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| 2009 | Winner | Milk (2008/I) | Dustin Lance Black | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Frozen River (2008) | Courtney Hunt |
| Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) | Mike Leigh |
| In Bruges (2008) | Martin McDonagh |
| WALL·E (2008) | Andrew (screenplay/story) Stanton (I), Jim (screenplay) Reardon (I), Pete (story) Docter |
| 2008 | Winner | Juno (2007) | Diablo Cody |
| Nominated | Lars and the Real Girl (2007) | Nancy Oliver (I) |
| Michael Clayton (2007) | Tony Gilroy (I) |
| Ratatouille (2007) | Brad (screenplay/story) Bird (I), Jan (story) Pinkava, Jim (story) Capobianco |
| Savages, The (2007) | Tamara Jenkins |
| 2007 | Winner | Little Miss Sunshine (2006) | Michael Arndt (II) | Best Writing, Original Screenplay |
| Nominated | Babel (2006) | Guillermo Arriaga (I) |
| Laberinto del fauno, El (2006) | Guillermo del Toro |
| Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) | Iris (screenplay/story) Yamashita, Paul (story) Haggis |
| Queen, The (2006) | Peter Morgan (I) |
| 2006 | Winner | Crash (2004/I) | Paul (screenplay/story) Haggis, Robert (screenplay) Moresco |
| Nominated | Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) | George Clooney, Grant Heslov |
| Match Point (2005) | Woody Allen |
| Squid and the Whale, The (2005) | Noah Baumbach |
| Syriana (2005) | Stephen Gaghan |
| 2005 | Winner | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) | Charlie (screenplay/story) Kaufman, Michel (story) Gondry, Pierre (story) Bismuth |
| Nominated | Aviator, The (2004) | John Logan (I) |
| Hotel Rwanda (2004) | Keir Pearson, Terry George (I) |
| Incredibles, The (2004) | Brad Bird (I) |
| Vera Drake (2004) | Mike Leigh |
| 2004 | Winner | Lost in Translation (2003) | Sofia Coppola |
| Nominated | Dirty Pretty Things (2002) | Steven Knight |
| Finding Nemo (2003) | Andrew (screenplay/story) Stanton (I), Bob (screenplay) Peterson (III), David (screenplay) Reynolds (I) |
| In America (2002) | Jim Sheridan (I), Naomi Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan |
| Invasions barbares, Les (2003) | Denys Arcand |
| 2003 | Winner | Hable con ella (2002) | Pedro Almodóvar |
| Nominated | Far from Heaven (2002) | Todd Haynes |
| Gangs of New York (2002) | Jay (screenplay/story) Cocks, Steven (screenplay) Zaillian, Kenneth (screenplay) Lonergan |
| My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) | Nia Vardalos (I) |
| Y tu mamá también (2001) | Carlos Cuarón, Alfonso Cuarón |
| 2002 | Winner | Gosford Park (2001) | Julian Fellowes | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) | Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| Memento (2000) | Christopher Nolan (I), Jonathan (story) Nolan (I) |
| Monster's Ball (2001) | Milo Addica, Will Rokos |
| Royal Tenenbaums, The (2001) | Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson |
| 2001 | Winner | Almost Famous (2000) | Cameron Crowe (I) |
| Nominated | Billy Elliot (2000) | Lee Hall (I) |
| Erin Brockovich (2000) | Susannah Grant |
| Gladiator (2000) | David (screenplay/story) Franzoni (II), John (screenplay) Logan (I), William (screenplay) Nicholson |
| You Can Count on Me (2000) | Kenneth Lonergan |
| 2000 | Winner | American Beauty (1999) | Alan Ball (I) |
| Nominated | Being John Malkovich (1999) | Charlie Kaufman |
| Magnolia (1999) | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| Sixth Sense, The (1999) | M. Night Shyamalan |
| Topsy-Turvy (1999) | Mike Leigh |
| 1999 | Winner | Gods and Monsters (1998) | Bill Condon | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Out of Sight (1998) | Scott Frank (I) |
| Primary Colors (1998) | Elaine May (I) |
| Simple Plan, A (1998) | Scott B. Smith (I) |
| Thin Red Line, The (1998) | Terrence Malick |
| 1999 | Winner | Shakespeare in Love (1998) | Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Bulworth (1998) | Warren (screenplay/story) Beatty, Jeremy (screenplay) Pikser |
| Saving Private Ryan (1998) | Robert Rodat |
| Truman Show, The (1998) | Andrew Niccol |
| Vita è bella, La (1997) | Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Benigni |
| 1998 | Winner | L.A. Confidential (1997) | Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson (I) | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Donnie Brasco (1997) | Paul Attanasio |
| Sweet Hereafter, The (1997) | Atom Egoyan |
| Wag the Dog (1997) | Hilary Henkin (I), David Mamet |
| Wings of the Dove, The (1997) | Hossein Amini |
| 1998 | Winner | Good Will Hunting (1997) | Matt Damon, Ben Affleck | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | As Good as It Gets (1997) | Mark (screenplay/story) Andrus (I), James L. (screenplay) Brooks |
| Boogie Nights (1997) | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| Deconstructing Harry (1997) | Woody Allen |
| Full Monty, The (1997) | Simon Beaufoy |
| 1997 | Winner | Sling Blade (1996) | Billy Bob Thornton | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Crucible, The (1996) | Arthur Miller (I) |
| English Patient, The (1996) | Anthony Minghella |
| Hamlet (1996) | Kenneth Branagh |
| Trainspotting (1996) | John Hodge (I) |
| 1997 | Winner | Fargo (1996) | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Jerry Maguire (1996) | Cameron Crowe (I) |
| Lone Star (1996) | John Sayles |
| Secrets & Lies (1996) | Mike Leigh |
| Shine (1996) | Jan (screenplay) Sardi, Scott (story) Hicks |
| 1996 | Winner | Sense and Sensibility (1995) | Emma Thompson (I) | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Apollo 13 (1995) | William Broyles Jr., Al Reinert |
| Babe (1995) | George Miller (II), Chris Noonan |
| Leaving Las Vegas (1995) | Mike Figgis |
| Postino, Il (1994) | Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli, Massimo Troisi |
| 1996 | Winner | Usual Suspects, The (1995) | Christopher McQuarrie | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Braveheart (1995) | Randall Wallace |
| Mighty Aphrodite (1995) | Woody Allen |
| Nixon (1995) | Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson (I), Oliver Stone (I) |
| Toy Story (1995) | Joss (screenplay) Whedon, Andrew (screenplay/story) Stanton (I), Joel (screenplay) Cohen (I), Alec (screenplay) Sokolow, John (story) Lasseter, Pete (story) Docter, Joe (story) Ranft |
| 1995 | Winner | Forrest Gump (1994) | Eric Roth (I) | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Madness of King George, The (1994) | Alan Bennett (I) |
| Nobody's Fool (1994) | Robert Benton (I) |
| Quiz Show (1994) | Paul Attanasio |
| Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) | Frank Darabont |
| 1995 | Winner | Pulp Fiction (1994) | Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Bullets Over Broadway (1994) | Woody Allen, Douglas McGrath |
| Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) | Richard Curtis (I) |
| Heavenly Creatures (1994) | Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson (I) |
| Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994) | Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Krzysztof Kieslowski |
| 1994 | Winner | Schindler's List (1993) | Steven Zaillian | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Age of Innocence, The (1993) | Jay Cocks, Martin Scorsese |
| In the Name of the Father (1993) | Terry George (I), Jim Sheridan (I) |
| Remains of the Day, The (1993) | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| Shadowlands (1993) | William Nicholson |
