Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay

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

### 1940s

|width="10%"|Year|width="45%"|Film|width="45%"|Nominees|
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|rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|1947|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Miracle on 34th Street***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**George Seaton**|
|rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|1948|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***The Search***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Richard Schweizer**|
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|1949|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Battleground***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Robert Pirosh**|
|_Rope of Sand_|Walter Doniger|||||

### 1950s

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|rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|1950|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***All About Eve***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Joseph L. Mankiewicz**|
|_The Asphalt Jungle_|Ben Maddow and John Huston|||||
|_Sunset Boulevard_|Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D. M. Marshman Jr.|||||
|rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|1951|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Bright Victory***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Robert Buckner**|
|rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|1952|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***5 Fingers***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Michael Wilson**|
|_High Noon_|Carl Foreman|||||
|_The Thief_|Clarence Greene and Russell Rouse|||||
|rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|1953|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Lili***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Helen Deutsch**|
|rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|1954|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Sabrina***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Billy Wilder, Ernest Lehman, and Samuel A. Taylor**|

### 1960s

|width="10%"|Year|width="45%"|Film|width="45%"|Nominees|
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|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1965|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Doctor Zhivago***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Robert Bolt**|
|_The Agony and the Ecstasy_|Philip Dunne|||||
|_The Collector_|John Kohn and Stanley Mann|||||
|_A Patch of Blue_|Guy Green|||||
|_The Slender Thread_|Stirling Silliphant|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1966|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***A Man for All Seasons***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Robert Bolt**|
|_Alfie_|Bill Naughton|||||
|_The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming_|William Rose|||||
|_The Sand Pebbles_|Robert Anderson|||||
|_Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?_|Ernest Lehman|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1967|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***In the Heat of the Night***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Stirling Silliphant**|
|_Bonnie and Clyde_|Robert Benton and David Newman|||||
|_The Fox_|Lewis John Carlino and Howard Koch|||||
|_The Graduate_|Buck Henry and Calder Willingham|||||
|_Guess Who's Coming to Dinner_|William Rose|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1968|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***CHAЯLY***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Stirling Silliphant**|
|_The Fixer_|Dalton Trumbo|||||
|_The Lion in Winter_|James Goldman|||||
|_The Producers_|Mel Brooks|||||
|_Rosemary's Baby_|Roman Polanski|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1969|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Anne of the Thousand Days***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Bridget Boland, John Hale, and Richard Sokolove**|
|_Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_|William Goldman|||||
|_If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium_|David Shaw|||||
|_John and Mary_|John Mortimer|||||
|_Midnight Cowboy_|Waldo Salt|||||

### 1970s

|width="10%"|Year|width="45%"|Film|width="45%"|Nominees|
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|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1970|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Love Story***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Erich Segal**|
|_Five Easy Pieces_|Carole Eastman and Bob Rafelson|||||
|_Husbands_|John Cassavetes|||||
|_M*A*S*H_|Ring Lardner Jr.|||||
|_Scrooge_|Leslie Bricusse|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1971|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***The Hospital***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Paddy Chayefsky**|
|_The French Connection_|Ernest Tidyman|||||
|_Klute_|Andy and Dave Lewis|||||
|_Kotch_|John Paxton|||||
|_Mary, Queen of Scots_|John Hale|||||
|rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;"|1972|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***The Godfather***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo**|
|_Avanti!_|Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond|||||
|_Cabaret_|Jay Presson Allen|||||
|_Deliverance_|James Dickey|||||
|_Frenzy_|Anthony Shaffer|||||
|_The Heartbreak Kid_|Neil Simon|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1973|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***The Exorcist***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**William Peter Blatty**|
|_Cinderella Liberty_|Darryl Ponicsan|||||
|_The Day of the Jackal_|Kenneth Ross|||||
|_The Sting_|David S. Ward|||||
|_A Touch of Class_|Melvin Frank and Jack Rose|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1974|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Chinatown***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Robert Towne**|
|_The Conversation_|Francis Ford Coppola|||||
|_The Godfather Part II_|Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo|||||
|_The Towering Inferno_|Stirling Silliphant|||||
|_A Woman Under the Influence_|John Cassavetes|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1975|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben**|
|_Dog Day Afternoon_|Frank Pierson|||||
|_Jaws_|Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb|||||
|_Nashville_|Joan Tewkesbury|||||
|_The Sunshine Boys_|Neil Simon|||||
|rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;"|1976|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Network***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Paddy Chayefsky**|
|_All the President's Men_|William Goldman|||||
|_Marathon Man_|William Goldman|||||
|_Rocky_|Sylvester Stallone|||||
|_Taxi Driver_|Paul Schrader|||||
|_Voyage of the Damned_|David Butler and Steve Shagan|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1977|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***The Goodbye Girl***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Neil Simon**|
|_Annie Hall_|Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman|||||
|_Close Encounters of the Third Kind_|Steven Spielberg|||||
|_Julia_|Alvin Sargent|||||
|_The Turning Point_|Arthur Laurents|||||
|rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;"|1978|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Midnight Express***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Oliver Stone**|
|_Coming Home_|Robert C. Jones and Waldo Salt|||||
|_The Deer Hunter_|Deric Washburn|||||
|_Foul Play_|Colin Higgins|||||
|_Interiors_|Woody Allen|||||
|_An Unmarried Woman_|Paul Mazursky|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1979|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Kramer vs. Kramer***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Robert Benton**|
|_Being There_|Jerzy Kosinski|||||
|_Breaking Away_|Steve Tesich|||||
|_The China Syndrome_|James Bridges, T. S. Cook, and Mike Gray|||||
|_Norma Rae_|Harriet Frank, Jr. and Irving Ravetch|||||

