# Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay

The Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay – Motion Picture is a Golden Globe Award given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

## Winners and nominees
### 1940s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 1947 | Miracle on 34th Street | George Seaton |
| 1948 | The Search | Richard Schweizer |
| 1949 | Battleground | Robert Pirosh |
| 1949 | Rope of Sand | Walter Doniger |

### 1950s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 1950 | All About Eve | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 1950 | The Asphalt Jungle | Ben Maddow and John Huston |
| 1950 | Sunset Boulevard | Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D. M. Marshman Jr. |
| 1951 | Bright Victory | Robert Buckner |
| 1952 | 5 Fingers | Michael Wilson |
| 1952 | High Noon | Carl Foreman |
| 1952 | The Thief | Clarence Greene and Russell Rouse |
| 1953 | Lili | Helen Deutsch |
| 1954 | Sabrina | Billy Wilder, Ernest Lehman, and Samuel A. Taylor |

### 1960s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 1965 | Doctor Zhivago | Robert Bolt |
| 1965 | The Agony and the Ecstasy | Philip Dunne |
| 1965 | The Collector | John Kohn and Stanley Mann |
| 1965 | A Patch of Blue | Guy Green |
| 1965 | The Slender Thread | Stirling Silliphant |
| 1966 | A Man for All Seasons | Robert Bolt |
| 1966 | Alfie | Bill Naughton |
| 1966 | The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming | William Rose |
| 1966 | The Sand Pebbles | Robert Anderson |
| 1966 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Ernest Lehman |
| 1967 | In the Heat of the Night | Stirling Silliphant |
| 1967 | Bonnie and Clyde | Robert Benton and David Newman |
| 1967 | The Fox | Lewis John Carlino and Howard Koch |
| 1967 | The Graduate | Buck Henry and Calder Willingham |
| 1967 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | William Rose |
| 1968 | CHAЯLY | Stirling Silliphant |
| 1968 | The Fixer | Dalton Trumbo |
| 1968 | The Lion in Winter | James Goldman |
| 1968 | The Producers | Mel Brooks |
| 1968 | Rosemary's Baby | Roman Polanski |
| 1969 | Anne of the Thousand Days | Bridget Boland, John Hale, and Richard Sokolove |
| 1969 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | William Goldman |
| 1969 | If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium | David Shaw |
| 1969 | John and Mary | John Mortimer |
| 1969 | Midnight Cowboy | Waldo Salt |

### 1970s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 1970 | Love Story | Erich Segal |
| 1970 | Five Easy Pieces | Carole Eastman and Bob Rafelson |
| 1970 | Husbands | John Cassavetes |
| 1970 | M*A*S*H | Ring Lardner Jr. |
| 1970 | Scrooge | Leslie Bricusse |
| 1971 | The Hospital | Paddy Chayefsky |
| 1971 | The French Connection | Ernest Tidyman |
| 1971 | Klute | Andy and Dave Lewis |
| 1971 | Kotch | John Paxton |
| 1971 | Mary, Queen of Scots | John Hale |
| 1972 | The Godfather | Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo |
| 1972 | Avanti! | Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond |
| 1972 | Cabaret | Jay Presson Allen |
| 1972 | Deliverance | James Dickey |
| 1972 | Frenzy | Anthony Shaffer |
| 1972 | The Heartbreak Kid | Neil Simon |
| 1973 | The Exorcist | William Peter Blatty |
| 1973 | Cinderella Liberty | Darryl Ponicsan |
| 1973 | The Day of the Jackal | Kenneth Ross |
| 1973 | The Sting | David S. Ward |
| 1973 | A Touch of Class | Melvin Frank and Jack Rose |
| 1974 | Chinatown | Robert Towne |
| 1974 | The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 1974 | The Godfather Part II | Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo |
| 1974 | The Towering Inferno | Stirling Silliphant |
| 1974 | A Woman Under the Influence | John Cassavetes |
| 1975 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben |
| 1975 | Dog Day Afternoon | Frank Pierson |
| 1975 | Jaws | Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb |
| 1975 | Nashville | Joan Tewkesbury |
| 1975 | The Sunshine Boys | Neil Simon |
| 1976 | Network | Paddy Chayefsky |
| 1976 | All the President's Men | William Goldman |
| 1976 | Marathon Man | William Goldman |
| 1976 | Rocky | Sylvester Stallone |
| 1976 | Taxi Driver | Paul Schrader |
| 1976 | Voyage of the Damned | David Butler and Steve Shagan |
| 1977 | The Goodbye Girl | Neil Simon |
| 1977 | Annie Hall | Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman |
| 1977 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven Spielberg |
| 1977 | Julia | Alvin Sargent |
| 1977 | The Turning Point | Arthur Laurents |
| 1978 | Midnight Express | Oliver Stone |
| 1978 | Coming Home | Robert C. Jones and Waldo Salt |
| 1978 | The Deer Hunter | Deric Washburn |
| 1978 | Foul Play | Colin Higgins |
| 1978 | Interiors | Woody Allen |
| 1978 | An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky |
| 1979 | Kramer vs. Kramer | Robert Benton |
| 1979 | Being There | Jerzy Kosinski |
| 1979 | Breaking Away | Steve Tesich |
| 1979 | The China Syndrome | James Bridges, T. S. Cook, and Mike Gray |
| 1979 | Norma Rae | Harriet Frank, Jr. and Irving Ravetch |

