Oscar Winners 1927 To Present

This is a comprehensive list of Oscar winners in all categories, to jump straight to a specific category, click the link below...or you can browse the entire list.

A note on year notation: The Academy Awards are presented in March for the artistic achievements of the previous year. It is for this reason that all dates refer to the year in which the movie was released, not the year in which the award was presented.

Table Of Contents:


Best Picture
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Director
Best Animated Feature
Best Screenplay

Best Original Song
Best Assistant Director
Best Foriegn Language Film
Best Cinematography
Best Original Score

Best Art Direction
Best Costume Design
Best Film Editing
Best Makeup
Best Sound
Best Sound Effects Editing
Best Visual Effects

Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short Subject
Best Animated Short Subject
Best Live-Action Short Subject

Honorary Awards


Best Picture


2004: Million Dollar Baby
2003: Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2002: Chicago
2001: A Beautiful Mind
2000: Gladiator
1999: American Beauty
1998: Shakespeare in Love
1997: Titanic
1996: The English Patient
1995: Braveheart
1994: Forrest Gump
1993: Schindler's List
1992: Unforgiven
1991: The Silence of the Lambs
1990: Dances With Wolves
1989: Driving Miss Daisy
1988: Rain Man
1987: The Last Emperor
1986: Platoon
1985: Out of Africa
1984: Amadeus
1983: Terms of Endearment
1982: Gandhi
1981: Chariots of Fire
1980: Ordinary People
1979: Kramer vs. Kramer
1978: The Deer Hunter
1977: Annie Hall
1976: Rocky
1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1974: The Godfather Part II
1973: The Sting
1972: The Godfather
1971: The French Connection
1970: Patton
1969: Midnight Cowboy
1968: Oliver!
1967: In the Heat of the Night
1966: A Man for All Seasons
1965: The Sound of Music
1964: My Fair Lady
1963: Tom Jones
1962: Lawrence of Arabia
1961: West Side Story
1960: The Apartment
1959: Ben-Hur
1958: Gigi
1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai
1956: Around the World in 80 Days
1955: Marty
1954: On the Waterfront
1953: From Here to Eternity
1952: The Greatest Show on Earth
1951: An American in Paris
1950: All About Eve
1949: All the King's Men
1948: Hamlet
1947: Gentleman's Agreement
1946: The Best Years of Our Lives
1945: The Lost Weekend
1944: Going My Way
1943: Casablanca
1942: Mrs. Miniver
1941: How Green Was My Valley
1940: Rebecca
1939: Gone With the Wind
1938: You Can't Take It With You
1937: The Life of Emile Zola
1936: The Great Ziegfeld
1935: Mutiny on the Bounty
1934: It Happened One Night
1932/33: Cavalcade
1931/32: Grand Hotel
1930/31: Cimarron
1929/30: All Quiet on the Western Front
1928/29: Broadway Melody
1927/28: Wings

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Best Actor

2004: Jamie Foxx - Ray
2003: Sean Penn - Mystic River
2002: Adrien Brody - The Pianist
2001: Denzel Washington - Training Day
2000: Russell Crowe - Gladiator
1999: Kevin Spacey - American Beauty
1998: Roberto Benigni - Life Is Beautiful
1997: Jack Nicholson - As Good as It Gets
1996: Geoffrey Rush - Shine
1995: Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas
1994: Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
1993: Tom Hanks - Philadelphia
1992: Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman
1991: Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs
1990: Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune
1989: Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot
1988: Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man
1987: Michael Douglas - Wall Street
1986: Paul Newman - The Color of Money
1985: William Hurt - Kiss of the Spider Woman
1984: F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus
1983: Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies
1982: Ben Kingsley - Gandhi
1981: Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond
1980: Robert De Niro - Raging Bull
1979: Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer
1978: Jon Voight - Coming Home
1977: Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl
1976: Peter Finch - Network
1975: Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1974: Art Carney - Harry and Tonto
1973: Jack Lemmon - Save the Tiger
1972: Marlon Brando - The Godfather
1971: Gene Hackman - The French Connection
1970: George C. Scott - Patton
1969: John Wayne - True Grit
1968: Cliff Robertson - Charly
1967: Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night
1966: Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons
1965: Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou
1964: Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady
1963: Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field
1962: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird
1961: Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg
1960: Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry
1959: Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur
1958: David Niven - Separate Tables
1957: Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai
1956: Yul Brynner - The King and I
1955: Ernest Borgnine - Marty
1954: Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront
1953: William Holden - Stalag 17
1952: Gary Cooper - High Noon
1951: Humphrey Bogart - The African Queen
1950: José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac
1949: Broderick Crawford - All the King's Men
1948: Laurence Olivier - Hamlet
1947: Ronald Colman - A Double Life
1946: Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives
1945: Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend
1944: Bing Crosby - Going My Way
1943: Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine
1942: James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy
1941: Gary Cooper - Sergeant York
1940: James Stewart - The Philadelphia Story
1939: Robert Donat - Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1938: Spencer Tracy - Boys' Town
1937: Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous
1936: Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur
1935: Victor McLaglen - The Informer
1934: Clark Gable - It Happened One Night
1932/33: Charles Laughton - The Private Life of Henry VIII
1931/32: Wallace Beery - The Champ/Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1930/31: Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul
1929/30: George Arliss - Disraeli
1928/29: Warner Baxter - In Old Arizona
1927/28: Emil Jannings - The Way of All Flesh (1927)

