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1940S

1940 '' The Great McGinty '' - Preston Sturges

---'' Angels Over Broadway '' - Ben Hecht

---'' Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet '' - Norman Burnside , Heinz Herald , John Huston

---'' Foreign Correspondent '' - Charles Bennett , Joan Harrison

---'' The Great Dictator '' - Charlie Chaplin

1941 '' Citizen Kane '' - Herman Mankiewicz , Orson Welles

---'' The Devil And Miss Jones '' - Norman Krasna

---'' Sergeant York '' - Harry Chandlee , Abem Finkel , John Huston , Howard Koch

---'' Tall, Dark And Handsome '' - Karl Tunberg , Darrell Ware

---'' Tom, Dick And Harry '' - Paul Jarrico

1942 '' Woman Of The Year '' - Michael Kanin , Ring Lardner Jr

---'' One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing '' - Micheal Powell , Emeric Pressburger

---'' The Road To Morocco '' - Frank Butler , Don Hartman

---'' Wake Island '' - W. R. Burnett , Frank Butler

---'' The War Against Mrs. Hadley '' - George Oppenheimer

1943 '' Princess O'Rourke '' - Norman Krasna

---'' Air Force '' - Dudley Nichols

---'' In Which We Serve '' - Noel Coward

---'' The North Star '' - Lillian Hellman

---'' So Proudly We Hail '' - Alan Scott

1944 '' Wilson '' - Lamar Trotti

---'' Hail The Conquering Hero '' - Preston Surges

---'' The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek '' - Preston Surges

---'' Two Girls And A Sailor '' - Richard Connell , Glays Lehman

---'' Wing And A Prayer '' - Jerome Cady

1945 '' Marie-Louise '' - Richard Schweizer

---'' Dillinger '' - Philp Yordon

---'' Music For Millions '' - Myles Connolly

---'' Salty O'Rourke '' - Milton Holmes

---'' What Next, Corporal Hargrove? '' - Harry Kurnitz

1946 '' The Seventh Veil '' - Muriel Box , Sydney Box

---'' The Blue Dahlia '' - Raymond Chandler

---'' Children Of Paradise '' - Jacques Prévert

---'' Notorius '' - Ben Hecht

---'' The Road To Utopia '' - Norman Panama , Melvin Frank

1947 '' The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer '' - Sidney Sheldon

---'' Body And Soul '' - Abraham Polonsky

---'' A Double Life '' - Ruth Gordon , Garson Kanin

---'' Monsieur Verdoux '' - Charlie Chaplin

---'' Shoeshine '' - Sergio Amidei , Adolfo Franci , C. G. Viola , Cesare Zavattini

1948 ''none given''

1949 '' Battleground '' - Robert Pirosh

---'' Jolson Sings Again '' - Sidney Buchman

---'' Paisà '' - Alfred Hayes , Federico Fellini , Sergio Amidei , Marcello Pagliero , Roberto Rossellini

