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Salvador - Oliver Stone, Richard Boyle

1987 Moonstruck - John Patrick Shanley

Au revoir, les enfants - Louis Malle

Broadcast News - James L. Brooks

Hope and Glory - John Boorman

Radio Days - Woody Allen

1988 Rain Man - Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow

Big - Gary Ross, Anne Spielberg

Bull Durham - Ron Shelton

A Fish Called Wanda - Screenplay by John Cleese; Story by John Cleese and Charles Crichton

Running on Empty - Naomi Foner

1989 Dead Poets Society - Tom Schulman

Crimes and Misdemeanors - Woody Allen

Do the Right Thing - Spike Lee

Sex, Lies, and Videotape - Steven Soderbergh

When Harry Met Sally... - Nora Ephron

1990 Ghost - Bruce Rubin

Green Card - Peter Weir

1991 Thelma and Louise - Callie Khouri

Boyz N the Hood - John Singleton

The Fisher King - Richard LaGravenese

Grand Canyon - Lawrence Kasdan, Meg Kasdan

1992 The Crying Game - Neil Jordan

Husbands and Wives - Woody Allen

Lorenzo's Oil - George Miller, Nick Enright

Passion Fish - John Sayles

1993 The Piano - Jane Campion

In the Line of Fire - Jeff Maguire

Sleepless in Seattle - Screenplay by Nora Ephron, David S. Ward, Jeff Arch; Story by Jeff Arch

'''1994 Pulp Fiction - Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino; Stories by Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino

Bullets Over Broadway - Woody Allen, Douglas McGrath

Four Weddings and a Funeral - Richard Curtis

Heavenly Creatures - Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson

Red - Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Krzysztof Kieślowski

1995 The Usual Suspects - Christopher McQuarrie

Mighty Aphrodite - Woody Allen

Nixon - Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson, Oliver Stone

Toy Story - Screenplay by Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow; Story by John Lasseter, Peter Docter, Andrew Stanton, Joe Ranft

1996 Fargo - Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Jerry Maguire - Cameron Crowe

Lone Star - John Sayles

Secrets & Lies - Mike Leigh

Shine - Screenplay by Jan Sardi; Story by Scott Hicks

1997 Good Will Hunting - Ben Affleck, Matt Damon

As Good as It Gets - Screenplay by Mark Andrus, James L. Brooks; Story by Mark Andrus

Boogie Nights - Paul Thomas Anderson

Deconstructing Harry - Woody Allen

The Full Monty - Simon Beaufoy

1998 Shakespeare in Love - Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard

Bulworth - Warren Beatty, Jeremy Pikser

Life Is Beautiful - Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Benigni

Saving Private Ryan - Robert Rodat

The Truman Show - Andrew Niccol

1999 American Beauty - Alan Ball

Being John Malkovich - Charlie Kaufman

Magnolia - Paul Thomas Anderson

The Sixth Sense - M. Night Shyamalan