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Best Story

Writing · 27 ceremonies · 1928-1956

1956 (29TH)
Poster for The Brave One
Dalton Trumbo
The Brave One
1955 (28TH)
Poster for Love Me or Leave Me
Daniel Fuchs
Love Me or Leave Me
1954 (27TH)
Poster for Broken Lance
Philip Yordan
Broken Lance
1953 (26TH)
Poster for Roman Holiday
Dalton Trumbo
Roman Holiday
1952 (25TH)
Poster for The Greatest Show on Earth
Fredric M. Frank, Theodore St. John, Frank Cavett
The Greatest Show on Earth
Ceremony:
Story
1956 (29th)
Best Motion Picture Story
Dalton Trumbo
The Brave One N
Leo Katcher
The Eddy Duchin Story
Edward Bernds, Elwood Ullman
High Society N
Jean Paul Sartre
The Proud and the Beautiful
Cesare Zavattini
Umberto D.
1955 (28th)
Best Motion Picture Story
Daniel Fuchs
Love Me or Leave Me
Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher
The Private War of Major Benson
Nicholas Ray
Rebel without a Cause
Jean Marsan, Henry Troyat, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil, Raoul Ploquin
The Sheep Has Five Legs
Beirne Lay Jr.
Strategic Air Command
1954 (27th)
Best Motion Picture Story
Philip Yordan
Broken Lance
Ettore Margadonna
Bread, Love and Dreams
François Boyer
Forbidden Games
Jed Harris, Tom Reed
Night People
Lamar Trotti
There's No Business Like Show Business
1953 (26th)
Best Motion Picture Story
Dalton Trumbo
Roman Holiday N
Beirne Lay Jr.
Above and Beyond
Alec Coppel
The Captain's Paradise
Louis L'Amour
Hondo N
Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin
Little Fugitive
1952 (25th)
Best Motion Picture Story
Fredric M. Frank, Theodore St. John, Frank Cavett
The Greatest Show on Earth
Leo McCarey
My Son John
Martin Goldsmith, Jack Leonard
The Narrow Margin
Guy Trosper
The Pride of St. Louis
Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt
The Sniper
1951 (24th)
Best Motion Picture Story
Paul Dehn, James Bernard
Seven Days to Noon
Budd Boetticher, Ray Nazarro
Bullfighter and the Lady
Oscar Millard
The Frogmen
Robert Riskin, Liam O'Brien
Here Comes the Groom
Alfred Hayes, Stewart Stern
Teresa
1950 (23rd)
Best Motion Picture Story
Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt
Panic in the Streets
Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani
Bitter Rice
William Bowers, Andre de Toth
The Gunfighter
Leonard Spigelgass
Mystery Street
Sy Gomberg
When Willie Comes Marching Home
1949 (22nd)
Best Motion Picture Story
Douglas Morrow
The Stratton Story
Clare Boothe Luce
Come to the Stable
Shirley W. Smith, Valentine Davies
It Happens Every Spring
Harry Brown
Sands of Iwo Jima
Virginia Kellogg
White Heat
1948 (21st)
Best Motion Picture Story
Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler
The Search
Frances Flaherty, Robert Flaherty
Louisiana Story
Malvin Wald
The Naked City
Borden Chase
Red River
Emeric Pressburger
The Red Shoes
1947 (20th)
Best Motion Picture Story
Valentine Davies
Miracle on 34th Street
Georges Chaperot, Rene Wheeler
A Cage of Nightingales
Herbert Clyde Lewis, Frederick Stephani
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Eleazar Lipsky
Kiss of Death
Dorothy Parker, Frank Cavett
Smash-Up--The Story of a Woman
1946 (19th)
Best Original Motion Picture Story
Clemence Dane
Vacation from Marriage
Vladimir Pozner
The Dark Mirror
Jack Patrick
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Victor Trivas
The Stranger
Charles Brackett
To Each His Own
1945 (18th)
Best Original Motion Picture Story
Charles G. Booth
The House on 92nd Street
Thomas Monroe, Laszlo Gorog
The Affairs of Susan
John Steinbeck, Jack Wagner
A Medal for Benny
Alvah Bessie
Objective, Burma!
