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Best Original Screenplay

Writing · 85 ceremonies · 1940-present


















































1977 (50th)
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen—based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced

1976 (49th)
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen—based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced






1970 (43rd)
Best Story and Screenplay—based on factual material or material not previously published or produced






























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1Woody Allen163244
2Steven Spielberg10243
3Billy Wilder42216
4Joel Coen31154
5Ethan Coen31154
6Francis Ford Coppola21145
7Paul Thomas Anderson30143
8John Huston20142
9Warren Beatty30141
10Stanley Kubrick10131
11Bradley Cooper10120
12Federico Fellini60120
13Alfonso Cuarón20114
14Oliver Stone30113
15Joseph L. Mankiewicz2094
16Pete Docter4093
17Peter Jackson1093
18Ingmar Bergman5090
19Guillermo del Toro2083
20James L. Brooks2083
21Charles Brackett2283
22Christopher Nolan2082
23George Clooney1082
24Quentin Tarantino4282
25Kenneth Branagh1181
26Wes Anderson3081
27Alejandro G. Iñárritu1174
28Frances Walsh1073
29Robert Benton3173
30Alan Jay Lerner1173
31Elia Kazan1072
32Adam McKay2071
33Martin McDonagh3071
34Carl Foreman2071
35Mike Leigh5070
36Andrew Stanton3062
37Ben Hecht2062
38Barry Levinson3061
39John Lasseter1061
40George Miller1061
41Ernest Lehman1060
42Peter Weir1060
43Yorgos Lanthimos1060
44Jim Sheridan1060
45Todd Field1060
46Paul Haggis2152
47Brad Bird2052
48Jane Campion1152
49Steve Zaillian1051
50Matt Damon1151
51Sam Mendes1051
52Ryan Coogler1151
53Ruth Gordon3051
54Spike Lee1051
55Melvin Frank4050
56Paul Mazursky3050
57John Boorman1050
58Richard Linklater1050
59David O. Russell1050
60Sean Baker1144
61Paddy Chayefsky3243
62Peter Ustinov1042
63Mark Boal2142
64Spike Jonze1141
65Norman Krasna2141
66Robert Towne2141
67William Rose3141
68Brian Grazer1041
69Emeric Pressburger1041
70Jordan Peele1141
71Robert C. Jones1141
72Valentine Davies1041
73Charles Chaplin2041
74Walter Reisch1141
75Aaron Sorkin1041
76Sidney Buchman1041
77Bob Fosse1041
78Jean-Claude Carrière1041
79Grant Heslov1041
80Stanley Shapiro4141
81Dudley Nichols2041
82Kenneth Lonergan3141
83Charlie Kaufman2141
84Jacques Demy1040
85Josh Safdie1040
86Greta Gerwig1040
87Sergio Amidei3040
88Noah Baumbach2040
89Tony Kushner1040
90Gary Ross2040
91Lawrence Kasdan2040
92George Lucas2040
93Neil Simon1040
94Tullio Pinelli4040
95Daniel Kwan1133
96Bong Joon Ho1133
97Daniel Scheinert1133
98Michael Cimino1032
99Bo Goldman1132
100Horton Foote1132
101Waldo Salt1132
102Richard Schweizer1132
103Terry George1031
104Orson Welles1131
105Steven Soderbergh1031
106Claude Lelouch2131
107Frank Butler2031
108Emerald Fennell1131
109Philip Yordan1031
110I. A. L. Diamond2131
111Frank Pierson1131
112Mel Brooks1131
113Roberto Benigni1031
114Simon Beaufoy1031
115T. E. B. Clarke2131
116Sofia Coppola1131
117Heinz Herald1031
118Cameron Crowe2131
119Richard Breen1131
120Tom McCarthy2131
121Michel Hazanavicius1031
122Lamar Trotti1131
123Christopher McQuarrie1131
124Damien Chazelle1031
125Preston Sturges3131
126Scarpelli2030
127John Steinbeck1030
