Note: Includes all writing categories, including some which are now defunct.
- 2019
- Jojo Rabbit — Taika Waititi [Adapted Screenplay]
- Parasite — Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won [Original Screenplay]
- 2018
- BlacKkKlansman — Spike Lee, Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, and Kevin Willmott [Adapted Screenplay]
- Green Book — Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, and Peter Farrelly [Original Screenplay]
- 2017
- Call Me by Your Name — James Ivory [Adapted Screenplay]
- Get Out — Jordan Peele [Original Screenplay]
- 2016
- Moonlight — Barry Jenkins [Adapted Screenplay]
- Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan [Original Screenplay]
- 2015
- The Big Short — Charles Randolph and Adam McKay [Adapted Screenplay]
- Spotlight — Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy [Original Screenplay]
- 2014
- The Imitation Game — Graham Moore [Adapted Screenplay]
- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) — Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., Armando Bó [Original Screenplay]
- 2013
- 12 Years a Slave — John Ridley [Adapted Screenplay]
- Her — Spike Jonze [Original Screenplay]
- 2012
- Argo — Chris Terrio [Adapted Screenplay]
- Django Unchained — Quentin Tarantino [Original Screenplay]
- 2011
- The Descendants — Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash [Adapted Screenplay]
- Midnight in Paris — Woody Allen [Original Screenplay]
- 2010
- The Social Network — Aaron Sorkin [Adapted Screenplay]
- The King's Speech — David Seidler [Original Screenplay]
- 2009
- Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire — Geoffrey Fletcher [Adapted Screenplay]
- The Hurt Locker — Mark Boal [Original Screenplay]
- 2008
- Slumdog Millionaire — Simon Beaufoy [Adapted Screenplay]
- Milk — Dustin Lance Black [Original Screenplay]
- 2007
- No Country for Old Men — Joel Coen & Ethan Coen [Adapted Screenplay]
- Juno — Diablo Cody [Original Screenplay]
- 2006
- The Departed — William Monahan [Adapted Screenplay]
- Little Miss Sunshine — Michael Arndt [Original Screenplay]
- 2005
- Brokeback Mountain — Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana [Adapted Screenplay]
- Crash — Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco; Story by Paul Haggis [Original Screenplay]
- 2004
- Sideways — Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor [Adapted Screenplay]
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind — Charlie Kaufman; Story by Charlie Kaufman & Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth [Original Screenplay]
- 2003
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King — Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson [Adapted Screenplay]
- Lost in Translation — Sofia Coppola [Original Screenplay]
- 2002
- The Pianist — Ronald Harwood [Adapted Screenplay]
- Talk to Her — Pedro Almodóvar [Original Screenplay]
- 2001
- A Beautiful Mind — Akiva Goldsman [Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]
- Gosford Park — Julian Fellowes [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 2000
- Traffic — Stephen Gaghan [Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]
- Almost Famous — Cameron Crowe [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1999
- The Cider House Rules — John Irving [Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]
- American Beauty — Alan Ball [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1998
- Gods and Monsters — Bill Condon [Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]
- Shakespeare in Love — Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1997
- L.A. Confidential — Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson [Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]
- Good Will Hunting — Ben Affleck, Matt Damon [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1996
- Sling Blade — Billy Bob Thornton [Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]
- Fargo — Ethan Coen, Joel Coen [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1995
- Sense and Sensibility — Emma Thompson [Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]
- The Usual Suspects — Christopher McQuarrie [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1994
- Forrest Gump — Eric Roth [Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]
- Pulp Fiction — Quentin Tarantino; Stories by Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1993
- Schindler's List — Steven Zaillian [Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]
- The Piano — Jane Campion [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1992
- Howards End — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala [Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]
- The Crying Game — Neil Jordan [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1991
- The Silence of the Lambs — Ted Tally [Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]
- Thelma & Louise — Callie Khouri [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1990
- Dances With Wolves — Michael Blake [Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Ghost — Bruce Joel Rubin [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1989
- Driving Miss Daisy — Alfred Uhry [Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Dead Poets Society — Tom Schulman [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1988
- Dangerous Liaisons — Christopher Hampton [Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Rain Man — Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow; Story by Barry Morrow [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1987
- The Last Emperor — Mark Peploe, Bernardo Bertolucci [Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Moonstruck — John Patrick Shanley [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1986
