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ACADEMY AWARD FOR ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

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1. The Great McGinty (1940)
1940 - Preston Sturges

Nominees:
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

People who added this item 731  Average listal rating (427 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 8.6 
2. Citizen Kane (1941)
1941 - Herman Mankiewicz, Orson Welles

Nominees:
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
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People who added this item 25  Average listal rating (13 ratings) 6.8  IMDB Rating 7.4 
3. Woman of the Year (1942)
1942 - Michael Kanin, Ring Lardner Jr

Nominees:
One of Our Aircraft is Missing - Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Road to Morocco - Frank Butler, Don Hartman
Wake Island - W. R. Burnett, Frank Butler
The War Against Mrs. Hadley - George Oppenheimer

People who added this item 2  Average listal rating (0 ratings) 0  IMDB Rating 6.6 
4. Princess O'Rourke (1943)
1943 - Norman Krasna

Nominees:
Air Force - Dudley Nichols
In Which We Serve - Noel Coward
The North Star - Lillian Hellman
So Proudly We Hail! - Allan Scott

People who added this item 5  Average listal rating (1 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating 7.2 
5. Wilson (1944)
1944 - Lamar Trotti

Nominees:
Hail the Conquering Hero - Preston Sturges
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek - Preston Sturges
Two Girls and a Sailor - Richard Connell, Gladys Lehman
Wing and a Prayer - Jerome Cady

People who added this item 1  Average listal rating (0 ratings) 0  IMDB Rating 8.4 
6. Marie-Louise (1944)
1945 - Richard Schweizer

Nominees:
Dillinger - Philip Yordan
Music for Millions - Myles Connolly
Salty O'Rourke - Milton Holmes
What Next, Corporal Hargrove? - Harry Kurnitz

People who added this item 5  Average listal rating (3 ratings) 7.3  IMDB Rating 7.1 
7. The Seventh Veil (1945)
1946 - Muriel Box, Sydney Box

Nominees:
The Blue Dahlia - Raymond Chandler
Children of Paradise - Jacques Prévert*
Notorious - Ben Hecht
Road to Utopia - Norman Panama, Melvin Frank

People who added this item 27  Average listal rating (18 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating 7.2 
8. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
1947 - Sidney Sheldon

Nominees:
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

People who added this item 17  Average listal rating (8 ratings) 7.1  IMDB Rating 7.6 
9. Battleground (1949)
1949 - Robert Pirosh

Nominees:
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
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People who added this item 324  Average listal rating (204 ratings) 8.5  IMDB Rating 8.7 
10. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
1950 - Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman, Jr., Billy Wilder

Nominees:
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

People who added this item 122  Average listal rating (68 ratings) 7.1  IMDB Rating 7.3 
11. An American in Paris (1951)
1951 - Alan Jay Lerner

Nominees:
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

People who added this item 42  Average listal rating (29 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 7.9 
12. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
1952 - T.E.B. Clarke

Nominees:
The Atomic City - Sydney Boehm
The Sound Barrier - Terence Rattigan
Pat and Mike - Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
Viva Zapata! - John Steinbeck

People who added this item 16  Average listal rating (5 ratings) 4.4  IMDB Rating 7.2 
13. Titanic (1953)
1953 - Charles Brackett, Richard Breen, Walter Reisch

Nominees:
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

People who added this item 229  Average listal rating (142 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 8.4 
14. On the Waterfront (1954)
1954 - Budd Schulberg

Nominees:
The Barefoot Contessa - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Genevieve - William Rose
The Glenn Miller Story - Valentine Davies, Oscar Brodney
Knock on Wood - Norman Panama, Melvin Frank

People who added this item 3  Average listal rating (1 ratings) 3  IMDB Rating 6.9 
15. Interrupted Melody (1955)
1955 - Sonya Levien, William Ludwig

Nominees:
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

People who added this item 34  Average listal rating (20 ratings) 8.2  IMDB Rating 8.1 
16. The Red Balloon (1956)
1956 - Albert Lamorisse

