# Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Original Screenplay is presented by the Critics Choice Association at the annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards.

## History

The categories for screenplays have gone through several changes since their inception in 1995:
* From 1995 to 1996, the category Best Screenplay was presented, with no official nominees being announced but instead only a winner.
* From 1997 to 2000, the category was split into two, divided into Best Original Screenplay and Best Screenplay Adaptation.
* In 2001, the categories were merged into Best Screenplay again. From 2002 to 2008, the category was renamed to Best Writer.
In 2009, the distinction between original and adapted was implemented again, with two categories presented ever since, Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay.

## Winners and nominees
### 1990s
#### Best Screenplay

| Year | Writer (s) | Film |
| 1995 | Emma Thompson | Sense and Sensibility |
| 1996 | Anthony Minghella | The English Patient |

#### Best Original Screenplay

| Year | Writer (s) | Film |
| 1997 | Matt Damon and Ben Affleck | Good Will Hunting |
| 1998 | Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard | Shakespeare in Love |
| 1999 | Alan Ball | American Beauty |

### 2000s
#### Best Original Screenplay

| Year | Writer (s) | Film |
| 2000 | Cameron Crowe | Almost Famous |

#### Best Screenplay

| Year | Writer (s) | Film |
| 2001 | Christopher Nolan | Memento |
| 2001 | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | The Man Who Wasn't There |
| 2001 | Akiva Goldsman | A Beautiful Mind |

#### Best Writer

| Year | Writer (s) | Film |
| 2002 | Charlie Kaufman | Adaptation. and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind |
| 2002 | Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor | About Schmidt |
| 2002 | Nia Vardalos | My Big Fat Greek Wedding |
| 2003 | Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan, and Kirsten Sheridan | In America |
| 2003 | John August | Big Fish |
| 2003 | Sofia Coppola | Lost in Translation |
| 2003 | Brian Helgeland | Mystic River |
| 2003 | Gary Ross | Seabiscuit |
| 2004 | Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor | Sideways |
| 2004 | Bill Condon | Kinsey |
| 2004 | Charlie Kaufman | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
| 2004 | John Logan | The Aviator |
| 2004 | David Magee | Finding Neverland |
| 2005 | Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco | Crash |
| 2005 | Noah Baumbach | The Squid and the Whale |
| 2005 | George Clooney and Grant Heslov | Good Night, and Good Luck. |
| 2005 | Dan Futterman | Capote |
| 2005 | Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana | Brokeback Mountain |
| 2006 | Michael Arndt | Little Miss Sunshine |
| 2006 | Guillermo Arriaga | Babel |
| 2006 | Todd Field and Tom Perrotta | Little Children |
| 2006 | Zach Helm | Stranger than Fiction |
| 2006 | William Monahan | The Departed |
| 2006 | Peter Morgan | The Queen |
| 2007 | Diablo Cody | Juno |
| 2007 | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | No Country for Old Men |
| 2007 | Tony Gilroy | Michael Clayton |
| 2007 | Nancy Oliver | Lars and the Real Girl |
| 2007 | Sean Penn | Into the Wild |
| 2007 | Aaron Sorkin | Charlie Wilson's War |
| 2008 | Simon Beaufoy | Slumdog Millionaire |
| 2008 | Dustin Lance Black | Milk |
| 2008 | Peter Morgan | Frost/Nixon |
| 2008 | Eric Roth | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
| 2008 | John Patrick Shanley | Doubt |

#### Best Original Screenplay

| Year | Writer (s) | Film |
| 2009 | Quentin Tarantino | Inglourious Basterds |
| 2009 | Mark Boal | The Hurt Locker |
| 2009 | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | A Serious Man |
| 2009 | Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber | (500) Days of Summer |
| 2009 | Bob Peterson and Pete Docter | Up |