### 1980s

|width="10%"|Year|width="45%"|Film|width="45%"|Nominees|
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|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1980|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***The Ninth Configuration***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**William Peter Blatty**|
|_The Elephant Man_|Eric Bergren and Christopher De Vore|||||
|_Ordinary People_|Alvin Sargent|||||
|_Raging Bull_|Mardik Martin and Paul Schrader|||||
|_The Stunt Man_|Lawrence B. Marcus|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1981|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***On Golden Pond***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Ernest Thompson**|
|_Absence of Malice_|Kurt Luedtke|||||
|_The Four Seasons_|Alan Alda|||||
|_The French Lieutenant's Woman_|Harold Pinter|||||
|_Reds_|Warren Beatty and Trevor Griffiths|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1982|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Gandhi***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**John Briley**|
|_E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial_|Melissa Mathison|||||
|_Missing_|Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart|||||
|_Tootsie_|Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal|||||
|_The Verdict_|David Mamet|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1983|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Terms of Endearment***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**James L. Brooks**|
|_The Big Chill_|Barbara Benedek and Lawrence Kasdan|||||
|_The Dresser_|Ronald Harwood|||||
|_Educating Rita_|Willy Russell|||||
|_Reuben, Reuben_|Julius J. Epstein|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1984|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Amadeus***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Peter Shaffer**|
|_The Killing Fields_|Bruce Robinson|||||
|_A Passage to India_|David Lean|||||
|_Places in the Heart_|Robert Benton|||||
|_A Soldier's Story_|Charles Fuller|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1985|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***The Purple Rose of Cairo***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Woody Allen**|
|_Back to the Future_|Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale|||||
|_Out of Africa_|Kurt Luedtke|||||
|_Prizzi's Honor_|Richard Condon and Janet Roach|||||
|_Witness_|William Kelley and Earl W. Wallace|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1986|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***The Mission***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Robert Bolt**|
|_Blue Velvet_|David Lynch|||||
|_Hannah and Her Sisters_|Woody Allen|||||
|_Mona Lisa_|Neil Jordan and David Leland|||||
|_Platoon_|Oliver Stone|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1987|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***The Last Emperor***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Bernardo Bertolucci, Mark Peploe, and Enzo Ungari**|
|_Broadcast News_|James L. Brooks|||||
|_Hope and Glory_|John Boorman|||||
|_House of Games_|David Mamet|||||
|_Moonstruck_|John Patrick Shanley|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1988|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Running on Empty***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Naomi Foner**|
|_A Cry in the Dark_|Robert Caswell and Fred Schepisi|||||
|_Mississippi Burning_|Chris Gerolmo|||||
|_Rain Man_|Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow|||||
|_Working Girl_|Kevin Wade|||||
|rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;"|1989|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Born on the Fourth of July***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic**|
|_Dead Poets Society_|Tom Schulman|||||
|_Do the Right Thing_|Spike Lee|||||
|_Glory_|Kevin Jarre|||||
|_Sex, Lies, and Videotape_|Steven Soderbergh|||||
|_When Harry Met Sally..._|Nora Ephron|||||