Nominees:
The Bold and the Brave - Robert Lewin
Julie - Andrew L. Stone
La strada - Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli
The Ladykillers - William Rose

People who added this item 5  Average listal rating (3 ratings) 7  IMDB Rating 6.8 
17. Designing Woman (1957)
1957 - George Wells

Nominees:
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
I Vitelloni - Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli

People who added this item 20  Average listal rating (10 ratings) 6.8  IMDB Rating 7.7 
18. The Defiant Ones (1958)
1958 - Nathan E. Douglas, Harold Jacob Smith

Nominees:
The Goddess - Paddy Chayefsky
Houseboat - Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose
The Sheepman - James Edward Grant, William Bowers
Teacher's Pet - Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin

People who added this item 49  Average listal rating (33 ratings) 7.2  IMDB Rating 7.4 
19. Pillow Talk (1959)
1959 - Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, Stanley Shapiro

Nominees:
The 400 Blows - François Truffaut, Marcel Moussy
North by Northwest - Ernest Lehman
Operation Petticoat - Paul King, Joseph Stone, Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin
Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman

People who added this item 261  Average listal rating (162 ratings) 8.3  IMDB Rating 8.4 
20. The Apartment (1960)
1960 - I.A.L. Diamond, Billy Wilder

Nominees:
The Angry Silence - Screenplay by Bryan Forbes; Story by Richard Gregson, Michael Craig
The Facts of Life - Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Hiroshima Mon Amour - Marguerite Duras
Never on Sunday - Jules Dassin

People who added this item 47  Average listal rating (24 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 7.5 
21. Splendor in the Grass (1961)
1961 - William Inge

Nominees:
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

People who added this item 27  Average listal rating (18 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 8.3 
22. Divorce - Italian Style (1961)
1962 - Ennio de Concini, Pietro Germi, Alfredo Giannetti

Nominees:
Freud - Story by Charles Kaufman, Screenplay by Charles Kaufman and Wolfgang Reinhardt
Last Year at Marienbad - Alain Robbe-Grillet
That Touch of Mink - Stanley Shapiro, Nate Monaster
Through a Glass Darkly - Ingmar Bergman

People who added this item 46  Average listal rating (29 ratings) 6.3  IMDB Rating
23. How the West Was Won (1962)
1963 - James Webb

Nominees:
8½ - Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi
America, America - Elia Kazan
The Four Days of Naples - Story by Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy, Vasco Pratolini; Screenplay by Carlo Bernari, Massimo Franciosa, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Nanni Loy
Love with the Proper Stranger - Arnold Schulman

People who added this item 23  Average listal rating (18 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 7.3 
24. Father Goose (1964)
1964 - Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff

Nominees:
A Hard Day's Night - Alun Owen
One Potato, Two Potato - Screenplay by Raphael Hayes; Story by Orville H. Hampton
The Organizer - Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli
That Man from Rio - Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Ariane Mnouchkine, Daniel Boulanger, Philippe de Broca

People who added this item 14  Average listal rating (5 ratings) 6.6  IMDB Rating 7.2 
25. Darling (1965)
1965 - Frederic Raphael

Nominees:
Casanova 70 - Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, 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

People who added this item 26  Average listal rating (11 ratings) 6.4  IMDB Rating 7.6 
26. A Man and a Woman (1966)
1966 - Story by Claude Lelouch; Screenplay by Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven

Nominees:
Blowup - Story by Michelangelo Antonioni; Screenplay by Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Edward Bond
The Fortune Cookie - Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond
Khartoum - Robert Ardrey
The Naked Prey - Clint Johnston, Don Peters

People who added this item 111  Average listal rating (69 ratings) 7.5  IMDB Rating 7.7 
27. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
1967 - William Rose

Nominees:
Bonnie and Clyde - David Newman, Robert Benton
Divorce American Style - Story by Robert Kaufman; Screenplay by Norman Lear
La Guerre Est Finie - Jorge Semprún
Two for the Road - Frederic Raphael

