| Name |
Year |
Film |
| Benjamin Glazer |
1927/28 |
7TH HEAVEN |
| Howard Estabrook |
1930/31 |
CIMARRON |
| Edwin Burke |
1931/32 |
BAD GIRL |
| Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason |
1932/33 |
LITTLE WOMEN |
| Robert Riskin |
1934 |
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT |
| Dudley Nichols |
1935 |
THE INFORMER |
| Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney |
1936 |
THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR |
| Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, Norman Reilly Raine |
1937 |
THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA |
| Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis, W.P. Lipscomb, George Bernard Shaw |
1938 |
PYGMALION |
| Sidney Howard |
1939 |
GONE WITH THE WIND |
| Donald Ogden Stewart |
1940 |
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY |
| Harry Segall, Seton I. Miller |
1941 |
HERE COMES MR. JORDAN |
| George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis |
1942 |
MRS> MINIVER |
| Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch |
1943 |
CASABLANCA |
| Frank Butler, Frank Cavett |
1944 |
GOING MY WAY |
| Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder |
1945 |
THE LOST WEEKEND |
| Robert E. Sherwood |
1946 |
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES |
| George Seaton |
1947 |
MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET |
| John Huston |
1948 |
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE |
| Robert Pirosh |
1949 |
BATTLEGROUND |
| Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman Jr., Billy Wilder |
1950 |
SUNSET BOULEVARD |
| harry Brown, Michael Wilson |
1951 |
A PLACE IN THE SUN |
| Charles Schnee |
1952 |
THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL |
| Daniel Taradash |
1953 |
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY |
| George Seaton |
1954 |
THE COUNTRY GIRL |
| Paddy Chayefsky |
1955 |
MARTY |
| John Farrow, S.J. Perelman, James Poe |
1956 |
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS |
| Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson |
1957 |
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI |
| Alan Jay Lerner |
1958 |
GIGI |
| Neil Paterson |
1959 |
ROOM AT THE TOP |
| Richard Brooks |
1960 |
ELMER GANTRY |
| Abby Mann |
1961 |
JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG |
| Horton Foote |
1962 |
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD |
| John Osborne |
1963 |
TOM JONES |
| Edward Anhalt |
1964 |
BECKET |
| Robert Bolt |
1965 |
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO |
| Robert Bolt |
1966 |
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS |
| Stirling Silliphant |
1967 |
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT |
| James Goldman |
1968 |
THE LION IN WINTER |
| Waldo Salt |
1969 |
MIDNIGHT COWBOY |
| Ring Lardner, Jr. |
1970 |
M*A*S*H |
| Ernest Tidyman |
1971 |
THE FRENCH CONNECTION |
| Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo |
1972 |
THE GODFATHER |
| William Peter Blatty |
1973 |
THE EXORCIST |
| Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo |
1974 |
THE GODFATHER PART II |
| Bo Goldman, Lawrence Hauben |
1975 |
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST |
| William Goldman |
1976 |
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN |
| Alvin Sargent |
1977 |
JULIA |
| Oliver Stone |
1978 |
MIDNIGHT EXPRESS |
| Robert Benton |
1979 |
KRAMER VS. KRAMER |
| Alvin Sargent |
1980 |
ORDINARY PEOPLE |
| Ernest Thompson |
1981 |
ON GOLDEN POND |
| Costa-Gavras, Donald Stewart |
1982 |
MISSING |
| James L. Brooks |
1983 |
TERMS OF ENDEARMENT |
| Peter Shaffer |
1984 |
AMADEUS |
| Kurt Luedtke |
1985 |
OUT OF AFRICA |
| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
1986 |
A ROOM WITH A VIEW |
| Bernardo Bertolucci, Mark Peploe |
1987 |
THE LAST EMPEROR |
| Christopher Hampton |
1988 |
DANGEROUS LIAISONS |
| Alfred Uhry |
1989 |
DRIVING MISS DAISY |
| Michael Blake |
1990 |
DANCES WITH WOLVES |
| Ted Tally |
1991 |
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS |
| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
1992 |
HOWARDS END |
| Steven Zaillian |
1993 |
SCHINDLER'S LIST |
| Eric Roth |
1994 |
FORREST GUMP |
| Emma Thompson |
1995 |
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY |
| Billy Bob Thornton |
1996 |
SLING BLADE |
| Curtis Hanson, Brian Helgeland |
1997 |
L.A. CONFIDENTIAL |
| Bill Condon |
1998 |
GODS AND MONSTERS |
| John Irving |
1999 |
THE CIDER HOUSE RULES |
| Steven Gaghan |
2000 |
TRAFFIC |
| Akiva Goldsman |
2001 |
A BEAUTIFUL MIND |
| Ronald Harwood |
2002 |
THE PIANIST |