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These are all the movies that won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay (aka Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen). The writers that won the Oscar are listed in the description.
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.
- Crash
- Green Book
- Juno
- Lost in Translation
- Milk
- Midnight in Paris
- Almost Famous
- The King's Speech
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Promising Young Woman
The lives of several highly disparate people living in Los Angeles collide under the guise of tense race relations that simmer within the city in Paul Haggis’ Best Picture winning drama. Crash isn’t a good film. Often cited as one of the worst films to ever win Best Picture, the racial drama has aged terribly, particularly in light of the far more ...
Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), a renowned pianist who is African-American, embarks on a road trip through the deep south of the United States, in order to fulfil a concert tour, alongside Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen), a tough-talking Italian-American bouncer from a rough neighborhood in the Bronx, who was hired to be a driver for Dr. Shirley. A vi...
Diablo Cody won Best Original Screenplay for her debut script about a pregnant teenager named Juno. Elliot Page stars as the titular Juno, a young woman with alternative tastes who becomes pregnant after sleeping with her friend Paulie (Michael Cera) and decides to give the unborn baby to a wealthy couple (Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman), who ap...
Sofia Coppola won the award for her film about an unlikely bond between a faded movie star (Bill Murray) and a neglected young newlywed (Scarlett Johansson) who cross paths in a lavish Tokyo hotel. Coppola’s second feature showed her fully come into her own as a writer/director, exhibiting strong filmmaking instincts that brought the loneliness of ...
The life of gay rights activist, and the first openly gay elected official in California, Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) is paid tribute in this biopic from Good Will Hunting director, Gus Van Sant. Penn won the Oscar for Best Actor, while screenwriter Dustin Lance Black won the film’s other Academy Award. A fairly straightforward biopic about an importan...
Woody Allen won his final Oscar for this fantasy film about a nostalgic writer (Owen Wilson) who is on vacation in Paris with his fiancée’s family and finds himself mysteriously transported to the roaring 1920’s where he meets literary greats like F. Scott Fitzgerald (Tom Hiddleston), Gertrude Stein (Kathy Bates) and Ernest Hemmingway (Corey Stoll)...
Cameron Crowe wrote and directed this film that drew on his own experiences as a young person. A high schooler (Patrick Fugit) in the 1970s is given the opportunity to follow an up-and-coming rock band as they go on tour. A unique coming-of-age film that has an excellent classic rock soundtrack and strong supporting performances from the ensemble c...
After ascending to the throne in 1936, King George VI (Colin Firth) must overcome a crippling speech impediment through the unusual methods of a renowned speech therapist (Geoffrey Rush) so that he may communicate with the British citizens as the shadow of war looms over Europe. The King’s Speech is a competently made and surprisingly heart-warming...
An unconventional family takes a cross-country road trip so that the young daughter (Abigail Breslin) can compete in the finals of a child beauty pageant. Michael Arndt, who would go on to write Toy Story 3 and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for his quirky script that would become the benchmark for American...
Promising Young Woman follows a traumatized young woman (Carey Mulligan) who seeks some form of vengeance for a tragedy from her past. Actress Emerald Fennell made her feature debut as a writer/director with this provocative drama that deals with the modern-day threats and injustices that women face every day in our culture. A very fresh and daring...
- Pulp Fiction. 1994. 169 votes. Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary. Pulp Fiction, a quintessential Quentin Tarantino piece, is a genre-defying blend of crime, drama, and black comedy.
- Fargo. 1996. 120 votes. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen. Fargo, a dark comedy-crime film, is an unforgettable journey into the frozen heart of Minnesota. Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy), a car salesman in Minneapolis, hatches a desperate scheme involving his wife and two bumbling criminals, Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) and Gaear Grimsrud (Peter Stormare).
- The Usual Suspects. 1995. 131 votes. Christopher McQuarrie. The Usual Suspects is a mystery-thriller that keeps you guessing until the very end. Five criminals, including Dean Keaton (Gabriel Byrne) and Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey), meet during a police lineup.
- Citizen Kane. 1941. 109 votes. Herbert J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles. Citizen Kane is a riveting drama, directed by Orson Welles. The film delves into the life of Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), a wealthy newspaper magnate.
Apr 3, 2021 · Paddy Chayefsky won two Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay (The Hospital and Network), as well as one Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (Marty).
Jan 5, 2018 · The Best Original Screenplay Oscar Winners of the 21st Century Ranked, From ‘Her’ to ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’. Many great filmmakers have won for writing but not...
Woody Allen has won the most Academy Awards for best original screenplay (three). Below is a list of the winning screenwriters and the films for which they won. The years indicate when the eligible films were released. 1920s and 1930s.
