Every Golden Globes Best Screenplay – Motion Picture winner

26 ceremonies, 2000–2025. 21 different winners.

Aaron Sorkin ×3Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor ×2Martin McDonagh ×2Quentin Tarantino ×2

One band per year, because no winner has gone back-to-back in the years on record. Colored by network / distributor; scroll sideways for the full run.

Alan Ball'00

Stephen Gaghan'01

Akiva Goldsman'02

Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor'03

Sofia Coppola'04

Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor'05

Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana'06

Peter Morgan'07

Joel Coen & Ethan Coen'08

Simon Beaufoy'09

Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner'10

Aaron Sorkin'11

Woody Allen'12

Quentin Tarantino'13

Spike Jonze'14

Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr. & Armando Bo'15

Aaron Sorkin'16

Damien Chazelle'17

Martin McDonagh'18

Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie & Peter Farrelly'19

Quentin Tarantino'20

Aaron Sorkin'21

Kenneth Branagh'22

Martin McDonagh'23

Justine Triet & Arthur Harari'24

Peter Straughan'25

Wins by network / distributor

Universal831%
Searchlight519%
Sony312%
Miramax28%
Warner Bros.28%
Lionsgate14%
Other519%

Who kept losing

Counting nominations in this category only, 2000–2025.

Most nominated, never won

Christopher Nolan3 noms
Adam McKay2 noms
Barry Jenkins2 noms
Charlie Kaufman2 noms
David Hare2 noms
Kenneth Lonergan2 noms

Most losses

Aaron Sorkin3L · 3W
Christopher Nolan3L · 0W
Adam McKay2L · 0W
Barry Jenkins2L · 0W
Charlie Kaufman2L · 0W
David Hare2L · 0W

The full list

Year	Winner	Network / Distributor
2025	Peter Straughan (Conclave) beat 5 others Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez) Sean Baker (Anora) Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold (The Brutalist) Jesse Eisenberg (A Real Pain) Coralie Fargeat (The Substance)	Focus Features
2024	Justine Triet & Arthur Harari (Anatomy of a Fall) beat 5 others Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach (Barbie) Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer) Eric Roth & Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon) Celine Song (Past Lives) Tony McNamara (Poor Things)	Neon
2023	Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin) beat 4 others Todd Field (Tár) Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once) Sarah Polley (Women Talking) Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner (The Fabelmans)	Searchlight Pictures
2022	Kenneth Branagh (Belfast) beat 4 others Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza) Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog) Adam McKay (Don't Look Up) Aaron Sorkin (Being the Ricardos)	Focus Features
2021	Aaron Sorkin (The Trial of the Chicago 7) beat 4 others Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) Jack Fincher (Mank) Florian Zeller & Christopher Hampton (The Father) Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)	Netflix
2020	Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) beat 4 others Steven Zaillian (The Irishman) Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story) Bong Joon-Ho & Han Jin Won (Parasite) Anthony McCarten (The Two Popes)	Columbia/Sony
2019	Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie & Peter Farrelly (Green Book) beat 4 others Deborah Davis & Tony McNamara (The Favourite) Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk) Alfonso Cuarón (Roma) Adam McKay (Vice)	Universal
2018	Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) beat 4 others Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) Aaron Sorkin (Molly's Game) Liz Hannah & Josh Singer (The Post) Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor (The Shape of Water)	Fox Searchlight
2017	Damien Chazelle (La La Land) beat 4 others Taylor Sheridan (Hell or High Water) Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea) Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) Tom Ford (Nocturnal Animals)	Lionsgate
2016	Aaron Sorkin (Steve Jobs) beat 4 others Adam McKay & Charles Randolph (The Big Short) Quentin Tarantino (The Hateful Eight) Emma Donoghue (Room) Tom McCarthy & Josh Singer (Spotlight)	Universal
2015	Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr. & Armando Bo (Birdman) beat 4 others Richard Linklater (Boyhood) Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel) Graham Moore (The Imitation Game)	Fox Searchlight
2014	Spike Jonze (Her) beat 4 others John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) Eric Warren Singer & David O. Russell (American Hustle) Bob Nelson (Nebraska) Steve Coogan & Jeff Pope (Philomena)	Warner Bros.
2013	Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained) beat 4 others Chris Terrio (Argo) Tony Kushner (Lincoln) David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook) Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty)	The Weinstein Company
2012	Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris) beat 4 others Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) Alexander Payne, Jim Rash & Nat Faxon (The Descendants) George Clooney, Grant Heslov & Beau Willimon (The Ides of March) Steven Zaillian & Aaron Sorkin (Moneyball)	Sony Pictures Classics
2011	Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) beat 4 others Simon Beaufoy & Danny Boyle (127 Hours) Christopher Nolan (Inception) Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg (The Kids Are All Right) David Seidler (The King's Speech)	Columbia/Sony
2010	Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air) beat 4 others Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell (District 9) Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds) Nancy Meyers (It's Complicated)	Paramount
2009	Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) beat 4 others Eric Roth (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) John Patrick Shanley (Doubt) Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon) David Hare (The Reader)	Fox Searchlight
2008	Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men) beat 4 others Christopher Hampton (Atonement) Aaron Sorkin (Charlie Wilson's War) Ronald Harwood (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) Diablo Cody (Juno)	Miramax
2007	Peter Morgan (The Queen) beat 4 others Guillermo Arriaga (Babel) William Monahan (The Departed) Todd Field & Tom Perrotta (Little Children) Patrick Marber (Notes on a Scandal)	Miramax
2006	Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana (Brokeback Mountain) beat 4 others Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco (Crash) George Clooney & Grant Heslov (Good Night, and Good Luck.) Woody Allen (Match Point) Tony Kushner & Eric Roth (Munich)	Focus Features
2005	Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor (Sideways) beat 4 others John Logan (The Aviator) Patrick Marber (Closer) Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) David Magee (Finding Neverland)	Fox Searchlight
2004	Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) beat 4 others Anthony Minghella (Cold Mountain) Jim Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan & Naomi Sheridan (In America) Richard Curtis (Love Actually) Brian Helgeland (Mystic River)	Focus Features
2003	Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor (About Schmidt) beat 4 others Charlie & Donald Kaufman (Adaptation.) Bill Condon (Chicago) Todd Haynes (Far from Heaven) David Hare (The Hours)	New Line Cinema
2002	Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind) beat 4 others Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park) Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (The Man Who Wasn't There) Christopher Nolan (Memento) David Lynch (Mulholland Drive)	Universal/DreamWorks
2001	Stephen Gaghan (Traffic) beat 4 others Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous) Doug Wright (Quills) Steve Kloves (Wonder Boys) Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me)	USA Films
2000	Alan Ball (American Beauty) beat 4 others Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich) John Irving (The Cider House Rules) Eric Roth & Michael Mann (The Insider) M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense)	DreamWorks

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