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Best Actress

2004: Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby
2003: Charlize Theron - Monster
2002: Nicole Kidman - The Hours
2001: Halle Berry - Monsters Ball
2000: Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich
1999: Hilary Swank - Boys Don't Cry
1998: Gwyneth Paltrow - Shakespeare in Love
1997: Helen Hunt - As Good as It Gets
1996: Frances McDormand - Fargo
1995: Susan Sarandon - Dead Man Walking
1994: Jessica Lange - Blue Sky
1993: Holly Hunter - The Piano
1992: Emma Thompson - Howards End
1991: Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs
1990: Kathy Bates - Misery
1989: Jessica Tandy - Driving Miss Daisy
1988: Jodie Foster - The Accused
1987: Cher - Moonstruck
1986: Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God
1985: Geraldine Page - The Trip to Bountiful
1984: Sally Field - Places in the Heart
1983: Shirley MacLaine - Terms of Endearment
1982: Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice
1981: Katharine Hepburn - On Golden Pond
1980: Sissy Spacek - Coal Miner's Daughter
1979: Sally Field - Norma Rae
1978: Jane Fonda - Coming Home
1977: Diane Keaton - Annie Hall
1976: Faye Dunaway - Network
1975: Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1974: Ellen Burstyn - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1973: Glenda Jackson - A Touch of Class
1972: Liza Minnelli - Cabaret
1971: Jane Fonda - Klute
1970: Glenda Jackson - Women in Love
1969: Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1968: (tie) Katharine Hepburn - The Lion in Winter & Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl
1967: Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1966: Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1965: Julie Christie - Darling
1964: Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins
1963: Patricia Neal - Hud
1962: Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker
1961: Sophia Loren - Two Women
1960: Elizabeth Taylor - Butterfield 8
1959: Simone Signoret - Room at the Top
1958: Susan Hayward - I Want to Live!
1957: Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve
1956: Ingrid Bergman - Anastasia
1955: Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo
1954: Grace Kelly - The Country Girl
1953: Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday
1952: Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba
1951: Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire
1950: Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday
1949: Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress
1948: Jane Wyman - Johnny Belinda
1947: Loretta Young - The Farmer's Daughter
1946: Olivia de Havilland - To Each His Own
1945: Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce
1944: Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight
1943: Jennifer Jones - The Song of Bernadette
1942: Greer Garson - Mrs. Miniver
1941: Joan Fontaine - Suspicion
1940: Ginger Rogers - Kitty Foyle
1939: Vivien Leigh - Gone With the Wind
1938: Bette Davis - Jezebel
1937: Luise Rainer - The Good Earth
1936: Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld
1935: Bette Davis - Dangerous
1934: Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night
1932/33: Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory
1931/32: Helen Hayes - The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1930/31: Marie Dressler - Min and Bill
1929/30: Norma Shearer - The Divorcée
1928/29: Mary Pickford - Coquette
1927/28: Janet Gaynor - Seventh Heaven

