Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay

The Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay – Motion Picture is an annual award. It is a Golden Globe Award. It is given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Golden Globe for Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Awarded for	Best Screenplay Writing (Original or Adapted) of a Motion Picture
Location	United States
Presented by	Hollywood Foreign Press Association
Currently held by	Kenneth Branagh for Belfast (2021)
Website	http://www.goldenglobes.com

Winners and nominees

1940s

Year	Film	Nominees
1947	Miracle on 34th Street	George Seaton
1948	The Search	Richard Schweizer
1949	Battleground	Robert Pirosh
	Rope of Sand	Walter Doniger

1950s

Year	Film	Nominees
1950	All About Eve	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
	The Asphalt Jungle	Ben Maddow and John Huston
	Sunset Boulevard	Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D. M. Marshman Jr.
1951	Bright Victory	Robert Buckner
1952	5 Fingers	Michael Wilson
	High Noon	Carl Foreman
	The Thief	Clarence Greene and Russell Rouse
1953	Lili	Helen Deutsch
1954	Sabrina	Billy Wilder, Ernest Lehman, and Samuel A. Taylor

1960s

Year	Film	Nominees
1965	Doctor Zhivago	Robert Bolt
	The Agony and the Ecstasy	Philip Dunne
	The Collector	John Kohn and Stanley Mann
	A Patch of Blue	Guy Green
	The Slender Thread	Stirling Silliphant
1966	A Man for All Seasons	Robert Bolt
	Alfie	Bill Naughton
	The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming	William Rose
	The Sand Pebbles	Robert Anderson
	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Ernest Lehman
1967	In the Heat of the Night	Stirling Silliphant
	Bonnie and Clyde	Robert Benton and David Newman
	The Fox	Lewis John Carlino and Howard Koch
	The Graduate	Buck Henry and Calder Willingham
	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	William Rose
1968	CHAЯLY	Stirling Silliphant
	The Fixer	Dalton Trumbo
	The Lion in Winter	James Goldman
	The Producers	Mel Brooks
	Rosemary's Baby	Roman Polanski
1969	Anne of the Thousand Days	Bridget Boland, John Hale, and Richard Sokolove
	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	William Goldman
	If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium	David Shaw
	John and Mary	John Mortimer
	Midnight Cowboy	Waldo Salt

1970s

Year	Film	Nominees
1970	Love Story	Erich Segal
	Five Easy Pieces	Carole Eastman and Bob Rafelson
	Husbands	John Cassavetes
	M*A*S*H	Ring Lardner Jr.
	Scrooge	Leslie Bricusse
1971	The Hospital	Paddy Chayefsky
	The French Connection	Ernest Tidyman
	Klute	Andy and Dave Lewis
	Kotch	John Paxton
	Mary, Queen of Scots	John Hale
1972	The Godfather	Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo
	Avanti!	Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond
	Cabaret	Jay Presson Allen
	Deliverance	James Dickey
	Frenzy	Anthony Shaffer
	The Heartbreak Kid	Neil Simon
1973	The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty
	Cinderella Liberty	Darryl Ponicsan
	The Day of the Jackal	Kenneth Ross
	The Sting	David S. Ward
	A Touch of Class	Melvin Frank and Jack Rose
1974	Chinatown	Robert Towne
	The Conversation	Francis Ford Coppola
	The Godfather Part II	Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo
	The Towering Inferno	Stirling Silliphant
	A Woman Under the Influence	John Cassavetes
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben
	Dog Day Afternoon	Frank Pierson
	Jaws	Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb
	Nashville	Joan Tewkesbury
	The Sunshine Boys	Neil Simon
1976	Network	Paddy Chayefsky
	All the President's Men	William Goldman
	Marathon Man	William Goldman
	Rocky	Sylvester Stallone
	Taxi Driver	Paul Schrader
	Voyage of the Damned	David Butler and Steve Shagan
1977	The Goodbye Girl	Neil Simon
	Annie Hall	Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Steven Spielberg
	Julia	Alvin Sargent
	The Turning Point	Arthur Laurents
1978	Midnight Express	Oliver Stone
	Coming Home	Robert C. Jones and Waldo Salt
	The Deer Hunter	Deric Washburn
	Foul Play	Colin Higgins
	Interiors	Woody Allen
	An Unmarried Woman	Paul Mazursky
1979	Kramer vs. Kramer	Robert Benton
	Being There	Jerzy Kosinski
	Breaking Away	Steve Tesich
	The China Syndrome	James Bridges, T. S. Cook, and Mike Gray
	Norma Rae	Harriet Frank, Jr. and Irving Ravetch

1980s

Year	Film	Nominees
1980	The Ninth Configuration	William Peter Blatty
	The Elephant Man	Eric Bergren and Christopher De Vore
	Ordinary People	Alvin Sargent
	Raging Bull	Mardik Martin and Paul Schrader
	The Stunt Man	Lawrence B. Marcus
1981	On Golden Pond	Ernest Thompson
	Absence of Malice	Kurt Luedtke
	The Four Seasons	Alan Alda
	The French Lieutenant's Woman	Harold Pinter
	Reds	Warren Beatty and Trevor Griffiths
1982	Gandhi	John Briley
	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Melissa Mathison
	Missing	Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart
	Tootsie	Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal
	The Verdict	David Mamet
1983	Terms of Endearment	James L. Brooks
	The Big Chill	Barbara Benedek and Lawrence Kasdan
	The Dresser	Ronald Harwood
	Educating Rita	Willy Russell
	Reuben, Reuben	Julius J. Epstein
1984	Amadeus	Peter Shaffer
	The Killing Fields	Bruce Robinson
	A Passage to India	David Lean
	Places in the Heart	Robert Benton
	A Soldier's Story	Charles Fuller
1985	The Purple Rose of Cairo	Woody Allen
	Back to the Future	Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale
	Out of Africa	Kurt Luedtke
	Prizzi's Honor	Richard Condon and Janet Roach
	Witness	William Kelley and Earl W. Wallace
1986	The Mission	Robert Bolt
	Blue Velvet	David Lynch
	Hannah and Her Sisters	Woody Allen
	Mona Lisa	Neil Jordan and David Leland
	Platoon	Oliver Stone
1987	The Last Emperor	Bernardo Bertolucci, Mark Peploe, and Enzo Ungari
	Broadcast News	James L. Brooks
	Hope and Glory	John Boorman
	House of Games	David Mamet
	Moonstruck	John Patrick Shanley
1988	Running on Empty	Naomi Foner
	A Cry in the Dark	Robert Caswell and Fred Schepisi
	Mississippi Burning	Chris Gerolmo
	Rain Man	Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow
	Working Girl	Kevin Wade
1989	Born on the Fourth of July	Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic
	Dead Poets Society	Tom Schulman
	Do the Right Thing	Spike Lee
	Glory	Kevin Jarre
	Sex, Lies, and Videotape	Steven Soderbergh
	When Harry Met Sally...	Nora Ephron

1990s

Year	Film	Nominees
1990	Dances with Wolves	Michael Blake
	Avalon	Barry Levinson
	The Godfather Part III	Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo
	Goodfellas	Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese
	Reversal of Fortune	Nicholas Kazan
1991	Thelma & Louise	Callie Khouri
	Bugsy	James Toback
	Grand Canyon	Lawrence Kasdan and Meg Kasdan
	JFK	Zachary Sklar and Oliver Stone
	The Silence of the Lambs	Ted Tally
1992	Scent of a Woman	Bo Goldman
	A Few Good Men	Aaron Sorkin
	Howards End	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
	The Player	Michael Tolkin
	Unforgiven	David Webb Peoples
1993	Schindler's List	Steven Zaillian
	Philadelphia	Ron Nyswaner
	The Piano	Jane Campion
	The Remains of the Day	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
	Short Cuts	Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt
1994	Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino
	Forrest Gump	Eric Roth
	Four Weddings and a Funeral	Richard Curtis
	Quiz Show	Paul Attanasio
	The Shawshank Redemption	Frank Darabont
1995	Sense and Sensibility	Emma Thompson
	The American President	Aaron Sorkin
	Braveheart	Randall Wallace
	Dead Man Walking	Tim Robbins
	Get Shorty	Scott Frank
	Mr. Holland's Opus	Patrick Sheane Duncan
1996	The People vs. Larry Flynt	Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski
	The English Patient	Anthony Minghella
	Fargo	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	Lone Star	John Sayles
	Shine	Jan Sardi
1997	Good Will Hunting	Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
	As Good as It Gets	Mark Andrus and James L. Brooks
	L.A. Confidential	Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson
	Titanic	James Cameron
	Wag the Dog	Hilary Henkin and David Mamet
1998	Shakespeare in Love	Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
	Bulworth	Warren Beatty and Jeremy Pikser
	Happiness	Todd Solondz
	Saving Private Ryan	Robert Rodat
	The Truman Show	Andrew Niccol
1999	American Beauty	Alan Ball
	Being John Malkovich	Charlie Kaufman
	The Cider House Rules	John Irving
	The Insider	Eric Roth and Michael Mann
	The Sixth Sense	M. Night Shyamalan

