My Best Original Screenplay Winners
This list details those adapted screenplays performances that I felt were the best. Sometimes these choices stray from those of the Academy Awards and those of other people as these are purely based on opinion. I have tried my best to look at all screenplays in the same light and have tried not to compensate someone for not giving them one the previous year. The years covered are 1928-2010. I have also included whether or not my winner was nominated and/or won the Academy Award for that particular screenplay as well as the other films/actors/directors I would have nominated alongside my winner. If you have a comment, disagreement, question about justification of one of my choices, recommendations, and etc. please leave a polite comment and I'll try to respond to the best of my ability. I hope you enjoy. Note: For Honorable Mentions, * denotes category nominee and ** denotes category winner
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- DirectorFritz LangStarsBrigitte HelmAlfred AbelGustav FröhlichIn a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.Year: 1927/28
Screenwriter(s): Thea von Harbou
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: category did not exist
Nominees: The Kid Brother (John Grey, Ted Wilde, Tom Crizer, Lex Neal, and Howard Green); The Circus (Charlie Chaplin); The Cameraman (Clyde Bruckman, Lew Lipton, and Joseph Farnham); Lights of New York (Murray Roth and Hugh Herbert)
Note: silent film with German intertitles - DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsMaria FalconettiEugene SilvainAndré BerleyIn 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.Year: 1928/29
Screenwriter(s): Joseph Delteil and Carl Theodor Dreyer
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: category did not exist
Nominees: Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Buster Keaton and Charles Harbaugh); The Racket (Bartlett McCormack and Tom Miranda); The Trespasser (Edmund Goulding); Hallelujah! (King Vidor, Ransom Rideout, Richard Schayer, and Wanda Tuchock)
Note: silent film with French intertitles and alternate title La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc - DirectorVictor HeermanStarsGroucho MarxHarpo MarxChico MarxMayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding.Year: 1929/30
Screenwriter(s): Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and George S. Kaufman
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: category did not exist
Nominees: The Dawn Patrol (John Monk Saunders, Dan Tetheroh, Seton I. Miller, and Howard Hawks); The Big Trail (Hal G. Evarts, Marie Boyle, Jack Peabody, Florence Postal, and Fred Sersen); The Big House (won Best Screenplay Award) (Frances Marion); Hell's Angels (Harry Behn and Howard Estabrook) - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinVirginia CherrillFlorence LeeWith the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.Year: 1931/32
Screenwriter(s): Charlie Chaplin
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: category did not exist
Nominees: Monkey Business (S.J. Perelman and Will B. Johnstone); Tabu (F.W. Murnau and Robert J. Flaherty); Tonight or Never (Fanny Hatton, Frederic Hatton, Lily Hatvany, and Ernest Vajda); No Limit (Salisbury Field, George Marion, Jr., and Viola Brothers Shore)
Note: silent film with English intertitles - DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsGroucho MarxChico MarxHarpo MarxQuincy Adams Wagstaff, Huxley University's new president, accidentally hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against their rival, Darwin University.Year: 1931/32
Screenwriter(s): S.J. Perelman, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Will B. Johnstone
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: category did not exist
Nominees: The Champ (Frances Marion and Leonard Praskins); What Price Hollywood? (Gene Fowler, Rowland Brown, Ben Markson, Jane Murfin, and Adela Rogers St. Johns); Movie Crazy (Vincent Lawrence); The Mummy (John L. Balderston, Nina Wilcox Putnam, and Richard Schayer) - DirectorLeo McCareyStarsGroucho MarxHarpo MarxChico MarxRufus T. Firefly is named the dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of his wealthy backer Mrs. Teasdale, contending with two inept spies who can't seem to keep straight which side they're on.Year: 1932/33
Screenwriter(s): Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Arthur Sheekman, and Nat Perrin
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: category did not exist
Nominees: I'm No Angel (Mae West); This Day and Age (Bartlett Cormack and Horace Hahn); Penthouse (Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, and Arthur Somers Roche); Viktor and Viktoria (Viktor und Viktoria) (Reinhold Schunzel) - DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsW.C. FieldsKathleen HowardJean RouverolA henpecked New Jersey grocer makes plans to move to California to grow oranges, despite the resistance of his overbearing wife.Year: 1934
Screenwriter(s): W.C. Fields, Jack Cunningham, and J.P. McEvoy
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: category did not exist
Nominees: Cleopatra (Waldemar Young, Vincent Lawrence, and Bartlett Cormack); The Man Who Knew Too Much (Charles Bennett, D.B. Wyndham-Lewis, Edwin Greenwood, and A.R. Rawlinson); Here Comes the Navy (Earl Baldwin and Ben Markson); Charlie Chan in London (Earl Derr Biggers and Philip MacDonald) - DirectorSam WoodEdmund GouldingStarsGroucho MarxChico MarxHarpo MarxA sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.Year: 1935
