Note: Includes all writing categories, including some which are now defunct.
- 2023
- American Fiction — Cord Jefferson [Best Adapted Screenplay]
- Anatomy of a Fall — Justine Triet, Arthur Harari [Best Original Screenplay]
- 2022
- Everything Everywhere All at Once — Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan [Best Original Screenplay]
- Women Talking — Sarah Polley [Best Adapted Screenplay]
- 2021
- CODA — Sian Heder [Best Adapted Screenplay]
- Belfast — Kenneth Branagh [Best Original Screenplay]
- 2020
- The Father — Florian Zeller, Christopher Hampton [Best Adapted Screenplay]
- Promising Young Woman — Emerald Fennell [Best Original Screenplay]
- 2019
- Jojo Rabbit — Taika Waititi [Best Adapted Screenplay]
- Parasite — Bong Joon-ho, Han Jin-won [Best Original Screenplay]
- 2018
- Green Book — Brian Currie, Nick Vallelonga, Peter Farrelly [Best Original Screenplay]
- BlacKkKlansman — David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel, Spike Lee, Kevin Willmott [Best Adapted Screenplay]
- 2017
- Call Me by Your Name — James Ivory [Best Adapted Screenplay]
- Get Out — Jordan Peele [Best Original Screenplay]
- 2016
- Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan [Best Original Screenplay]
- Moonlight — Barry Jenkins, Tarell Alvin McCraney [Best Adapted Screenplay]
- Straight Outta Compton — Barry Jenkins, Tarell Alvin McCraney [Best Adapted Screenplay]
- 2015
- Spotlight — Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy [Best Original Screenplay]
- The Big Short — Charles Randolph, Adam McKay [Best Adapted Screenplay]
- 2014
- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) — Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., Nicolás Giacobone, Armando Bo [Best Original Screenplay]
- The Imitation Game — Graham Moore [Best Adapted Screenplay]
- 2013
- 12 Years a Slave — John Ridley [Best Adapted Screenplay]
- Her — Spike Jonze [Best Original Screenplay]
- 2012
- Django Unchained — Quentin Tarantino [Best Original Screenplay]
- Argo — Chris Terrio [Best Adapted Screenplay]
- 2011
- The Descendants — Jim Rash, Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne [Best Adapted Screenplay]
- Midnight in Paris — Woody Allen [Best Original Screenplay]
- 2010
- The Social Network — Aaron Sorkin [Best Adapted Screenplay]
- The King's Speech — David Seidler [Best Original Screenplay]
- 2009
- The Hurt Locker — Mark Boal [Best Original Screenplay]
- Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire — Geoffrey Fletcher [Best Adapted Screenplay]
- 2008
- Milk — Dustin Lance Black [Best Original Screenplay]
- Slumdog Millionaire — Simon Beaufoy [Best Adapted Screenplay]
- 2007
- Juno — Diablo Cody [Best Original Screenplay]
- No Country for Old Men — Ethan Coen, Joel Coen [Best Adapted Screenplay]
- 2006
- The Departed — William Monahan [Best Adapted Screenplay]
- Little Miss Sunshine — Michael Arndt [Best Original Screenplay]
- 2005
- Brokeback Mountain — Diana Ossana, Larry McMurtry [Best Adapted Screenplay]
- Crash — Bobby Moresco, Paul Haggis [Best Original Screenplay]
- 2004
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind — Charlie Kaufman, Pierre Bismuth, Michel Gondry [Best Original Screenplay]
- Sideways — Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor [Best Adapted Screenplay]
- 2003
- Lost in Translation — Sofia Coppola [Best Original Screenplay]
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King — Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens [Best Adapted Screenplay]
- 2002
- The Pianist — Ronald Harwood [Best Adapted Screenplay]
- Talk to Her — Pedro Almodóvar [Best Original Screenplay]
- 2001
- A Beautiful Mind — Akiva Goldsman [Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]
- Gosford Park — Julian Fellowes [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 2000
- Traffic — Stephen Gaghan [Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]
- Almost Famous — Cameron Crowe [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1999
- American Beauty — Alan Ball [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- The Cider House Rules — John Irving [Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]
- 1998
- Gods and Monsters — Bill Condon [Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]
- Shakespeare in Love — Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1997
- Good Will Hunting — Matt Damon, Ben Affleck [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- L.A. Confidential — Curtis Hanson, Brian Helgeland [Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]
- 1996
- Sling Blade — Billy Bob Thornton [Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]
- Fargo — Ethan Coen, Joel Coen [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1995
- Sense and Sensibility — Emma Thompson [Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]
- The Usual Suspects — Christopher McQuarrie [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1994
- Forrest Gump — Eric Roth [Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]
- Pulp Fiction — Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1993
- Schindler's List — Steven Zaillian [Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]
- The Piano — Jane Campion [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1992
- The Crying Game — Neil Jordan [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- Howards End — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala [Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]
- 1991
- The Silence of the Lambs — Ted Tally [Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]
- Thelma & Louise — Callie Khouri [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1990
- Dances With Wolves — Michael Blake [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Ghost — Bruce Joel Rubin [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1989
