Academy Award for Best Story

36   8   7.7 

1928 - Ben Hecht

Nominees:
The Last Command - Lajos Biró
The Patent Leather Kid - Rupert Hughes

17   7.9   7.6 

1931 - John Monk Saunders

Nominees:
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

17   6.7   7.1 

1932 - Frances Marion

Nominees:
Lady and Gent - Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt
Star Witness - Lucien Hubbard
What Price Hollywood? - Adela St. John

AFIoscar's rating:

16   7.2   7.7 

1933 - Robert Lord

Nominees:
The Prizefighter and the Lady - Frances Marion
Rasputin and the Empress - Charles MacArthur

35   7.2   7 

1934 - Arthur Caesar

Nominees:
Hide Out - Mauri Grashin
The Richest Girl in the World - Norman Krasna

8   0   6.5 

1935 - Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur

Nominees:
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)

13   6.5   7.2 

1936 - Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney

Nominees:
Fury - Norman Krasna
The Great Ziegfeld - William McGuire
San Francisco - Robert Hopkins
Three Smart Girls - Adele Commandini

60   7.1   7.5 

1937 - Robert Carson, William Wellman

Nominees:
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

58   7   7.1 

1938 - Eleanore Griffin, Dore Schary

Nominees:
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

601   8   8.3 

1939 - Lewis Foster

Nominees:
Bachelor Mother - Felix Jackson
Love Affair - Mildred Cram, Leo McCarey
Ninotchka - Melchior Lengyel
Young Mr. Lincoln - Lamar Trotti

6   0   6.7 

1940 - Benjamin Glazer, John Toldy

Nominees:
Comrade X - Walter Reisch
Edison, the Man - Hugo Butler, Dore Schary
My Favorite Wife - Leo McCarey, Bella Spewack, Samuel Spewack
The Westerner - Stuart Lake

34   7.5   7.7 

1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan - Harry Segall

Nominees:
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

50   7.1   7.4 

1942 - Emeric Pressburger

Nominees:
Holiday Inn - Irving Berlin
The Pride of the Yankees - Paul Gallico
The Talk of the Town - Sidney Harmon
Yankee Doodle Dandy - Robert Buckner

AFIoscar's rating:

12   6.8   7 

1943 - William Saroyan

Nominees:
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

74   7.2   7.3 

1944 - Leo McCarey

Nominees:
A Guy Named Joe - David Boehm, Chandler Sprague
Lifeboat - John Steinbeck
None Shall Escape - Alfred Neumann, Joseph Than
The Sullivans - Edward Doherty, Jules Schermer

22   6.3   6.8 

1945 - Charles Booth

Nominees:
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

11   7.2   7 

1946 - Clemence Dane

Nominees:
The Dark Mirror - Vladimir Pozner
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers - Jack Patrick
The Stranger - Victor Trivas
To Each His Own - Charles Brackett

315   7.6   7.8 

1947 - Valentine Davies

Nominees:
A Cage of Nightingales - Georges Chaperot, René 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

31   7.7   7.8 

1948 - Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler

Nominees:
The Louisiana Story - Robert J. Flaherty, Frances H. Flaherty
The Naked City - Marvin Wald
Red River - Borden Chase
The Red Shoes - Emeric Pressburger

30   6.8   7 

1949 - Douglas Morrow

Nominees:
Come to the Stable - Clare Luce
It Happens Every Spring - Valentine Davies, Shirley Smith
Sands of Iwo Jima - Harry Brown
White Heat - Virginia Kellogg

50   7.5   7.3 

1950 - Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt

Nominees:
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

14   7.4   7.1 

1951 - James Bernard, Paul Dehn

Nominees:
The Bullfighter and the Lady - Budd Boetticher, Ray Nazarro
The Frogmen - Oscar Millard
Here Comes the Groom - Liam O'Brian, Robert Riskin
Teresa -Alfred Hayes, Stewart Stern

113   6.6   6.7 

1952 - Frank Cavett, Frederic Frank, Theodore St. John

Nominees:
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

986   8   8.1 

1953 - Dalton Trumbo

Nominees:
Above and Beyond - Beirne Lay
The Captain's Paradise - Alec Coppel
Hondo - Louis L'Amour Little Fugitive - Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin
Little Fugitive - Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin

25   6.9   6.9 

1954 - Philip Yordan

Nominees:
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 (posthumous nomination)

36   7.3   7.1 

1955 - Daniel Fuchs

Nominees:
The Private War of Major Benson - Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher
Rebel Without a Cause - Nicholas Ray
The Sheep Has Five Legs - Jean Marsan, Henri Troyat, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil, Raoul Ploquin
Strategic Air Command - Beirne Lay

7   6   6.8 

1956 - Robert Rich (aka Dalton Trumbo)

Nominees:
The Eddie Duchin Story - Leo Katcher
High Society - Edward Burnds, Elwood Ullman
The Proud and the Beautiful - Jean-Paul Sartre
Umberto D - Cesare Zavattini