| 2025 | Peter Straughan (Conclave)beat 4 others- James Mangold & Jay Cocks (A Complete Unknown)
- Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius & Nicolas Livecchi (Emilia Pérez)
- RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes (Nickel Boys)
- Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin & John "Divine G" Whitfield (Sing Sing)
|  Focus Features |
| 2024 | Cord Jefferson (American Fiction)beat 4 others- Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach (Barbie)
- Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)
- Tony McNamara (Poor Things)
- Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest)
| Amazon MGM Studios |
| 2023 | Sarah Polley (Women Talking)beat 4 others- Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell (All Quiet on the Western Front)
- Rian Johnson (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)
- Kazuo Ishiguro (Living)
- Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, Christopher McQuarrie, Peter Craig & Justin Marks (Top Gun: Maverick)
| United Artists Releasing |
| 2022 | Siân Heder (CODA)beat 4 others- Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe (Drive My Car)
- Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve & Eric Roth (Dune)
- Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Lost Daughter)
- Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
|  Apple TV+ |
| 2021 | Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller (The Father)beat 4 others- Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Peter Baynham, Erica Rivinoja, Dan Mazer, Jena Friedman, Lee Kern & Nina Pedrad (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)
- Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)
- Kemp Powers (One Night in Miami...)
- Ramin Bahrani (The White Tiger)
| Sony Pictures Classics |
| 2020 | Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit)beat 4 others- Steven Zaillian (The Irishman)
- Todd Phillips & Scott Silver (Joker)
- Greta Gerwig (Little Women)
- Anthony McCarten (The Two Popes)
| Fox Searchlight Pictures |
| 2019 | Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman)beat 4 others- Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs)
- Nicole Holofcener & Jeff Whitty (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
- Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk)
- Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters (A Star Is Born)
| Focus Features |
| 2018 | James Ivory (Call Me by Your Name)beat 4 others- Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber (The Disaster Artist)
- Scott Frank, James Mangold & Michael Green (Logan)
- Aaron Sorkin (Molly's Game)
- Virgil Williams & Dee Rees (Mudbound)
| Sony Pictures Classics |
| 2017 | Barry Jenkins & Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight)beat 4 others- Eric Heisserer (Arrival)
- August Wilson (Fences)
- Allison Schroeder & Theodore Melfi (Hidden Figures)
- Luke Davies (Lion)
|  A24 |
| 2016 | Charles Randolph & Adam McKay (The Big Short)beat 4 others- Nick Hornby (Brooklyn)
- Phyllis Nagy (Carol)
- Drew Goddard (The Martian)
- Emma Donoghue (Room)
|  Paramount Pictures |
| 2015 | Graham Moore (The Imitation Game)beat 4 others- Jason Hall (American Sniper)
- Paul Thomas Anderson (Inherent Vice)
- Anthony McCarten (The Theory of Everything)
- Damien Chazelle (Whiplash)
|  The Weinstein Company |
| 2014 | John Ridley (12 Years a Slave)beat 4 others- Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke (Before Midnight)
- Billy Ray (Captain Phillips)
- Steve Coogan & Jeff Pope (Philomena)
- Terence Winter (The Wolf of Wall Street)
| Fox Searchlight Pictures |
| 2013 | Chris Terrio (Argo)beat 4 others- Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
- David Magee (Life of Pi)
- Tony Kushner (Lincoln)
- David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)
|  Warner Bros. |
| 2012 | Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash (The Descendants)beat 4 others- John Logan (Hugo)
- George Clooney, Grant Heslov & Beau Willimon (The Ides of March)
- Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin & Stan Chervin (Moneyball)
- Bridget O'Connor & Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
| Fox Searchlight Pictures |
| 2011 | Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network)beat 4 others- Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy (127 Hours)
- Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich (Toy Story 3)
- Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (True Grit)
- Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini (Winter's Bone)
| Columbia Pictures |
| 2010 | Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious)beat 4 others- Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell (District 9)
- Nick Hornby (An Education)
- Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche (In the Loop)
- Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air)
|  Lionsgate |
| 2009 | Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire)beat 4 others- Eric Roth & Robin Swicord (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
- John Patrick Shanley (Doubt)
- Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon)
- David Hare (The Reader)
| Fox Searchlight Pictures |
| 2008 | Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men)beat 4 others- Christopher Hampton (Atonement)
- Sarah Polley (Away from Her)
- Ronald Harwood (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
- Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
|  Miramax |
| 2007 | William Monahan (The Departed)beat 4 others- Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer & Todd Phillips (Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan)
- Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby (Children of Men)
- Todd Field & Tom Perrotta (Little Children)
- Patrick Marber (Notes on a Scandal)
| Warner Bros. |
| 2006 | Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana (Brokeback Mountain)beat 4 others- Dan Futterman (Capote)
- Jeffrey Caine (The Constant Gardener)
- Josh Olson (A History of Violence)
- Tony Kushner & Eric Roth (Munich)
| Focus Features |
| 2005 | Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor (Sideways)beat 4 others- Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater & Kim Krizan (Before Sunset)
- David Magee (Finding Neverland)
- Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby)
- José Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries)
| Fox Searchlight Pictures |
| 2004 | Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)beat 4 others- Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini (American Splendor)
- Bráulio Mantovani (City of God)
- Brian Helgeland (Mystic River)
- Gary Ross (Seabiscuit)
| New Line Cinema |
| 2003 | Ronald Harwood (The Pianist)beat 4 others- Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz (About a Boy)
- Charlie Kaufman & Donald Kaufman (Adaptation)
- Bill Condon (Chicago)
- David Hare (The Hours)
| Focus Features |
| 2002 | Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind)beat 4 others- Daniel Clowes & Terry Zwigoff (Ghost World)
- Rob Festinger & Todd Field (In the Bedroom)
- Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
- Ted Elliott, Roger S. H. Schulman, Joe Stillman & Terry Rossio (Shrek)
| Universal Pictures |
| 2001 | Stephen Gaghan (Traffic)beat 4 others- Robert Nelson Jacobs (Chocolat)
- Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus & Kuo Jung Tsai (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
- Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
- Steve Kloves (Wonder Boys)
| USA Films |
| 2000 | John Irving (The Cider House Rules)beat 4 others- Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor (Election)
- Frank Darabont (The Green Mile)
- Michael Mann & Eric Roth (The Insider)
- Anthony Minghella (The Talented Mr. Ripley)
| Miramax |
| 1999 | Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Scott Frank (Out of Sight)
- Elaine May (Primary Colors)
- Scott Smith (A Simple Plan)
- Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line)
| Lions Gate Films |
| 1998 | Curtis Hanson & Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Paul Attanasio (Donnie Brasco)
- Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter)
- Hilary Henkin & David Mamet (Wag the Dog)
- Hossein Amini (The Wings of the Dove)
| Warner Bros. |
| 1997 | Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Arthur Miller (The Crucible)
- Anthony Minghella (The English Patient)
- Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet)
- John Hodge (Trainspotting)
| Miramax Films |
| 1996 | Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility)unverifiedbeat 4 others- William Broyles Jr. & Al Reinert (Apollo 13)
- George Miller & Chris Noonan (Babe)
- Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas)
- Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli & Massimo Troisi (Il Postino: The Postman)
| Sony Pictures Releasing |
| 1995 | Eric Roth (Forrest Gump)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Alan Bennett (The Madness of King George)
- Robert Benton (Nobody's Fool)
- Paul Attanasio (Quiz Show)
- Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption)
| Paramount Pictures |
| 1994 | Steven Zaillian (Schindler's List)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Jay Cocks & Martin Scorsese (The Age of Innocence)
- Terry George & Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father)
