Academy Award for Best Story
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The Academy Award for Best Story was the Academy Award that was the predecessor to the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay which was introduced in 1940.
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1920s
- 1928 Underworld - Ben Hecht
- The Last Command - Lajos Biro
- The Patent Leather Kid - Rupert Hughes
- 1929 None given
1930s
- 1930 None given
- 1931 The Dawn Patrol - John Saunders
- Doorway to Hell - Rowland Brown
- Laughter - Harry D'Arrast, Douglas Doty, Donald Stewart
- The Public Enemy - John Bright, Kubec Glasmon
- Smart Money - Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Jackson
- 1932 The Champ - Frances Marion
- Lady and Gent - Grover Jones, William McNutt
- Star Witness - Lucien Hubbard
- What Price Hollywood - Adela St. John
- 1933 One Way Passage - Robert Lord
- The Prizefighter and the Lady - Frances Marion
- Rasputin and the Empress - Charles MacArthur
- 1934 Manhattan Melodrama - Arthur Caesar
- Hide Out - Mauri Grashin
- The Richest Girl in the World - Norman Krasna
- 1935 The Scoundrel - Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
- Broadway Melody of 1936 - Moss Hart
- The Gay Deception - Stephen Avery, Don Hartman
- Write in Candidate: G-Men - Gregory Rogers (pseudonym of Darryl F. Zanuck)
- 1936 The Story of Louis Pasteur - Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney
- Fury - Norman Krasna
- The Great Ziegfeld - William McGuire
- San Francisco - Robert Hopkins
- Three Smart Girls - Adele Commandini
- 1937 A Star Is Born - Robert Carson, William Wellman
- Black Legion - Robert Lord
- In Old Chicago - Niven Busch
- The Life of Emile Zola - Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg
- One Hundred Men and a Girl - Hans Kraly
- 1938 Boys Town - Eleanore Griffin, Dore Schary
- Alexander's Ragtime Band - Irving Berlin
- Angels with Dirty Faces - Rowland Brown
- Blockade - John Howard Lawson
- Mad About Music - Marcella Burke, Frederick Kohner
- Test Pilot - Frank Wead
- 1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Lewis Foster
- Bachelor Mother - Felix Jackson
- Love Affair - Mildred Cram, Leo McCarey
- Ninotchka - Melchior Lengyel
- Young Mr. Lincoln - Lamar Trotti
1940s
- 1940 Arise, My Love - Benjamin Glazer, John Toldy
- Comrade X - Walter Reisch
- Edison, the Man - Hugo Butler, Dore Schary
- My Favorite Wife - Leo McCarey, Bella Spewack, Samuel Spewack
- The Westerner - Stuart Lake
- 1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan - Harry Segall
- Ball of Fire - Thomas Monroe, Billy Wilder
- The Lady Eve - Monckton Hoffe
- Meet John Doe - Richard Connell, Robert Presnell
- Night Train to Munich - Gordon Wellesley
- 1942 The Invaders (The 49th Parallel) - Emeric Pressburger
- Holiday Inn - Irving Berlin
- The Pride of the Yankees - Paul Gallico
- The Talk of the Town - Sidney Harmon
- Yankee Doodle Dandy - Robert Buckner
- 1943 The Human Comedy - William Saroyan
- Action in the North Atlantic - Guy Gilpatric
- Destination Tokyo - Steve Fisher
- The More the Merrier - Frank Ross, Robert Russell
- Shadow of a Doubt - Gordon McDonell
- 1944 Going My Way - Leo McCarey
- A Guy Named Joe - David Boehm, Chandler Sprague
- Lifeboat - John Steinbeck
- None Shall Escape - Alfred Neumann, Joseph Than
- The Sullivans - Edward Doherty, Jules Schermer
- 1945 The House on 92nd St. - Charles Booth
- The Affairs of Susan - Laszlo Gorog, Thomas Monroe
- A Medal for Benny - John Steinbeck, Jack Wagner
- Objective, Burma! - Alvah Bessie
- A Song to Remember - Ernst Marischka
- 1946 Vacation from Marriage - Clemence Dane
- The Dark Mirror - Vladimir Pozner
- The Strange Love of Martha Ivers - Jack Patrick
- The Stranger - Victor Trivas
- To Each His Own - Charles Brackett
- 1947 Miracle on 34th Street - Valentine Davies
- A Cage of Nightingales - Georges Chaperot, Rene Wheeler
- It Happened on Fifth Avenue - Herbert Lewis, Frederick Stephani
- Kiss of Death - Eleazar Lipsky
- Smash Up - The Story of a Woman - Frank Cavett, Dorothy Parker
- 1948 The Search - Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler
- The Louisiana Story - Robert Flaherty, Francis Flaherty
- the Naked City - Marvin Wald
- Red River - Borden Chase
- The Red Shoes - Emeric Pressburger
- 1949 Stratton Story - Douglas Morrow
- Come to the Stable - Clare Luce
- It Happens Every Spring - Valentine Davies, Shirley Smith
- Sands of Iwo Jima - Harry Brown
- White Heat - Virginia Kellog
1950s
- 1950 Panic in the Streets - Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt
- Bitter Rice - Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani
- The Gunfighter - William Bowers, Andre de Toth
- Mystery Street - Leonard Spigelglass
- When Willie Comes Marching Home - Sy Gomberg
- 1951 Seven Days to Noon - James Bernard, Paul Dehn
- The Bullfighter and the Lady - Bud Boetticher, Ray Nazarro
- The Frogmen - Oscar Millard
- Here Comes the Groom - Liam O'Brian, Robert Riskin
- Teresa -Alfred Hayes, Stewart Stern
- 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth - Frank Cavett, Frederic Frank, Theodore St. John
- My Son John - Leo McCarey
- The Narrow Margin - Martin Goldsmith, Jack Leonard
- The Pride of Saint Louis - Guy Trosper
- The Sniper - Edward Anhalt, Edna Anhalt
- 1953 Roman Holiday - Ian McLellan Hunter, Dalton Trumbo
- Above and Beyond - Beirne Lay
- The Captain's Paradise - Alec Coppel
- Hondo - Louis L'Amour
- Little Fugitive - Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin
- 1954 Broken Lance - Philip Yordan
- Bread, Love and Dreams - Ettore Margadonna
- Forbidden Games - François Boyer
- Night People - Jed Harris, Tom Reed
- There's No Business Like Show Business - Lamar Trotti
- 1955 Love Me or Leave Me - Daniel Fuchs
- The Private War of Major Benson - Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher
- Rebel Without a Cause - Nicholas Ray
- The Sheep Has Five Legs - Jean Marsan, Jacques Perret, Raoul Ploquin, Henry Troyat, Henri Verneuil
- Strategic Air Command - Beirne Lay
- 1956 The Brave One - Dalton Trumbo
- The Eddie Dutcher Story - Leo Katcher
- High Society - Edward Burnds, Elwood Ullman
- The Proud and the Beautiful - Jean-Paul Sartre
- Umberto D - Cesare Zavattini