---'' Passport To Pimlico '' - T. E. B. Clarke

---'' The Quiet One '' - Helen Levitt , Janice Loeb , Sidney Meyers

1950S

1950 '' Sunset Boulevard '' - Charles Brackett , D.M. Marshman , Billy Wilder

---'' Adam's Rib '' - Ruth Gordon , Garson Kanin

---'' Caged '' - Virginia Kellogg , Bernard C. Schoenfeld

---'' The Men '' - Carl Foreman

---'' No Way Out '' - Joseph L. Mankiewicz , Lesser Samuels

1951 '' An American In Paris '' - Alan Jay Lerner

---'' The Big Carnival '' - Billy Wilder , Lesser Samuels , Walter Newman

---'' David And Bathsheba '' - Philip Dunne

---'' Go For Broke! '' - Robert Pirosh

---'' The Well '' - Clarence Greene , Russell Rouse

1952 '' The Lavender Hill Mob '' - T.E.B. Clarke

---'' The Atomic City '' - Sydney Boehm

---'' Breaking The Sound Barrier '' - Terence Rattigan

---'' Pat And Mike '' - Ruth Gordon , Garson Kanin

---'' Viva Zapata! '' - John Steinbeck

1953 '' Titanic '' - Charles Brackett , Richard Breen , Walter Reisch

---'' The Band Wagon '' - Betty Comden , Adolph Green

---'' The Desert Rats '' - Richard Murphy

---'' The Naked Spur '' - Sam Rolfe , Harold Jack Bloom

---'' Take The High Ground '' - Millard Kaufman

1954 '' On The Waterfront '' - Budd Schulberg

---'' The Barefoot Contessa '' - Joseph L. Mankiewicz

---'' Genevieve '' - William Rose

---'' The Glenn Miller Story '' - Valentine Davies , Oscar Brodney

---'' Knock On Wood '' - Norman Panama , Melvin Frank

1955 '' Interrupted Melody '' - Sonya Levien , William Ludwig

---'' The Court-Martial Of Billy Mitchell '' - Milton Sperling , Emmet Lavery

---'' It's Always Fair Weather '' - Betty Comden , Adolph Green

---'' Mr. Hulot's Holiday '' - Jacques Tati , Henri Marquet

---'' The Seven Little Foys '' - Melville Shavelson , Jack Rose

1956 '' The Red Balloon '' - Albert Lamorisse

---'' The Bold And The Brave '' - Robert Lewin

---'' Julie '' - Andrew L. Stone

---'' La Strada '' - Federico Fellini , Tullio Pinelli

---'' The Lady Killers '' - William Rose

1957 '' Designing Women '' - George Wells

---'' Funny Face '' - Leonard Gershe

---'' Man Of A Thousand Faces '' - Ralph Wheelwright , R. Wright Campbell , Ivan Goff , Ben Roberts

---'' The Tin Star '' - Barney Slater , Joel Kane , Dudley Nichols

---'' Vitelloni '' - Frederico Fellini , Ennio Flaiano , Tullio Pinelli

1958 '' The Defiant Ones '' - Nathan Douglas , Harold Jacob Smith

---'' The Goddess '' - Paddy Chayefsky

---'' The Houseboat '' - Melville Shavelson , Jack Rose

---'' The Sheepman '' - James Edward Grant , William Bowers

---'' Teacher's Pet '' - Fay Kanin , Michael Kanin

1959 '' Pillow Talk '' - Clarence Greene , Maurice Richlin , Russell Rouse , Stanley Shapiro

---'' The 400 Blows '' - François Truffaut , Marcel Moussy

---'' North By Northwest '' - Ernest Lehman

---'' Operation Petticoat '' - Paul King , Joseph Stone , Stanely Shapiro , Maurice Richlin

---'' Wild Strawberries '' - Ingmar Bergman

1960S

1960 '' The Apartment '' - I.A.L. Diamond , Billy Wilder

---'' The Angry Silence '' - Richard Gregson , Michael Craig , Bryan Forbes

---'' The Facts Of Life '' - Norman Panama , Melvin Frank

---'' Hiroshima Mon Amour '' - Marguerite Duras

---'' Never On Sunday '' - Jules Dassin

1961 '' Splendor In The Grass '' - William Inge

---'' Ballad Of A Soldier '' - Valentin Yoshov , Grigori Chukhrai

---'' La Dolce Vita '' - Federico Fellini , Tullio Pinelli , Ennio Flaiano , Brunello Rondi

---'' General Della Rovere '' - Sergio Amidei , Diego Fabbi , Indro Montanelli

---'' Lover Come Back '' - Stanley Shapiro , Paul Henning

1962 '' Divorce, Italian Style '' - Ennio De Concini , Pietro Germi , Alfredo Giannetti

---'' Freud '' - Charles Kaufman, Wolfgang Reinhardt

---'' Last Year At Marienbad '' - Alain Robbe-Grillet

---'' That Touch Of Mink '' - Stanley Shapiro , Nate Monaster

---'' Through A Glass Darkly '' - Ingmar Bergman

1963 '' How The West Was Won '' - James Webb

---'' 8½ '' - Federico Fellini , Ennio Flaiano , Tullio Pinelli , Brunello Rondi

---'' America, America '' - Elia Kazan

---'' The Four Days Of Naples '' - Carlo Bernari , Pasquale Festa Campanile , Massimo Franciosa , Nanni Loy , Vasco Pratolini

---'' Love With The Proper Stranger '' - Arnold Schulman

1964 '' Father Goose '' - Peter Stone , Frank Tarloff

---'' A Hard Day's Night '' - Alun Owen

---'' One Potato, Two Potato '' - Raphael Hayes , Orville H. Hampton

---'' The Organizer '' - Age Monicelli , Scarpelli Monicelli , Mario Monicelli

---'' That Man From Rio '' - Jean-Paul Rappeneau , Ariane Mnouchkine , Daniel Boulanger , Philippe De Broca

1965 '' Darling '' - Frederic Raphael

---'' Casanova '70 '' - Age Monicelli , Scarpelli Monicelli , Mario Monicelli , Tonino Guerra , Giorgio Salvioni , Suso Cecchi D'Amico