| 1994 | Winner | Piano, The (1993) | Jane Campion | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Dave (1993) | Gary Ross (I) |
| In the Line of Fire (1993) | Jeff Maguire |
| Philadelphia (1993) | Ron Nyswaner |
| Sleepless in Seattle (1993) | Nora (screenplay) Ephron, David S. (screenplay) Ward, Jeff (screenplay/story) Arch |
| 1993 | Winner | Howards End (1992) | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Enchanted April (1992) | Peter Barnes (I) |
| Player, The (1992) | Michael Tolkin |
| River Runs Through It, A (1992) | Richard Friedenberg |
| Scent of a Woman (1992) | Bo Goldman |
| 1993 | Winner | Crying Game, The (1992) | Neil Jordan (I) | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Husbands and Wives (1992) | Woody Allen |
| Lorenzo's Oil (1992) | George Miller (II), Nick Enright |
| Passion Fish (1992) | John Sayles |
| Unforgiven (1992) | David Webb Peoples |
| 1992 | Winner | Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) | Ted Tally | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Europa Europa (1990) | Agnieszka Holland |
| Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) | Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski |
| JFK (1991) | Oliver Stone (I), Zachary Sklar |
| Prince of Tides, The (1991) | Pat Conroy, Becky Johnston (I) |
| 1992 | Winner | Thelma & Louise (1991) | Callie Khouri | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Boyz n the Hood (1991) | John Singleton (I) |
| Bugsy (1991) | James Toback |
| Fisher King, The (1991) | Richard LaGravenese |
| Grand Canyon (1991) | Lawrence Kasdan, Meg Kasdan |
| 1991 | Winner | Dances with Wolves (1990) | Michael Blake (I) | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Awakenings (1990) | Steven Zaillian |
| Goodfellas (1990) | Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese |
| Grifters, The (1990) | Donald E. Westlake |
| Reversal of Fortune (1990) | Nicholas Kazan |
| 1991 | Winner | Ghost (1990) | Bruce Joel Rubin | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Alice (1990) | Woody Allen |
| Avalon (1990) | Barry Levinson (I) |
| Green Card (1990) | Peter Weir |
| Metropolitan (1990) | Whit Stillman |
| 1990 | Winner | Driving Miss Daisy (1989) | Alfred Uhry | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Born on the Fourth of July (1989) | Oliver Stone (I), Ron Kovic |
| Enemies: A Love Story (1989) | Roger L. Simon, Paul Mazursky |
| Field of Dreams (1989) | Phil Alden Robinson |
| My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989) | Jim Sheridan (I), Shane Connaughton |
| 1990 | Winner | Dead Poets Society (1989) | Tom Schulman | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) | Woody Allen |
| Do the Right Thing (1989) | Spike Lee |
| Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) | Steven Soderbergh |
| When Harry Met Sally... (1989) | Nora Ephron |
| 1989 | Winner | Rain Man (1988) | Ronald (screenplay) Bass, Barry (screenplay/story) Morrow | Best Writing, Original Screenplay |
| Nominated | Big (1988) | Gary Ross (I), Anne Spielberg |
| Bull Durham (1988) | Ron Shelton |
| Fish Called Wanda, A (1988) | John (screenplay/story) Cleese, Charles (story) Crichton |
| Running on Empty (1988) | Naomi Foner |
| 1989 | Winner | Dangerous Liaisons (1988) | Christopher Hampton (I) | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Accidental Tourist, The (1988) | Frank Galati, Lawrence Kasdan |
| Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey (1988) | Anna (screenplay/story) Hamilton Phelan, Tab (story) Murphy |
| Little Dorrit (1988) | Christine Edzard |
| Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (1988) | Jean-Claude Carrière, Philip Kaufman (I) |
| 1988 | Winner | Last Emperor, The (1987) | Mark Peploe, Bernardo Bertolucci |
| Nominated | Dead, The (1987) | Tony Huston (I) |
| Fatal Attraction (1987) | James Dearden |
| Full Metal Jacket (1987) | Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford |
| Mitt liv som hund (1985) | Lasse Hallström, Reidar Jönsson, Brasse Brännström, Per Berglund |
| 1988 | Winner | Moonstruck (1987) | John Patrick Shanley | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Au revoir les enfants (1987) | Louis Malle |
| Broadcast News (1987) | James L. Brooks |
| Hope and Glory (1987) | John Boorman |
| Radio Days (1987) | Woody Allen |
| 1987 | Winner | Room with a View, A (1985) | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Children of a Lesser God (1986) | Hesper Anderson, Mark Medoff |
| Color of Money, The (1986) | Richard Price (I) |
| Crimes of the Heart (1986) | Beth Henley |
| Stand by Me (1986) | Raynold Gideon, Bruce A. Evans |
| 1987 | Winner | Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) | Woody Allen | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Crocodile Dundee (1986) | Paul (screenplay/story) Hogan (I), Ken (screenplay) Shadie, John (screenplay) Cornell (I) |
| My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) | Hanif Kureishi |
| Platoon (1986) | Oliver Stone (I) |
| Salvador (1986) | Oliver Stone (I), Rick Boyle (II) |
| 1986 | Winner | Out of Africa (1985) | Kurt Luedtke | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Color Purple, The (1985) | Menno Meyjes |
| Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) | Leonard Schrader |
| Prizzi's Honor (1985) | Richard Condon (I), Janet Roach |
| Trip to Bountiful, The (1985) | Horton Foote |
| 1986 | Winner | Witness (1985) | Earl W. (screenplay/story) Wallace, William (screenplay/story) Kelley (III), Pamela (story) Wallace (I) | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Back to the Future (1985) | Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale |
| Brazil (1985) | Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown |
| Historia oficial, La (1985) | Luis Puenzo, Aída Bortnik |
| Purple Rose of Cairo, The (1985) | Woody Allen |
| 1985 | Winner | Amadeus (1984) | Peter Shaffer | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) | Robert Towne, Michael Austin (I) |
| Killing Fields, The (1984) | Bruce Robinson (I) |
| Passage to India, A (1984) | David Lean (I) |
| Soldier's Story, A (1984) | Charles Fuller (I) |
| 1985 | Winner | Places in the Heart (1984) | Robert Benton (I) | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Beverly Hills Cop (1984) | Daniel (screenplay/story) Petrie Jr., Danilo (story) Bach |
| Broadway Danny Rose (1984) | Woody Allen |
| Norte, El (1983) | Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas (I) |
| Splash (1984) | Lowell (screenplay) Ganz, Babaloo (screenplay) Mandel, Bruce Jay (screenplay/screen story) Friedman, Brian (story) Grazer |
| 1984 | Winner | Terms of Endearment (1983) | James L. Brooks | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Betrayal (1983) | Harold Pinter |
| Dresser, The (1983) | Ronald Harwood |
| Educating Rita (1983) | Willy Russell |
| Reuben, Reuben (1983) | Julius J. Epstein |
| 1984 | Winner | Tender Mercies (1983) | Horton Foote | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Big Chill, The (1983) | Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara Benedek |
| Fanny och Alexander (1982) | Ingmar Bergman |
| Silkwood (1983) | Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen |
| WarGames (1983) | Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes |
| 1983 | Winner | Missing (1982) | Costa-Gavras (I), Donald Stewart (II) | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Boot, Das (1981) | Wolfgang Petersen (I) |
