Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
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| Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay | |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) |
| First awarded | 1940 |
| Currently held by | Brian Currie Peter Farrelly Nick Vallelonga Green Book (2018) |
| Website | oscars |
The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay.
See also the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, a similar award for screenplays that are adaptations.
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Notable nominees[edit]
Noted novelists and playwrights who have received nominations in this category include: John Steinbeck, Noël Coward, Raymond Chandler, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Edward Bond, Arthur C. Clarke, Lillian Hellman, Neil Simon, Paddy Chayefsky, Kenneth Lonergan, Tom Stoppard, Terence Rattigan and Martin McDonagh.
Special winners[edit]
Woody Allen has the most nominations in this category with 16, and the most awards with 3, though Paddy Chayefsky won the Best Adapted Screenplay in 1955 for his adaptation of his own teleplay, Marty, and also won for Original Screenplay for The Hospital and Network. Woody Allen also holds the record as the oldest winner (at age 76 for Midnight in Paris, 2011).[1]
Ben Affleck is the youngest winner, at the age of 25 for Good Will Hunting; he co-wrote the screenplay with Matt Damon (age 27 at the time of their award).
Richard Schweizer was the first to win for a foreign-language film, Marie-Louise. Other winners for a non-English screenplay include Albert Lamorisse, Pietro Germi, Claude Lelouch, and Pedro Almodóvar. Lamorisse is additionally the only person to win or even be nominated for Best Original Screenplay for a short film (The Red Balloon, 1956). [2]
Muriel Box was the first woman to win in this category; she shared the award with her husband, Sydney Box, for the 1945 film The Seventh Veil; the Boxes are also the first married couple to win in this category. Only three other married couples won an Oscar in another category—Earl W. Wallace and Pamela Wallace (for Original Screenplay), Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh (for Adapted Screenplay and Picture), and Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (for Original Song).
In 1996, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen became the only siblings to win in this category (for Fargo).[3] Francis Ford Coppola (Patton, 1970) [4] and Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, 2003) are the only father-daughter pair to win. [5]
Preston Sturges was nominated for two different films in the same year (1944): Hail the Conquering Hero and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. Oliver Stone achieved the same distinction in 1986, for Platoon and Salvador. Maurice Richlin and Stanley Shapiro were nominated in 1959 for both Operation Petticoat and Pillow Talk and won for the latter.
At the 2018 ceremony, Get Out writer-director Jordan Peele became the first African-American to win in this category. [6]
Winners and nominees[edit]
Winners are listed first in colored row, followed by the other nominees.
Orson Welles co-won the award for Citizen Kane in 1941.
Screenwriter and director Billy Wilder (right) received two awards in this category in collaboration with others—one for Sunset Boulevard and one for The Apartment.
William Rose (center right) won once in this category from three nominations.
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Paddy Chayefsky garnered two solo wins in this category—one for 1971's The Hospital and one for 1976's Network.
1940s[edit]
1950s[edit]
1960s[edit]
1970s[edit]
1980s[edit]
1990s[edit]
2000s[edit]
2010s[edit]
Multiple wins and nominations[edit]
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The following individuals have received multiple Best Original Screenplay Awards:
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Age superlatives[edit]
| Record | Writer | Film | Age (in years) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oldest winner | Woody Allen | Midnight in Paris | 76 | |
| Oldest nominee | Blue Jasmine | 78 | ||
| Youngest winner | Ben Affleck | Good Will Hunting | 25 | |
| Youngest nominee | John Singleton | Boyz n the Hood | 24 |
Diversity of nominees/winners[edit]
| Asian nominees | |||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Hanif Kureishi |  /
|
My Beautiful Laundrette | Nominated | |
| 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan |  /
|
The Sixth Sense | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Iris Yamashita | /
|
Letters from Iwo Jima | Nominated | Shared nomination with Paul Haggis |
| 2012 | Asghar Farhadi | 
|
A Separation | Nominated | First screenplay written in an Asian language to be nominated (Farsi) |
| 2015 | Ronnie del Carmen | 
|
Inside Out | Nominated | Shared nomination with Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, & Josh Cooley |
| 2017 | Kumail Nanjiani |
|
The Big Sick | Nominated | Shared nomination with Emily V. Gordon |
| Black nominees/winners | ||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Suzanne de Passe | Lady Sings the Blues | Nominated | Shared nomination with co-writers Chris Clark and Terence McCloy |
| 1989 | Spike Lee | Do the Right Thing | Nominated | |
| 1991 | John Singleton | Boyz n the Hood | Nominated | Youngest nominee ever in the category |
| 2017 | Jordan Peele | Get Out | Won | |
| Central/South American nominees/winners | ||||||
| Year | Nominee | Country | Film | Status | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 (58th) |
Aída Bortnik Luis Puenzo |
 |
The Official Story | Nominated | ||
| 2002 (75th) |
Alfonso Cuarón Carlos Cuarón |
 |
Y Tu Mamá También | Nominated | ||
| 2006 (79th) |
Guillermo Arriaga | Babel | Nominated | |||
| Guillermo del Toro | Pan's Labyrinth | Nominated | ||||
| 2014 (87th) |
Alejandro González Iñárritu Nicolás Giacobone Armando Bó |
|
Birdman | Won | Shared win with Alexander Dinelaris Jr. | |
| 2017 (90th) |
Guillermo del Toro | |
The Shape of Water | Nominated | Shared nomination with Vanessa Taylor | |
| 2018 (91st) |
Alfonso Cuarón | Roma | Nominated | |||
Notes[edit]
- ^ Best Original Screenplay was consolidated in 1948 for a singular Best Screenplay award. The winner was The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, adapted from the novel of same name.
- ^ In 1958, Nedrick Young was blacklisted and writing under the pseudonym Nathan E. Douglas. The Academy's Board of Governors voted in 1993 to restore Young's nomination and award.
See also[edit]
- Academy Award for Best Story
- Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
- BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
- Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay
- Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Screenplay
- List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees
- Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay
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