2000s

Year	Film	Nominees
2000	Traffic	Stephen Gaghan
	Almost Famous	Cameron Crowe
	Quills	Doug Wright
	Wonder Boys	Steve Kloves
	You Can Count on Me	Kenneth Lonergan
2001	A Beautiful Mind	Akiva Goldsman
	Gosford Park	Julian Fellowes
	The Man Who Wasn't There	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	Memento	Christopher Nolan
	Mulholland Drive	David Lynch
2002	About Schmidt	Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
	Adaptation.	Charlie and Donald Kaufman
	Chicago	Bill Condon
	Far from Heaven	Todd Haynes
	The Hours	David Hare
2003	Lost in Translation	Sofia Coppola
	Cold Mountain	Anthony Minghella
	In America	Jim Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan, and Naomi Sheridan
	Love Actually	Richard Curtis
	Mystic River	Brian Helgeland
2004	Sideways	Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
	The Aviator	John Logan
	Closer	Patrick Marber
	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Charlie Kaufman
	Finding Neverland	David Magee
2005	Brokeback Mountain	Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana
	Crash	Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco
	Good Night, and Good Luck.	George Clooney and Grant Heslov
	Match Point	Woody Allen
	Munich	Tony Kushner and Eric Roth
2006	The Queen	Peter Morgan
	Babel	Guillermo Arriaga
	The Departed	William Monahan
	Little Children	Todd Field and Tom Perrotta
	Notes on a Scandal	Patrick Marber
2007	No Country for Old Men	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	Atonement	Christopher Hampton
	Charlie Wilson's War	Aaron Sorkin
	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)	Ronald Harwood
	Juno	Diablo Cody
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	Simon Beaufoy
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Eric Roth
	Doubt	John Patrick Shanley
	Frost/Nixon	Peter Morgan
	The Reader	David Hare
2009	Up in the Air	Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
	District 9	Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
	The Hurt Locker	Mark Boal
	Inglourious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino
	It's Complicated	Nancy Meyers

2010s

Year	Film	Nominees
2010	The Social Network	Aaron Sorkin
	127 Hours	Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle
	Inception	Christopher Nolan
	The Kids Are All Right	Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg
	The King's Speech	David Seidler
2011	Midnight in Paris	Woody Allen
	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius
	The Descendants	Alexander Payne, Jim Rash, and Nat Faxon
	The Ides of March	George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Beau Willimon
	Moneyball	Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin
2012	Django Unchained	Quentin Tarantino
	Argo	Chris Terrio
	Lincoln	Tony Kushner
	Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell
	Zero Dark Thirty	Mark Boal
2013	Her	Spike Jonze
	12 Years a Slave	John Ridley
	American Hustle	Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
	Nebraska	Bob Nelson
	Philomena	Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
2014	Birdman	Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo
	Boyhood	Richard Linklater
	Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn
	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson
	The Imitation Game	Graham Moore
2015	Steve Jobs	Aaron Sorkin
	The Big Short	Adam McKay and Charles Randolph
	The Hateful Eight	Quentin Tarantino
	Room	Emma Donoghue
	Spotlight	Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer
2016	La La Land	Damien Chazelle
	Hell or High Water	Taylor Sheridan
	Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan
	Moonlight	Barry Jenkins
	Nocturnal Animals	Tom Ford
2017	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Martin McDonagh
	Lady Bird	Greta Gerwig
	Molly's Game	Aaron Sorkin
	The Post	Liz Hannah and Josh Singer
	The Shape of Water	Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor
2018	Green Book	Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, and Peter Farrelly
	The Favourite	Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
	If Beale Street Could Talk	Barry Jenkins
	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón
	Vice	Adam McKay
2019	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Quentin Tarantino
	The Irishman	Steven Zaillian
	Marriage Story	Noah Baumbach
	Parasite	Bong Joon-Ho and Han Jin Won
	The Two Popes	Anthony McCarten

2020s

Year	Film	Nominees
2020	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Aaron Sorkin
	Promising Young Woman	Emerald Fennell
	Mank	Jack Fincher (posthumous)
	The Father	Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton
	Nomadland	Chloé Zhao
2021	Belfast	Kenneth Branagh
	Licorice Pizza	Paul Thomas Anderson
	The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion
	Don't Look Up	Adam McKay
	Being the Ricardos	Aaron Sorkin