| Sophie's Choice (1982) | Alan J. Pakula |
| Verdict, The (1982) | David Mamet |
| Victor Victoria (1982) | Blake Edwards |
| 1983 | Winner | Gandhi (1982) | John Briley (I) | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Diner (1982) | Barry Levinson (I) |
| E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) | Melissa Mathison |
| Officer and a Gentleman, An (1982) | Douglas Day Stewart |
| Tootsie (1982) | Larry (screenplay/story) Gelbart, Murray (screenplay) Schisgal, Don (story) McGuire |
| 1982 | Winner | On Golden Pond (1981) | Ernest Thompson | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | French Lieutenant's Woman, The (1981) | Harold Pinter |
| Pennies from Heaven (1981) | Dennis Potter (I) |
| Prince of the City (1981) | Jay Presson Allen, Sidney Lumet |
| Ragtime (1981) | Michael Weller (I) |
| 1982 | Winner | Chariots of Fire (1981) | Colin Welland | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Absence of Malice (1981) | Kurt Luedtke |
| Arthur (1981) | Steve Gordon (I) |
| Atlantic City (1980) | John Guare |
| Reds (1981) | Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths |
| 1981 | Winner | Ordinary People (1980) | Alvin Sargent | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | 'Breaker' Morant (1980) | Jonathan Hardy (I), David Stevens (I), Bruce Beresford |
| Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) | Thomas Rickman |
| Elephant Man, The (1980) | Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch (I) |
| Stunt Man, The (1980) | Lawrence B. Marcus, Richard Rush (I) |
| 1981 | Winner | Melvin and Howard (1980) | Bo Goldman | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Brubaker (1980) | W.D. (screenplay/story) Richter, Arthur A. (story) Ross |
| Fame (1980) | Christopher Gore |
| Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980) | Jean Gruault |
| Private Benjamin (1980) | Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer, Harvey Miller (I) |
| 1980 | Winner | Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) | Robert Benton (I) | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Apocalypse Now (1979) | John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola |
| Cage aux folles, La (1978) | Francis Veber, Edouard Molinaro, Marcello Danon, Jean Poiret |
| Little Romance, A (1979) | Allan Burns (I) |
| Norma Rae (1979) | Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr. |
| 1980 | Winner | Breaking Away (1979) | Steve Tesich | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | ...And Justice for All. (1979) | Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson (I) |
| All That Jazz (1979) | Robert Alan Aurthur, Bob Fosse |
| China Syndrome, The (1979) | Mike Gray (I), T.S. Cook, James Bridges (I) |
| Manhattan (1979) | Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman |
| 1979 | Winner | Midnight Express (1978) | Oliver Stone (I) | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Bloodbrothers (1978) | Walter Newman (I) |
| California Suite (1978) | Neil Simon (I) |
| Heaven Can Wait (1978) | Elaine May (I), Warren Beatty |
| Same Time, Next Year (1978) | Bernard Slade (I) |
| 1979 | Winner | Coming Home (1978) | Nancy (story) Dowd (I), Waldo (screenplay) Salt, Robert C. (screenplay) Jones (I) | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Deer Hunter, The (1978) | Michael (story) Cimino (I), Deric (screenplay/story) Washburn, Louis (story) Garfinkle, Quinn K. (story) Redeker |
| Höstsonaten (1978) | Ingmar Bergman |
| Interiors (1978) | Woody Allen |
| Unmarried Woman, An (1978) | Paul Mazursky |
| 1978 | Winner | Julia (1977) | Alvin Sargent | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Cet obscur objet du désir (1977) | Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière |
| Equus (1977) | Peter Shaffer |
| I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977) | Gavin Lambert, Lewis John Carlino |
| Oh, God! (1977) | Larry Gelbart |
| 1978 | Winner | Annie Hall (1977) | Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Goodbye Girl, The (1977) | Neil Simon (I) |
| Late Show, The (1977) | Robert Benton (I) |
| Star Wars (1977) | George Lucas |
| Turning Point, The (1977) | Arthur Laurents |
| 1977 | Winner | All the President's Men (1976) | William Goldman | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Bound for Glory (1976) | Robert Getchell |
| Casanova di Federico Fellini, Il (1976) | Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi |
| Seven-Per-Cent Solution, The (1976) | Nicholas Meyer |
| Voyage of the Damned (1976) | Steve Shagan, David Butler (II) |
| 1977 | Winner | Network (1976) | Paddy Chayefsky | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Cousin, cousine (1975) | Jean Charles (screenplay/story) Tacchella, Danièle (adaptation) Thompson |
| Front, The (1976) | Walter Bernstein |
| Pasqualino Settebellezze (1975) | Lina Wertmüller |
| Rocky (1976) | Sylvester Stallone |
| 1976 | Winner | Dog Day Afternoon (1975) | Frank Pierson (I) | Best Writing, Original Screenplay |
| Nominated | Amarcord (1973) | Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra |
| Lies My Father Told Me (1975) | Ted Allan (I) |
| Shampoo (1975) | Robert Towne, Warren Beatty |
| Toute une vie (1974) | Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven |
| 1976 | Winner | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) | Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman | Best Writing, Screenplay Adapted From Other Material |
| Nominated | Barry Lyndon (1975) | Stanley Kubrick |
| Man Who Would Be King, The (1975) | John Huston (I), Gladys Hill |
| Profumo di donna (1974) | Ruggero Maccari, Dino Risi |
| Sunshine Boys, The (1975) | Neil Simon (I) |
| 1975 | Winner | Chinatown (1974) | Robert Towne | Best Writing, Original Screenplay |
| Nominated | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) | Robert Getchell |
| Conversation, The (1974) | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Harry and Tonto (1974) | Paul Mazursky, Josh Greenfeld |
| Nuit américaine, La (1973) | François Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard, Suzanne Schiffman |
| 1975 | Winner | Godfather: Part II, The (1974) | Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo | Best Writing, Screenplay Adapted From Other Material |
| Nominated | Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, The (1974) | Mordecai Richler, Lionel Chetwynd |
| Lenny (1974) | Julian Barry |
| Murder on the Orient Express (1974) | Paul Dehn |
| Young Frankenstein (1974) | Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks |
| 1974 | Winner | Exorcist, The (1973) | William Peter Blatty | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Last Detail, The (1973) | Robert Towne |
| Paper Chase, The (1973) | James Bridges (I) |
| Paper Moon (1973) | Alvin Sargent |
| Serpico (1973) | Waldo Salt, Norman Wexler |
| 1974 | Winner | Sting, The (1973) | David S. Ward | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced |
| Nominated | American Graffiti (1973) | George Lucas, Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck |
| Save the Tiger (1973) | Steve Shagan |
| Touch of Class, A (1973) | Melvin Frank, Jack Rose (I) |
| Viskningar och rop (1972) | Ingmar Bergman |
| 1973 | Winner | Godfather, The (1972) | Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Cabaret (1972) | Jay Presson Allen |
| Pete 'n' Tillie (1972) | Julius J. Epstein |
| Sounder (1972) | Lonne Elder III |
| Utvandrarna (1971) | Jan Troell, Bengt Forslund |
| 1973 | Winner | Candidate, The (1972) | Jeremy Larner | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced |
| Nominated | Charme discret de la bourgeoisie, Le (1972) | Luis (screenplay/story) Buñuel, Jean-Claude (collaboration) Carrière |
| Lady Sings the Blues (1972) | Terence McCloy, Chris Clark (III), Suzanne De Passe |
| Souffle au coeur, Le (1971) | Louis Malle |
| Young Winston (1972) | Carl Foreman (I) |
| 1972 | Winner | French Connection, The (1971) | Ernest Tidyman | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Clockwork Orange, A (1971) | Stanley Kubrick |
| Conformista, Il (1970) | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, Il (1970) | Ugo Pirro, Vittorio Bonicelli |
| Last Picture Show, The (1971) | Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich |
| 1972 | Winner | Hospital, The (1971) | Paddy Chayefsky | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced |
| Nominated | Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (1970) | Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro |
| Klute (1971) | Andy Lewis (I), David P. Lewis (III) |
| Summer of '42 (1971) | Herman Raucher |
| Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) | Penelope Gilliatt |
| 1971 | Winner | MASH (1970) | Ring Lardner Jr. | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Airport (1970) | George Seaton (I) |
| I Never Sang for My Father (1970) | Robert Anderson (VII) |
| Lovers and Other Strangers (1970) | Joseph Bologna, David Zelag Goodman, Renée Taylor |
| Women in Love (1969) | Larry Kramer (I) |
| 1971 | Winner | Patton (1970) | Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced |
| Nominated | Five Easy Pieces (1970) | Bob (story) Rafelson, Carole (screenplay/story) (as Adrien Joyce) Eastman |
| Joe (1970) | Norman Wexler |
| Love Story (1970) | Erich Segal |
| Ma nuit chez Maud (1969) | Eric Rohmer |
| 1970 | Winner | Midnight Cowboy (1969) | Waldo Salt | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) | John Hale (I), Bridget Boland (I), Richard Sokolove |
| Goodbye, Columbus (1969) | Arnold Schulman |
| They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) | James Poe (I), Robert E. Thompson |
| Z (1969) | Jorge Semprún, Costa-Gavras (I) |
| 1970 | Winner | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) | William Goldman | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced |
| Nominated | Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) | Paul Mazursky, Larry Tucker |
| Caduta degli dei, La (1969) | Nicola (screenplay/story) Badalucco, Enrico (screenplay) Medioli, Luchino (screenplay) Visconti |
| Easy Rider (1969) | Peter Fonda (I), Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern |
| Wild Bunch, The (1969) | Walon (screenplay/story) Green, Roy N. (story) Sickner, Sam (screenplay) Peckinpah |
| 1969 | Winner | Lion in Winter, The (1968) | James Goldman (I) | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Odd Couple, The (1968) | Neil Simon (I) |
| Oliver! (1968) | Vernon Harris |
| Rachel, Rachel (1968) | Stewart Stern |
| Rosemary's Baby (1968) | Roman Polanski |
| 1969 | Winner | Producers, The (1968) | Mel Brooks | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke |
| Battaglia di Algeri, La (1966) | Franco Solinas, Gillo Pontecorvo |
| Faces (1968/I) | John Cassavetes (I) |
| Hot Millions (1968) | Ira Wallach, Peter Ustinov |
| 1968 | Winner | In the Heat of the Night (1967) | Stirling Silliphant | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Cool Hand Luke (1967) | Donn Pearce, Frank Pierson (I) |
| Graduate, The (1967) | Calder Willingham, Buck Henry |
| In Cold Blood (1967) | Richard Brooks (I) |
| Ulysses (1967) | Joseph Strick, Fred Haines |
| 1968 | Winner | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) | William Rose (I) | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Bonnie and Clyde (1967) | David Newman (III), Robert Benton (I) |
| Divorce American Style (1967) | Robert (story) Kaufman (I), Norman (screenplay) Lear |
| Guerre est finie, La (1966) | Jorge Semprún |
| Two for the Road (1967) | Frederic Raphael |
| 1967 | Winner | Man for All Seasons, A (1966) | Robert Bolt | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Alfie (1966) | Bill Naughton (I) |
| Professionals, The (1966) | Richard Brooks (I) |
| Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming, The (1966) | William Rose (I) |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) | Ernest Lehman |
| 1967 | Winner | Un homme et une femme (1966) | Claude (screenplay/story) Lelouch, Pierre (screenplay) Uytterhoeven | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Blowup (1966) | Michelangelo (screenplay/story) Antonioni, Tonino (screenplay) Guerra, Edward (screenplay) Bond (I) |
| Fortune Cookie, The (1966) | Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond |
| Khartoum (1966) | Robert Ardrey |
| Naked Prey, The (1966) | Clint Johnston, Don Peters (I) |
| 1966 | Winner | Doctor Zhivago (1965) | Robert Bolt | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Cat Ballou (1965) | Walter Newman (I), Frank Pierson (I) |
| Collector, The (1965) | Stanley Mann (I), John Kohn (I) |
| Ship of Fools (1965) | Abby Mann |
| Thousand Clowns, A (1965) | Herb Gardner |
| 1966 | Winner | Darling (1965) | Frederic Raphael | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Casanova '70 (1965) | Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli, Tonino Guerra, Giorgio Salvioni, Suso Cecchi d'Amico |
| Parapluies de Cherbourg, Les (1964) | Jacques Demy |
| Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes (1965) | Jack Davies (I), Ken Annakin |
| Train, The (1964) | Franklin Coen, Frank Davis (I) |
| 1965 | Winner | Becket (1964) | Edward Anhalt | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Alexis Zorbas (1964) | Mihalis Kakogiannis |
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) | Stanley Kubrick, Peter George (III), Terry Southern |
| Mary Poppins (1964) | Bill Walsh (I), Don DaGradi |
| My Fair Lady (1964) | Alan Jay Lerner |
| 1965 | Winner | Father Goose (1964) | S.H. (story) Barnett, Peter (screenplay) Stone (I), Frank (screenplay) Tarloff | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Compagni, I (1963) | Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli |
| Hard Day's Night, A (1964) | Alun Owen |
| Homme de Rio, L' (1964) | Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Ariane Mnouchkine, Daniel Boulanger (I), Philippe de Broca |
| One Potato, Two Potato (1964) | Orville H. (screenplay/story) Hampton, Raphael (screenplay) Hayes |
| 1964 | Winner | Tom Jones (1963) | John Osborne (II) | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Captain Newman, M.D. (1963) | Richard L. Breen, Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron |
| Dimanches de Ville d'Avray, Les (1962) | Serge Bourguignon, Antoine Tudal |
| Hud (1963) | Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr. |
| Lilies of the Field (1963) | James Poe (I) |
| 1964 | Winner | How the West Was Won (1962) | James R. Webb | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | 8½ (1963) | Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi |
| America, America (1963) | Elia Kazan |
| Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) | Arnold Schulman |
