The Oscars: Best Original Screenplay

The Oscars: Best Original Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay goes to a screenplay written specifically for the screen. 2024: Anora 2023: Anatomy of a Fall 2022: Everything Everywhere All at Once 2021: Belfast 2020: Promising Young Woman 2019: Parasite (Gisaengchung) 2018: Green Book 2017: Get Out 2016: Manchester by the Sea 2015: Spotlight 2014: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2013: Her 2012: Django Unchained 2011: Midnight in Paris 2010: The King’s Speech 2009: The Hurt Locker 2008: Milk 2007: Juno 2006: Little Miss Sunshine 2005: Wedding Crashers 2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2013: Lost in Translation 2002: Talk to Her (Hable Con Ella) 2001: Gosford Park 2000: Almost Famous 1999: American Beauty 1998: Shakespeare in Love 1997: Good Will Hunting 1996: Fargo 1995: The Usual Suspects 1994: Pulp Fiction 1993: The Piano 1992: The Crying Game 1991: Thelma and Louise 1990: Ghost 1989: Dead Poets Society 1988: Rain Man 1987: Moonstruck 1986: Hannah and Her Sisters 1985: Witness 1984: Places in the Heart 1983: Tender Mercies 1982: Gandhi 1981: Chariots of Fire 1980: Melvin and Howard 1979: Breaking Away 1978: Coming Home 1977: Annie Hall 1976: Network 1975: Dog Day Afternoon 1974: Chinatown 1973: The Sting 1972: The Candidate 1971: The Hospital 1970: Patton 1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1968: The Producers 1967: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner 1966: A Man and a Woman 1965: Darling 1964: Father Goose 1963: How the West Was Won 1962: Divorce, Italian Style (Divorzio all’italiana) 1961: Splendor in the Grass 1960: The Apartment 1959: Pillow Talk 1958: The Defiant Ones 1957: Designing Woman 1956: The Red Balloon (Le Ballon Rouge) 1955: Interrupted Melody 1954: On the Waterfront 1953: Titanic 1952: The Lavender Hill Mob 1951: An American in Paris 1950: Sunset Boulevard 1949: Battleground 1948: -- 1947: The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer 1946: Seventh Veil 1945: Marie-Louise 1944: Wilson 1943: Princess O’Rourke 1942: Woman of the Year 1941: Citizen Kane 1940: The Great McGinty Resources: Dave’s Movie Database: Awards Page Wikipedia.org: “Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay” Originally posted 3/2/2025.