Best Original Screenplay

Kenneth Branagh, winner 2021

The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay. In 2002, the name of the award was changed from "Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)" to "Writing (Original Screenplay)"

History

Woody Allen has the most nominations in this category with 15, and the most awards with 3. He also holds the record as the oldest winner (at age 76 for 2011's Midnight in Paris). Ben Affleck is the youngest winner, at the age of 25 for Good Will Hunting; he co-wrote the screenplay with Matt Damon (age 27 at the time of their award). Muriel Box was the first woman to win in this category; she shared the award with her husband, Sydney Box. The Boxes are also the first married couple to win in this category. In 1996, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen became the only siblings to win in this category. Francis Ford Coppola (1970) and Sofia Coppola (2003) are the only father-daughter pair to win, though they did not win for a collaborative work.

The official name of the award has changed several times over the years:

• 1940 — 1948: Original Screenplay
• 1949 — 1955: Story and Screenplay
• 1956: Original Screenplay
• 1957 — 1973: Story and Screenplay
• 1974 — 1975: Original Screenplay
• 1976 — 2001: Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
• 2002 — present: Original Screenplay

Nominees and winners

1940s

13th Academy Awards (1940)

Winner

The Great McGinty — Preston Sturges

Nominees

Angels Over Broadway — Ben Hecht

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet — Norman Burnside, Heinz Herald, John Huston

Foreign Correspondent — Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison

The Great Dictator — Charlie Chaplin

14th Academy Awards (1941)

Winner

Citizen Kane — Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles

Nominees

The Devil and Miss Jones — Norman Krasna

Sergeant York — Abem Finkel, Harry Chandlee, Howard Koch, John Huston

Tall, Dark and Handsome — Karl Tunberg, Darrell Ware

Tom, Dick and Harry — Paul Jarrico

15th Academy Awards (1942)

Winner

Woman of the Year — Ring Lardner, Jr., Michael Kanin

Nominees

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

16th Academy Awards (1943)

Winner

Princess O'Rourke — Norman Krasna

Nominees

Air Force — Dudley Nichols

In Which We Serve — Noel Coward

The North Star — Lillian Hellman

So Proudly We Hail! — Allan Scott

17th Academy Awards (1944)

Winner

Wilson — Lamar Trotti

Nominees

Hail the Conquering Hero — Preston Sturges

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek — Preston Sturges

Two Girls and a Sailor — Richard Connell, Gladys Lehman

Wing and a Prayer — Jerome Cady

18th Academy Awards (1945)

Winner

Marie-Louise — Richard Schweizer

Nominees

Dillinger — Philip Yordan

Music for Millions — Myles Connolly

Salty O'Rourke — Milton Holmes

What Next, Corporal Hargrove? — Harry Kurnitz

19th Academy Awards (1946)

Winner

The Seventh Veil — Muriel Box, Sydney Box

Nominees

The Blue Dahlia — Raymond Chandler

Children of Paradise — Jacques Prévert

Notorious — Ben Hecht

Road to Utopia — Norman Panama, Melvin Frank

20th Academy Awards (1947)

Winner

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer — Sidney Sheldon

Nominees

Body and Soul — Abraham Polonsky

A Double Life — Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin

Monsieur Verdoux — Charles Chaplin

Shoe-Shine — Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, C. G. Viola, Cesare Zavattini

1948: No award given

22nd Academy Awards (1949)

Winner

Battleground — Robert Pirosh

Nominees

Jolson Sings Again — Sidney Buchman

Paisan — Alfred Haynes, Federico Fellini, Sergio Amidei, Marcello Pagliero, Roberto Rossellini

Passport to Pimlico — T. E. B. Clarke

The Quiet One — Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, Sidney Meyers

1950s

23rd Academy Awards (1950)

Winner

Sunset Blvd. — Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D. M. Marshman, Jr.

Nominees

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

24th Academy Awards (1951)

Winner

An American in Paris — Alan Jay Lerner

Nominees

The Big Carnival — Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman

David and Bathsheba — Philip Dunne

Go for Broke! — Robert Pirosh

The Well — Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse

25th Academy Awards (1952)

Winner

The Lavender Hill Mob — T. E. B. Clarke

Nominees

The Atomic City — Sydney Boehm

Breaking the Sound Barrier — Terence Rattigan

Pat and Mike — Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin

Viva Zapata! — John Steinbeck

26th Academy Awards (1953)

Winner

Titanic (1953) — Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, Richard Breen

Nominees

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

27th Academy Awards (1954)

Winner

On the Waterfront — Budd Schulberg

Nominees

The Barefoot Contessa — Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Genevieve — William Rose

