# Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay is one of the three film writing awards given by the Writers Guild of America.
Woody Allen holds the record for most wins and nominations for the award, with five wins out of twenty nominations.

## Winners and nominees
### 1960s

| Year | Film | Writer(s) |
| 1969 (22nd) | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
| 1969 (22nd) | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | William Goldman |
| 1969 (22nd) | Alice's Restaurant | Venable Herndon and Arthur Penn |
| 1969 (22nd) | Downhill Racer | James Salter |
| 1969 (22nd) | Easy Rider | Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern |
| 1969 (22nd) | Me, Natalie | A. Martin Zwelback |
| Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen ||
| 1969 (22nd) | Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice | Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker |
| 1969 (22nd) | If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium | David Shaw |
| 1969 (22nd) | Popi | Tina Pine and Lester Pine |
| 1969 (22nd) | Support Your Local Sheriff | William Bowers |
| 1969 (22nd) | Take the Money and Run | Woody Allen and Mickey Rose |

### 1970s

| Year | Film | Writer(s) |
| 1970 (23rd) | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
| 1970 (23rd) | Patton | Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North |
| 1970 (23rd) | Five Easy Pieces | Carole Eastman (as Adrien Joyce) |
| 1970 (23rd) | Love Story | Erich Segal |
| Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen ||
| 1970 (23rd) | The Out-of-Towners | Neil Simon |
| 1970 (23rd) | The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes | Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond |
| 1970 (23rd) | Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronk | Gabriel Walsh |
| 1970 (23rd) | Start the Revolution Without Me | Fred Freeman and Lawrence J. Cohen |
| 1970 (23rd) | The Cheyenne Social Club | James Lee Barrett |
| 1971 (24th) | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
| 1971 (24th) | Sunday Bloody Sunday | Penelope Gilliatt |
| 1971 (24th) | Klute | Andy Lewis and David E. Lewis |
| 1971 (24th) | Summer of '42 | Hernan Raucher |
| 1971 (24th) | The Hellstrom Chronicle | David Seltzer |
| Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen ||
| 1971 (24th) | The Hospital | Paddy Chayefsky |
| 1971 (24th) | Bananas | Woody Allen and Mickey Rose |
| 1971 (24th) | Carnal Knowledge | Jules Feiffer |
| 1971 (24th) | Made for Each Other | Renée Taylor and Joseph Bologna |
| 1971 (24th) | Taking Off | Miloṡ Forman, Jean-Claude Carrière, John Guare, and Jon Klein |
| 1972 (25th) | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
| 1972 (25th) | The Candidate | Jeremy Larner |
| 1972 (25th) | Bad Company | David Newman and Robert Benton |
| 1972 (25th) | Images | Robert Altman |
| 1972 (25th) | The Culpepper Cattle Co. | Eric Bercovici and Gregory Prentiss |
| 1972 (25th) | The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid | Philip Kaufman |
| Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen ||
| 1972 (25th) | What’s Up, Doc? | Peter Bogdanovich, Buck Henry, David Newman, and Robert Benton |
| 1972 (25th) | Get to Know Your Rabbit | Jordan Crittenden |
| 1972 (25th) | Hammersmith Is Out | Stanford Whitmore |
| 1972 (25th) | Minnie and Moskowitz | John Cassavetes |
| 1972 (25th) | The War Between Men and Women | Melville Shavelson and Danny Arnold |
| 1973 (26th) | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
| 1973 (26th) | Save the Tiger | Steve Shagan |
| 1973 (26th) | Mean Streets | Martin Scorsese and Mardik Martin |
| 1973 (26th) | Payday | Don Carpenter |
| 1973 (26th) | The Sting | David S. Ward |
| 1973 (26th) | The Way We Were | Arthur Laurents |
| Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen ||
| 1973 (26th) | A Touch of Class | Melvin Frank and Jack Rose |
| 1973 (26th) | American Graffiti | George Lucas, Gloria Katz, and Willard Huyck |
| 1973 (26th) | Blume in Love | Paul Mazursky |
| 1973 (26th) | Sleeper | Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman |
| 1973 (26th) | Slither | W.D. Richter |
| 1974 (27th) | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
| 1974 (27th) | Chinatown | Robert Towne |
| 1974 (27th) | A Woman Under the Influence | John Cassavetes |
| 1974 (27th) | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Robert Getchell |
| 1974 (27th) | Harry and Tonto | Paul Mazursky and Josh Greenfeld |
| 1974 (27th) | The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen ||
| 1974 (27th) | Blazing Saddles | Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, and Alan Uger |
| 1974 (27th) | California Split | Joseph Walsh |
| 1974 (27th) | Claudine | Tina Pine and Lester Pine |
| 1974 (27th) | Phantom of the Paradise | Brian de Palma |
| 1974 (27th) | The Sugarland Express | Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins, and Steven Spielberg |
| 1975 (28th) | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
| 1975 (28th) | Dog Day Afternoon | Frank Pierson |
| 1975 (28th) | French Connection II | Alexander Jacobs, Robert Dillon, and Laurie Dillon |
| 1975 (28th) | Nashville | Joan Twekesbury |
| 1975 (28th) | The Wind and the Lion | John Milius |
| Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen ||
| 1975 (28th) | Shampoo | Robert Towne and Warren Beatty |
| 1975 (28th) | Heats of the West | Rob Thompson |
| 1975 (28th) | Smile | Jerry Belson |
| 1975 (28th) | The Return of the Pink Panther | Frank Waldman and Blake Edwards |
| 1976 (29th) | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
| 1976 (29th) | Network | Paddy Chayefsky |
| 1976 (29th) | The Omen | David Seltzer |
| 1976 (29th) | Rocky | Sylvester Stallone |
| 1976 (29th) | Taxi Driver | Paul Schrader |
| 1976 (29th) | The Front | Walter Bernstein |
| Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen ||
| 1976 (29th) | The Bad News Bears | Bill Lancaster |
| 1976 (29th) | Murder by Death | Neil Simon |
| 1976 (29th) | Next Stop, Greenwich Village | Paul Mazursky |
| 1976 (29th) | Silent Movie | Mel Brooks, Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca, and Barry Levinson |
| 1976 (29th) | Silver Streak | Colin Higgins |
| 1977 (30th) | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
| 1977 (30th) | The Turning Point | Arthur Laurents |
| 1977 (30th) | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven Spielberg |
| 1977 (30th) | Saturday Night Fever | Norman Wexler |
| 1977 (30th) | The Late Show | Robert Benton |
| Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen ||
| 1977 (30th) | Annie Hall | Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman |
| 1977 (30th) | Star Wars | George Lucas |
| 1977 (30th) | Slap Shot | Nancy Dowd |
| 1977 (30th) | The Goodbye Girl | Neil Simon |
| 1978 (31st) | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
| 1978 (31st) | Coming Home | Nancy Dowd, Robert C. Jones, and Waldo Salt |
| 1978 (31st) | An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky |
| 1978 (31st) | Days of Heaven | Terrence Malick |
| 1978 (31st) | Interiors | Woody Allen |
| 1978 (31st) | The Deer Hunter | Deric Washburn, Michael Cimino, Louis Garfinkle, and Quinn K. Redeker |
| Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen ||
| 1978 (31st) | Movie Movie | Larry Gelbart and Sheldon Keller |
| 1978 (31st) | A Wedding | John Considine, Patricia Resnick, Allan F. Nicholls, and Robert Altman |
| 1978 (31st) | Animal House | Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, and Chris Miller |
| 1978 (31st) | House Calls | Max Shulman, Julius J. Epstein, Alan Mandel, and Charles Shyer |
| 1978 (31st) | Once in Paris... | Frank D. Gilroy |
| 1979 (32nd) | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
| 1979 (32nd) | The China Syndrome | Mike Gray, T. S. Cook, and James Bridges |
| 1979 (32nd) | Apocalypse Now | John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola |
| Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen ||
| 1979 (32nd) | Breaking Away | Steve Tesich |
| 1979 (32nd) | 10 | Blake Edwards |
| 1979 (32nd) | Manhattan | Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman |

### 1980s

| Year | Film | Writer(s) |
| 1980 (33rd) | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
| 1980 (33rd) | Melvin and Howard | Bo Goldman |
| 1980 (33rd) | Fame | Christopher Gore |
| 1980 (33rd) | My Bodyguard | Alan Ornsby |
| Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen ||
| 1980 (33rd) | Private Benjamin | Nancy Meyers, Harvey Miller, and Charles Shyer |
| 1980 (33rd) | Nine to Five | Colin Higgins and Patricia Resnick |
| 1980 (33rd) | Return of the Secaucus 7 | John Sayles |
| 1980 (33rd) | Stardust Memories | Woody Allen |
| 1981 (34th) | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
| 1981 (34th) | Reds | Warren Beatty and Trevor Griffiths |
| 1981 (34th) | Absence of Malice | Kurt Luedtke |
| 1981 (34th) | Atlantic City | John Guare |
| 1981 (34th) | Body Heat | Lawrence Kasdan |
| Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen ||
| 1981 (34th) | Arthur | Steve Gordon |
| 1981 (34th) | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, and Philip Kaufman |
| 1981 (34th) | S.O.B. | Blake Edwards |
| 1981 (34th) | The Four Seasons | Alan Alda |
| 1982 (35th) | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
| 1982 (35th) | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Melissa Mathison |
| 1982 (35th) | An Officer and a Gentleman | Douglas Day Stewart |
| 1982 (35th) | Shoot the Moon | Bo Goldman |
| Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen ||
| 1982 (35th) | Tootsie | Don McGuire, Larry Gelbart, and Murray Schisgal |
| 1982 (35th) | Diner | Barry Levinson |
| 1982 (35th) | My Favorite Year | Norman Steinberg and Dennis Palumbo |
| 1983 (36th) | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
| 1983 (36th) | Tender Mercies | Horton Foote |
| 1983 (36th) | Silkwood | Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen |
| 1983 (36th) | WarGames | Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes |
| Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen ||
| 1983 (36th) | The Big Chill | Lawrence Kasdan and Barbara Benedek |
| 1983 (36th) | Risky Business | Paul Brickman |
| 1983 (36th) | Zelig | Woody Allen |
| 1984 (37th) | Broadway Danny Rose | Woody Allen |
| 1984 (37th) | El Norte | Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas |
| 1984 (37th) | Places in the Heart | Robert Benton |
| 1984 (37th) | Romancing the Stone | Diane Thomas |
| 1984 (37th) | Splash | Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman and Brian Grazer |
| 1985 (38th) | Witness | William Kelley and Earl W. Wallace |
| 1985 (38th) | Back to the Future | Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale |
| 1985 (38th) | Cocoon | Tom Benedek |
| 1985 (38th) | Mask | Anna Hamilton Phelan |
| 1985 (38th) | The Purple Rose of Cairo | Woody Allen |
| 1986 (39th) | Hannah and Her Sisters | Woody Allen |
| 1986 (39th) | Blue Velvet | David Lynch |
| 1986 (39th) | Mona Lisa | Neil Jordan and David Leland |
| 1986 (39th) | Platoon | Oliver Stone |
| 1986 (39th) | Salvador | Richard Boyle and Oliver Stone |
| 1987 (40th) | Moonstruck | John Patrick Shanley |
| 1987 (40th) | Broadcast News | James L. Brooks |
| 1987 (40th) | Hope and Glory | John Boorman |
| 1987 (40th) | The Last Emperor | Bernardo Bertolucci and Mark Peploe |
| 1987 (40th) | Radio Days | Woody Allen |
| 1988 (41st) | Bull Durham | Ron Shelton |
| 1988 (41st) | Big | Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg |
| 1988 (41st) | A Fish Called Wanda | John Cleese and Charles Crichton |
| 1988 (41st) | Rain Man | Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow |
| 1988 (41st) | Working Girl | Kevin Wade |
| 1989 (42nd) | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Woody Allen |
| 1989 (42nd) | Dead Poets Society | Tom Schulman |
| 1989 (42nd) | The Fabulous Baker Boys | Steve Kloves |
| 1989 (42nd) | Sex, Lies, and Videotape | Steven Soderbergh |
| 1989 (42nd) | When Harry Met Sally... | Nora Ephron |

