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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Hint	Best Original Screenplay Winner
2024	Anora
2023	Anatomy of a Fall
2022	Everything Everywhere All at Once
2021	Belfast
2020	Promising Young Woman
2019	Parasite
2018	Green Book
2017	Get Out
2016	Manchester by the Sea
2015	Spotlight
2014	Birdman
2013	Her
2012	Django Unchained
2011	Midnight in Paris
2010	The King's Speech
2009	The Hurt Locker
2008	Milk
2007	Juno
2006	Little Miss Sunshine
2005	Crash
2004	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2003	Lost in Translation
2002	Talk to Her
2001	Gosford Park
2000	Almost Famous
1999	American Beauty
1998	Shakespeare in Love
1997	Good Will Hunting
1996	Fargo
1995	The Usual Suspects
1994	Pulp Fiction
1993	The Piano
1992	The Crying Game
1991	Thelma and Louise
1990	Ghost
1989	Dead Poets Society
1988	Rain Man
1987	Moonstruck
1986	Hannah and Her Sisters
1985	Witness
1984	Places in the Heart
1983	Tender Mercies

Hint	Best Original Screenplay Winner
1982	Gandhi
1981	Chariots of Fire
1980	Melvin and Howard
1979	Breaking Away
1978	Coming Home
1977	Annie Hall
1976	Network
1975	Dog Day Afternoon
1974	Chinatown
1973	The Sting
1972	The Candidate
1971	The Hospital
1970	Patton
1969	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1968	The Producers
1967	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
1966	A Man and a Woman
1965	Darling
1964	Father Goose
1963	How the West was Won
1962	Divorce Italian Style
1961	Splendor in the Grass
1960	The Apartment
1959	Pillow Talk
1958	The Defiant Ones
1957	Designing Woman
1956	The Red Balloon
1955	Interrupted Melody
1954	On the Waterfront
1953	Titanic
1952	The Lavender Hill Mob
1951	An American in Paris
1950	Sunset Boulevard
1949	Battleground
1947	The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1946	The Seventh Veil
1945	Marie-Louise
1944	Wilson
1943	Princess O'Rourke
1942	Woman of the Year
1941	Citizen Kane
1940	The Great McGinty

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