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1940 THE GREAT MCGINTY - Preston Sturges
1941 CITIZEN KANE - Herman Mankiewicz, Orson Welles
1942 WOMAN OF THE YEAR - Michael Kanin, Ring Lardner Jr
1943 PRINCESS O'ROURKE - Norman Krasna
1944 WILSON - Lamar Trotti
1945 MARIE-LOUISE - Richard Schweizer
1946 THE SEVENTH VEIL - Muriel Box, Sydney Box
1947 THE BACHELOR AND THE BOBBY-SOXER - Sidney Sheldon
1948 none given (Instead of the categories "Original Screenplay and "Screenplay", it was combined into
one category, called "Screenplay")
1949 BATTLEGROUND - Robert Pirosh
(In 1949, the category was renamed "Story and Screenplay")
1950 SUNSET BOULEVARD - Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman, Jr., Billy Wilder
1951 AN AMERICAN IN PARIS - Alan Jay Lerner
1952 THE LAVENDER HILL MOB - T.E.B. Clarke
1953 TITANIC - Charles Brackett, Richard Breen, Walter Reisch
1954 ON THE WATERFRONT - Budd Schulberg
1955 INTERRUPTED MELODY - Sonya Levien, William Ludwig
1956 THE RED BALLOON - Albert Lamorisse
1957 DESIGNING WOMAN - George Wells
1958 THE DEFIANT ONES - Nathan E. Douglas, Harold Jacob Smith
(Upon request of his widow and upon recommendation of the Writers Branch Executive Committee, the Board of Governors voted
to restore the name of Nedrick Young to the nomination and award presented to Nathan E. Douglas, which was a pseudonym for
Mr. Young during the blacklisting period.)
1959 PILLOW TALK - Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, Stanley Shapiro
1960 THE APARTMENT - I.A.L. Diamond, Billy Wilder
1961 SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS - William Inge
1962 DIVORCE, ITALIAN STYLE - Ennio de Concini, Pietro Germi, Alfredo Giannetti
1963 HOW THE WEST WAS WON - James Webb
1964 FATHER GOOSE - Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff
1965 DARLING - Frederic Raphael
1966 A MAN AND A WOMAN - Story by Claude Lelouch; Screenplay by Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
1967 GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER - William Rose
1968 THE PRODUCERS - Mel Brooks
1969 BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID - William Goldman
(In 1969, the category was renamed: "Story and Screenplay
- based on material not previously published or produced)
1970 PATTON - Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund North
1971 THE HOSPITAL - Paddy Chayefsky
1972 THE CANDIDATE - Jeremy Larner
1973 THE STING - David S. Ward
1974 CHINATOWN - Robert Towne
1975 DOG DAY AFTERNOON - Frank Pierson
1976 NETWORK - Paddy Chayefsky
(In 1976, the category was renamed: "Screenplay written directly for the Screen - Based on factual material or on
story material not previously published or produced")
1977 ANNIE HALL - Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
1978 COMING HOME - Screenplay by Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt; Story by Nancy Dowd
(In 1978, the category was renamed: "Screenplay written directly for the screen")
1979 BREAKING AWAY - Steve Tesich
1980 MELVIN AND HOWARD - Bo Goldman
1981 CHARIOTS OF FIRE - Colin Welland
1982 GANDHI - John Briley
1983 TENDER MERCIES - Horton Foote
1984 PLACES IN THE HEART - Robert Benton
1985 WITNESS - Screenplay by William Kelley, Earl Wallace; Story by William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, Earl Wallace
1986 HANNAH AND HER SISTERS - Woody Allen
1987 MOONSTRUCK - John Patrick Shanley
1988 RAIN MAN - Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow
1989 DEAD POETS SOCIETY - Tom Schulman
1990 GHOST - Bruce Rubin
1991 THELMA AND LOUISE - Callie Khouri
1992 THE CRYING GAME - Neil Jordan
1993 THE PIANO - Jane Campion
1994 PULP FICTION - Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino; Stories by Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino
1995 THE USUAL SUSPECTS - Christopher McQuarrie
1996 FARGO - Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
1997 GOOD WILL HUNTING - Ben Affleck, Matt Damon
1998 SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE - Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard
1999 AMERICAN BEAUTY - Alan Ball
2000 ALMOST FAMOUS - Cameron Crowe
2001 GOSFORD PARK - Julian Fellowes
2002 HABLE CON ELLA (TALK TO HER) - Pedro Almodóvar
2003 LOST IN TRANSLATION - Sofia Coppola
2004 ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND - Charlie Kaufman; Story by Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, Pierre Bismuth
2005 CRASH - Paul Haggis, Bobby Moresco
2006 LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE - Michael Arndt
2007 JUNO - Diablo Cody
2008 - ? (could it be your script?)
 NOTE:
Since 1940, only four people have won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay
more than once. Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Paddy Chayevsky, and
Woody Allen have each won it twice. No one has won it back-to-back.
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