### 1990s

| Year | Film | Writer(s) |
| 1990 (43rd) | Avalon | Barry Levinson |
| 1990 (43rd) | Alice | Woody Allen |
| 1990 (43rd) | Ghost | Bruce Joel Rubin |
| 1990 (43rd) | Green Card | Peter Weir |
| 1990 (43rd) | Pretty Woman | J. F. Lawton |
| 1991 (44th) | Thelma & Louise | Callie Khouri |
| 1991 (44th) | Boyz n the Hood | John Singleton |
| 1991 (44th) | Bugsy | James Toback |
| 1991 (44th) | The Fisher King | Richard LaGravenese |
| 1991 (44th) | Grand Canyon | Lawrence and Meg Kasdan |
| 1992 (45th) | The Crying Game | Neil Jordan |
| 1992 (45th) | Husbands and Wives | Woody Allen |
| 1992 (45th) | Lorenzo's Oil | Nick Enright and George Miller |
| 1992 (45th) | Passion Fish | John Sayles |
| 1992 (45th) | Unforgiven | David Webb Peoples |
| 1993 (46th) | The Piano | Jane Campion |
| 1993 (46th) | Dave | Gary Ross |
| 1993 (46th) | In the Line of Fire | Jeff Maguire |
| 1993 (46th) | Philadelphia | Ron Nyswaner |
| 1993 (46th) | Sleepless in Seattle | Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron, and David S. Ward |
| 1994 (47th) | Four Weddings and a Funeral | Richard Curtis |
| 1994 (47th) | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Stephan Elliott |
| 1994 (47th) | Bullets over Broadway | Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath |
| 1994 (47th) | Ed Wood | Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski |
| 1994 (47th) | Heavenly Creatures | Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh |
| 1995 (48th) | Braveheart | Randall Wallace |
| 1995 (48th) | The American President | Aaron Sorkin |
| 1995 (48th) | Clueless | Amy Heckerling |
| 1995 (48th) | Mighty Aphrodite | Woody Allen |
| 1995 (48th) | Muriel's Wedding | P. J. Hogan |
| 1996 (49th) | Fargo | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
| 1996 (49th) | Jerry Maguire | Cameron Crowe |
| 1996 (49th) | Lone Star | John Sayles |
| 1996 (49th) | Secrets & Lies | Mike Leigh |
| 1996 (49th) | Shine | Scott Hicks and Jan Sardi |
| 1997 (50th) | As Good as It Gets | James L. Brooks and Mark Andrus |
| 1997 (50th) | Boogie Nights | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 1997 (50th) | The Full Monty | Simon Beaufoy |
| 1997 (50th) | Good Will Hunting | Ben Affleck and Matt Damon |
| 1997 (50th) | Titanic | James Cameron |
| 1998 (51st) | Shakespeare in Love | Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard |
| 1998 (51st) | Bulworth | Warren Beatty and Jeremy Pikser |
| 1998 (51st) | The Opposite of Sex | Don Roos |
| 1998 (51st) | Saving Private Ryan | Robert Rodat |
| 1998 (51st) | The Truman Show | Andrew Niccol |
| 1999 (52nd) | American Beauty | Alan Ball |
| 1999 (52nd) | Being John Malkovich | Charlie Kaufman |
| 1999 (52nd) | Magnolia | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 1999 (52nd) | The Sixth Sense | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 1999 (52nd) | Three Kings | John Ridley and David O. Russell |