### 2010s

| Year | Writer (s) | Film |
| 2010 | David Seidler | The King's Speech |
| 2010 | Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg | The Kids Are All Right |
| 2010 | Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, and John McLaughlin | Black Swan |
| 2010 | Mike Leigh | Another Year |
| 2010 | Christopher Nolan | Inception |
| 2010 | Scott Silver, Eric Johnson, Paul Tamasy, and Keith Dorrington | The Fighter |
| 2011 | Woody Allen | Midnight in Paris |
| 2011 | Diablo Cody | Young Adult |
| 2011 | Michel Hazanavicius | The Artist |
| 2011 | Tom McCarthy and Joe Tiboni | Win Win |
| 2011 | Will Reiser | 50/50 |
| 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 |
| 2012 | John Gatins | Flight |
| 2012 | Rian Johnson | Looper |
| 2013 | Spike Jonze | Her |
| 2013 | Woody Allen | Blue Jasmine |
| 2013 | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | Inside Llewyn Davis |
| 2013 | Bob Nelson | Nebraska |
| 2013 | Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell | American Hustle |
| 2014 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bó | Birdman |
| 2014 | Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness | The Grand Budapest Hotel |
| 2014 | Damien Chazelle | Whiplash |
| 2014 | Dan Gilroy | Nightcrawler |
| 2014 | Richard Linklater | Boyhood |
| 2015 | Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer | Spotlight |
| 2015 | Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, and Joel Coen | Bridge of Spies |
| 2015 | Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley | Inside Out |
| 2015 | Alex Garland | Ex Machina |
| 2015 | Quentin Tarantino | The Hateful Eight |
| 2016 | Damien Chazelle (TIE) | La La Land |
| 2016 | Kenneth Lonergan (TIE) | Manchester by the Sea |
| 2016 | Efthimis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos | The Lobster |
| 2016 | Barry Jenkins | Moonlight |
| 2016 | Jeff Nichols | Loving |
| 2016 | Taylor Sheridan | Hell or High Water |
| 2017 | Jordan Peele | Get Out |
| 2017 | Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor | The Shape of Water |
| 2017 | Greta Gerwig | Lady Bird |
| 2017 | Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani | The Big Sick |
| 2017 | Liz Hannah and Josh Singer | The Post |
| 2017 | Martin McDonagh | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri |
| 2018 | Paul Schrader | First Reformed |
| 2018 | Bo Burnham | Eighth Grade |
| 2018 | Alfonso Cuarón | Roma |
| 2018 | Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara | The Favourite |
| 2018 | Adam McKay | Vice |
| 2018 | Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, and Peter Farrelly | Green Book |
| 2018 | Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, and John Krasinski | A Quiet Place |
| 2019 | Quentin Tarantino | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood |
| 2019 | Noah Baumbach | Marriage Story |
| 2019 | Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won | Parasite |
| 2019 | Rian Johnson | Knives Out |
| 2019 | Lulu Wang | The Farewell |

### 2020s

| Year | Writer (s) | Film |
| 2020 | Emerald Fennell | Promising Young Woman |
| 2020 | Lee Isaac Chung | Minari |
| 2020 | Jack Fincher (posthumous) | Mank |
| 2020 | Eliza Hittman | Never Rarely Sometimes Always |
| 2020 | Darius Marder and Abraham Marder | Sound of Metal |
| 2020 | Aaron Sorkin | The Trial of the Chicago 7 |
| 2021 | Kenneth Branagh | Belfast |
| 2021 | Paul Thomas Anderson | Licorice Pizza |
| 2021 | Zach Baylin | King Richard |
| 2021 | Adam McKay and David Sirota | Don't Look Up |
| 2021 | Aaron Sorkin | Being the Ricardos |
| 2022 | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| 2022 | Todd Field | Tár |
| 2022 | Martin McDonagh | The Banshees of Inisherin |
| 2022 | Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner | The Fabelmans |
| 2022 | Charlotte Wells | Aftersun |
| 2023 | Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach | Barbie |
| 2023 | Samy Burch | May December |
| 2023 | Alex Convery | Air |
| 2023 | Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer | Maestro |
| 2023 | David Hemingson | The Holdovers |
| 2023 | Celine Song | Past Lives |
| 2024 | Coralie Fargeat | The Substance |
| 2024 | Sean Baker | Anora |
| 2024 | Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, and Alex David | September 5 |
| 2024 | Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold | The Brutalist |
| 2024 | Jesse Eisenberg | A Real Pain |
| 2024 | Justin Kuritzkes | Challengers |