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (The Remains of the Day)
- William Nicholson (Shadowlands)
| Universal Pictures |
| 1993 | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Howards End)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Peter Barnes (Enchanted April)
- Michael Tolkin (The Player)
- Richard Friedenberg (A River Runs Through It)
- Bo Goldman (Scent of a Woman)
| Sony Pictures Classics |
| 1992 | Ted Tally (The Silence of the Lambs)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa)
- Fannie Flagg & Carol Sobieski (Fried Green Tomatoes)
- Zachary Sklar & Oliver Stone (JFK)
- Pat Conroy & Becky Johnston (The Prince of Tides)
| Orion Pictures |
| 1991 | Michael Blake (Dances with Wolves)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Steven Zaillian (Awakenings)
- Nicholas Pileggi & Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas)
- Donald E. Westlake (The Grifters)
- Nicholas Kazan (Reversal of Fortune)
| Orion Pictures |
| 1990 | Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Ron Kovic & Oliver Stone (Born on the Fourth of July)
- Paul Mazursky & Roger L. Simon (Enemies, A Love Story)
- Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams)
- Shane Connaughton & Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot)
| Warner Bros. |
| 1989 | Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Frank Galati & Lawrence Kasdan (The Accidental Tourist)
- Anna Hamilton Phelan & Tab Murphy (Gorillas in the Mist)
- Christine Edzard (Little Dorrit)
- Jean-Claude Carrière & Philip Kaufman (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
| Warner Bros. Pictures |
| 1988 | Bernardo Bertolucci & Mark Peploe (The Last Emperor)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Tony Huston (The Dead)
- James Dearden (Fatal Attraction)
- Gustav Hasford, Michael Herr & Stanley Kubrick (Full Metal Jacket)
- Per Berglund, Brasse Brännström, Lasse Hallström & Reidar Jönsson (My Life as a Dog)
| Columbia Pictures |
| 1987 | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (A Room with a View)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Hesper Anderson & Mark Medoff (Children of a Lesser God)
- Richard Price (The Color of Money)
- Beth Henley (Crimes of the Heart)
- Bruce A. Evans & Raynold Gideon (Stand by Me)
| Curzon Film Distributors |
| 1986 | Kurt Luedtke (Out of Africa)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Menno Meyjes (The Color Purple)
- Leonard Schrader (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
- Richard Condon & Janet Roach (Prizzi's Honor)
- Horton Foote (The Trip to Bountiful)
| Universal Pictures |
| 1985 | Peter Shaffer (Amadeus)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Michael Austin & Robert Towne (Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes)
- Bruce Robinson (The Killing Fields)
- David Lean (A Passage to India)
- Charles Fuller (A Soldier's Story)
| Orion Pictures |
| 1984 | James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Harold Pinter (Betrayal)
- Ronald Harwood (The Dresser)
- Willy Russell (Educating Rita)
- Julius J. Epstein (Reuben, Reuben)
| Paramount Pictures |
| 1983 | Costa-Gavras Stewart & Donald E. Stewart (Missing)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot)
- Alan J. Pakula (Sophie's Choice)
- David Mamet (The Verdict)
- Blake Edwards (Victor/Victoria)
| Universal Pictures |
| 1982 | Ernest Thompson (On Golden Pond)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Harold Pinter (The French Lieutenant's Woman)
- Dennis Potter (Pennies from Heaven)
- Jay Presson Allen & Sidney Lumet (Prince of the City)
- Michael Weller (Ragtime)
| Universal Pictures |
| 1981 | Alvin Sargent (Ordinary People)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Bruce Beresford, Jonathan Hardy & David Stevens (Breaker Morant)
- Thomas Rickman (Coal Miner's Daughter)
- Eric Bergren, Christopher De Vore & David Lynch (The Elephant Man)
- Lawrence B. Marcus & Richard Rush (The Stunt Man)
| Paramount Pictures |
| 1980 | Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Francis Ford Coppola & John Milius (Apocalypse Now)
- Marcello Danon, Édouard Molinaro, Jean Poiret & Francis Veber (La Cage aux Folles)
- Allan Burns (A Little Romance)
- Harriet Frank Jr. & Irving Ravetch (Norma Rae)
| Columbia Pictures |
| 1979 | Oliver Stone (Midnight Express)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Walter Newman (Bloodbrothers)
- Neil Simon (California Suite)
- Warren Beatty & Elaine May (Heaven Can Wait)
- Bernard Slade (Same Time, Next Year)
| Columbia Pictures |
| 1978 | Alvin Sargent (Julia)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Peter Shaffer (Equus)
- Lewis John Carlino & Gavin Lambert (I Never Promised You a Rose Garden)
- Larry Gelbart (Oh, God!)