---'' Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines '' - Jack Davies , Ken Annakin

---'' The Train '' - Franklin Coen , Frank Davis

---'' The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg '' - Jacques Demy

1966 '' A Man And A Woman '' - Claude Lelouch , Pierre Uytterhoeven

---'' Blowup '' - Michelangelo Antonioni , Tonino Guerra , Edward Bond

---'' The Fortune Cookie '' - Billy Wilder , I.A.L. Diamond

---'' Khartoum '' - Robert Ardrey

---'' The Naked Prey '' - Clinkt Johnston , Don Peters

1967 '' Guess Who's Coming To Dinner '' - William Rose

---'' Bonnie And Clyde '' - David Newman , Robert Benton

---'' Divorce, American Style '' - Robert Kaufman , Norman Lear

---'' La Guerre Est Finie '' - Jorge Semprún

---'' Two For The Road '' - Frederic Raphael

1968 '' The Producers '' - Mel Brooks

---'''' - Stanley Kubrick , Arthur C. Clarke

---'' The Battle Of Algiers '' - Franco Solinas , Gillo Pontecorvo

---'' Faces '' - John Cassavetes

---'' Hot Millions '' - Iro Wallach , Peter Ustinov

1969 '' Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid '' - William Goldman

---'' Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice '' - Paul Mazursky , Larry Tucker

---'' The Damned '' - Nicola Badalucco , Enrico Medioli , Luchino Visconti

---'' Easy Rider '' - Peter Fonda , Dennis Hopper , Terry Southern

---'' The Wild Bunch '' - Walon Green , Roy N. Sickner , Sam Peckinpah

1970S

1970 '' Patton '' - Francis Ford Coppola , Edmund North

---'' Five Easy Pieces '' - Adrien Joyce , Bob Rafelson

---'' Joe '' - Norman Wexler

---'' Love Story '' - Enrich Segal

---'' My Night At Maud's '' - Éric Rohmer

1971 '' The Hospital '' - Paddy Chayefsky

---'' Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion - Elio Petri , Ugo Pirro

---'' Klute '' - Andy And Dave Lewis

---'' Summer Of '42 '' - Herman Raucher

---'' Sunday Bloody Sunday '' - Penelope Gilliatt

1972 '' The Candidate '' - Jeremy Larner

---'' The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie '' - Luis Buñuel , Jean-Claude Carrière

---'' Lady Sings The Blues '' - Terrence McCloy , Chris Clark , Suzanne De Passe

---'' Murmur Of The Heart '' - Louis Malle

---'' Young Winston '' - Carl Foreman

1973 '' The Sting '' - David Ward

---'' American Graffiti '' - George Lucas , Gloria Katz , Willard Huyck

---'' Cries And Whispers '' - Ingmar Bergman

---'' Save The Tiger '' - Steve Shagan

---'' A Touch Of Class '' - Melvin Frank , Jack Rose

1974 '' Chinatown '' - Robert Towne

---'' Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore '' - Robert Getchell

---'' The Conversation '' - Francis Ford Coppola

---'' Day For Night '' - François Truffaut , Jean-Louis Richard , Suzanne Schiffman

---'' Harry And Tonto '' - Paul Mazursky , Josh Greenfeld

1975 '' Dog Day Afternoon '' - Frank Pierson

---'' Amarcord '' - Federico Fellini , Tonino Guerra

---'' And Now My Love '' - Claude LeLouch , Pierre Uytterhoeven

---'' Lies My Father Told Me '' - Ted Allan

---'' Shampoo '' - Robert Towne , Warren Beatty

1976 '' Network '' - Paddy Chayefsky

---'' Cousin, Cousine '' - Jean-Charles Tacchella , Daniele Thompson

---'' The Front '' - Walter Bernstein

---'' Rocky '' - Sylvester Stallone

---'' Seven Beauties '' - Lina Wertmüller

1977 '' Annie Hall '' - Woody Allen , Marshall Brickman

---'' The Goodbye Girl '' - Neil Simon

---'' The Late Show '' - Robert Benton

---'''' - George Lucas

---'' The Turning Point '' - Arthur Laurents

1978 '' Coming Home '' - Robert Jones , Waldo Salt

---'' Autumn Sonata '' - Ingmar Bergman

---'' The Deer Hunter '' - Michael Cimino , Deric Washburn , Louis Garfinkle , Quinn K. Redeker