128Norman Panama3030
129Garson Kanin3030
130Cesare Zavattini1030
131Walter Newman1030
132Jack Rose3030
133Ennio Flaiano3030
134Francois Truffaut2030
135Tonino Guerra3030
136John Cassavetes1030
137Louis Malle2030
138Walter F. Parkes1030
139Sylvester Stallone1030
140Nora Ephron3030
141Jay Cocks1030
142John Logan2030
143Joachim Trier2030
144Brady Corbet1030
145Coralie Fargeat1030
146Ronald Bronstein1030
147Ben Affleck1122
148Ring Lardner Jr.1122
149Brian Currie1122
150William Goldman1122
151Nick Vallelonga1122
152Marc Norman1122
153Peter Farrelly1122
154Sonya Levien1121
155Herman J. Mankiewicz1121
156Robert Pirosh2121
157Clarence Greene2121
158Russell Rouse2121
159Pietro Germi1121
160Nedrick Young1121
161Marshall Brickman2121
162Frederic Raphael2121
163Josh Cooley1021
164Harold Jacob Smith1121
165Kurt Luedtke1021
166Michael Kanin2121
167John Patrick Shanley1121
168Stephen Gaghan1021
169Neil Jordan1121
170Josh Singer2121
171Jan Pinkava1021
172David S. Ward2121
173Justine Triet1121
174David Franzoni1021
175Robert Zemeckis1021
176Tom Stoppard2121
177Maurice Richlin2121
178Pierre Uytterhoeven2121
179Michael Arndt1121
180Pedro Almodóvar1121
181Walon Green1021
182Howard Koch1021
183Albert Lamorisse1121
184Raymond Chandler1020
185Peter Fonda1020
186Alfred Hayes1020
187Lina Wertmüller1020
188Dennis Hopper1020
189Bob Rafelson1020
190Arthur Laurents1020
191Larry Gelbart1020
192Bob Peterson2020
193Charles Crichton1020
194Virginia Kellogg1020
195Dan Futterman1020
196Millard Kaufman1020
197Tony McNamara1020
198Richard Connell1020
199Janice Loeb1020
200Peter Morgan1020
201Tony Gilroy1020
202Mario Monicelli2020
203Lillian Hellman1020
204Philip Dunne1020
205Norman Wexler1020
206Robert Alan Aurthur1020
207Jesse Eisenberg1020
208John Singleton1020
209Age2020
210Scott Silver1020
211Karl Tunberg1020
212Ugo Pirro1020
213John Sayles2020
214Arnold Schulman1020
215Michael Haneke1020
216Betty Comden2020
217William Nicholson1020
218Eric Warren Singer1020
219Terry Southern1020
220Jorge Semprun1020
221Adolph Green2020
222Krzysztof Kieslowski1020
223Richard Murphy1020
224Terence Rattigan1020
225Joan Harrison1020
226Luis Buñuel1020
227Gillo Pontecorvo1020
228Frank Davis1020
229James Bridges1020
230Lesser Samuels2020
231Rian Johnson1020
232Scott Hicks1020
233Lee Isaac Chung1020
234Don Hartman1020
235Shaka King1020
236Melville Shavelson2020
237William Bowers1020
238Lawrence Lasker1020
239Steve Shagan1020
240Eskil Vogt2020
241Ruben Östlund1020
242Robert Getchell1020
243Brunello Rondi2020
244Michelangelo Antonioni1020
245M. Night Shyamalan1020
246Jules Dassin1020
247Frank Tarloff1111
248S. H. Barnett1111
249Nancy Dowd1111
250Bobby Moresco1111
251Arthur Harari1111
252George Wells1111
253Muriel Box1111
254Edmund H. North1111
255Alfredo Giannetti1111
256Han Jin Won1111
257Ennio de Concini1111
258Sydney Box1111
259David Seidler1111
260Budd Schulberg1111
261William Inge1111
262William Kelley1111
263Ronald Bass1111
264Alan Ball1111
265Peter Stone1111
266Pierre Bismuth1111
267Sidney Sheldon1111
268Armando Bo1111
269Nicolás Giacobone1111
270Alexander Dinelaris Jr.1111
271James R. Webb1111
272D. M. Marshman Jr.1111
273Roger Avary1111
274Michel Gondry1111
275Colin Welland1111
276Callie Khouri1111
277Steve Tesich1111