| Quattro giornate di Napoli, Le (1962) | Pasquale (screenplay/story) Festa Campanile, Massimo (screenplay/story) Franciosa, Nanni (screenplay/story) Loy, Vasco (story) Pratolini, Carlo (screenplay) Bernari |
| 1963 | Winner | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) | Horton Foote | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | David and Lisa (1962) | Eleanor Perry |
| Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson (I) |
| Lolita (1962) | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Miracle Worker, The (1962) | William Gibson (I) |
| 1963 | Winner | Divorzio all'italiana (1961) | Ennio De Concini, Alfredo Giannetti, Pietro Germi | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Année dernière à Marienbad, L' (1961) | Alain Robbe-Grillet |
| Freud (1962) | Charles (screenplay/story) Kaufman (IV), Wolfgang (screenplay) Reinhardt |
| Såsom i en spegel (1961) | Ingmar Bergman |
| That Touch of Mink (1962) | Stanley Shapiro, Nate Monaster |
| 1962 | Winner | Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) | Abby Mann | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) | George Axelrod |
| Guns of Navarone, The (1961) | Carl Foreman (I) |
| Hustler, The (1961) | Sidney Carroll, Robert Rossen |
| West Side Story (1961) | Ernest Lehman |
| 1962 | Winner | Splendor in the Grass (1961) | William Inge | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Ballada o soldate (1959) | Valentin Ezhov, Grigori Chukhrai |
| Dolce vita, La (1960) | Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, Brunello Rondi |
| Generale della Rovere, Il (1959) | Sergio Amidei, Diego Fabbri, Indro Montanelli |
| Lover Come Back (1961) | Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning (I) |
| 1961 | Winner | Elmer Gantry (1960) | Richard Brooks (I) | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Inherit the Wind (1960) | Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith |
| Sons and Lovers (1960) | Gavin Lambert, T.E.B. Clarke |
| Sundowners, The (1960) | Isobel Lennart |
| Tunes of Glory (1960) | James Kennaway |
| 1961 | Winner | Apartment, The (1960) | Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Angry Silence, The (1960) | Richard (story) Gregson (I), Michael (story) Craig (I), Bryan (screenplay) Forbes |
| Facts of Life, The (1960) | Norman Panama, Melvin Frank |
| Hiroshima mon amour (1959) | Marguerite Duras |
| Pote tin Kyriaki (1960) | Jules Dassin |
| 1960 | Winner | Room at the Top (1959) | Neil Paterson (I) | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Anatomy of a Murder (1959) | Wendell Mayes |
| Ben-Hur (1959) | Karl Tunberg |
| Nun's Story, The (1959) | Robert Anderson (VII) |
| Some Like It Hot (1959) | Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond |
| 1960 | Winner | Pillow Talk (1959) | Russell (story) Rouse, Clarence (story) Greene (I), Stanley (screenplay) Shapiro, Maurice (screenplay) Richlin | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | North by Northwest (1959) | Ernest Lehman |
| Operation Petticoat (1959) | Paul (story) King (I), Joseph (story) Stone (I), Stanley (screenplay) Shapiro, Maurice (screenplay) Richlin |
| Quatre cents coups, Les (1959) | François Truffaut, Marcel Moussy |
| Smultronstället (1957) | Ingmar Bergman |
| 1959 | Winner | Gigi (1958) | Alan Jay Lerner | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) | Richard Brooks (I), James Poe (I) |
| Horse's Mouth, The (1958) | Alec Guinness |
| I Want to Live! (1958) | Nelson Gidding, Don Mankiewicz |
| Separate Tables (1958) | Terence Rattigan, John Gay (II) |
| 1959 | Winner | Defiant Ones, The (1958) | Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Goddess, The (1958) | Paddy Chayefsky |
| Houseboat (1958) | Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose (I) |
| Sheepman, The (1958) | William (screenplay) Bowers (I), James Edward (screenplay/story) Grant |
| Teacher's Pet (1958) | Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin |
| 1958 | Winner | Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957) | Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman (I), Michael Wilson (I) | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Nominated | 12 Angry Men (1957) | Reginald Rose |
| Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) | John Lee Mahin, John Huston (I) |
| Peyton Place (1957) | John Michael Hayes |
| Sayonara (1957) | Paul Osborn (I) |
| 1958 | Winner | Designing Woman (1957) | George Wells (I) | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen |
| Nominated | Funny Face (1957) | Leonard Gershe |
| Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) | Ralph (story) Wheelwright, R. Wright (screenplay) Campbell, Ivan (screenplay) Goff, Ben (screenplay) Roberts (I) |
| Tin Star, The (1957) | Barney (story) Slater (I), Joel (story) Kane, Dudley (screenplay) Nichols |
| Vitelloni, I (1953) | Federico (screenplay/story) Fellini, Ennio (screenplay/story) Flaiano, Tullio (story) Pinelli |
| 1957 | Winner | Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) | James Poe (I), John Farrow (I), S.J. Perelman | Best Writing, Best Screenplay - Adapted |
| Nominated | Baby Doll (1956) | Tennessee Williams |
| Friendly Persuasion (1956) | Michael Wilson (I) |
| Giant (1956) | Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat |
| Lust for Life (1956) | Norman Corwin |
| 1957 | Winner | Ballon rouge, Le (1956) | Albert Lamorisse | Best Writing, Best Screenplay - Original |
| Nominated | Bold and the Brave, The (1956) | Robert Lewin |
| Julie (1956) | Andrew L. Stone |
| Ladykillers, The (1955) | William Rose (I) |
| Strada, La (1954) | Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli |
| 1957 | Winner | Brave One, The (1956) | Dalton Trumbo | Best Writing, Motion Picture Story |
| Nominated | Eddy Duchin Story, The (1956) | Leo Katcher |
| High Society (1955) | Edward Bernds, Elwood Ullman |
| Orgueilleux, Les (1953) | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Umberto D. (1952) | Cesare Zavattini |
| 1956 | Winner | Love Me or Leave Me (1955) | Daniel Fuchs (I) |
| Nominated | Mouton à cinq pattes, Le (1954) | Jean Marsan, Henry Troyat, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil, Raoul Ploquin |
| Private War of Major Benson, The (1955) | Joe Connelly (I), Bob Mosher (I) |
| Rebel Without a Cause (1955) | Nicholas Ray |
| Strategic Air Command (1955) | Beirne Lay Jr. |
| 1956 | Winner | Marty (1955) | Paddy Chayefsky | Best Writing, Screenplay |
| Nominated | Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) | Millard Kaufman |
| Blackboard Jungle (1955) | Richard Brooks (I) |
| East of Eden (1955) | Paul Osborn (I) |
| Love Me or Leave Me (1955) | Daniel Fuchs (I), Isobel Lennart |
| 1956 | Winner | Interrupted Melody (1955) | William Ludwig, Sonya Levien | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay |
| Nominated | Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, The (1955) | Milton Sperling, Emmet Lavery |
| It's Always Fair Weather (1955) | Betty Comden, Adolph Green |
| Seven Little Foys, The (1955) | Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose (I) |
| Vacances de Monsieur Hulot, Les (1953) | Jacques Tati, Henri Marquet |
| 1955 | Winner | Broken Lance (1954) | Philip Yordan | Best Writing, Motion Picture Story |
| Nominated | Jeux interdits (1952) | François Boyer |
| Night People (1954) | Jed Harris, Tom Reed (I) |