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Best Supporting Actor

2004: Morgan Freeman - Million Dollar Baby
2003: Tim Robbins - Mystic River
2002: Chris Cooper - Adaptation
2001: Jim Broadbent - Iris
2000: Benicio Del Toro - Traffic
1999: Michael Caine - Cider House Rules
1998: James Coburn - Affliction
1997: Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting
1996: Cuba Gooding Jr. - Jerry Maguire
1995: Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects
1994: Martin Landau - Ed Wood
1993: Tommy Lee Jones - The Fugitive
1992: Gene Hackman - Unforgiven
1991: Jack Palance - City Slickers
1990: Joe Pesci - Goodfellas
1989: Denzel Washington - Glory
1988: Kevin Kline - A Fish Called Wanda
1987: Sean Connery - The Untouchables
1986: Michael Caine - Hannah and Her Sisters
1985: Don Ameche - Cocoon
1984: Haing S. Ngor - The Killing Fields
1983: Jack Nicholson - Terms of Endearment
1982: Louis Gossett Jr. - An Officer and a Gentleman
1981: John Gielgud - Arthur
1980: Timothy Hutton - Ordinary People
1979: Melvyn Douglas - Being There
1978: Christopher Walken - The Deer Hunter
1977: Jason Robards - Julia
1976: Jason Robards - All the President's Men
1975: George Burns - The Sunshine Boys
1974: Robert De Niro - The Godfather Part II
1973: John Houseman - The Paper Chase
1972: Joel Grey - Cabaret
1971: Ben Johnson - The Last Picture Show
1970: John Mills - Ryan's Daughter
1969: Gig Young - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
1968: Jack Albertson - The Subject Was Roses
1967: George Kennedy - Cool Hand Luke
1966: Walter Matthau - The Fortune Cookie
1965: Martin Balsam - A Thousand Clowns
1964: Peter Ustinov - Topkapi
1963: Melvyn Douglas - Hud
1962: Ed Begley - Sweet Bird of Youth
1961: George Chakiris - West Side Story
1960: Peter Ustinov - Spartacus
1959: Hugh Griffith - Ben-Hur
1958: Burl Ives - The Big Country
1957: Red Buttons - Sayonara
1956: Anthony Quinn - Lust for Life
1955: Jack Lemmon - Mister Roberts
1954: Edmond O'Brien - The Barefoot Contessa
1953: Frank Sinatra - From Here to Eternity
1952: Anthony Quinn - Viva Zapata!
1951: Karl Malden - A Streetcar Named Desire
1950: George Sanders - All About Eve
1949: Dean Jagger - 12 O'Clock High
1948: Walter Huston - Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1947: Edmund Gwenn - Miracle on 34th St.
1946: Harold Russell - The Best Years of Our Lives
1945: James Dunn - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1944: Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way
1943: Charles Coburn - The More the Merrier
1942: Van Heflin - Johnny Eager
1941: Donald Crisp - How Green Was My Valley
1940: Walter Brennan - The Westerner
1939: Thomas Mitchell - Stagecoach
1938: Walter Brennan - Kentucky
1937: Josepth Schildkraut - The Life of Emile Zola
1936: Walter Brennan - Come and Get It