278Barry Morrow1111
279William Ludwig1111
280Jeremy Larner1111
281Julian Fellowes1111
282Earl W. Wallace1111
283John Briley1111
284Bruce Joel Rubin1111
285Tom Schulman1111
286Dustin Lance Black1111
287Diablo Cody1111
288Pamela Wallace1111
289Myles Connolly1010
290Jeff Maguire1010
291Ron Nyswaner1010
292Jeff Arch1010
293Douglas McGrath1010
294Richard Curtis1010
295Krzysztof Piesiewicz1010
296Sydney Boehm1010
297Randall Wallace1010
298Christopher Wilkinson1010
299Stephen J. Rivele1010
300Alec Sokolow1010
301Joss Whedon1010
302Joe Ranft1010
303Joel Cohen1010
304W. R. Burnett1010
305Bernard C. Schoenfeld1010
306Jan Sardi1010
307Mark Andrus1010
308Sidney Meyers1010
309Helen Levitt1010
310Jeremy Pikser1010
311Vincenzo Cerami1010
312Robert Rodat1010
313Andrew Niccol1010
314Marcello Pagliero1010
315Roberto Rossellini1010
316Lee Hall1010
317Susannah Grant1010
318Robert Kaplow1010
319Celine Song1010
320Guillaume Laurant1010
321Jean-Pierre Jeunet1010
322Jonathan Nolan1010
323Milo Addica1010
324Will Rokos1010
325Owen Wilson1010
326Todd Haynes1010
327Nia Vardalos1010
328Carlos Cuarón1010
329Samy Burch1010
330Denys Arcand1010
331Steven Knight1010
332David Reynolds1010
333Naomi Sheridan1010
334Kirsten Sheridan1010
335Alex Mechanik1010
336Mehdi Mahmoudian1010
337Keir Pearson1010
338David Hemingson1010
339George Oppenheimer1010
340Guillermo Arriaga1010
341Iris Yamashita1010
342Nancy Oliver1010
343Jim Capobianco1010
344Tamara Jenkins1010
345Courtney Hunt1010
346Jim Reardon1010
347C. G. Viola1010
348Oren Moverman1010
349Alessandro Camon1010
350Adolfo Franci1010
351Nader Saïvar1010
352Noel Coward1010
353Eric Johnson1010
354Paul Tamasy1010
355Keith Dorrington1010
356Lisa Cholodenko1010
357Stuart Blumberg1010
358Abraham Polonsky1010
359Kristen Wiig1010
360Annie Mumolo1010
361J.C. Chandor1010
362Asghar Farhadi1010
363John Gatins1010
364Roman Coppola1010
365Craig Borten1010
366Melisa Wallack1010
367Bob Nelson1010
368E. Max Frye1010
369Hugo Guinness1010
370Dan Gilroy1010
371Matt Charman1010
372Alex Garland1010
373Meg LeFauve1010
374Ronnie del Carmen1010
375S. Leigh Savidge1010
376Andrea Berloff1010
377Jonathan Herman1010
378Alan Wenkus1010
379Taylor Sheridan1010
380Efthimis Filippou1010
381Mike Mills1010
382Allan Scott1010
383Emily V. Gordon1010
384Kumail Nanjiani1010
385Vanessa Taylor1010
386Deborah Davis1010
387Paul Schrader1010
388Krysty Wilson-Cairns1010
389Jacques Prevert1010
390Keith Lucas1010
391Will Berson1010
392Kenny Lucas1010
393Derek Cianfrance1010
394Abraham Marder1010
395Darius Marder1010
396David Sirota1010
397Zach Baylin1010
398Gladys Lehman1010
399Harry Kurnitz1010
400James Edward Grant1010
401Fay Kanin1010
402Joel Kane1010
403Jerome Cady1010
404Marcel Moussy1010
405Joseph Stone1010
406Paul King1010
407Michael Powell1010
408Richard Gregson1010
409Michael Craig1010
410Bryan Forbes1010
411Marguerite Duras1010
412Valentin Yoshov1010
413Grigori Chukhrai1010
414Diego Fabbri1010
415Indro Montanelli1010
416Paul Henning1010
417Barney Slater1010
418Ben Roberts1010
419Wolfgang Reinhardt1010
420Charles Kaufman1010
421Alain Robbe-Grillet1010
422Nate Monaster1010
423R. Wright Campbell1010
424Nanni Loy1010
425Carlo Bernari1010
426Vasco Pratolini1010
427Pasquale Festa Campanile1010
428Massimo Franciosa1010
429Alun Owen1010
430Orville H. Hampton1010
431Raphael Hayes1010
432Ralph Wheelwright1010
433Jean-Paul Rappeneau1010
434Daniel Boulanger1010
435Philippe De Broca1010
436Ariane Mnouchkine1010
437Ivan Goff1010
438Leonard Gershe1010
439Giorgio Salvioni1010
440Suso Cecchi D'Amico1010
441Jack Davies1010
442Ken Annakin1010
443Franklin Coen1010
444Edward Bond1010
445Robert Ardrey1010
446Clint Johnston1010
447Don Peters1010
448Mona Fastvold1010
449David Newman1010
450Andrew L. Stone1010
451Norman Lear1010
452Robert Kaufman1010
453Robert Lewin1010
454Franco Solinas1010
455Ira Wallach1010
456Arthur C. Clarke1010
457Larry Tucker1010
458Shadmehr Rastin1010
459Enrico Medioli1010
460Nicola Badalucco1010
461Luchino Visconti1010
462Roy N. Sickner1010
463Sam Peckinpah1010
464Adrien Joyce1010
465Erich Segal1010
466Eric Rohmer1010
467Elio Petri1010
468Andy Lewis1010
469Dave Lewis1010
470Herman Raucher1010
471Penelope Gilliatt1010
472Henri Marquet1010
473Jafar Panahi1010
474Suzanne de Passe1010
475Terence McCloy1010
476Chris Clark1010
477Tim Fehlbaum1010
478Jacques Tati1010
479Emmet Lavery1010
480Willard Huyck1010
481Gloria Katz1010
482Jean-Louis Richard1010
483Suzanne Schiffman1010
484Josh Greenfeld1010
485Alex David1010
486Ted Allan1010
487Milton Sperling1010
488Moritz Binder1010
489Jean-Charles Tacchella1010
490Daniele Thompson1010
491Walter Bernstein1010
492Paul Jarrico1010
493Darrell Ware1010
494Quinn K. Redeker1010
495Deric Washburn1010
496Louis Garfinkle1010
497Valerie Curtin1010
498T.S. Cook1010
499Mike Gray1010
500W. D. Richter1010
501Arthur Ross1010
502Christopher Gore1010
503Jean Gruault1010
504Charles Shyer1010
505Nancy Meyers1010
506Harvey Miller1010
507Steve Gordon1010
508John Guare1010
509Trevor Griffiths1010
510Melissa Mathison1010
511Douglas Day Stewart1010
512Don McGuire1010
513Murray Schisgal1010
514Abem Finkel1010
515Oscar Brodney1010
516Barbara Benedek1010
517Milton Holmes1010
518Alice Arlen1010
519Danilo Bach1010
520Daniel Petrie Jr.1010
521Anna Thomas1010
522Gregory Nava1010
523Bruce Jay Friedman1010
524Lowell Ganz1010
525Babaloo Mandel1010
526Harry Chandlee1010
527Bob Gale1010
528Charles McKeown1010
529Terry Gilliam1010
530Aida Bortnik1010
531Luis Puenzo1010
532Ken Shadie1010
533Paul Hogan1010
534John Cornell1010
535Hanif Kureishi1010
536Richard Boyle1010
537Anne Spielberg1010
538Ron Shelton1010
539John Cleese1010
540Naomi Foner1010
541Harold Jack Bloom1010
542Sam Rolfe1010
543Whit Stillman1010
544James Toback1010
545Richard LaGravenese1010
546Meg Kasdan1010
547Nick Enright1010
548Charles Bennett1010
549David Webb Peoples1010
550Norman Burnside1010
Known as
Best Original Screenplay
2002-present
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
1978-2001
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen—based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced
1976-1977
Best Original Screenplay
1974-1975
Best Story and Screenplay—based on factual material or material not previously published or produced
1970-1973
Best Story and Screenplay—based on material not previously published or produced
1969
Best Story and Screenplay—written directly for the screen
1957-1968
Best Screenplay—Original
1956
Best Story and Screenplay
1949-1955
Best Original Screenplay
1940-1947