Screenwriter(s): George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, and James Kevin McGuinness
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: category did not exist
Nominees: Top Hat (Allan Scott and Dwight Taylor); Barbary Coast (Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur); Annie Oakley (Joseph Fields, Ewart Adamson, Joel Sayre, and John Twist); Curly Top (Patterson McNutt and Arthur J. Beckhard) - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardHenry BergmanThe Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.Year: 1936
Screenwriter(s): Charlie Chaplin
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: category did not exist
Nominees: The Great Ziegfeld (William Anthony McGuire); Libeled Lady (Wallace Sullivan, Maurine Dallas Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers, and George Oppenheimer); The Story of Louis Pasteur (Toni Pollastre and Sheridan Gibney); San Francisco (Robert E. Hopkins and Anita Loos)
Note: silent film with English intertitles - DirectorSam WoodStarsGroucho MarxChico MarxHarpo MarxA veterinarian posing as a doctor teams with a singer and his friends as they struggle to save an upstate New York sanitarium with the help of a misfit racehorse.Year: 1937
Screenwriter(s): Robert Pirosh, George Seaton, and George Oppenheimer
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: category did not exist
Nominees: Nothing Sacred (Ben Hecht and James H. Street); Shall We Dance (Allen Scott and Ernest Pagano); Saratoga (Anita Loos and Robert Hopkins); Something to Sing About (Victor Schertzinger and Austin Parker) - DirectorHoward HawksStarsKatharine HepburnCary GrantCharles RugglesWhile trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.Year: 1938
Screenwriter(s): Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: category did not exist
Nominees: Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) (Jean Renoir and Charles Spaak); The Adventures of Robin Hood (Norman Reilly Raine and Seton I. Miller); Angels with Dirty Faces (Rowland Brown, John Wexley, and Warren Duff); Test Pilot (Howard Hawks and John Lee Mahin) - DirectorJean RenoirStarsMarcel DalioNora GregorPaulette DubostA bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.Year: 1939
Screenwriter(s): Jean Renoir and Carl Koch
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: category did not exist
Nominees: Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks and Jules Furthman); Midnight (Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Edwin Justus Mayer, and Franz Schulz); Young Mr. Lincoln (Lamar Trotti); Dodge City (Robert Buckner)
Note: French-language film with alternate title La Regle du jeu - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardJack OakieDictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.Year: 1940
Screenwriter(s): Charlie Chaplin
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: *Foreign Correspondent (Charles Bennett and Joan Harrison); **The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges); *Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (Norman Burnside, Heinz Herald, and John Huston); The Bank Dick (W.C. Fields) - DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy ComingoreFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'Year: 1941
Screenwriter(s): Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges); 49th Parallel (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger); *Tom, Dick and Harry (Paul Jarrico); *Sergeant York (Harry Chandlee, Abem Finkel, John Huston, and Howard Koch) - DirectorPreston SturgesStarsClaudette ColbertJoel McCreaMary AstorA New York inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire with a capricious high-society sister.Year: 1942
Screenwriter(s): Preston Sturges
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: No
Nominees: **Woman of the Year (Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner, Jr.); *One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger); Yankee Doodle Dandy (Robert Buckner, Edmund Joseph, Julius J. Epstein, and Philip G. Epstein); *Wake Island (Frank Butler and Don Hartman) - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsTeresa WrightJoseph CottenMacdonald CareyA teenage girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.Year: 1943
Screenwriter(s): Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, and Alma Reville
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: No
Nominees: *So Proudly We Hail! (Allan Scott); *In Which We Serve (Noel Coward); **Princess O'Rourke (Norman Krasna); *The North Star (Lillian Hellman) - DirectorPreston SturgesStarsEddie BrackenBetty HuttonDiana LynnAfter an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl with an awkward boyfriend wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.Year: 1944
Screenwriter(s): Preston Sturges
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: Lifeboat (John Steinbeck and Jo Swerling); *Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges); **Wilson (Lamar Trotti); *Wing and a Prayer (Jerome Cady) - DirectorMarcel CarnéStarsArlettyJean-Louis BarraultPierre BrasseurThe theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her.Year: 1945
Screenwriter(s): Jacques Prevert
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: No (nominated in 1946)