| Pane, amore e fantasia (1953) | Ettore Maria Margadonna |
| There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) | Lamar Trotti |
| 1955 | Winner | Country Girl, The (1954) | George Seaton (I) | Best Writing, Screenplay |
| Nominated | Caine Mutiny, The (1954) | Stanley Roberts (I) |
| Rear Window (1954) | John Michael Hayes |
| Sabrina (1954) | Billy Wilder, Samuel A. Taylor, Ernest Lehman |
| Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) | Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Dorothy Kingsley |
| 1955 | Winner | On the Waterfront (1954) | Budd Schulberg | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay |
| Nominated | Barefoot Contessa, The (1954) | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| Genevieve (1953) | William Rose (I) |
| Glenn Miller Story, The (1954) | Valentine Davies, Oscar Brodney |
| Knock on Wood (1954) | Norman Panama, Melvin Frank |
| 1954 | Winner | Roman Holiday (1953) | Dalton Trumbo | Best Writing, Motion Picture Story |
| Nominated | Above and Beyond (1952) | Beirne Lay Jr. |
| Captain's Paradise, The (1953) | Alec Coppel |
| Hondo (1953) | Louis L'Amour |
| Little Fugitive (1953) | Ray Ashley, Morris Engel (I), Ruth Orkin (I) |
| 1954 | Winner | From Here to Eternity (1953) | Daniel Taradash (I) | Best Writing, Screenplay |
| Nominated | Cruel Sea, The (1953) | Eric Ambler |
| Lili (1953) | Helen Deutsch |
| Roman Holiday (1953) | Ian McLellan Hunter, John Dighton |
| Shane (1953) | A.B. Guthrie Jr. |
| 1954 | Winner | Titanic (1953) | Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, Richard L. Breen | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay |
| Nominated | Band Wagon, The (1953) | Betty Comden, Adolph Green |
| Desert Rats, The (1953) | Richard Murphy (I) |
| Naked Spur, The (1953) | Sam Rolfe, Harold Jack Bloom |
| Take the High Ground! (1953) | Millard Kaufman |
| 1953 | Winner | Greatest Show on Earth, The (1952) | Fredric M. Frank, Theodore St. John, Frank Cavett | Best Writing, Motion Picture Story |
| Nominated | My Son John (1952) | Leo McCarey |
| Narrow Margin, The (1952) | Martin Goldsmith (I), Jack Leonard (III) |
| Pride of St. Louis, The (1952) | Guy Trosper |
| Sniper, The (1952) | Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt |
| 1953 | Winner | Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952) | Charles Schnee | Best Writing, Screenplay |
| Nominated | 5 Fingers (1952) | Michael Wilson (I) |
| High Noon (1952) | Carl Foreman (I) |
| Man in the White Suit, The (1951) | Roger MacDougall, John Dighton, Alexander Mackendrick |
| Quiet Man, The (1952) | Frank S. Nugent |
| 1953 | Winner | Lavender Hill Mob, The (1951) | T.E.B. Clarke | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay |
| Nominated | Atomic City, The (1952) | Sydney Boehm |
| Pat and Mike (1952) | Ruth Gordon (I), Garson Kanin |
| Sound Barrier, The (1952) | Terence Rattigan |
| Viva Zapata! (1952) | John Steinbeck |
| 1952 | Winner | Seven Days to Noon (1950) | Paul Dehn, James Bernard (I) | Best Writing, Motion Picture Story |
| Nominated | Bullfighter and the Lady (1951) | Budd Boetticher, Ray Nazarro |
| Frogmen, The (1951) | Oscar Millard |
| Here Comes the Groom (1951) | Robert Riskin, Liam O'Brien (IV) |
| Teresa (1951) | Alfred Hayes, Stewart Stern |
| 1952 | Winner | Place in the Sun, A (1951) | Michael Wilson (I), Harry Brown (I) | Best Writing, Screenplay |
| Nominated | African Queen, The (1951) | James Agee, John Huston (I) |
| Detective Story (1951) | Philip Yordan, Robert Wyler |
| Ronde, La (1950) | Jacques Natanson, Max Ophüls |
| Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951) | Tennessee Williams |
| 1952 | Winner | American in Paris, An (1951) | Alan Jay Lerner | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay |
| Nominated | Ace in the Hole (1951) | Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman (I) |
| David and Bathsheba (1951) | Philip Dunne |
| Go for Broke! (1951) | Robert Pirosh |
| Well, The (1951) | Clarence Greene (I), Russell Rouse |
| 1951 | Winner | Panic in the Streets (1950) | Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt | Best Writing, Motion Picture Story |
| Nominated | Gunfighter, The (1950) | William Bowers (I), André De Toth |
| Mystery Street (1950) | Leonard Spigelgass |
| Riso amaro (1949) | Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani |
| When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950) | Sy Gomberg |
| 1951 | Winner | All About Eve (1950) | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Best Writing, Screenplay |
| Nominated | Asphalt Jungle, The (1950) | Ben Maddow, John Huston (I) |
| Born Yesterday (1950) | Albert Mannheimer |
| Broken Arrow (1950) | Albert Maltz |
| Father of the Bride (1950) | Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett |
| 1951 | Winner | Sunset Blvd. (1950) | Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr. | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay |
| Nominated | Adam's Rib (1949) | Ruth Gordon (I), Garson Kanin |
| Caged (1950) | Virginia Kellogg, Bernard C. Schoenfeld |
| Men, The (1950) | Carl Foreman (I) |
| No Way Out (1950) | Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Lesser Samuels |
| 1950 | Winner | Stratton Story, The (1949) | Douglas Morrow | Best Writing, Motion Picture Story |
| Nominated | Come to the Stable (1949) | Clare Boothe Luce |
| It Happens Every Spring (1949) | Shirley W. Smith, Valentine Davies |
| Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) | Harry Brown (I) |
| White Heat (1949) | Virginia Kellogg |
| 1950 | Winner | Letter to Three Wives, A (1949) | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Best Writing, Screenplay |
| Nominated | All the King's Men (1949) | Robert Rossen |
| Champion (1949) | Carl Foreman (I) |
| Fallen Idol, The (1948) | Graham Greene (I) |
| Ladri di biciclette (1948) | Cesare Zavattini |
| 1950 | Winner | Battleground (1949) | Robert Pirosh | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay |
| Nominated | Jolson Sings Again (1949) | Sidney Buchman |
| Paisà (1946) | Alfred Hayes, Federico Fellini, Sergio Amidei, Marcello Pagliero, Roberto Rossellini |
| Passport to Pimlico (1949) | T.E.B. Clarke |
| Quiet One, The (1948) | Helen Levitt (II), Janice Loeb, Sidney Meyers |
| 1949 | Winner | Search, The (1948) | Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler | Best Writing, Motion Picture Story |
| Nominated | Louisiana Story (1948) | Frances H. Flaherty, Robert J. Flaherty |
| Naked City, The (1948) | Malvin Wald |
| Red River (1948) | Borden Chase |
| Red Shoes, The (1948) | Emeric Pressburger |
| 1949 | Winner | Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) | John Huston (I) | Best Writing, Screenplay |
| Nominated | Foreign Affair, A (1948) | Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Richard L. Breen |
| Johnny Belinda (1948) | Irma von Cube, Allen Vincent (III) |
| Search, The (1948) | Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler |
| Snake Pit, The (1948) | Frank Partos, Millen Brand |
| 1948 | Winner | Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, The (1947) | Sidney Sheldon | Best Writing, Original Screenplay |
| Nominated | Body and Soul (1947) | Abraham Polonsky |
| Double Life, A (1947) | Ruth Gordon (I), Garson Kanin |
| Monsieur Verdoux (1947) | Charles Chaplin |
| Sciuscià (1946) | Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola, Cesare Zavattini |
