Academy Award untuk Cerita Terbaik

Academy Award untuk Cerita Terbaik adalah sebuah Academy Award yang diberikan dari permulaan Academy Awards sampai 1957, ketika kategori tersebut digantikan oleh Academy Award untuk Penulis Permainan Latar Asli, yang diperkenalkan pada 1940.

1920an 
 1927/1928: Underworld - Ben Hecht
 The Last Command - Lajos Bíró
 1928/1929: Tidak ada yang diberikan

1930an 
 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
 Hide-Out - Mauri Grashin
 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
 Fury - Norman Krasna
 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
 Ninotchka - Melchior Lengyel
 Young Mr. Lincoln - Lamar Trotti

 1940an 
 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
 Lifeboat - John Steinbeck
 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

 1950an 
 1950: Panic in the Streets - Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt Bitter Rice - Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani
 The Gunfighter - William Bowers, André de Toth
 Mystery Street - Leonard Spigelgass
 When Willie Comes Marching Home - Sy Gomberg
 1951: Seven Days to Noon - James Bernard, Paul Dehn Bullfighter and the Lady - Budd Boetticher, Ray Nazarro
 The Frogmen - Oscar Millard
 Here Comes the Groom - Liam O'Brien, Robert Riskin
 Teresa - Alfred Hayes, Stewart Stern
 1952: The Greatest Show on Earth - Frank Cavett, Fredric M. Frank, Theodore St. John My Son John - Leo McCarey
 The Narrow Margin - Martin Goldsmith, Jack Leonard
 The Pride of St. Louis - Guy Trosper
 The Sniper - Edward Anhalt, Edna Anhalt
 1953: Roman Holiday - Dalton Trumbo Above and Beyond - Beirne Lay, Jr.
 The Captain's Paradise - Alec Coppel
 Hondo - Louis L'Amour
 Little Fugitive - Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin
 1954: Broken Lance - Philip Yordan Bread, Love and Dreams (Italia: Pane, amore e fantasia) - Ettore Margadonna
 Forbidden Games (Prancis: Jeux interdits) - François Boyer
 Night People - Jed Harris, (Tom Reed)
 There's No Business Like Show Business - Lamar Trotti (nominasi anumerta)
 1955: Love Me or Leave Me - Daniel Fuchs The Private War of Major Benson - Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher
 Rebel Without a Cause - Nicholas Ray
 The Sheep Has Five Legs (Prancis: Le Mouton à cinq pattes) - Jean Marsan, Henri Troyat, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil, Raoul Ploquin
 Strategic Air Command - Beirne Lay, Jr.
 1956: The Brave One - Robert Rich (alias Dalton Trumbo)' The Eddy Duchin Story - Leo Katcher
 High Society - Edward Bernds, Elwood Ullman
 The Proud and the Beautiful (Prancis: Les Orgueilleux) - Jean-Paul Sartre
 Umberto D.'' - Cesare Zavattini

Referensi 

Cerita
Cerita Terbaik (Academy Awards)