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| ปี | ภาพยนตร์ | นักเขียนบท | ดัดแปลงจาก |
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1929/30 (3rd): 
| 1929/30 (3rd) | The Big House | Frances Marion | – (original) |
| 1929/30 (3rd) | All Quiet on the Western Front | Maxwell Anderson (adaptation/dialogue) George Abbott (screenplay) Del Andrews (adaptation) | The novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque |
| 1929/30 (3rd) | Disraeli | Julien Josephson | The play Disraeli by Louis N. Parker |
| 1929/30 (3rd) | The Divorcee | John Meehan | The novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott |
| 1929/30 (3rd) | Street of Chance | Howard Estabrook | A story by Oliver H. P. Garrett |
1930/31 (4th): 
| 1930/31 (4th) | Cimarron | Howard Estabrook | The novel Cimarron by Edna Ferber |
| 1930/31 (4th) | The Criminal Code | Seton I. Miller Fred Niblo, Jr. | The play The Criminal Code by Martin Flavin |
| 1930/31 (4th) | Holiday | Horace Jackson | The play Holiday by Philip Barry |
| 1930/31 (4th) | Little Caesar | Francis Edward Faragoh (screen version/dialogue) Robert N. Lee (continuity) | The novel Little Caesar by William R. Burnett |
| 1930/31 (4th) | Skippy | Joseph L. Mankiewicz Sam Mintz | The comic strip Skippy by Percy Crosby |
1931/32 (5th): 
| 1931/32 (5th) | Bad Girl | Edwin J. Burke | The novel Bad Girl by Viña Delmar The play Bad Girl by Viña Delmar |
| 1931/32 (5th) | Arrowsmith | Sidney Howard | The novel Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis |
| 1931/32 (5th) | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Percy Heath Samuel Hoffenstein | The novel Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson |
1932/33 (6th): 
| 1932/33 (6th) | Little Women | Victor Heerman Sarah Y. Mason | The novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott |
| 1932/33 (6th) | Lady for a Day | Robert Riskin | The story "Madame la Gimp" by Damon Runyon |
| 1932/33 (6th) | State Fair | Paul Green Sonya Levien | The novel State Fair by Phil Stong |
1934 (7th): 
| 1934 (7th) | It Happened One Night | Robert Riskin | The story "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams |
| 1934 (7th) | The Thin Man | Albert Hackett Frances Goodrich | The novel The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett |
| 1934 (7th) | Viva Villa! | Ben Hecht | The book Viva Villa! by Edgecumb Pinchon and O. B. Stade |
1935 (8th): 
| 1935 (8th) | The Informer | Dudley Nichols (declined) | The novel The Informer by Liam O'Flaherty |
| 1935 (8th) | The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | Waldemar Young (screenplay) John L. Balderston (screenplay) Achmed Abdullah (screenplay) Grover Jones (adaptation) William Slavens McNutt (adaptation) | The novel The Lives of a Bengal Lancer by Francis Yeats-Brown |
| 1935 (8th) | Mutiny on the Bounty | Talbot Jennings Jules Furthman Carey Wilson | The novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall |
| 1935 (8th) | Captain Blood (write-in candidate) (3rd) | Casey Robinson | The novel Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini |
1936 (9th): 
| 1936 (9th) | The Story of Louis Pasteur | Pierre Collings Sheridan Gibney | – (original) |
| 1936 (9th) | After the Thin Man | Frances Goodrich Albert Hackett | A story by Dashiell Hammett |
| 1936 (9th) | Dodsworth | Sidney Howard | The play Dodsworth by Sidney Howard, based on the novel Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis |
| 1936 (9th) | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Robert Riskin | The story "Opera Hat" by Clarence Budington Kelland |
| 1936 (9th) | My Man Godfrey | Morrie Ryskind Eric Hatch | The story "1101 Park Avenue" by Eric Hatch |
1937 (10th): 
| 1937 (10th) | The Life of Emile Zola | Heinz Herald Geza Herczeg Norman Reilly Raine | The book Zola and His Time by Matthew Josephson |
| 1937 (10th) | The Awful Truth | Viña Delmar | The play The Awful Truth by Arthur Richman |
| 1937 (10th) | Captains Courageous | Marc Connelly John Lee Mahin Dale Van Every | The novel Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling |
| 1937 (10th) | Stage Door | Morrie Ryskind Anthony Veiller | The play Stage Door by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman |
| 1937 (10th) | A Star Is Born | Dorothy Parker Alan Campbell Robert Carson | A story by William A. Wellman and Robert Carson |
1938 (11th): 
| 1938 (11th) | Pygmalion | Ian Dalrymple Cecil Lewis (scenario) W. P. Lipscomb (scenario) George Bernard Shaw (scenario and dialogue) | The play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw |
| 1938 (11th) | Boys Town | John Meehan Dore Schary | A story by Dore Schary and Eleanore Griffin |
| 1938 (11th) | The Citadel | Ian Dalrymple Frank Wead Elizabeth Hill | The novel The Citadel by A. J. Cronin |
| 1938 (11th) | Four Daughters | Lenore J. Coffee Julius J. Epstein | The novel Sister Act by Fannie Hurst |
| 1938 (11th) | You Can't Take It with You | Robert Riskin | The play You Can't Take It with You by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart |
1939 (12th): 
| 1939 (12th) | Gone with the Wind | Sidney Howard (posthumous win) | The novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell |
| 1939 (12th) | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | R. C. Sherriff Claudine West Eric Maschwitz | The novel Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton |
| 1939 (12th) | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Sidney Buchman | A story by Lewis R. Foster |
| 1939 (12th) | Ninotchka | Charles Brackett Billy Wilder Walter Reisch | A story by Melchior Lengyel |
| 1939 (12th) | Wuthering Heights | Charles MacArthur Ben Hecht | The novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |