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Each year, a few weeks before the Academy Awards, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announces its picks for best pictures,
performances and screenplays of the preceding year. While widely touted as harbingers of the upcoming Oscars, the truth is
that this is more hopeful thinking than hard reality. Nevertheless, the Golden Globes have gained a prestigious reputation
over the years and, in a number of cases, the Foreign Press Association has given recognition to efforts that were sometimes
out of the mainstream or overlooked by the Academy.
Listed below are not only the winners for Best Screenplay over the last decade, but the other contenders, as well. As
the titles indicate, it is sometimes surprising the number of truly great scripts that lost. Not to denigrate any of the other
writers named in contention, but consider that the brilliant work of Charlie Kaufman, for instance, was nominated 3 times
in 6 years, but lost each time. Go figure.
2007
No Country For Old Men - Written by Ethan & Joel Coen
Atonement - Written by Christopher Hampton
Charlie Wilson's War - Written by Aaron Sorkin
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly - Written by Ronald Harwood
Juno - Written by Diablo Cody
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2006
THE QUEEN, Written by Peter Morgan
Babel, Written by Guillermo Arriaga
The Departed, Written by William Monahan
Little Children, Written by Todd Field, Tom Perrotta
Notes On A Scandal, Written by Patrick Marber
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2005
THE QUEEN, Written by Peter Morgan
Babel, Written by Guillermo Arriaga
The Departed, Written by William Monahan
Little Children, Written by Todd Field, Tom Perrotta
Notes On A Scandal, Written by Patrick Marber
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2004
THE QUEEN, Written by Peter Morgan
Babel, Written by Guillermo Arriaga
The Departed, Written by William Monahan
Little Children, Written by Todd Field, Tom Perrotta
Notes On A Scandal, Written by Patrick Marber
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2003
THE QUEEN, Written by Peter Morgan
Babel, Written by Guillermo Arriaga
The Departed, Written by William Monahan
Little Children, Written by Todd Field, Tom Perrotta
Notes On A Scandal, Written by Patrick Marber
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2002
THE QUEEN, Written by Peter Morgan
Babel, Written by Guillermo Arriaga
The Departed, Written by William Monahan
Little Children, Written by Todd Field, Tom Perrotta
Notes On A Scandal, Written by Patrick Marber
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2001
THE QUEEN, Written by Peter Morgan
Babel, Written by Guillermo Arriaga
The Departed, Written by William Monahan
Little Children, Written by Todd Field, Tom Perrotta
Notes On A Scandal, Written by Patrick Marber
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2000
THE QUEEN, Written by Peter Morgan
Babel, Written by Guillermo Arriaga
The Departed, Written by William Monahan
Little Children, Written by Todd Field, Tom Perrotta
Notes On A Scandal, Written by Patrick Marber
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1999
THE QUEEN, Written by Peter Morgan
Babel, Written by Guillermo Arriaga
The Departed, Written by William Monahan
Little Children, Written by Todd Field, Tom Perrotta
Notes On A Scandal, Written by Patrick Marber
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1998
THE QUEEN, Written by Peter Morgan
Babel, Written by Guillermo Arriaga
The Departed, Written by William Monahan
Little Children, Written by Todd Field, Tom Perrotta
Notes On A Scandal, Written by Patrick Marber
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1997
THE QUEEN, Written by Peter Morgan
Babel, Written by Guillermo Arriaga
The Departed, Written by William Monahan
Little Children, Written by Todd Field, Tom Perrotta
Notes On A Scandal, Written by Patrick Marber
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1996
THE QUEEN, Written by Peter Morgan
Babel, Written by Guillermo Arriaga
The Departed, Written by William Monahan
Little Children, Written by Todd Field, Tom Perrotta
Notes On A Scandal, Written by Patrick Marber
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2006
THE QUEEN, Written by Peter Morgan
Babel, Written by Guillermo Arriaga
The Departed, Written by William Monahan
Little Children, Written by Todd Field, Tom Perrotta
Notes On A Scandal, Written by Patrick Marber
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2005
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN,Written by Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana
Crash, Written by Paul Haggis, Robert Moresco
Good Night, And Good Luck, Written by George Clooney, Grant Heslov
Match Point, Written by Woody Allen
Munich, Written by Tony Kushner, Eric Roth
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2004
SIDEWAYS, Written by Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
The Aviator, Written by John Logan
Closer, Written by Patrick Marber
Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind, Written by Charlie Kaufman
Finding Neverland, Written by David Magee
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2003
LOST IN TRANSLATION, Written by Sofia Coppola
Cold Mountain, Written by Anthony Minghella
In America, Written by Jim Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan
Love Actually, Written by Richard Curtis
Mystic River, Written by Brian Helgeland
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2002
ABOUT SCHMIDT, Written by Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
Adaptation, Written by Charlie Kaufman
Chicago, Written by Bill Condon
Far From Heaven, Written by Todd Haynes
The Hours, Written by David Hare
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2001
A BEAUTIFUL MIND, Written by Akiva Goldsman
Gosford Park, Written by Julian Fellowes
The Man Who Wasn't There, Written by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Memento, Written by Christopher Nolan
Mulholland Drive, Written by David Lynch
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2000
TRAFFIC, Written by Stephen Gaghan
Almost Famous, Written by Cameron Crowe
Quills, Written by Douglas Wright
Wonder Boys, Written by Steve Kloves
You Can Count On Me, Written by Kenneth Lonergan
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1999
AMERICAN BEAUTY, Written by Alan Ball
Being John Malkovich, Written by Charlie Kaufman
The Cider House Rules, Written by John Irving
The Insider, Written by Michael Mann, Eric Roth
The Sixth Sense, Written by M. Night Shyamalan
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1998
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, Written by Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard
Bulworth, Written by Warren Beatty, Jeremy Pikser
Happiness, Written by Todd Solondz
Saving Private Ryan, Written by Robert Rodat
The Truman Show, Written by Andrew M. Niccol
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1997
GOOD WILL HUNTING, Written by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon
As Good As It Gets, Written by Mark Andrus, James L. Brooks
L. A. Confidential, Written by Curtis Hanson, Brian Helgeland
Titanic, Written by James Cameron
Wag the Dog, Written by Hilary Henkin, David Mamet
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1996
THE PEOPLE vs. LARRY FLYNT, by Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
The English Patient, Written by Anthony Minghella
Fargo, Written by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Lone Star, Written by John Sayles
Shine, Written by Jan Sard
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