- Luis Buñuel & Jean-Claude Carrière (That Obscure Object of Desire)
|  20th Century Fox |
| 1977 | William Goldman (All the President's Men)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Robert Getchell (Bound for Glory)
- Federico Fellini & Bernardino Zapponi (Fellini's Casanova)
- Nicholas Meyer (The Seven-Per-Cent Solution)
- David Butler & Steve Shagan (Voyage of the Damned)
| Warner Bros. |
| 1976 | Bo Goldman & Lawrence Hauben (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Stanley Kubrick (Barry Lyndon)
- Gladys Hill & John Huston (The Man Who Would Be King)
- Ruggero Maccari & Dino Risi (Profumo di donna)
- Neil Simon (The Sunshine Boys)
| United Artists |
| 1975 | Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo (The Godfather Part II)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Mordecai Richler & Lionel Chetwynd (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz)
- Julian Barry (Lenny)
- Paul Dehn (Murder on the Orient Express)
- Mel Brooks & Gene Wilder (Young Frankenstein)
| Paramount Pictures |
| 1974 | William Peter Blatty (The Exorcist)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Robert Towne (The Last Detail)
- James Bridges (The Paper Chase)
- Alvin Sargent (Paper Moon)
- Waldo Salt & Norman Wexler (Serpico)
| Warner Bros. |
| 1973 | Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo (The Godfather)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Jay Presson Allen (Cabaret)
- Bengt Forslund & Jan Troell (The Emigrants)
- Julius J. Epstein (Pete 'n' Tillie)
- Lonne Elder III (Sounder)
| Paramount Pictures |
| 1972 | Ernest Tidyman (The French Connection)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange)
- Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist)
- Vittorio Bonicelli & Ugo Pirro (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis)
- Peter Bogdanovich & Larry McMurtry (The Last Picture Show)
| 20th Century-Fox |
| 1971 | Ring Lardner Jr. (M*A*S*H)unverifiedbeat 4 others- George Seaton (Airport)
- Robert Anderson (I Never Sang for My Father)
- Joseph Bologna, David Zelag Goodman & Renée Taylor (Lovers and Other Strangers)
- Larry Kramer (Women in Love)
| 20th Century Fox |
| 1970 | Waldo Salt (Midnight Cowboy)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Bridget Boland, John Hale & Richard Sokolove (Anne of the Thousand Days)
- Arnold Schulman (Goodbye, Columbus)
- James Poe & Robert E. Thompson (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?)
- Costa-Gavras Semprún & Jorge Semprún (Z)
| United Artists |
| 1969 | James Goldman (The Lion in Winter)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Neil Simon (The Odd Couple)
- Vernon Harris (Oliver!)