People who added this item 188  Average listal rating (119 ratings) 7  IMDB Rating 7.7 
28. The Producers (1968)
1968 - Mel Brooks

Nominees:
2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke
The Battle of Algiers - Franco Solinas, Gillo Pontecorvo
Faces - John Cassavetes
Hot Millions - Ira Wallach, Peter Ustinov

People who added this item 379  Average listal rating (240 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 8.2 
29. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
1969 - William Goldman

Nominees:
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice - Paul Mazursky, Larry Tucker
The Damned - Story by Nicola Badalucco; Screenplay by Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti
Easy Rider - Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern
The Wild Bunch - Story by Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner; Screenplay by Walon Green, Sam Peckinpah

People who added this item 161  Average listal rating (97 ratings) 7.3  IMDB Rating 8.1 
30. Patton (1970)
1970 - Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North

Nominees:
Five Easy Pieces - Screenplay by "Adrien Joyce" (aka Carole Eastman); Story by "Adrien Joyce", Bob Rafelson
Joe - Norman Wexler
Love Story - Erich Segal
My Night at Maud's - Éric Rohmer

People who added this item 7  Average listal rating (4 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 7.2 
31. The Hospital (1971)
1971 - Paddy Chayefsky

Nominees:
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion - Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro
Klute - Andy Lewis, David Lewis
Summer of '42 - Herman Raucher
Sunday Bloody Sunday - Penelope Gilliatt

People who added this item 17  Average listal rating (8 ratings) 6.8  IMDB Rating 7.1 
32. The Candidate (1972)
1972 - Jeremy Larner

Nominees:
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

People who added this item 292  Average listal rating (194 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating 8.4 
33. The Sting (1973)
1973 - David S. Ward

Nominees:
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

People who added this item 550  Average listal rating (323 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 8.5 
34. Chinatown (1974)
1974 - Robert Towne

Nominees:
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

People who added this item 424  Average listal rating (270 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating 8.2 
35. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
1975 - Frank Pierson

Nominees:
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

People who added this item 213  Average listal rating (117 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating 8.1 
36. Network (1976)
1976 - Paddy Chayefsky

Nominees:
Cousin, cousine - Story and Screenplay by Jean-Charles Tacchella; Adaptation by Daniele Thompson
The Front - Walter Bernstein
Rocky - Sylvester Stallone
Seven Beauties - Lina Wertmüller

People who added this item 593  Average listal rating (354 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating 8.2 
37. Annie Hall (1977)
1977 - Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman

Nominees:
The Goodbye Girl - Neil Simon
The Late Show - Robert Benton
Star Wars - George Lucas
The Turning Point - Arthur Laurents

People who added this item 31  Average listal rating (11 ratings) 7.5  IMDB Rating 7.3 
38. Coming Home (1978)
1978 - Screenplay by Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt; Story by Nancy Dowd

Nominees:
Autumn Sonata - Ingmar Bergman
The Deer Hunter - Screenplay by Deric Washburn; Story by Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle, Quinn K. Redeker
Interiors - Woody Allen
An Unmarried Woman - Paul Mazursky

People who added this item 42  Average listal rating (26 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating 7.7 
39. Breaking Away (1979)
1979 - Steve Tesich

Nominees:
All That Jazz - Robert Alan Aurthur (posthumous nomination), 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
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People who added this item 14  Average listal rating (7 ratings) 6.9  IMDB Rating
40. Melvin and Howard (1980)
1980 - Bo Goldman

Nominees:
Brubaker - Screenplay by W. D. Richter; Story by Arthur A. Ross and W. D. Richter
Fame - Christopher Gore
Mon oncle d'Amérique - Jean Gruault, Henri Laborit
Private Benjamin - Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer, Harvey Miller

People who added this item 125  Average listal rating (71 ratings) 6.3  IMDB Rating 7.3 
41. Chariots of Fire (1981)
1981 Chariots of Fire - Colin Welland

