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 (film 1927)|Underworld]]'' - [[Ben Hecht]]**
** *[[The Last Command (film 1928)|The Last Command]]* - Lajos Bíró
* **1928/1929:** *Tidak ada yang diberikan*

## 1930an
* **1929/1930:** *Tidak ada yang diberikan*
* **1930/1931: ''[[The Dawn Patrol (1930 film)|The Dawn Patrol]]'' - [[John Monk Saunders]]**
** *[[Doorway to Hell]]* - Rowland Brown
** *[[Laughter (film)|Laughter]]* - Harry D'Arrast, Douglas Doty, Donald Stewart
** *[[The Public Enemy]]* - John Bright, Kubec Glasmon
** *[[Smart Money (film 1931)|Smart Money]]* - Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Jackson
* **1931/1932: ''[[The Champ (film 1931)|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 (film 1934)|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 (film 1936)|Fury]]'' - [[Norman Krasna]]
** ''[[The Great Ziegfeld]]'' - [[William Anthony McGuire|William McGuire]]
** ''[[San Francisco (film 1936)|San Francisco]]'' - [[Robert Hopkins (penulis latar)|Robert Hopkins]]
** ''[[Three Smart Girls]]'' - [[Adele Comandini]]
* **1937: *[[A Star Is Born (film 1937)|A Star Is Born]]* - Robert Carson, William Wellman** 
** ''[[Black Legion (film)|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 (film 1938)|Boys Town]]* - Eleanore Griffin, Dore Schary**
** ''[[Alexander's Ragtime Band (film)|Alexander's Ragtime Band]]'' - [[Irving Berlin]]
** ''[[Angels with Dirty Faces]]'' - [[Rowland Brown]]
** ''[[Blockade (film 1938)|Blockade]]'' - [[John Howard Lawson]]
** ''[[Mad About Music]]'' - Marcella Burke, [[Frederick Kohner]]
** ''[[Test Pilot (film)|Test Pilot]]'' - [[Frank Wead]]
* **1939: *[[Mr. Smith Goes to Washington]]* - Lewis R. Foster**
** ''[[Bachelor Mother]]'' - [[Felix Jackson]]
** ''[[Love Affair (film 1939)|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 dan Bella Spewack|Samuel Spewack dan Bella Spewack]]
** ''[[The Westerner (film)|The Westerner]]'' - [[Stuart N. Lake]]
* **1941: *[[Here Comes Mr. Jordan]]* - Harry Segall**
** ''[[Ball of Fire]]'' - [[Thomas Monroe (penulis)|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 (film)|49th Parallel (The Invaders)]]* - Emeric Pressburger**
** ''[[Holiday Inn (film)|Holiday Inn]]'' - [[Irving Berlin]]
** ''[[The Pride of the Yankees]]'' - [[Paul Gallico]]
** ''[[The Talk of the Town (film 1942)|The Talk of the Town]]'' - [[Sidney Harmon]]
** ''[[Yankee Doodle Dandy]]'' - [[Robert Buckner]]
* **1943: *[[The Human Comedy (film)|The Human Comedy]]* - William Saroyan**
** ''[[Action in the North Atlantic]]'' - [[Guy Gilpatric]]
** ''[[Destination Tokyo]]'' - [[Steve Fisher (penulis)|Steve Fisher]]
** ''[[The More the Merrier]]'' - [[Frank Ross (produser)|Frank Ross]], [[Robert W. Russell|Robert Russell]]
** ''[[Shadow of a Doubt]]'' - Gordon McDonell
* **1944: *[[Going My Way]]* - Leo McCarey**
** ''[[A Guy Named Joe]]'' - [[David Boehm]], Chandler Sprague
** ''[[Lifeboat (film)|Lifeboat]]'' - [[John Steinbeck]]
** ''[[None Shall Escape]]'' - [[Alfred Neumann (penulis)|Alfred Neumann]], Joseph Than
** ''[[The Fighting Sullivans|The Sullivans]]'' - [[Eddie Doherty|Edward Doherty]], Jules Schermer
* **1945: *[[The House on 92nd St.]]* - Charles G. Booth**
** ''[[The Affairs of Susan]]'' - [[László Görög (penulis)|László Görög]], [[Thomas Monroe (writer)|Thomas Monroe]]
** ''[[A Medal for Benny]]'' - [[John Steinbeck]], [[Jack Wagner (screenwriter)|Jack Wagner]]
** ''[[Objective, Burma!]]'' - [[Alvah Bessie]]
** ''[[A Song to Remember]]'' - [[Ernst Marischka]]
* **1946: *[[Vacation from Marriage]]* - Clemence Dane**
** ''[[The Dark Mirror (film)|The Dark Mirror]]'' - [[Vladimir Solomonovich Pozner]]
** ''[[The Strange Love of Martha Ivers]]'' - [[John Patrick (pembuat drama)|Jack Patrick]]
** ''[[The Stranger (film 1946)|The Stranger]]'' - [[Victor Trivas]]
** ''[[To Each His Own (film)|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 (film 1947)|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 (film 1948)|Red River]]'' - [[Borden Chase]]
** ''[[The Red Shoes (film 1948)|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 (writer)|Harry Brown]]
** ''[[White Heat]]'' - [[Virginia Kellogg]]

== 1950an ==
* **1950: *[[Panic in the Streets (1950)|Panic in the Streets]]* - Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt**
** ''[[Bitter Rice]]'' - [[Giuseppe De Santis]], [[Carlo Lizzani]]
** ''[[The Gunfighter (film)|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 (penulis latar)|Liam O'Brien]], [[Robert Riskin]]
** ''[[Teresa (film)|Teresa]]'' - [[Alfred Hayes (penulis)|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 (film 1952)|The Sniper]]'' - [[Edward Anhalt]], [[Edna Anhalt]]
* **1953: *[[Roman Holiday (film 1953)|Roman Holiday]]* - Dalton Trumbo**
** ''[[Above and Beyond (film)|Above and Beyond]]'' - [[Beirne Lay, Jr.]]
** ''[[The Captain's Paradise]]'' - [[Alec Coppel]]
** ''[[Hondo (film)|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 (film 1954)|Night People]]'' - [[Jed Harris]], (Tom Reed)
** ''[[There's No Business Like Show Business (film)|There's No Business Like Show Business]]'' - [[Lamar Trotti]] ([[Daftar nominasi dan pemenang Academy Award anumerta|nominasi anumerta]])
* **1955: *[[Love Me or Leave Me (film)|Love Me or Leave Me]]* - Daniel Fuchs**
** ''[[The Private War of Major Benson]]'' - [[Joe Connelly (producer)|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 (penulis)|Jacques Perret]], [[Henri Verneuil]], [[Raoul Ploquin]]
** ''[[Strategic Air Command (film)|Strategic Air Command]]'' - [[Beirne Lay, Jr.]]
* **1956: *[[The Brave One (film 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

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