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Best Supporting Actress

2004: Cate Blanchett - The Aviator
2003: Renée Zellweger - Cold Mountain
2002: Catherine Zeta-Jones - Chicago
2001: Jennifer Connelly - A Beautiful Mind
2000: Marcia Gay Harden - Pollock
1999: Angelina Jolie - Girl, Interrupted
1998: Judi Dench - Shakespeare in Love
1997: Kim Basinger - L.A. Confidential
1996: Juliette Binoche - The English Patient
1995: Mira Sorvino - Mighty Aphrodite
1994: Dianne Wiest - Bullets Over Broadway
1993: Anna Paquin - The Piano
1992: Marisa Tomei - My Cousin Vinny
1991: Mercedes Ruehl - The Fisher King
1990: Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost
1989: Brenda Fricker - My Left Foot
1988: Geena Davis - The Accidental Tourist
1987: Olympia Dukakis - Moonstruck
1986: Dianne Wiest - Hannah and Her Sisters
1985: Anjelica Huston - Prizzi's Honor
1984: Peggy Ashcroft - A Passage to India
1983: Linda Hunt - The Year of Living Dangerously
1982: Jessica Lange - Tootsie
1981: Maureen Stapleton - Reds
1980: Mary Steenburgen - Melvin and Howard
1979: Meryl Streep - Kramer vs. Kramer
1978: Maggie Smith - California Suite
1977: Vanessa Redgrave - Julia
1976: Beatrice Straight - Network
1975: Lee Grant - Shampoo
1974: Ingrid Bergman - Murder on the Orient Express
1973: Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon
1972: Eileen Heckart - Butterflies Are Free
1971: Cloris Leachman - The Last Picture Show
1970: Helen Hayes - Airport
1969: Goldie Hawn - Cactus Flower
1968: Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby
1967: Estelle Parsons - Bonnie and Clyde
1966: Sandy Dennis - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1965: Shelley Winters - A Patch of Blue
1964: Lila Kedrova - Zorba the Greek
1963: Margaret Rutherford - The V.I.P.
1962: Patty Duke - The Miracle Worker
1961: Ritta Moreno - West Side Story
1960: Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantry
1959: Shelley Winters - The Diary of Anne Frank
1958: Wendy Hiller - Separate Tables
1957: Miyoshi Umeki - Sayonara
1956: Dorothy Malone - Written on the Wind
1955: Jo Van Fleet - East of Eden
1954: Eva Maria Saint - On the Waterfront
1953: Donna Reed - From Here to Eternity
1952: Gloria Grahame - The Bad and the Beautiful
1951: Kim Hunter - A Streetcar Named Desire
1950: Josephine Hull - Harvey
1949: Mercedes McCambridge - All the King's Men
1948: Claair Trevor - Key Largo
1947: Celeste Holm - Gentleman's Agreement
1946: Anne Baxter - The Razor's Edge
1945: Anne Revere - National Velvet
1944: Ethel Barrymore - None but the Lonely Heart
1943: Katina Paxinou - For Whom the Bell Tolls
1942: Teresa Wright - Mrs. Miniver
1941: Mary Astor - The Great Lie
1940: Jane Darwell - The Grapes of Wrath
1939: Hattie McDaniel - Gone With the Wind
1938: Fay Bainter - Jezebel
1937: Alice Brady - In Old Chicago
1936: Gale Sondergaard - Anthony Adverse

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Best Director

2004: Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
2003: Peter Jackson - Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2002: Roman Polanski - The Pianist
2001: Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind
2000: Stephen Soderbergh - Traffic
1999: Sam Mendes - American Beauty
1998: Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
1997: James Cameron - Titanic
1996: Anthony Minghella - The English Patient
1995: Mel Gibson - Braveheart
1994: Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump
1993: Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
1992: Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
1991: Jonathan Demme - The Silence of the Lambs
1990: Kevin Costner - Dances With Wolves
1989: Oliver Stone - Born on the Fourth of July
1988: Barry Levinson - Rain Man
1987: Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor
1986: Oliver Stone - Platoon
1985: Sydney Pollack - Out of Africa
1984: Milos Forman - Amadeus
1983: James L. Brooks - Terms of Endearment
1982: Richard Attenborough - Gandhi
1981: Warren Beatty - Reds
1980: Robert Redford - Ordinary People
1979: Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer
1978: Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter
1977: Woody Allen - Annie Hall
1976: John G. Aviildsen - Rocky
1975: Milos Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1974: Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part II
1973: George Roy Hill - The Sting
1972: Bob Fosse - Cabaret
1971: William Friedkin - The French Connection
1970: Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton
1969: John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy
1968: Carol Reed - Oliver!
1967: Mike Nichols - The Graduate
1966: Fred Zinnemann - A Man for All Seasons
1965: Robert Wise - The Sound of Music
1964: George Cukor - My Fair Lady
1963: Tony Richardson - Tom Jones
1962: David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
1961: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins - West Side Story
1960: Billy Wilder - The Apartment
1959: William Wyler - Ben-Hur
1958: Vincente Minnelli - Gigi
1957: David Lean - The Bridge on the River Kwai
1956: George Stevens - Giant
1955: Delbert Mann - Marty
1954: Elia Kazan - On the Waterfront
1953: Fred Zinnemann - From Here to Eternity
1952: John Ford - The Quiet Man
1951: George Stevens - A Place in the Sun
1950: Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All About Eve
1949: Joseph L. Mankiewicz - A Letter to Three Wives
1948: John Huston - Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1947: Elia Kazan - Gentleman's Agreement
1946: William Wyler - The Best Years of Our Lives
1945: Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend
1944: Leo McCarey - Going My Way
1943: Michael Curtiz - Casablanca
1942: William Wyler - Mrs. Miniver
1941: John Ford - How Green Was My Valley
1940: John Ford - The Grapes of Wrath
1939: Victor Fleming - Gone With the Wind
1938: Frank Capra - You Can't Take It With You
1937: Leo McCarey - The Awful Truth
1936: Frank Capra - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1935: John Ford - The Informer
1934: Frank Capra - It Happened One Night
1932/33: Frank Lloyd - Cavalcade
1931/32: Frank Borzage - Bad Girl
1930/31: Norman Taurog - Skippy
1929/30: Lewis Milestone - All Quiet on the Western Front
1928/29: Frank Lloyd - The Divine Lady
1927/28: Frank Borzage - Seventh Heaven