Nominees: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger); The Clock (Paul Gallico and Robert Nathan); *Dillinger (Philip Yordan); Anchors Aweigh (Natalie Marcin and Isobel Lennart)
Note: French-language film with alternate title Les Enfants du Paradis - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantIngrid BergmanClaude RainsThe daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?Year: 1946
Screenwriter(s): Ben Hecht
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: *The Blue Dahlia (Raymond Chandler); **The Seventh Veil (Muriel Box and Sydney Box); Blue Sky (Irving Berlin, Arthur Sheekman, and Allan G. Scott); *Road to Utopia (Norman Panama and Melvin Frank) - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsRonald ColmanEdmond O'BrienSigne HassoA celebrated actor struggles to distinguish his own life from that of his most recent stage role, Othello.Year: 1947
Screenwriter(s): Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: *Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin); *Shoeshine (Sciuscia) (Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, C.G. Viola, and Cesare Zavattini); *Body and Soul (Abraham Polonsky); Born to Kill (James Gunn, Eve Greene, and Richard Macaulay) - DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsAnton WalbrookMarius GoringMoira ShearerA young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.Year: 1948
Screenwriter(s): Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: No (no award given)
Nominees: The Search (nominated for Best Screenplay) (Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler, Paul Jarrico, Montgomery Clift, and Betty Smith); Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges); The Street with No Name (Harry Kleiner); Easter Parade (Sidney Sheldon and Frances Goodrich) - DirectorCarol ReedStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenAlida ValliPulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.Year: 1949
Screenwriter(s): Graham Greene
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: No
Nominees: **Battleground (Robert Pirosh); Adam's Rib (Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin); *Paisa (Alfred Hayes, Federico Fellini, Sergio Amidei, Marcello Pagleiro, and Roberto Rossellini); *Jolson Sings Again (Sidney Buchman) - DirectorBilly WilderStarsWilliam HoldenGloria SwansonErich von StroheimA screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.Year: 1950
Screenwriter(s): Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman, Jr., and Billy Wilder
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: *The Men (Carl Foreman); *Caged (Virginia Kellogg and Bernard C. Shoenfeld); *No Way Out (Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Lesser Samuels); Winchester '73 (Borden Chase and Robert L. Richards) - DirectorBilly WilderStarsKirk DouglasJan SterlingRobert ArthurA frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.Year: 1951
Screenwriter(s): Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, and Walter Newman
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: **An American in Paris (Alan Jay Lerner); *David and Bathsheba (Philip Dunne); *The Well (Clarence Green and Russell Rouse); Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (Albert Lewis) - DirectorCharles CrichtonStarsAlec GuinnessStanley HollowaySidney JamesA meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.Year: 1952
Screenwriter(s): T.E.B. Clarke
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: Singin' in the Rain (Betty Comden and Adolph Green); *Pat and Mike (Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin); *Viva Zapata! (John Steinbeck); *The Sound Barrier (Terence Rattigan) - DirectorAnthony MannStarsJames StewartJanet LeighRobert RyanA bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.Year: 1953
Screenwriter(s): Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Brown
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: **Titanic (Charles Brackett, Richard Breen, and Walter Reisch); *The Band Wagon (Betty Comden and Adolph Green); *Take the High Ground! (Millard Kaufman); *The Desert Rats (Richard Murphy) - DirectorElia KazanStarsMarlon BrandoKarl MaldenLee J. CobbAn ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.Year: 1954
Screenwriter(s): Budd Schulberg
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: *The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L. Mankiewicz); *Knock on Wood (Norman Panama and Melvin Frank); *Genevieve (William Rose); White Christmas (Norman Krasna, Norman Panama, and Melvin Frank) - DirectorJacques TatiStarsJacques TatiNathalie PascaudMicheline RollaMonsieur Hulot comes to a beachside hotel for a vacation and accidentally, but good-naturedly, causes havoc.Year: 1955
Screenwriter(s): Jacques Tati and Henri Marquet
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, Irving Schulman, and Stewart Stern); **Interrupted Melody (Sonya Levien and William Ludwig); *The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (Emmet Lavery and Milton Sperling); *It's Always Fair Weather (Betty Comden and Adolph Green)
Note: French-language film with alternate title Les vacances de M. Hulot - DirectorFederico FelliniStarsAnthony QuinnGiulietta MasinaRichard BasehartA care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.Year: 1956
Screenwriter(s): Federico Fellini and Tullio Pinelli
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) (Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, and Hideo Oguni); *The Ladykillers (William Rose); **The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse); *The Bold and the Brave (Robert Lewin)