- Driving Miss Daisy — Alfred Uhry [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Dead Poets Society — Tom Schulman [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1988
- Dangerous Liaisons — Christopher Hampton [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Rain Man — Barry Morrow, Ronald Bass [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1987
- The Last Emperor — Mark Peploe, Bernardo Bertolucci [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Moonstruck — John Patrick Shanley [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1986
- A Room with a View — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Hannah and Her Sisters — Woody Allen [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1985
- Out of Africa — Kurt Luedtke [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Witness — Pamela Wallace, William Kelley, Earl W. Wallace [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1984
- Amadeus — Peter Shaffer [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Places in the Heart — Robert Benton [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1983
- Terms of Endearment — James L. Brooks [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Tender Mercies — Horton Foote [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1982
- Missing — Donald Stewart, Costa-Gavras [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Gandhi — John Briley [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1981
- On Golden Pond — Ernest Thompson [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Chariots of Fire — Colin Welland [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1980
- Ordinary People — Alvin Sargent [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Melvin and Howard — Bo Goldman [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1979
- Kramer vs. Kramer — Robert Benton [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Breaking Away — Steve Tesich [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1978
- Midnight Express — Oliver Stone [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Coming Home — Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones [Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1977
- Julia — Alvin Sargent [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Annie Hall — Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman [Best 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 [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Network — Paddy Chayefsky [Best 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 [Best Original Screenplay]
- One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest — Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman [Best Screenplay Adapted from Other Material]
- 1974
- Chinatown — Robert Towne [Best Original Screenplay]
- The Godfather Part II — Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola [Best Screenplay Adapted from Other Material]
- 1973
- The Exorcist — William Peter Blatty [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- The Sting — David S. Ward [Best Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material not Previously Published or Produced]
- 1972
- The Godfather — Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- The Candidate — Jeremy Larner [Best Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material not Previously Published or Produced]
- 1971
- The French Connection — Ernest Tidyman [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- The Hospital — Paddy Chayefsky [Best Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material not Previously Published or Produced]
- 1970
- M*A*S*H — Ring Lardner, Jr. [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Patton — Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North [Best Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material not Previously Published or Produced]
- 1969
- Midnight Cowboy — Waldo Salt [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid — William Goldman [Best Story and Screenplay Based on Material not Previously Published or Produced]
- 1968
- The Lion in Winter — James Goldman [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- The Producers — Mel Brooks [Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1967
- In the Heat of the Night — Stirling Silliphant [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner — William Rose [Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1966
- A Man for All Seasons — Robert Bolt [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- A Man and a Woman — Pierre Uytterhoeven, Claude Lelouch [Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1965
- Darling — Frederic Raphael [Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- Doctor Zhivago — Robert Bolt [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- 1964
- Becket — Edward Anhalt [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Father Goose — Frank Tarloff, Peter Stone, S. H. Barnett [Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1963
- Tom Jones — John Osborne [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- How the West Was Won — James R. Webb [Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1962
- Divorce--Italian Style — Pietro Germi, Alfredo Giannetti, Ennio de Concini [Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- To Kill a Mockingbird — Horton Foote [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- 1961
- Judgment at Nuremberg — Abby Mann [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Splendor in the Grass — William Inge [Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1960
- Elmer Gantry — Richard Brooks [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- The Apartment — I. A. L. Diamond, Billy Wilder [Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1959
- Room at the Top — Neil Paterson [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Pillow Talk — Maurice Richlin, Stanley Shapiro, Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene [Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1958