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Best Animated Feature


2004: The Incredibles - Brad Bird
2003: Finding Nemo - Andrew Stanton
2002: Spirited Away - Hayao Miyazaki
2001: Shrek - Aaron Warner

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Screenplay Awards
(Note: The screenplay awards have had many different names and qualifications over the years, so in hopes of not confusing anyone too much, the name of the category as it was presented each year accompanies each winner.)


1927/28 - 7th Heaven, Benjamin Glazer (Best Adaptation)
Underworld, Ben Hecht (Best Original Story)
Telling The World, The Fair Co-Ed, and Laugh Clown, Laugh, Joseph Farnham (Title Writing)

1928/29 - The Patriot, Hans Kraly (Achievement)

1929/30 - The Big House, Frances Marion (Achievemant)
1930/31 - Cimarron, Howard Estabrook (Best Adaptation)
The Dawn Patrol, John Monk Saunders (Best Original Story)

1931/32 - Bad Girl, Edwin Burke (Best Adaptation)
The Champ, Frances Marion (Best Original Story)

1932/33 - Little Women, Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason (Best Adaptation)
One Way Passage, Robert Lord (Best Original Story)

1934 - It Happened One Night, Robert Riskin (Best Adaptation)
Manhattan Melodrama, Arthur Caesar (Best Original Story)

1935 - The Informer, Dudley Nichols (Best Screenplay) [rejected]
The Scoundrel, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur (Best Original Story)

1936 - The Story of Louis Pasteur, Sheridan Gibney, Pierre Collings (Best Screenplay)
The Story of Louis Pasteur, Sheridan Gibney, Pierre Collings (Best Original Story)

1937 - The Life of Emile Zola, Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, Norman Reilly Raine (Best Screenplay)
A Star Is Born, William A. Wellman, Robert Carson (Best Original Story)

1938 - Pygmalion, Cecil Lewis, W. P. Lipscomb, Ian Dalrymple (Best Adaptation)
Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw (Best Screenplay)
Boys Town, Eleanore Griffin, Dore Schary (Best Original Story)

1939 - Gone With the Wind, Sidney Howard (Best Screenplay) [posthumous]
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Lewis R. Foster (Best Original Story)

1940 - The Philadelphia Story, Donald Ogden Stewart (Best Screenplay)
The Great McGinty, Preston Sturges (Best Original Screenplay)
Arise, My Love, Benjamin Glazer, John S. Toldy (Best Original Story)

1941 - Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Seton I. Miller, Sidney Buchman (Best Screenplay)
Citizen Kane, Herman J., Mankiewicz, Orson Welles (Best Original Screenplay)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Harry Segall (Best Original Story)

1942 - Mrs. Miniver, George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis (Best Screenplay)
Woman of the Year, Michael Kanin, Ring Lardner, Jr. (Best Original Screenplay)
The Invaders, Emeric Pressburger (Best Original Motion Picture Story)