### 1980s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 1980 | The Ninth Configuration | William Peter Blatty |
| 1980 | The Elephant Man | Eric Bergren and Christopher De Vore |
| 1980 | Ordinary People | Alvin Sargent |
| 1980 | Raging Bull | Mardik Martin and Paul Schrader |
| 1980 | The Stunt Man | Lawrence B. Marcus |
| 1981 | On Golden Pond | Ernest Thompson |
| 1981 | Absence of Malice | Kurt Luedtke |
| 1981 | The Four Seasons | Alan Alda |
| 1981 | The French Lieutenant's Woman | Harold Pinter |
| 1981 | Reds | Warren Beatty and Trevor Griffiths |
| 1982 | Gandhi | John Briley |
| 1982 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Melissa Mathison |
| 1982 | Missing | Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart |
| 1982 | Tootsie | Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal |
| 1982 | The Verdict | David Mamet |
| 1983 | Terms of Endearment | James L. Brooks |
| 1983 | The Big Chill | Barbara Benedek and Lawrence Kasdan |
| 1983 | The Dresser | Ronald Harwood |
| 1983 | Educating Rita | Willy Russell |
| 1983 | Reuben, Reuben | Julius J. Epstein |
| 1984 | Amadeus | Peter Shaffer |
| 1984 | The Killing Fields | Bruce Robinson |
| 1984 | A Passage to India | David Lean |
| 1984 | Places in the Heart | Robert Benton |
| 1984 | A Soldier's Story | Charles Fuller |
| 1985 | The Purple Rose of Cairo | Woody Allen |
| 1985 | Back to the Future | Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale |
| 1985 | Out of Africa | Kurt Luedtke |
| 1985 | Prizzi's Honor | Richard Condon and Janet Roach |
| 1985 | Witness | William Kelley and Earl W. Wallace |
| 1986 | The Mission | Robert Bolt |
| 1986 | Blue Velvet | David Lynch |
| 1986 | Hannah and Her Sisters | Woody Allen |
| 1986 | Mona Lisa | Neil Jordan and David Leland |
| 1986 | Platoon | Oliver Stone |
| 1987 | The Last Emperor | Bernardo Bertolucci, Mark Peploe, and Enzo Ungari |
| 1987 | Broadcast News | James L. Brooks |
| 1987 | Hope and Glory | John Boorman |
| 1987 | House of Games | David Mamet |
| 1987 | Moonstruck | John Patrick Shanley |
| 1988 | Running on Empty | Naomi Foner |
| 1988 | A Cry in the Dark | Robert Caswell and Fred Schepisi |
| 1988 | Mississippi Burning | Chris Gerolmo |
| 1988 | Rain Man | Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow |
| 1988 | Working Girl | Kevin Wade |
| 1989 | Born on the Fourth of July | Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic |
| 1989 | Dead Poets Society | Tom Schulman |
| 1989 | Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee |
| 1989 | Glory | Kevin Jarre |
| 1989 | Sex, Lies, and Videotape | Steven Soderbergh |
| 1989 | When Harry Met Sally... | Nora Ephron |

