Best Original Screenplay

2002--Talk to Her, Pedro Almodovar
2001--
2000--Almost Famous, Cameron Crowe
1999--American Beauty, Alan Ball
1998--Shakespeare in Love, Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard
1997--Good Will Hunting, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon
1996--Fargo, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
1995--The Usual Suspects, Christopher McQuarrie
1994--Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary
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, Barry Morrow
1987--Moonstruck, John Patrick Shanley
1986--Hannah and Her Sisters, Woody Allen
1985--Witness, Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley, Pamela Wallace
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, Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones
1977--Annie Hall, Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
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--Hospital, Paddy Chayefsky
1970--Patton, Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North
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, Pierre Uytterhoeven
1965--Darling, Frederic Raphael
1964--Father Goose, S. H. Barnett, Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff
1963--How the West Was Won, James R. Webb
1962--Divorce-Italian Style, Ennio de Concini, Alfredo Giannetti, Pietro Germi
1961--Splendor in the Grass, William Inge
1960--The Apartment, Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
1959--Pillow Talk, Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene, Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin
1958--The Defiant Ones, Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith
1957--Designing Woman, George Wells
1956--The Red Balloon, Albert Lamorisse
1955--Interrupted Melody, William Ludwig, Sonya Levien
1954--The Country Girl, George Seaton
1953--From Here to Eternity, Daniel Taradash
1952--The Bad and the Beautiful, Charles Schnee
1951--A Place in the Sun, Michael Wilson, Harry Brown
1950--Panic in the Streets, (Motion Picture Story) Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt; All About Eve, (Screenplay) Joseph L. Mankiewicz; Sunset Blvd., (Story and Screenplay) Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D. M. Marshman, Jr.
1949--The Stratton Story, (Motion Picture Story) Douglas Morrow; A Letter to Three Wives, (Screenplay) Joseph L. Mankiewicz; Battleground, (Story and Screenplay) Robert Pirosh
1948--The Search, (Motion Picture Story) Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, (Screenplay) John Huston
1947--Miracle on 34th Street, (Motion Picture Story) Valentine Davies; The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, (Original Screenplay) Sidney Sheldon
1946--Vacation from Marriage, (Original Motion Picture Story) Clemence Dane; The Seventh Veil, (Original Screenplay) Muriel Box, Sydney Box
1945--The House on 92nd Street, (Original Motion Picture Story) Charles G. Booth; Marie-Louise, (Original Screenplay) Richard Schweizer
1944--Going My Way, (Original Motion Picture Story) Leo McCarey; Wilson, (Original Screenplay) Lamar Trotti
1943--The Human Comedy, (Original Motion Picture Story) William Saroyan; Princess O'Rourke, (Original Screenplay) Norman Krasna
1942--The Invaders, (Original Motion Picture Story) Emeric Pressburger; Woman of the Year, (Original Screenplay) Ring Lardner, Jr., Michael Kanin; Mrs. Miniver, (Screenplay) Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West
1941--Citizen Kane, (Original Screenplay) Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles; Here Comes Mr. Jordan, (Original Story) Harry Segall; Here Comes Mr. Jordan, (Screenplay) Sidney Buchman, Seton I. Miller
1940--The Great McGinty, (Original Screenplay) Preston Sturges; Arise, My Love, (Original Story) Benjamin Glazer, John S. Toldy; The Philadelphia Story, (Screenplay) Donald Ogden Stewart
1939--Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, (Original Story) Lewis R. Foster; Gone With the Wind, (Screenplay) Sidney Howard
1938--Boys Town, (Original Story) Dore Schary, Eleanore Griffin; Pygmalion, (Screenplay) George Bernard Shaw, W. P. Lipscomb, Cecil Lewis, Ian Dalrymple
1937--A Star Is Born, (Original Story) William A. Wellman, Robert Carson; The Life of Emile Zola, (Screenplay) Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg
1936--The Story of Louis Pasteur, (Original Story) Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney; The Story of Louis Pasteur, (Screenplay) Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney
1935--The Scoundrel, (Original Story) Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur; The Informer, (Screenplay) Dudley Nichols
1934--Manhattan Melodrama, (Original Story) Arthur Caesar; It Happened One Night, (Adaptation) Robert Riskin
1932/33--Little Women, (Adaptation) Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason; One Way Passage, (Original Story) Robert Lord
1931/32--Bad Girl, (Adaptation) Edwin Burke; The Champ, (Original Story) Frances Marion
1930/31--Cimarron, (Adaptation) Howard Estabrook; The Dawn Patrol, (Original Story) John Monk Saunders
1929/30--The Big House, Frances Marion
1928/29--The Patriot, Hans Kraly
1927/28--7th Heaven, (Adaptation) Benjamin Glazer; Underworld, (Original Story) Ben Hecht; (Title Writing) Joseph Farnham