- A Room with a View — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala [Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Hannah and Her Sisters — Woody Allen [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1985
- Out of Africa — Kurt Luedtke [Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Witness — Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley; Story by William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, Earl W. Wallace [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1984
- Amadeus — Peter Shaffer [Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Places in the Heart — Robert Benton [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1983
- Terms of Endearment — James L. Brooks [Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Tender Mercies — Horton Foote [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1982
- Missing — Costa-Gavras, Donald Stewart [Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Gandhi — John Briley [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1981
- On Golden Pond — Ernest Thompson [Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Chariots of Fire — Colin Welland [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1980
- Ordinary People — Alvin Sargent [Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Melvin and Howard — Bo Goldman [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1979
- Kramer vs. Kramer — Robert Benton [Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Breaking Away — Steve Tesich [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1978
- Midnight Express — Oliver Stone [Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Coming Home — Story by Nancy Dowd; Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1977
- Julia — Alvin Sargent [Screenplay based on material from another medium]
- Annie Hall — Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced]
- 1976
- All the President's Men — William Goldman [Screenplay based on material from another medium]
- Network — Paddy Chayefsky [Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced]
- 1975
- Dog Day Afternoon — Frank Pierson [Original Screenplay]
- One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest — Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman [Screenplay Adapted from Other Material]
- 1974
- Chinatown — Robert Towne [Original Screenplay]
- The Godfather Part II — Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo [Screenplay Adapted from Other Material]
- 1973
- The Exorcist — William Peter Blatty [Screenplay based on material from another medium]
- The Sting — David S. Ward [Story and Screenplay based on factual material or material not previously published or produced]
- 1972
- The Godfather — Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola [Screenplay based on material from another medium]
- The Candidate — Jeremy Larner [Story and Screenplay based on factual material or material not previously published or produced]
- 1971
- The French Connection — Ernest Tidyman [Screenplay based on material from another medium]
- The Hospital — Paddy Chayefsky [Story and Screenplay based on factual material or material not previously published or produced]
- 1970
- M*A*S*H — Ring Lardner, Jr. [Screenplay based on material from another medium]
- Patton — Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North [Story and Screenplay based on factual material or material not previously published or produced]
- 1969
- Midnight Cowboy — Waldo Salt [Screenplay based on material from another medium]
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid — William Goldman [Story and Screenplay based on material not previously published or produced]
- 1968
- The Lion in Winter — James Goldman [Screenplay based on material from another medium]
- The Producers — Mel Brooks [Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen]
- 1967
- In the Heat of the Night — Stirling Silliphant [Screenplay based on material from another medium]
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner — William Rose [Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen]
- 1966
- A Man for All Seasons — Robert Bolt [Screenplay based on material from another medium]
- A Man and a Woman — Story by Claude Lelouch; Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven [Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen]
- 1965
- Doctor Zhivago — Robert Bolt [Screenplay based on material from another medium]
- Darling — Frederic Raphael [Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen]
- 1964
- Becket — Edward Anhalt [Screenplay based on material from another medium]
- Father Goose — Story by S. H. Barnett; Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff [Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen]
- 1963
- Tom Jones — John Osborne [Screenplay based on material from another medium]
- How the West Was Won — James R. Webb [Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen]
- 1962
- To Kill a Mockingbird — Horton Foote [Screenplay based on material from another medium]
- Divorce Italian Style — Ennio de Concini, Alfredo Giannetti, Pietro Germi [Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen]
- 1961
- Judgment at Nuremberg — Abby Mann [Screenplay based on material from another medium]
- Splendor in the Grass — William Inge [Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen]
- 1960
- Elmer Gantry — Richard Brooks [Screenplay based on material from another medium]
- The Apartment — Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond [Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen]
- 1959
- Room at the Top — Neil Paterson [Screenplay based on material from another medium]
