The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. Before 1940, there was an Academy Award for Best Story for writing. For 1940, it and the award in this article were separated into two awards. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay. (In 1949, the category was renamed "Story and Screenplay") - 1950 Sunset Boulevard - Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman, Jr., Billy Wilder
- 1951 An American in Paris - Alan Jay Lerner
- 1952 The Lavender Hill Mob - T.E.B. Clarke
- 1953 Titanic - Charles Brackett, Richard Breen, Walter Reisch
- 1954 On the Waterfront - Budd Schulberg
- 1955 Interrupted Melody - Sonya Levien, William Ludwig
- 1956 The Red Balloon - Albert Lamorisse
- 1957 Designing Woman - George Wells
- 1958 The Defiant Ones - Nathan E. Douglas, Harold Jacob Smith (Upon request of his widow and upon recommendation of the Writers Branch Executive Committee, the Board of Governors voted to restore the name of Nedrick Young to the nomination and award presented to Nathan E. Douglas, which was a pseudonym for Mr. Young during the blacklisting period.)
- 1959 Pillow Talk - Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, Stanley Shapiro
- 1960 The Apartment - I.A.L. Diamond, Billy Wilder
- 1961 Splendor in the Grass - William Inge
- 1962 Divorce, Italian Style - Ennio de Concini, Pietro Germi, Alfredo Giannetti
- 1963 How the West Was Won - James Webb
- 8½ - Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi
- America, America - Elia Kazan
- The Four Days of Naples - Story by Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy, Vasco Pratolini; Screenplay by Carlo Bernari, Massimo Franciosa, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Nanni Loy
- Love with the Proper Stranger - Arnold Schulman
- 1964 Father Goose - Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff
- 1965 Darling - Frederic Raphael
- 1966 A Man and a Woman - Story by Claude Lelouch; Screenplay by Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
- 1967 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - William Rose
- 1968 The Producers - Mel Brooks
- 1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - William Goldman
(In 1969, the category was renamed: "Story and Screenplay - based on material not previously published or produced) (In 1976, the category was renamed: "Screenplay written directly for the Screen - Based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced") (In 1978, the category was renamed: "Screenplay written directly for the screen") [edit] See also [edit] External links
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