- The Defiant Ones — Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith [Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- Gigi — Alan Jay Lerner [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- 1957
- The Bridge on the River Kwai — Pierre Boulle, Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman [Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]
- Designing Woman — George Wells [Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen]
- 1956
- Around the World in 80 Days — S.J. Perelman, John Farrow, James Poe [Best Screenplay - Adapted]
- The Red Balloon — Albert Lamorisse [Best Screenplay - Original]
- The Brave One — Dalton Trumbo [Motion Picture Story]
- 1955
- Marty — Paddy Chayefsky [Best Screenplay]
- Love Me or Leave Me — Daniel Fuchs [Best Motion Picture Story]
- Interrupted Melody — William Ludwig, Sonya Levien [Best Story and Screenplay]
- 1954
- On the Waterfront — Budd Schulberg [Best Story and Screenplay]
- The Country Girl — George Seaton [Best Screenplay]
- Broken Lance — Philip Yordan [Best Motion Picture Story]
- 1953
- From Here to Eternity — Daniel Taradash [Best Screenplay]
- Roman Holiday — Dalton Trumbo [Best Motion Picture Story]
- Titanic — Richard Breen, Walter Reisch, Charles Brackett [Best Story and Screenplay]
- 1952
- The Bad and the Beautiful — Charles Schnee [Best Screenplay]
- The Lavender Hill Mob — T. E. B. Clarke [Best Story and Screenplay]
- The Greatest Show on Earth — Theodore St. John, Fredric M. Frank, Frank Cavett [Best Motion Picture Story]
- 1951
- A Place in the Sun — Michael Wilson, Harry Brown [Best Screenplay]
- An American in Paris — Alan Jay Lerner [Best Story and Screenplay]
- Seven Days to Noon — James Bernard, Paul Dehn [Best Motion Picture Story]
- 1950
- Sunset Blvd. — D. M. Marshman, Jr., Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett [Best Story and Screenplay]
- All about Eve — Joseph L. Mankiewicz [Best Screenplay]
- Panic in the Streets — Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt [Best Motion Picture Story]
- 1949
- Battleground — Robert Pirosh [Best Story and Screenplay]
- The Stratton Story — Douglas Morrow [Best Motion Picture Story]
- A Letter to Three Wives — Joseph L. Mankiewicz [Best Screenplay]
- 1948
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre — John Huston [Best Screenplay]
- 1947
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer — Sidney Sheldon [Best Original Screenplay]
- Miracle on 34th Street — Valentine Davies [Best Motion Picture Story]
- Miracle on 34th Street — George Seaton [Best Motion Picture Story]
- 1946
- The Best Years of Our Lives — Robert E. Sherwood [Best Screenplay]
- The Seventh Veil — Muriel Box, Sydney Box [Best Original Screenplay]
- Vacation from Marriage — Clemence Dane [Best Original Motion Picture Story]
- 1945
- The Lost Weekend — Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett [Best Screenplay]
- Marie-Louise — Richard Schweizer [Best Original Screenplay]
- The House on 92nd Street — Charles G. Booth [Best Original Motion Picture Story]
- 1944
- Going My Way — Leo McCarey [Best Original Motion Picture Story]
- Going My Way — Frank Cavett, Frank Butler [Best Original Motion Picture Story]
- Wilson — Lamar Trotti [Best Original Screenplay]
- 1943
- Casablanca — Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Julius J. Epstein [Best Screenplay]
- The Human Comedy — William Saroyan [Best Original Motion Picture Story]
- Princess O'Rourke — Norman Krasna [Best Original Screenplay]
- 1942
- Mrs. Miniver — Arthur Wimperis, James Hilton, George Froeschel, Claudine West [Best Screenplay]
- Woman of the Year — Ring Lardner, Jr., Michael Kanin [Best Original Screenplay]
- The Invaders — Emeric Pressburger [Best Original Motion Picture Story]
- 1941
- Here Comes Mr. Jordan — Harry Segall [Best Original Story]
- Here Comes Mr. Jordan — Sidney Buchman, Seton I. Miller [Best Original Story]
- Citizen Kane — Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles [Best Original Screenplay]
- 1940
- The Philadelphia Story — Donald Ogden Stewart [Best Screenplay]
- The Great McGinty — Preston Sturges [Best Original Screenplay]
- Arise, My Love — John S. Toldy, Benjamin Glazer [Best Original Story]
- 1939
- Gone with the Wind — Sidney Howard [Best Screenplay]
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington — Lewis R. Foster [Best Original Story]
- 1938
- Pygmalion — W. P. Lipscomb, Cecil Lewis, Ian Dalrymple, George Bernard Shaw [Best Screenplay]
- Boys Town — Eleanore Griffin, Dore Schary [Best Original Story]
- 1937
- The Life of Emile Zola — Geza Herczeg, Heinz Herald, Norman Reilly Raine [Best Screenplay]
- A Star Is Born — Robert Carson, William A. Wellman [Best Original Story]
- 1936
- The Story of Louis Pasteur — Sheridan Gibney, Pierre Collings [Best Original Story]
- The Story of Louis Pasteur — Sheridan Gibney, Pierre Collings [Best Screenplay]
- 1935
- The Informer — Dudley Nichols [Best Screenplay]
- The Scoundrel — Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht [Best Original Story]
- 1934
- It Happened One Night — Robert Riskin [Best Adaptation]
- Manhattan Melodrama — Arthur Caesar [Best Original Story]
- 1932/33
- Little Women — Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman [Best Adaptation]
- One Way Passage — Robert Lord [Best Original Story]
- 1931/32
- The Champ — Frances Marion [Best Original Story]
- Bad Girl — Edwin Burke [Best Adaptation]
- 1930/31
- Cimarron — Howard Estabrook [Best Adaptation]
- The Dawn Patrol — John Monk Saunders [Best Original Story]
- 1929/30
- The Big House — Frances Marion [Best Writing]
- 1928/29
- The Patriot — Hans Kraly [Best Writing]
- 1927/28
- 7th Heaven — Benjamin Glazer [Best Adaptation]
- Underworld — Ben Hecht [Best Original Story]
- A Better Life — Joseph Farnham [Best Title Writing]
