Academy Award for Original Screenplay

26   7.4   7.4 

1940 WINNER - Preston Sturges

9   7.6   6.6 

1940 NOMINEE - Ben Hecht

7   7   7.3 

1940 NOMINEE - Norman Burnside/Heinz Herald/John Huston

163   7.3   7.6 

1940 NOMINEE - Charles Bennett/Joan Harrison

1089   8.3   8.5 

1940 NOMINEE - Charlie Chaplin

2032   8.1   8.5 

1941 WINNER - Herman Mankiewicz/Orson Welles

AFIoscar's rating:

25   8   7.7 

1941 NOMINEE - Norman Krasna

136   7.4   7.8 

1941 NOMINEE - Harry Chandlee/Abem Finkel/John Huston/Howard Koch

1   0   6.7 

1941 NOMINEE - Karl Tunberg/Darrell Ware

17   6.7   6.7 

1941 NOMINEE - Paul Jarrico

93   7.4   7.3 

1942 WINNER - Michael Kanin/Ring Lardner Jr

15   6.9   7.1 

1942 NOMINEE - Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger

60   7.6   7.1 

1942 NOMINEE - Frank Butler/Don Hartman

15   7.1   6.9 

1942 NOMINEE - W. R. Burnett/Frank Butler

5   7.5   6.5 

1942 NOMINEE - George Oppenheimer

6   10   6.6 

1943 WINNER - Norman Krasna

19   7.3   7.1 

1943 NOMINEE - Dudley Nichols

60   7.5   7.3 

1943 NOMINEE - Noel Coward

16   6.2   5.9 

1943 NOMINEE - Lillian Hellman

10   7.8   7.5 

1943 NOMINEE - Allan Scott

24   7.6   6.8 

1944 WINNER - Lamar Trotti

33   7   7.7 

1944 NOMINEE - Preston Sturges

59   7.5   7.8 

1944 NOMINEE - Preston Sturges

10   10   6.6 

1944 NOMINEE - Richard Connell/Gladys Lehman

16   6.4   6.8 

1944 NOMINEE - Jerome Cady

3   8   5.2 

1945 WINNER - Richard Schweizer

19   5.8   6.7 

1945 NOMINEE - Philip Yordan

6   0   6.3 

1945 NOMINEE - Myles Connolly

5   0   6.6 

1945 NOMINEE - Milton Holmes

3   0   6.3 

1945 NOMINEE - Harry Kurnitz

21   7.6   6.9 

1946 WINNER - Muriel Box/Sydney Box

69   7.4   7.1 

1946 NOMINEE - Raymond Chandler

210   8.3   8.1 

1946 NOMINEE - Jacques Prévert

AFIoscar's rating:

785   7.8   8.2 

1946 NOMINEE - Ben Hecht

20   7.6   7.3 

1946 NOMINEE - Norman Panama/Melvin Frank

65   7.6   7.2 

1947 WINNER - Sidney Sheldon

40   7.5   7.7 

1947 NOMINEE - Abraham Polonsky

36   6.5   7 

1947 NOMINEE - Ruth Gordon/Garson Kanin

252   8.4   7.8 

1947 NOMINEE - Charlie Chaplin

122   8.2   7.9 

1947 NOMINEE - Sergio Amidei/Adolfo Franci/C. G. Viola/ Cesare Zavattini

53   7.7   7.5 

1949 WINNER - Robert Pirosh

AFIoscar's rating:

10   8   6.7 

1949 NOMINEE - Sidney Buchman

130   8   7.7 

1949 NOMINEE - Alfred Hayes/Federico Fellini/Sergio Amidei/Marcello Pagliero/Roberto Rossellini

45   7.2   7.2 

1949 NOMINEE - T. E. B. Clarke

1   0   6.8 

1949 NOMINEE - Helen Levitt/Janice Loeb/Sidney Meyers

819   8.3   8.4 

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

196   7.7   7.6 

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

AFIoscar's rating:

103   7.8   8 

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

158   6.9   7 

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

56   7.4   7.2 

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