# Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay

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

## Winners
### 2000s

| Year | Winner | Writer(s) |
| 2006 | The Queen | Peter Morgan |
| 2006 | Babel | Guillermo Arriaga |
| 2006 | Letters from Iwo Jima | Iris Yamashita |
| 2006 | Little Miss Sunshine | Michael Arndt |
| 2006 | United 93 | Paul Greengrass |
| 2007 | Juno | Diablo Cody |
| 2007 | Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | Kelly Masterson |
| 2007 | Michael Clayton | Tony Gilroy |
| 2007 | Ratatouille | Brad Bird |
| 2007 | The Savages | Tamara Jenkins |
| 2008 | WALL-E | Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon |
| 2008 | In Bruges | Martin McDonagh |
| 2008 | Milk | Dustin Lance Black |
| 2008 | Rachel Getting Married | Jenny Lumet |
| 2008 | Synecdoche, New York | Charlie Kaufman |
| 2009 | The Hurt Locker | Mark Boal |
| 2009 | A Serious Man | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
| 2009 | Away We Go | Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2009 | Up | Bob Peterson |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner | Writer(s) |
| 2010 | Inception | Christopher Nolan |
| 2010 | Black Swan | Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, and John McLaughlin |
| 2010 | Four Lions | Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, and Chris Morris |
| 2010 | The Kids Are All Right | Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg |
| 2010 | The King's Speech | David Seidler |
| 2011 | The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius |
| 2011 | Martha Marcy May Marlene | Sean Durkin |
| 2011 | Midnight in Paris | Woody Allen |
| 2011 | A Separation | Asghar Farhadi |
| 2011 | The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick |
| 2012 | Zero Dark Thirty | Mark Boal |
| 2012 | Django Unchained | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2012 | Looper | Rian Johnson |
| 2012 | The Master | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2012 | Moonrise Kingdom | Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola |
| 2013 | Her | Spike Jonze |
| 2013 | American Hustle | Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell |
| 2013 | Blue Jasmine | Woody Allen |
| 2013 | Inside Llewyn Davis | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
| 2013 | Nebraska | Bob Nelson |
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson |
| 2014 | Birdman | Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo |
| 2014 | Boyhood | Richard Linklater |
| 2014 | Calvary | John Michael McDonagh |
| 2014 | Whiplash | Damien Chazelle |
| 2015 | Spotlight | Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer |
| 2015 | Bridge of Spies | Matt Charman, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen |
| 2015 | Ex Machina | Alex Garland |
| 2015 | The Hateful Eight | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2015 | Inside Out | Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley |
| 2016 | Manchester by the Sea | Kenneth Lonergan |
| 2016 | Hell or High Water | Taylor Sheridan |
| 2016 | Jackie | Noah Oppenheim |
| 2016 | The Lobster | Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou |
| 2016 | Moonlight | Barry Jenkins |
| 2017 | Get Out | Jordan Peele |
| 2017 | The Big Sick | Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani |
| 2017 | Lady Bird | Greta Gerwig |
| 2017 | Phantom Thread | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2017 | The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor |
| 2017 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Martin McDonagh |
| 2018 | First Reformed | Paul Schrader |
| 2018 | Eighth Grade | Bo Burnham |
| 2018 | The Favourite | Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara |
| 2018 | Roma | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 2018 | Vice | Adam McKay |
| 2019 | Parasite | Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won |
| 2019 | The Farewell | Lulu Wang |
| 2019 | Knives Out | Rian Johnson |
| 2019 | Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach |
| 2019 | Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood | Quentin Tarantino |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner | Writer(s) |
| 2020 | Never Rarely Sometimes Always | Eliza Hittman |
| 2020 | Da 5 Bloods | Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, Spike Lee and Kevin Willmott |
| 2020 | Promising Young Woman | Emerald Fennell |
| 2020 | Soul | Pete Docter, Mike Jones and Kemp Powers |
| 2020 | The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Aaron Sorkin |
| 2021 | Licorice Pizza | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2021 | The Card Counter | Paul Schrader |
| 2021 | The French Dispatch | Wes Anderson |
| 2021 | Pig | Michael Sarnoski |
| 2021 | Red Rocket | Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch |
| 2022 | The Banshees of Inisherin | Martin McDonagh |
| 2022 | Aftersun | Charlotte Wells |
| 2022 | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert |
| 2022 | The Fabelmans | Tony Kushner and Steven Spielberg |
| 2022 | Tár | Todd Field |
| 2023 | May December | Samy Burch |
| 2023 | Anatomy of a Fall | Arthur Harari and Justine Triet |
| 2023 | Barbie | Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach |
| 2023 | The Holdovers | David Hemingson |
| 2023 | Past Lives | Celine Song |
| 2024 | A Real Pain | Jesse Eisenberg |
| 2024 | Anora | Sean Baker |
| 2024 | The Brutalist | Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold |
| 2024 | Challengers | Justin Kuritzkes |
| 2024 | The Substance | Coralie Fargeat |