# National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay

The National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay is the award given for best screenwriting at the annual National Society of Film Critics (NSFC) Awards. The category was introduced in 1967, in the 2nd awards ceremony.

## List of winners
### 1960s

| Year | Screenwriter(s) | Film |
| 1967 | David Newman and Robert Benton | Bonnie and Clyde |
| 1968 | John Cassavetes | Faces |
| 1969 | Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker | Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice |

### 1970s

| Year | Screenwriter(s) | Film |
| 1970 | Éric Rohmer | My Night at Maud's |
| 1971 | Penelope Gilliatt | Sunday Bloody Sunday |
| 1972 | Ingmar Bergman | Cries and Whispers |
| 1973 | George Lucas, Gloria Katz, and Willard Huyck | American Graffiti |
| 1974 | Ingmar Bergman | Scenes from a Marriage |
| 1975 | Robert Towne and Warren Beatty | Shampoo |
| 1976 | Alain Tanner and John Berger | Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 |
| 1977 | Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman | Annie Hall |
| 1978 | Paul Mazursky | An Unmarried Woman |
| 1979 | Steve Tesich | Breaking Away |

### 1980s

| Year | Screenwriter(s) | Film |
| 1980 | Bo Goldman | Melvin and Howard |
| 1981 | John Guare | Atlantic City |
| 1982 | Murray Schisgal and Larry Gelbart | Tootsie |
| 1983 | Bill Forsyth | Local Hero |
| 1984 | Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, and Bruce Jay Friedman | Splash |
| 1985 | Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson | Lost in America |
| 1986 | Hanif Kureishi | My Beautiful Laundrette |
| 1987 | John Boorman | Hope and Glory |
| 1988 | Ron Shelton | Bull Durham |
| 1989 | Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost | Drugstore Cowboy |

### 1990s

| Year | Screenwriter(s) | Film |
| 1990 | Charles Burnett | To Sleep with Anger |
| 1991 | David Cronenberg | Naked Lunch |
| 1992 | David Webb Peoples | Unforgiven |
| 1993 | Jane Campion | The Piano |
| 1994 | Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary | Pulp Fiction |
| 1995 | Amy Heckerling | Clueless |
| 1996 | Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson | Mother |
| 1997 | Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland | L.A. Confidential |
| 1998 | Scott Frank | Out of Sight |
| 1999 | Charlie Kaufman | Being John Malkovich |

### 2000s

| Year | Screenwriter(s) | Film |
| 2000 | Kenneth Lonergan | You Can Count on Me |
| 2001 | Julian Fellowes | Gosford Park |
| 2002 | Ronald Harwood | The Pianist |
| 2003 | Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini | American Splendor |
| 2004 | Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor | Sideways |
| 2005 | Noah Baumbach | The Squid and the Whale |
| 2006 | Peter Morgan | The Queen |
| 2007 | Tamara Jenkins | The Savages |
| 2008 | Mike Leigh | Happy-Go-Lucky |
| 2009 | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | A Serious Man |

### 2010s

| Year | Screenwriter(s) | Film |
| 2010 | Aaron Sorkin | The Social Network |
| 2011 | Asghar Farhadi | A Separation |
| 2012 | Tony Kushner | Lincoln |
| 2013 | Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy | Before Midnight |
| 2014 | Wes Anderson | The Grand Budapest Hotel |
| 2015 | Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer | Spotlight |
| 2016 | Kenneth Lonergan | Manchester by the Sea |
| 2017 | Greta Gerwig | Lady Bird |
| 2018 | Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin and Peter Fellows | The Death of Stalin |
| 2019 | Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won | Parasite |

### 2020s

| Year | Screenwriter(s) | Film |
| 2020 | Eliza Hittman | Never Rarely Sometimes Always |
| 2021 | Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe | Drive My Car |
| 2022 | Todd Field | TÁR |
| 2023 | Samy Burch | May December |
| 2024 | Jesse Eisenberg | A Real Pain |