### 1990s

|width="10%"|Year|width="45%"|Film|width="45%"|Nominees|
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|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1990|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Dances with Wolves***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Michael Blake**|
|_Avalon_|Barry Levinson|||||
|_The Godfather Part III_|Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo|||||
|_Goodfellas_|Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese|||||
|_Reversal of Fortune_|Nicholas Kazan|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1991|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Thelma & Louise***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Callie Khouri**|
|_Bugsy_|James Toback|||||
|_Grand Canyon_|Lawrence Kasdan and Meg Kasdan|||||
|_JFK_|Zachary Sklar and Oliver Stone|||||
|_The Silence of the Lambs_|Ted Tally|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1992|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Scent of a Woman***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Bo Goldman**|
|_A Few Good Men_|Aaron Sorkin|||||
|_Howards End_|Ruth Prawer Jhabvala|||||
|_The Player_|Michael Tolkin|||||
|_Unforgiven_|David Webb Peoples|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1993|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Schindler's List***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Steven Zaillian**|
|_Philadelphia_|Ron Nyswaner|||||
|_The Piano_|Jane Campion|||||
|_The Remains of the Day_|Ruth Prawer Jhabvala|||||
|_Short Cuts_|Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1994|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Pulp Fiction***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Quentin Tarantino**|
|_Forrest Gump_|Eric Roth|||||
|_Four Weddings and a Funeral_|Richard Curtis|||||
|_Quiz Show_|Paul Attanasio|||||
|_The Shawshank Redemption_|Frank Darabont|||||
|rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;"|1995|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Sense and Sensibility***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Emma Thompson**|
|_The American President_|Aaron Sorkin|||||
|_Braveheart_|Randall Wallace|||||
|_Dead Man Walking_|Tim Robbins|||||
|_Get Shorty_|Scott Frank|||||
|_Mr. Holland's Opus_|Patrick Sheane Duncan|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1996|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***The People vs. Larry Flynt***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski**|
|_The English Patient_|Anthony Minghella|||||
|_Fargo_|Joel Coen and Ethan Coen|||||
|_Lone Star_|John Sayles|||||
|_Shine_|Jan Sardi|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1997|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Good Will Hunting***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Matt Damon and Ben Affleck**|
|_As Good as It Gets_|Mark Andrus and James L. Brooks|||||
|_L.A. Confidential_|Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson|||||
|_Titanic_|James Cameron|||||
|_Wag the Dog_|Hilary Henkin and David Mamet|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1998|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Shakespeare in Love***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard**|
|_Bulworth_|Warren Beatty and Jeremy Pikser|||||
|_Happiness_|Todd Solondz|||||
|_Saving Private Ryan_|Robert Rodat|||||
|_The Truman Show_|Andrew Niccol|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1999|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***American Beauty***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Alan Ball**|
|_Being John Malkovich_|Charlie Kaufman|||||
|_The Cider House Rules_|John Irving|||||
|_The Insider_|Eric Roth and Michael Mann|||||
|_The Sixth Sense_|M. Night Shyamalan|||||

### 2000s

|width="10%"|Year|width="45%"|Film|width="45%"|Nominees|
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|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2000|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Traffic***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Stephen Gaghan**|
|_Almost Famous_|Cameron Crowe|||||
|_Quills_|Doug Wright|||||
|_Wonder Boys_|Steve Kloves|||||
|_You Can Count on Me_|Kenneth Lonergan|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2001|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***A Beautiful Mind***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Akiva Goldsman**|
|_Gosford Park_|Julian Fellowes|||||
|_The Man Who Wasn't There_|Joel Coen and Ethan Coen|||||
|_Memento_|Christopher Nolan|||||
|_Mulholland Drive_|David Lynch|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2002|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***About Schmidt***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor**|
|_Adaptation._|Charlie and Donald Kaufman|||||
|_Chicago_|Bill Condon|||||
|_Far from Heaven_|Todd Haynes|||||
|_The Hours_|David Hare|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2003|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Lost in Translation***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Sofia Coppola**|
|_Cold Mountain_|Anthony Minghella|||||
|_In America_|Jim Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan, and Naomi Sheridan|||||
|_Love Actually_|Richard Curtis|||||
|_Mystic River_|Brian Helgeland|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2004|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Sideways***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor**|
|_The Aviator_|John Logan|||||
|_Closer_|Patrick Marber|||||
|_Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind_|Charlie Kaufman|||||
|_Finding Neverland_|David Magee|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2005|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Brokeback Mountain***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana**|
|_Crash_|Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco|||||
|_Good Night, and Good Luck._|George Clooney and Grant Heslov|||||
|_Match Point_|Woody Allen|||||
|_Munich_|Tony Kushner and Eric Roth|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2006|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***The Queen***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Peter Morgan**|
|_Babel_|Guillermo Arriaga|||||
|_The Departed_|William Monahan|||||
|_Little Children_|Todd Field and Tom Perrotta|||||
|_Notes on a Scandal_|Patrick Marber|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2007|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***No Country for Old Men***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Joel Coen and Ethan Coen**|
|_Atonement_|Christopher Hampton|||||
|_Charlie Wilson's War_|Aaron Sorkin|||||
|_The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)_|Ronald Harwood|||||
|_Juno_|Diablo Cody|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2008|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Slumdog Millionaire***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Simon Beaufoy**|
|_The Curious Case of Benjamin Button_|Eric Roth|||||
|_Doubt_|John Patrick Shanley|||||
|_Frost/Nixon_|Peter Morgan|||||
|_The Reader_|David Hare|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2009|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Up in the Air***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner**|
|_District 9_|Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell|||||
|_The Hurt Locker_|Mark Boal|||||
|_Inglourious Basterds_|Quentin Tarantino|||||
|_It's Complicated_|Nancy Meyers|||||

