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1940 The Great McGinty - Preston Sturges

Angels over Broadway - Ben Hecht

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet - Norman Burnside, Heinz Herald, John Huston

Foreign Correspondent - Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison

The Great Dictator - Charlie Chaplin

1941 Citizen Kane - Herman Mankiewicz, Orson Welles

The Devil and Miss Jones - Norman Krasna

Sergeant York - Harry Chandlee, Abem Finkel, John Huston, Howard Koch

Tall, Dark and Handsome - Karl Tunberg, Darrell Ware

Tom, Dick and Harry - Paul Jarrico

1942 Woman of the Year - Michael Kanin, Ring Lardner Jr

One of Our Aircraft is Missing - Micheal Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Road to Morocco - Frank Butler, Don Hartman

Wake Island - W. R. Burnett, Frank Butler

The War Against Mrs. Hadley - George Oppenheimer

1943 Princess O'Rourke - Norman Krasna

Air Force - Dudley Nichols

In Which We Serve - Noel Coward

The North Star - Lillian Hellman

So Proudly We Hail! - Allan Scott

1944 Wilson - Lamar Trotti

Hail the Conquering Hero - Preston Sturges

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek - Preston Sturges

Two Girls and a Sailor - Richard Connell, Glays Lehman

Wing and a Prayer - Jerome Cady

1945 Marie-Louise - Richard Schweizer

Music for Millions - Myles Connolly

Salty O'Rourke - Milton Holmes

What Next, Corporal Hargrove? - Harry Kurnitz

1946 The Seventh Veil - Muriel Box, Sydney Box

The Blue Dahlia - Raymond Chandler

Children of Paradise - Jacques Prévert

Road to Utopia - Norman Panama, Melvin Frank

1947 The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer - Sidney Sheldon

Body and Soul - Abraham Polonsky

A Double Life - Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin

Monsieur Verdoux - Charlie Chaplin

Shoeshine - Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, C. G. Viola, Cesare Zavattini

1948 tidak diberikan (digabungkan dengan kategori "Screenplay")

1949 Battleground - Robert Pirosh

Jolson Sings Again - Sidney Buchman

Paisà - Alfred Hayes, Federico Fellini, Sergio Amidei, Marcello Pagliero, Roberto Rossellini

Passport to Pimlico - T. E. B. Clarke

The Quiet One - Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, Sidney Meyers

1950 Sunset Boulevard - Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman, Jr., Billy Wilder

Adam's Rib - Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin

Caged - Virginia Kellogg, Bernard C. Schoenfeld

The Men - Carl Foreman

No Way Out - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Lesser Samuels

1951 An American in Paris - Alan Jay Lerner

The Big Carnival - Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman

David and Bathsheba - Philip Dunne

Go for Broke! - Robert Pirosh

The Well - Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse

1952 The Lavender Hill Mob - T.E.B. Clarke

The Atomic City - Sydney Boehm

The Sound Barrier - Terence Rattigan

Pat and Mike - Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin

Viva Zapata! - John Steinbeck

1953 Titanic - Charles Brackett, Richard Breen, Walter Reisch

The Band Wagon - Betty Comden, Adolph Green

The Desert Rats - Richard Murphy

The Naked Spur - Sam Rolfe, Harold Jack Bloom

Take the High Ground! - Millard Kaufman

1954 On the Waterfront - Budd Schulberg

The Barefoot Contessa - Joseph L. Mankiewicz

The Glenn Miller Story - Valentine Davies, Oscar Brodney

Knock on Wood - Norman Panama, Melvin Frank

1955 Interrupted Melody - Sonya Levien, William Ludwig

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell - Milton Sperling, Emmet Lavery

It's Always Fair Weather - Betty Comden, Adolph Green

Mr. Hulot's Holiday - Jacques Tati, Henri Marquet

The Seven Little Foys - Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose

1956 The Red Balloon - Albert Lamorisse

The Bold and the Brave - Robert Lewin

Julie - Andrew L. Stone

La strada - Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli

The Ladykillers - William Rose

1957 Designing Woman - George Wells

Funny Face - Leonard Gershe

Man of a Thousand Faces - Ralph Wheelwright, R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts

The Tin Star - Barney Slater, Joel Kane, Dudley Nichols

I Vitelloni - Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli

1958 The Defiant Ones - Nathan E. Douglas, Harold Jacob Smith (Upon request of his widow and upon recommendation of the Writers Branch Executive Committee, the Board of Governors voted to restore the name of Nedrick Young to the nomination and award presented to Nathan E. Douglas, which was a pseudonym for Mr. Young during the blacklisting period.)

The Goddess - Paddy Chayefsky

Houseboat - Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose

The Sheepman - James Edward Grant, William Bowers

Teacher's Pet - Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin

1959 Pillow Talk - Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, Stanley Shapiro

The 400 Blows - François Truffaut, Marcel Moussy

North by Northwest - Ernest Lehman

Operation Petticoat - Paul King, Joseph Stone, Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin

Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman