page_title: Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
section_title: Winners and nominees
hierarchical_section_title: Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay / Winners and nominees
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Sofia Coppola au festival de Cannes
context_page_description: The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay.
  See also the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, a similar award for screenplays that are adaptations.
context_section_description: Winners are listed first in colored row, followed by the other nominees.
caption: Sofia Coppola won for 2003's Lost in Translation.
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