### 2010s

|width="10%"|Year|width="45%"|Film|width="45%"|Nominees|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2010|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***The Social Network***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Aaron Sorkin**|
|_127 Hours_|Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle|||||
|_Inception_|Christopher Nolan|||||
|_The Kids Are All Right_|Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg|||||
|_The King's Speech_|David Seidler|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2011|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Midnight in Paris***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Woody Allen**|
|_The Artist_|Michel Hazanavicius|||||
|_The Descendants_|Alexander Payne, Jim Rash, and Nat Faxon|||||
|_The Ides of March_|George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Beau Willimon|||||
|_Moneyball_|Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2012|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Django Unchained***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Quentin Tarantino**|
|_Argo_|Chris Terrio|||||
|_Lincoln_|Tony Kushner|||||
|_Silver Linings Playbook_|David O. Russell|||||
|_Zero Dark Thirty_|Mark Boal|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2013|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Her***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Spike Jonze**|
|_12 Years a Slave_|John Ridley|||||
|_American Hustle_|Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell|||||
|_Nebraska_|Bob Nelson|||||
|_Philomena_|Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2014|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Birdman***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo**|
|_Boyhood_|Richard Linklater|||||
|_Gone Girl_|Gillian Flynn|||||
|_The Grand Budapest Hotel_|Wes Anderson|||||
|_The Imitation Game_|Graham Moore|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2015|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Steve Jobs***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Aaron Sorkin**|
|_The Big Short_|Adam McKay and Charles Randolph|||||
|_The Hateful Eight_|Quentin Tarantino|||||
|_Room_|Emma Donoghue|||||
|_Spotlight_|Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2016|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***La La Land***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Damien Chazelle**|
|_Hell or High Water_|Taylor Sheridan|||||
|_Manchester by the Sea_|Kenneth Lonergan|||||
|_Moonlight_|Barry Jenkins|||||
|_Nocturnal Animals_|Tom Ford|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2017|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Martin McDonagh**|
|_Lady Bird_|Greta Gerwig|||||
|_Molly's Game_|Aaron Sorkin|||||
|_The Post_|Liz Hannah and Josh Singer|||||
|_The Shape of Water_|Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2018|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Green Book***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, and Peter Farrelly**|
|_The Favourite_|Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara|||||
|_If Beale Street Could Talk_|Barry Jenkins|||||
|_Roma_|Alfonso Cuarón|||||
|_Vice_|Adam McKay|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2019|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Once Upon a Time in Hollywood***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Quentin Tarantino**|
|_The Irishman_|Steven Zaillian|||||
|_Marriage Story_|Noah Baumbach|||||
|_Parasite_|Bong Joon-Ho and Han Jin Won|||||
|_The Two Popes_|Anthony McCarten|||||

### 2020s

|width="10%"|Year|width="45%"|Film|width="45%"|Nominees|
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|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2020|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***The Trial of the Chicago 7***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Aaron Sorkin**|
|_Promising Young Woman_|Emerald Fennell|||||
|_Mank_|Jack Fincher (posthumous)|||||
|_The Father_|Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton|||||
|_Nomadland_|Chloé Zhao|||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2021|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|***Belfast***|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|**Kenneth Branagh**|
|_Licorice Pizza_|Paul Thomas Anderson|||||
|_The Power of the Dog_|Jane Campion|||||
|_Don't Look Up_|Adam McKay|||||
|_Being the Ricardos_|Aaron Sorkin|||||

## Infobox (award)

- **name**: Golden Globe Award, Golden Globe for Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
- **awarded for**: Best Screenplay Writing (Original or Adapted) of a Motion Picture
- **presenter**: Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- **location**: United States
- **holder**: Kenneth Branagh for _Belfast (film), Belfast_ (2021)