Note: Italian-language film with alternate title The Road - DirectorStanley DonenStarsAudrey HepburnFred AstaireKay ThompsonAn impromptu fashion shoot at a book store brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk.Year: 1957
Screenwriter(s): Leonard Gershe
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: *I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, and Tullio Pinelli); **Designing Woman (George Wells); *The Tin Star (Barney Slater, Joel Kane, and Dudley Nichols); Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (George Axelrod and Frank Tashlin) - DirectorStanley KramerStarsTony CurtisSidney PoitierCara WilliamsTwo chained-together escaped convicts, White and Black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.Year: 1958
Screenwriter(s): Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: Mon Oncle (My Uncle) (Jacques Lagrange, Jean L'Hote, and Jacques Tati); *Teacher's Pet (Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin); *The Goddess (Paddy Chayefsky); *Houseboat (Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose) - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantEva Marie SaintJames MasonA New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.Year: 1959
Screenwriter(s): Ernest Lehman
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: *Wild Strawberries (Smultronstallet) (Ingmar Bergman); *The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) (Francois Truffaut and Marcel Moussy); **Pillow Talk (Clarence Green, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, and Stanley Shapiro); *Operation Petticoat (Paul King, Joseph Stone, Stanley Shapiro, and Maurice Richlin) - DirectorBilly WilderStarsJack LemmonShirley MacLaineFred MacMurrayA Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.Year: 1960
Screenwriter(s): I.A.L. Diamond and Billy Wilder
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: *Hiroshima mon amour (Marguerite Duras); *The Angry Silence (Bryan Forbes, Richard Gregson, and Michael Craig); *The Facts of Life (Norman Panama and Melvin Frank); *Never on Sunday (Pote tin Kyriaki) (Jules Dassin) - DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnita EkbergAnouk AiméeA series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.Year: 1961
Screenwriter(s): Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, and Brunello Rondi)
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: Yojimbo (Ryuzo Kikushima and Akira Kurosawa); **Splendor in the Grass (William Inge); The Misfits (Arthur Miller); *Lover Come Back (Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning)
Note: Italian-language film with alternate title The Sweet Life - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsHarriet AnderssonGunnar BjörnstrandMax von SydowRecently released from a mental hospital, Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family in their island home, only to slip from reality as she begins to believe she is being visited by God.Year: 1962
Screenwriter(s): Ingmar Bergman
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: **Divorce, Italian Style (Divorzia all'italiana) (Ennio de Concini, Pietro Germi, and Alfred Giannetti); *Last Year at Marienbad (L'Annee derniere a Marienbad) (Alain Robbe-Grillet); *That Touch of Mink (Stanley Shapiro and Nate Monaster); *Freud (Charles Kaufman and Wolfgang Reinhardt)
Note: Swedish-language film with alternate title Sasom i en spegel - DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnouk AiméeClaudia CardinaleA harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.Year: 1963
Screenwriter(s): Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, and Brunello Rondi
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: *America, America (Elia Kazan); *The Four Days of Naples (Le Quattro giornate di Napoli) (Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy, Vasco Pratolini, and Carlo Bernari); *Love with the Proper Stranger (Arnold Schulman); **How the West Was Won (James Webb)
Note: Italian-language film - DirectorRichard LesterStarsJohn LennonPaul McCartneyGeorge HarrisonOver two "typical" days in the life of The Beatles, the boys struggle to keep themselves and Sir Paul McCartney's mischievous grandfather in check while preparing for a live TV performance.Year: 1964
Screenwriter(s): Alun Owen
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: **Father Goose (S.H. Barnett, Peter Stone, and Frank Tarloff); Zulu (John Prebble and Cy Endfield); *One Potato, Two Potato (Raphael Hayes and Orville H. Hampton); The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards and Maurice Richlin) - DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsJulie ChristieDirk BogardeLaurence HarveyBeautiful but amoral model Diana Scott sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties.Year: 1965
Screenwriter(s): Frederic Raphael
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: *The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les parapluies de Cherbourg) (Jacques Demy); *Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (Jack Davies and Ken Annakin); *Casanova 70 (Age (screen name of Agenore Incrocci), Scarpelli (screen name of Furio Scarpelli), Mario Monicelli, Tonino Guerra, Giorgio Salvioni, and Suso Cecchi d'Amico); The Great Race (Arthur Ross and Blake Edwards) - DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsDavid HemmingsVanessa RedgraveSarah MilesA fashion photographer unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park.Year: 1966
