Academy Award For Best Original Screenplay
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Academy Award For Best Original Screenplay
| Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay | |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) |
| First awarded | 1940 |
| Most recent winner | Bong Joon-ho Han Jin-won Parasite (2019) |
| Website | oscars |
The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay.
See also the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, a similar award for screenplays that are adaptations.
Superlatives
Woody Allen has the most nominations in this category with 16, and the most awards with 3 (for Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Midnight in Paris). Paddy Chayefsky has also won three screenwriting Oscars: two for Original Screenplay (The Hospital and Network) and one for Adapted Screenplay (Marty).
Woody Allen also holds the record as the oldest winner (76) for Midnight in Paris.[1]Ben Affleck is the youngest winner (25) for Good Will Hunting, co-written with Matt Damon (27).
Richard Schweizer was the first to win for a foreign-language film, Marie-Louise. Other winners for a non-English screenplay include Albert Lamorisse, Pietro Germi, Claude Lelouch, Pedro Almodóvar, Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won. Lamorisse is additionally the only person to win or even be nominated for Best Original Screenplay for a short film (The Red Balloon, 1956).[2]
Muriel Box (The Seventh Veil) was the first woman to win in this category; she shared the award with her husband, Sydney Box. The Boxes are also the first of two married couples to win in this category; Earl W. Wallace and Pamela Wallace (Witness) are the others.
In 1996, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen became the only siblings to win in this category (for Fargo).[3]Francis Ford Coppola (Patton, 1970) [4] and Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, 2003) are the only father-daughter pair to win.[5]
Preston Sturges was nominated for two different films in the same year (1944): Hail the Conquering Hero and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. Oliver Stone achieved the same distinction in 1986, for Platoon and Salvador. Maurice Richlin and Stanley Shapiro were nominated in 1959 for both Operation Petticoat and Pillow Talk and won for the latter.
Jordan Peele became the first and only African-American to win in this category for 2017's Get Out.[6]
Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won became the first Asian writers to win either Screenplay award, for 2019's Parasite.[7][8]
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first in colored row, followed by the other nominees.
1940s
1950s
Screenwriter and director Billy Wilder received two awards in this category in collaboration with others--one for Sunset Boulevard and one for The Apartment.
1960s
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Claude Lelouch won for A Man and a Woman (1966)
William Rose (center right) won for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1968)
1970s
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Woody Allen earned three Original Screenplay Oscars, for Annie Hall (along with Marshall Brickman), Hannah and Her Sisters, and Midnight in Paris. He has received sixteen nominations total, the most of any writer.
1980s
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1990s
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Matt Damon also received the award for Good Will Hunting.
2000s
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2010s
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Bong Joon-ho became the first South Korean Oscar winner for Parasite (2019), co-written with Han Jin-won.
2020s
| Year | Film | Nominees |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 (93rd) [89] |
Judas and the Black Messiah | Screenplay: Will Berson & Shaka King; Story: Berson, King, Keith Lucas & Kenny Lucas |
| Minari | Lee Isaac Chung | |
| Promising Young Woman | Emerald Fennell | |
| Sound of Metal | Screenplay: Abraham & Darius Marder; Story: Derek Cianfrance & D. Marder | |
| The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Aaron Sorkin |
Multiple wins and nominations
Multiple wins
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Multiple nominations
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Age superlatives
| Record | Writer | Film | Age (in years) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oldest winner | Woody Allen | Midnight in Paris | 76 | [90] |
| Oldest nominee | Blue Jasmine | 78 | ||
| Youngest winner | Ben Affleck | Good Will Hunting | 25 | [91] |
| Youngest nominee | John Singleton | Boyz n the Hood | 24 | [92] |
Diversity of nominees/winners
| Asian nominees/winners | |||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Hanif Kureishi |  /
|
My Beautiful Laundrette | Nominated | |
| 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan |  /
|
The Sixth Sense | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Iris Yamashita | /
|
Letters from Iwo Jima | Nominated | |
| 2012 | Asghar Farhadi | 
|
A Separation | Nominated | |
| 2015 | Ronnie del Carmen | 
|
Inside Out | Nominated | |
| 2017 (90th) |
Kumail Nanjiani |
|
The Big Sick | Nominated | |
| 2019 (92nd) |
Bong Joon Ho Han Jin-won |
|
Parasite | Won | |
| 2020 (93rd) |
Lee Isaac Chung | /
|
Minari | Pending | |
| Black nominees/winners | ||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Suzanne de Passe | |
Lady Sings the Blues | Nominated |
| 1989 | Spike Lee | Do the Right Thing | Nominated | |
| 1991 | John Singleton | Boyz n the Hood | Nominated | |
| 2017 | Jordan Peele | Get Out | Won | |
| 2020 | Shaka King Keith Lucas Kenny Lucas |
Judas and the Black Messiah | Pending | |
| Latin American nominees/winners | ||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 (58th) |
Aída Bortnik Luis Puenzo |
 |
The Official Story | Nominated | ||
| 2002 (75th) |
Alfonso Cuarón Carlos Cuarón |
 |
Y Tu Mamá También | Nominated | ||
| 2006 (79th) |
Guillermo Arriaga | Babel | Nominated | |||
| Guillermo del Toro | Pan's Labyrinth | Nominated | ||||
| 2014 (87th) |
Armando Bó Nicolás Giacobone Alejandro González Iñárritu |
|
Birdman | Won | ||
| 2017 (90th) |
Guillermo del Toro | |
The Shape of Water | Nominated | ||
| 2018 (91st) |
Alfonso Cuarón | Roma | Nominated | |||
| LGBT nominees/winners | ||||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | Noël Coward | In Which We Serve | Nominated | [93] | ||
| George Oppenheimer | The War Against Mrs. Hadley | Nominated | ||||
| 1952 | Terence Rattigan | The Sound Barrier | Nominated | |||
| 1961 | William Inge | Splendor in the Grass | Won | [94] | ||
| 1965 | Jacques Demy | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | Nominated | |||
| 1968 | Arthur C. Clarke | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Nominated | [95] | ||
| 1969 | Luchino Visconti | The Damned | Nominated | [96] | ||
| 1977 | Arthur Laurents | The Turning Point | Nominated | [97] | ||
| 1979 | James Bridges | The China Syndrome | Nominated | [93] | ||
| 1993 | Ron Nyswaner | Philadelphia | Nominated | [98] | ||
| 1999 | Alan Ball | American Beauty | Won | |||
| 2000 | John Logan | Gladiator | Nominated | |||
| 2002 | Pedro Almodóvar | Talk to Her | Won | |||
| Todd Haynes | Far from Heaven | Nominated | [99] | |||
| 2004 | John Logan | The Aviator | Nominated | |||
| 2008 | Dustin Lance Black | Milk | Won | [100] | ||
| 2010 | Lisa Cholodenko | The Kids Are All Right | Nominated | [101] | ||
| 2015 | Jonathan Herman | Straight Outta Compton | Nominated | [102] | ||
See also
- Academy Award for Best Story
- Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
- BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
- Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay
- Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Screenplay
- List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees
- Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay
Notes
- ^ Best Original Screenplay was consolidated in 1948 for a singular Best Screenplay award. The winner was The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, adapted from the novel of same name.
- ^ In 1958, Nedrick Young was blacklisted and writing under the pseudonym Nathan E. Douglas. The Academy's Board of Governors voted in 1993 to restore Young's nomination and award.
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- ^ Oscars: Bong Joon Ho's 'Parasite' Wins South Korea's First Oscar|Hollywood Reporter
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