The Glenn Miller Story — Valentine Davies, Oscar Brodney

Knock on Wood — Norman Panama, Melvin Frank

28th Academy Awards (1955)

Winner

Interrupted Melody — William Ludwig, Sonya Levien

Nominees

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell — Milton Sperling, Emmet Lavery

It's Always Fair Weather — Betty Comden, Adolph Green

Mr. Hulot's Holiday — Jaques Tati, Henri Marquet

The Seven Little Foys — Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose

29th Academy Awards (1956)

Winner

The Red Balloon — Albert Lamorisse

Nominees

The Bold and the Brave — Robert Lewin

Julie — Andrew L. Stone

La Strada — Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli

The Ladykillers — William Rose

30th Academy Awards (1957)

Winner

Designing Woman — George Wells

Nominees

Funny Face — Leonard Gershe

Man of a Thousand Faces — Ralph Wheelwright, R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts

The Tin Star — Barney Slater, Joel Kane, Dudley Nichols

Vitelloni — Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli

31st Academy Awards (1958)

Winner

The Defiant Ones — Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith

Nominees

The Goddess — Paddy Chayefsky

Houseboat — Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose

The Sheepman — James Edward Grant, William Bowers

Teacher's Pet — Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin

32nd Academy Awards (1959)

Winner

Pillow Talk — Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene, Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin

Nominees

The 400 Blows — Francois Truffaut, Marcel Moussy

North by Northwest — Ernest Lehman

Operation Petticoat — Paul King, Joseph Stone, Stanely Shapiro, Maurice Richlin

Wild Strawberries — Ingmar Bergman

1960s

33rd Academy Awards (1960)

Winner

The Apartment — Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond

Nominees

The Angry Silence — Richard Gregson, Michael Craig, Bryan Forbes

The Facts of Life — Norman Panama, Melvin Frank

Hiroshima, Mon Amour — Marguerite Duras

Never on Sunday — Jules Dassin

34th Academy Awards (1961)

Winner

Splendor in the Grass — William Inge

Nominees

Ballad of a Soldier — Valentin Yoshov, Grigori Chukhrai

General Della Rovere — Sergio Amidei, Diego Fabbri, Indro Montanelli

La Dolce Vita — Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, Brunello Rondi

Lover Come Back — Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning

35th Academy Awards (1962)

Winner

Divorce, Italian Style — Ennio de Concini, Alfredo Giannetti, Petro Germi

Nominees

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 Berman

36th Academy Awards (1963)

Winner

How the West Was Won — James R. Webb

Nominees

America America — Elia Kazan

Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 — Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi

The Four Days of Naples — Pasquale Festa Companile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy, Vasco Pratolini, Carlo Bernari

Love with the Proper Stranger — Arnold Schulman

37th Academy Awards (1964)

Winner

Father Goose — S. H. Barnett, Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff

Nominees

A Hard Day's Night — Alun Owen

One Potato, Two Potato — Orville H. Hampton, Raphael Hayes

The Organizer — Age, Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli

The Man from Rio — Jean-Paul Rapaeneau, Ariane Mnouchkine, Daniel Boulanger, Philippe De Broca

38th Academy Awards (1965)

Winner

Darling — Frederic Raphael

Nominees

Casanova '70 — Age, Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli, Tonino Guerra, Giorgio Salvioni, Suso Cecchi D'Amico

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines — Jack Davies, Ken Annakin

The Train — Franklin Coen, Frank Davis

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg — Jacques Denny

39th Academy Awards (1966)

Winner

A Man and Woman — Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven

Nominees

Blow-Up — Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Edward Bond

The Fortune Cookie — Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond

Khartoum — Robert Ardrey

The Naked Prey — Clint Johnston, Don Peters

40th Academy Awards (1967)

Winner

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner — William Rose

Nominees

Bonnie and Clyde — David Newman, Robert Benton

Divorce American Style — Robert Kaufman, Norman Lear

La Guerre Est Finie — Jorge Semprun

Two for the Road — Frederic Raphael

41st Academy Awards (1968)

Winner

The Producers — Mel Brooks

Nominees

The Battle of Algiers — Franco Solinas, Gillo Pontecorvo

Faces — John Cassavetes

Hot Millions — Ira Wallach, Peter Ustinov

2001: A Space Odyssey — Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke

42nd Academy Awards (1969)

Winner

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid — William Goldman

Nominees

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice — Paul Mazursky, Larry Tucker

The Damned — Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti

Easy Rider — Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern

The Wild Bunch — Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner, Sam Peckinpah

1970s

43rd Academy Awards (1970)