Screenwriter(s): Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, and Edward Bond
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Signore & Signori) (Age (screen name of Agenore Incrocci), Pietro Germi, and Luciano Vincenzoni); *The Fortune Cookie (Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond); **A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme) (Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven); *Khartoum (Robert Ardrey) - DirectorArthur PennStarsWarren BeattyFaye DunawayMichael J. PollardBored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.Year: 1967
Screenwriter(s): David Newman and Robert Benton
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: *Two for the Road (Frederic Raphael); **Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (William Rose); Live for Life (Vivre pour vivre) (Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven); *Divorce American Style (Norman Lear and Robert Kaufman) - DirectorMel BrooksStarsZero MostelGene WilderDick ShawnA stage-play producer devises a plan to make money by producing a sure-fire flop.Year: 1968
Screenwriter(s): Mel Brooks
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: *2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke); Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Donati, Sergio Leone, Dario Argento, and Bernardo Bertolucci); *The Battle of Algiers (La battaglia di Algeri/La bataille d'Alger) (Franco Solinas and Gillo Pontecorvo); *Faces (John Cassavetes) - DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPaul NewmanRobert RedfordKatharine RossIn 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. After considering their options, they escape to South America.Year: 1969
Screenwriter(s): William Goldman
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: *The Wild Bunch (Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner, and Sam Peckinpah); *Easy Rider (Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern); *Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker); *The Damned (La caduta degli dei) (Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti) - DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsGeorge C. ScottKarl MaldenStephen YoungThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.Year: 1970
Screenwriter(s): Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: *Love Story (Erich Segal); *Five Easy Pieces (Adrien Joyce (pseudonym of Bob Rafelson)); *My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud) (Eric Rohmer); *Joe (Norman Wexler) - DirectorHal AshbyStarsRuth GordonBud CortVivian PicklesYoung, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.Year: 1971
Screenwriter(s): Colin Higgins
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: No
Nominees: *Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto) (Elio Petri and
Ugo Pirro); **The Hospital (Paddy Chayefsky); *Klute (Andy Lewis and David Lewis); *Sunday Bloody Sunday (Penelope Gilliatt) - DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsFernando ReyDelphine SeyrigPaul FrankeurA surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.Year: 1972
Screenwriter(s): Luis Bunuel and Jean-Claude Carriere
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: **The Candidate (Jeremy Larner); *Murmer of the Heart (Le souffle au coeur) (Louis Malle); What's Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich, Buck Henry, David Newman, and Robert Benton); *Lady Sings the Blues (Terrence McCloy, Chris Clark, and Suzanne de Passe)
Note: French-language film with alternate title Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie - DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPaul NewmanRobert RedfordRobert ShawTwo grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.Year: 1973
Screenwriter(s): David S. Ward
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: *American Graffiti (George Lucas, Gloria Katz, and Willard Huyck); *Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop) (Ingmar Bergman); *A Touch of Class (Melvin Frank and Jack Rose); *Save the Tiger (Steve Shagan) - DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsJack NicholsonFaye DunawayJohn HustonA private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.Year: 1974
Screenwriter(s): Robert Towne
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: Blazing Saddles (Andrew Bergman, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryoy, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger); *The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola); *Day for Night (La nuit americaine) (Francois Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard, and Suzanne Schiffman); *Harry and Tonto (Paul Mazursky and Josh Greenfeld) - DirectorSidney LumetStarsAl PacinoJohn CazalePenelope AllenThree amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.Year: 1975
Screenwriter(s): Frank Pierson
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: *Shampoo (Robert Towne and Warren Beatty); Nashville (Joan Tewkesbury); *Amarcord (Federico Fellini and Tonino Guerra); *Lies My Father Told Me (Ted Allan) - DirectorSidney LumetStarsFaye DunawayWilliam HoldenPeter FinchA television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.Year: 1976
Screenwriter(s): Paddy Chayefsky