---'' Interiors '' - Woody Allen

---'' An Unmarried Woman '' - Paul Mazursky

1979 '' Breaking Away '' - Steve Tesich

---'' All That Jazz '' - Robert Alan Aurthur , Bob Fosse

---'' ...And Justice For All '' - Valerie Curtin , Barry Levinson

---'' The China Syndrome '' - Mike Gray , T.S. Cook , James Bridges

---'' Manhattan '' - Woody Allen , Marshall Brickman

1980S

1980 '' Melvin And Howard '' - Bo Goldman

---'' Brubaker '' - W. D. Richter , Arthur Ross

---'' Fame '' - Christopher Gore

---'' Mon Oncle D'Amérique '' - Jean Gruault , Henri Laborit

---'' Private Benjamin '' - Nancy Meyers , Charles Shyer , Harvey Miller

1981 '' Chariots Of Fire '' - Colin Welland

---'' Absence Of Malice '' - Kurt Luedtke

---'' Arthur '' - Steve Gordon

---'' Atlantic City '' - John Guare

---'' Reds '' - Warren Beatty , Trevor Griffiths

1982 '' Gandhi '' - John Briley

---'' Diner '' - Barry Levinson

---'' E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial '' - Melissa Mathison

---'' An Officer And A Gentleman '' - Douglas Day Stewart

---'' Tootsie '' - Larry Gelbart , Murray Schisgal , Don McGuire

1983 '' Tender Mercies '' - Horton Foote

---'' The Big Chill '' - Lawrence Kasdan , Barbara Benedek

---'' Fanny And Alexander '' - Ingmar Bergman

---'' Silkwood '' - Nora Ephron , Alice Arlen

---'' WarGames '' - Lawrence Lasker , Walter F. Parkes

1984 '' Places In The Heart '' - Robert Benton

---'' Beverly Hills Cop '' - Daniel Petrie, Jr. , Danilo Bach

---'' Broadway Danny Rose '' - Woody Allen

---'' El Norte '' - Gregory Nava , Anna Thomas

---'' Splash '' - Lowell Ganz , Babaloo Mandel , Bruce Jay Friedman , Brian Grazer

