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- 1940 The Great McGinty ? Preston Sturges
- 1941 Citizen Kane ? Herman Mankiewicz, Orson Welles
- 1942 none given
- 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
- 1949 Battleground ? Robert Pirosh
- 1950 Sunset Boulevard ? Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman, Billy Wilder
- 1951 An American in Paris ? Alan 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 Women ? George Wells
- 1958 The Defiant Ones ? Nathan Douglas, Harold Smith
- 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 - 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
- 1970 Patton ? Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund North
- 1971 The Hospital ? Paddy Chayefsky
- 1972 The Candidate ? Jeremy Larner
- 1973 The Sting ? David Ward
- 1974 Chinatown ? Robert Towne
- 1975 Dog Day Afternoon ? Frank Pierson
- 1976 Network ? Paddy Chayefsky
- 1977 Annie Hall ? Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
- 1978 Coming Home ? Robert Jones, Waldo Salt
- 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 ? William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, Earl Wallace
- 1986 Hannah and Her Sisters ? Woody Allen
- 1987 Moonstruck ? John 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 ? Roger Avary, Quentin Tarantino
- 1995 The Usual Suspects ? Christopher McQuarrie
- 1996 Fargo ? Joel Coen, Ethan 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
