Best Original Screenplay Movies I've Seen

Submitted by friedgoatee on Thu, 06/24/2010 - 12:35
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  1. 1928- Underworld (Ben Hecht)
  2. 1929- The Patriot (Hanns Kraly- Achievement)
  3. 1930- The Big House (Frances Marion- Achievement)
  4. 1931- The Dawn Patrol (John Monk Saunders)
  5. 1932- The Champ (Frances Marion)
  6. 1933- One Way Passage (Robert Lord)
  7. 1934- Manhattan Melodrama (Arthur Caesar)
  8. 1935- The Scoundrel (Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur)
  9. 1936- The Story of Louis Pasteur (Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney)
  10. 1937- A Star Is Born (William A. Wellman and Robert Carson- Original Story)
  11. 1938- Boys Town (Eleanore Griffin and Dore Schary)
  12. 1939- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Lewis R. Foster)
  13. 1940- The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges)
  14. 1941- Citizen Kane (Orson Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz)
  15. 1942- Woman of the Year (Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner Jr.)
  16. 1943- Princess O'Rourke (Norman Krasna)
  17. 1944- Wilson (Lamar Trotti)
  18. 1945- Marie-Louise (Richard Schweizer)
  19. 1946- The Seventh Veil (Muriel Box and Sydney Box)
  20. 1947- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (Sidney Sheldon)
  21. 1948- The Search (Richard Schweizer and David Wechsler)
  22. 1949- Battleground (Robert Pirosh)
  23. 1950- Sunset Boulevard (Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D.M. Marshman Jr.)
  24. 1951- An American in Paris (Alan Jay Lerner)
  25. 1952- The Lavender Hill Mob (T.E.B. Clarke)
  26. 1953- Titanic (Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, Richard L. Breen)
  27. 1954- On the Waterfront (Budd Schulberg)
  28. 1955- Interrupted Melody (William Ludwig and Sonya Levien)
  29. 1956- The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse)
  30. 1957- Designing Woman (George Wells)
  31. 1958- The Defiant Ones (Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith)
  32. 1959- Pillow Talk (Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene, Stanley Shapiro, and Maurice Richlin)
  33. 1960- The Apartment (Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond)
  34. 1961- Splendor in the Grass (William Inge)
  35. 1962- Divorce, Italian Style (Ennio De Concini, Alfredo Giannetti, and Pietro Germi)
  36. 1963- How the West Was Won (James R. Webb)
  37. 1964- Father Goose (S.H. Barnett, Peter Stone, and Frank Tarloff)
  38. 1965- Darling (Frederic Raphael)
  39. 1966- A Man and a Woman (Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven)
  40. 1967- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (William Rose)
  41. 1968- The Producers (Mel Brooks)
  42. 1969- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (William Goldman)
  43. 1970- Patton (Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North)
  44. 1971- The Hospital (Paddy Chayefsky)
  45. 1972- The Candidate (Jeremy Larner)
  46. 1973- The Sting (David S. Ward)
  47. 1974- Chinatown (Robert Towne)
  48. 1975- Dog Day Afternoon (Frank Pierson)
  49. 1976- Network (Paddy Chayefsky)
  50. 1977- Annie Hall (Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman)
  51. 1978- Coming Home (Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt, and Robert C. Jones)
  52. 1979- Breaking Away (Steve Tesich)
  53. 1980- Melvin and Howard (Bo Goldman)
  54. 1981- Chariots of Fire (Colin Welland)
  55. 1982- Gandhi (John Briley)
  56. 1983- Tender Mercies (Horton Foote)
  57. 1984- Places in the Heart (Robert Benton)
  58. 1985- Witness (Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley, and Pamela Wallace)
  59. 1986- Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
  60. 1987- Moonstruck (John Patrick Shanley)
  61. 1988- Rain Man (Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow)
  62. 1989- Dead Poets Society (Tom Schulman)
  63. 1990- Ghost (Bruce Joel Rubin)
  64. 1991- Thelma & Louise (Callie Khouri)
  65. 1992- The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)
  66. 1993- The Piano (Jane Campion)
  67. 1994- Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary)
  68. 1995- The Usual Suspects (Christopher McQuarrie)
  69. 1996- Fargo (Ethan Coen and Joel Coen)
  70. 1997- Good Will Hunting (Ben Affleck and Matt Damon)
  71. 1998- Shakespeare in Love (Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard)
  72. 1999- American Beauty- Alan Ball
  73. 2000- Almost Famous- Cameron Crowe
  74. 2001- Gosford Park- Julian Fellowes
  75. 2002- Talk to Her- Pedro Almodovar
  76. 2003- Lost in Translation- Sofia Coppola
  77. 2004- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, and Pierre Bismuth)
  78. 2005- Crash (Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco)
  79. 2006- Little Miss Sunshine (Michael Arndt)
  80. 2007- Juno (Diablo Cody)
  81. 2008- Milk (Dustin Lance Black)
  82. 2009- The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal)
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