| 1948 | Winner | Miracle on 34th Street (1947) | Valentine Davies | Best Writing, Original Story |
| Nominated | Cage aux rossignols, La (1945) | Georges Chaperot, René Wheeler |
| It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947) | Herbert Clyde Lewis, Frederick Stephani |
| Kiss of Death (1947) | Eleazar Lipsky |
| Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947) | Dorothy Parker (I), Frank Cavett |
| 1948 | Winner | Miracle on 34th Street (1947) | George Seaton (I) | Best Writing, Screenplay |
| Nominated | Boomerang! (1947) | Richard Murphy (I) |
| Crossfire (1947) | John Paxton (I) |
| Gentleman's Agreement (1947) | Moss Hart |
| Great Expectations (1946) | David Lean (I), Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan |
| 1947 | Winner | Seventh Veil, The (1945) | Muriel Box, Sydney Box | Best Writing, Original Screenplay |
| Nominated | Blue Dahlia, The (1946) | Raymond Chandler |
| Enfants du paradis, Les (1945) | Jacques Prévert |
| Notorious (1946) | Ben Hecht (I) |
| Road to Utopia (1946) | Norman Panama, Melvin Frank |
| 1947 | Winner | Perfect Strangers (1945) | Clemence Dane | Best Writing, Original Story |
| Nominated | Dark Mirror, The (1946) | Vladimir Pozner (I) |
| Strange Love of Martha Ivers, The (1946) | John Patrick (II) |
| Stranger, The (1946) | Victor Trivas |
| To Each His Own (1946) | Charles Brackett |
| 1947 | Winner | Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) | Robert E. Sherwood (I) | Best Writing, Screenplay |
| Nominated | Anna and the King of Siam (1946) | Sally Benson (I), Talbot Jennings |
| Brief Encounter (1945) | Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean (I), Ronald Neame |
| Killers, The (1946) | Anthony Veiller |
| Roma, città aperta (1945) | Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini |
| 1946 | Winner | Marie-Louise (1944) | Richard Schweizer | Best Writing, Original Screenplay |
| Nominated | Dillinger (1945) | Philip Yordan |
| Music for Millions (1944) | Myles Connolly (I) |
| Salty O'Rourke (1945) | Milton Holmes |
| What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945) | Harry Kurnitz |
| 1946 | Winner | House on 92nd Street, The (1945) | Charles G. Booth | Best Writing, Original Story |
| Nominated | Affairs of Susan, The (1945) | László Görög (I), Thomas Monroe |
| Medal for Benny, A (1945) | John Steinbeck, Jack Wagner (III) |
| Objective, Burma! (1945) | Alvah Bessie |
| Song to Remember, A (1945) | Ernst Marischka |
| 1946 | Winner | Lost Weekend, The (1945) | Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder | Best Writing, Screenplay |
| Nominated | Mildred Pierce (1945) | Ranald MacDougall |
| Pride of the Marines (1945) | Albert Maltz |
| Story of G.I. Joe (1945) | Leopold Atlas, Guy Endore, Philip Stevenson (I) |
| Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (1945) | Frank Davis (I), Tess Slesinger |
| 1945 | Winner | Wilson (1944) | Lamar Trotti | Best Writing, Original Screenplay |
| Nominated | Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) | Preston Sturges |
| Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The (1944) |
| Two Girls and a Sailor (1944) | Richard Connell (I), Gladys Lehman |
| Wing and a Prayer (1944) | Jerome Cady |
| 1945 | Winner | Going My Way (1944) | Leo McCarey | Best Writing, Original Story |
| Nominated | Guy Named Joe, A (1943) | David Boehm (I), Chandler Sprague |
| Lifeboat (1944) | John Steinbeck |
| None Shall Escape (1944) | Alfred Neumann (I), Joseph Than |
| Sullivans, The (1944) | Edward Doherty, Jules Schermer |
| 1945 | Winner | Going My Way (1944) | Frank Butler (I), Frank Cavett | Best Writing, Screenplay |
| Nominated | Double Indemnity (1944) | Raymond Chandler, Billy Wilder |
| Gaslight (1944) | John L. Balderston, Walter Reisch, John Van Druten |
| Laura (1944) | Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Elizabeth Reinhardt |
| Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) | Irving Brecher, Fred F. Finklehoffe |
| 1944 | Winner | Princess O'Rourke (1943) | Norman Krasna | Best Writing, Original Screenplay |
| Nominated | Air Force (1943) | Dudley Nichols |
| In Which We Serve (1942) | Noel Coward |
| North Star, The (1943) | Lillian Hellman |
| So Proudly We Hail! (1943) | Allan Scott (I) |
| 1944 | Winner | Human Comedy, The (1943) | William Saroyan | Best Writing, Original Story |
| Nominated | Action in the North Atlantic (1943) | Guy Gilpatric |
| Destination Tokyo (1943) | Steve Fisher (I) |
| More the Merrier, The (1943) | Frank Ross (I), Robert Russell (III) |
| Shadow of a Doubt (1943) | Gordon McDonell |
| 1944 | Winner | Casablanca (1942) | Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch | Best Writing, Screenplay |
| Nominated | Holy Matrimony (1943) | Nunnally Johnson |
| More the Merrier, The (1943) | Richard Flournoy, Lewis R. Foster, Frank Ross (I), Robert Russell (III) |
| Song of Bernadette, The (1943) | George Seaton (I) |
| Watch on the Rhine (1943) | Dashiell Hammett |
| 1943 | Winner | Woman of the Year (1942) | Michael Kanin, Ring Lardner Jr. | Best Writing, Original Screenplay |
| Nominated | One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942) | Michael Powell (I), Emeric Pressburger |
| Road to Morocco (1942) | Frank Butler (I), Don Hartman (I) |
| Wake Island (1942) | W.R. Burnett, Frank Butler (I) |
| War Against Mrs. Hadley, The (1942) | George Oppenheimer |
| 1943 | Winner | 49th Parallel (1941) | Emeric Pressburger | Best Writing, Original Story |
| Nominated | Holiday Inn (1942) | Irving Berlin (I) |
| Pride of the Yankees, The (1942) | Paul Gallico |
| Talk of the Town, The (1942) | Sidney Harmon |
| Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) | Robert Buckner |
| 1943 | Winner | Mrs. Miniver (1942) | George Froeschel, James Hilton (I), Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis | Best Writing, Screenplay |
| Nominated | 49th Parallel (1941) | Rodney Ackland, Emeric Pressburger |
| Pride of the Yankees, The (1942) | Herman J. Mankiewicz, Jo Swerling |
| Random Harvest (1942) | George Froeschel, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis |
| Talk of the Town, The (1942) | Sidney Buchman, Irwin Shaw |
| 1942 | Winner | Citizen Kane (1941) | Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles | Best Writing, Original Screenplay |
| Nominated | Devil and Miss Jones, The (1941) | Norman Krasna |
| Sergeant York (1941) | Harry Chandlee, Abem Finkel, John Huston (I), Howard Koch |
| Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941) | Karl Tunberg, Darrell Ware |
| Tom Dick and Harry (1941) | Paul Jarrico |
| 1942 | Winner | Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) | Harry Segall | Best Writing, Original Story |
| Nominated | Ball of Fire (1941) | Thomas Monroe, Billy Wilder |
| Lady Eve, The (1941) | Monckton Hoffe |
| Meet John Doe (1941) | Richard Connell (I), Robert Presnell Sr. |
| Night Train to Munich (1940) | Gordon Wellesley |
| 1942 | Winner | Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) | Sidney Buchman, Seton I. Miller | Best Writing, Screenplay |
| Nominated | Hold Back the Dawn (1941) | Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder |
| How Green Was My Valley (1941) | Philip Dunne |
| Little Foxes, The (1941) | Lillian Hellman |
| Maltese Falcon, The (1941) | John Huston (I) |
| 1941 | Winner | Great McGinty, The (1940) | Preston Sturges | Best Writing, Original Screenplay |
