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Writers Guild of America Award For Best Original Screenplay
The Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay is one of the three film writing awards given by the Writers Guild of America .
Winners and nominees
Notes
"±±±" indicates a place on the 101 Greatest Screenplays list[1] 1960s
1970s
Year
Film
Writer(s)
1970 (23rd) [3]
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
Patton
Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North ±±±
Five Easy Pieces
Carole Eastman (as Adrien Joyce)
Love Story
Erich Segal
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
The Out-of-Towners
Neil Simon
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Billy Wilder , and I.A.L. Diamond
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronk
Gabriel Walsh
Start the Revolution Without Me
Fred Freeman , and Lawrence J. Cohen
The Cheyenne Social Club
James Lee Barrett
1971 (24th) [4]
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Penelope Gilliatt
Klute
Andy Lewis, and David E. Lewis
Summer of '42
Hernan Raucher
The Hellstrom Chronicle
David Seltzer
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
The Hospital
Paddy Chayefsky
Bananas
Woody Allen , and Mickey Rose
Carnal Knowledge
Jules Feiffer
Made for Each Other
Renée Taylor , and Joseph Bologna
Taking Off
Milo? Forman , Jean-Claude Carrière , John Guare , and Jon Klein
1972 (25th) [5]
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
The Candidate
Jeremy Larner
Bad Company
David Newman, and Robert Benton
Images
Robert Altman
The Culpepper Cattle Co.
Eric Bercovici , and Gregory Prentiss
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
Philip Kaufman
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
What's Up, Doc?
Peter Bogdanovich , Buck Henry , David Newman , and Robert Benton
Get to Know Your Rabbit
Jordan Crittenden
Hammersmith Is Out
Stanford Whitmore
Minnie and Moskowitz
John Cassavetes
The War Between Men and Women
Melville Shavelson , and Danny Arnold
1973 (26th) [6]
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
Save the Tiger
Steve Shagan
Mean Streets
Martin Scorsese , and Mardik Martin
Payday
Don Carpenter
The Sting
David S. Ward ±±±
The Way We Were
Arthur Laurents
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
A Touch of Class
Melvin Frank and Jack Rose
American Graffiti
George Lucas , Gloria Katz , and Willard Huyck
Blume in Love
Paul Mazursky
Sleeper
Woody Allen , and Marshall Brickman
Slither
W.D. Richter
1974 (27th) [7]
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
Chinatown
Robert Towne ±±±
A Woman Under the Influence
John Cassavetes
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Robert Getchell
Harry and Tonto
Paul Mazursky , and Josh Greenfeld
The Conversation
Francis Ford Coppola
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
Blazing Saddles
Mel Brooks , Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman , Richard Pryor , and Alan Uger
California Split
Joseph Walsh
Claudine
Tina Pine, and Lester Pine
Phantom of the Paradise
Brian de Palma
The Sugarland Express
Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins , and Steven Spielberg
1975 (28th) [8]
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
Dog Day Afternoon
Frank Pierson ±±±
French Connection II
Alexander Jacobs , Robert Dillon , and Laurie Dillon
Nashville
Joan Twekesbury
The Wind and the Lion
John Milius
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
Shampoo
Robert Towne and Warren Beatty
Heats of the West
Rob Thompson
Smile
Jerry Belson
The Return of the Pink Panther
Frank Waldman , and Blake Edwards
1976 (29th) [9]
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
Network
Paddy Chayefsky ±±±
The Omen
David Seltzer
Rocky
Sylvester Stallone ±±±
Taxi Driver
Paul Schrader ±±±
The Front
Walter Bernstein
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
The Bad News Bears
Bill Lancaster
Murder by Death
Neil Simon
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
Paul Mazursky
Silent Movie
Mel Brooks , Ron Clark , Rudy De Luca , and Barry Levinson
Silver Streak
Colin Higgins
1977 (30th) [10]
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
The Turning Point
Arthur Laurents
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Steven Spielberg
Saturday Night Fever
Norman Wexler
The Late Show
Robert Benton
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
Annie Hall
Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman ±±±
Star Wars
George Lucas ±±±
Slap Shot
Nancy Dowd
The Goodbye Girl
Neil Simon
1978 (31st) [11]
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
Coming Home
Nancy Dowd , Robert C. Jones , and Waldo Salt
An Unmarried Woman
Paul Mazursky
Days of Heaven
Terrence Malick
Interiors
Woody Allen
The Deer Hunter
Deric Washburn , Michael Cimino , Louis Garfinkle, and Quinn K. Redeker
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
Movie Movie
Larry Gelbart and Sheldon Keller
A Wedding
John Considine , Patricia Resnick , Allan F. Nicholls , and Robert Altman
Animal House
Harold Ramis , Douglas Kenney , and Chris Miller
House Calls
Max Shulman , Julius J. Epstein , Alan Mandel, and Charles Shyer
Once in Paris...
Frank D. Gilroy
1979 (32nd) [12]
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
The China Syndrome
Mike Gray , T. S. Cook , and James Bridges
Apocalypse Now
John Milius , and Francis Ford Coppola ±±±
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
Breaking Away
Steve Tesich
10
Blake Edwards
Manhattan
Woody Allen, and Marshall Brickman ±±±
1980s
Year
Film
Writer(s)
1980 (33rd) [13]
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
Melvin and Howard
Bo Goldman
Fame
Christopher Gore
My Bodyguard
Alan Ornsby
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
Private Benjamin
Nancy Meyers , Harvey Miller, and Charles Shyer
Nine to Five
Coling Higgins, and Patricia Resnick
Return of the Secaucus
John Sayles
Stardust Memories
Woody Allen
1981 (34th) [14]
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
Reds
Warren Beatty and Trevor Griffiths
Absence of Malice
Kurt Luedtke
Atlantic City
John Guare
Body Heat
Lawrence Kasdan
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
Arthur
Steve Gordon
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Lawrence Kasdan , George Lucas , and Philip Kaufman ±±±
S.O.B.