- Pillow Talk — Story by Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene; Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin [Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen]
- 1958
- Gigi — Alan Jay Lerner [Screenplay based on material from another medium]
- The Defiant Ones — Nedrick Young*, Harold Jacob Smith [Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen]
- 1957
- The Bridge on the River Kwai — Michael Wilson*, Carl Foreman*, Pierre Boulle [Screenplay based on material from another medium]
- Designing Woman — George Wells [Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen]
- 1956
- The Brave One — Dalton Trumbo* [Motion Picture Story]
- Around the World in 80 Days — James Poe, John Farrow, S.J. Perelman [Screenplay Adapted]
- The Red Balloon — Albert Lamorisse [Screenplay Original]
- 1955
- Love Me or Leave Me — Daniel Fuchs [Motion Picture Story]
- Marty — Paddy Chayefsky [Screenplay]
- Interrupted Melody — William Ludwig, Sonya Levien [Story and Screenplay]
- 1954
- Broken Lance — Philip Yordan [Motion Picture Story]
- The Country Girl — George Seaton [Screenplay]
- On the Waterfront — Budd Schulberg [Story and Screenplay]
- 1953
- Roman Holiday — Dalton Trumbo* [Motion Picture Story]
- From Here to Eternity — Daniel Taradash [Screenplay]
- Titanic — Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, Richard Breen [Story and Screenplay]
- 1952
- The Greatest Show on Earth — Fredric M. Frank, Theodore St. John, Frank Cavett [Motion Picture Story]
- The Bad and the Beautiful — Charles Schnee [Screenplay]
- The Lavender Hill Mob — T. E. B. Clarke [Story and Screenplay]
- 1951
- Seven Days to Noon — Paul Dehn, James Bernard [Motion Picture Story]
- A Place in the Sun — Michael Wilson, Harry Brown [Screenplay]
- An American in Paris — Alan Jay Lerner [Story and Screenplay]
- 1950
- Panic in the Streets — Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt [Motion Picture Story]
- All about Eve — Joseph L. Mankiewicz [Screenplay]
- Sunset Blvd. — Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D. M. Marshman, Jr. [Story and Screenplay]
- 1949
- The Stratton Story — Douglas Morrow [Motion Picture Story]
- A Letter to Three Wives — Joseph L. Mankiewicz [Screenplay]
- Battleground — Robert Pirosh [Story and Screenplay]
- 1948
- The Search — Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler [Motion Picture Story]
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre — John Huston [Screenplay]
- 1947
- Miracle on 34th Street — Valentine Davies [Motion Picture Story]
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer — Sidney Sheldon [Original Screenplay]
- Miracle on 34th Street — George Seaton [Screenplay]
- 1946
- Vacation from Marriage — Clemence Dane [Original Motion Picture Story]
- The Seventh Veil — Muriel Box, Sydney Box [Original Screenplay]
- The Best Years of Our Lives — Robert E. Sherwood [Screenplay]
- 1945
- The House on 92nd Street — Charles G. Booth [Original Motion Picture Story]
- Marie-Louise — Richard Schweizer [Original Screenplay]
- The Lost Weekend — Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder [Screenplay]
- 1944
- Going My Way — Leo McCarey [Original Motion Picture Story]
- Wilson — Lamar Trotti [Original Screenplay]
- Going My Way — Frank Butler, Frank Cavett [Screenplay]
- 1943
- The Human Comedy — William Saroyan [Original Motion Picture Story]
- Princess O'Rourke — Norman Krasna [Original Screenplay]
- Casablanca — Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch [Screenplay]
- 1942
- The Invaders — Emeric Pressburger [Original Motion Picture Story]
- Woman of the Year — Ring Lardner, Jr., Michael Kanin [Original Screenplay]
- Mrs. Miniver — Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West [Screenplay]
- 1941
- Citizen Kane — Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles [Original Screenplay]
- Here Comes Mr. Jordan — Harry Segall [Original Story]
- Here Comes Mr. Jordan — Sidney Buchman, Seton I. Miller [Screenplay]
- 1940
- The Great McGinty — Preston Sturges [Original Screenplay]
- Arise, My Love — Benjamin Glazer, John S. Toldy [Original Story]
- The Philadelphia Story — Donald Ogden Stewart [Screenplay]
- 1939
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington — Lewis R. Foster [Original Story]
- Gone with the Wind — Sidney Howard [Screenplay]
- 1938
- Boys Town — Dore Schary, Eleanore Griffin [Original Story]
- Pygmalion — Screenplay and Dialogue by George Bernard Shaw; Adaptation by W. P. Lipscomb, Cecil Lewis, Ian Dalrymple [Screenplay]
- 1937
- A Star Is Born — William A. Wellman, Robert Carson [Original Story]
- The Life of Emile Zola — Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg [Screenplay]
- 1936
- The Story of Louis Pasteur — Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney [Original Story]
- The Story of Louis Pasteur — Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney [Screenplay]
- 1935
- The Scoundrel — Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur [Original Story]
- The Informer — Dudley Nichols [Screenplay]
- 1934
- It Happened One Night — Robert Riskin [Adaptation]
- Manhattan Melodrama — Arthur Caesar [Original Story]
- 1932/33
- Little Women — Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason [Adaptation]
- One Way Passage — Robert Lord [Original Story]
- 1931/32
- Bad Girl — Edwin Burke [Adaptation]
- The Champ — Frances Marion [Original Story]
- 1930/31
- Cimarron — Howard Estabrook [Adaptation]
- The Dawn Patrol — John Monk Saunders [Original Story]
- 1929/30
- The Big House — Frances Marion [Writing]
- 1928/29
- The Patriot — Hans Kraly [Writing]
- 1927/28
- 7th Heaven — Benjamin Glazer [Adaptation]
- Underworld — Ben Hecht [Original Story]
- Joseph Farnham [Title Writing]