1943 - Casablanca, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch (Best Screenplay)
Princess O'Rourke, Norman Krasna (Best Original Screenplay)
The Human Comedy, William Saroyan (Best Original Motion Picture Story)

1944 - Going My Way, Frank Butler, Frank Cavett (Best Screenplay)
Wilson, Lamar Trotti (Best Original Screenplay)
Going My Way, Leo McCarey (Best Original Motion Picture Story)

1945 - The Lost Weekend, Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett (Best Screenplay)
Marie-Louise, Richard Schweizer (Best Original Screenplay)
The House on 92nd Street, Charles G. Booth (Best Original Motion Picture Story)

1946 - The Best Years of Our Lives, Robert E. Sherwood (Best Screenplay)
The Seventh Veil, Muriel Box, Sydney Box (Best Original Screenplay)
Vacation from Marriage, Clemence Dane (Best Original Motion Picture Story)

1947 - Miracle on 34th Street, George Seaton (Best Screenplay)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, Sidney Sheldon (Best Original Screenplay)
Miracle on 34th Street, Valentine Davies (Best Motion Picture Story)

1948 - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, John Huston (Best Screenplay)
The Search, Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler (Best Motion Picture Story)

1949 - A Letter to Three Wives, Joseph L. Mankiewicz (Best Screenplay)
Battleground, Robert Pirosh (Best Story and Screenplay)
The Stratton Story, Douglas Morrow (Best Motion Picture Story)

1950 - All About Eve, Joseph L. Mankiewicz (Best Screenplay)
Sunset Blvd., D. M. Marshman, Jr., Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett (Best Story and Screenplay)
Panic in the Streets, Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt (Best Motion Picture Story)

1951 - A Place in the Sun, Michael Wilson, Harry Brown (Best Screenplay)
An American in Paris, Alan Jay Lerner (Best Story and Screenplay)
Seven Days to Noon, James Bernard, Paul Dehn (Best Motion Picture Story)

1952 - The Bad and the Beautiful, Charles Schnee (Best Screenplay)
The Lavender Hill Mob, T. E. B. Clarke (Best Story and Screenplay)
The Greatest Show on Earth, Frederic M. Frank, Theodore St. John (Best Motion Picture Story)

1953 - From Here to Eternity, Daniel Taradash (Best Screenplay)
Titanic, Walter Reisch, Charles Brackett, Richard Breen (Best Story and Screenplay)
Roman Holiday, Dalton Trumbo (Best Motion Picture Story)

1954 - The Country Girl, George Seaton (Best Screenplay)
On the Waterfront, Budd Schulberg (Best Story and Screenplay)
Broken Lance, Philip Yordan (Best Motion Picture Story)

1955 - Marty, Paddy Chayefsky (Best Screenplay)
Interrupted Melody, Sonya Levien, William Ludwig (Best Story and Screenplay)
Love Me or Leave Me, Daniel Fuchs (Best Motion Picture Story)

1956 - Around the World in 80 Days, John Farrow, S.J. Perelman, James Poe (Best Adapted Screenplay)
The Red Balloon, Albert Lamorisse (Best Original Screenplay)
The Brave One, Dalton Trumbo (Best Motion Picture Story)

1957 - The Bridge on the River Kwai, Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson, Pierre Boulle (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Designing Woman, George Wells (Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1958 - Gigi, Alan Jay Lerner (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
The Defiant Ones, Harold Jacob Smith, Nedrick Young (Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1959 - Room at the Top, Neil Paterson (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Pillow Talk, Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, Stanley Shapiro (Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1960 - Elmer Gantry, Richard Brooks (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
The Apartment, Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond (Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1961 - Judgment at Nuremberg, Abby Mann (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Splendor in the Grass, William Inge (Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1962 - To Kill a Mockingbird, Horton Foote (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Divorce-Italian Style, Pietro Germi, Alfredo Giannetti, Ennio de Concini (Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1963 - Tom Jones, John Osborne (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
How the West Was Won, James R. Webb (Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1964 - Becket, Edward Anhalt (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Father Goose, Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff, S. H. Barnett (Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1965 - Doctor Zhivago, Robert Bolt (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Darling, Frederic Raphael (Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1966 - A Man for all Seasons, Robert Bolt (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
A Man and a Woman, Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven (Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1967 - In the Heat of the Night, Stirling Silliphant (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, William Rose (Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1968 - The Lion in Winter, James Goldman (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
The Producers, Mel Brooks (Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1969 - Midnight Cowboy, Waldo Salt (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, William Goldman (Best Story and Screenplay Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced)