Blake Edwards
The Four Seasons
Alan Alda
1982 (35th) [15]
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Melissa Mathison ±±±
An Officer and a Gentleman
Douglas Day Stewart
Shoot the Moon
Bo Goldman
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
Tootsie
Don McGuire , Larry Gelbart , and Murray Schisgal ±±±
Diner
Barry Levinson
My Favorite Year
Norman Steinberg, and Dennis Palumbo
1983 (36th) [16]
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
Tender Mercies
Horton Foote
Silkwood
Nora Ephron , and Alice Arlen
WarGames
Lawrence Lasker , and Walter F. Parkes
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
The Big Chill
Lawrence Kasdan , and Barbara Benedek
Risky Business
Paul Brickman
Zelig
Woody Allen
1984 (37th) [17]
Broadway Danny Rose
Woody Allen
El Norte
Gregory Nava , and Anna Thomas
Places in the Heart
Robert Benton
Romancing the Stone
Diane Thomas
Splash
Lowell Ganz , Babaloo Mandel , Bruce Jay Friedman and Brian Grazer
1985 (38th) [18]
Witness
William Kelley, and Earl W. Wallace ±±±
Back to the Future
Robert Zemeckis , and Bob Gale ±±±
Cocoon
Tom Benedek
Mask
Anna Hamilton Phelan
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Woody Allen
1986 (39th) [19]
Hannah and Her Sisters
Woody Allen ±±±
Blue Velvet
David Lynch
Mona Lisa
Neil Jordan , and David Leland
Platoon
Oliver Stone
Salvador
Richard Boyle, and Oliver Stone
1987 (40th) [20]
Moonstruck
John Patrick Shanley ±±±
Broadcast News
James L. Brooks ±±±
Hope and Glory
John Boorman
The Last Emperor
Bernardo Bertolucci , and Mark Peploe
Radio Days
Woody Allen
1988 (41st) [21]
Bull Durham
Ron Shelton
Big
Gary Ross , and Anne Spielberg
A Fish Called Wanda
John Cleese and Charles Crichton
Rain Man
Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow
Working Girl
Kevin Wade
1989 (42nd) [22]
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Woody Allen ±±±
Dead Poets Society
Tom Schulman
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Steve Kloves
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Steven Soderbergh
When Harry Met Sally...
Nora Ephron ±±±
1990s
2000s
2010s
Year
Film
Writer(s)
2010 (63rd) [43]
Inception
Christopher Nolan
Black Swan
Mark Heyman , Andres Heinz, and John McLaughlin
The Fighter
Scott Silver , Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, and Keith Dorrington
The Kids Are All Right
Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg
Please Give
Nicole Holofcener
2011 (64th) [44]
Midnight in Paris +
Woody Allen
50/50
Will Reiser
Bridesmaids
Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig
Win Win
Tom McCarthy
Young Adult
Diablo Cody
2012 (65th) [45]
Zero Dark Thirty
Mark Boal
Flight
John Gatins
Looper
Rian Johnson
The Master
Paul Thomas Anderson
Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
2013 (66th) [46]
Her +
Spike Jonze
American Hustle
Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine
Woody Allen
Dallas Buyers Club
Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack
Nebraska
Bob Nelson
2014 (67th) [47]
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness
Boyhood
Richard Linklater
Foxcatcher
E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman
Nightcrawler
Dan Gilroy
Whiplash
Damien Chazelle
2015 (68th) [48]
Spotlight +
Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer
Bridge of Spies
Matt Charman , Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen
Sicario
Taylor Sheridan
Straight Outta Compton
Jonathan Herman , Andrea Berloff , S. Leigh Savidge , and Alan Wenkus
Trainwreck
Amy Schumer
2016 (69th) [49]
Moonlight
Barry Jenkins ; story by Tarell Alvin McCraney
Hell or High Water
Taylor Sheridan
La La Land
Damien Chazelle
Loving
Jeff Nichols
Manchester by the Sea +
Kenneth Lonergan
2017 (70th) [50]
Get Out +
Jordan Peele
The Big Sick
Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani
I, Tonya
Steven Rogers
Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig
The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor
2018 (71st) [51]
Eighth Grade
Bo Burnham
Green Book +
Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie & Peter Farrelly
A Quiet Place
Bryan Woods & Scott Beck and John Krasinski
Roma
Alfonso Cuarón
Vice
Adam McKay
2019 (72nd) [52]
Parasite +
Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won
1917
Sam Mendes & Krysty Wilson-Cairns
Booksmart
Emily Halpern & Sarah Haskins and Susanna Fogel and Katie Silberman
Knives Out
Rian Johnson
Marriage Story
Noah Baumbach
Writers with multiple awards
5 Awards 2 Awards Writers with multiple nominations
13 Nominations 5 Nominations 4 Nominations 3 Nominations
2 Nominations
References
^ 101 Greatest Screenplays
^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1970)" . IMDb . Retrieved .
^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1971)" . IMDb . Retrieved .
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