| Nominated | Angels Over Broadway (1940) | Ben Hecht (I) |
| Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) | Norman Burnstine, Heinz Herald, John Huston (I) |
| Foreign Correspondent (1940) | Charles Bennett (I), Joan Harrison (I) |
| Great Dictator, The (1940) | Charles Chaplin |
| 1941 | Winner | Arise, My Love (1940) | Benjamin Glazer, Hans Székely | Best Writing, Original Story |
| Nominated | Comrade X (1940) | Walter Reisch |
| Edison, the Man (1940) | Hugo Butler, Dore Schary |
| My Favorite Wife (1940) | Leo McCarey, Bella Spewack, Sam Spewack |
| Westerner, The (1940) | Stuart N. Lake |
| 1941 | Winner | Philadelphia Story, The (1940) | Donald Ogden Stewart | Best Writing, Screenplay |
| Nominated | Grapes of Wrath, The (1940) | Nunnally Johnson |
| Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman (1940) | Dalton Trumbo |
| Long Voyage Home, The (1940) | Dudley Nichols |
| Rebecca (1940) | Robert E. Sherwood (I), Joan Harrison (I) |
| 1940 | Winner | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) | Lewis R. Foster | Best Writing, Original Story |
| Nominated | Bachelor Mother (1939) | Felix Jackson |
| Love Affair (1939) | Mildred Cram, Leo McCarey |
| Ninotchka (1939) | Melchior Lengyel |
| Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) | Lamar Trotti |
| 1940 | Winner | Gone with the Wind (1939) | Sidney Howard (I) | Best Writing, Screenplay |
| Nominated | Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) | Eric Maschwitz, R.C. Sherriff, Claudine West |
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) | Sidney Buchman |
| Ninotchka (1939) | Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, Billy Wilder |
| Wuthering Heights (1939) | Ben Hecht (I), Charles MacArthur |
| 1939 | Winner | Boys Town (1938) | Eleanore Griffin, Dore Schary | Best Writing, Original Story |
| Nominated | Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) | Irving Berlin (I) |
| Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) | Rowland Brown |
| Blockade (1938) | John Howard Lawson |
| Mad About Music (1938) | Marcella Burke, Frederick Kohner |
| Test Pilot (1938) | Frank Wead |
| 1939 | Winner | Pygmalion (1938) | George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis, W.P. Lipscomb | Best Writing, Screenplay |
| Nominated | Boys Town (1938) | John Meehan (I), Dore Schary |
| Citadel, The (1938) | Ian Dalrymple, Elizabeth Hill (I), Frank Wead |
| Four Daughters (1938) | Lenore J. Coffee, Julius J. Epstein |
| You Can't Take It with You (1938) | Robert Riskin |
| 1938 | Winner | Star Is Born, A (1937) | William A. Wellman, Robert Carson (VI) | Best Writing, Original Story |
| Nominated | Black Legion (1937) | Robert Lord (I) |
| In Old Chicago (1937) | Niven Busch |
| Life of Emile Zola, The (1937) | Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg |
| One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937) | Hanns Kräly |
| 1938 | Winner | Life of Emile Zola, The (1937) | Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, Norman Reilly Raine | Best Writing, Screenplay |
| Nominated | Awful Truth, The (1937) | Viña Delmar |
| Captains Courageous (1937) | Marc Connelly (I), John Lee Mahin, Dale Van Every |
| Stage Door (1937) | Morrie Ryskind, Anthony Veiller |
| Star Is Born, A (1937) | Alan Campbell (I), Robert Carson (VI), Dorothy Parker (I) |
| 1937 | Winner | Story of Louis Pasteur, The (1935) | Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney | Best Writing, Original Story |
| Nominated | Fury (1936) | Norman Krasna |
| Great Ziegfeld, The (1936) | William Anthony McGuire |
| San Francisco (1936) | Robert E. Hopkins |
| Three Smart Girls (1936) | Adele Comandini |
| 1937 | Winner | Story of Louis Pasteur, The (1935) | Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney | Best Writing, Screenplay |
| Nominated | After the Thin Man (1936) | Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett |
| Dodsworth (1936) | Sidney Howard (I) |
| Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) | Robert Riskin |
| My Man Godfrey (1936) | Eric Hatch, Morrie Ryskind |
| 1936 | Winner | Scoundrel, The (1935) | Ben Hecht (I), Charles MacArthur | Best Writing, Original Story |
| Nominated | 'G' Men (1935) | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) | Moss Hart |
| Gay Deception, The (1935) | Don Hartman (I), Stephen Morehouse Avery |
| 1936 | Winner | Informer, The (1935) | Dudley Nichols | Best Writing, Screenplay |
| Nominated | Captain Blood (1935) | Casey Robinson (I) |
| Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The (1935) | Achmed Abdullah, John L. Balderston, Grover Jones (I), William Slavens McNutt, Waldemar Young |
| Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) | Jules Furthman, Talbot Jennings, Carey Wilson (I) |
| 1935 | Winner | It Happened One Night (1934) | Robert Riskin | Best Writing, Adaptation |
| Nominated | Thin Man, The (1934) | Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett |
| Viva Villa! (1934) | Ben Hecht (I) |
| 1935 | Winner | Manhattan Melodrama (1934) | Arthur Caesar | Best Writing, Original Story |
| Nominated | Hide-Out (1934) | Mauri Grashin |
| Richest Girl in the World, The (1934) | Norman Krasna |
| 1934 | Winner | Little Women (1933) | Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason | Best Writing, Adaptation |
| Nominated | Lady for a Day (1933) | Robert Riskin |
| State Fair (1933) | Paul Green (V), Sonya Levien |
| 1934 | Winner | One Way Passage (1932) | Robert Lord (I) | Best Writing, Original Story |
| Nominated | Prizefighter and the Lady, The (1933) | Frances Marion |
| Rasputin and the Empress (1932) | Charles MacArthur |
| 1932 | Winner | Bad Girl (1931) | Edwin J. Burke | Best Writing, Adaptation |
| Nominated | Arrowsmith (1931) | Sidney Howard (I) |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) | Percy Heath (I), Samuel Hoffenstein |
| 1932 | Winner | Champ, The (1931/I) | Frances Marion | Best Writing, Original Story |
| Nominated | Lady and Gent (1932) | Grover Jones (I), William Slavens McNutt |
| Star Witness, The (1931) | Lucien Hubbard |
| What Price Hollywood? (1932) | Adela Rogers St. Johns, Jane Murfin |
| 1931 | Winner | Cimarron (1931) | Howard Estabrook | Best Writing, Adaptation |
| Nominated | Criminal Code, The (1931) | Seton I. Miller, Fred Niblo Jr. |
| Holiday (1930) | Horace Jackson (I) |
| Little Caesar (1931) | Francis Edward Faragoh, Robert N. Lee (I) |
| Skippy (1931) | Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Sam Mintz |
| 1931 | Winner | Dawn Patrol, The (1930) | John Monk Saunders | Best Writing, Original Story |
| Nominated | Doorway to Hell, The (1930) | Rowland Brown |
| Laughter (1930) | Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, Douglas Z. Doty, Donald Ogden Stewart |
| Public Enemy, The (1931) | John Bright (I), Kubec Glasmon |
| Smart Money (1931) | Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Jackson (I) |
| 1929 | Winner | 7th Heaven (1927) | Benjamin Glazer | Best Writing, Adaptation |
| Nominated | Glorious Betsy (1928) | Anthony Coldeway |
| Jazz Singer, The (1927) | Alfred A. Cohn |
| 1929 | Winner | Underworld (1927) | Ben Hecht (I) | Best Writing, Original Story |
| Nominated | Last Command, The (1928) | Lajos Biró |
| 1929 | Winner | | Joseph Farnham | Best Writing, Title Writing |
| Nominated | George Marion Jr. |
| Private Life of Helen of Troy, The (1927) | Gerald C. Duffy |
