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Writing (Original Screenplay) - Screenplay by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge & Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff
The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) 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 .
Oscars – Writing (Original Screenplay) Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
- Get Out (2017) Former sketch comedian Jordan Peele reinvented his career and made an instant classic with the thriller Get Out. Future Academy Award winner Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah) stars as Chris, a young black man who's going to meet the parents of his white girlfriend (Allison Williams), but over the long weekend this uncomfortable experience soon becomes unsettling with a sinister secret afoot.
- Parasite (2019) Bong Joon Ho's Parasite became the first international film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. The film also won in several other major categories, with Director Bong taking home statuettes for both directing and writing the original screenplay.
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet star as a recently separated couple who both undergo a new procedure which allows for the removal of unwanted memories, erasing the memories of their relationship.
- Spotlight (2015) Based on the true story of how a small team of dedicated reporters for the Boston Globe uncovered the shocking and widespread abuse of minors by Catholic Priests, and how the church was actively covering up the scandal.
Feb 29, 2016 · Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy have the “write” stuff! The pair took home the 2016 Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) for Spotlight, presented by Emily Blunt and...
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Jun 1, 2024 · Every year the Academy evaluates a year's worth of brilliant original screenplays and picks what they believe to be the best of the best, nominating these for the most prestigious writing awards in cinema: the Oscars.
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award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Beverly Hills, California. It honors outstanding achievement by screenwriters for an original screenplay (not one adapted from another work, such as a play or novel) from a given year, as determined by the academy’s voting members.
