola & Edmund H. North
  102. 1971 The French Connection Ernest Tidyman
  103. 1971 The Hospital Paddy Chayefsky Q
  104. 1972 The Candidate Jeremy Larner
  105. 1972 The Godfather Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola
  106. 1973 The Exorcist William Peter Blatty
  107. 1973 The Sting David S. Ward
  108. 1974 Chinatown Robert Towne
  109. 1974 The Godfather Part II Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo
  110. 1975 Dog Day Afternoon Frank Pierson
  111. 1975 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Lawrence Hauben & Bo Goldman
  112. 1976 All The President's Men William Goldman
  113. 1976 Network Paddy Chayefsky
  114. 1977 Annie Hall Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman
  115. 1977 Julia Alvin Sargent
  116. 1978 Coming Home Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt & Robert C. Jones Q
  117. 1978 Midnight Express Oliver Stone
  118. 1979 Breaking Away Steve Tesich AVQ 11/09
  119. 1979 Kramer Vs. Kramer Robert Benton
  120. 1980 Melvin And Howard Bo Goldman
  121. 1980 Ordinary People Alvin Sargent
  122. 1981 Chariots Of Fire Colin Welland
  123. 1981 On Golden Pond Ernest Thompson
  124. 1982 Gandhi John Briley
  125. 1982 Missing Costa Gavras & Donald Stewart
  126. 1983 Tender Mercies Horton Foote
  127. 1983 Terms Of Endearment James L. Brooks
  128. 1984 Amadeus Peter Shaffer
  129. 1984 Places In The Heart Robert Benton AVQ 11/09
  130. 1985 Out Of Africa Kurt Luedtke
  131. 1985 Witness Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley & Pamela Wallace
  132. 1986 Hannah And Her Sisters Woody Allen
  133. 1986 A Room With A View Ruth Prawer Jhabvala IQ
  134. 1987 The Last Emperor Mark Peploe & Bernardo Bertolucci
  135. 1987 Moonstruck John Patrick Shanley
  136. 1988 Dangerous Liaisons Christopher Hampton
  137. 1988 Rain Man Ronald Bass & Barry Morrow
  138. 1989 Dead Poets Society Tom Schulman
  139. 1989 Driving Miss Daisy Alfred Uhry
  140. 1990 Dances With Wolves Michael Blake
  141. 1990 Ghost Bruce Joel Rubin
  142. 1991 The Silence Of The Lambs Ted Tally
  143. 1991 Thelma & Louise Callie Khouri AVQ 11/09
  144. 1992 The Crying Game Neil Jordan AVQ 11/09
  145. 1992 Howards End Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  146. 1993 The Piano Jane Campion
  147. 1993 Schindler's List Steven Zaillian
  148. 1994 Forrest Gump Eric Roth
  149. 1994 Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avery
  150. 1995 Sense And Sensibility Emma Thompson AVQ 11/09
  151. 1995 The Usual Suspects Christopher McQuarrie
  152. 1996 Fargo Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
  153. 1996 Sling Blade Billy Bob Thornton
  154. 1997 Good Will Hunting Ben Affleck & Matt Damon
  155. 1997 L.A. Confidential Brian Helgeland & Curtis Hanson
  156. 1998 Gods And Monsters Bill Condon
  157. 1998 Shakespeare In Love Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard
  158. 1999 American Beauty Alan Ball
  159. 1999 The Cider House Rules John Irving
  160. 2000 Almost Famous Cameron Crowe Q
  161. 2000 Traffic Stephen Gaghan
  162. 2001 A Beautiful Mind Akiva Goldsman
  163. 2001 Gosford Park Julian Fellows
  164. 2002 The Pianist Ronald Harwood
  165. 2002 Talk To Her (Hable con ella) Pedro Almodóvar Q
  166. 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Frances Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson
  167. 2003 Lost in Translation Sofia Coppola
  168. 2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry and Pierre Bismuth Q
  169. 2004 Sideways Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor Q
  170. 2005 Brokeback Mountain Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana Q
  171. 2005 Crash Paul Haggis, Robert Moresco
  172. 2006 The Departed William Monahan
  173. 2006 Little Miss Sunshine Michael Arndt AVQ 11/09
  174. 2007 Juno Diablo Cody AVQ 11/09
  175. 2007 No Country For Old Men Joel and Ethan Coen
  176. 2008 Milk Dustin Lance Black AVQ 11/09
  177. 2008 Slumdog Millionaire Simon Beaufoy
Author Comments: 

This is for any type of Oscar for screenwriting, whether original or adapted. Where the same movie is listed more than once, it won an award for more than one type of screenwriting for that year.