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: Taxi Driver (Paul Schrader); Murder by Death (Neil Simon); *Rocky (Sylvester Stallone); *Seven Beauties (Pasqualino settebellezze) (Lina Wertmuller) - DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenDiane KeatonTony RobertsAlvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.Year: 1977
Screenwriter(s): Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: *The Late Show (Robert Benton); *Star Wars (George Lucas); *The Goodbye Girl (Neil Simon); Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg) - DirectorMichael CiminoStarsRobert De NiroChristopher WalkenJohn CazaleAn in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.Year: 1978
Screenwriter(s): Deric Washburn, Michael Cimino, Louis Garfinkle, and Quinn K. Redeker
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: *Autumn Sonata (Hostsonaten) (Ingmar Bergman); *An Unmarried Woman (Paul Mazursky); *Interiors (Woody Allen); **Coming Home (Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt, and Nancy Dowd) - DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenDiane KeatonMariel HemingwayThe life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.Year: 1979
Screenwriter(s): Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: **Breaking Away (Steve Tesich); *All That Jazz (Robert Alan Aurthur and Bob Fosse); *The China Syndrome (Mike Gray, T.S. Cook, and James Bridges); *...And Justice for All (Valerie Curtin and Barry Levinson) - DirectorHoward ZieffStarsGoldie HawnEileen BrennanArmand AssanteA sheltered young high-society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a trickier situation than she ever expected.Year: 1980
Screenwriter(s): Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer, and Harvey Miller
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: **Melvin and Howard (Bo Goldman); *Mon oncle d'Amerique (My American Uncle) (Jean Gruault and Henri Laborit); Mad Max (George Miller, Byron Kennedy, and James McCausland); Stardust Memories (Woody Allen) - DirectorSteve GordonStarsDudley MooreLiza MinnelliJohn GielgudAlcoholic billionaire playboy Arthur Bach must marry a woman he does not love, or he will be cut off from his $750,000,000 fortune. But when Arthur falls in love with a poor waitress, he must decide if he wants to choose love or money.Year: 1981
Screenwriter(s): Steve Gordon
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan); Raiders of the Lost Ark (Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, and Philip Kaufman); Modern Romance (Albert Brooks); **Chariots of Fire (Kurt Luedtke) - DirectorSydney PollackStarsDustin HoffmanJessica LangeTeri GarrMichael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.Year: 1982
Screenwriter(s): Larry Gelbart, Murray Schisgal, and Don McGuire
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: *E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Melissa Mathison); *Diner (Barry Levinson); *An Officer and a Gentleman (Douglas Day Stewart); **Gandhi (John Briley) - DirectorLawrence KasdanStarsTom BerengerGlenn CloseJeff GoldblumA group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a South Carolina vacation home after the funeral of another of their college friends.Year: 1983
Screenwriter(s): Lawrence Kasdan and Barbara Benedek
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: *Silkwood (Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen); **Tender Mercies (Horton Foote); Risky Business (Paul Brickman); *Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander) (Ingmar Bergman) - DirectorRob ReinerStarsRob ReinerMichael McKeanChristopher GuestSpinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.Year: 1984
Screenwriter(s): Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Rob Reiner
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: No
Nominees: *Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen); *Beverly Hills Cop (Daniel Petrie, Jr. and Danilo Bach); Romancing the Stone (Diane Thomas); *El Norte (Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas) - DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsMichael J. FoxChristopher LloydLea ThompsonMarty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.Year: 1985
Screenwriter(s): Robert Zemeckis and Anna Thomas
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: Lost in America (Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson); The Breakfast Club (John Hughes); *The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen); *Brazil (Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown) - DirectorWoody AllenStarsMia FarrowDianne WiestMichael CaineBetween two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.Year: 1986
Screenwriter(s): Woody Allen
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: *Platoon (Oliver Stone); *Salvador (Richard Boyle and Oliver Stone); Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan and David Leland); *My Beautiful Laundrette (Hanif Kureishi) - DirectorJohn BoormanStarsSarah MilesDavid HaymanSebastian Rice-EdwardsBill, a young boy living on the outskirts of London experiences the exhilaration of World War II. During this period, Bill learns about sex, death, love, hypocrisy, and the faults of adults as he prowls the ruins of bombed houses.Year: 1987
Screenwriter(s): John Boorman
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: *Broadcast News (James L. Brooks); *Au revoir, les enfants (Goodbye, Children) (Louise Malle); Raising Arizona (Joel and Ethan Coen); **Moonstruck (John Patrick Shanley) - DirectorCharles CrichtonJohn CleeseStarsJohn CleeseJamie Lee CurtisKevin KlineIn London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool a very proper barrister.Year: 1988