- Stewart Stern (Rachel, Rachel)
- Roman Polanski (Rosemary's Baby)
| AVCO Embassy Pictures |
| 1968 | Stirling Silliphant (In the Heat of the Night)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Donn Pearce & Frank Pierson (Cool Hand Luke)
- Buck Henry & Calder Willingham (The Graduate)
- Richard Brooks (In Cold Blood)
- Fred Haines & Joseph Strick (Ulysses)
| United Artists |
| 1967 | Robert Bolt (A Man for All Seasons)repeatunverifiedbeat 4 others- Bill Naughton (Alfie)
- Richard Brooks (The Professionals)
- William Rose (The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming)
- Ernest Lehman (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
| Columbia Pictures |
| 1966 | Robert Bolt (Doctor Zhivago)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Walter Newman & Frank Pierson (Cat Ballou)
- John Kohn & Stanley Mann (The Collector)
- Abby Mann (Ship of Fools)
- Herb Gardner (A Thousand Clowns)
|  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1965 | Edward Anhalt (Becket)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Stanley Kubrick, Peter George & Terry Southern (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
- Don DaGradi & Bill Walsh (Mary Poppins)
- Alan Jay Lerner (My Fair Lady)
- Michael Cacoyannis (Zorba the Greek)
| Paramount Pictures |
| 1964 | John Osborne (Tom Jones)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Richard L. Breen, Henry Ephron & Phoebe Ephron (Captain Newman, M.D.)
- Harriet Frank Jr. & Irving Ravetch (Hud)
- James Poe (Lilies of the Field)
- Serge Bourguignon & Antoine Tudal (Sundays and Cybele)
| United Artists |
| 1963 | Horton Foote (To Kill a Mockingbird)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Eleanor Perry (David and Lisa)
- Robert Bolt & Michael Wilson (Lawrence of Arabia)
- Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita)
- William Gibson (The Miracle Worker)
| Universal-International Pictures |
| 1962 | Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg)unverifiedbeat 4 others- George Axelrod (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
- Carl Foreman (The Guns of Navarone)
- Sidney Carroll & Robert Rossen (The Hustler)
- Ernest Lehman (West Side Story)
| United Artists |
| 1961 | Richard Brooks (Elmer Gantry)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Harold Jacob Smith & Nedrick Young (Inherit the Wind)
- T. E. B. Clarke & Gavin Lambert (Sons and Lovers)
- Isobel Lennart (The Sundowners)
- James Kennaway (Tunes of Glory)
| United Artists |
| 1960 | Neil Paterson (Room at the Top)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Wendell Mayes (Anatomy of a Murder)
- Karl Tunberg (Ben-Hur)
- Robert Anderson (The Nun's Story)
- I. A. L. Diamond & Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot)
| British Lion Films |
| 1959 | Alan Jay Lerner (Gigi)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Richard Brooks & James Poe (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
- Alec Guinness (The Horse's Mouth)
- Nelson Gidding & Don Mankiewicz (I Want to Live!)
- John Gay & Terence Rattigan (Separate Tables)
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1958 | Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman & Michael Wilson (The Bridge on the River Kwai)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Reginald Rose (12 Angry Men)
- John Huston & John Lee Mahin (Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison)
- John Michael Hayes (Peyton Place)
- Paul Osborn (Sayonara)
| Columbia Pictures |
| 1957 | John Farrow, S. J. Perelman & James Poe (Around the World in 80 Days)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Tennessee Williams (Baby Doll)
- Michael Wilson (Friendly Persuasion)
- Fred Guiol & Ivan Moffat (Giant)
- Norman Corwin (Lust for Life)
| United Artists |
| 1956 | Paddy Chayefsky (Marty)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Millard Kaufman (Bad Day at Black Rock)
- Richard Brooks (Blackboard Jungle)
- Paul Osborn (East of Eden)
- Daniel Fuchs & Isobel Lennart (Love Me or Leave Me)
| United Artists |
| 1955 | George Seaton (The Country Girl)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Stanley Roberts (The Caine Mutiny)
- John Michael Hayes (Rear Window)
