Best Original Screenplay
Academy Awards · 425 nominations across 85 ceremonies · 85 wins
98th Academy Awards
- Winner Sinners · Ryan Coogler
- Nominee Blue Moon · Robert Kaplow
- Nominee It Was Just an Accident · Jafar Panahi, Nader Saïvar
- Nominee Marty Supreme · Josh Safdie, Ronald Bronstein
- Nominee Sentimental Value · Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
97th Academy Awards
- Winner Anora · Sean Baker
- Nominee The Brutalist · Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold
- Nominee September 5 · Alex David, Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum
- Nominee A Real Pain · Jesse Eisenberg
- Nominee The Substance · Coralie Fargeat
96th Academy Awards
- Winner Anatomy of a Fall · Arthur Harari, Justine Triet
- Nominee Past Lives · Celine Song
- Nominee The Holdovers · David Hemingson
- Nominee May December · Alex Mechanik, Samy Burch
- Nominee Maestro · Bradley Cooper, Josh Singer
95th Academy Awards
- Winner Everything Everywhere All at Once · Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
- Nominee Triangle of Sadness · Ruben Östlund
- Nominee The Banshees of Inisherin · Martin McDonagh
- Nominee Tár · Todd Field
- Nominee The Fabelmans · Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner
94th Academy Awards
- Winner Belfast · Kenneth Branagh
- Nominee King Richard · Zach Baylin
- Nominee The Worst Person in the World · Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
- Nominee Licorice Pizza · Paul Thomas Anderson
- Nominee Don't Look Up · Adam McKay, David Sirota
93rd Academy Awards
- Winner Promising Young Woman · Emerald Fennell
- Nominee Sound of Metal · Abraham Marder, Darius Marder, Derek Cianfrance
- Nominee Judas and the Black Messiah · Keith Lucas, Kenny Lucas, Shaka King, Will Berson
- Nominee The Trial of the Chicago 7 · Aaron Sorkin
- Nominee Minari · Lee Isaac Chung
92nd Academy Awards
- Winner Parasite · Bong Joon-ho, Han Jin-won
- Nominee 1917 · Krysty Wilson-Cairns, Sam Mendes
- Nominee Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · Quentin Tarantino
- Nominee Marriage Story · Noah Baumbach
- Nominee Knives Out · Rian Johnson
91st Academy Awards
- Winner Green Book · Brian Currie, Nick Vallelonga, Peter Farrelly
- Nominee Roma · Alfonso Cuarón
- Nominee Vice · Adam McKay
- Nominee First Reformed · Paul Schrader
- Nominee The Favourite · Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara
90th Academy Awards
- Winner Get Out · Jordan Peele
- Nominee The Shape of Water · Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor
- Nominee The Big Sick · Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani
- Nominee Lady Bird · Greta Gerwig
- Nominee Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri · Martin McDonagh
89th Academy Awards
- Winner Manchester by the Sea · Kenneth Lonergan
- Nominee The Lobster · Efthimis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos
- Nominee La La Land · Damien Chazelle
- Nominee Hell or High Water · Taylor Sheridan
- Nominee 20th Century Women · Mike Mills
88th Academy Awards
- Winner Spotlight · Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy
- Nominee Bridge of Spies · Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Matt Charman
- Nominee Inside Out · Josh Cooley, Meg LeFauve, Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen
- Nominee Straight Outta Compton · Alan Wenkus, Andrea Berloff, Jonathan Herman, S. Leigh Savidge
- Nominee Ex Machina · Alex Garland
87th Academy Awards
- Winner Birdman · Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., Armando Bó, Nicolás Giacobone
- Nominee Foxcatcher · Dan Futterman, Eric Max Frye
- Nominee Nightcrawler · Dan Gilroy
- Nominee The Grand Budapest Hotel · Hugo Guinness, Wes Anderson
- Nominee Boyhood · Richard Linklater
86th Academy Awards