Ernst Marischka
A Song to Remember
1944 (17th)
Best Original Motion Picture Story
Leo McCarey
Going My Way
Chandler Sprague, David Boehm
A Guy Named Joe
John Steinbeck
Lifeboat
Alfred Neumann, Joseph Than
None Shall Escape
Edward Doherty, Jules Schermer
The Sullivans
1943 (16th)
Best Original Motion Picture Story
William Saroyan
The Human Comedy
Guy Gilpatric
Action in the North Atlantic
Steve Fisher
Destination Tokyo
Robert Russell, Frank Ross
The More the Merrier
Gordon McDonell
Shadow of a Doubt
1942 (15th)
Best Original Motion Picture Story
Emeric Pressburger
The Invaders
Irving Berlin
Holiday Inn
Paul Gallico
The Pride of the Yankees
Sidney Harmon
The Talk of the Town
Robert Buckner
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1941 (14th)
Best Original Story
Harry Segall
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Billy Wilder, Thomas Monroe
Ball of Fire
Monckton Hoffe
The Lady Eve
Richard Connell, Robert Presnell
Meet John Doe
Gordon Wellesley
Night Train
1940 (13th)
Best Original Story
Benjamin Glazer, John S. Toldy
Arise, My Love
Walter Reisch
Comrade X
Dore Schary, Hugo Butler
Edison, the Man
Bella Spewack, Samuel Spewack, Leo McCarey
My Favorite Wife
Stuart N. Lake
The Westerner
1939 (12th)
Best Original Story
Lewis R. Foster
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Felix Jackson
Bachelor Mother
Mildred Cram, Leo McCarey
Love Affair
Melchior Lengyel
Ninotchka
Lamar Trotti
Young Mr. Lincoln
1938 (11th)
Best Original Story
Dore Schary, Eleanore Griffin
Boys Town
Irving Berlin
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Rowland Brown
Angels with Dirty Faces
John Howard Lawson
Blockade
Marcella Burke, Frederick Kohner
Mad about Music
Frank Wead
Test Pilot
1937 (10th)
Best Original Story
William A. Wellman, Robert Carson
A Star Is Born
Robert Lord
Black Legion
Niven Busch
In Old Chicago
Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg
The Life of Emile Zola
Hans Kraly
One Hundred Men and a Girl
1936 (9th)
Best Original Story
Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Norman Krasna
Fury
William Anthony McGuire
The Great Ziegfeld
Robert Hopkins
San Francisco
Adele Comandini
Three Smart Girls
1935 (8th)
Best Original Story
Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
The Scoundrel
Moss Hart
Broadway Melody of 1936
Gregory Rogers
G-Men N
Don Hartman, Stephen Avery
The Gay Deception
1934 (7th)
Best Original Story
Arthur Caesar
Manhattan Melodrama
Mauri Grashin
Hide-Out
Norman Krasna
The Richest Girl in the World
1932/33 (6th)
Best Original Story
Robert Lord
One Way Passage
Frances Marion
The Prizefighter and the Lady
Charles MacArthur
Rasputin and the Empress
1931/32 (5th)
Best Original Story
Frances Marion
The Champ
Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt
Lady and Gent
Lucien Hubbard
The Star Witness
Adela Rogers St. Johns, Jane Murfin
What Price Hollywood?
1930/31 (4th)
Best Original Story
John Monk Saunders
The Dawn Patrol
Rowland Brown
The Doorway to Hell
Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, Douglas Doty, Donald Ogden Stewart
Laughter
John Bright, Kubec Glasmon
The Public Enemy
Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Jackson
Smart Money
1927/28 (1st)
Best Original Story
Ben Hecht
Underworld
Lajos Biro
The Last Command