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Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, introduced in 1940 at the 13th Academy Awards, is presented annually for the best achievement in writing of a screenplay not based upon previously published material for a film from the previous year.

Beginning in 1957 at the 29th Academy Awards this category was merged with the Academy Award for Best Story. For the 21st Academy Awards the award was consolidated into a singular Best Screenplay award.

Sorted Chronologically by Awards Year. Winners in BOLD. Acceptance speech linked in Notes (where available).

UPDATED: May 2026

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AWARD RECORDS:
Most Awards: Woody Allen (3)
Most Nominations: Woody Allen (16)
Most Nominations Without a Win: Federico Fellini (6)

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  • The Great McGinty

    1

  • Citizen Kane

    2

  • Woman of the Year

    3

  • Princess O'Rourke

    4

  • Wilson

    5

  • Marie-Louise

    6

  • The Seventh Veil

    7

  • The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

    8

  • Battleground

    9

  • Sunset Boulevard

    10

  • An American in Paris

    11

  • The Lavender Hill Mob

    12

  • Titanic

    13

  • On the Waterfront

    14

  • Interrupted Melody

    15

  • The Red Balloon

    16

  • Designing Woman

    17

  • The Defiant Ones

    18

  • Pillow Talk

    19

  • The Apartment

    20

  • Splendor in the Grass

    21

  • Divorce Italian Style

    22

  • How the West Was Won

    23

  • Father Goose

    24

  • Darling

    25

  • A Man and a Woman

    26

  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

    27

  • The Producers

    28

  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

    29

  • Patton

    30

  • The Hospital

    31

  • The Candidate

    32

  • The Sting

    33

  • Chinatown

    34

  • Dog Day Afternoon

    35

  • Network

    36

  • Annie Hall

    37

  • Coming Home

    38

  • Breaking Away

    39

  • Melvin and Howard

    40

  • Chariots of Fire

    41

  • Gandhi

    42

  • Tender Mercies

    43

  • Places in the Heart

    44

  • Witness

    45

  • Hannah and Her Sisters

    46

  • Moonstruck

    47

  • Rain Man

    48

  • Dead Poets Society

    49

  • Ghost

    50

  • Thelma & Louise

    51

  • The Crying Game

    52

  • The Piano

    53

  • Pulp Fiction

    54

  • The Usual Suspects

    55

  • Fargo

    56

  • Good Will Hunting

    57

  • Shakespeare in Love

    58

  • American Beauty

    59

  • Almost Famous

    60

  • Gosford Park

    61

  • Talk to Her

    62

  • Lost in Translation

    63

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    64

  • Crash

    65

  • Little Miss Sunshine

    66

  • Juno

    67

  • Milk

    68

  • The Hurt Locker

    69

  • The King's Speech

    70

  • Midnight in Paris

    71

  • Django Unchained

    72

  • Her

    73

  • Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

    74

  • Spotlight

    75

  • Manchester by the Sea

    76

  • Get Out

    77

  • Green Book

    78

  • Parasite

    79

  • Promising Young Woman

    80

  • Belfast

    81

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    82

  • Anatomy of a Fall

    83

  • Anora

    84

  • Sinners

    85