Winner

Patton — Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North

Nominees

Five Easy Pieces — Bob Rafelson, Adrien Joyce

Joe — Norman Wexler

Love Story — Erich Segal

My Night at Maud's — Eric Rohmer

44th Academy Awards (1971)

Winner

The Hospital — Paddy Chayefsky

Nominees

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

45th Academy Awards (1972)

Winner

The Candidate — Jeremy Larner

Nominees

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie — Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere

Lady Sings the Blues — Terence McCloy, Chris Clark, Suzanne de Passe

Murmur of the Heart — Luis Malle

Young Winston — Carl Foreman

46th Academy Awards (1973)

Winner

The Sting — David S. Ward

Nominees

American Graffiti — George Lucas, Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck

Cries and Whispers — Ingmar Bergman

Save the Tiger — Steve Shagan

A Touch of Class — Melvin Frank, Jack Rose

47th Academy Awards (1974)

Winner

Chinatown — Robert Towne

Nominees

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore — Robert Getchell

The Conversation — Francis Ford Coppola

Day for Night — Francois Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard, Suzanne Schiffman

Harry and Tonto — Paul Mazursky, Josh Greenfeld

48th Academy Awards (1975)

Winner

Dog Day Afternoon — Frank Pierson

Nominees

Amarcord — Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra

And Now My Love — Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven

Lies My Father Told Me — Ted Allan

Shampoo — Robert Towne, Warren Beatty

49th Academy Awards (1976)

Winner

Network — Paddy Chayefsky

Nominees

Cousin, Cousine — Jean-Charles Tacchella, Daniele Thompson

The Front — Walter Bernstein

Rocky — Sylvester Stallone

Seven Beauties — Lina Wertmüller

50th Academy Awards (1977)

Winner

Annie Hall — Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman

Nominees

The Goodbye Girl — Neil Simon

The Late Show — Robert Benton

Star Wars — George Lucas

The Turning Point — Arthur Laurents

51st Academy Awards (1978)

Winner

Coming Home — Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones

Nominees

Autumn Sonata — Ingmar Bergman

The Deer Hunter — Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle, Quinn K. Redeker, Deric Washburn

Interiors — Woody Allen

An Unmarried Woman — Paul Mazursky

52nd Academy Awards (1979)

Winner

Breaking Away — Steve Tesich

Nominees

All That Jazz — Robert Alan Aurthur, Bob Fosse

...And Justice for All — Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson

The China Syndrome — Mike Gray, T.S. Cook, James Bridges

Manhattan — Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman

1980s

53rd Academy Awards (1980)

Winner

Melvin and Howard — Bo Goldman

Nominees

Brubaker — W. D. Richter, Arthur Ross

Fame — Christopher Gore

Mon Oncle D'Amerique — Jean Gruault

Private Benjamin — Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer, Harvey Miller

54th Academy Awards (1981)

Winner

Chariots of Fire — Colin Welland

Nominees

Absence of Malice — Kurt Luedtke

Arthur — Steve Gordon

Atlantic City — John Guare

Reds — Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths

55th Academy Awards (1982)

Winner

Gandhi — John Briley

Nominees

Diner — Barry Levinson

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial — Melissa Mathison

An Officer and a Gentleman — Douglas Day Stewart

Tootsie — Larry Gelbart, Murray Schisgal, Don McGuire

56th Academy Awards (1983)

Winner

Tender Mercies — Horton Foote

Nominees

The Big Chill — Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara Benedek

Fanny & Alexander — Ingmar Bergman

Silkwood — Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen

WarGames — Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes

57th Academy Awards (1984)

Winner

Places in the Heart — Robert Benton

Nominees

Beverly Hills Cop — Danilo Bach, Daniel Petrie, Jr.

Broadway Danny Rose — Woody Allen

El Norte — Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas

Splash — Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman, Jay Friedman, Brian Grazer

58th Academy Awards (1985)

Winner

Witness — William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, arl W. Wallace

Nominees

Back to the Future — Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale

Brazil — Terry Gilliam, om Stoppard, Charles McKeown

The Official Story — Luis Puenzo, Aida Bortnik

The Purple Rose of Cairo — Woody Allen

59th Academy Awards (1986)

Winner

Hannah and Her Sisters — Woody Allen

Nominees

'Crocodile' Dundee — Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie, John Cornell

My Beautiful Landrette — Hanif Kureishi

Platoon — Oliver Stone

Salvador — Oliver Stone, Richard Boyle

60th Academy Awards (1987)

Winner

Moonstruck — John Patrick Shanley

Nominees

Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye, Children) — Louis Malle

Broadcast News — James L. Brooks

Hope and Glory — John Boorman

Radio Days — Woody Allen

61st Academy Awards (1988)

Winner

Rain Man — Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow

Nominees

Big — Gary Ross, Anne Spielberg

Bull Durham — Ron Shelton

A Fish Called Wanda — John Cleese, Charles Crichton

Running on Empty — Naomi Foner

62nd Academy Awards (1989)

Winner

Dead Poets Society — Tom Schulman

Nominees

Crimes and Misdemeanors — Woody Allen

Do the Right Thing — Spike Lee

sex, lies and videotape — Steven Soderbergh

When Harry Met Sally — Nora Ephron

1990s

63rd Academy Awards (1990)

Winner

Ghost — Bruce Joel Rubin

Nominees

Alice — Woody Allen

Avalon — Barry Levinson

Green Card — Peter Weir

Metropolitan — Whit Stillman

64th Academy Awards (1991)

Winner

Thelma & Louise — Callie Khouri

Nominees

Boyz N the Hood — John Singleton

Bugsy — James Toback

The Fisher King — Richard LaGravenese

Grand Canyon — Lawrence Kasdan, Meg Kasdan

65th Academy Awards (1992)

Winner

The Crying Game — Neil Jordan

Nominees

Husbands and Wives — Woody Allen

Lorenzo's Oil — George Miller, Nick Enright

Passion Fish — John Sayles

Unforgiven — David Webb Peoples

66th Academy Awards (1993)

Winner

The Piano — Jane Campion

Nominees

Dave — Gary Ross

In the Line of Fire — Jeff Maguire

Philadelphia — Ron Nyswaner

Sleepless in Seattle — Nora Ephron, David S. Ward, Jeff Arch

67th Academy Awards (1994)

Winner

Pulp Fiction — Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary

Nominees

Bullets over Broadway — Woody Allen, Douglas McGrath

Four Weddings and a Funeral — Richard Curtis

Heavenly Creatures — Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson

Red — Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Krzysztof Kieslowski

68th Academy Awards (1995)

Winner

The Usual Suspects — Christopher McQuarrie

Nominees

Braveheart — Randall Wallace

Mighty Aphrodite — Woody Allen

Nixon — Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson, Oliver Stone

Toy Story — Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow, John Lasseter, Peter Docter, Joe Ranft

69th Academy Awards (1996)

Winner

Fargo — Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Nominees

Jerry Maguire — Cameron Crowe

Lone Star — John Sayles

Secrets & Lies — Mike Leigh

Shine — Jan Sardi, Scott Hicks

70th Academy Awards (1997)

Winner

Good Will Hunting — Ben Affleck, Matt Damon

Nominees

As Good as It Gets — Mark Andrus, James L. Brooks

Boogie Nights — Paul Thomas Anderson

Deconstructing Harry — Woody Allen

The Full Monty — Simon Beaufoy

71st Academy Awards (1998)

Winner

Shakespeare in Love — Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard

Nominees

Bulworth — Warren Beatty, Jeremy Pikser

Life is Beautiful — Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Benigni

Saving Private Ryan — Robert Rodat

The Truman Show — Andrew Niccol

72nd Academy Awards (1999)

Winner

American Beauty — Alan Ball

Nominees

Being John Malkovich — Charlie Kaufman

Magnolia — Paul Thomas Anderson

The Sixth Sense — M. Night Shyamalan

Topsy-Turvy — Mike Leigh

2000s

73rd Academy Awards (2000)

Winner

Almost Famous — Cameron Crowe

Nominees

Billy Elliot — Lee Hall

Erin Brockovich — Susannah Grant

Gladiator — David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson

You Can Count on Me — Kenneth Lonergan

74th Academy Awards (2001)

Winner

Gosford Park — Julian Fellowes

Nominees

Amélie — Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Memento — Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan

Monster's Ball — Milo Addica, Will Rokos

The Royal Tenenbaums — Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson

75th Academy Awards (2002)

Winner

Talk to Her — Pedro Almodóvar

Nominees

Far from Heaven — Todd Haynes

Gangs of New York — Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, Kenneth Lonergan

My Big Fat Greek Wedding — Nia Vardalos

Y Tu Mamá También — Carlos Cuarón, Alfonso Cuarón

76th Academy Awards (2003)

Winner

Lost in Translation — Sofia Coppola

Nominees

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

77th Academy Awards (2004)

Winner

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind — Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, Pierre Bismuth

Nominees

The Aviator — John Logan

Hotel Rwanda — Keir Pearson, Terry George

The Incredibles — Brad Bird

Vera Drake — Mike Leigh

78th Academy Awards (2005)

