Writer's Guild of America (WGA) Best Screenplay

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Since 1949, the WGA has given out awards to films for their screenplays in multiple categories that have changed over the decades. Over the years, they have changed the awards the give – ranging from 2 to 5. They have generally bestowed the award on high quality films (no "Around the World in 80 Days" here).

Previous awards were given for Best Musical, Best Western, and Best Screenplay Dealing Most Ably with Problems of the American Scene. Currently they give the more familiar Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay, along with a Documentary Screenplay award (since 2005).

All winners from each year are listed.

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  1. 1963
    That Touch of Mink
    by Delbert Mann

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  2. 1964
    Hud
    by Martin Ritt

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  3. 1964
    Lilies of the Field

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  4. 1965
    Mary Poppins (40th Anniversary Edition)
    by Robert Stevenson

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  5. 1965
    Becket
    by Peter Glenville

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  6. 1966

  7. 1966
    The Pawnbroker
    by Sidney Lumet

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  8. 1966
    A Thousand Clowns (1965)
    by Fred Coe

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  9. 1967
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    by Mike Nichols

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  10. 1967
    The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
    by Norman Jewison

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  11. 1968
    Bonnie and Clyde
    by Arthur Penn

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  12. 1968
    Thoroughly Modern Millie
    by George Roy Hill

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  13. 1968
    The Graduate (Special Edition)
    by Mike Nichols

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  14. 1969
    The Producers (Deluxe Edition)
    by Mel Brooks

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  15. 1969
    Funny Girl
    by William Wyler

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  16. 1969
    The Lion in Winter
    by Anthony Harvey (II)

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  17. 1969
    The Odd Couple
    by Gene Saks

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  18. 1970
    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Special Edition)
    by George Roy Hill

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  19. 1970
    Midnight Cowboy
    by John Schlesinger

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  20. 1970
    Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice

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  21. 1970
    Goodbye, Columbus
    by Larry Peerce

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  22. 1971
    Patton
    by Franklin J. Schaffner

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  23. 1971
    I Never Sang for My Father
    by Gilbert Cates

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  24. 1971
    The Out-of-Towners
    by Arthur Hiller

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  25. 1971
    M*A*S*H (Widescreen Edition)
    by Robert Altman

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  26. 1972
    Sunday Bloody Sunday
    by John Schlesinger

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  27. 1972
    The French Connection (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by William Friedkin

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  28. 1972
    The Hospital
    by Arthur Hiller

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  29. 1972
    Kotch

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  30. 1973
    The Candidate
    by Michael Ritchie

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  31. 1973
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  32. 1973
    What's Up, Doc?
    by Peter Bogdanovich

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  33. 1973
    Cabaret
    by Bob Fosse

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  34. 1974
    Save the Tiger
    by John G. Avildsen

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  35. 1974
    Serpico (Widescreen Edition)
    by Sidney Lumet

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  36. 1974
    A Touch of Class
    by Melvin Frank

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  37. 1974
    Paper Moon
    by Peter Bogdanovich

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  38. 1975
    Chinatown

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  39. 1975
    The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  40. 1975
    Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
    by Ted Kotcheff

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  41. 1976
    Dog Day Afternoon (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Sidney Lumet

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  42. 1976
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Milos Forman

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  43. 1976
    Shampoo
    by Hal Ashby

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  44. 1976
    The Sunshine Boys
    by Herbert Ross

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  45. 1977
    Network
    by Sidney Lumet

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  46. 1977
    All the President's Men (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Alan J. Pakula

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  47. 1977
    The Bad News Bears

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  48. 1977
    The Pink Panther Strikes Again
    by Blake Edwards

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