- Winner Her · Spike Jonze
- Nominee Nebraska · Bob Nelson
- Nominee American Hustle · David O. Russell, Eric Warren Singer
- Nominee Dallas Buyers Club · Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack
- Nominee Blue Jasmine · Woody Allen
85th Academy Awards
- Winner Django Unchained · Quentin Tarantino
- Nominee Moonrise Kingdom · Roman Coppola, Wes Anderson
- Nominee Flight · John Gatins
- Nominee Zero Dark Thirty · Mark Boal
- Nominee Amour · Michael Haneke
84th Academy Awards
- Winner Midnight in Paris · Woody Allen
- Nominee Margin Call · J. C. Chandor
- Nominee Bridesmaids · Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig
- Nominee The Artist · Michel Hazanavicius
- Nominee A Separation · Asghar Farhadi
83rd Academy Awards
- Winner The King's Speech · David Seidler
- Nominee The Fighter · Eric Johnson, Keith Dorrington, Paul Tamasy, Scott Silver
- Nominee The Kids Are All Right · Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg
- Nominee Inception · Christopher Nolan
- Nominee Another Year · Mike Leigh
82nd Academy Awards
- Winner The Hurt Locker · Mark Boal
- Nominee A Serious Man · Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- Nominee Up · Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Tom McCarthy
- Nominee Inglourious Basterds · Quentin Tarantino
- Nominee The Messenger · Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman
81st Academy Awards
- Winner Milk · Dustin Lance Black
- Nominee WALL-E · Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docter
- Nominee Happy-Go-Lucky · Mike Leigh
- Nominee In Bruges · Martin McDonagh
- Nominee Frozen River · Courtney Hunt
80th Academy Awards
- Winner Juno · Diablo Cody
- Nominee Ratatouille · Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco
- Nominee Lars and the Real Girl · Nancy Oliver
- Nominee Michael Clayton · Tony Gilroy
- Nominee The Savages · Tamara Jenkins
79th Academy Awards
- Winner Little Miss Sunshine · Michael Arndt
- Nominee Pan's Labyrinth · Guillermo del Toro
- Nominee Letters from Iwo Jima · Iris Yamashita, Paul Haggis
- Nominee Babel · Guillermo Arriaga
- Nominee The Queen · Peter Morgan
78th Academy Awards
- Winner Crash · Paul Haggis, Robert Moresco
- Nominee Syriana · Stephen Gaghan
- Nominee Good Night, and Good Luck. · George Clooney, Grant Heslov
- Nominee Match Point · Woody Allen
- Nominee The Squid and the Whale · Noah Baumbach
77th Academy Awards
- Winner Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, Pierre Bismuth
- Nominee Hotel Rwanda · Keir Pearson, Terry George
- Nominee The Incredibles · Brad Bird
- Nominee Vera Drake · Mike Leigh
- Nominee The Aviator · John Logan
76th Academy Awards
- Winner Lost in Translation · Sofia Coppola
- Nominee Dirty Pretty Things · Steven Knight
- Nominee In America · Jim Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan
- Nominee Finding Nemo · Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, David Reynolds
- Nominee The Barbarian Invasions · Denys Arcand
75th Academy Awards
- Winner Talk to Her · Pedro Almodóvar
- Nominee Gangs of New York · Jay Cocks, Kenneth Lonergan, Steven Zaillian
- Nominee Y tu mamá también · Alfonso Cuarón, Carlos Cuarón
- Nominee My Big Fat Greek Wedding · Nia Vardalos
- Nominee Far from Heaven · Todd Haynes
74th Academy Awards
- Winner Gosford Park · Julian Fellowes
- Nominee The Royal Tenenbaums · Owen Wilson, Wes Anderson
- Nominee Amélie · Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Nominee Monster's Ball · Milo Addica, Will Rokos
- Nominee Memento · Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan
73rd Academy Awards
- Winner Almost Famous · Cameron Crowe
- Nominee Gladiator · David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson
- Nominee Billy Elliot · Lee Hall
- Nominee Erin Brockovich · Susannah Grant