### 2000s

| Year | Film | Writer(s) |
| 2000 (53rd) | You Can Count on Me | Kenneth Lonergan |
| 2000 (53rd) | Almost Famous | Cameron Crowe |
| 2000 (53rd) | Best in Show | Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy |
| 2000 (53rd) | Billy Elliot | Lee Hall |
| 2000 (53rd) | Erin Brockovich | Susannah Grant |
| 2001 (54th) | Gosford Park | Julian Fellowes |
| 2001 (54th) | The Man Who Wasn't There | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
| 2001 (54th) | Monster's Ball | Milo Addica and Will Rokos |
| 2001 (54th) | Moulin Rouge! | Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce |
| 2001 (54th) | The Royal Tenenbaums | Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson |
| 2002 (55th) | Bowling for Columbine | Michael Moore |
| 2002 (55th) | Antwone Fisher | Antwone Fisher |
| 2002 (55th) | Far from Heaven | Todd Haynes |
| 2002 (55th) | Gangs of New York | Jay Cocks, Kenneth Lonergan, and Steven Zaillian |
| 2002 (55th) | My Big Fat Greek Wedding | Nia Vardalos |
| 2003 (56th) | Lost in Translation | Sofia Coppola |
| 2003 (56th) | Bend It Like Beckham | Paul Mayeda Berges, Guljit Bindra, and Gurinder Chadha |
| 2003 (56th) | Dirty Pretty Things | Steven Knight |
| 2003 (56th) | In America | Jim Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan, and Naomi Sheridan |
| 2003 (56th) | The Station Agent | Thomas McCarthy |
| 2004 (57th) | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Pierre Bismuth, Michel Gondry, Charlie Kaufman |
| 2004 (57th) | The Aviator | John Logan |
| 2004 (57th) | Garden State | Zach Braff |
| 2004 (57th) | Hotel Rwanda | Terry George and Keir Pearson |
| 2004 (57th) | Kinsey | Bill Condon |
| 2005 (58th) | Crash | Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco |
| 2005 (58th) | The 40-Year-Old Virgin | Judd Apatow and Steve Carell |
| 2005 (58th) | Cinderella Man | Akiva Goldsman and Cliff Hollingsworth |
| 2005 (58th) | Good Night, and Good Luck. | George Clooney and Grant Heslov |
| 2005 (58th) | The Squid and the Whale | Noah Baumbach |
| 2006 (59th) | Little Miss Sunshine | Michael Arndt |
| 2006 (59th) | Babel | Guillermo Arriaga |
| 2006 (59th) | The Queen | Peter Morgan |
| 2006 (59th) | Stranger than Fiction | Zach Helm |
| 2006 (59th) | United 93 | Paul Greengrass |
| 2007 (60th) | Juno | Diablo Cody |
| 2007 (60th) | Knocked Up | Judd Apatow |
| 2007 (60th) | Lars and the Real Girl | Nancy Oliver |
| 2007 (60th) | Michael Clayton | Tony Gilroy |
| 2007 (60th) | The Savages | Tamara Jenkins |
| 2008 (61st) | Milk | Dustin Lance Black |
| 2008 (61st) | Burn After Reading | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
| 2008 (61st) | Vicky Cristina Barcelona | Woody Allen |
| 2008 (61st) | The Visitor | Tom McCarthy |
| 2008 (61st) | The Wrestler | Robert Siegel |
| 2009 (62nd) | The Hurt Locker | Mark Boal |
| 2009 (62nd) | (500) Days of Summer | Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber |
| 2009 (62nd) | Avatar | James Cameron |
| 2009 (62nd) | The Hangover | Jon Lucas and Scott Moore |
| 2009 (62nd) | A Serious Man | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Writer(s) |
| 2010 (63rd) | Inception | Christopher Nolan |
| 2010 (63rd) | Black Swan | Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, and John McLaughlin |
| 2010 (63rd) | The Fighter | Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, and Keith Dorrington |
| 2010 (63rd) | The Kids Are All Right | Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg |
| 2010 (63rd) | Please Give | Nicole Holofcener |
| 2011 (64th) | Midnight in Paris | Woody Allen |
| 2011 (64th) | 50/50 | Will Reiser |
| 2011 (64th) | Bridesmaids | Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig |
| 2011 (64th) | Win Win | Tom McCarthy |
| 2011 (64th) | Young Adult | Diablo Cody |
| 2012 (65th) | Zero Dark Thirty | Mark Boal |
| 2012 (65th) | Flight | John Gatins |
| 2012 (65th) | Looper | Rian Johnson |
| 2012 (65th) | The Master | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2012 (65th) | Moonrise Kingdom | Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola |
| 2013 (66th) | Her | Spike Jonze |
| 2013 (66th) | American Hustle | Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell |
| 2013 (66th) | Blue Jasmine | Woody Allen |
| 2013 (66th) | Dallas Buyers Club | Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack |
| 2013 (66th) | Nebraska | Bob Nelson |
| 2014 (67th) | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness |
| 2014 (67th) | Boyhood | Richard Linklater |
| 2014 (67th) | Foxcatcher | E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman |
| 2014 (67th) | Nightcrawler | Dan Gilroy |
| 2014 (67th) | Whiplash | Damien Chazelle |
| 2015 (68th) | Spotlight | Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer |
| 2015 (68th) | Bridge of Spies | Matt Charman, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen |
| 2015 (68th) | Sicario | Taylor Sheridan |
| 2015 (68th) | Straight Outta Compton | Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, S. Leigh Savidge, and Alan Wenkus |
| 2015 (68th) | Trainwreck | Amy Schumer |
| 2016 (69th) | Moonlight | Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney |
| 2016 (69th) | Hell or High Water | Taylor Sheridan |
| 2016 (69th) | La La Land | Damien Chazelle |
| 2016 (69th) | Loving | Jeff Nichols |
| 2016 (69th) | Manchester by the Sea | Kenneth Lonergan |
| 2017 (70th) | Get Out | Jordan Peele |
| 2017 (70th) | The Big Sick | Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani |
| 2017 (70th) | I, Tonya | Steven Rogers |
| 2017 (70th) | Lady Bird | Greta Gerwig |
| 2017 (70th) | The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor |
| 2018 (71st) | Eighth Grade | Bo Burnham |
| 2018 (71st) | Green Book | Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie & Peter Farrelly |
| 2018 (71st) | A Quiet Place | Bryan Woods & Scott Beck and John Krasinski |
| 2018 (71st) | Roma | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 2018 (71st) | Vice | Adam McKay |
| 2019 (72nd) | Parasite | Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won |
| 2019 (72nd) | 1917 | Sam Mendes & Krysty Wilson-Cairns |
| 2019 (72nd) | Booksmart | Emily Halpern & Sarah Haskins and Susanna Fogel and Katie Silberman |
| 2019 (72nd) | Knives Out | Rian Johnson |
| 2019 (72nd) | Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Writer(s) |
| 2020 (73rd) | Promising Young Woman | Emerald Fennell |
| 2020 (73rd) | Judas and the Black Messiah | Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas |
| 2020 (73rd) | Palm Springs | Andy Siara & Max Barbakow |
| 2020 (73rd) | Sound of Metal | Darius Marder & Abraham Marder & Derek Cianfrance |
| 2020 (73rd) | The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Aaron Sorkin |
| 2021 (74th) | Don't Look Up | Adam McKay & David Sirota |
| 2021 (74th) | Being the Ricardos | Aaron Sorkin |
| 2021 (74th) | The French Dispatch | Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola & Hugo Guinness & Jason Schwartzman |
| 2021 (74th) | King Richard | Zach Baylin |
| 2021 (74th) | Licorice Pizza | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2022 (75th) | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert |
| 2022 (75th) | The Fabelmans | Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner |
| 2022 (75th) | The Menu | Seth Reiss & Will Tracy |
| 2022 (75th) | Nope | Jordan Peele |
| 2022 (75th) | Tár | Todd Field |
| 2023 (76th) | The Holdovers | David Hemingson |
| 2023 (76th) | Air | Alex Convery |
| 2023 (76th) | Barbie | Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach |
| 2023 (76th) | May December | Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik |
| 2023 (76th) | Past Lives | Celine Song |
| 2024 (77th) | Anora | Sean Baker |
| 2024 (77th) | A Real Pain | Jesse Eisenberg |
| 2024 (77th) | Challengers | Justin Kuritzkes |
| 2024 (77th) | Civil War | Alex Garland |
| 2024 (77th) | My Old Ass | Megan Park |

## Writers with multiple awards
### 5 Awards

* Woody Allen

### 2 Awards

* Warren Beatty
* Mark Boal
* Paddy Chayefsky
* Larry Gelbart
* Robert Towne