Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay

Winners

2025	One Battle After Another	★★★★★★★☆☆☆	Paul Thomas Anderson
2024	Conclave	★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Peter Straughan
2023	Anatomy of a Fall	★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Justine Triet
2022	The Banshees of Inisherin	★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Martin McDonagh
2021	Belfast	★★☆☆☆☆☆	Kenneth Branagh
2020	The Trial of the Chicago 7	★☆☆☆☆☆	Aaron Sorkin
2019	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Quentin Tarantino
2018	Green Book	★★★☆☆☆☆	Nick Vallelonga
2017	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆	Martin McDonagh
2016	La La Land	★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆	Damien Chazelle
2015	Steve Jobs	★☆☆☆	Aaron Sorkin
2014	Birdman or	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Alejandro González Iñárritu
2013	Her	★★☆	Spike Jonze
2012	Django Unchained	★★☆☆☆☆	Quentin Tarantino
2011	Midnight in Paris	★★☆☆☆	Woody Allen
2010	The Social Network	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Aaron Sorkin
2009	Up in the Air	★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Jason Reitman
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	★★★★★★★★☆	Simon Beaufoy
2007	No Country for Old Men	★★★★★☆☆☆	Joel Coen
2006	The Queen	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Peter Morgan
2005	Brokeback Mountain	★★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆	Larry McMurtry
2004	Sideways	★★☆☆☆	Alexander Payne
2003	Lost in Translation	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Sofia Coppola
2002	About Schmidt	★★☆☆☆☆	Alexander Payne
2001	A Beautiful Mind	★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆	Akiva Goldsman
2000	Traffic	★★★☆☆☆☆	Stephen Gaghan
1999	American Beauty	★★★★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆	Alan Ball
1998	Shakespeare in Love	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Marc Norman
1997	Good Will Hunting	★★☆☆☆☆☆	Matt Damon
1996	The People vs. Larry Flynt	★★☆☆☆☆☆	Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski
1995	Sense and Sensibility	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Emma Thompson
1994	Pulp Fiction	★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Quentin Tarantino
1993	Schindler's List	★★★★★★★★☆☆☆	Steven Zaillian
1992	Scent of a Woman	★★★★☆☆☆	Bo Goldman
1991	Thelma & Louise	★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Callie Khouri
1990	Dances With Wolves	★★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Michael Blake
1989	Born on the Fourth of July	★★★★★☆☆☆☆	Oliver Stone
1988	Running on Empty	★☆☆☆☆	Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
1987	The Last Emperor	★★★★★★★☆☆	Bernardo Bertolucci
1986	The Mission	★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Robert Bolt
1985	The Purple Rose of Cairo	★★☆☆	Woody Allen
1984	Amadeus	★★★★★★★★☆☆	Peter Shaffer
1983	Terms of Endearment	★★★★★★★☆☆	James L. Brooks
1982	Gandhi	★★★★★★★★★★	John Briley
1981	On Golden Pond	★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Ernest Thompson
1980	The Ninth Configuration	★☆	William Peter Blatty
1979	Kramer vs. Kramer	★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Robert Benton
1978	Midnight Express	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Oliver Stone
1977	The Goodbye Girl	★★★☆☆☆☆	Neil Simon
1976	Network	★★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Paddy Chayefsky
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	★★★★★★★★★★★★★★	Bo Goldman
1974	Chinatown	★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Robert Towne
1973	The Exorcist	★★★★☆☆☆☆	William Peter Blatty
1972	The Godfather	★★★★★★★☆☆	Francis Ford Coppola
1971	The Hospital	★★☆☆☆	Paddy Chayefsky
1970	Love Story	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Erich Segal
1969	Anne of the Thousand Days	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Bridget Boland
1968	CHAЯLY	★★☆☆	Stirling Silliphant
1967	In the Heat of the Night	★★★★★★★☆☆	Stirling Silliphant
1966	A Man for All Seasons	★★★★★★★★★★	Robert Bolt
1965	Doctor Zhivago	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Robert Bolt
1954	Sabrina	★☆☆☆☆	Billy Wilder
1953	Lili	★★☆☆☆☆	Helen Deutsch
1952	5 Fingers	★☆☆	Michael Wilson
1951	Bright Victory	★☆☆☆	Robert Buckner
1950	All About Eve	★★★★★☆☆☆☆	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1949	Battleground	★★☆☆	Robert Pirosh
1948	The Search	★☆☆☆	Richard Schweizer
1947	Miracle on 34th Street	★★☆	George Seaton