- Nominee You Can Count on Me · Kenneth Lonergan
72nd Academy Awards
- Winner American Beauty · Alan Ball
- Nominee Magnolia · Paul Thomas Anderson
- Nominee Being John Malkovich · Charlie Kaufman, Pieter Willem Korthals
- Nominee Topsy-Turvy · Mike Leigh
- Nominee The Sixth Sense · M. Night Shyamalan
71st Academy Awards
- Winner Shakespeare in Love · Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard
- Nominee Life Is Beautiful · Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami
- Nominee Bulworth · Jeremy Pikser, Warren Beatty
- Nominee The Truman Show · Andrew Niccol
- Nominee Saving Private Ryan · Robert Rodat
70th Academy Awards
- Winner Good Will Hunting · Ben Affleck, Matt Damon
- Nominee As Good as It Gets · James L. Brooks, Mark Andrus
- Nominee Deconstructing Harry · Woody Allen
- Nominee Boogie Nights · Paul Thomas Anderson
- Nominee The Full Monty · Simon Beaufoy
69th Academy Awards
- Winner Fargo · Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- Nominee Lone Star · John Sayles
- Nominee Secrets & Lies · Mike Leigh
- Nominee Shine · Jan Sardi, Scott Hicks
- Nominee Jerry Maguire · Cameron Crowe
68th Academy Awards
- Winner The Usual Suspects · Christopher McQuarrie
- Nominee Braveheart · Randall Wallace
- Nominee Nixon · Christopher Wilkinson, Oliver Stone, Stephen J. Rivele
- Nominee Mighty Aphrodite · Woody Allen
- Nominee Toy Story · Alec Sokolow, Andrew Stanton, Joe Ranft, Joel Cohen, John Lasseter, Joss Whedon, Pete Docter
67th Academy Awards
- Winner Pulp Fiction · Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary
- Nominee Heavenly Creatures · Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson
- Nominee Bullets Over Broadway · Douglas McGrath, Woody Allen
- Nominee Four Weddings and a Funeral · Richard Curtis
- Nominee Three Colours: Red · Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz
66th Academy Awards
- Winner The Piano · Jane Campion
- Nominee Philadelphia · Ron Nyswaner
- Nominee Sleepless in Seattle · David S. Ward, Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron
- Nominee Dave · Gary Ross
- Nominee In the Line of Fire · Jeff Maguire
65th Academy Awards
- Winner The Crying Game · Neil Jordan
- Nominee Unforgiven · David Peoples
- Nominee Passion Fish · John Sayles
- Nominee Husbands and Wives · Woody Allen
- Nominee Lorenzo's Oil · George Miller, Nick Enright
64th Academy Awards
- Winner Thelma & Louise · Callie Khouri
- Nominee Bugsy · James Toback
- Nominee Grand Canyon · Lawrence Kasdan, Meg Kasdan
- Nominee The Fisher King · Richard LaGravenese
- Nominee Boyz n the Hood · John Singleton
63rd Academy Awards
- Winner Ghost · Bruce Joel Rubin
- Nominee Alice · Woody Allen
- Nominee Avalon · Barry Levinson
- Nominee Green Card · Peter Weir
- Nominee Metropolitan · Whit Stillman
62nd Academy Awards
- Winner Dead Poets Society · Tom Schulman
- Nominee Sex, Lies, and Videotape · Steven Soderbergh
- Nominee When Harry Met Sally · Nora Ephron
- Nominee Crimes and Misdemeanors · Woody Allen
- Nominee Do the Right Thing · Spike Lee
61st Academy Awards
- Winner Rain Man · Barry Morrow, Ronald Bass
- Nominee Bull Durham · Ron Shelton
- Nominee A Fish Called Wanda · Charles Crichton, John Cleese
- Nominee Running on Empty · Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
- Nominee Big · Anne Spielberg, Gary Ross
60th Academy Awards
- Winner Moonstruck · John Patrick Shanley
- Nominee Radio Days · Woody Allen
- Nominee Hope and Glory · John Boorman
- Nominee Au revoir les enfants · Louis Malle
- Nominee Broadcast News · James L. Brooks
59th Academy Awards
- Winner Hannah and Her Sisters · Woody Allen
- Nominee Crocodile Dundee · John Cornell, Ken Shadie, Paul Hogan
- Nominee Platoon · Oliver Stone
- Nominee Salvador · Oliver Stone, Richard Boyle
- Nominee My Beautiful Laundrette · Hanif Kureishi