1970 - M*A*S*H, Ring Lardner, Jr. (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Patton, Edmund H. North, Francis Ford Coppola (Best Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced)

1971 - The French Connection, Ernest Tidyman (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
The Hospital, Paddy Chayefsky (Best Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced)

1972 - The Godfather, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
The Candidate, Jeremy Larner (Best Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced)

1973 - The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
The Sting, David S. Ward (Best Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced)

1974 - The Godfather Part II, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola (Best Screenplay Adapted From Other Material)
Chinatown, Robert Towne (Best Original Screenplay)

1975 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Bo Goldman, Lawrence Hauben (Best Screenplay Adapted From Other Material)
Dog Day Afternoon, Frank Pierson (Best Original Screenplay)

1976 - All the President's Men, William Goldman (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Network, Paddy Chayefsky (Best Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced)

1977 - Julia, Alvin Sargent (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Annie Hall, Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (Best Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced)

1978 - Midnight Express, Oliver Stone (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Coming Home, Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt, Nancy Dowd (Best Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1979 - Kramer vs. Kramer, Robert Benton (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Breaking Away, Steve Tesich (Best Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1980 - Ordinary People, Alvin Sargent (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Melvin and Howard, Bo Goldman (Best Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1981 - On Golden Pond, Ernest Thompson (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Chariots of Fire, Colin Welland (Best Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1982 - Missing, Donald Stewart, Costa-Gavras (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Gandhi, John Briley (Best Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1983 - Terms of Endearment, James L. Brooks (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Tender Mercies, Horton Foote (Best Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1984 - Amadeus, Peter Shaffer (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Places in the Heart, Robert Benton (Best Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1985 - Out of Africa, Kurt Luedtke (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Witness, William Kelley, Earl W. Wallace, Pamela Wallace (Best Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1986 - A Room With a View, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Hannah and Her Sisters, Woody Allen (Best Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1987 - The Last Emperor, Mark Peploe, Bernardo Bertolucci (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Moonstruck, John Patrick Shanley (Best Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1988 - Dangerous Liaisons, Christopher Hampton (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Rain Man, Barry Morrow, Ronald Bass (Best Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1989 - Driving Miss Daisy, Alfred Uhry (Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Dead Poets Society, Tom Schulman (Best Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1990 - Dances with Wolves, Michael Blake (Best Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published)
Ghost, Bruce Joel Rubin (Best Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1991 - The Silence of the Lambs, Ted Tally (Best Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published)
Thelma & Louise, Callie Khouri (Best Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1992 - Howards End, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Best Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published)
The Crying Game, Neil Jordan (Best Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1993 - Schindler's List, Steven Zaillian (Best Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published)
The Piano, Jane Campion (Best Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1994 - Forrest Gump, Eric Roth (Best Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published)
Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary (Best Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1995 - Sense and Sensibility, Emma Thompson (Best Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published)
The Usual Suspects, Christopher McQuarrie (Best Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1996 - Sling Blade, Billy Bob Thornton (Best Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published)
Fargo, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (Best Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1997 - L.A. Confidential, Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson (Best Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published)
Good Will Hunting, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon (Best Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)

1998 - Shakespeare In Love, Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard  (Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)
Gods and Monsters, Bill Condon (Best Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published)

1999 - American Beauty, Alan Ball (Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)
The Cider House Rules, John Irving (Best Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published)

2000 - Almost Famous, Cameron Crowe (Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)
Traffic, Stephen Gaghan (Best Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published)

2001 - Gosford Park, Julian Fellowes (Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)
A Beautiful Mind, Akiva Goldsman (Best Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published)

2002 - Talk To Her (Hable Con Ella), Pedro Almodovar (Best Original Screenplay)
The Pianist, Ronald Harwood (Best Adapted Screenplay)

2003 - Lost In Translation, Sophia Coppola (Best Original Screenplay)
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Frances Walsh (Best Adapted Screenplay)

2004 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Charlie Kauffman, Michel Gondry, Pierre Bismuth (Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)
Sideways, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor (Best Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published)

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