### 1990s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 1990 | Dances with Wolves | Michael Blake |
| 1990 | Avalon | Barry Levinson |
| 1990 | The Godfather Part III | Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo |
| 1990 | Goodfellas | Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese |
| 1990 | Reversal of Fortune | Nicholas Kazan |
| 1991 | Thelma & Louise | Callie Khouri |
| 1991 | Bugsy | James Toback |
| 1991 | Grand Canyon | Lawrence Kasdan and Meg Kasdan |
| 1991 | JFK | Zachary Sklar and Oliver Stone |
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Ted Tally |
| 1992 | Scent of a Woman | Bo Goldman |
| 1992 | A Few Good Men | Aaron Sorkin |
| 1992 | Howards End | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| 1992 | The Player | Michael Tolkin |
| 1992 | Unforgiven | David Webb Peoples |
| 1993 | Schindler's List | Steven Zaillian |
| 1993 | Philadelphia | Ron Nyswaner |
| 1993 | The Piano | Jane Campion |
| 1993 | The Remains of the Day | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| 1993 | Short Cuts | Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt |
| 1994 | Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino |
| 1994 | Forrest Gump | Eric Roth |
| 1994 | Four Weddings and a Funeral | Richard Curtis |
| 1994 | Quiz Show | Paul Attanasio |
| 1994 | The Shawshank Redemption | Frank Darabont |
| 1995 | Sense and Sensibility | Emma Thompson |
| 1995 | The American President | Aaron Sorkin |
| 1995 | Braveheart | Randall Wallace |
| 1995 | Dead Man Walking | Tim Robbins |
| 1995 | Get Shorty | Scott Frank |
| 1995 | Mr. Holland's Opus | Patrick Sheane Duncan |
| 1996 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski |
| 1996 | The English Patient | Anthony Minghella |
| 1996 | Fargo | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
| 1996 | Lone Star | John Sayles |
| 1996 | Shine | Jan Sardi |
| 1997 | Good Will Hunting | Matt Damon and Ben Affleck |
| 1997 | As Good as It Gets | Mark Andrus and James L. Brooks |
| 1997 | L.A. Confidential | Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson |
| 1997 | Titanic | James Cameron |
| 1997 | Wag the Dog | Hilary Henkin and David Mamet |
| 1998 | Shakespeare in Love | Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard |
| 1998 | Bulworth | Warren Beatty and Jeremy Pikser |
| 1998 | Happiness | Todd Solondz |
| 1998 | Saving Private Ryan | Robert Rodat |
| 1998 | The Truman Show | Andrew Niccol |
| 1999 | American Beauty | Alan Ball |
| 1999 | Being John Malkovich | Charlie Kaufman |
| 1999 | The Cider House Rules | John Irving |
| 1999 | The Insider | Eric Roth and Michael Mann |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | M. Night Shyamalan |