58th Academy Awards
- Winner Witness · Earl W. Wallace, Pamela Wallace, William Kelley
- Nominee Back to the Future · Bob Gale, Robert Zemeckis
- Nominee Brazil · Charles McKeown, Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard
- Nominee The Official Story · Aída Bortnik, Luis Puenzo
- Nominee The Purple Rose of Cairo · Woody Allen
57th Academy Awards
- Winner Places in the Heart · Robert Benton
- Nominee Beverly Hills Cop · Daniel Petrie, Danilo Bach
- Nominee Splash · Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman, Lowell Ganz
- Nominee Broadway Danny Rose · Woody Allen
- Nominee El Norte · Anna Thomas, Gregory Nava
56th Academy Awards
- Winner Tender Mercies from Tender Mercies · Horton Foote
- Nominee WarGames · Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes
- Nominee Silkwood · Alice Arlen, Nora Ephron
- Nominee The Big Chill · Barbara Benedek, Lawrence Kasdan
- Nominee Fanny and Alexander · Ingmar Bergman
55th Academy Awards
- Winner Gandhi · John Briley
- Nominee Tootsie · Don McGuire, Larry Gelbart, Murray Schisgal
- Nominee An Officer and a Gentleman · Douglas Day Stewart
- Nominee Diner · Barry Levinson
- Nominee E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial · Melissa Mathison
54th Academy Awards
- Winner Chariots of Fire · Colin Welland
- Nominee Absence of Malice · Kurt Luedtke
- Nominee Atlantic City · John Guare
- Nominee Reds · Trevor Griffiths, Warren Beatty
- Nominee Arthur · Steve Gordon
53rd Academy Awards
- Winner Melvin and Howard · Bo Goldman
- Nominee My American Uncle · Jean Gruault
- Nominee Brubaker · Arthur A. Ross, W. D. Richter
- Nominee Private Benjamin · Charles Shyer, Harvey Miller, Nancy Meyers
- Nominee Fame · Christopher Gore
52nd Academy Awards
- Winner Breaking Away · Steve Tesich
- Nominee All That Jazz · Bob Fosse, Robert Alan Aurthur
- Nominee The China Syndrome · James Bridges, Mike Gray, T. S. Cook
- Nominee Manhattan · Marshall Brickman, Woody Allen
- Nominee ...And Justice for All · Barry Levinson, Valerie Curtin
51st Academy Awards
- Winner Coming Home from Country Strong · Nancy Dowd, Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt
- Nominee The Deer Hunter · Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle, Michael Cimino, Quinn Redeker
- Nominee Interiors · Woody Allen
- Nominee An Unmarried Woman · Paul Mazursky
- Nominee Autumn Sonata · Ingmar Bergman
50th Academy Awards
- Winner Annie Hall · Marshall Brickman, Woody Allen
- Nominee The Goodbye Girl · Neil Simon
- Nominee Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · George Lucas
- Nominee The Late Show · Robert Benton
- Nominee The Turning Point · Arthur Laurents
49th Academy Awards
- Winner Network · Paddy Chayefsky
- Nominee Cousin Cousine · Danièle Thompson, Jean-Charles Tacchella
- Nominee The Front · Walter Bernstein
- Nominee Rocky · Sylvester Stallone
- Nominee Seven Beauties · Lina Wertmüller
48th Academy Awards
- Winner Dog Day Afternoon · Frank Pierson
- Nominee And Now My Love · Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
- Nominee Lies My Father Told Me · Ted Allan
- Nominee Amarcord · Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra
- Nominee Shampoo · Robert Towne, Warren Beatty
47th Academy Awards
- Winner Chinatown · Robert Towne
- Nominee Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore · Robert Getchell
- Nominee Harry and Tonto · Josh Greenfeld, Paul Mazursky
- Nominee Day for Night · François Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard, Suzanne Schiffman
- Nominee The Conversation · Francis Ford Coppola
46th Academy Awards
- Winner The Sting · David S. Ward
- Nominee American Graffiti · George Lucas, Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck
- Nominee A Touch of Class · Jack Rose, Melvin Frank
- Nominee Save the Tiger · Steve Shagan
