# Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay is one of the annual awards given by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association.

## Winners and nominees
### 2000s

| Year | Writer(s) | Film |
| 2002 | Nia Vardalos | My Big Fat Greek Wedding |
| 2003 | Sofia Coppola | Lost in Translation |
| 2003 | Bob Peterson, David Reynolds, and Andrew Stanton | Finding Nemo |
| 2003 | Guillermo Arriaga | 21 Grams |
| 2003 | Steven Knight | Dirty Pretty Things |
| 2003 | Catherine Hardwicke and Nikki Reed | Thirteen |
| 2004 | Charlie Kaufman | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
| 2005 | Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco | Crash |
| 2005 | George Clooney and Grant Heslov | Good Night, and Good Luck. |
| 2005 | Craig Brewer | Hustle & Flow |
| 2005 | Angus MacLachlan | Junebug |
| 2005 | Noah Baumbach | The Squid and the Whale |
| 2006 | Michael Arndt | Little Miss Sunshine |
| 2007 | Diablo Cody | Juno |
| 2008 | Jenny Lumet | Rachel Getting Married |
| 2009 | Quentin Tarantino | Inglourious Basterds |
| 2009 | Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber | (500) Days of Summer |
| 2009 | Mark Boal | The Hurt Locker |
| 2009 | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | A Serious Man |
| 2009 | Bob Peterson and Pete Docter | Up |

### 2010s

| Year | Writer(s) | Film |
| 2010 | Christopher Nolan | Inception |
| 2010 | Mike Leigh | Another Year |
| 2010 | Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, and John McLaughlin | Black Swan |
| 2010 | Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg | The Kids Are All Right |
| 2010 | David Seidler | The King's Speech |
| 2011 | Will Reiser | 50/50 |
| 2011 | Michel Hazanavicius | The Artist |
| 2011 | Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig | Bridesmaids |
| 2011 | Woody Allen | Midnight in Paris |
| 2011 | Thomas McCarthy | Win Win |
| 2012 | Rian Johnson | Looper |
| 2012 | Quentin Tarantino | Django Unchained |
| 2012 | Paul Thomas Anderson | The Master |
| 2012 | Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola | Moonrise Kingdom |
| 2012 | Mark Boal | Zero Dark Thirty |
| 2013 | Spike Jonze | Her |
| 2013 | Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell | American Hustle |
| 2013 | Woody Allen | Blue Jasmine |
| 2013 | Nicole Holofcener | Enough Said |
| 2013 | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | Inside Llewyn Davis |
| 2014 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., and Armando Bo | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) |
| 2014 | Richard Linklater | Boyhood |
| 2014 | Wes Anderson | The Grand Budapest Hotel |
| 2014 | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | The Lego Movie |
| 2014 | Damien Chazelle | Whiplash |
| 2015 | Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, and Ronnie del Carmen | Inside Out |
| 2015 | Matt Charman, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen | Bridge of Spies |
| 2015 | Alex Garland | Ex Machina |
| 2015 | Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer | Spotlight |
| 2015 | Amy Schumer | Trainwreck |
| 2016 | Damien Chazelle | La La Land |
| 2016 | Taylor Sheridan | Hell or High Water |
| 2016 | Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou | The Lobster |
| 2016 | Kenneth Lonergan | Manchester by the Sea |
| 2016 | Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney | Moonlight |
| 2017 | Jordan Peele | Get Out |
| 2017 | Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani | The Big Sick |
| 2017 | Greta Gerwig | Lady Bird |
| 2017 | Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor | The Shape of Water |
| 2017 | Martin McDonagh | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri |
| 2018 | Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara | The Favourite |
| 2018 | Bo Burnham | Eighth Grade |
| 2018 | Paul Schrader | First Reformed |
| 2018 | Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Nick Vallelonga | Green Book |
| 2018 | Alfonso Cuaron | Roma |
| 2019 | Noah Baumbach | Marriage Story |
| 2019 | Rian Johnson | Knives Out |
| 2019 | Quentin Tarantino | Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood |
| 2019 | Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won | Parasite |
| 2019 | Jordan Peele | Us |

### 2020s

| Year | Writer(s) | Film |
| 2020 | Emerald Fennell | Promising Young Woman |
| 2020 | Lee Isaac Chung | Minari |
| 2020 | Abraham Marder and Darius Marder | Sound of Metal |
| 2020 | Andy Siara | Palm Springs |
| 2020 | Aaron Sorkin | The Trial of the Chicago 7 |
| 2021 | Kenneth Branagh | Belfast |
| 2021 | Mike Mills | C'mon C'mon |
| 2021 | Zach Baylin | King Richard |
| 2021 | Paul Thomas Anderson | Licorice Pizza |
| 2021 | Fran Kranz | Mass |
| 2022 | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert | Everything Everywhere All At Once |
| 2022 | Martin McDonagh | The Banshees of Inisherin |
| 2022 | Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner | The Fabelmans |
| 2022 | Jordan Peele | Nope |
| 2022 | Todd Field | Tár |