Oscar Best Original Screenplay Quiz

How many movies can you name that have won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay?

Year = year of the ceremony honoring the previous year's films

To make it easier, we give you the name of one of the writers and one of the actors who starred in it.

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Year	Writer	Star	Best Original Screenplay
2024	Justine Triet	Sandra Hüller	Anatomy of a Fall
2023	Daniels	Michelle Yeoh	Everything Everywhere All At Once
2022	Kenneth Branagh	Judi Dench	Belfast
2021	Emeral Fennell	Carey Mulligan	Promising Young Woman
2020	Bong Joon-ho	Song Kang-ho	Parasite
2019	Nick Vallelonga	Viggo Mortensen	Green Book
2018	Jordan Peele	Daniel Kaluuya	Get Out
2017	Kenneth Lonergan	Casey Affleck	Manchester by the Sea
2016	Tom McCarthy	Mark Ruffalo	Spotlight
2015	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	Michael Keaton	Birdman
2014	Spike Jonze	Joaquin Phoenix	Her
2013	Quentin Tarantino	Jamie Foxx	Django Unchained
2012	Woody Allen	Owen Wilson	Midnight in Paris
2011	David Seidler	Colin Firth	The King's Speech
2010	Mark Boal	Jeremy Renner	The Hurt Locker
2009	Dustin Lance Black	Sean Penn	Milk
2008	Diablo Cody	Ellen Page	Juno
2007	Michael Arndt	Steve Carell	Little Miss Sunshine
2006	Paul Haggis	Sandra Bullock	Crash
2005	Charlie Kaufman	Jim Carrey	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004	Sofia Coppola	Bill Murray	Lost in Translation
2003	Pedro Almodóvar	Leonor Watling	Talk to Her
2002	Julian Fellowes	Maggie Smith	Gosford Park
2001	Cameron Crowe	Kate Hudson	Almost Famous
2000	Alan Ball	Kevin Spacey	American Beauty
1999	Marc Norman	Gwyneth Paltrow	Shakespeare in Love
1998	Ben Affleck	Matt Damon	Good Will Hunting
1997	Ethan Coen	Frances McDormand	Fargo
1996	Christopher McQuarrie	Kevin Spacey	The Usual Suspects
1995	Quentin Tarantino	John Travolta	Pulp Fiction
1994	Jane Campion	Anna Paquin	The Piano
1993	Neil Jordan	Jaye Davidson	The Crying Game
1992	Callie Khouri	Susan Sarandon	Thelma and Louise
1991	Bruce Joel Rubin	Whoopi Goldberg	Ghost
1990	Tom Schulman	Robin Williams	Dead Poets Society
1989	Barry Morrow	Dustin Hoffman	Rain Man
1988	John Patrick Shanley	Cher	Moonstruck
1987	Woody Allen	Michael Caine	Hannah and Her Sisters
1986	William Kelley	Harrison Ford	Witness
1985	Robert Benton	Sally Field	Places in the Heart
1984	Horton Foote	Robert Duvall	Tender Mercies
1983	John Briley	Ben Kingsley	Gandhi
1982	Colin Welland	Ben Cross	Chariots of Fire
1981	Bo Goldman	Mary Steenburgen	Melvin and Howard
1980	Steve Tesich	Jackie Earle Haley	Breaking Away
1979	Robert C. Jones	Jon Voight	Coming Home
1978	Woody Allen	Diane Keaton	Annie Hall
1977	Paddy Chayefsky	Peter Finch	Network
1976	Frank Pierson	Al Pacino	Dog Day Afternoon
1975	Robert Towne	Jack Nicholson	Chinatown
1974	David S. Ward	Paul Newman	The Sting
1973	Jeremy Larner	Robert Redford	The Candidate
1972	Paddy Chayefsky	Jordan Charney	The Hospital
1971	Francis Ford Coppola	George C. Scott	Patton
1970	William Goldman	Paul Newman	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969	Mel Brooks	Mel Brooks	The Producers
1968	William Rose	Sidney Poitier	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967	Claude Lelouch	Anouk Aimée	A Man and a Woman
1966	Frederic Raphael	Julie Christie	Darling
1965	Peter Stone	Cary Grant	Father Goose
1964	James R. Webb	James Arness	How the West Was Won
1963	Ennio de Concini	Marcello Mastroianni	Divorce Italian Style
1962	William Inge	Warren Beatty	Splendor in the Grass
1961	Billy Wilder	Jack Lemmon	The Apartment
1960	Stanley Shapiro	Doris Day	Pillow Talk
1959	Nedrick Young	Sidney Poitier	The Defiant Ones
1958	George Wells	Delta Burke	Designing Woman
1957	Albert Lamorisse	Pascal Lamorisse	The Red Balloon
1956	Sonya Levien	Eleanor Parker	Interrupted Melody
1955	Budd Schulberg	Marlon Brando	On the Waterfront
1954	Charles Brackett	Barbara Stanwyck	Titanic
1953	T. E. B. Clarke	Alec Guinness	The Lavender Hill Mob
1952	Alan Jay Lerner	Gene Kelly	An American in Paris
1951	Charles Brackett	Gloria Swanson	Sunset Boulevard
1950	Robert Pirosh	Van Johnson	Battleground
1949	(no awards were given)
1948	Sidney Sheldon	Shirley Temple	The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1947	Sydney Box	James Mason	The Seventh Veil
1946	Richard Schweizer	Heinrich Gretler	Marie-Louise
1945	Lamar Trotti	Alexander Knox	Wilson
1944	Norman Krasna	Olivia de Havilland	Princess O'Rourke
1943	Ring Lardner Jr.	Katharine Hepburn	Woman of the Year
1942	Herman J. Mankiewicz	Orson Wellen	Citizen Kane
1941	Preston Sturges	Brain Donlevy	The Great McGinty

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