- Nominee Cries and Whispers · Ingmar Bergman
45th Academy Awards
- Winner The Candidate · Jeremy Larner
- Nominee Young Winston · Carl Foreman
- Nominee Lady Sings the Blues · Chris Clark, Suzanne de Passe, Terence McCloy
- Nominee The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie · Jean-Claude Carrière, Luis Buñuel
- Nominee Murmur of the Heart · Louis Malle
44th Academy Awards
- Winner The Hospital · Paddy Chayefsky
- Nominee Klute · Andy Lewis, David E. Lewis
- Nominee Summer of '42 · Herman Raucher
- Nominee Sunday, Bloody Sunday · Penelope Gilliatt
- Nominee Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion · Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro
43rd Academy Awards
- Winner Patton · Edmund H. North, Francis Ford Coppola
- Nominee Joe · Norman Wexler
- Nominee Love Story · Erich Segal
- Nominee Five Easy Pieces · Bob Rafelson, Carole Eastman
- Nominee My Night at Maud's · Éric Rohmer
42nd Academy Awards
- Winner Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid · William Goldman
- Nominee Easy Rider · Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Terry Southern
- Nominee The Damned · Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti, Nicola Badalucco
- Nominee Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice · Larry Tucker, Paul Mazursky
- Nominee The Wild Bunch · Roy N. Sickner, Sam Peckinpah, Walon Green
41st Academy Awards
- Winner The Producers · Mel Brooks
- Nominee Hot Millions · Ira Wallach, Peter Ustinov
- Nominee 2001: A Space Odyssey · Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick
- Nominee The Battle of Algiers · Franco Solinas, Gillo Pontecorvo
- Nominee Faces · John Cassavetes
40th Academy Awards
- Winner Guess Who's Coming to Dinner · William Rose
- Nominee Divorce American Style · Norman Lear, Robert Kaufman
- Nominee Two for the Road · Frederic Raphael
- Nominee The War Is Over · Jorge Semprún
- Nominee Bonnie and Clyde · David Newman, Robert Benton
39th Academy Awards
- Winner A Man and a Woman · Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
- Nominee Khartoum · Robert Ardrey
- Nominee The Fortune Cookie · Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
- Nominee The Naked Prey · Clint Johnston, Don Peters
- Nominee Blowup · Edward Bond, Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra
38th Academy Awards
- Winner Darling · Frederic Raphael
- Nominee The Train · Frank Davis, Franklin Coen
- Nominee Casanova 70 · Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Giorgio Salvioni, Mario Monicelli, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Tonino Guerra
- Nominee The Umbrellas of Cherbourg · Jacques Demy
- Nominee Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines · Jack Davies, Ken Annakin
37th Academy Awards
- Winner Father Goose · Frank Tarloff, Peter Stone, S. H. Barnett
- Nominee One Potato, Two Potato · Orville H. Hampton, Raphael Hayes
- Nominee That Man from Rio · Ariane Mnouchkine, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Philippe de Broca
- Nominee The Organizer · Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli
- Nominee A Hard Day's Night · Alun Owen
36th Academy Awards
- Winner How the West Was Won · James R. Webb
- Nominee 8½ · Brunello Rondi, Ennio Flaiano, Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli
- Nominee The Four Days of Naples · Carlo Bernari, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Vasco Pratolini
- Nominee Love with the Proper Stranger · Arnold Schulman
- Nominee America America · Elia Kazan
35th Academy Awards
- Winner Divorce, Italian Style · Alfredo Giannetti, Ennio de Concini, Pietro Germi
- Nominee That Touch of Mink · Nate Monaster, Stanley Shapiro
- Nominee Last Year at Marienbad · Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Nominee Freud: The Secret Passion · Charles Kaufman, Wolfgang Reinhardt
