Academy Award for Original Screenplay

1941 WINNER - Preston Sturges

1941 NOMINEE - Charlie Chaplin

1941 NOMINEE - Ben Hecht

1941 NOMINEE - Norman Burnside/Heinz Herald/John Huston

1941 NOMINEE - Charles Bennett/Joan Harrison

1942 WINNER - Herman Mankiewicz/Orson Welles

1942 NOMINEE - Norman Krasna

1942 NOMINEE - Harry Chandlee/Abem Finkel/John Huston/Howard Koch

1942 NOMINEE - Karl Tunberg/Darrell Ware

1942 NOMINEE - Paul Jarrico

1943 WINNER - Michael Kanin/Ring Lardner Jr

1943 NOMINEE - Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger

1943 NOMINEE - Frank Butler/Don Hartman

1943 NOMINEE - W. R. Burnett/Frank Butler

1943 NOMINEE - George Oppenheimer

1944 WINNER - Norman Krasna

1944 NOMINEE - Dudley Nichols

1944 NOMINEE - Noel Coward

1944 NOMINEE - Lillian Hellman

1944 NOMINEE - Allan Scott

1945 WINNER - Lamar Trotti

1945 NOMINEE - Preston Sturges

1945 NOMINEE - Preston Sturges

1945 NOMINEE - Richard Connell/Gladys Lehman

1945 NOMINEE - Jerome Cady

1946 WINNER - Richard Schweizer

1946 NOMINEE - Philip Yordan

1946 NOMINEE - Myles Connolly

1946 NOMINEE - Milton Holmes

1946 NOMINEE - Harry Kurnitz

1947 WINNER - Muriel Box/Sydney Box

1947 NOMINEE - Raymond Chandler

1947 NOMINEE - Jacques Prévert

1947 NOMINEE - Ben Hecht

1947 NOMINEE - Norman Panama/Melvin Frank

1948 WINNER - Sidney Sheldon

1948 NOMINEE - Abraham Polonsky

1948 NOMINEE - Ruth Gordon/Garson Kanin

1948 NOMINEE - Charlie Chaplin

1948 NOMINEE - Sergio Amidei/Adolfo Franci/C. G. Viola/ Cesare Zavattini

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1950 WINNER - Robert Pirosh

1950 NOMINEE - Sidney Buchman