1985 '' Witness '' - William Kelley , Pamela Wallace , Earl Wallace

---'' Back To The Future '' - Robert Zemeckis , Bob Gale

---'' Brazil '' - Terry Gilliam , Tom Stoppard , Charles McKeown

---'' The Official Story '' - Luis Puenzo , Aida Bortnik

---'' The Purple Rose Of Cairo '' - Woody Allen

1986 '' Hannah And Her Sisters '' - Woody Allen

---'' Crocodile Dundee '' - Paul Hogan , Ken Shadie , John Cornell

---'' My Beautiful Laundrette '' - Hanif Kureishi

---'' Platoon '' - Oliver Stone

---'' Salvador '' - Oliver Stone , Richard Boyle

1987 '' Moonstruck '' - John Patrick Shanley

---'' Au Revoir, Les Enfants '' - Louis Malle

---'' Broadcast News '' - James L. Brooks

---'' Hope And Glory '' - John Boorman

---'' Radio Days '' - Woody Allen

1988 '' Rain Man '' - Ronald Bass , Barry Morrow

---'' Big '' - Gary Ross , Anne Spielberg

---'' Bull Durham '' - Ron Shelton

---'' A Fish Called Wanda '' - John Cleese , Charles Crichton

---'' Running On Empty '' - Naomi Foner

1989 '' Dead Poets Society '' - Tom Schulman

---'' Crimes And Misdemeanors '' - Woody Allen

---'' Do The Right Thing '' - Spike Lee

---'' Sex, Lies, And Videotape '' - Steven Soderbergh

---'' When Harry Met Sally... '' - Nora Ephron

1990S

1990 '' Ghost '' - Bruce Rubin

---'' Alice '' - Woody Allen

---'' Avalon '' - Barry Levinson

---'' Green Card '' - Peter Weir

---'' Metropolitan '' - Whit Stillman

1991 '' Thelma And Louise '' - Callie Khouri

---'' Boyz N The Hood '' - John Singleton

---'' Bugsy '' - James Toback

---'' The Fisher King '' - Richard LaGravenese

---'' Grand Canyon '' - Lawrence Kasdan , Meg Kasdan

1992 '' The Crying Game '' - Neil Jordan

---'' Husbands And Wives '' - Woody Allen

---'' Lorenzo's Oil '' - George Miller , Nick Enright

---'' Passion Fish '' - John Sayles

---'' Unforgiven '' - David Peoples

1993 '' The Piano '' - Jane Campion

---'' Dave - Gary Ross

---'' In The Line Of Fire '' - Jeff Maguire

---'' Philadelphia '' - Ron Nyswaner

---'' Sleepless In Seattle '' - Nora Ephron , David S. Ward , Jeff Arch

1994 '' Pulp Fiction '' - Roger Avary , Quentin Tarantino

---'' Bullets Over Broadway '' - Woody Allen , Douglas McGrath

---'' Four Weddings And A Funeral '' - Richard Curtis

---'' Heavenly Creatures '' - Fran Walsh , Peter Jackson

---'' - Krzysztof Piesiewicz , Krzysztof Kieślowski

1995 '' The Usual Suspects '' - Christopher McQuarrie

---'' Braveheart '' - Randall Wallace

---'' Mighty Aphrodite '' - Woody Allen

---'' Nixon '' - Stephen J. Rivele , Christopher Wilkinson , Oliver Stone

---'' Toy Story '' - Joss Whedon , Andrew Stanton , Joel Cohen , Alec Sokolow , John Lasseter , Peter Docter , Joe Ranft

1996 '' Fargo '' - Ethan Coen , Joel Coen

---'' Jerry Maguire '' - Cameron Crowe

---'' Lone Star '' - John Sayles

---'' Secrets & Lies '' - Mike Leigh

---'' Shine '' - Jan Sardi , Scott Hicks

1997 '' Good Will Hunting '' - Ben Affleck , Matt Damon

---'' As Good As It Gets '' - Mark Andrus , James L. Brooks

---'' Boogie Nights '' - Paul Thomas Anderson

---'' Deconstructing Harry '' - Woody Allen

---'' The Full Monty '' - Simon Beaufoy

1998 '' Shakespeare In Love '' - Marc Norman , Tom Stoppard

---'' Bulworth '' - Warren Beatty , Jeremy Pikser

---'' Life Is Beautiful '' - Vincenzo Cerami , Roberto Benigni

---'' Saving Private Ryan '' - Robert Rodat

---'' The Truman Show '' - Andrew Niccol

1999 '' American Beauty '' - Alan Ball

---'' Being John Malkovich '' - Charlie Kaufman

---'' Magnolia '' - Paul Thomas Anderson

---'' The Sixth Sense '' - M. Night Shyamalan

---'' Topsy-Turvy '' - Mike Leigh

2000S

2000 - ''' Almost Famous ''' - ''' Cameron Crowe '''

---'' Billy Elliot '' - Lee Hall

---'' Erin Brockovich '' - Susannah Grant

---'' Gladiator '' - David Franzoni , John Logan , William Nicholson

---'' You Can Count On Me '' - Kenneth Lonergan

2001 - ''' Gosford Park ''' - ''' Julian Fellowes '''

---'' Amélie '' - Guillaume Laurant , Jean-Pierre Jeunet

---'' Memento '' - Christopher Nolan , Jonathan Nolan

---'' Monster's Ball '' - Milo Addica , Will Rokos

---'' The Royal Tenenbaums '' - Wes Anderson , Owen Wilson

2002 - ''' Hable Con Ella ''' ('''Talk to Her''') - ''' Pedro Almodóvar '''

---'' Far From Heaven '' - Todd Haynes

---'' Gangs Of New York '' - Jay Cocks , Steven Zaillian , Kenneth Lonergan

---'' My Big Fat Greek Wedding '' - Nia Vardalos

---'' Y Tu Mamá También '' - Carlos Cuarón , Alfonso Cuarón

2003 - ''' Lost In Translation ''' - ''' Sofia Coppola '''

---'' The Barbarian Invasions '' - Denys Arcand

---'' Dirty Pretty Things '' - Steven Knight

---'' Finding Nemo '' - Andrew Stanton , Bob Peterson , David Reynolds

---'' In America '' - Jim Sheridan , Naomi Sheridan , Kirsten Sheridan

2004 - ''' Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind ''' - ''' Charlie Kaufman ''', ''' Michel Gondry ''', ''' Pierre Bismuth '''

---'' The Aviator '' - John Logan

---'' Hotel Rwanda '' - Keir Pearson , Terry George

---'' The Incredibles '' - Brad Bird

---'' Vera Drake '' - Mike Leigh

2005 - ''' Crash ''' - ''' Paul Haggis ''', ''' Robert Moresco '''

---'' Syriana '' - Stephen Gaghan

---'' Good Night, And Good Luck. '' - George Clooney , Grant Heslov

---'' Match Point '' - Woody Allen

---'' The Squid And The Whale '' - Noah Baumbach

SEE ALSO

Academy Awards

List Of Academy Awards Ceremonies

Academy Award For Writing Adapted Screenplay

Academy Award For Best Story