Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

Winners

2025	Sinners	★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Ryan Coogler
2024	Anora	★★★★★★☆☆☆☆	Sean Baker
2023	Anatomy of a Fall	★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Justine Triet
2022	Everything Everywhere All at Once	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
2021	Belfast	★★☆☆☆☆☆	Kenneth Branagh
2020	Promising Young Woman	★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Emerald Fennell
2019	Parasite	★★★★☆☆☆☆	Bong Joon-ho
2018	Green Book	★★★☆☆☆☆	Nick Vallelonga
2017	Get Out	★☆☆☆☆	Jordan Peele
2016	Manchester by the Sea	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Kenneth Lonergan
2015	Spotlight	★★☆☆☆☆☆	Josh Singer
2014	Birdman or	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2013	Her	★★☆	Spike Jonze
2012	Django Unchained	★★☆☆☆☆	Quentin Tarantino
2011	Midnight in Paris	★★☆☆☆	Woody Allen
2010	The King's Speech	★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆	David Seidler
2009	The Hurt Locker	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Mark Boal
2008	Milk	★★☆☆☆☆☆	Dustin Lance Black
2007	Juno	★☆☆☆☆☆	Diablo Cody
2006	Little Miss Sunshine	★☆☆☆	Michael Arndt
2005	Crash	★★☆☆☆☆	Paul Haggis
2004	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Charlie
2003	Lost in Translation	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Sofia Coppola
2002	Talk to Her	★☆	Pedro Almodóvar
2001	Gosford Park	★★☆☆☆☆	Julian Fellowes
2000	Almost Famous	★☆☆☆	Cameron Crowe
1999	American Beauty	★★★★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆	Alan Ball
1998	Shakespeare in Love	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Marc Norman
1997	Good Will Hunting	★★☆☆☆☆☆	Ben Affleck
1996	Fargo	★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Coen Brothers
1995	The Usual Suspects	★☆	Christopher McQuarrie
1994	Pulp Fiction	★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Quentin Tarantino
1993	The Piano	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Jane Campion
1992	The Crying Game	★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Neil Jordan
1991	Thelma & Louise	★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Callie Khouri
1990	Ghost	★☆	Bruce Joel Rubin
1989	Dead Poets Society	★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Tom Schulman
1988	Rain Man	★★★★★★☆☆☆	Ronald Bass
1987	Moonstruck	★★☆☆☆☆	John Patrick Shanley
1986	Hannah and Her Sisters	★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Woody Allen
1985	Witness	★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	William Kelley
1984	Places in the Heart	★★★☆☆☆☆	Robert Benton
1983	Tender Mercies	★★★☆☆☆☆	Horton Foote
1982	Gandhi	★★★★★★★★★★	John Briley
1981	Chariots of Fire	★★★☆☆	Colin Welland
1980	Melvin and Howard	★	Bo Goldman
1979	Breaking Away	★☆☆☆☆	Steve Tesich
1978	Coming Home	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Robert C. Jones
1977	Annie Hall	★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆	Woody Allen
1976	Network	★★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Paddy Chayefsky
1975	Dog Day Afternoon	★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Frank Pierson
1974	Chinatown	★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Robert Towne
1973	The Sting	★★★☆☆	David S. Ward
1972	The Candidate	★	Jeremy Larner
1971	The Hospital	★★☆☆☆	Paddy Chayefsky
1970	Patton	★★★★★☆☆☆	Francis Ford Coppola
1969	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	★★★★★☆☆☆☆	William Goldman
1968	The Producers	★☆	Mel Brooks
1967	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	William Rose
1966	A Man and a Woman	★★★★☆☆☆☆	Claude Lelouch
1965	Darling	★★★★☆☆☆☆	Frederic Raphael
1964	Father Goose	★	Peter Stone
1963	How the West Was Won	★☆	James R. Webb
1962	Divorce Italian Style	★★☆☆☆☆	Ennio De Concini
1961	Splendor in the Grass	★☆☆☆☆☆	William Inge
1960	The Apartment	★★★★★★☆☆☆	I. A. L. Diamond
1959	Pillow Talk	★☆	Stanley Shapiro
1958	The Defiant Ones	★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Nedrick Young
1957	Designing Woman	★	George Wells
1956	The Red Balloon	★	Albert Lamorisse
1955	Interrupted Melody	★☆	Sonya Levien
1954	On the Waterfront	★★★★★★★★	Budd Schulberg
1953	Titanic	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Charles Brackett
1952	The Lavender Hill Mob	★★☆☆	T. E. B. Clarke
1951	An American in Paris	★★☆☆☆	Alan Jay Lerner
1950	Sunset Boulevard	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Charles Brackett
1949	Battleground	★★☆☆	Robert Pirosh
1947	The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer	★	Sidney Sheldon
1946	The Seventh Veil	★	Muriel
1945	Marie-Louise	★	Richard Schweizer
1944	Wilson	★★☆☆☆	Lamar Trotti
1943	Princess O'Rourke	★	Norman Krasna
1942	Woman of the Year	★☆	Ring Lardner Jr.
1941	Citizen Kane	★☆☆☆	Herman J. Mankiewicz
1940	The Great McGinty	★	Preston Sturges