- Ernest Lehman, Samuel A. Taylor & Billy Wilder (Sabrina)
- Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett & Dorothy Kingsley (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)
| Paramount Pictures |
| 1954 | Daniel Taradash (From Here to Eternity)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Eric Ambler (The Cruel Sea)
- Helen Deutsch (Lili)
- John Dighton & Ian McLellan Hunter (Roman Holiday)
- A. B. Guthrie Jr. (Shane)
| Columbia Pictures |
| 1953 | Charles Schnee (The Bad and the Beautiful)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Michael Wilson (5 Fingers)
- Carl Foreman (High Noon)
- John Dighton, Alexander Mackendrick & Roger MacDougall (The Man in the White Suit)
- Frank Nugent (The Quiet Man)
| Loew's Inc. |
| 1952 | Harry Brown & Michael Wilson (A Place in the Sun)unverifiedbeat 4 others- James Agee & John Huston (The African Queen)
- Robert Wyler & Philip Yordan (Detective Story)
- Jacques Natanson & Max Ophüls (La Ronde)
- Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire)
| Paramount Pictures |
| 1951 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve)repeatunverifiedbeat 4 others- John Huston & Ben Maddow (The Asphalt Jungle)
- Albert Mannheimer (Born Yesterday)
- Albert Maltz (Broken Arrow)
- Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett (Father of the Bride)
| 20th Century-Fox |
| 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz (A Letter to Three Wives)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Robert Rossen (All the King's Men)
- Cesare Zavattini (The Bicycle Thief)
- Carl Foreman (Champion)
- Graham Greene (The Fallen Idol)
| 20th Century-Fox |
| 1949 | John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Charles Brackett, Richard L. Breen & Billy Wilder (A Foreign Affair)
- Allen Vincent & Irma von Cube (Johnny Belinda)
- Richard Schweizer & David Wechsler [de] (The Search)
- Millen Brand & Frank Partos (The Snake Pit)
| Warner Bros. Pictures |
| 1948 | George Seaton (Miracle on 34th Street)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Richard Murphy (Boomerang)
- John Paxton (Crossfire)
- Moss Hart (Gentleman's Agreement)
- David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan & Ronald Neame (Great Expectations)
| 20th Century-Fox |
| 1947 | Robert E. Sherwood (The Best Years of Our Lives)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Sally Benson & Talbot Jennings (Anna and the King of Siam)
- Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean & Ronald Neame (Brief Encounter)
- Anthony Veiller (The Killers)
- Sergio Amidei & Federico Fellini (Rome, Open City)
| RKO Radio Pictures |
| 1946 | Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder (The Lost Weekend)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Leopold Atlas, Guy Endore & Philip Stevenson (G. I. Joe)
- Ranald MacDougall (Mildred Pierce)
- Albert Maltz (Pride of the Marines)
- Frank Davis & Tess Slesinger (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
| Paramount Pictures |
| 1945 | Frank Butler & Frank Cavett (Going My Way)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Raymond Chandler & Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity)
- John L. Balderston, Walter Reisch & John Van Druten (Gaslight)
- Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein & Elizabeth Reinhardt (Laura)
- Irving Brecher & Fred F. Finklehoffe (Meet Me in St. Louis)
| Paramount Pictures |
| 1944 | Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein & Howard Koch (Casablanca)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Nunnally Johnson (Holy Matrimony)
- Richard Flournoy, Lewis R. Foster, Frank Ross & Robert W. Russell (The More the Merrier)
- George Seaton (The Song of Bernadette)
- Dashiell Hammett (Watch on the Rhine)
| Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. |
| 1943 | George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West & Arthur Wimperis (Mrs. Miniver)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Rodney Ackland & Emeric Pressburger (49th Parallel)
- Herman J. Mankiewicz & Jo Swerling (The Pride of the Yankees)
- George Froeschel, Claudine West & Arthur Wimperis (Random Harvest)
- Sidney Buchman & Irwin Shaw (The Talk of the Town)
