2002: "The Pianist" - Ronald Harwood
2001: "Gosford Park" - Julian Fellowes
2000: "Almost Famous" - Cameron Crowe1999: "American Beauty" - Alan Ball
1998 : "Shakespeare In Love" - Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard
1997: "Good Will Hunting" - Ben Affleck, Matt Damon
1996: "Fargo" - Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
1995: "The Usual Suspects" - Christopher McQuarrie
1994: "Pulp Fiction" - Roger Avary, Quentin Tarantino
1993: "The Piano" - Jane Campion
1992: "The Crying Game" - Neil Jordan
1991: "Thelma & Louise" - Callie Khouri
1990: "Ghost" - Bruce Joel Rubin
1989: "Dead Poets Society" - Tom Schulman
1988: "Rain Man" - Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow
1987: "Moonstruck" - John Patrick Shanley
1986: "Hannah and Her Sisters" - Woody Allen
1985: "Witness" - William Kelley, Earl W. Wallace, Pamela Wallace
1984: "Places in the Heart" - Robert Benton
1983: "Tender Mercies" - Horton Foote
1982: "Gandhi" - John Briley
1981: "Chariots of Fire" - Colin Welland
1980: "Melvin and Howard" - Bo Goldman
1979: "Breaking Away" - Steve Tesich
1978: "Coming Home" - Nancy Dowd, Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt
1977: "Annie Hall" - Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
1976: "Network" - Paddy Chayefsky
1975: "Dog Day Afternoon" - Frank Pierson
1974: "Chinatown" - Robert Towne
1973: "The Sting" - David S. Ward
1972: "The Candidate" - Jeremy Larner
1971: "The Hospital" - Paddy Chayefsky
1970: "Patton" - Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North
1969: "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" - William Goldman
1968: "The Producers" - Mel Brooks
1967: "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" - William Rose
1966: "A Man and a Woman" - Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
1965: "Darling" - Frederic Raphael
1964: "Father Goose" - S. H. Barnett, Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff
1963: "How the West Was Won" - James R. Webb
1962: "Divorce--Italian Style" - Ennio de Concini, Pietro Germi, Alfredo Giannetti
1961: "Splendor in the Grass" - William Inge
1960: "The Apartment" - I. A. L. Diamond, Billy Wilder
1959: "Pillow Talk" - Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, Stanley Shapiro
1958: "The Defiant Ones" - Harold Jacob Smith, Nedrick Young
1957: "Designing Woman" - George Wells
1956: "The Red Balloon" - Albert Lamorisse
1947 : "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer" - Sidney Sheldon
1946: "The Seventh Veil" - Muriel Box, Sydney Box
1945: "Marie-Louise" - Richard Schweizer
1944: "Wilson" - Lamar Trotti
1943: "Princess O'Rourke" - Norman Krasna
1942: "Woman of the Year" - Michael Kanin, Ring Lardner Jr.
1941: "Citizen Kane" - Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles
1940: "The Great McGinty" - Preston Sturges
(Abbreviated from standard title: Screenplay based on material previously published or produced)
2007: "No Country for Old Men" - Ethan & Joel Coen
2004: "Sideways" - Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
2003: "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" - Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, Fran Walsh
2002: "Talk to Her" - Pedro Almodovar
2001: "A Beautiful Mind" - Akiva Goldsman
2000: "Traffic" - Stephen Gaghan
1999: "The Cider House Rules" - John Irving
1998: "Gods and Monsters" - Bill Condon
1997: "L.A. Confidential" - Curtis Hanson, Brian Helgeland
1996: "Sling Blade" - Billy Bob Thornton
1995: "Sense and Sensibility" - Emma Thompson
1994: "Forrest Gump" - Eric Roth
1993: "Schindler's List" - Steven Zaillian
1992: "Howard's End" - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1991: "The Silence of the Lambs" - Ted Tally
1990: "Dances with Wolves" - Michael Blake
1989: "Driving Miss Daisy" - Alfred Uhry
1988: "Dangerous Liaisons" - Christopher Hampton
1987: "The Last Emperor" - Bernardo Bertolucci, Mark Peploe
1986: "A Room with A View" - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1985: "Out of Africa" - Kurt Luedtke
1984: "Amadeus" - Peter Shaffer
1983: "Terms of Endearment" - James L. Brooks
1982: "Missing" - Costa-Gavras, Donald Stewart
1981: "On Golden Pond" - Ernest Thompson
1980: "Ordinary People" - Alvin Sargent
1979: "Kramer vs. Kramer" - Robert Benton
1978: "Midnight Express" - Oliver Stone
1977: "Julia" - Alvin Sargent
1976: "All the President's Men" - William Goldman
1975: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" - Bo Goldman, Lawrence Hausen
1974: "The Godfather Part II" - Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo
1973: "The Exorcist" - William Peter Blatty
1972: "The Godfather" - Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo
1971: "The French Connection" - Ernest Tidyman
1970: "M*A*S*H" - Ring Lardner Jr.
1969: "Midnight Cowboy" - Waldo Salt
1968: "The Lion in Winter" - James Goldman
1967: "In the Heat of the Night" - Stirling Silliphant
1966: "A Man for All Seasons" - Robert Bolt
1965: "Doctor Zhivago" - Robert Bolt
1964: "Becket" - Edward Anhalt
1963: "Tom Jones" - John Osborne
1962: "To Kill a Mockingbird" - Horton Foote
1961: "Judgment at Nuremberg" - Abby Mann
1960: "Elmer Gantry" - Richard Brooks
1959: "Room at the Top" - Neil Paterson
1958: "Gigi" - Alan Jay Lerner
1957: "The Bridge on the River Kwai" - Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson
1956: "Around the World in 80 Days" - John Farrow, S.J. Perelman, James Poe