Nominees:
Absence of Malice - Kurt Luedtke
Arthur - Steve Gordon
Atlantic City - John Guare
Reds - Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths

People who added this item 372  Average listal rating (204 ratings) 7.5  IMDB Rating 8.2 
42. Gandhi (1982)
1982 Gandhi - John Briley

Nominees:
Diner - Barry Levinson
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Melissa Mathison
An Officer and a Gentleman - Douglas Day Stewart
Tootsie - Screenplay by Larry Gelbart, Murray Schisgal; Story by Don McGuire and Larry Gelbart

People who added this item 23  Average listal rating (12 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating 7.4 
43. Tender Mercies (1983)
1983 - Horton Foote

Nominees:
The Big Chill - Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara Benedek
Fanny and Alexander - Ingmar Bergman
Silkwood - Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen
WarGames - Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes

People who added this item 16  Average listal rating (6 ratings) 7.5  IMDB Rating 7.4 
44. Places in the Heart (1984)
1984 - Robert Benton

Nominees:
Beverly Hills Cop - Screenplay by Daniel Petrie, Jr.; Story by Danilo Bach and Daniel Petrie, Jr.
Broadway Danny Rose - Woody Allen
El Norte - Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas
Splash - Screenplay by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman; Screen Story by Bruce Jay Friedman, Story by Brian Grazer

People who added this item 270  Average listal rating (179 ratings) 6.7  IMDB Rating 7.6 
45. Witness (1985)
1985 - Screenplay by William Kelley, Earl Wallace; Story by William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, Earl Wallace

Nominees:
Back to the Future - Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
Brazil - Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown
The Official Story - Luis Puenzo, Aída Bortnik
The Purple Rose of Cairo - Woody Allen

People who added this item 228  Average listal rating (125 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating 7.9 
46. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
1986 - Woody Allen

Nominees:
Crocodile Dundee - Screenplay by Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie, John Cornell; Story by Paul Hogan
My Beautiful Laundrette - Hanif Kureishi
Platoon - Oliver Stone
Salvador - Oliver Stone, Richard Boyle

People who added this item 122  Average listal rating (72 ratings) 6.3  IMDB Rating 7.1 
47. Moonstruck (1987)
1987 - John Patrick Shanley

Nominees:
Au revoir, les enfants - Louis Malle
Broadcast News - James L. Brooks
Hope and Glory - John Boorman
Radio Days - Woody Allen

People who added this item 1175  Average listal rating (797 ratings) 7.5  IMDB Rating
48. Rain Man (1988)
1988 - Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow

Nominees:
Big - Gary Ross, Anne Spielberg
Bull Durham - Ron Shelton
A Fish Called Wanda - Screenplay by John Cleese; Story by John Cleese and Charles Crichton
Running on Empty - Naomi Foner
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People who added this item 1217  Average listal rating (818 ratings) 7.5  IMDB Rating 7.8 
49. Dead Poets Society (1989)
1989 - Tom Schulman

Nominees:
Crimes and Misdemeanors - Woody Allen
Do the Right Thing - Spike Lee
Sex, Lies, and Videotape - Steven Soderbergh
When Harry Met Sally... - Nora Ephron

People who added this item 995  Average listal rating (666 ratings) 6.4  IMDB Rating 6.9 
50. Ghost (1990)
1990 - Bruce Joel Rubin

Nominees:
Alice - Woody Allen
Avalon - Barry Levinson
Green Card - Peter Weir
Metropolitan - Whit Stillman
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The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. Before 1940, there was an Academy Award for Best Story for writing. In 1940, it and the award in this article were separated into two awards. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay.

1948 no award given (Instead of the categories "Original Screenplay and "Screenplay", it was combined into one category, called "Screenplay").

In 1949, the category was renamed "Story and Screenplay".

In 1969, the category was renamed: "Story and Screenplay - based on material not previously published or produced.

In 1976, the category was renamed: "Screenplay written directly for the Screen -Based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced".

In 1978, the category was renamed: "Screenplay written directly for the screen".


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