### 2000s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 2000 | Traffic | Stephen Gaghan |
| 2000 | Almost Famous | Cameron Crowe |
| 2000 | Quills | Doug Wright |
| 2000 | Wonder Boys | Steve Kloves |
| 2000 | You Can Count on Me | Kenneth Lonergan |
| 2001 | A Beautiful Mind | Akiva Goldsman |
| 2001 | Gosford Park | Julian Fellowes |
| 2001 | The Man Who Wasn't There | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
| 2001 | Memento | Christopher Nolan |
| 2001 | Mulholland Drive | David Lynch |
| 2002 | About Schmidt | Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor |
| 2002 | Adaptation. | Charlie and Donald Kaufman |
| 2002 | Chicago | Bill Condon |
| 2002 | Far from Heaven | Todd Haynes |
| 2002 | The Hours | David Hare |
| 2003 | Lost in Translation | Sofia Coppola |
| 2003 | Cold Mountain | Anthony Minghella |
| 2003 | In America | Jim Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan, and Naomi Sheridan |
| 2003 | Love Actually | Richard Curtis |
| 2003 | Mystic River | Brian Helgeland |
| 2004 | Sideways | Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor |
| 2004 | The Aviator | John Logan |
| 2004 | Closer | Patrick Marber |
| 2004 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Charlie Kaufman |
| 2004 | Finding Neverland | David Magee |
| 2005 | Brokeback Mountain | Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana |
| 2005 | Crash | Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco |
| 2005 | Good Night, and Good Luck. | George Clooney and Grant Heslov |
| 2005 | Match Point | Woody Allen |
| 2005 | Munich | Tony Kushner and Eric Roth |
| 2006 | The Queen | Peter Morgan |
| 2006 | Babel | Guillermo Arriaga |
| 2006 | The Departed | William Monahan |
| 2006 | Little Children | Todd Field and Tom Perrotta |
| 2006 | Notes on a Scandal | Patrick Marber |
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
| 2007 | Atonement | Christopher Hampton |
| 2007 | Charlie Wilson's War | Aaron Sorkin |
| 2007 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) | Ronald Harwood |
| 2007 | Juno | Diablo Cody |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | Simon Beaufoy |
| 2008 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Eric Roth |
| 2008 | Doubt | John Patrick Shanley |
| 2008 | Frost/Nixon | Peter Morgan |
| 2008 | The Reader | David Hare |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner |
| 2009 | District 9 | Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell |
| 2009 | The Hurt Locker | Mark Boal |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2009 | It's Complicated | Nancy Meyers |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 2010 | The Social Network | Aaron Sorkin |
| 2010 | 127 Hours | Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle |
| 2010 | Inception | Christopher Nolan |
| 2010 | The Kids Are All Right | Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg |
| 2010 | The King's Speech | David Seidler |
| 2011 | Midnight in Paris | Woody Allen |
| 2011 | The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius |
| 2011 | The Descendants | Alexander Payne, Jim Rash, and Nat Faxon |
| 2011 | The Ides of March | George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Beau Willimon |
| 2011 | Moneyball | Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin |
| 2012 | Django Unchained | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2012 | Argo | Chris Terrio |
| 2012 | Lincoln | Tony Kushner |
| 2012 | Silver Linings Playbook | David O. Russell |
| 2012 | Zero Dark Thirty | Mark Boal |
| 2013 | Her | Spike Jonze |
| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave | John Ridley |
| 2013 | American Hustle | Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell |
| 2013 | Nebraska | Bob Nelson |
| 2013 | Philomena | Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope |
| 2014 | Birdman | Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo |
| 2014 | Boyhood | Richard Linklater |
| 2014 | Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn |
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson |
| 2014 | The Imitation Game | Graham Moore |
| 2015 | Steve Jobs | Aaron Sorkin |
| 2015 | The Big Short | Adam McKay and Charles Randolph |
| 2015 | The Hateful Eight | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2015 | Room | Emma Donoghue |
| 2015 | Spotlight | Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer |
| 2016 | La La Land | Damien Chazelle |
| 2016 | Hell or High Water | Taylor Sheridan |
| 2016 | Manchester by the Sea | Kenneth Lonergan |
| 2016 | Moonlight | Barry Jenkins |
| 2016 | Nocturnal Animals | Tom Ford |
| 2017 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Martin McDonagh |
| 2017 | Lady Bird | Greta Gerwig |
| 2017 | Molly's Game | Aaron Sorkin |
| 2017 | The Post | Liz Hannah and Josh Singer |
| 2017 | The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor |
| 2018 | Green Book | Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, and Peter Farrelly |
| 2018 | The Favourite | Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara |
| 2018 | If Beale Street Could Talk | Barry Jenkins |
| 2018 | Roma | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 2018 | Vice | Adam McKay |
| 2019 | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2019 | The Irishman | Steven Zaillian |
| 2019 | Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach |
| 2019 | Parasite | Bong Joon-Ho and Han Jin Won |
| 2019 | The Two Popes | Anthony McCarten |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 2020 | The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Aaron Sorkin |
| 2020 | Promising Young Woman | Emerald Fennell |
| 2020 | Mank | Jack Fincher (posthumous) |
| 2020 | The Father | Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton |
| 2020 | Nomadland | Chloé Zhao |
| 2021 | Belfast | Kenneth Branagh |
| 2021 | Licorice Pizza | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2021 | The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion |
| 2021 | Don't Look Up | Adam McKay |
| 2021 | Being the Ricardos | Aaron Sorkin |
| 2022 | The Banshees of Inisherin | Martin McDonagh |
| 2022 | Tár | Todd Field |
| 2022 | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert |
| 2022 | Women Talking | Sarah Polley |
| 2022 | The Fabelmans | Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner |
| 2023 | Anatomy of a Fall | Justine Triet and Arthur Harari |
| 2023 | Barbie | Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach |
| 2023 | Oppenheimer | Christopher Nolan |
| 2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon | Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese |
| 2023 | Past Lives | Celine Song |
| 2023 | Poor Things | Tony McNamara |
| 2024 | Conclave | Peter Straughan |
| 2024 | Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard |
| 2024 | Anora | Sean Baker |
| 2024 | The Brutalist | Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold |
| 2024 | A Real Pain | Jesse Eisenberg |
| 2024 | The Substance | Coralie Fargeat |