Before 1940, there was an Academy Award for Best Story for writing. For 1940, it and the award in this article were separated into two awards. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay.
1940 The Great McGinty
1941 Citizen Kane
1942 Woman of the Year
1943 Princess O'Rourke
1944 Wilson
1945 Marie-Louise
1946 The Seventh Veil
1947 The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1948 none given
1949 Battleground
1950 Sunset Boulevard
1951 An American in Paris
1952 The Lavender Hill Mob
1953 Titanic
1954 On the Waterfront
1955 Interrupted Melody
1956 The Red Balloon
1957 Designing Woman
1958 The Defiant Ones
1959 Pillow Talk
1960 The Apartment
1961 Splendor in the Grass
1962 Divorce, Italian Style
1963 How the West Was Won
1964 Father Goose
1965 Darling
1966 A Man and a Woman
1967 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1968 The Producers
1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1970 Patton
1971 The Hospital
1972 The Candidate
1973 The Sting
1974 Chinatown
1975 Dog Day Afternoon
1976 Network
1977 Annie Hall
1978 Coming Home
1979 Breaking Away
1980 Melvin and Howard
1981 Chariots of Fire
1982 Gandhi - John Briley
1983 Tender Mercies
1984 Places in the Heart
1985 Witness
1986 Hannah and Her Sisters
1987 Moonstruck
1988 Rain Man
1989 Dead Poets Society
1990 Ghost
1991 Thelma and Louise
1992 The Crying Game
1993 The Piano
1994 Pulp Fiction
1995 The Usual Suspects
1996 Fargo
1997 Good Will Hunting
1998 Shakespeare in Love
1999 American Beauty
you forget 1948 - The Search
MaryskaBros 3 months ago
@moviegeek212 I also loved a lot Little miss sunshine's Screenplay!
fatizoo1000 10 months ago
moviegeek212 2 years ago 2
Thank you so much mickh18!
bimbrochlej 3 years ago