Screenwriter(s): John Cleese and Charles Crichton
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: *Bull Durham (Ron Shelton); *Big (Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg); **Rain Man (Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow); Beetlejuice (Michael McDowell, Warren Skaaren, and Larry Wilson) - DirectorRob ReinerStarsBilly CrystalMeg RyanCarrie FisherHarry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.Year: 1989
Screenwriter(s): Nora Ephron
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: *sex, lies, and videotape (Steven Soderbergh); *Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen); *Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee); **Dead Poets Society (Tom Schulman) - DirectorJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsGabriel ByrneAlbert FinneyJohn TurturroTom Reagan, an advisor to a Prohibition-era crime boss, tries to keep the peace between warring mobs but gets caught in divided loyalties.Year: 1990
Screenwriter(s): Joel and Ethan Coen
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: No
Nominees: *Avalon (Barry Levinson); **Ghost (Bruce Joel Rubin); *Alice (Woody Allen); *Green Card (Peter Weir) - DirectorRidley ScottStarsSusan SarandonGeena DavisHarvey KeitelTwo best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two women escape for the crimes they committed.Year: 1991
Screenwriter(s): Callie Khouri
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: Defending Your Life (Albert Brooks); Barton Fink (Joel and Ethan Coen); *Boyz n the Hood (John Singleton); *Grand Canyon (Lawrence Kasdan and Meg Kasdan) - DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodGene HackmanMorgan FreemanRetired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid."Year: 1992
Screenwriter(s): David Webb Peoples
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: **The Crying Game (Neil Jordan); *Passion Fish (John Sayles); Sister Act (Joseph Howard (pseudonym of Paul Rudnick)); *Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen) - DirectorHarold RamisStarsBill MurrayAndie MacDowellChris ElliottA narcissistic, self-centered weatherman finds himself in a time loop on Groundhog Day.Year: 1993
Screenwriter(s): Harold Ramis and Danny Rubin
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: No
Nominees: **The Piano (Jane Campion); *In the Line of Fire (Jeff Maguire); *Sleepless in Seattle (Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron, and David S. Ward); *Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia) - DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsJohn TravoltaUma ThurmanSamuel L. JacksonThe lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.Year: 1994
Screenwriter(s): Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: *Four Weddings and a Funeral (Richard Curtis); *Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh); *Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath); Ed Wood (Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski) - DirectorBryan SingerStarsKevin SpaceyGabriel ByrneChazz PalminteriThe sole survivor of a pier shoot-out tells the story of how a notorious criminal influenced the events that began with five criminals meeting in a seemingly random police lineup.Year: 1995
Screenwriter(s): Christopher McQuarrie
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: Se7en (Andrew Kevin Walker); *Toy Story (Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow, John Lasseter, Pete Docter, and Joe Ranft); *Braveheart (Randall Wallace); The American President (Aaron Sorkin) - DirectorJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsWilliam H. MacyFrances McDormandSteve BuscemiMinnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.Year: 1996
Screenwriter(s): Joel and Ethan Coen
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: *Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe); *Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh); Waiting for Guffman (Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy); Mother (Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson) - DirectorGus Van SantStarsRobin WilliamsMatt DamonBen AffleckWill Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.Year: 1997
Screenwriter(s): Ben Affleck and Matt Damon
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: *Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson); *The Full Monty (Simon Beaufoy); Nil by Mouth (Gary Oldman); *As Good as It Gets (James L. Brooks) - DirectorJohn MaddenStarsGwyneth PaltrowJoseph FiennesGeoffrey RushThe world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.Year: 1998
Screenwriter(s): Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: *Saving Private Ryan (Robert Rodat); *The Truman Show (Andrew Niccol); *Bulworth (Warren Beatty and Jeremy Pikser); The Opposite of Sex (Don Roos) - DirectorSpike JonzeStarsJohn CusackCameron DiazCatherine KeenerA puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.Year: 1999
Screenwriter(s): Charlie Kaufman
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: **American Beauty (Alan Ball); *The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan); The Matrix (Larry and Andy Wachowski); *Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson) - DirectorCameron CroweStarsBilly CrudupPatrick FugitKate HudsonA high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.Year: 2000
