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1920S

1928 '' Underworld '' - Ben Hecht

--- '' The Last Command '' - Lajos Biro

--- '' The Patent Leather Kid '' - Rupert Hughes

1929 ''None given''

1930S

1930 ''None given''

1931 '' The Dawn Patrol '' - John Saunders

--- '' Doorway To Hell '' - Rowland Brown

--- '' Laughter '' - Harry D'Arrast, Douglas Doty, Donald Stewart

--- '' The Public Enemy '' - John Bright, Kubec Glasmon

--- '' Smart Money '' - Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Jackson

1932 '' The Champ '' - Frances Marion

--- '' Lady And Gent '' - Grover Jones, William McNutt

--- '' Star Witness '' - Lucien Hubbard

--- '' What Price Hollywood '' - Adela St. John

1933 '' One Way Passage '' - Robert Lord

--- '' The Prizefighter And The Lady '' - Frances Marion

--- '' Rasputin And The Empress '' - Charles MacArthur

1934 '' Manhattan Melodrama '' - Arthur Caesar

--- '' Hide Out '' - Mauri Grashin

--- '' The Richest Girl In The World '' - Norman Krasna

1935 '' The Scoundrel '' - Ben Hecht , Charles MacArthur

---'' Broadway Melody Of 1936 '' - Moss Hart

---'' The Gay Deception '' - Stephen Avery, Don Hartman

--- Write in Candidate: '' G-Men '' - Gregory Rogers (pseudonym of Darryl F. Zanuck )

1936 '' The Story Of Louis Pasteur '' - Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney

--- '' Fury '' - Norman Krasna

--- '' The Great Ziegfeld '' - William McGuire

--- '' San Francisco '' - Robert Hopkins

--- '' Three Smart Girls '' - Adele Commandini

1937 '' A Star Is Born '' - Robert Carson, William Wellman

--- '' Black Legion '' - Robert Lord

--- '' In Old Chicago '' - Niven Busch

--- '' The Life Of Emile Zola '' - Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg

