Oscar Winning Screenplays 1928 to present (2024)

Date

Original Screenplay

Adaptated Screenplay

2023

TBD
by TBD

TBD
by TBD

2022

Everything, Everywhere All At Once
by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

Women Talking
by Sarah Polley (Based on the book by Miriam Toews)

2021

Belfast
by Kenneth Branah

CODA
by Siân Heder (Based on La Famille Bélier)

2020

A Promising Young Woman
by Emerald Fennell

The Father
by Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton

2019

Parasite
by Bong Joon Ho & Han Jin Won

Jo Jo Rabbit
by Taika Waiiti

2018

Green Book
by Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly & Nick Vallelonga

BlacKkKlansmant
by Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel & Kevin Willmott

2017

Get Out
by Jordan Peele

Call Me By Your Name
by James Ivory (Based on the novel by André Aciman)

2016

Manchester By The Sea
by Kenneth Lonergan

Moonlight
by Barry Jenkins (screenplay) and Tarell Alvin McCraney (story)

2015

Spotlight
by Tom McCarthy & Josh Singer

The Big Short
by Adam McKay & Charles Randolph

2014

Birdman
by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., Armando Bo

The Imitation Game
by Graham Moore

2013

Her
by Spike Jonze

12 Years a Slave
by John Ridley

2012

Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino

Argo
Chris Terrio

2011

The Descendants
Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash

2010

The King's Speech
David Seidler

The Social Network
Aaron Sorkin

2009

The Hurt Locker
Mark Boal

Precious
Geoffry Fletcher

2008

Milk
Dustin Lance Black

Slumdog Millionaire
Simon Beaufoy

2007

Juno
Diablo Cody

No Country For Old Men
Joel and Ethan Coen

2006

The Departed
William Monahan

2005

Crash
Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco

Brokeback Mountain
Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana

2004

Sideways
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor

2003

Lost in Translation
Sofia Coppola

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Frances Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson

2002

Talk To Her (Hable con ella)
Pedro Almodóvar

The Pianist
Ronald Harwood

Date

Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

2001

Gosford Park
Julian Fellows

A Beautiful Mind
Akiva Goldsman

2000

Almost Famous
Cameron Crowe

Traffic
Stephen Gaghan

1999

American Beauty
Alan Ball

The Cider House Rules
John Irving

1998

Shakespeare In Love
Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard

Gods And Monsters
Bill Condon

1997

Good Will Hunting
Ben Affleck & Matt Damon

L.A. Confidential
Brian Helgeland & Curtis Hanson

1996

Fargo
Ethan Coen & Joel Coen

Sling Blade
Billy Bob Thornton

1995

The Usual Suspects
Christopher McQuarrie

Sense And Sensibility
Emma Thompson

1994

Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avery

Forrest Gump
Eric Roth

1993

The Piano
Jane Campion

Schindler's List
Steven Zaillian

1992

The Crying Game
Neil Jordan

Howards End
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1991

Thelma & Louise
Callie Khouri

Date

Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

1990

Ghost
Bruce Joel Rubin

Dances With Wolves
Michael Blake

1989

Dead Poets Society
Tom Schulman

Driving Miss Daisy
Alfred Uhry

1988

Rain Man
Ronald Bass & Barry Morrow

Dangerous Liaisons
Christopher Hampton

1987

Moonstruck
John Patrick Shanley

The Last Emperor
Mark Peploe & Bernardo Bertolucci

1986

A Room With A View
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1985

Witness
Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley
& Pamela Wallace

Out Of Africa
Kurt Luedtke

1984

Places In The Heart
Robert Benton

Amadeus
Peter Shaffer

1983

Tender Mercies
Horton Foote

Terms Of Endearment
James L. Brooks

1982

Gandhi
John Briley

Missing
Costa-Gavras & Donald Stewart

1981

Chariots Of Fire
Colin Welland

On Golden Pond
Ernest Thompson

1980

Ordinary People
Alvin Sargent

1979

Breaking Away
Steve Tesich

Kramer Vs. Kramer
Robert Benton

1978

Coming Home
Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt
& Robert C. Jones

Midnight Express
Oliver Stone

1977

Annie Hall
Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman

Julia
Alvin Sargent

1976

Network
Paddy Chayefsky

All The President's Men
William Goldman

Date

Original Screenplay

Screenplay Adapted from Other Material

1975

Dog Day Afternoon
Frank Pierson

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Lawrence Hauben & Bo Goldman

1974

Chinatown
Robert Towne

The Godfather Part II
Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo

Date

Story and Screenplay--based on factual material or material not previously published or produced

Screenplay--based on material from another medium

1973

The Sting
David S. Ward

The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty

1972

The Candidate
Jeremy Larner

The Godfather
Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola

1971

Hospital
Paddy Chayefsky

The French Connection
Ernest Tidyman

1970

Patton
Francis Ford Coppola & Edmund H. North

M*A*S*H
Ring Lardner, Jr.