- Nominee Through a Glass Darkly · Ingmar Bergman
34th Academy Awards
- Winner Splendor in the Grass · William Inge
- Nominee La Dolce Vita · Brunello Rondi, Ennio Flaiano, Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli
- Nominee Il generale della Rovere · Diego Fabbri, Indro Montanelli, Sergio Amidei
- Nominee Lover Come Back · Paul Henning, Stanley Shapiro
- Nominee Ballad of a Soldier · Grigori Chukhrai, Valentin Ezhov
33rd Academy Awards
- Winner The Apartment · Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
- Nominee Hiroshima mon amour · Marguerite Duras
- Nominee The Angry Silence · Bryan Forbes, Michael Craig, Richard Gregson
- Nominee Never on Sunday · Jules Dassin
- Nominee The Facts of Life · Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
32nd Academy Awards
- Winner Pillow Talk · Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, Stanley Shapiro
- Nominee North by Northwest · Ernest Lehman
- Nominee Operation Petticoat · Joseph Stone, Maurice Richlin, Paul King, Stanley Shapiro
- Nominee The 400 Blows · François Truffaut, Marcel Moussy
- Nominee Wild Strawberries · Ingmar Bergman
31st Academy Awards
- Winner The Defiant Ones · Harold Jacob Smith, Nedrick Young
- Nominee Houseboat · Jack Rose, Melville Shavelson
- Nominee The Sheepman · James Edward Grant, William Bowers
- Nominee The Goddess · Paddy Chayefsky
- Nominee Teacher's Pet · Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin
30th Academy Awards
- Winner Designing Woman · George Wells
- Nominee Man of a Thousand Faces · Ben Roberts, Ivan Goff, Ralph Wheelwright, Robert Wright Campbell
- Nominee The Tin Star · Barney Slater, Dudley Nichols, Joel Kane
- Nominee I Vitelloni · Ennio Flaiano, Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli
- Nominee Funny Face · Leonard Gershe
29th Academy Awards
- Winner The Red Balloon · Albert Lamorisse
- Nominee The Bold and the Brave · Robert Lewin
- Nominee Julie · Andrew L. Stone
- Nominee The Ladykillers · William Rose
- Nominee La Strada · Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli
28th Academy Awards
- Winner Interrupted Melody · Sonya Levien, William Ludwig
- Nominee The Seven Little Foys · Jack Rose, Melville Shavelson
- Nominee It's Always Fair Weather · Adolph Green, Betty Comden
- Nominee The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell · Emmet Lavery, Milton Sperling
- Nominee Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot · Henri Marquet, Jacques Tati
27th Academy Awards
- Winner On the Waterfront · Budd Schulberg
- Nominee The Glenn Miller Story · Oscar Brodney, Valentine Davies
- Nominee Knock on Wood · Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
- Nominee Genevieve · William Rose
- Nominee The Barefoot Contessa · Joseph L. Mankiewicz
26th Academy Awards
- Winner Titanic · Charles Brackett, Richard L. Breen, Walter Reisch
- Nominee Take the High Ground! · Millard Kaufman
- Nominee The Naked Spur · Harold Jack Bloom, Sam Rolfe
- Nominee The Band Wagon · Adolph Green, Betty Comden
- Nominee The Desert Rats · Richard Murphy
25th Academy Awards
- Winner The Lavender Hill Mob · T. E. B. Clarke
- Nominee Pat and Mike · Garson Kanin, Ruth Gordon
- Nominee The Atomic City · Sydney Boehm
- Nominee Viva Zapata! · John Steinbeck
- Nominee The Sound Barrier · Terence Rattigan
24th Academy Awards
- Winner An American in Paris · Alan Jay Lerner
- Nominee David and Bathsheba · Philip Dunne
- Nominee Go for Broke! · Robert Pirosh
- Nominee Ace in the Hole · Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman
- Nominee The Well · Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse
23rd Academy Awards
- Winner Sunset Boulevard · Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, D. M. Marshman, Jr.
