Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay
The Academy Award for Writing 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 honour only the screenplay.
- 1940 The
Great McGinty - Preston
Sturges
- 1941 Citizen
Kane - Herman Mankiewicz, Orson
Welles
- 1942 none given
- 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
- 1949 Battleground - Robert Pirosh
- 1950 Sunset
Boulevard - Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman, Billy
Wilder
- 1951 An
American in Paris - Alan
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
- 1957 Designing
Women - George Wells
- 1958 The
Defiant Ones - Nathan Douglas, Harold Smith
- 1959 Pillow
Talk - Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, Stanley Shapiro
- 1960 The
Apartment - I.A.L. Diamond, Billy
Wilder
- 1961 Splendor
in the Grass - William
Inge
- 1962 Divorce Italian Style - Ennio de Concini, Pietro Germi, Alfredo
Giannetti
- 1963 How
the West Was Won - James Webb
- 1964 Father Goose - Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff
- 1965 Darling
- Frederic Raphael
- 1966 A
Man and a Woman - Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
- 1967 Guess
Who's Coming to Dinner - William Rose
- 1968 The
Producers - Mel
Brooks
- 1969 Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - William
Goldman
- 1970 Patton
- Francis
Ford Coppola, Edmund North
- 1971 The
Hospital - Paddy
Chayefsky
- 1972 The Candidate - Jeremy Larner
- 1973 The Sting
- David Ward
- 1974 Chinatown
- Robert Towne
- 1975 Dog
Day Afternoon - Frank Pierson
- 1976 Network
- Paddy
Chayefsky
- 1977 Annie Hall
- Woody Allen,
Marshall Brickman
- 1978 Coming
Home - Robert Jones, Waldo Salt
- 1979 Breaking
Away - Steve Tesich
- 1980 Melvin and Howard - Bo Goldman
- 1981 Chariots
of Fire - Colin Welland
- 1982 Gandhi
- John Briley
- 1983 Tender
Mercies - Horton Foote
- 1984 Places
in the Heart - Robert Benton
- 1985 Witness
- William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, Earl Wallace
- 1986 Hannah
and Her Sisters - Woody
Allen
- 1987 Moonstruck
- John Shanley
- 1988 Rain Man
- Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow
- 1989 Dead
Poets Society - Tom Schulman
- 1990 Ghost
- Bruce Rubin
- 1991 Thelma
and Louise - Callie Khouri
- 1992 The
Crying Game - Neil
Jordan
- 1993 The Piano
- Jane Campion
- 1994 Pulp
Fiction - Roger Avary, Quentin
Tarantino
- 1995 The
Usual Suspects - Christopher
McQuarrie
- 1996 Fargo
- Joel
Coen, Ethan
Coen
- 1997 Good
Will Hunting - Ben
Affleck, Matt
Damon
- 1998 Shakespeare
in Love - Marc Norman, Tom
Stoppard
- 1999 American
Beauty (1999 movie) - Alan Ball
- 2000 Almost Famous - Cameron
Crowe
- 2001 Gosford
Park - Julian Fellowes
- 2002 Hable con ella - Pedro
Almodóvar