--- '' One Hundred Men And A Girl '' - Hans Kraly

1938 '' Boys Town '' - Eleanore Griffin , Dore Schary

--- '' Alexander's Ragtime Band '' - Irving Berlin

--- '' Angels With Dirty Faces '' - Rowland Brown

--- '' Blockade '' - John Howard Lawson

--- '' Mad About Music '' - Marcella Burke, Frederick Kohner

--- '' Test Pilot '' - Frank Wead

1939 '' Mr. Smith Goes To Washington '' - Lewis Foster

--- '' Bachelor Mother '' - Felix Jackson

--- '' Love Affair '' - Mildred Cram, Leo McCarey

--- '' Ninotchka '' - Melchior Lengyel

--- '' Young Mr. Lincoln '' - Lamar Trotti

1940S

1940 '' Arise, My Love '' - Benjamin Glazer, John Toldy

--- '' Comrade X '' - Walter Reisch

--- '' Edison, The Man '' - Hugo Butler, Dore Schary

--- '' My Favorite Wife '' - Leo McCarey , Bella Spewack, Samuel Spewack

--- '' The Westerner '' - Stuart Lake

1941 '' Here Comes Mr. Jordan '' - Harry Segall

--- '' Ball Of Fire '' - Thomas Monroe, Billy Wilder

--- '' The Lady Eve '' - Monckton Hoffe

--- '' Meet John Doe '' - Richard Connell, Robert Presnell

--- '' Night Train To Munich '' - Gordon Wellesley

1942 '' The Invaders (The 49th Parallel) '' - Emeric Pressburger

---'' Holiday Inn '' - Irving Berlin

---'' The Pride Of The Yankees '' - Paul Gallico

---'' The Talk Of The Town '' - Sidney Harmon

---'' Yankee Doodle Dandy '' - Robert Buckner

1943 '' The Human Comedy '' - William Saroyan

---'' Action In The North Atlantic '' - Guy Gilpatric

---'' Destination Tokyo '' - Steve Fisher

---'' The More The Merrier '' - Frank Ross, Robert Russell

---'' Shadow Of A Doubt '' - Gordon McDonell

1944 '' Going My Way '' - Leo McCarey

---'' A Guy Named Joe '' - David Boehm, Chandler Sprague

---'' Lifeboat '' - John Steinbeck

---'' None Shall Escape '' - Alfred Neumann, Joseph Than

---'' The Sullivans '' - Edward Doherty , Jules Schermer

1945 '' The House On 92nd St. '' - Charles Booth

---'' The Affairs Of Susan '' - Laszlo Gorog, Thomas Monroe

---'' A Medal For Benny '' - John Steinbeck , Jack Wagner

---'' Objective, Burma! '' - Alvah Bessie

---'' A Song To Remember '' - Ernst Marischka

1946 '' Vacation From Marriage '' - Clemence Dane

---'' The Dark Mirror '' - Vladimir Pozner

---'' The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers '' - Jack Patrick

---'' The Stranger '' - Victor Trivas

---'' To Each His Own '' - Charles Brackett

1947 '' Miracle On 34th Street '' - Valentine Davies

---'' A Cage Of Nightingales '' - Georges Chaperot, Rene Wheeler

---'' It Happened On Fifth Avenue '' - Herbert Lewis, Frederick Stephani

---'' Kiss Of Death '' - Eleazar Lipsky

---'' Smash Up - The Story Of A Woman '' - Frank Cavett, Dorothy Parker

1948 '' The Search '' - Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler

---'' The Louisiana Story '' - Robert Flaherty, Francis Flaherty

---'' The Naked City '' - Marvin Wald

---'' Red River '' - Borden Chase

---'' The Red Shoes '' - Emeric Pressburger

1949 '' Stratton Story '' - Douglas Morrow

---'' Come To The Stable '' - Clare Luce

---'' It Happens Every Spring '' - Valentine Davies, Shirley Smith

---'' Sands Of Iwo Jima '' - Harry Brown

---'' White Heat '' - Virginia Kellog

1950S

1950 '' Panic In The Streets '' - Edna Anhalt , Edward Anhalt

---'' Bitter Rice '' - Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani

---'' The Gunfighter '' - William Bowers, Andre de Toth

---'' Mystery Street '' - Leonard Spigelglass

---'' When Willie Comes Marching Home '' - Sy Gomberg

1951 '' Seven Days To Noon '' - James Bernard, Paul Dehn

---'' The Bullfighter And The Lady '' - Bud Boetticher, Ray Nazarro

---'' The Frogmen '' - Oscar Millard

---'' Here Comes The Groom '' - Liam O'Brian, Robert Riskin

---'' Teresa '' -Alfred Hayes, Stewart Stern

1952 '' The Greatest Show On Earth '' - Frank Cavett, Frederic Frank, Theodore St. John

---'' My Son John '' - Leo McCarey

---'' The Narrow Margin '' - Martin Goldsmith, Jack Leonard

---'' The Pride Of Saint Louis '' - Guy Trosper

---'' The Sniper '' - Edward Anhalt , Edna Anhalt

1953 '' Roman Holiday '' - Ian McLellan Hunter, Dalton Trumbo

---'' Above And Beyond '' - Beirne Lay

---'' The Captain's Paradise '' - Alec Coppel

---'' Hondo '' - Louis L'Amour

---'' Little Fugitive '' - Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin

1954 '' Broken Lance '' - Philip Yordan

---'' Bread, Love And Dreams '' - Ettore Margadonna

---'' Forbidden Games '' - François Boyer

---'' Night People '' - Jed Harris, Tom Reed

---'' There's No Business Like Show Business '' - Lamar Trotti

1955 '' Love Me Or Leave Me '' - Daniel Fuchs

---'' The Private War Of Major Benson '' - Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher

---'' Rebel Without A Cause '' - Nicholas Ray

---'' The Sheep Has Five Legs '' - Jean Marsan, Jacques Perret, Raoul Ploquin, Henry Troyat, Henri Verneuil

---'' Strategic Air Command '' - Beirne Lay

1956 '' The Brave One '' - Dalton Trumbo

---'' The Eddie Duchin Story '' - Leo Katcher

---'' High Society '' - Edward Burnds, Elwood Ullman

---'' The Proud And The Beautiful '' - Jean-Paul Sartre

---'' Umberto D '' - Cesare Zavattini