Best Original Screenplay Winners
Description
The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay.
Number of Movies
85
Great McGinty, The
Citizen Kane
Woman of the Year
Princess O'Rourke
Wilson
Marie-Louise
The Seventh Veil
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Battleground (1949)
Sunset Boulevard
An American in Paris
The Lavender Hill Mob
Titanic (53)
On the Waterfront
Interrupted Melody
The Red Balloon
Designing Woman
The Defiant Ones
Pillow Talk
The Apartment
Splendor in the Grass
Divorce Italian Style
How the West Was Won
Father Goose
Darling
A Man And A Woman
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
The Producers
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Patton
The Hospital
The Candidate
The Sting
Chinatown
Dog Day Afternoon
Network
Annie Hall
Coming Home
Breaking Away
Melvin and Howard
Chariots of Fire
Gandhi
Tender Mercies
Places in the Heart
Witness
Hannah and Her Sisters
Moonstruck
Rain Man
Dead Poets Society
Ghost
Thelma & Louise
The Crying Game
The Piano
Pulp Fiction
The Usual Suspects
Fargo
Good Will Hunting
Shakespeare in Love
American Beauty
Almost Famous
Gosford Park
Talk To Her
Lost in Translation
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Crash
Little Miss Sunshine
Juno
Milk
The Hurt Locker
The King's Speech
Midnight In Paris
Django Unchained
Her
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Spotlight
Manchester by the Sea
Get Out
Green Book
Parasite
Promising Young Woman
Belfast
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Anatomy of a Fall
Anora
Sinners