1969

Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
William Goldman

Midnight Cowboy
Waldo Salt

Date

Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen

Screenplay--based on material from another medium

1968

The Producers
Mel Brooks

The Lion In Winter
James Goldman

1967

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
William Rose

In The Heat Of The Night
Stirling Silliphant

1966

A Man And A Woman
Claude Lelouch & Pierre Uytterhoeven

A Man For All Seasons
Robert Bolt

1965

Darling
Frederic Raphael

Doctor Zhivago
Robert Bolt

1964

Father Goose
S. H. Barnett, Peter Stone
& Frank Tarloff

Becket
Edward Anhalt

1963

How The West Was Won
James R. Webb

Tom Jones
John Osborne

1962

Divorce - Italian Style
Ennio de Concini, Alfredo Giannetti
& Pietro Germi

To Kill A Mockingbird
Horton Foote

1961

Splendor In The Grass
William Inge

Judgment At Nuremberg
Abby Mann

1960

The Apartment
Billiy Wilder & I. A. L. Diamond

Elmer Gantry
Richard Brooks

1959

Pillow Talk
Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene
Stanley Shapiro & Maurice Richlin

Room At The Top
Neil Paterson

1958

The Defiant Ones
Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith

Gigi
Alan Jay Lerner

1957

Designing Woman
George Wells

The Bridge On The River Kwai
Pierre Boulle, Michael Wilson
& Carl Foreman

Date

Motion Picture Story

Original Screenplay

Adapted Screenplay

1956

The Brave One
Dalton Trumbo
(Robert Rich [alias])

The Red Balloon
Albert Lamorisse

Around The World In 80 Days
James Poe, John Farrow
& S. J. Perelman

Date

Motion Picture Story

Screenplay

Story & Screenplay

1955

Love Me or Leave Me

Marty
Paddy Chayefsky

Interrupted Melody
William Ludwig, Sonya Levien

1954

Broken Lance
Philip Yordan

The Country Girl
George Seaton

On The Waterfront
Budd Schulberg

1953

Roman Holiday
Dalton Trumbo (Ian McLellan Hunter [alias])

From Here To Eternity
Daniel Taradash

Titanic
Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch
& Richard Breen

1952

The Greatest Show On Earth
Frederic M. Frank, Theodore St. John, Frank Cavett

The Bad And The Beautiful
Charles Schnee

The Lavender Hill Mob
T. E. B. Clarke

1951

Seven Days To Noon
Paul Dehn & James Bernard

A Place In The Sun
Michael Wilson & Harry Brown

An American In Paris
Alan Jay Lerner

1950

Panic In The Streets
Edna Anhalt & Edward Anhalt

All About Eve
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Sunset Blvd.
Charles Bracket, Billy Wilder
& D. M. Marshman, Jr.

1949

The Stratton Story
Douglas Morrow

A Letter To Three Wives
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Battleground
Robert Pirosh

Date

Motion Picture Story

Screenplay

1948

The Search
Richard Schweizer & David Wechsler

The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
John Huston

Date

Motion Picture Story

Original Screenplay

Screenplay

1947

Miracle On 34th Street
Valentine Davies

The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer
Sidney Sheldon

Miracle on 34th Street
George Seaton

Date

Original Motion Picture Story

Original Screenplay

Screenplay

1946

Vacation From Marriage
Clemence Dane

The Seventh Veil
Muriel Box & Sydney Box

The Best Years of Our Lives
Robert E. Sherwood

1945

The House On 92nd Street
Charles G. Booth

Marie-Louise
Richard Schweizer

The Lost Weekend
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder

1944

Going My Way
Leo McCarey

Wilson
Lamar Trotti

Going My Way
Frank Butler, Frank Cavett

1943

The Human Comedy
William Saroyan

Princess O'Rourke
Norman Krasna

Casablanca
Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch

1942

The Invaders
Emeric Pressburger

Woman Of The Year
Ring Lardner, Jr. & Michael Kanin

Mrs. Miniver
Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel,
James Hilton & Claudine West

Date

Original Screenplay

Original Story

Screenplay

1941

Citizen Kane
Herman J. Mankiewicz & Orson Wells

Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Harry Segall

Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Sidney Buchman & Seton I. Miller

1940

The Great McGinty
Preston Sturges

Arise, My Love
Benjamin Glazer & John S. Toldy

The Philadelphia Story
Donald Ogden Stewart

Date

Original Story

Screenplay

1939

Gone With The Wind
Sidney Howard

1938

Boys Town
Dore Schary & Eleanore Griffin

Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw, W. P. Lipscomb,
& Ian Dalrymple

1937

A Star Is Born
William A. Wellman & Robert Carson

The Life Of Emile Zola
Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald,
& Geza Herczeg

1936

The Story Of Louis Pasteur
Pierre Collings & Sheridan Gibney

The Story Of Louis Pasteur
Pierre Collings & Sheridan Gibney

1935

The Scoundrel
Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur

The Informer
Dudley Nichols

Date

Adaptation

Original Story

1934

It Happened One Night
Robert Riskin

Manhattan Melodrama
Arthur Caesar

1933

Little Women
Vistor Heerman & Sarah Y. Mason

One Way Passage
Robert Lord

1932

Bad Girl
Edwin Burke

The Champ
Francis Marion

1931

Cimarron
Howard Estabrook

The Dawn Patrol
John Monk Saunders

Date

Screenplay

1930

The Big House
Frances Marion

1929

The Patriot
Hans Kraly

Date

Adaptation

Original Story

Title Writing

1928

7th Heaven
Benjamin Glazer

Underworld
Ben Hecht

Joseph Farnham

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