Winner

Crash — Paul Haggis, Bobby Moresco

Nominees

Good Night, and Good Luck. — George Clooney, Grant Heslov

Match Point — Woody Allen

The Squid and the Whale — Noah Baumbach

Syriana — Stephen Gaghan

79th Academy Awards (2006)

Winner

Little Miss Sunshine — Michael Arndt

Nominees

Babel — Guillermo Arriaga

Letters from Iwo Jima — Iris Yamashita, Paul Haggis

Pan's Labyrinth — Guillermo del Toro

The Queen — Peter Morgan

80th Academy Awards (2007)

Winner

Juno — Diablo Cody

Nominees

Lars and the Real Girl — Nancy Oliver

Michael Clayton — Tony Gilroy

Ratatouille — Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco

The Savages — Tamara Jenkins

81st Academy Awards (2008)

Winner

Milk — Dustin Lance Black

Nominees

Frozen River — Courtney Hunt

Happy-Go-Lucky — Mike Leigh

In Bruges — Martin McDonagh

WALL-E — Jim Reardon, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter

82nd Academy Awards (2009)

Winner

The Hurt Locker — Mark Boal

Nominees

Inglourious Basterds — Quentin Tarantino

The Messenger — Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman

A Serious Man — Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Up — Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy

2010s

83rd Academy Awards (2010)

Winner

The King's Speech — David Seidler

Nominees

Another Year — Mike Leigh

The Fighter — Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, Keith Dorrington

The Kids Are All Right — Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg

Inception — Christopher Nolan

84th Academy Awards (2011)

Winner

Midnight in Paris — Woody Allen

Nominees

The Artist — Michel Hazanavicius

Bridesmaids — Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig

Margin Call — J.C. Chandor

A Separation — Asghar Farhadi

85th Academy Awards (2012)

Winner

Django Unchained — Quentin Tarantino

Nominees

Amour — Michael Haneke

Flight — John Gatins

Moonrise Kingdom — Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola

Zero Dark Thirty — Mark Boal

86th Academy Awards (2013)

Winner

Her — Spike Jonze

Nominees

American Hustle — Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell

Blue Jasmine — Woody Allen

Dallas Buyers Club — Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack

Nebraska — Bob Nelson

87th Academy Awards (2014)

Winner

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) — Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., Armando Bo

Nominees

Boyhood — Richard Linklater

Foxcatcher — E. Max Frye, Dan Futterman

The Grand Budapest Hotel — Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness

Nighcrawler — Dan Gilroy

88th Academy Awards (2015)

Winner

Spotlight — Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy

Nominees

Bridge of Spies — Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Ex Machina — Alex Garland

Inside Out — Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, Ronnie del Carmen

Straight Outta Compton — Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus

89th Academy Awards (2016)

Winner

Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan

Nominees

Hell or High Water — Taylor Sheridan

La La Land — Damien Chazelle

The Lobster — Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou

20th Century Women — Mike Mills

90th Academy Awards (2017)

Winner

Get Out — Jordan Peele

Nominees

The Big Sick — Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani

Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig

The Shape of Water — Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — Martin McDonagh

91st Academy Awards (2018)

Winner

Green Book — Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly

Nominees

The Favourite — Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara

First Reformed — Paul Schrader

Roma — Alfonso Cuarón

Vice — Adam McKay

92nd Academy Awards (2019)

Winner

Parasite — Bong Joon-ho, Han Jin-won

Nominees

1917 — Sam Mendes, Krysty Wilson-Cairns

Knives Out — Rian Johnson

Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino

2020s

93rd Academy Awards (2020)

Winner

Promising Young Woman — Emerald Fennell

Nominees

Judas and the Black Messiah — Will Berson, Shaka King, Keith Lucas, Kenny Lucas

Minari — Lee Isaac Chung

Sound of Metal — Darius Marder, Abraham Marder, Derek Cianfrance

The Trial of the Chicago 7 — Aaron Sorkin

95th Academy Awards (2022)

Winner

Everything Everywhere All at Once — Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

Nominees

The Banshees of Inisherin — Martin McDonagh

The Fabelmans — Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner

Tár — Todd Field

Triangle of Sadness — Ruben Östlund

96th Academy Awards (2023)

Winner

TBD

Nominees

Anatomy of a Fall — Justine Triet, Arthur Harari

The Holdovers — David Hemingson

Maestro — Bradley Cooper, Josh Singer

May December — Samy Burch, Alex Mechanik

Past Lives — Celine Song

Related Categories

• Best Original Story
• Best Writing