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Oscar for Best Original Screenplay

How many movies that won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay can you name?
Year listed is the year the film was released.
There was no winner for 1948.
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Year
Screenwriter(s)
Best Original Screenplay Winner
2025
Ryan Coogler
Sinners
2024
Sean Baker
Anora
2023
Justine Triet
& Arthur Harari
Anatomy of a Fall
2022
Daniel Kwan
and Daniel Scheinert
Everything Everywhere All at Once
2021
Kenneth Branagh
Belfast
2020
Emerald Fennell
Promising Young Woman
2019
Bong Joon-ho
& Han Jin-won
Parasite
2018
Nick Vallelonga,
Brian Currie & Peter Farrelly
Green Book
2017
Jordan Peele
Get Out
2016
Kenneth Lonergan
Manchester by the Sea
2015
Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy
Spotlight
2014
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone,
Alexander Dinelaris Jr. & Armando Bo
Birdman
2013
Spike Jonze
Her
2012
Quentin Tarantino
Django Unchained
2011
Woody Allen
Midnight in Paris
2010
David Seidler
The King's Speech
2009
Mark Boal
The Hurt Locker
2008
Dustin Lance Black
Milk
2007
Diablo Cody
Juno
2006
Michael Arndt
Little Miss Sunshine
2005
Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco
Crash
2004
Charlie Kaufman,
Pierre Bismuth & Michel Gondry
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2003
Sofia Coppola
Lost in Translation
2002
Pedro Almodóvar
Talk to Her
2001
Julian Fellowes
Gosford Park
2000
Cameron Crowe
Almost Famous
1999
Alan Ball
American Beauty
1998
Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard
Shakespeare in Love
1997
Ben Affleck & Matt Damon
Good Will Hunting
1996
Coen Brothers
Fargo
1995
Christopher McQuarrie
The Usual Suspects
1994
Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary
Pulp Fiction
1993
Jane Campion
The Piano
1992
Neil Jordan
The Crying Game
1991
Callie Khouri
Thelma and Louise
1990
Bruce Joel Rubin
Ghost
1989
Tom Schulman
Dead Poets Society
1988
Ronald Bass & Barry Morrow
Rain Man
1987
John Patrick Shanley
Moonstruck
1986
Woody Allen
Hannah and Her Sisters
1985
William Kelley, Earl W. Wallace
& Pamela Wallace
Witness
1984
Robert Benton
Places in the Heart
1983
Horton Foote
Tender Mercies
Year
Screenwriter(s)
Best Original Screenplay Winner
1982
John Briley
Gandhi
1981
Colin Welland
Chariots of Fire
1980
Bo Goldman
Melvin and Howard
1979
Steve Tesich
Breaking Away
1978
Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt
& Nancy Dowd
Coming Home
1977
Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman
Annie Hall
1976
Paddy Chayefsky
Network
1975
Frank Pierson
Dog Day Afternoon
1974
Robert Towne
Chinatown
1973
David S. Ward
The Sting
1972
Jeremy Larner
The Candidate
1971
Paddy Chayefsky
The Hospital
1970
Francis Ford Coppola
& Edmund H. North
Patton
1969
William Goldman
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1968
Mel Brooks
The Producers
1967
William Rose
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
1966
Claude Lelouch & Pierre Uytterhoeven
A Man and a Woman
1965
Frederic Raphael
Darling
1964
Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff
& S. H. Barnett
Father Goose
1963
James R. Webb
How the West was Won
1962
Ennio De Concini, Pietro Germi
& Alfredo Giannetti
Divorce Italian Style
1961
William Inge
Splendor in the Grass
1960
I. A. L. Diamond & Billy Wilder
The Apartment
1959
Stanley Shapiro & Maurice Richlin,
Clarence Greene & Russell Rouse
Pillow Talk
1958
Nedrick Young & Harold Jacob Smith
The Defiant Ones
1957
George Wells
Designing Woman
1956
Albert Lamorisse
The Red Balloon
1955
Sonya Levien & William Ludwig
Interrupted Melody
1954
Budd Schulberg
On the Waterfront
1953
Charles Brackett, Richard L. Breen
& Walter Reisch
Titanic
1952
T. E. B. Clarke
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951
Alan Jay Lerner
An American in Paris
1950
Charles Brackett,
D. M. Marshman Jr. & Billy Wilder
Sunset Boulevard
1949
Robert Pirosh
Battleground
1948
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N/A
1947
Sidney Sheldon
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1946
Muriel & Sydney Box
The Seventh Veil
1945
Richard Schweizer
Marie-Louise
1944
Lamar Trotti
Wilson
1943
Norman Krasna
Princess O'Rourke
1942
Ring Lardner Jr. & Michael Kanin
Woman of the Year
1941
Herman J. Mankiewicz & Orson Welles
Citizen Kane
1940
Preston Sturges
The Great McGinty
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