Academy Award's "Best Original Screenplay Winners"

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All movies selected for Best Original Screenplay by the Academy. Award has been given since 1940.

Note: The award was not given in 1948.

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  1. 1940
    The Great McGinty
    by Preston Sturges

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  2. 1941
    Citizen Kane
    by Orson Welles

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  3. 1942
    Woman of the Year
    by George Stevens

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  4. 1943
    Princess O'Rourke (1943)
    by Norman Krasna

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  5. 1944
    Wilson (1944)
    by Henry King

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  6. 1945
    ?
    Marie-Louise - Richard Schweizer

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  7. 1946
    The Seventh Veil (1945)
    by Compton Bennett

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  8. 1947
    The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer
    by Irving Reis

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  9. 1949
    Battleground

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  10. 1950
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

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  11. 1951
    An American in Paris
    by Vincente Minnelli

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  12. 1952
    The Lavender Hill Mob
    by Charles Crichton

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  13. 1953
    Titanic
    by Jean Negulesco

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  14. 1954
    On the Waterfront
    by Elia Kazan

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  15. 1955
    Interrupted Melody (1955)
    by Curtis Bernhardt

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  16. 1956
    The Red Balloon
    by Albert Lamorisse

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  17. 1957
    Designing Woman

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  18. 1958
    ?
    The Defiant Ones
    by Stanley Kramer

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  19. 1959
    Pillow Talk
    by Michael Gordon

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  20. 1961
    Splendor in the Grass
    by Elia Kazan

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  21. 1962
    Divorce Italian Style - Criterion Collection
    by Pietro Germi

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  22. 1963
    How the West Was Won
    by Henry Hathaway

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  23. 1964
    Father Goose
    by Ralph Nelson

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  24. 1965
    Darling
    by John Schlesinger

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  25. 1966
    A Man and a Woman
    by Claude Lelouch

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  26. 1967
    ?
    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    by Stanley Kramer

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  27. 1968
    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Special Edition)
    by George Roy Hill

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  28. 1969

  29. 1970
    Patton
    by Franklin J. Schaffner

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  30. 1971
    ?
    The Hospital

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  31. 1972
    The Candidate
    by Michael Ritchie

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  32. 1973
    The Sting
    by George Roy Hill

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  33. 1974
    Chinatown

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  34. 1975
    Dog Day Afternoon
    by Sidney Lumet

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  35. 1976
    Network
    by Sidney Lumet

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  36. 1977
    Annie Hall

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  37. 1978
    Coming Home
    by Hal Ashby

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  38. 1979
    Breaking Away (Widescreen Edition)
    by Peter Yates

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  39. 1980
    Melvin and Howard
    by Jonathan Demme

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  40. 1981
    Chariots of Fire
    by Hugh Hudson

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  41. 1982
    Gandhi

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  42. 1983
    Tender Mercies
    by Bruce Beresford

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  43. 1984
    ?
    Places in the Heart

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  44. 1985
    Witness (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Peter Weir

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  45. 1986
    Hannah and Her Sisters

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  46. 1987
    Moonstruck (Deluxe Edition)
    by Norman Jewison

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  47. 1988
    Rain Man (Special Edition)
    by Barry Levinson

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  48. 1989
    Dead Poets Society
    by Peter Weir

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  49. 1990
    Ghost
    by Jerry Zucker

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Perlle
East Hampton

Ahh — 2 years ago

I couldn’t find this when I searched, so I created another list when one already existed. The search feature needs SO much work!!!