Jabarkan 1920an dari Academy Award untuk Cerita Terbaik

1927/1928: Underworld - Ben Hecht

The Last Command - Lajos Bíró

1928/1929: Tidak ada yang diberikan

1929/1930: Tidak ada yang diberikan

1930/1931: The Dawn Patrol - John Monk Saunders

Doorway to Hell - Rowland Brown

Laughter - Harry D'Arrast, Douglas Doty, Donald Stewart

The Public Enemy - John Bright, Kubec Glasmon

Smart Money - Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Jackson

1931/1932: The Champ - Frances Marion

Lady and Gent - Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt

The Star Witness - Lucien Hubbard

What Price Hollywood? - Adela Rogers St. Johns, Jane Murfin

1932/1933: One Way Passage - Robert Lord

The Prizefighter and the Lady - Frances Marion

Rasputin and the Empress - Charles MacArthur

1934: Manhattan Melodrama - Arthur Caesar

The Richest Girl in the World - Norman Krasna

1935: The Scoundrel - Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur

Broadway Melody of 1936 - Moss Hart

The Gay Deception - Stephen Morehouse Avery, Don Hartman

Penulisan dalam Kandidat: G Men - Gregory Rogers (pseudonim dari Darryl F. Zanuck)

1936: The Story of Louis Pasteur - Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney

The Great Ziegfeld - William McGuire

San Francisco - Robert Hopkins

Three Smart Girls - Adele Comandini

1937: A Star Is Born - Robert Carson, William Wellman

Black Legion - Robert Lord

In Old Chicago - Niven Busch

The Life of Emile Zola - Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg

One Hundred Men and a Girl - Hans Kraly

1938: Boys Town - Eleanore Griffin, Dore Schary Alexander's Ragtime Band - Irving Berlin

Angels with Dirty Faces - Rowland Brown

Blockade - John Howard Lawson

Mad About Music - Marcella Burke, Frederick Kohner

Test Pilot - Frank Wead

1939: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Lewis R. Foster Bachelor Mother - Felix Jackson

Love Affair - Mildred Cram, Leo McCarey

Young Mr. Lincoln - Lamar Trotti

1940: Arise, My Love - Benjamin Glazer, John Toldy Comrade X - Walter Reisch

Edison, the Man - Hugo Butler, Dore Schary

My Favorite Wife - Leo McCarey, Samuel Spewack dan Bella Spewack

The Westerner - Stuart N. Lake

1941: Here Comes Mr. Jordan - Harry Segall Ball of Fire - Thomas Monroe, Billy Wilder

The Lady Eve - Monckton Hoffe

Meet John Doe - Richard Connell, Robert Presnell

Night Train to Munich - Gordon Wellesley

1942: 49th Parallel (The Invaders) - Emeric Pressburger Holiday Inn - Irving Berlin

The Pride of the Yankees - Paul Gallico

The Talk of the Town - Sidney Harmon

Yankee Doodle Dandy - Robert Buckner

1943: The Human Comedy - William Saroyan Action in the North Atlantic - Guy Gilpatric

Destination Tokyo - Steve Fisher

The More the Merrier - Frank Ross, Robert Russell

Shadow of a Doubt - Gordon McDonell

1944: Going My Way - Leo McCarey A Guy Named Joe - David Boehm, Chandler Sprague

None Shall Escape - Alfred Neumann, Joseph Than

The Sullivans - Edward Doherty, Jules Schermer

1945: The House on 92nd St. - Charles G. Booth The Affairs of Susan - László Görög, Thomas Monroe

A Medal for Benny - John Steinbeck, Jack Wagner

Objective, Burma! - Alvah Bessie

A Song to Remember - Ernst Marischka

1946: Vacation from Marriage - Clemence Dane The Dark Mirror - Vladimir Solomonovich Pozner

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers - Jack Patrick

The Stranger - Victor Trivas

To Each His Own - Charles Brackett

1947: Miracle on 34th Street - Valentine Davies A Cage of Nightingales (Prancis: La Cage aux rossignols) - Georges Chaperot, René Wheeler

It Happened on Fifth Avenue - Herbert Clyde Lewis, Frederick Stephani

Kiss of Death - Eleazar Lipsky

Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman - Frank Cavett, Dorothy Parker

1948: The Search - Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler Louisiana Story - Robert J. Flaherty, Frances H. Flaherty

The Naked City - Malvin Wald

Red River - Borden Chase

The Red Shoes - Emeric Pressburger

1949: The Stratton Story - Douglas Morrow Come to the Stable - Clare Boothe Luce

It Happens Every Spring - Valentine Davies, Shirley Smith

Sands of Iwo Jima - Harry Brown

White Heat - Virginia Kellogg