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The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. 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 combined to honor only the screenplay.
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1940s
- 1940 The Great McGinty - Preston Sturges
- 1941 Citizen Kane - Herman Mankiewicz, Orson Welles
- 1942 Woman of the Year - Michael Kanin, Ring Lardner Jr
- 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
- 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 (Instead of the categories "Original Screenplay and "Screenplay", it was combined into one category, called "Screenplay")
- 1949 Battleground - Robert Pirosh
(In 1949, the category was renamed "Story and Screenplay")
1950s
- 1950 Sunset Boulevard - Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman, Jr., Billy Wilder
- 1951 An American in Paris - Alan Jay 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
- The Bold and the Brave - Robert Lewin
- Julie - Andrew L. Stone
- La strada - Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli
- The Ladykillers - William Rose
- 1957 Designing Woman - George Wells
- 1958 The Defiant Ones - Nathan E. Douglas, Harold Jacob Smith (Upon request of his widow and upon recommendation of the Writers Branch Executive Committee, the Board of Governors voted to restore the name of Nedrick Young to the nomination and award presented to Nathan E. Douglas, which was a pseudonym for Mr. Young during the blacklisting period.)
- 1959 Pillow Talk - Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, Stanley Shapiro
1960s
- 1960 The Apartment - I.A.L. Diamond, Billy Wilder
- The Angry Silence - Screenplay by Bryan Forbes; Story by Richard Gregson, Michael Craig
- The Facts of Life - Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
- Hiroshima Mon Amour - Marguerite Duras
- Never on Sunday - Jules Dassin
- 1961 Splendor in the Grass - William Inge
- 1962 Divorce, Italian Style - Ennio de Concini, Pietro Germi, Alfredo Giannetti
- Freud - Story by Charles Kaufman, Screenplay by Charles Kaufman and Wolfgang Reinhardt
- Last Year at Marienbad - Alain Robbe-Grillet
- That Touch of Mink - Stanley Shapiro, Nate Monaster
- Through a Glass Darkly - Ingmar Bergman
- 1963 How the West Was Won - James Webb
- 8½ - Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi
- America, America - Elia Kazan
- The Four Days of Naples - Story by Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy, Vasco Pratolini; Screenplay by Carlo Bernari, Massimo Franciosa, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Nanni Loy
- Love with the Proper Stranger - Arnold Schulman
- 1964 Father Goose - Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff
- 1965 Darling - Frederic Raphael
- 1966 A Man and a Woman - Story by Claude Lelouch; Screenplay by Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
- Blowup - Story by Michelangelo Antonioni; Screenplay by Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Edward Bond
- The Fortune Cookie - Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond
- Khartoum - Robert Ardrey
- The Naked Prey - Clinkt Johnston, Don Peters
- 1967 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - William Rose
- Bonnie and Clyde - David Newman, Robert Benton
- Divorce American Style - Story by Robert Kaufman; Screenplay by Norman Lear
- La Guerre Est Finie - Jorge Semprún
- Two for the Road - Frederic Raphael
- 1968 The Producers - Mel Brooks
- 1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - William Goldman
- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice - Paul Mazursky, Larry Tucker
- The Damned - Story by Nicola Badalucco; Screenplay by Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti
- Easy Rider - Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern
- The Wild Bunch - Story by Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner; Screenplay by Walon Green, Sam Peckinpah
(In 1969, the category was renamed: "Story and Screenplay - based on material not previously published or produced)
1970s
- 1970 Patton - Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North
- Five Easy Pieces - Screenplay by "Adrien Joyce" (aka Carole Eastman); Story by "Adrien Joyce", Bob Rafelson
- Joe - Norman Wexler
- Love Story - Erich Segal
- My Night at Maud's - Éric Rohmer
- 1971 The Hospital - Paddy Chayefsky
- 1972 The Candidate - Jeremy Larner
- 1973 The Sting - David S. Ward
- 1974 Chinatown - Robert Towne
- 1975 Dog Day Afternoon - Frank Pierson
- 1976 Network - Paddy Chayefsky
- Cousin, cousine - Story and Screenplay by Jean-Charles Tacchella; Adaptation by Daniele Thompson
- The Front - Walter Bernstein
- Rocky - Sylvester Stallone