| Loew's Inc. |
| 1942 | Sidney Buchman & Seton I. Miller (Here Comes Mr. Jordan)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder (Hold Back the Dawn)
- Philip Dunne (How Green Was My Valley)
- Lillian Hellman (The Little Foxes)
- John Huston (The Maltese Falcon)
| Columbia Pictures |
| 1941 | Donald Ogden Stewart (The Philadelphia Story)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Nunnally Johnson (The Grapes of Wrath)
- Dalton Trumbo (Kitty Foyle)
- Dudley Nichols (The Long Voyage Home)
- Joan Harrison & Robert E. Sherwood (Rebecca)
| Loew's, Inc. |
| 1940 | Sidney Howard (p.r.) (Gone with the Wind)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Holt Marvell, R. C. Sherriff & Claudine West (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)
- Sidney Buchman (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
- Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch & Billy Wilder (Ninotchka)
- Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur (Wuthering Heights)
| Loew's Incorporated |
| 1939 | George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Arthur Lewis & W. P. Lipscomb (Pygmalion)unverifiedbeat 4 others- John Meehan & Dore Schary (Boys Town)
- Ian Dalrymple, Betty Hill & Spig Wead (The Citadel)
- Lenore Coffee & Julius J. Epstein (Four Daughters)
- Robert Riskin (You Can't Take It with You)
| General Film Distributors |
| 1938 | Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg & Norman Reilly Raine (The Life of Emile Zola)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Viña Delmar (The Awful Truth)
- Marc Connelly, Dale Van Every & John Lee Mahin (Captains Courageous)
- Morrie Ryskind & Anthony Veiller (Stage Door)
- Alan Campbell, Robert Carson & Dorothy Parker (A Star Is Born)
| Warner Bros. Pictures |
| 1937 | Pierre Collings & Sheridan Gibney (The Story of Louis Pasteur)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett (After the Thin Man)
- Sidney Howard (Dodsworth)
- Robert Riskin (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town)
- Eric S. Hatch & Morrie Ryskind (My Man Godfrey)
| Warner Bros. Pictures |
| 1936 | Dudley Nichols (The Informer)unverifiedbeat 2 others- Achmed Abdullah, John L. Balderston, Waldemar Young, Grover Jones & William Slavens McNutt (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer)
- Jules Furthman, Talbot Jennings & Carey Wilson (Mutiny on the Bounty)
| RKO Radio Pictures |
| 1935 | Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night)unverifiedbeat 2 others- Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett (The Thin Man)
- Ben Hecht (Viva Villa!)
| Columbia Pictures |
| 1934 | Victor Heerman & Sarah Y. Mason (Little Women)unverifiedbeat 2 others- Robert Riskin (Lady for a Day)
- Paul Green & Sonya Levien (State Fair)
| RKO Radio Pictures |
| 1933 | Edwin J. Burke (Bad Girl)unverifiedbeat 2 others- Sidney Howard (Arrowsmith)
- Percy Heath & Samuel Hoffenstein (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
| Fox Film Corporation |
| 1932 | Howard Estabrook (Cimarron)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Seton I. Miller & Fred Niblo Jr. (The Criminal Code)
- Horace Jackson (Holiday)
- Francis Edward Faragoh & Robert N. Lee (Little Caesar)
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz & Sam Mintz (Skippy)
| RKO Radio Pictures |
| 1931 | Frances Marion (The Big House)unverifiedbeat 4 others- George Abbott, Maxwell Anderson & Del Andrews (All Quiet on the Western Front)
- Julien Josephson (Disraeli)
- John Meehan (The Divorcee)
- Howard Estabrook (Street of Chance)
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1930 | Hanns Kräly (The Patriot)unverifiedbeat 10 others- Elliott J. Clawson (The Cop)
- Tom Barry (In Old Arizona)
- Hanns Kräly (The Last of Mrs. Cheyney)
- Elliott J. Clawson (The Leatherneck)
- Josephine Lovett (Our Dancing Daughters)
- Elliott J. Clawson (Sal of Singapore)
- Elliott J. Clawson (Skyscraper)
- Tom Barry (The Valiant)
- Bess Meredyth (A Woman of Affairs)
- Bess Meredyth (Wonder of Women)
| Paramount Pictures |
| 1929 | Benjamin Glazer (7th Heaven)unverifiedbeat 2 others- Anthony Coldeway (Glorious Betsy)
- Alfred A. Cohn (The Jazz Singer)
| Fox Film Corporation |