- Nominee The Men · Carl Foreman
- Nominee Adam's Rib · Garson Kanin, Ruth Gordon
- Nominee No Way Out · Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Lesser Samuels
- Nominee Caged · Bernard C. Schoenfeld, Virginia Kellogg
22nd Academy Awards
- Winner Battleground · Robert Pirosh
- Nominee Paisà · Alfred Hayes, Federico Fellini, Marcello Pagliero, Roberto Rossellini, Sergio Amidei
- Nominee Passport to Pimlico · T. E. B. Clarke
- Nominee The Quiet One · Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, Sidney Meyers
- Nominee Jolson Sings Again · Sidney Buchman
20th Academy Awards
- Winner The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer · Sidney Sheldon
- Nominee Shoeshine · Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola, Cesare Zavattini, Sergio Amidei
- Nominee A Double Life · Garson Kanin, Ruth Gordon
- Nominee Body and Soul · Abraham Polonsky
- Nominee Monsieur Verdoux · Charlie Chaplin
19th Academy Awards
- Winner The Seventh Veil · Muriel Box, Sydney Box
- Nominee Children of Paradise · Jacques Prévert
- Nominee The Blue Dahlia · Raymond Chandler
- Nominee Notorious · Ben Hecht
- Nominee Road to Utopia · Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
18th Academy Awards
- Winner Marie-Louise · Richard Schweizer
- Nominee Salty O'Rourke · Milton Holmes
- Nominee What Next, Corporal Hargrove? · Harry Kurnitz
- Nominee Dillinger · Philip Yordan
- Nominee Music for Millions · Myles Connolly
17th Academy Awards
- Winner Wilson · Lamar Trotti
- Nominee Two Girls and a Sailor · Gladys Lehman, Richard Connell
- Nominee Wing and a Prayer · Jerome Cady
- Nominee The Miracle of Morgan's Creek · Preston Sturges
- Nominee Hail the Conquering Hero · Preston Sturges
16th Academy Awards
- Winner Princess O'Rourke · Norman Krasna
- Nominee The North Star · Lillian Hellman
- Nominee So Proudly We Hail! · Allan Scott
- Nominee In Which We Serve · Noël Coward
- Nominee Air Force · Dudley Nichols
15th Academy Awards
- Winner Woman of the Year · Michael Kanin, Ring Lardner Jr.
- Nominee Road to Morocco · Don Hartman, Frank Butler
- Nominee Wake Island · Frank Butler, W. R. Burnett
- Nominee The War Against Mrs. Hadley · George Oppenheimer
- Nominee One of Our Aircraft Is Missing · Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
14th Academy Awards
- Winner Citizen Kane · Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles
- Nominee Sergeant York · Abem Finkel, Harry Chandlee, Howard Koch, John Huston
- Nominee Tom, Dick and Harry · Paul Jarrico
- Nominee Tall, Dark and Handsome · Darrell Ware, Karl Tunberg
- Nominee The Devil and Miss Jones · Norman Krasna
13th Academy Awards
- Winner The Great McGinty · Preston Sturges
- Nominee Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet · Heinz Herald, John Huston, Norman Burnstine
- Nominee Angels Over Broadway · Ben Hecht
- Nominee Foreign Correspondent · Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison
- Nominee The Great Dictator · Charlie Chaplin