- Seven Beauties - Lina Wertmüller
(In 1976, the category was renamed: "Screenplay written directly for the Screen - Based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced")
- 1977 Annie Hall - Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
- 1978 Coming Home - Screenplay by Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt; Story by Nancy Dowd
- Autumn Sonata - Ingmar Bergman
- The Deer Hunter - Screenplay by Deric Washburn; Story by Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle, Quinn K. Redeker
- Interiors - Woody Allen
- An Unmarried Woman - Paul Mazursky
(In 1978, the category was renamed: "Screenplay written directly for the screen")
1980s
- 1980 Melvin and Howard - Bo Goldman
- Brubaker - Screenplay by W. D. Richter; Story by Arthur Ross and W.D. Richter
- Fame - Christopher Gore
- Mon oncle d'Amérique - Jean Gruault, Henri Laborit
- Private Benjamin - Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer, Harvey Miller
- 1981 Chariots of Fire - Colin Welland
- Absence of Malice - Kurt Luedtke
- Arthur - Steve Gordon
- Atlantic City - John Guare
- Reds - Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths
- 1982 Gandhi - John Briley
- Diner - Barry Levinson
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Melissa Mathison
- An Officer and a Gentleman - Douglas Day Stewart
- Tootsie - Screenplay by Larry Gelbart, Murray Schisgal; Story by Don McGuire and Larry Gelbart
- 1983 Tender Mercies - Horton Foote
- 1984 Places in the Heart - Robert Benton
- Beverly Hills Cop - Screenplay by Daniel Petrie, Jr.; Story by Danilo Bach and Daniel Petrie, Jr.
- Broadway Danny Rose - Woody Allen
- El Norte - Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas
- Splash - Screenplay by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman; Screen Story by Bruce Jay Friedman, Story by Brian Grazer
- 1985 Witness - Screenplay by William Kelley, Earl Wallace; Story by William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, Earl Wallace
- 1986 Hannah and Her Sisters - Woody Allen
- Crocodile Dundee - Screenplay by Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie, John Cornell; Story by Paul Hogan
- My Beautiful Laundrette - Hanif Kureishi
- Platoon - Oliver Stone
- Salvador - Oliver Stone, Richard Boyle
- 1987 Moonstruck - John Patrick Shanley
- 1988 Rain Man - Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow
- Big - Gary Ross, Anne Spielberg
- Bull Durham - Ron Shelton
- A Fish Called Wanda - Screenplay by John Cleese; Story by John Cleese and Charles Crichton
- Running on Empty - Naomi Foner
- 1989 Dead Poets Society - Tom Schulman
1990s
- 1993 The Piano - Jane Campion
- Dave - Gary Ross
- In the Line of Fire - Jeff Maguire
- Philadelphia - Ron Nyswaner
- Sleepless in Seattle - Jeff Arch (story and screenplay), Nora Ephron and David S. Ward
- 1994 Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino (story and screenplay) and Roger Avary (story)
- 1995 The Usual Suspects - Christopher McQuarrie
- Braveheart - Randall Wallace
- Mighty Aphrodite - Woody Allen
- Nixon - Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson and Oliver Stone
- Toy Story - Screenplay by Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow; Story by John Lasseter, Peter Docter, Andrew Stanton, Joe Ranft
- 1996 Fargo - Ethan and Joel Coen
- Jerry Maguire - Cameron Crowe
- Lone Star - John Sayles
- Secrets & Lies - Mike Leigh
- Shine - Jan Sardi and Scott Hicks (story)
- 1997 Good Will Hunting - Ben Affleck, Matt Damon
- As Good as It Gets - Mark Andrus (story and screenplay) and James L. Brooks
- Boogie Nights - Paul Thomas Anderson
- Deconstructing Harry - Woody Allen
- The Full Monty - Simon Beaufoy
2000s
- 2003 (76th) Lost in Translation - Sofia Coppola
- The Barbarian Invasions (Les invasions barbares) - Denys Arcand
- Dirty Pretty Things - Steven Knight
- Finding Nemo - Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson and David Reynolds
- In America - Jim, Naomi and Kirsten Sheridan
- 2004 (77th) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, and Pierre Bismuth
- 2005 (78th) Crash - Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco
- 2006 (79th) Little Miss Sunshine - Michael Arndt
- Babel - Guillermo Arriaga
- Letters from Iwo Jima - Iris Yamashita (screenplay and story) and Paul Haggis
- Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) - Guillermo del Toro
- The Queen - Peter Morgan
- 2007 (80th) Juno - Diablo Cody
See also
- Academy Awards
- List of Academy Awards ceremonies
- Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay
- Academy Award for Best Story
External links
- Academy Award Winning Screenplays 1928–2005
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