Screenwriter(s): Cameron Crowe
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: *Billy Elliot (Lee Hall); Best in Show (Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy); *You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan); *Gladiator (David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson) - DirectorChristopher NolanStarsGuy PearceCarrie-Anne MossJoe PantolianoA man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer.Year: 2001
Screenwriter(s): Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: **Gosford Park (Julian Fellowes); *The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson); *Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant); The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel and Ethan Coen) - DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsRosario FloresJavier CámaraDarío GrandinettiTwo men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.Year: 2002
Screenwriter(s): Pedro Almodover
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: *My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Nia Vardalos); *Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes); *Gangs of New York (Jay Cocks, Kenneth Lonergan, and Steven Zaillian); Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore)
Note: Spanish-language film with alternate title Hable con ella - DirectorSofia CoppolaStarsBill MurrayScarlett JohanssonGiovanni RibisiA faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.Year: 2003
Screenwriter(s): Sofia Coppola
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: *Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, and David Reynolds); The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy); *The Barbarian Invasions (Les invasions barbares) (Denys Arcand); Bend It Like Beckham (Paul Mayeda Berges, Guljit Bindra, and Gurinder Chadha) - DirectorMichel GondryStarsJim CarreyKate WinsletTom WilkinsonWhen their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories forever.Year: 2004
Screenwriter(s): Pierre Bismuth, Michel Gondry, and Charlie Kaufman
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: *The Incredibles (Brad Bird); *The Aviator (John Logan); *Vera Drake (Mike Leigh); *Hotel Rwanda (Terry George and Keir Pearson) - DirectorNoah BaumbachStarsOwen KlineJeff DanielsLaura LinneyFollows two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.Year: 2005
Screenwriter(s): Noah Baumbach
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: *Match Point (Woody Allen); *Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney and Grant Heslov); **Crash (Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco); *Syriana (Stephen Gaghan) - DirectorJonathan DaytonValerie FarisStarsSteve CarellToni ColletteGreg KinnearA family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.Year: 2006
Screenwriter(s): Michael Arndt
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: *Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) (Guillermo del Toro); *Letters from Iwo Jima (Paul Haggis and Iris Yamashita); *Babel (Guillermo Arriaga); Stranger than Fiction (Zach Helm) - DirectorBrad BirdJan PinkavaStarsBrad GarrettLou RomanoPatton OswaltA rat who can cook makes an unusual alliance with a young kitchen worker at a famous Paris restaurant.Year: 2007
Screenwriter(s): Brad Bird
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: **Juno (Diablo Cody); The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck); *Lars and the Real Girl (Nancy Oliver); *Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy) - DirectorMartin McDonaghStarsColin FarrellBrendan GleesonCiarán HindsAfter a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.Year: 2008
Screenwriter(s): Martin McDonagh
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: *WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, and Pete Docter); Burn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen); *Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh); *Frozen River (Courtney Hunt) - DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsBrad PittDiane KrugerEli RothIn Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.Year: 2009
Screenwriter(s): Quentin Tarantino
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: *Up (Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, and Tom McCarthy); **The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal); *A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen); (500) Days of Summer (Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber) - DirectorTom HooperStarsColin FirthGeoffrey RushHelena Bonham CarterThe story of King George VI, his unexpected ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.Year: 2010
Screenwriter(s): David Seidler
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; Yes
Nominees: *Inception (Christopher Nolan); *Another Year (Mike Leigh); Black Swan (Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, and John McLaughlin); Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne, and Joey Curtis) - DirectorPaul FeigStarsKristen WiigMaya RudolphRose ByrneCompetition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.Year: 2011
Screenwriter(s): Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and if so, did it win?: Yes; No
Nominees: 50/50 (Will Reiser); *A Separation (Asghar Farhadi); Young Adult (Diablo Cody); *The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)