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Year
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Screenwriter(s)
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Best Adapted Screenplay Winner
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2025
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Paul Thomas Anderson
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One Battle After Another
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2024
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Peter Straughan
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Conclave
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2023
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Cord Jefferson
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American Fiction
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2022
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Sarah Polley
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Women Talking
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2021
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Siân Heder
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CODA
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2020
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Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller
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The Father
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2019
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Taika Waititi
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Jojo Rabbit
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2018
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Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee
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BlacKkKlansman
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2017
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James Ivory
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Call Me By Your Name
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2016
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Screenplay: Barry Jenkins; Story: Tarell Alvin McCraney
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Moonlight
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2015
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Charles Randolph & Adam McKay
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The Big Short
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2014
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Graham Moore
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The Imitation Game
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2013
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John Ridley
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12 Years A Slave
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2012
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Chris Terrio
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Argo
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2011
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Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
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The Descendants
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2010
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Aaron Sorkin
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The Social Network
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2009
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Geoffrey S. Fletcher
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Precious
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2008
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Simon Beaufoy
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Slumdog Millionaire
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2007
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Coen Brothers
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No Country For Old Men
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2006
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William Monahan
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The Departed
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2005
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Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana
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Brokeback Mountain
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2004
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Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor
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Sideways
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2003
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Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
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2002
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Ronald Harwood
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The Pianist
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2001
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Akiva Goldsman
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A Beautiful Mind
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2000
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Stephen Gaghan
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Traffic
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1999
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John Irving
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The Cider House Rules
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1998
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Bill Condon
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Gods and Monsters
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1997
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Curtis Hanson & Brian Helgeland
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L.A. Confidential
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1996
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Billy Bob Thornton
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Sling Blade
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1995
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Emma Thompson
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Sense and Sensibility
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1994
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Eric Roth
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Forrest Gump
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1993
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Steven Zaillian
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Schindler's List
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1992
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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Howard's End
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1991
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Ted Tally
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The Silence of the Lambs
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1990
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Michael Blake
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Dances with Wolves
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1989
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Alfred Uhry
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Driving Miss Daisy
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1988
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Christopher Hampton
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Dangerous Liaisons
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1987
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Bernardo Bertolucci & Mark Peploe
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The Last Emperor
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1986
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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A Room with a View
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1985
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Kurt Luedtke
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Out of Africa
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1984
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Peter Shaffer
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Amadeus
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1983
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James L. Brooks
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Terms of Endearment
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1982
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Costa-Gavras & Donald E. Stewart
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Missing
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1981
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Ernest Thompson
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On Golden Pond
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1980
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Alvin Sargent
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Ordinary People
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1979
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Robert Benton
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Kramer vs. Kramer
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1978
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Oliver Stone
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Midnight Express
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1977
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Alvin Sargent
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Julia
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1976
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William Goldman
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All the President's Men
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1975
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Bo Goldman & Lawrence Hauben
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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1974
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Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo
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The Godfather Part II
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1973
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William Peter Blatty
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The Exorcist
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1972
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Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo
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The Godfather
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1971
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Ernest Tidyman
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The French Connection
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1970
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Ring Lardner Jr.
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M*A*S*H
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1969
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Waldo Salt
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Midnight Cowboy
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1968
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James Goldman
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The Lion in Winter
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1967
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Stirling Silliphant
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In the Heat of the Night
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1966
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Robert Bolt
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A Man for All Seasons
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1965
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Doctor Zhivago
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1964
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Edward Anhalt
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Becket
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1963
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John Osborne
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Tom Jones
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1962
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Horton Foote
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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1961
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Abby Mann
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Judgment at Nuremberg
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1960
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Richard Brooks
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Elmer Gantry
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1959
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Neil Paterson
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A Room at the Top
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1958
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Alan Jay Lerner
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Gigi
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1957
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Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, & Michael Wilson
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
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1956
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John Farrow, S. J. Perelman & James Poe
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Around the World in 80 Days
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1955
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Paddy Chayefsky
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Marty
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1954
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George Seaton
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The Country Girl
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1953
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Daniel Taradash
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From Here to Eternity
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1952
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Charles Schnee
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The Bad and the Beautiful
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1951
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Harry Brown & Michael Wilson
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A Place in the Sun
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1950
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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All About Eve
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1949
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A Letter to Three Wives
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1948
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John Huston
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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1947
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George Seaton
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Miracle on 34th Street
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1946
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Robert E. Sherwood
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The Best Years of Our Lives
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1945
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Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder
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|
The Lost Weekend
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|
1944
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Frank Butler & Frank Cavett
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Going my Way
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1943
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Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein & Howard Koch
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Casablanca
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1942
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George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West & Arthur Wimperis
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Mrs. Miniver
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1941
|
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Sidney Buchman & Seton I. Miller
|
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan
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1940
|
|
Donald Ogden Stewart
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The Philadelphia Story
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1939
|
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Sidney Howard
|
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Gone With the Wind
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1938
|
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George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Arthur Lewis & W. P. Lipscomb
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|
Pygmalion
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1937
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Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg & Norman Reilly Raine
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|
The Life of Emile Zola
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1936
|
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Pierre Collings & Sheridan Gibney
|
|
The Story of Louis Pasteur
|
|
1935
|
|
Dudley Nichols
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The Informer
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|
1934
|
|
Robert Riskin
|
|
It Happened One Night
|
|
1933
|
|
Victor Heerman & Sarah Y. Mason
|
|
Little Women
|
|
1932
|
|
Edwin J. Burke
|
|
Bad Girl
|
|
1931
|
|
Howard Estabrook
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|
Cimarron
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|
1930
|
|
Frances Marion
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The Big House
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|
1929
|
|
Hanns Kräly
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The Patriot
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1928
|
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Benjamin Glazer
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|
7th Heaven
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