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An Unmarried Woman - Paul Mazursky

- In 1978, the category was renamed: "Screenplay written directly for the screen"

1979 Breaking Away - Steve Tesich

All That Jazz - Robert Alan Aurthur, Bob Fosse

...And Justice for All - Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson

The China Syndrome - Mike Gray, T.S. Cook, James Bridges

Manhattan - Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman

1980 Melvin and Howard - Bo Goldman

Brubaker - Screenplay by W. D. Richter; Story by Arthur Ross and W.D. Richter

Mon oncle d'Amérique - Jean Gruault, Henri Laborit

Private Benjamin - Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer, Harvey Miller

1981 Chariots of Fire - Colin Welland

Absence of Malice - Kurt Luedtke

Atlantic City - John Guare

Reds - Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths

1982 Gandhi - John Briley

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Melissa Mathison

An Officer and a Gentleman - Douglas Day Stewart

Tootsie - Screenplay by Larry Gelbart, Murray Schisgal; Story by Don McGuire and Larry Gelbart

1983 Tender Mercies - Horton Foote

The Big Chill - Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara Benedek

Fanny and Alexander - Ingmar Bergman

Silkwood - Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen

WarGames - Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes

1984 Places in the Heart - Robert Benton

Beverly Hills Cop - Screenplay by Daniel Petrie, Jr.; Story by Danilo Bach and Daniel Petrie, Jr.

Broadway Danny Rose - Woody Allen

El Norte - Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas

Splash - Screenplay by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman; Screen Story by Bruce Jay Friedman, Story by Brian Grazer

1985 Witness - Screenplay by William Kelley, Earl Wallace; Story by William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, Earl Wallace

Back to the Future - Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale

Brazil - Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown

The Official Story - Luis Puenzo, Aida Bortnik

The Purple Rose of Cairo - Woody Allen

1986 Hannah and Her Sisters - Woody Allen

Crocodile Dundee - Screenplay by Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie, John Cornell; Story by Paul Hogan

My Beautiful Laundrette - Hanif Kureishi