Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay

• Name — Golden Globe for Best Screenplay – Motion Picture • Awarded For — Best Screenplay Writing (Original or Adapted) of a Motion Picture • Presenter — Dick Clark Productions • Location — United States • Holder — Paul Thomas Anderson for One Battle After Another (2025) • Website — goldenglobes.com

† marks the winner of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Motion Picture Story ‡ marks the winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 • 2022 — The Banshees of Inisherin — Martin McDonagh • Tár — Todd Field • Everything Everywhere All at Once ‡ — Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert • Women Talking† — Sarah Polley • The Fabelmans — Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner • 2023 — Anatomy of a Fall ‡ — Justine Triet and Arthur Harari • Barbie — Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach • Oppenheimer — Christopher Nolan • Killers of the Flower Moon — Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese • Past Lives — Celine Song • Poor Things — Tony McNamara • 2024 — Conclave † — Peter Straughan • Emilia Pérez — Jacques Audiard • Anora ‡ — Sean Baker • The Brutalist — Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold • A Real Pain — Jesse Eisenberg • The Substance — Coralie Fargeat • 2025 — One Battle After Another † — Paul Thomas Anderson • Marty Supreme — Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie • Sinners ‡ — Ryan Coogler • It Was Just an Accident — Jafar Panahi • Sentimental Value — Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier • Hamnet — Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell

• Wins — Screenwriter • 3 — Robert Bolt • Aaron Sorkin • Quentin Tarantino • 2 — Woody Allen • Paddy Chayefsky • Martin McDonagh • Alexander Payne • Stirling Silliphant

• Nominations — Screenwriter • 9 — Aaron Sorkin • 6 — Woody Allen • 5 — Eric Roth • Quentin Tarantino • 4 — Francis Ford Coppola • Stirling Silliphant • Oliver Stone • 3 — Robert Benton • Robert Bolt • James L. Brooks • Ethan Coen • Joel Coen • William Goldman • Tony Kushner • David Mamet • Adam McKay • Christopher Nolan • Alexander Payne • Mario Puzo • Neil Simon • Steven Zaillian