# Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay

The Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay is one of the annual awards given by the Toronto Film Critics Association.

## Winners
### 1990s

| Year | Winner | Film |
| 1999 | Charlie Kaufman | Being John Malkovich |
| 1999 | Paul Thomas Anderson | Magnolia |
| 1999 | Alan Ball | American Beauty |

### 2000s

| Year | Winner | Film |
| 2000 | Kenneth Lonergan | You Can Count on Me |
| 2000 | Hirokazu Kore-eda | After Life |
| 2001 | Christopher Nolan | Memento |
| 2001 | Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson | The Royal Tenenbaums |
| 2001 | Terry Zwigoff, Daniel Clowes | Ghost World |
| 2002 | Charlie Kaufman | Adaptation. |
| 2002 | Paul Thomas Anderson | Punch-Drunk Love |
| 2002 | David Hare | The Hours |
| 2003 | Sofia Coppola | Lost in Translation |
| 2003 | Denys Arcand | The Barbarian Invasions |
| 2004 | Charlie Kaufman | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
| 2005 | Noah Baumbach | The Squid and the Whale |
| 2006 | Peter Morgan | The Queen |
| 2006 | Guillermo Arriaga | Babel |
| 2006 | William Monahan | The Departed |
| 2007 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | No Country for Old Men |
| 2007 | Diablo Cody | Juno |
| 2007 | Tony Gilroy | Michael Clayton |
| 2008 | Jenny Lumet | Rachel Getting Married |
| 2008 | Peter Morgan | Frost/Nixon |
| 2008 | John Patrick Shanley | Doubt |
| 2009 | Quentin Tarantino | Inglourious Basterds |
| 2009 | Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner | Up in the Air |
| 2009 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | A Serious Man |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner | Film |
| 2010 | Aaron Sorkin | The Social Network |
| 2010 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | True Grit |
| 2010 | David Seidler | The King's Speech |
| 2011 | Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin | Moneyball |
| 2011 | Terrence Malick | The Tree of Life |
| 2011 | Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash | The Descendants |
| 2012 | Paul Thomas Anderson | The Master |
| 2012 | Mark Boal | Zero Dark Thirty |
| 2012 | Tony Kushner | Lincoln |
| 2013 | Spike Jonze | Her |
| 2013 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Inside Llewyn Davis |
| 2013 | Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy | Before Midnight |
| 2014 | Wes Anderson | The Grand Budapest Hotel |
| 2014 | Paul Thomas Anderson | Inherent Vice |
| 2014 | Richard Linklater | Boyhood |
| 2015 | Adam McKay, Charles Randolph | The Big Short |
| 2015 | Charlie Kaufman | Anomalisa |
| 2015 | Phyllis Nagy | Carol |
| 2015 | Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy | Spotlight |
| 2016 | Kenneth Lonergan | Manchester by the Sea |
| 2016 | Maren Ade | Toni Erdmann |
| 2016 | Barry Jenkins | Moonlight |
| 2017 | Jordan Peele | Get Out |
| 2017 | Greta Gerwig | Lady Bird |
| 2017 | Martin McDonagh | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri |
| 2018 | Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara | The Favourite |
| 2018 | Paul Schrader | First Reformed |
| 2018 | Alfonso Cuarón | Roma |
| 2019 | Steven Zaillian | The Irishman |
| 2019 | Noah Baumbach | Marriage Story |
| 2019 | Bong Joon-ho, Han Jin-won | Parasite |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner | Film |
| 2020 | Lee Isaac Chung | Minari |
| 2020 | Darius Marder, Abraham Marder | Sound of Metal |
| 2020 | Chloé Zhao | Nomadland |
| 2021 | Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe | Drive My Car |
| 2021 | Paul Thomas Anderson | Licorice Pizza |
| 2021 | Jane Campion | The Power of the Dog |
| 2022 | Martin McDonagh | The Banshees of Inisherin |
| 2022 | Todd Field | Tár |
| 2022 | Sarah Polley | Women Talking |

## Original Screenplay

| Year | Winner | Film |
| 2023 | Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach | Barbie |
| 2023 | Justine Triet, Arthur Harari | Anatomy of a Fall |
| 2023 | Celine Song | Past Lives |
| 2024 | Payal Kapadia | All We Imagine as Light |
| 2024 | Sean Baker | Anora |
| 2024 | Justin Kuritzkes | Challengers |

## Adapted Screenplay

| Year | Winner | Film |
| 2023 | Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese | Killers of the Flower Moon |
| 2023 | Andrew Haigh | All of Us Strangers |
| 2023 | Tony McNamara | Poor Things |
| 2024 | RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes | Nickel Boys |
| 2024 | Peter Straughan | Conclave |
| 2024 | Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts | Dune: Part Two |