# Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Screenplay

The Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Screenplay is an annual award given by the Houston Film Critics Society.

## Winners
### 2000s

| Year | Winner | Writer(s) |
| 2007 | Juno | Diablo Cody |
| 2007 | Atonement | Christopher Hampton |
| 2007 | Michael Clayton | Tony Gilroy |
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
| 2007 | The Savages | Tamara Jenkins |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | Simon Beaufoy |
| 2008 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Eric Roth |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan |
| 2008 | Doubt | John Patrick Shanley |
| 2008 | Milk | Dustin Lance Black |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner |
| 2009 | The Hurt Locker | Mark Boal |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2009 | In the Loop | Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, and Tony Roche |
| 2009 | Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire | Geoffrey S. Fletcher |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner | Writer(s) |
| 2010 | The Social Network | Aaron Sorkin |
| 2010 | Inception | Christopher Nolan |
| 2010 | The Kids Are All Right | Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg |
| 2010 | Toy Story 3 | John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich, and Michael Arndt |
| 2010 | Winter's Bone | Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini |
| 2011 | The Descendants | Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash |
| 2011 | 50/50 | Will Reiser |
| 2011 | The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius |
| 2011 | Midnight in Paris | Woody Allen |
| 2011 | Win Win | Tom McCarthy |
| 2012 | Lincoln | Tony Kushner |
| 2012 | Argo | Chris Terrio |
| 2012 | Looper | Rian Johnson |
| 2012 | Silver Linings Playbook | David O. Russell |
| 2012 | Zero Dark Thirty | Mark Boal |
| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave | John Ridley |
| 2013 | American Hustle | Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell |
| 2013 | Before Midnight | Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke |
| 2013 | Her | Spike Jonze |
| 2013 | Inside Llewyn Davis | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
| 2014 | Boyhood | Richard Linklater |
| 2014 | Birdman | Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo |
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness |
| 2014 | Nightcrawler | Dan Gilroy |
| 2014 | Whiplash | Damien Chazelle |
| 2015 | Spotlight | Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer |
| 2015 | The Hateful Eight | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2015 | The Martian | Drew Goddard |
| 2015 | Room | Emma Donoghue |
| 2015 | Steve Jobs | Aaron Sorkin |
| 2016 | Hell or High Water | Taylor Sheridan |
| 2016 | Arrival | Eric Heisserer |
| 2016 | La La Land | Damien Chazelle |
| 2016 | Manchester by the Sea | Kenneth Lonergan |
| 2016 | Moonlight | Barry Jenkins |
| 2017 | Lady Bird | Greta Gerwig |
| 2017 | The Big Sick | Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani |
| 2017 | Get Out | Jordan Peele |
| 2017 | The Post | Liz Hannah and Josh Singer |
| 2017 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Martin McDonagh |
| 2018 | The Favourite | Deborah Davis & Tony McNamara |
| 2018 | Eighth Grade | Bo Burnham |
| 2018 | First Reformed | Paul Schrader |
| 2018 | If Beale Street Could Talk | Barry Jenkins |
| 2018 | Vice | Adam McKay |
| 2019 | Knives Out | Rian Johnson |
| 2019 | The Farewell | Lulu Wang |
| 2019 | Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach |
| 2019 | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2019 | Parasite | Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner | Writer(s) |
| 2020 | Promising Young Woman | Emerald Fennell |
| 2020 | Minari | Lee Isaac Chung |
| 2020 | Nomadland | Chloé Zhao |
| 2020 | One Night in Miami... | Kemp Powers |
| 2020 | Sound of Metal | Derek Cianfrance, Abraham Marder and Darius Marder |
| 2020 | The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Aaron Sorkin |
| 2021 | The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion |
| 2021 | Belfast | Kenneth Branagh |
| 2021 | CODA | Sian Heder |
| 2021 | Don't Look Up | Adam McKay |
| 2021 | Licorice Pizza | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2022 | The Banshees of Inisherin | Martin McDonagh |
| 2022 | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Daniel Kwan Daniel Scheinert |
| 2022 | The Fabelmans | Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner |
| 2022 | Tár | Todd Field |
| 2022 | Women Talking | Sarah Polley and Miriam Toews |
| 2023 | American Fiction | Cord Jefferson |
| 2023 | Barbie | Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach |
| 2023 | The Holdovers | David Hemingson |
| 2023 | Oppenheimer | Christopher Nolan |
| 2023 | Past Lives | Celine Song |
| 2023 | Poor Things | Tony McNamara |